Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day! I figured that today would be the perfect day to post the projects that I made with the My Creative Scrapbook February Creative kit. I love this one, it's so cute!

And... since I haven't posted since the beginning of DECEMBER, (heh, oops), here is my two month recap!

We had a fantastic Christmas!! Alex was the star of the show that day, I cannot believe how spoiled he is! :) He had a blast.

Alex has been busy with activities. Basketball season has started again this year! Here is Alex rocking his new uniform.

Ooo, and look who lost his first tooth last week!

Oh, and me? Hmm. As you can see, my life pretty much revolves around Alex! :) lol. I DID get a pretty fabulous valentine's present from my fabulousss husband today though, hooray!

Some Cricut Shares!

Hi All! Wew, how has your December been so far? Mine has been busyyyy ever since Black Friday, seems like it hasn't slowed down since! :) I have NEVER been shopping on Black Friday before, I've always been too scared. :) BUT, I started going through the paper on Thanksgiving night and couldn't BELIEVE the sales that a lot of the stores were having! Learning how much money that I would save if I went shopping that night was enough to convince me to deal with the scary crowds. I texted Amy (who was ready and willing to go shopping at short notice in the middle of the night- she's a night owl like me!) and she and I left for Target at 1:30 AM. The store opened at midnight so a lot of people were done with their shopping already and waiting in the check out line. My eyes almost popped out of my head when I saw that the line ran all the way to the back of the store! By the time Amy and I were done shopping an hour later though, there were about ten people in line, woohoo! We went to Kohls and Toys R Us after that and to my surprise the stores weren't even very crowded! Not to the extent that I had feared anyway. When we arrived home at 7:30 AM we were exhausted but so pleased. I can't believe that I got so many good deals! "Santa" is definitely going to deliver quite a haul to our house this year. :) I took a 3 hour nap and Alex, John and I headed out to hit the rest of the sales in town. Almost all of my Christmas shopping is done, yay! It took me awhile to recooperate from lack of sleep but it was so worth it! I'm going to be a Black Friday shopper each year from now on for sure.

This week I have been playing with my Cricut along with the Cricut Craft Room like a mad woman! If you haven't tried it, you must. Wow! I love it! :) Make sure to head over to the Cricut Blog to see the newest exclusive digital cartridges that have been released this week. The design team has been creating so many beautiful projects, I am constantly inspired!

Here are a couple Cricut projects that I designed awhile back with the Just a Note cartridge. This cartridge comes preloaded on the Cricut Expression 2: Anniversary Addition, along with 3 others. The Just a Note cartridge instantly became one of my favorites!


One of the other cartridges that comes preloaded on the Expression 2: Anniversary Addition is the Cricut Decals cartridge. Here is a layout that I created with it:

Hehe, I love these pics of my puppy in her bunny ears! :)

Here is another layout that I created with the Robot Party Cartridge that was released a few months back. This cartridge is full of cuts and designs in order to create a whole Robot themed party. Invites, party favors, party bags, cupcake wrappers, etc! What's so fun about it is you can use it to embellish your scrapbook pages, cards, decor as well, the sky is the limit! Since layouts are my favorite I decided to use two robot images and a big bolt cut to create a scrapbook page.


In other news, I have been on a health kick lately! I don't know why I was so inspired to take care of myself all of a sudden. Perhaps it's because my 27th birthday is coming up quick? Maybe I'm getting freaked that I'm almost a year closer to 30? I also think I just got tired of getting sick all of the time. I catch viruses and things SO easily, a big reason why is because I'm anemic. I've been taking more iron and vitamin supplements for the past couple of months and I definitely notice a difference. But you know what helps the most? Drinking a glass of Emergen-C every day! I can definitely tell the difference on the days that I don't drink my Emergen-C. I feel the need to put this message on my blog because it WORKS! I have some friends that get sick all the time like I do and I'm redudantly telling them "drink Emergen-C, you'll feel better immediately and it will prevent you from getting sick", and they don't do it! DO IT. I promise you'll be able to tell the difference! Especially once you notice that you haven't been sick in MONTHS since. :)

I'm also taking better care of my skin and eyes. I'm starting to see bags under my eyes, I'm sure it just comes with getting a little older but it's never too early to start trying to prevent it! I swear by The Body Shop face products now, wow, they're great! I used to wear contacts constantly but my eye doctor has been telling me repeatedly for years that wearing them so often is hard on my eyes. I finallyyyy took him up on his advice and got some glasses. I actually like them! My eyes feel much better, I'm not constantly rubbing them and they don't dry out all of the time like they used to. I feel like they fit my personality as well, since I'm such a nerd! :)

I hope all of my bloggie friends and readers are having a wonderful holiday season so far!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope all of my blog friends and readers have a wonderful Thanksgiving! I'm pretty excited, aren't you? I've been up for nearly 24 hours getting the house and food ready. We're having friends and family over tomorrow and I'm making all of the food from scratch, eek! Those of you who know me should know that I am NOT a cooker, I'm terrible at it! I'm hoping that some of it ends up being edible. John says he plans to stand behind me with the fire exstinguisher the whole time to make sure that I don't burn the house down, isn't he sweet? :) Heh.

