{discovering} life

Wanna Camera?

I am selling my Digital Rebel XT (silver) to the first person that bites! :) It is the kit, so it comes with the Rebel XT camera body and the EF S 18-55 lens. If your interested in getting an awesome camera for a good deal, drop me an email and we can chat. There is a link to email me under my photo on the left side.

Camera is sold! Thanks so much Laurie - enjoy it!!!!!

And for those curious, my new baby will be here tomorrow. So stinkin' excited to play!! I was so ready for an upgrade...can't wait!!!! :)

Thanks for all the nice comments on the letters - I'm glad that you all like them! I'll try to take some more photos of my house soon to share!

We had a great little vacation! We went to Lake Powell, in Southern Utah/tip of Arizona just with the adults for the weekend - and little JackJack. It was a great getaway! I finally finished Twilight (on the plane on my trip to Des Moines) and so I started up on New Moon. Kinda went through a boring part but I think I'm getting somewhere now. I hope at least! :) It was so great to just chill and read for a bit! Have you read all the books in this series? It took me forever to finish Twilight - has anyone read her new book, The Host? Curious how that is!

Jaxon was so so good there! Happier there than he is at home - isn't that weird? LOL! It was a good trip though and Madi & Hudson did awesome with their grandparents for the weekend.

Now, it's back to work! Only thing is...the kids are home now! Geez! Crazy few days already - how can summer already be here? I've got a ton of work to do this week (stamping, stamping and more stamping) and then a few random projects due next week. So, gotta get working big time! My room is a total disaster right now - going from one project to the next is not helping the mess factor. Oh well!

I've got tons of photos to share - need to load them all up!

Oh - TV!!! Anyone totally excited for the Lost season finale tonight? I cannot wait!!!!! So excited!
And Greys - I thought it was a good finale! Good to see some things resolved! :) Was happy!
And So You Think You Can Dance has started - catching up on those as I scrap - LOVE this show!!!

Ok - kids at a Bday party and Jax is taking a nap so I better go work! Let me know if you interested in the camera!

More Letters! :)

I thought I would share some more photos of my letter collections in my home. The first is the collection of 'R's in my studio. This is on the red wall behind me - I have a few others throughout the room but most of them sit on top of this cabinet.

Black Wire letter: Pottery Barn Teen
Blue letter: (can't remember the name of the store)
Paper Mache Letter: Provo Craft
Small Metal R: Target
Yellow Barn Wood Letter: Vintage store find in AZ
Red Old Sign letter: Vintage store find in AZ
Fabric Orange polka-dot letter: Anthropologie
R Cursive letter: Provo Craft
Silver Glass Glitter Letter: Found at Dear Lizzie store in UT



This huge letter 'W' has been on my wishlist for a long time. I finally splurged and got it - I love how it looks on the wall between our dining room and family room. It's hard t o get the perspective on how big it is - but it's huge - 25" high and 2 1/2" deep - love it!! It's metal, chunky and so cool! A bit pricey - but a big statement!

Oversized Zinc Letter: Anthropologie



This was a simple little project - I used a shadow box frame from Pottery Barn and the cheap glitter letter was $1.00 at JoAnn's Craft Store. I used some ribbons on the linen background and attached the silver 'W' on top. Super simple but I like the splash of sparkle in our family room.



Enough of the 'W's already - right? LOL! I'm thinking the same thing! One last one - this is in our bedroom by our bed - sorry for the crummy photos - I just took them really quick to get this up. The wood letter is from Pottery Barn but is no longer available.

Well - there's some more letters for ya. Madi has a few and Hudson has his own little collection above his dresser. I truly love them!

Well- any fun plans for the holiday weekend? We are off on a little mini vacation - without the kids even (well, we are bringing the little guy - I just can't leave him again!). It should be a good break!

Today is the kids last day of school - it's been a busy week with all the events, but also a lot of fun for them. I can't believe the school year is over - I need to get some fun summer ideas and things to do! I hope you all have a great weekend! I'll be back early next week with some more scrappin' shares! :) Hugs!

