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This is going to be a great crop!

SUMMER PLANS 2012!

Just saw this post on Ali Edward's blog and loved the idea.  Since tomorrow is the last day of school, this seemed like a good time to do this! Here is our Summer plan.

1. Weekly famly dinner picnics

2. Go (mostly) meatless

3. Tour of state capital

4. Lots of time at the pool

5. Nature walks

6. Columbia Art museum, MOSI, Riverbanks Zoo and Children's Museum trips

7. Say yes to Christopher's ideas of what to do!

8. Read, read and read some more!

9. Plant a tomato/pepper container garden 

10. Keep up with family scripture reading time.

11. Camping

12. Re-organize the attic

13. Get out the crayons and paints and just play!

14. Date nights with Chris

15. Make home-made ice cream.

16. Visit a farm.

17. Lots of photos!

 

 

First Friday Crop April 13

Come crop with me at our monthly First Friday Crop this Friday night (April13) from 5pm to 9pm.
Lot's of crop space, snacks and free make-and-take all for $5!  Come join me!

Info here

Happy Mail

I love my on-line scrapbooking friends.  Look what I just received from one of my friends on the Fiskateers community board!

So much vintage-y fun stuff. I can't wait to do some sort of collage with this.  She sent a really cool program with a map from Italy, a book of hymns and music from 1914(great backgrounds), a ton of vintage stamp scans(love these), old library cards (I'm seeing a mini album with those), some vintage seam binding and labels (great embellishments), and some very cool stamped images( I love th little crown lady!).  Oh, and once on the board I mentioned that I love and bake cupcakes right? Check out the adorable cupcake punched borders and tiny cupcake punchies! How much fun was it to open the mailbox today?  How thoughtful of Julie. And she sent it, just...because.   Thanks so much Julie! 

Very Happy News Article!

Very Happy about THIS! 

The young lady that did this article about me for the newspaper was just adorable, even though I spoke what I'm sure was a mile-a-minute, she "got" scrapbooking!  Thanks Amy!

St. Patrick's RA(I)K-- Random Act of (Irish) Kindness!

THANKS FOR POSTING EVERYONE! HOPE YOU HAD A FUN ST. PATRICK'S DAY.  CHRISTOPHER RANDOMLY AND QUITE SLEEPILY I MIGHT ADD, SAID "10" WHEN ASKED TO CHOOSE A NUMBER FROM ONE TO ELEVEN, THE NUMBER OF POSTERS.  SO THE WINNER IS MISSY!  YAY! DOING THE HAPPY (IRISH) DANCE!

THMy husband sings in Irish Pubs so of course, he is busy on St. Patrick's Day.  I am a scrapbooker and I'm teaching a class on St. Patrick's Day.  Combine these two and what do you get?  A scrapbooking RAK for St. Patrick's Day. Yay!

Comment here between today, March 16 and midnight on March 17th. Saturday morning I'll let my son (he's 7 and he's honest!) pick a random number from 1 to the number of posts.That # post author will win a festive goodie bag of green papecrafting goodies!

Be sure to leave a link/email so I can contact you if you win! Easy Peasy! Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

Oh, and if you like this awesome celtic knot graphic, check out Obsidian Dawn .  She makes beautiful brushes, shapes and more for Photoshop!

Happy Birthday (and Thank You) Dr. Suess

Since March 2 is Dr. Suess's birthday, Christopher's class has been celebrating all of this week- Monday they wore t-shirts from places they had visited (Oh, The Places You'll Go), Tuesday they wore crazy socks (Fox in Socks), Wednesday everyone wore green (Green Eggs and Ham, of course!) and Thursday everyone wore red and white and a silly hat (The Cat in the Hat). 

We even celebrated at home with these.

 

 

 

And by the way, just how much fun is it for a seven-year-old to color his food this color?

All of this got me to thinking of how much I learned as a child from my friend Dr. Suess. Things that I actually still remember even when I've forgotten Algebra, sentence diagrams and the Elements chart. I'm glad that Christopher's books are around for a refresher course. So, that said I would like to thank Dr. Suess (Theodore Geisel) for teaching me:

"That a person is a person, no matter how small"
To try new things, because I just may like the taste of green eggs and ham.
That "when it is wet, and the sun is not sunny, you can still have good fun that is funny."
Babies come down The Hooberbloob highway.
That I am going to go exciting places.
"Everyone needs trees."
Christmas will come no matter what!
"Barbaloot" is just a fun word to say.
"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere."
"You oughta be thankful, A whole heaping lot, For the people and places, you're lucky you're not!"

Christopher mentioned to me recently that he may be getting "too old" for his Dr. Suess books, after all he is 7! I think I'm going to keep for a while longer, until I'm too old for them...whenever that may be. 

Oh, and remember-“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is You-er than You.”

IMAGINE for 2012

IMAGINE - "To employ one's imagination", "to think, to have a mental picture."

This is my word for 2012. I know it sounds cliche to say, "if you can imagine it, you can do it", but the past few years have shown me that this is true in many ways. "So this is the word. I have big things planned for 2012, so I'll have to begin imagining it all now.

I'm thinking I'll plan one post a week dedicated to this word and how i's working it's way into my life - sort of an "Imagine Journal". Maybe some photos to represent the word too...I don't know, I'll have to imagine it first!

I've loved doing this word of the year over the past few years...Simplicity, Adventure, they have made pretty significant contributions to my year. I know that many other scrapbookers do this...Ali Edwards, and Stacy Julian are some of my favorites. So what's your word for the year?

Cupcakes - New Obsession

I will admit it - I love Cupcake Wars on Food Network.  It's just too much fun to watch all of the cool ingredients the bakers use and the unusual combinations they create.  About a week ago I was inspired and the day after watching the show made these -  

"Dark chocolate cake with crunchy peanut-butter filling and dark chocolate buttercream frosting topped with salted peanuts".  Now, I am a not a baker, but I'm thinking I did pretty well for making it up as I go along.  They were tasty.  I like baking, it's predictable.  You measure, you mix and the results are good. In my day to day crazy-ness, I like predictable - things turning out like they should.

 

 

 

 

 

Last week there was this- "    

"Fresh raspberry cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling topped with chocolate ganache and raspberry buttercream." Oh, and a little "chocolate shard".  These were for a birthday party, so I had an excuse. (Because you know, I needed an excuse.)

I seem to have a trend toward chocolate - can't see how that could be a bad thing though.

I'm really beginning to love this cupcake thing.  How much fun is it to use words like "butter cream" and "ganache"...seriously.  Oh, and you get to buy tools and supplies, just like scrapbooking!  Did you know that they actually make the cutest little tool that removes the center of the cupcake to add the filling? And the different  style papers are just stinkin' adorable - have you seen the colors and patterns? I noticed that in my local craft store, the cake decorating aisle is located suspiciously close to the scrapbooking aisle.  I think they are on to something.

In the world of baking, I think cupcakes are like the scrapbookers "mini-album".  Quickly made, creative, and you can use nifty embellishments to decorate...and they're just cute!

In honor of this newly found obsession I am initiating "Cupcake Friday", yes that day will feature the flavor of the week.  Now of course, these beauties will be included in a themed scrapbook aptly named "The Cupcake Book" I think...certainly could not be involved in another craft and not have it involve scrapbooking somehow!  Now, where to find cupcake themed supplies..........