50 posts!

I just noticed that this will be my 50th post! I have to say the experience of having a blog since I started a little over a year ago has been quite enjoyable. I like the idea that I can share my experience, hopes & accomplishments with people and also learn from other talented creative people. Also that when I'm an old lady my daughter can read about our life when she was young and see our everyday experiences. Well I did some digital scrapping today - using some sassafras paper I got in the mail - I don't have the heart to cut into it yet, but I wanted to scrap with it. I'm such a sissy!

Music is Magic!

I hate it when you find something new in music that speaks ace in the hole to you and go figure you can't actually buy any of it. Booo!  I had one of those moments this morning.  I turned on my computer (just to check email).  But when I opened Safari my homepage apple.com came up and I was immediately drawn to a movie ad "what goes up" I watched it and it looks like it will be a good film, but more then that I really really liked the song in the background  so I google searched a line in the song "this is where the stars fall down" I found a video on youtube which then confirmed that yes I really really like this artist, dotjr!  Went to his myspace listened to the rest he had on there and now I want his music but alas it is no where to be found!  So not fare! Can we vote for other people who aren't on american idol to be signed?  Vote for dotjr!

I found where to buy his music! Yay! Just go here! I love Where the stars fall down & love song for everyone!

Some kind of feeling

Had a fun weekend doing a photo shoot with two of my friends. Kind of randomly just happened. We where downtown friday night and one of my friends said she always wanted to take pictures in front of one of the old churches in a thrift store wedding dress, and I said "well it's supposed to rain tomorrow, let's do it." So we did! Had a blast! Here are just a few of the photo's that I've gotten around to editing with more to come.

Summer is here and I am looking at all the summer cuteness! Really love this from Anthro!

I love Color

This is a two post day cause I want to get all my recent scraps up. I've been playing a lot with bright colors and loving how it looks.

Inspired by what I see

I saw this ad in a magazine last night and I really loved the layout and tried my first attempt of making my own sketch based on it. So I did a loose sketch.

Used In Design to put together all my photo's and print them on one sheet of 8.5x11 photo-paper

Then scraped the page. It was a super easy page to do, because it's mostly comprised of pictures.

What a great way to do sketches and get pages done!

If you need more creative inspiration go check out Elsie's Blog. She did a 24 hour blog party yesterday of creative, crafty, inspiring, artsy stuff.

rain rain go away! but come again another day! K

The rain has gone! We are enjoying our memorial day weekend!  Just downloaded the new issue of lmnop and it's really good and goes along great with my new Puppet project.  I love the rain, but I'm so glad the sun is shining, makes BBQ's and day's off from work and school so much more fun!

 

 

 

Paper bag puppet project

Still rainy and wet here in the sunshine state! Going on 4 days and I think Lyla is getting cabin fever. But I was determined this morning that we were going to have a fun morning and my daughter would come to enjoy rainy days like I do. So I started a project I have wanted to do for a while. Paper bag alphabet puppets! Yeay! Lyla has been

progressing pretty well in the ABC song and she knows what letters are so now we just have to connect the dots, and what better way to do it then color your own puppet! I am going to be picking things that are important to Lyla and posting them on here as we progress. Today we did an Alligator because

1 - we live in florida (Go Gators)

2 - Lyla loves seeing them at the zoo

3- everytime we go on our walk she insists on stopping and staring at our neighbors gator lawn ornaments, yes our neighbors have gator lawn ornaments, and then she points and says gator, gator, gator about a billion times.

oh and I almost forgot!

4- Because she loves the Disney show "will you teach my Alligator manners?" that's an important one.

so there you go. Feel free to print, color and paste this alligator to your own lunch sack!

We really enjoyed it, especially the part where the alligator munched on the little girl fingers!

*If you want other kid crafty fun things to do check out this girls blog she always has something fun/messy to do with the kiddos!

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On a totally random side note. I watched this show last night and oh my gosh loved it so much! If you have 45 minutes to kill watch the pilot episode on fox.com!