Make sure to stop on by the My Creative Scrapbook forum to check out the monthly challenge that I came up with this month! The challenge theme is to create a layout with a storage pocket. Here is the example that I made:

I made a page to store Alex's valentines that he received from all of his friends this year. They've been sitting in a bag in my scrap room since then and I finally came up with an idea in order for me to keep them for him!

And check THIS out! I actually had a little time on my hands awhile back and made a layout... JUST FOR FUN! I haven't been able to do that in ages! This was also my first shot at using Websters Pages paper and I loooove them. I'm definitely well on my way to becoming a Websters Pages addict.

Before I go... check out who got glasses yesterday!:

Poor Alex, he has crappy vision, just like his Mommy! He had his first eye appointment on Monday. I had a feeling that he was going to need glasses because I started wearing them at 5 years old as well. He's pretty excited about it though. Apparently glasses are "cool" now (wish they had been when I was a kid!) so he was hoping that he'd need them! :) He picked them out all by himself!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Cricut Craft Room

Have you heard of the Cricut Craft Room? If you haven't you MUST check it out! It's one of the coolest things to come out since sliced bread! You like that old school saying that I used right there? :) Cricut Craft Room makes it easy to have access to all of your Cricut cartridges right on your computer! Simply open up the craft room, plug your Cricut into your computer and get to cutting! For more information and where to download your own Cricut craft room, click HERE!

Provocraft has also come out with many exclusive digital cartridges, only available for purchase on the Craft Room online. Check out this blog post to see them and make sure to keep checking back, they'll be coming out with more and more SOON!

Speaking of Cricut, check out this advent calendar banner that I created for the Official Blog, it went up a few days ago.

I printed all of the papers used to make the banner from the Mr. Frosty Imagine Cartridge. I created 12 stockings with the Winter Frolic cartridge and embellished them with glitter and Cricut cuts. I put small treats and toys inside each stocking. On December 12th I'm going to let Alex start counting down to Christmas. He'll get to reach inside one stocking each day to get his special holiday treat! :)

Can you believe that Thanksgiving is in FOUR days?! Augh! I'm not ready! I'm cooking for nine people this year and I'm terrified, lol! I must quit playing on the computer and finish creating my menu and shopping list. I'm going to the grocery store this morning to buy all of the food, eek! Have a wonderful Monday! :)

My Creative Scrapbook November Layouts!

This past week has been quite an interesting one! Since Thursday we've had several earthquakes here in Oklahoma. On Saturday we had a 5.6 in magnitude, which is the biggest earthquake recorded in Oklahoma's history! I'm pretty used to earthquakes, growing up in Alaska they were a regular occurance. Thankfully I know what to do if a really large earthquake ever hits, but I've just been fearful because I know that our house isn't build to withstand a large earthquake, not many of the structures here are. I'm also worried because all of these earthquakes of this magnitude are not normal here in OK. There was also a group of tornadoes that came through our state yesterday and that wasn't normal either! There aren't often tornadoes during the fall/winter here. What is up with this weather? It's scary! lol. I kind of wish that I could go to my Mom's in Montana for awhile until this craziness ends but since Alex is in school and I have a job we're kind of stuck.

Onto a more positive note though, my cousin Krissy just arrived from Illinios yesterday. She'll be staying with us for a whole week! It's so nice having her here. She's not only a cousin but a best friend and when she's around I'm so happy! :D I just feel bad that she scheduled her trip right around the time that all of our wild weather hits, poor girl, lol.

I've been a busy girl lately, scrapping like mad! I have so many new projects to share but to begin I'll share my My Creative Scrapbook November layouts. These were all made with the November Creative kit.

This one is probably my favorite. I love the photos of Alex cheesing for the camera and the fall colors in this kit are perfect!

Love this one too! Because of the pics. :) There is a school store at Alex's school. One of the "hot new items" in the store are these light up fiber optic mohawks. Every kid wants one! Alex and his friend Kennedy were lucky enough to each get a set and they were pretty excited about them, I had to take a pic when they got home from school! I love how they match in their school t-shirts as well. :)

And since I haven't posted to my blog in so long, here are some photos of Alex during Halloween! We had such a fun Halloween weekend. He got to wear his costume lots and had tons of fun with his friends. :) After trick or treating on Monday night he was EXHAUSTED! John had to carry him home because he couldn't walk anymore, lol! How was your Halloween?

These are photos from a church Halloween fair on Sunday that we went to with our neighborhood friends:

Here are photos from Halloween night! Alex had fun posing with his "awesome machine gun", lol! :) The gun was the whole reason he chose his Halloween costume. I have a feeling this means the end of "cute" Halloween costumes for him. *sadface*

Kenedy was a siberian tiger this year. Isn't she prettyyy? :)

Have a great week! :) I'm looking forward to having lots of fun with Krissy! We already went shopping yesterday and plan on going lots more. We're both TERRIBLE influences on each other when it comes to spending money, uh ohhh. ;)

My Creative Scrapbook October Layouts

Heyaa! It's been quite awhile since I posted a blog post, yikes!