My Obsessions with Letters

I remember the very first time I walked into a Pottery Barn store - I was just recently married and we were visiting my parents in New York City. The store was huge - at least 2 floors of pure bliss! :) I found my decorating style and I was in love! I've always loved type, but when I saw the letters combined with home decor - it quickly became one of my favorite things.

My home now has lots of letters in it - 'W's, 'M's in Madisyn's room, 'H's for Hudson, a collection of 'R's in my studio, and now I'm building up a little collection for Jaxon.

We recently put up these 3 silver hooks in the kids bathroom for them to hang their towels on and for each of them to have their 'own' towel. And how do we distinguish who's towel is who's - with letters of course! :)

I got these letters at Roberts Craft Store - I believe they are by Provo Craft - I think! The are just large paper mache type letters. I got a champange silver spray paint that matched our hook and I spray painted them all silver and hung them up above each hook. I got the towels at Pottery Barn when I got to go there last week on my trip to Des Moines - LOVE the polka dots! :) The hooks are from Target.

The 'kids' bathroom has been all pink for so long - a pink shower curtain, mat and a beautiful pink frame on the wall with a dried daisy inside. But, with now having two boys - I figured it was time for a change. I still need to find a new shower curtain and some artwork to go on the wall - any suggestions? I'm on the hunt!

I'm going to take photos of my other 'letter' collections in my house and I'll share this week. Also - thank you for your comments and suggestions on what you would like to see here! I love to respond to each of you and I'm so sorry that I haven't been good with that lately. My emails are piling up! :) But, I do appreciate you commenting! I definitely want to share more layouts and cards - so plan on that!

On a family note - Madisyn had her ballet recital on Saturday and it was so dang cute! She was so beautiful and did an amazing job. I'll share the video of her dance this week. Also - it is my kids last week of school! Hello, crazy! Where did the school year go? Hudson has his preschool graduation today - Madi has a picnic at school tomorrow with Mom, PJ day, movie day - such a busy week! Oh - and guess what - Madi got to go to the cafeteria for lunch on Monday and she had a bite of a chicken nugget! Hello - amazing! And some green peas! So so proud of her!!!

Oh - and great TV week too! American Idol - who do you want to win? I kinda want Archuletta - just cause he's from here and such an amazing kid! But at the same time, I think Cook is amazing and I'd probably buy his CD first! He has made each song his own and is awesome! So - we'll see!

Grey's Anatomy 2 hour finale (how can it already be over - it just came on!!) and So You Think You Can Dance starts - yippee! We fell in LOVE with this show last season and I can't wait for it to start!

Off to work and get ready for the day - my list of 'to-do's is ever growing!
Have a great day!

Wowsers!

Does anyone say that word anymore? LOL! Sorry that I've been such a bad blogger! I feel like so much has been going on and I've had so much that I've wanted to share...that I haven't known where to start...and so I sit and don't post. Boring!

My trip to BHG Scrapbooks, etc. was fabulous! It was intense though too! I didn't have time to even get out my video camera and the few pictures I got of me working in Polly's fabulous scrapbook room - all show the project I was working on so I'll have to wait to show those until they show the final thing! I'll be sure to let you all know when it's out though! I'm excited and nervous about it all. We all are our own worst critics and I definitely have been hard on myself lately. I'm not looking my personal best right now and that's hard to swallow - need to get it all together!

I was lucky to be able to go out to dinner at a fabulous Italian place (we don't have any good Italian here & I hate that cause it's my fav!) with Polly Maly, Katie Nugent and Michelle Rubin. We had a fabulous time and it was so great to meet them and talk with them in person! :) Thanks again for the fabulous dinner Michelle!

Well, I'm home and done with my big project and I feel like life is getting back to normal! Madi and Hudson are both done with school next week - ACKKKK! Crazy that this school year is already over! Poor Hudson slammed his finger in our neighbors door yesterday and after a few hours of it swelling and him still crying, we went to instacare...luckily it's not broken - just a bad ouchie. So, he has a little 'stint' on his finger. For a kid that won't let me put a bandaid on him - he is doing pretty good. We've been talking it up that it's just like Spiderman and that he can shoot webs and be a superhero - he seemed to like that.

