Selective Coloring!

Alisha came to visit this weekend and we had a great time shopping! She gave me this awesome magazine called "The Ultimate Guide to Digital Scrapbooking" by Better Homes and Gardens Creative Collection! I am in love with this magazine! So, I started playing with some of the features! I chose this photo from my trip to California to do selective coloring! It was so much easier then I ever thought it would be!

A project for a stormy day!

I picked up a couple of Tea Towels from my local craft store with the idea of making aprons! I searched online for some simple directions but the one's I found were not suited for a plus size lady such as myself! So, this is what came out and the first one looks orange but it is actually a salmon pink. Not sure why my camera didn't pick that up! Let me know what you think!

Digital Scrapbooking

I've been trying my hand at digital scrapbooking and I am really enjoying it! It's just another way to preserve those memories! And really great for doing recipe pages! But, this is the first page I put together using a free kit I downloaded! I've been downloading free stuff like crazy!

California Road Trip

These are my pics from our trip to California! Mike, (my boyfriend), his Mom, and I all drove down to watch Mike's Son, Brad, graduate from high school in Newport Beach, CA! It was a really long trip, a couple day's drive down and back! We took Highway 1 for the first day on the way home, which is right along the ocean coast! Beautiful scenery! I would love one day to travel as far as possible all the way down from here in WA down to CA on highway 1, but I'm pretty sure that would take weeks! lol Enjoy my pics!



Mike and his Mom, Peggy, waiting for the ceremony to begin!



All the graduate's!




Hat's up!



All the ton's of RV's parked along highway 1 next to the ocean!




Off in the distance is the Hearst Castle! I wish we would have had time to tour it, but the tour was 4 hours long!



We stopped to see some Elephant Seals and it was soooo windy the sand felt like bees stinging my legs!

A beautiful blue sky and ocean!

That's my Mike! Lookin' good!

They aren't dead, trust me! Just cooling and resting in the sand!

Now, most of these next photo's were taken from the car! Not too bad for going at 75 mph!

Pyriamid Lake

Mt. Shasta

Giant Indoor Garage Sale!

I finally got the chance to sell my little sticky note books I've been making! Our town had a giant indoor garage sale and a friend of mine had a booth and a little extra table space for me! So, I laid them all out in hope's someone might think they are cute! I didn't do too bad! I made a little extra cash and came home with almost half of what I took! I'm not sure if I want to make more and try again or not. Maybe when the Christmas Bazaars start up!

NSD Make and Take!

National Scrapbook Day was a blast! I really didn't get much actual scrapbooking done, but I did get a lot of shopping done! We went to Craft Warehouse and they did this awesome little make and take! They had different table's set up to do each page then you go up and they bind it for you using the bind-it-all! (which I own and LOVE!) I also bought the new Crop-a-Dile Corner Chomper and I'm totally in love with it! It is a fantastic tool to own! I also got it 40% off which make's me love it even more!

Accordian Books!

I love making these mini albums! They are fast, easy, and cheap to make! I made this one for a one on one swap! The topic is family!