Fun with Photos

Good morning! Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was so busy! Friday night I got my Miche purse at Costco in London. Then on Saturday I had to work at the LSS. Sunday I went scrappin' in the afternoon with some friends. I got one layout done. I haven't had a chance to take a photo of it yet, hopefully in the next day or two. We also moved the clocks an hour ahead and I'm still trying to adjusting from that. Just wanted to share some fun photos that I was playing with over at Photofunia, what a hoot! These are what I ended up with.

There is a problem with this one though. Do you see it? Yes the artist is sketching Elliott and the person in the background is obviously a girl, looks like a skirt to me! LOL

This is our doggie, Hunter.

This is my favourite one. That photo is actually an enlarged framed print in my house. So it is a picture of a picture. It is an amazing photo. Even though it is washed out here (because of the program) you can see the absolutely endearing look on my boys faces. This is one of those once in a lifetime moments that was captured on film. It was taken about 5 1/2 years ago when the boys were 6 and 2. My youngest is looking up at his big brother with absolute wonderment and my oldest is looking down at him like I'll show you the world. It is just priceless. I don't know if you can see all that, because this photo doesn't do the original much justice but you can take my word for it, it is one in a million. Happy Tuesday.

Mini Album Class

Good Morning and Happy Friday!

First I want to share this with you....look what I'm getting.....

I can hardly believe it! I've heard rumors that these are already backordered everywhere! I was reading it over on the Everything Circut blog. Let me tell you I am so impressed to get my hands on these little baby's! What is even more surprising is I scooped them up right here in Canada! WOO HOO! Now when does that ever happen! You know what I'm talking about! But thanks to my great friend Rosa at The Paper Passion she has done it again! I told you I love that place!

You might recognize this mini album. I posted 3 of them around Christmas time that I made as gifts. I also mentioned that I would be teaching it as a class. I wanted to offer it as a Mother's Day gift idea. Can you believe how prepared I am? This time I used the new My Minds Eye Bella Bella Bellezo Collection. It is so pretty! Browns and pinks. The best thing about this class is the extras! Everyone will get half of the whole collection and you will only use a fraction of the materials in the project. So you will go home with a bunch more product to play with! (So you don't have to give all to your mom :) ) LOL The collection include 9 coordinating papers and 1 12x12 sheet of diecuts. Now unfortunately not everyone will get exactly the same pieces, but I'm confident that you will love no matter what half you get. There will only be room for 9 people in this class due to limited supplies.

Notice the tabs? Forever?

and Always?

They pull out to more hidden photos!

Even though you can't see it there is sparkle on the flowers and the butterfly!

Well I hope everyone has a wondeful weekend. It is going to fly by for me! Lots to do. Cheers!

Yes it is March!

So what's new? I definitely have spring fever! Can't wait for it! I've been still very busy lately and March is going to be no exception. It will be even busier! I have alot to look forward to in March. Firstly, my birthday comes in March, I was born on the first day of spring/last day of winter. I like to think of it as the first day of spring though ;)