And then there is Jack Jack...cutest little guy. Dang is he growing up fast. This week he rolled over even! I did get a video of it - I need to figure out how to download them and get them up on youtube - I'll have to share when I do! :) He had his 4 month appt. today (a bit early) and he is 14 lbs already!! He is in the 43% for weight and 98% for height - the kid is so dang long!! He's got a few little issues with his skin, flat head, thrush...but all things that we will be able to fix. So, all is good!

I love this photo of him - blurriness and all! Love this little bald guy - I knew that sweet soft baby black hair was too good to last for too long!

Ok - so I need your help!!!

I want to get back into the swing of blogging, but I'd like to share things that you'd love to see! So, please come out and let me know what you would love to have me share here! Videos - what about? Layouts? Cards? Techniques? Photos? Any questions you would like me to answer? Anything?? I would love to get some ideas for posts and things that you would all be interested in! So, please take a minute and post - I'd love to hear whatever ya got!

Ok, off to try to finish up a page tonight! I've got the serious itch to scrapbook - so inspired right now and loving that! Also, neeeeeeddddd to finish cleaning up my room! So need to do that!

So, please post away. I'm getting back into a rhythm with posting - I promise ya! :)
Thanks for hanging in there with me! Hugs!

Hello!

Geez - lame blogger award! :) It's been busy and I'm still not 100% better - and yet here I sit in the Denver airport waiting for my connecting flight to Des Moines to go to BHG, Scrapbooks etc tomorrow. I'm working on a really fun project that I can't wait to share with all of you...I'll have to find out when that will be while I'm there. I'm excited to meet people there and hopefully everything will go smoothly. Kinda nervous! :)

I've been filled this week with emotions of gratitude -

Happy that my hubby is home and so grateful for all that he does for our family, for his love, for his support.

Missing my kiddos like crazy already! Ryan sent me the cutest, cutest photo of Jaxon and I'm just dying. He's so sweet and it's already weird being away from him.

So thankful for the opportunities that I've been givin' through scrapbooking - I truly love everything about it and I'm thankful that I get to be involved.

Thankful for life...I don't know if I've ever been back in Denver (outside the airport) since we lived here when I was a toddler. I fell out of the car and was ran over at the age of 3 and no one thought I'd make it - and yet here I am...27 years later from that incident - alive and well - with an amazing hubby and 3 amazing kids - life couldn't be better right?

Ok - done being all sentimental. :) Off to grab something for lunch and hopefully get on my flight that is still delayed. Make it a fabulous day! I brought my camera and my Flip Video camera so I hope to have some fun things to share! hugs!

Happy National Scrapbook Day!

What a week it has been! My hubby has been out of town since last Sunday and it's been a crazy, yucky week for us! I have been very sick, Jaxon is really sick and Madi's had a cold. So yucky! Sorry that I haven't been great at posting - I have so much I want to share (projects, inspirations, photos and more) - and I will get back in a groove shortly! In the meantime...

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY!!!

This is a little peekie at a layout made for the Hero Arts Blog for National Scrapbook Day! It will go up sometime this weekend so check it out and the matching card. I had a lot of fun playing with many of the new Spring Catalog stamps. I love those big background stamps! So great! And, I had so much fun playing with the envelopes that I used on this layout...that I used one on this layout too. I stamped the flourish background stamp on the envelope flap and embossed it with white embossing powder.

I also stamped with White StazOn Ink, the flowers on the transparency tag (folded over and tied with a bunch of colors of string).

Lots of other stamping all over - just had fun! And, I LOVE the colors of the Hero Arts notecards! I just stamped on them and cut them up and put on the layout. Best colors - it was fun!

There is also a matching card, so check it out over there on the Hero Blog. Jen will be updating it all weekend with ideas!

I've been busy busy! This last week was crazy! Thank heavens my hubby will be walking through the door shortly! I've got to go run some errands and I'm still working like mad to get everything ready for my trip to BHG, Scrapbooks, etc. this upcoming week. I'm flying to Des Moines to work on a project for 3 days and then I'll be back. I've got lots to do before hand to be ready, so it's a bit hectic around here. I'm praying that I can get everything ready to go and that we are all feeling better by then - we've been a bit knocked out this week.

Have a great scrappin' day! Any fun plans? Working on anything fun? I hope you get some time to play and do something fun for you today! Have a good one!