{discovering} life

Something exciting...

I hope you don't mind me sharing, but I was excited to see my layout up on the March Scrapbook Trends Cover this month! I did that layout about a year ago but it still means a lot to me. It was an honor to be asked to have it on the cover - thanks so much Scrapbook Trends! :)

I think we are finally getting better...still have yucky coughs but I'm sure they will fade away soon. Thanks for the well-wishes! :)

So, I am offically back to stalking mode at the online scrapbook stores! I'm so silly! Yes, I am always checking them out but it seems like so many CHA goodies are rolling in lately and I just gotta have them! :) Lots of fun stuff!

This past weekend while we were in SLC, I went to my favorite fabric store, Pine Needles at Gardner Village. Fabric has always been a love of mine, but now that my mom got all us girls into quilting...it's gotten worse...if that's possible! :) I bought tons of delicious fabric! Fabric and scrapbook supplies are similar in that once they are gone...they are usually gone. Most stores don't reorder - hence my 'need' to get it right now. It's a sickness I tell you!

They had this darling kit there and I just had to get it! In 2 weeks, we have our annual girls retreat (my mom and sisters) and I am counting down the days. Time away...no kids...sleep....scrapbooking and quilting the days and nights away...pure bliss! I am so excited! Anyway, so I got this quilt kit and a bunch of other fun things to work on while I'm there. Since we stayed in SLC longer than we had originally planned, I actually got almost all the fabric cut for the quilt. Super cool!

I'll take pictures of it all and show you - I took a photo of the quilt hanging up in the store too - just need to download them all. Fun fun stuff!

I had a productive day Sunday and Monday...got a lot of work done and that feels good. I still have a lot to do, but it feels good to be getting it done.

I'm looking forward to seeing the classes I signed up for at Scrap-a-faire tomorrow. Did you sign up? I'm taking a few, just for pure fun. I loved Tracy Kyle's idea for her stamping class of creating cards with stamping techniques on them. They are all up in my head as I'm stamping but to have a little book to flip through with them all there is a fabulous idea. I look forward to making that! :)

I'm also totally loving the sneak peek Jenni Bowlin put up on her blog for the March papercrafting kit! Pure love! And everything else that she wrote - I know I'm gonna love it! Can't wait to see it and all the other fun things up there on March 1 - always love it!

Anyway - hope you all have a good day! I'm gonna try to have another productive day - gotta go get busy! Have a good one! :)

Yuck!

Hi again! :)

Nice titles right? LOL! We are enjoying some time at my parents this weekend. My brother-in-law got an offer from a company here in Utah so they are moving back from New York. We are all super excited. They flew out here last minute and we came up - my hubby is going to go help them find a house Monday and Tuesday. Wish them luck! :)

I posted something on the Look Blog today - come and share you 'style' with us! I'd love to hear!

Last night, I ran to the scrapbook store close by here and to JoAnn's Superstore...was hoping to find more new stuff but still picked up a few things. I was so happy that my good friend Amy was able to meet up with me - I loved seeing you girl!!! So glad we were able to do that! Love ya!

Well - no photos cause I'm not home but I'm gonna get back to posting more - I promise! Thanks for the sweet comments about the Valentine's photo of Madi - so fun! Thank you! Have a good weekend!

Happy LOVE Day!

Have a wonderful day! If you love them...be sure to tell them! Nothing can be more important today!

I woke up to warm waffles and fruit, flowers and a card...oh how I love my man! :)

I got this cute heart pillow from Target and Madi decided to sit like this...gotta love that personality!

Hugs!

Hi! :)

I was having some issues with Typepad for a few days so I wasn't able to get in here to post. Bummer! I'm still way busy - my house offically looks like a tornado zone - it is bad! Seriously! I'm gonna have to take some time to clean up the kitchen tonight! LOL!

If you haven't had a chance to check out the new LOOK BOOK BLOG - do so! It's so awesome! It hasn't even been up a week and there is so much going on over there! There are post every day - today there are even 2! Lots of fun stuff scheduled - hope you'll all come and play! Since I haven't been doing the 3 Product Challenges for awhile now - I challenge you to do the Look Book Blog Challenges! You'll love it and be so inspired!

I just wanted to say hello! Hope your all well! I'll leave you with another layout I did for the new MOD Autumn Leaves line called Primary for CHA! Hugs!

New AL Look Book BLOG!

Yahooo!!

There is a new Autumn Leaves blog now up and running...the Look Book Blog! Go check it out! There will be a new challenge each week with 2 designers completing the challenge as well - if you do the challenge and post your layout/project somewhere you get an Autumn Leaves goodie! They are good ones! :) I hope you'll all come and play! There will be other things posted during each week too - so stay tuned! Lots of fun!

I thought I'd share two more photos of the ads for the books at the show. (I swiped them from Kelli's blog (thanks girl!) The ad for Designing with Details has some actual layouts from the book up - that middle one with the diamonds, my dad and Hudson is mine. One of my favs too! :) :)

And new layouts up on the ad in the booth for the Clear Stamps Book. The one on the top is mine - with the circles. Lots of good peeks at what is in these two books!

I'll share the rest of the layouts that I did for CHA this week too! Have a good one!

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First of all, thank you to all of you....so very much...for your sweet posts and comments on my last post! I feel horrible that I haven't responded to each of you - I have wanted too and I need too - things are so crazy right now and I feel bad that I haven't thanked each of you. You are all so nice - thanks for your sweet words! The books will be so neat - I hope that you'll pick them up when they are released! :)

Changing some things around here on the blog...I wanted to add this fundraising for Autism panel on the right hand side. I have to thank Ali - she has so much exposure in this industry and I'm so thankful to her for raising autism awareness. For talking about it...placing links to current events on her blog...raising money for Autism research...so many things. I saw this new site linked up on her site and just loved what they do!

I wanted to create a panel for Madisyn as well and place it here on my blog. As much as I'd love to see the 'money raised' number go up - I'm also okay if it doesn't. If you donate through Ali's site, through mine, or directly to any Autism related foundation - I want to THANK YOU! Thank you for helping to find a cure - to find answers to this thing we call Autism. If you ever have some extra cash and can donate, I hope that you will. You'll be helping so many precious children that suffer from Autism.

I hope that this blog format works for everyone. I always struggle with photos and text and getting it to look decent. I hope that on your computers your able to see everything - if not, please let me know! :)

Thanks for coming by! I hope that you all have a fabulous weekend! I'm up to my neck with deadlines so off to work it is for me! Thanks again for your sweet words! Hugs!