No Excuses Now!!

Ok, I will be honest, it took me a few minutes to remember HOW to blog because it has been that long.
Recently, I signed up to be a Stampin Up Hobby Demonstrator and after receiving my delicous starter kit I looked at my scrapbook room and decided some changes needed to be made. Last weekend I spent time organizing my scrapping space and this weekend I was at Scrapfest buying more stuff to fill it up again. Although I did buy more than I expected, I was really good at not buying more paper. (except I split on the great deal at the Turtle on card stock) Stamps on the other hand - well we won't go there. Joanne from the Scrapping Bug/Learning Factory was a gracious host the past two days as I did my best to help her customers find their perfect die, paper or stamps for their crafting projects. Thanks for letting me play scrapbook store in your booth Joanne.
My "no excuses now" part comes into play because I have no more excuses not to create at home and post on my blog more than I have been. Ha - I am not really setting that bar too high am I.
Ok so lets say that once a week I will post on my blog and see how I am at keeping up with that.
Stay tuned. You never know - I may surprise you.

Happy New Year

For those of you who that I had lost my blog or forgotten my password - I did neither of those things I just haven't had a chance to blog and it is still new to me. I decided that I would start by reviewing my 2010.

I continue to be involved with NSD and still have my little Rambo - although as you can see - he is not so little anymore.
He is on a back up list for recall but there has to be a 6 failures before he goes in. This means we should have him until May/June. I helped NSD out with some fund raisers - we did Woofstock (in the rain) it is always fun to see the variety of dogs that show up (all decked out I might add) and people watch to see if it is true that we tend to take on the look of our dogs. Yup we do - I am husky because of Harley and I am sticking with that as my excuse. Kim and I did photography for the motorcycle ride in July and it was really funny to see these bikers dressed in their black leather melt when you put a 12 week old puppy in their arms!! We had a blast!

Matt and Mike both went through driver training and both of the boys have their licenses now. We picked up another car - since they cannot drive my vehicle and they have done a great job at sharing the use. It may have even brought them closer.

I visited Memories Manor twice in 2010 and truly enjoyed it - if fact I enjoyed it so much I have 3 visits booked for 2011!! They are going to get sick of seeing my face!! I tried my first canvas with Karen at the Art House Studio - it now hangs in my bathroom - much to my husband's dismay. We love going to crop with Karen - it is just such a creative place - the juices really get going. I enjoyed many fundraising crops in 2010 and plan to do the same in 2011. In December I was invited to be a member of the Scrapbook Queens Design Team - something I had never thought about doing - me on a design team?? I have to say I am enjoying it - this has pushed me to think more out of my comfy little box and I am hoping it continues to do so. Finding it hard to keep up with the forum and the challenges but I am hoping that after next week I will be able to give it more focus. And of course...lest we forget....the banning of 2010!!! How many of you can say you know someone who has been ban from a scrapbook store. That has to be a first!! Funny thing is that I have still been able to aquire all kinds of new scrapbooking tools, embellishments, paper, markers etc without shopping at Two Scrapbook Friends. Life does go on!!

It really doesn't look like much for a whole year, 2010 just flew by. It is true what they say - the older you get the faster time flys. All in all it was a pretty good year - and at this time I would like to say thank you.
To all of my friends - the ones that have been long time, the new friends I have made over the past year and the people who I have gotten to know better in 2010 I say THANKS!! Without you in my life, it would not be so full. I cherish each and everyone of you. Now bring on 2011!

Winter has arrived!

Try as I may - I just can't fall in love with Winter. As much as I love the day after a snow storm when everything is white and clean and the sun is shining - I just can't love winter. Most of the days are grey and its cold and I can't get warm after being out all day. On the positive side I do love hot chocolate and warm slippers and cuddling golden retrievers! I guess since there is nothing that I can do about it I will try to embrace it, focus on scrapbooking and getting through another winter season.

Kinette Crop in Atwood

Our first sign that winter has arrived - SNOW and just in time for the Kinette Crop in Atwood yesterday. The winter weather did not dampen spirits and a good time was had by all. A special thanks to our hostess Brenda and all the girls that helped to make this a fun day. We shared a lot of laughs, ate some great homemade food and even managed to get some scrapbooking done.We were the loudest table - imagine that. Here is the House Mouse Christmas card I made - I really love these mice!

Design Team at Scrapbook Queens

Ok a week of firsts! Tonight I have my first meeting at Scrapbook Queens as a DT member. This is another thing I never thought I would do. I love to scrapbook and make cards but I never think that anyone is going to get inspiration from what I do. So this will be the test - I hope I can inspire someone and I also hope that this will help me to think outside of my linear box. Sit tight ladies - ride is about to begin!

Our Time with Rambo

Last night I went to the meeting about Rambo's recall for advanced training. It seems like just yesterday I picked up an eight week old puppy and now we are talking about him going back to start the next part of his journey. Good news is that he will make some child with Autism an amazing dog - bad news is we love him dearly and will miss him like crazy. More good news is that he is 6th or 7th on the back up list so there is a possibility that he will not go until June. Keeping our fingers crossed Ramby baby!!