On Monday, Elliott and I went to London for the day for allergy testing. As we expected he is allergic to cats and very allergic to dust mites! (those things really gross me out and I hate to think about them!) This is such an "aw ha" moment for us though as he always seemed to have trouble breathing in his sleep. This is so good to know! On the down side we will have to make many changes to correct this problem as much as we can. First off, will be removing the carpet in his room (which was something we wanted to do anyways) and change it to laminate. Secondly, sorry Mr. Webkins you can't sleep with Elliott anymore! They will have to be put up! As for me, my allergies have changed over the years. I have grown out of some, but have added different ones! Great! So no longer am I allergic to pollen, ragweed and dust. I am still allergic to mold (that's probably a good thing) who wants to be around that?!?! But I'm now also allergic to MILK? WHAT? Are you kidding me? However, it is not completely a surprise. Although I don't remember it, I was allergic to milk until the age of one. Of course I don't remember that and can't remember a day in my life without dairy. Until my first son came along and we found out he was allergic to the "protein" in milk. This was discovered a month after he was born. I had supplemented him at our Thanksgiving get together and he was just sick! So after taking him to the hospital and them coming to the conclusion that he was protein intulerant I was to cut it out of my diet as well as long as I was breast feeding! EEK! What a challenge! Needless to say I only lasted until Christmas and that was the end of that. They figured he would grow out of it in a few years...well 8 years later, with no, milk, ice cream, yogurt, cheese, cream of anything soups, cookies or chocolate, Braydn is now freed from this allergy! Now apparently I have it! What? I should clarify that it obviously isn't severe. They have also not yet advised me to eliminate it from my diet. They are doing further testing as they don't think that is the reason for my problem. My problem? I get stuffed up when I eat and my throat gets a frog in it. It is just plain weird I know. But it is a uncomfortable! So we will see what happens when we get the results back.

For my birthday I'm going to get a Miche purse, remember when I posted about those? I have to go out of town to get it though, so a friend of mine and I are going this Friday night.

Saturday I will be working at the Scrapbook store. I'm hoping to complete a project for a class that I want to teach as a Mother's Day gift. I'll be finishing it tonight and tomorrow night. Sunday I'm getting together with friends to scrapbook for the afternoon. So I'm really looking forward to that. Its been a long time!

One the weekend of my birthday me and my ya-ya sisters are heading to Beamsville for the weekend to hang. We only get together about 3 times a year so we are always pumped to get together!

I also wanted to share a layout that I squeezed in this weekend. The only thing I have bought new so far this year from the CHA winter release was each of the Bella Bella and Bloom & Grow paper collections from MME. This is from the Bella Bella French Flea Market Line. All of the patterned paper and the title. The florish and the heart are from Fancy Pants Daily Grind Line. I also used a ticket from Creative Cafe and Making Memories mini letters, plus a tag from a previous MME line, 29th Street I think!


I ordered this stuff from my friend Rosa at The Paper Passion. My new favourite online Canadian Scrapbook Store! If you haven't checked out her store you really should! Her prices are the best! She just got in all the Pink Paislee Collections, which I for one, was dieing to have. I should be getting my scrappy mail today! :)
This is one of the best pictures ever of my husband and I together. Between us, he is hard to take a good photo! Again complements go to my friend April of April Mandeville Photography. You will be seeing much more of her work in the future.

I'll hopefully have time tomorrow to upload all of the wedding layouts that I have been working on for my dad's book that I mentioned a few weeks back. Happy Hump Day!

Picture Filled Post

Hello Everyone! Happy Saturday! This will be another quickie post today, just to show off my pictures from my "So You Think You Can Dance" show the other night. I took like 120 photos and these were the best of them. First a pic of my friends, Tracy and Jenny. :)

Opening number.

The dancers put on the entire show, announcing each others performances.

The final 4 performance.

My favourite dance couple.

Group performance before intermission.

One of the best shots I got.

First group performance after intermission, I took a few of these.

Another great photo of the group.

Nico.....yes Nico, my favourite dancer, and Canada's. Plus Allie. She is my girl, since ballet is near and dear to my heart, and she is a ballerina! Props to her!

Katelyn and Issac jazzin' it up!

Natalie and Nico.

Lisa and Vincent.

Natalie's solo. They all did solos but they were short and difficult to get photos of.

Allie and Danny another favourite couple together.

Miles and Nico's number.

Allie and Issac, bustin a move in hip hop, sassy!

My absolute favouite routine. The mirror number with Lisa and Miles. Just breathtaking. They put soooooo much emotion into it. It was fab!

Natalie and Vincent.

My second favourite number of the season with Nico and Arasay. Nico plays a black angel, it is also full of emotion.

It was a great show and I'm so happy I got to go! :)

Fallin' Off the Face of the Earth?

