Spring in the PNW - finally!

Hi there...been a while I guess! I'm back and excited to report that here in the Pacific NW spring has sprung, at least for a few days! Yes, it is finally not just sunny but warmer too! I just love the idea of not needing a coat at all, not worrying about whether my toes will be cold, wearing flip flops all the time! Yay! My boys are outside happily playing on our new playset and I'm in here listening to their chatter while I'm not cleaning the house! (Don't tell the Mr., ok?)

Other new exciting news...I've been selected for a digital scrapbook designer's Creative Team! I'm looking forward to a great time helping to show off Jeanelle Paige Designs kits! My first assignment was to use her new Cluster Essentials kit which she designed for recoloring and putting together clusters of embellishments. It's very cute! I think my favorites in the kit are the butterfly and vine swirl which works perfectly as a rub-on. What do you think? You can find all her stuff exclusively at A Cherry on Top.

That's all I've got for now. I should be back soon!

I wanna win some stuff!

I haven't blogged in so long! After Thanksgiving we all plunged into the Christmas preparations of shopping, decorating and gifting. We had a wonderful lazy holiday here. No travelling and no visitors. It's never happened before and Tim and I really were able to recharge with all the nothing-to-do and hanging out at home without expectations. You might have thought that I would spend the time cooking, cleaning or organizing, but no...it was all relax and enjoy time together.

Confession: I signed up for a "post more often on your blog" challenge over on my favorite scrapbooking website, A Cherry on Top. The challenge started two weeks ago...and this is the first time I've got a post added! I'll have to work on that.

Oh yeah, the winning stuff part. Things are heating up in the scrapbooking world this 2nd half of January. The big product show, CHA, is coming up and all the companies are revealing their new products. Or at least tempting us with sneak peaks and snipits of their products.

Maya Road makes some really cute stuff. They are definitely one of the go-to companies for incredible chipboard shapes and 3D fun. In today's post on their blog, Day 2 of their reveal, they've got some adorable stuff! My favorites are the sun, clouds and rainbow chip pieces.

Hopefully this little post will help me win and I'll have some of those in my stash soon and then onto my pages about the kiddos! I mean there's no one who loves rainbows more than my sweet little girl!

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Seriously...it is raining AGAIN! Summer was about two weeks long (not even 14 consecutive days!) and it has been cloudy and rainy all the other time. Rain all through Memorial Day weekend, rain on the 4th of July (well, that's what I hear...we were in MI), pouring buckets of cold rain on my boys' 4th birthday, rain on Labor Day....and so it continues. Yesterday was a surprising sunny day. Today...raining, raining, raining again.

Credits: Bella Gypsy - Two by two, Kreations by Kami - Basic Needs, MC-Designs - Vintage Touch, Jeanne Marie Scraps - Daredevil (recolored), Page Maps sketch July 2010