Creating Keepsakes

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april showers

April 14th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, DT, Peppermint Creative, Two Peas in a Bucket, cardmaking, scrapbook

Miss Mint has a bunch, and I do mean a bunch of new goodies coming up in the shop (if they are not already up). Here are two cards I made with Miss Mint’s April Showers Papers and Elements: There are so so many more goodies that I haven’t even gotten a chance to work [...]

pause please?

April 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, DT, Peppermint Creative, Tattered Angels, Two Peas in a Bucket, cardmaking, scrapbook, tutorial

Do you ever wish you had a pause button on life? OH, is it just me? hee hee. Sometimes I feel like life is going so quickly and I just want to pause to catch my breath. This weekend was a great one because Troy’s ship was in port and we were able to skype, [...]

Reader’s Choice! Please Vote!

March 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, DT, Publication, Two Peas in a Bucket

A friend of mine sent me a message to let me know, One of my layouts is up for a vote over at Creating Keepsakes, if I get the most votes, then it will be published in the September 2010 issue of Creating Keepsakes. Please go here and if you like my layout the best, [...]

I knew it was going to be a great day!

January 6th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, YUDU, cardmaking, cool stuff

My status update this morning was: Good Morning! Getting ready for the day, it’s going to be a great one~ and it surely was! We woke up happy, got breakfast and got Jordan off to school with no problem. When Jalen and I got home, he started on his book report and I fired up [...]

Happy December!

December 1st, 2009 · 8 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, Family, Hawaii, Publication

Aloha and Happy December to all of you lovelies out there! :) Did you have a good Thanksgiving? I did! I made my usual bunch of pies on the day before… I always make custard pie, chocolate cream pie and pumpkin pie. But another thing that got me really excited? I got a few notes [...]

Sunday, Sunday (laa laa la la la)

October 11th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, Family, Hawaii, Publication, blog, scrapbook

This picture was taken earlier this week. This bowl is from a sally foster fundraiser last year or the year before, place mat from target. I was just struck with how well they went together. Probably why I was so drawn to the place mats in the first place, and I’ve only realized this now. [...]

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Tags:Deployment·Hawaii·Jalen·Jordan·Troy

audiobook love and other shopping indiscretions

September 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Publication, blog, computer, cool stuff

Did I tell you I started reading the Harry Potter series? (finally) Jalen has been reading them since last year and this past summer he read and reread them. after going to see the half blood prince I decided I’d start the series. I love it! At first I was having a hard time not [...]

Thank You, Thank You!

May 22nd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, DT, Family, Hawaii, Publication, cool stuff, scrapbook

So the results came in yesterday and I won the vote to have my layout appear in the October 09 Issue of Creating Keepsakes! I am sooooooo thrilled and thankful to all of you who voted, so thank you thank you and thank you again! In real life news, yesterday I spent the afternoon with [...]

Publications

April 6th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Publication, Scrapbook Dimensions, Simply Handmade, scrapbook

We got this issue April Issue of Creating Keepsakes at the Navy Exchange and I made Jordan pose with me at the magazine rack like Jalen did back in January ;) Here is the layout, as seen in Creating Keepsakes, April 2009! While we were in Alabama, my mother in law received her Simply Handmade [...]

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Tags:Jordan

Great News!

March 9th, 2009 · 21 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, Publication, Scrapbook Dimensions, cool stuff, scrapbook

So it’s finally official and I can share! I have been invited to be a contributing editor at Scrapbook Dimensions Magazine! It’s an online magazine dedicated to Hybrid Scrapbookers! Whether you’re a digi gal who wants to add some tactile elements to your art, or a Traditional gal who wants to add some digi elements [...]