i have to be honest about something. those pictures of my studio? not usually what the place looks like. lol! truth is, it's usually got lots of piles going on. organized piles, but they're still piles.   i know what some of you are thinking. that my "piles" really aren't that bad. right? i can…

i was so excited to see this finally come out. the august issue of creating keepsakes. featuring my studio in the "creative spaces" article. i worked on this a few months ago and spent a ton of time on it. it was hard to keep it a secret. and friday morning, i made the entire family come with…

so, i'm being told i don't blog about the daycare kids as much anymore. maybe they were just hiding out. looks like nikolas was 😉   doing a little catch up here. these are all photos from june. just got around to editing them a few days ago.   my sweet neighbor, ayana. she's so…

i promised a photo-filled post today, and i'll do that later tonight. but i had to share this first. jillibean soup has been showing sneek peeks for the CHA summer releases over on their blog. here are the first 2 peeks.       how fun do these look! i just got my box a…

thanks to all of you for playing along with my blog-iversary party game! it has been fun reading all your comments, and i really appreciate how sweet everyone is. i printed them all out, cut them into strips, took out a few that posted more than once (yep, caught you!), and then finally found a use for this awesome…

i was vegging out on the computer tonight. going through old blog posts, reading old comments. basically, taking a trip down memory lane. and something dawned on me. i'm hitting my blogging anniversary. so i checked it out on my account. i started this blog on july 2nd, 2005. it will be officially four years…

i promised to show you my disneyland album re-do, and i'm here to do just that. just to be clear, it's NOT the mini album i just shared. i might not have made that clear, since a few of you thought i was re-doing that album. that one stays, it's one of my favorites. the…

for some reason earlier this week, i decided to completely tear apart an older disney album that i had started about 7 years ago. it wasn't finished. and i didn't like it. so i've re-done that album into just a few pages. and i'll share that over the weekend. i even have "before" pictures (you can…

had this layout go up on the jillibean soup blog today. a summertime, birthday layout.   a nice and easy layout, with photos from sarah's 9th birthday party. we just had her 10th birthday party a few weeks ago, and i havn't even looked though the pictures yet. lol! i printed all these photos individually,…

kind of short on time today to post anything of substance. should have posted last night, i knew i'd regret not doing it by this morning. lol! anyways, i figured i'd just share a few samples i made earlier this year for making memories.    these are all 6×6 layouts, that were focusing on using…