Happy, Happy

I had the layout of the week over at Log Your Memory this week....the challenge was to do a page having to do with what you like best about summer and I chose my birthday!

Here's the journaling:

My birthday is July 5 and I still, love, love, LOVE my birthday. I don’t worry about getting older, I just look forward to celebrating another year with my family. My favorite summer memories are tied to my birthday, too: fireworks the day before, then I always take the day off of work for my birthday and spend it with my kids and people I love, and some of the best birthdays I’ve had were spent relaxing in the swimming pool. The 2 photos on the bottom are the swimming pool birthday cakes my sister made for me (by the way, her birthday is 2 days before mine!)

Those awesome cakes were created by my sister Jeanne...here's a close up:

An effective use of my daughter's outgrown Polly Pocket toys, don't you think? Look for the recipe for this cake? We found it here.

Jeanne has selected the design for this year's cake....it's a Watermelon! Can't wait!

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I also did a page on my recent trip to Naperville that I wrote about here.

In Other News:

Ana graduated from 8th grade this week...holy cow!....I'll be sharing photos for the West Coast Erickson/Clark/Davis clans once I get them uploaded!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Oh what fun....iNSD is May 1st....

Non-scrapbook friends....iNSD is (inter)National Scrapbooking Day! Really? Oh, yeah. Crazy sales, chats, freebies, store sales....oh, I'm so overwhelmed already and it doesn't start until May 1st! I'm spending the day with my flesh and blood Scrap Cellar Girls, who else?

The awesome Kristin Rutten at Log Your Memory teamed up with Simple Scrapper to create a iNSD planner! No, really, it's that big!!! AND it's free! If you weren't there for the chat, you can grab the planner here.

How ridiculously cute is this kit?

Available in the iNSD grab bag available 5/1 from Pixie Perfect Designs, exclusively at Scrapable!!!

(And that's not all....there are lots more goodies in this grab bag, but what good is a grab bag without a few surprises?!)

A recent weekly challege at LYM got me to answer the question you may have asked yourself (or really are wondering why I'm blogging all my scrapbook pages) - Why do you scrapbook? Well.....

There's a little digi page with photos of my recent paper scrapbooking in the Scrap Cellar.

Like I've said before....it's a gentle madness, this hobby. Ah.

Have a terrific day!

Feelin' Groovy!

I hope you're having as good a Friday as I am!

I woke up (a little late today) to find a special message in my email (yes, I check my email before I hit the shower, and no, it's not Internet Candy) - one of my digital layouts was selected to be published in the Log Your Memory Yearbook to be published next January. This was the second of my layouts that was selected to be published, so I'm beyond excited!

Remeber this one?

Then, I got a welcomed text from my ex-husband with some good news. Thanks, Aaron.

Then, I visited the Log Your Memory website and found out that another one of my layouts was selected as the layout of the week!

Really good stuff! The FOCUS is working for me....this new obsession, or let's just call it a Gentle Madness I've developed for digital scrapbooking is so much fun.....if only my dear friend, Leanne, would share her secret with me, my day would be complete!

Checking In

Peacock from here

This was a very good week. I got my hair cut - I call it short (took off 5 inches), but it's really just past my shoulders. I'd been hanging on to my long hair as kind of a security blanket for the past year. I felt ready to break free, finally. Then, I finally got something at work I've been hoping for - feeling kind of proud of myself for hanging in there. And, finally, I finished the Sweet Talk Journaling Challenge at Log Your Memory. Focus, my friends, is working for me!

I've completed these layouts, as well. Have I mentioned I'm so addicted to the digital scrapbooking and paper scrapping, which was once all I did, now feels so HARD, like I'm trying to scrap with my elbows!

That's all I have for today. Once again, I thank my Ana for proofreading :) See you soon!

Oh March, you lucky month! A brief, brief overview

I created a layout last night as part of a challenge from the Guest Designer, Suzy Iverson of SuzyQ scraps, using her new Serendipity kit.

Also, one of my digital layouts was selected to be published in the Log Your Memory 2010 Yearbook! I'm beyond excited about that and feel incredibly lucky to have found such a great bunch of on-line ladies to create with. It's this one here.

Just bummed that my real-life scrappin' gals at the Scrap Cellar won't be able to get together this month - sending them good vibes for health and new grand daughters and husbands!

Ana had a blast on her trip to Washington DC at the end of last month....I'll post pictures soon.

Hope your days are full of luck and dimes!

Today, I'm Excited....and I Just Can't Hide It!

Okay, so dorky song title today, but really, I am excited! My layout was selected as the layout of the week over at LogYourMemory.com! Totally made my day. My layout was submitted for the weekly challenge: How has your daily life changed because of the Internet?

Come see my response here: http://logyourmemory.com/2010/02/26/youre-going-to-lol/

If you haven't been over there yet, I suggest you check it out http://logyourmemory.com/....great ideas, fun challenges, and loads of inspiration and cool people, with a focus on documenting the story and scrapbooking our everyday, real life.

Hope your day is full of good surprises, too!