I knew I was going to be bad at this!

Please forgive me for not updating this thing. I am going to spend the rest of the night posting several blog entries to catch everyone up on the last couple months! YIKES!

Be prepared for some news, vacation photos and layouts! I have a TON of catching up to do!

Check this out:

Join Creative Imaginations and their Artists for a once in a lifetime opportunity as a Guest Designer for the month of August 2007.

This weekend, Scrapbook Chalet will be hosting contests and chats in conjunction with Creative Imaginations.

Register on both websites; Creative Imaginations {www.creativeimaginations.us} and {www.Scrapbookchalet.com}.

Specific details regarding this contest will be announced during the chats at Scrapbook Chalet this weekend. Please join Marah Johnson { May 4th , 10pm est, } and Cheryl Mezzetti, DT Coordinator {May 5th, 10pm est } for more information.Upload your designs following the challenges presented sometime before Sunday, May 13th to both Creative Imaginations and Scrapbook Chalet {you must upload to both sites to enter} There will be specific folders represented on each website.All challenges must include at least 80% Creative Imaginations product.

With thousands of products to choose from, let your creative imaginations run wild.

The winner will receive:

1. $100.00 retail value in product of their choice from Creative Imaginations {product is subject to availability.}

2. Guest designer will have their work as well as a small bio and photo featured on the CI website.

3. All work uploaded will remain the property of CI for possible use in their newsletter or promotional material.Winner will be announced on Monday, May 14th.Good luck!

Sneak Peek of My Chalet Contest Entry

Ive mentioned before that I am involved with a contest at the Chalet. Each week we are given a challege that we have to complete and then the members of the board vote to see which layout they like best. WELL I have surprisingly made it to round FOUR! YAY

Last weeks challenge was hard... H-A-R-D... hard! It was a scraplift of one of the DT members there Jeanne. Super cute layout but I struggled with it all week. FINALLY, literally twenty minutes before it came due I had it finished and uploaded. shew! You can see it in the Chalet Gallery.

This weeks challenge was SOOOOOOO easy! It was a challenge to create a layout based on a super cute ad!

I took one look at that ad and knew this was going to be easy. The colors struck me, the layout struck me and it was all mapped out. I finished it in record time! NOW the hard part. I HATE being the first one to upload to the gallery so I am holding off for a bit. I CANNOT get a good picture of it to save my life! soooooooooo I am going to show you a sneaky peek of my latest layout. Please leave comments and let me know what you think!

It will be uploaded in the Chalet Gallery sometime on Friday or Saturday!

Devins Artwork

WOW WOW WOW was all I could say when Devin came home with his most recent art project.

I dont dote on him nearly enough so I HAD to share this with everyone! He literally had to scratch the surface of this paper off just enough to create the skull you see! ISNT IT AMAZING?

I am sooooo proud of my kiddo! One day soon I will have to take a picture of the clay figure he made me. Its AMAZING! Its a tree stump with a fish swimming into the middle of it. Really great work! He made Papa an outhouse...LOL Its so cute!

I really am going to get better at updating this sill blog of mine so be sure to check back often! AND LEAVE some COMMENTS! I like to know what you think!

Amazing Photographer!

WOW I have one heck of a photographer! Just look at what she was able to do with Makayla at our most recent sitting. It was sooooo much fun playing with the little chicks and ducks. I swear in the one picture it looks like she is the "chick whisperer"! Thats what the title of that layout will be anyway!

Feast your eyes on these! I am sooooooooooo thrilled with them!

Its a contest entry!

So the Scrapbook Chalet is hosting a contest that I decided to join. I actually made it through the first round! YAY!



The challenge for the second round was to create a layout using a Becky Fleck sketch that they provided. It was out of the box for me because it was round! I did it and am actually pretty happy with the results!

Texas Bluebonnets

I have sooooo much to update here and need to get it done soon. I promise I will soon. I am creating a new banner for my blog as well as getting a ton of new layouts ready to share. I promise one day I will be better at updating this thing!

Sooooooo Michelle and Maddie came in for a visit this week and the first thing we did was try to take the girls out to get their pictures in the bluebonnets. OH WHAT a FIASCO that was. First of all, you CANNOT contain TWO 2 year olds. Its just not a thing thats going to happen easily. Especially when the first thing they do is run to the nearest cactus and sit in it (poor mads)!

BUT we did manage to get this ONE shot of the two of them together. This is it guys so be happy you have this to look at!

I think it turned out ok but holy man... not going to try that again anytime soon! I do have other super cute photos of Makayla in the bluebonnets all alone (Maddie had to leave to get the cactus plucked from her rear) so I will get them edited and up on the blog soon! I PROMISE!