Fat Girl's Guide to Triathalons

Mock-up

This is for Sarah, who wants to start a little book for her soon to be children to look at while she is not with them.

This is very simple...just strips of paper inked and then a circle and heart punch layered.

These are both 8x8 pages. I think black and white pictures work best, but that is just an opinion. I tried to use colors that were bold and kid-friendly, but not garish. I think that Sweetwater papers and KI papers are the perfect blend of sentimental, colorful and fun!

tata=father in Polish!

**just a note that this was a pre-weight-loss picture!

Here is a page I already had made...I just added the letter stickers and the picture. I think I would like this better if the squares covered the entire paper...I just like a lot of patterned paper obviously!

Ali#2

I am just going to try to totally catch up the blog...those 8th graders are sucking my energy out of every pore and then this week we had a series of house guests and I am exhausted...let's just say Rick and I got into a fight because I didn't get to go to Stamp Antonio...not the best use of the energy I have left...Why do I allow myself to weirdly be that way...oh well...more emotional outpouring later!

Here are some Ali project shots. I just have to mention that I love her and soon I will be receiving this kit in the mail...so cool...you should totally buy one...all the proceeds go towards breast cancer research/education. More pictures of it here .

First we worked on the album I was most excited about and I see many...may of these in my future.

Next we worked on this adorable little mini book that really inspired me to use stamps. we embossed and then inked on the cover. We also used a combination of light and dark and used the windows in the making memories books that I loved...I wanted to go to Stamp Antonio to see if they had this little books...I love them!

Ok...Ali Part 1

First of all I want to say that I love a weekend away, doing fun stuff, staying in a hotel with a girlfriend. My friend Marty and I had a blast. She brought her mom and I swear the best behaved baby in the whole world. We all slept in one small hotel room and it was soooo fun! Marty and I stayed awake talking until we literally were sleep-talking. Love that!

We of course had class with Ali...we took "yesterday, today, tomorrow," "Perspectives," and "I Am." (Pictures of projects tomorrow) We cropped with a bunch of awesome and friendly women. We stayed for a class on Saturday morning and then had lunch with Miss Ali herself. She is truly a cool girl and I wish she lived in San Antonio so we can scrap together and be best friends!

Thank Goodness...I finished...RAK!

I was a CKU student with Ali Edwards in March 2005! I just finished the "Week In the Life" Album...yesterday. Yes...over a year. In celebration of this acheivement. I will RAK a page kit to the 7th poster. And yes...I realize coffee is spelled incorrectly...I ran out of e's and I forgot to replace it...but this is Rick's favorite part of the 7 day album.

Here are a couple new creations from today.

I don't know if you can tell, but Rick's parents are reflected in his sunglasses. We totally did that by accident, but I think it is the coolest thing!

RAK Winner and library!

The RAK winner is...Carlene. Actually nobody got the question right, but she said that my blog title was funny and I like her just for that!

I got asked to speak at the main branch of the library about scrapbooking. I can't believe that I got to talk about scrapbooking for an hour! Iam sure some of the folks thought I was a little crazy, but you don't want to talk to someone about something they are not passionate about right...I took a picture...that was fun! Hey peeps! I cut out the coolest lady who is Slovakian and speaks Polish! Small world. I should have asked her for private lessons! Polish is hard to learn!

In non-scrapbooking news, my husband bought some kayaks and we took them for a spin. It was a blast! i suspect that the second kayak is really for our friend Marcus...not me. It seems like they had a lot of fun kayaking off, smoking cigars while I stayed on the shore and waded with the kids! I do have fun with those kids though!

Last thing...is our dog spoiled or what?

A couple of layouts

Just some scrapbooking news!

1. I signed up for Ali Edwards' classes in Waco, TX in September! Yea!!!! I can't wait.

2. I am teaching at SBH on July 1st. I will be doing a Christmas mini-book that is in development.

3. I just finised a couple of layouts...

New Stuff

here is a new layout. Rick is out of town so i have actually done three...but i haven't put pictures in all of them yet or photographed them. I will add them later this week. I think Rick loves this picture so I was glad to finally get it documented...

Card Swap

I normally do not join swaps...

one...I am not good at deadlines...hence the $88 dollar fine at the library...

two...I am not sure that I will ever use the swap item I receive

Being the daring person that I am trying to be ;) I decided in order to meet more people (potential friends) I would join the card swap at the Scrapbook Heaven where I am a retired Design Team member.  I totally stole this from Nora Griffin's blog banner...so it is far from original...the theme was HOME...

My first "real" scrapbooking class

*will post pictures of my layouts this afternoon!*

Let me confess that I was a Creative Memories consultant for about 5 minutes.  I really do enjoy many of their tools and am a fan of the simple layouts...but let's just say that I referred to it as CCM...Cult Creative Memories and although I loved my "mentor"...Rick and in all honesty...me too...referred to her as the "cult leader."  I hope she doesn't read this!

Well...I did teach a little when I did all of my two shows with CM, but I got to teach at a real LSS and I had the best time.  It was part of it was that it was a collaborative album designed by the SBH Design Team, which I am a retired member of.  I was in charge of March and February...

I also need to admit that I am very competitive and wanted everyone to love me the best so everyone in my class won something in the raffle...I am pretty sure that the prizes won me some bonus points...I think the tiny rhinestones were frustrating a few students.  I had a blast and I got asked to teach more classes and that made my whole week!