You'd think so! Still having computer issues. GRRR! Can't believe how much I rely on it. I shouldn't say computer issues either as much as internet issues. I can only stay connected for so long and then it cuts out on me. Every 10, 15 minutes or less! Can't get much done and what I do get done takes forever and a day. That is making my new business venture very difficult to say the least.

I took some time to change up my blog today, The Cutest Blog on the Block has some fresh new designs for spring. This one is called Too Darn Cute, and I think it is just that! It reminds me of Pink Paislees Spring Fling release from last year, so it makes me happy. Speaking of blogs, I was reading a thread over at CMK on blog banners and backgrounds and Daniela mentioned this great new website called House of 3 by 3 very talented scrapbookers Heidi Swapp, Rhonna Farrer and Janet Hopkins. You should check it out! My hope is to use something from them for my new blog, that I'm working on for my new venture ;)

Lastly, I wanted to share my excitment. I'm going to London tonight to go see "So You Think You Can Dance Canada" at the John Labatt Centre. I'm going with two of my dancing buddies Tracy and Jenni! It is going to be so much fun. Can't wait to see Mr. hottie himself and favourite dancer Nico! Hopefully, are seats will be close enough to get some good photos so I can post them. Oh and just in case Mother Nature is listening, thank you for not sending a storm today so we can get to and from London safely. :)

I Was Tagged...

by my friend Juliana.



Here's how you play...Go to your Picture Folder on your computer or wherever you store your pictures.

1. Pick the 6th Folder, then select the the 6th picture in that folder.

2. Post that picture on your blog and the story that goes along with the picture.

3. Tag 6 other people that you know or don’t know to do the same thing and leave a comment on their blog or an e-mail letting them know you chose them.

Now because I'm having to post from work (because of my computer/internet issues at home) I have limited photos here. But nevertheless I think this is so fun.

This is a picture of Elliott in front of our house, this past fall the day we carved our pumpkins. Isn't he such a poser? LOL I've trained him pretty good! :)

So I'm going to tag... Alison, Daniela, Danielle, Elizabeth, Megan and Renee.

Just a quickie fun one today. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Wish me luck I'll be having computer withdrawals....maybe a good opportunity to get scrappin'! :)

New Do and other Exciting News!

So this past weekend (I know if is almost Friday!) I got a manicure, a massage and my hair cut and had my low lights done. Boy does that look better! A girl, just has to do what a girls gotta do sometimes! (giggle) :)
I'm very busily working on my new venture and hope to share really soon! Promise not to keep you waiting too much longer :) That is if I don't come down too sick! I'm feeling a little under the weather today and I don't know if I'm getting something or just a little run down because of all this stuff going on. My fingers are crossed as I don't have time to be sick! I have a class to teach at Crop Til You Drop this weekend and I don't want to miss that. We will be doing those cute little Let it Snow blocks that I did at the end of last year. As for my other exciting news I have an opportunity to upgrade my camera. While I was at an event this weekend an acquaintance made note that I was using a Canon S1 IS. He has the Canon S5 IS. He only bought it just over a year ago and it came out in the summer of 2007. He is looking to upgrade it already as he has his eye on something else. He is willing to sell it to me with a filter (which I do not currently have) for $180. I do not need a new camera, but with techology improvements and additional new features, who could pass that deal up? I'm quite excited. Mind you I have to figure out how to come up with the $180 because of Ken being underemployed right now (only working PT rather than FT) I can't justify taking that money out of the budget. So I have to be creative. I'm hoping between my class on Saturday and the sale of a few things around the house and some scrappy stuff on facebook I can swing it. Wish me luck! :) One more note, I'm posting from work right now as we do not have internet at home at all right now. We have been having trouble with it for over a month and things just keep getting worse not better. Now I'm going to be taking my computer in to be looked at to see if there are any problems there. Please pray that it isn't anything expensive. That is the last thing we need right now.