{discovering} life

Gift for my Mom

  Here are some pictures of the quick notebook (comp book) that I made for my mom for her birthday tonight. This was put together pretty quickly, but I still like the way it turned out. I put rub-ons around the letter M (for mom and her name is Melanie) and a few throughout the covers of the book to 'inspire' her.

At CKU Masters last week, we handed out to some people these new rub-ons by Making Memories that I believe are just for CKU's and events like that. They are sooo stinkin' cute! I had to hoard a few!

Thanks for looking!

Simple Abundance

On my flight home from CKU Anaheim, I had a chance to dig into the complimentary book 'What I Know for Sure' that came with the 5 year anniversary magazine of 'O' Oprah Magazine. It is awesome!! WOW! It's a compliation of all her articles through the years and they are wonderful!

One struck me...she was talking about Simple Abundance and how we all have so much to be grateful, even when times are hard. She lists at least 5 things that she is grateful for everyday. So, I'm going to try to do that here on my blog - sometimes I get so bogged down with life and things to do, trials, and other things, that I think it will be great for me to focus on the good things as well!! I need to work harder at that. Plus, posting pictures and what not on here - I'll get there - no worries! LOL!

So, here is my 'Simple Abundance' List for the day:

1. I'm thankful that my parents and sister and her hubby are coming down today before they head to Lake Powell for the weekend. We are going out to celebrate my mom's birthday - I made a cute little notebook for her that I'll post here tomorrow. Then, we are going to see Star Wars - how is it? I hope it's good. I'm sure it is! (:

2. I'm thankful for friends! I have a good friend coming down today and we are going to go to a great breakfast place tomorrow morning. Sounds good to me!

3. I'm thankful for scrapbooking! Sounds lame, but I love it and it provides that break that I need from the kids sometimes and that much needed creative release - love it.

4. Thankful for Two Peas in a Bucket. Although I mostly lurk there, I am on there all day long. Always reading and popping in - it's another much needed break and a way for me to connect to the 'real' world. Love it!

5. Thankful for little treasures...I love stationery! I love this site - sure to inspire anyone! Awesome colors and just the best eye candy around!

Kinda generic today, but I gotta start somewhere hey! Have a great weekend! I'll post picts of the gift I did for my mom this weekend!

I'm back!

What a trip! I had a blast! It was very tiring and a lot of work, but it was worth it. I met some incredible people and reacquainted with many. The classes went well I felt - it was frustrating because people had to cut the paper for the project and that was hard for everyone and took a lot of time. I'm pretty sure they are going to have things precut for Nashville. It was fun though and I was honored to be there representing such an incredible company.

I came home to two kiddos that were ready to see mom! LOL! I missed them a lot and although the break was much needed, it's always amazing to me how I always seem ready to go again when I get home. I guess that's a good thing. I started feeling really sick Sunday night when I got home and it's still continuing - I hope I start to feel better.

About my scrapbook room - well, last night my hubby decided that we had to get at least 1/2 of our garage empty so that I could park my car in there. Yesterday it got up to 100% - ouch - talk about a killer! So, of course I have so much crap, he brought it all in and now I have boxes everywhere. So, I started to move around my furniture and such and it's just a mess. I have family coming this weekend so I am going to work really hard to get it all cleaned up. I'm so bummed - I should of just taken pictures when it was somewhat decent...but I'll get it there. It's worth the wait - just kidding. I do love it though - just kinda frustrated that I started moving things around - I'll probably just move it back to the way it was. I also need to do some serious cleaning out of stuff - and get rid of stuff. I have so much stuff - it's making me sick!! Time to clean!

Well, speaking of cleaning - I need to go get started. I hope that I feel better today so I can really focus on all of that! Hope the kids won't drive me nuts! LOL!

Hugs!

Busy Busy!

Geez! Crazy busy lately - I haven't had much of a chance to post. Thanks to those that commented - it's so fun to have people comment - I love it! I hope you'll come back and visit me!! I am working on getting the pictures up of my scrapbook room - trust me. I cleaned it up last week and then got an assignment which made it a mess again - don't ya hate that! LOL! So, I'll try to get those up today. But, no guarantees. I have soooo much to do today. I need to run to the store to get some last minute things before I leave Wednesday morning for CKU Anaheim. Yippeee! I'm excited, and yet nervous at the same time. I hope that everything runs smoothly and that everyone has a blast!!