Things have been a little crazy around here. My aunt passed away a few weeks ago so I went to Illinois to spend time with my family and to go to her memorial service. It was really comforting spending time with my family and it was incredible to see how many people showed up to pay their respects at her memorial. She was loved by SO many, she was one of the most unbelievably responsible, caring, kind and smart people that I have ever met. I actually have always looked up to her, she is my role model, I have always and will always strive to be a mother just like her. I will continue to do so, knowing that she is watching and looking down on my family and I. :)

Since I've been home I've been working at my local Scrapbook store a lot. I just got to see a lot of the new Christmas lines that she ordered and ohhh my goodness. I pretty much want all of them! I know that I MUST have the new My Minds Eye, Cosmo Cricket and Websters pages lines, maybe more! How about you, any Christmas lines getting you excited yet? I'm ready to start scrapbooking Christmas photos already! :)

I've been helping out in the classroom at Alex's school a lot, it is so fun! I love it! Maybe I should have pursued being an elementary school teacher when I went to college? Helping to mold little minds is so enjoyable and fulfilling.

The new October My Creative Scrapbook kits went up for sale last week! This month I played with the Creative kit again. I LOVED this kit. Bella Blvd. is one of my favorite companies and I whipped all these pages out in two days! I think that's a record for me. :)

I also created a page for the Official Cricut Blog at the beginning this month, I made this one to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It's a page all about how much I love my girlfriends! I used the Rock Princess cartridge, Lacy Labels cartridge, Paisley, Elegant Edges and Nate's ABC's on this one.

Have a great week everyone! I helped at Alex's school this morning, had a nice long phone convo with Delaina and now John and I are going shopping! We're going to get pumpkins for our lawn and the new Evanescence CD that came out yesterday, eee! Give this song a listen. :)

Zva Creative September DT Blog Hop!

Zva Creative and our talented Design Team welcomes you to join us this month for a blog hop that we feel is always extra special! We thought it would be more fun to add even more chances to win our blog hop prize! See details below.

The summer trade show was in July, which means brand new Zva Creative products. So please keep an eye out for them at your local craft stores.

As you know, Zva offers so many beautiful color groupings for pearls, flowers and crystals. We want to make sure that they shine bright for you, so each designer was asked to share a creation using a specific color or color combination on their blog hop project.

The Blog Hop begins at Kim Hughes' blog. She will have the complete list of all blogs that are participating in case there is a glitch along the way. If you would like to play along, just follow along the blog path. I am linking to one of the Zva designers and that designer is linking to the next and so on. Be prepared to be inspired along the way. Hidden on FIVE of the blogs is a Zva Creative prize package...YAY! Winners will be randomly chosen after the hop is over, so it's important to leave a comment on as many blogs as you can along the way.

The Blog Hop starts today, September 26th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, September 27h and the 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, September 28th on each of the five winning blogs. The full list will be found on Kim Hughes‘s blog as well (linked above). We will do our best to notify each winner, but it's best if you can pop in to all of the blogs once again on Wednesday...plus, you never know what kind of inspirational creation that you may find there. All you need to do is leave a comment on this Zva Blog Hop post...you do not need to leave a comment on each and every designer's blog post to qualify. The more times you leave a comment along the blog hop path though, the more chances you will have to be one of the lucky winners.

To increase your chances of winning:

* Comment to let us know that you posted on your Facebook page about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)

* Comment to let us know that you "tweeted" about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)

* Comment to let us know that you asked your local store to carry Zva creative products. If they already do, that's fantastic, maybe you can suggest other products that they don't carry

Sooo, you have FOUR chances on each blog to win one of our FIVE prizes! That's technically OVER 50 chances :)

Zva Creative products used: CR04CA102, CRC01CB103

The blog hop begins here: Kim Hughes

Your next stop is here: Guiseppa Gubler

Thank you SO MUCH for joining us

Cricut + Pink Paislee

While going through the recent projects that I've created for the Cricut Circle Blog, I thought to myself: "Woah, I've been going a little Pink Paislee crazy lately!" lol. Pink Paislee has been one of my all time favorite brands since the beginning, and getting to mix them with my Cricut? Makes it even better! :)

Here's a layout that I created with the Hometown Summer collection. I love summer + primary colors! These are photos of Alex eating cotton candy at the zoo, one of his favorite treats. Although... anything that contains sugar is one of his favorite treats it seems, ha.

I used the following Cricut cartridges to create this one: Nifty Fifties, Robotz, Sentimentals, Accent Essentials. And don't forget to use your Cricut Expression 2! If you don't have one, get one! I *heart* mine. :)

Now for the Soiree collection, my fav! I loooove the bright colors. Here is my sister at her high school graduation back in 2007. I can't believe it took me 4 years to get these photos scrapped!

Cartridges used: Paper Lace, Wrap It Up

This next one was created for a challenge. About things that BUG me. What bugs me more than anything? The big messes that my dog's make... every day! :)

Cartridges used: Paper Lace

I'll be back with even MORE Cricut projects! I haven't put up any in awhile so there's lots to share.

I'm off to work at Paper Crown. If you live in the OKC area, come visit me! :)