So, I've got to get my stuff together and also the kids to go over to my sisters during the day. Ahhhh...I hope I can pull it all together without forgetting stuff!

So, I'm gonna go finish some assignments, try to clean up and post pictures - but if it doesn't happen - I'll do it first thing when I get back. I'd love to share with all of you my new space.

Hugs and thanks for your comments. Sorry this is a lame blog entry!

Robyn

Cookies = yummy!

I'm so bad! I started off this morning eating chocolate chip cookies - not yogurt or a banana, but cookies. I'm finally putting it out there - I started Weight Watchers about 3 weeks ago and have only stuck to it a few days. One day I do good and then next I back to old habits. I just haven't been able to stick with it...but I sooo want too. It's sad! I just haven't been able to get rid of these extra pounds from having Hudson and I want to feel good again. Why can't I eat good and push myself to try harder? The question of the day!

On the other hand, I'm really excited to get these cool Autism wristbands (Find the Cure Website). I ordered them yesterday and can't wait! I hope that people will ask me about it and what it is for to help bring more awareness to Autism.

I lost my drivers license - ooppps. Let alone, it was over 15 months past due for a new one. I guess it's good I haven't got a ticket! So, I'm going to get a new one today and hope to clean up more when I get back. My mom is coming down for the weekend so I'm really excited about that. She's going to sleep in Madi's room (since she won't), so I want to get it cleaned up a bit. There are toys everywhere.

I got done 5 layouts in the past week that I just really love. I feel so inspired here in my new scrapbook room. I love having everything organized and where I can see it all. It's wonderful! And I just love my room! I still need to post pictures. Hmmmm...I'll have to work on that. I'm trying to clean it up after my rampage of scrappin' lately - so I'll post some soon. If anyone is interested.

Anyway, off to the Drivers license place - yippee! Talk later!

On a side note...

Is anyone registered for CKU Masters in Anaheim later this month? I'll be there teaching for Making Memories and I'd love to hear who's going? Let's meet!

Post here if your going! I'd love to meet you!

HELLO??

I'm back! I feel like it's been awhile since I've posted. My free trial was up and I was trying to decide if I should stick with this or not. I saw a thread on Two Peas about security with Blogs and such and it got me worried a bit, but oh well. My hubby doesn't get the whole Blog thing. "Why would you write personal things online where everyone can see them?" Still not sure why I do - hoping to get some comments and advice or 'hugs' via the internet when times are hard - hoping to help others - and, it's fun to share sometimes, right?

But, where are all of you? I see that your reading - but why aren't you posting? Is my life that boring? LOL? Come post and share with me! I read other's blogs and some people just amaze me with their entries - I guess I'm just writing about my every day life - struggles, joys, to do's and more. But, that's me. Don't have much time to sit down and read, don't listen to music much, but I have two busy kids that keep me running from here to there, a scrapbooking hobby that I just love and a new house to decorate! (:

Anywho, I loved the new Garden that was put up at Two Peas Garden this month. Those girls are always so inspiring! Oh to dream to be a Garden Girl! That would be such an incredible opportunity! I always look forward to the first of the month when the new garden goes up - so much eye candy!!

I'm also excited because Stampin' Up! announced their retired list on Sunday and I also got to preorder sets from the new Summer Mini Catalog (as a Demonstrator, we get to preorder a month early). My sets should be here tomorrow and I'm just aching to use them on this layout I'm working on - love them!! Beautiful!

And Wednesday, I'm registering for Creating Keepsakes University Album in SLC. I can't wait! I'm really just going becuase I want to sit with Heidi Swapp for three days and play! How fun will that be! I hope I get into her track - I just love her and admire her so much! We've met a few times now and I hope that I can get in. Her album looks incredible!

So, another week. I'm working on some layouts for a contest right now and hope to win! LOL! Don't we always! I'm also getting a box from Making Memories with their new products today so that's always way exciting! Their stuff is so incredible and I can't wait to create with it all! My favs for sure!

I'm off to work on these layouts, clean up a bit and hope to get the kids to the park this morning. They need a break from this house! If you read, post comments! I'd love to meet you, read your blogs and share together!

Hugs! Have a great day!