Long time, no post!!

Has a month REALLY gone by already? I can hardly believe it!

So what has happened in 30 + days?? Well, first of all, I decided not to reapply for the Crop Addict design team, although it was a hard decision. They are such a fun, incredibly talented group of ladies And Debbie creates wonderful products and kits. I had an awesome 6 months with them. I know the new design team will be wonderful, but I will miss it. But I really just need some downtime to try to catch up on life!! So much cleaning and organizing needs to be done that I can barely find my pictures, much less try to find SPACE to scrapbook! I did a ton of organizing and purging this summer, but once school started, it has turned once again into pile after pile...

I suppose its the creativeness in me that causes the haphazard piles and unorganized lifestyle. My mind "thinks" organized, but my body "acts" unorganized. Ah well... the curse of the artist, huh?

I am just now starting to get motivated to really clean and get back to scrapbooking. I haven't touched a page in over a month! Can you believe it??!! I think that's the longest stretch I've gone without actually scrapping. I still look at layouts and blogs and magazines, but just haven't had the time or desire right now to dig in. I need to look for a good contest... that ALWAYS kick starts me this time of year!

Besides that, life is pretty normal and boring. Tons of snow here, but no snowdays (well unless you count the day last week when my HUSBAND got a snow day and I didn't... I was a little cranky to say the least!!) And both my own kiddos and all the kids at school are struggling with cabin fever. Its driving us teachers crazy! How many days until spring break?? LOL!

Carson is reading like a monster- I have to stop him to get him to go to bed sometimes! Its so wonderful to see! We discovered the early readers section of our library where they have books at his level and he is so excited!

Well... that's all for now. I hope it won't be another 30 days before I bop back on to update! Hopefully with some layouts, nonetheless.... until then... too-da-loo!

January Crop Addict projects

This was such a wonderful kit! The contrast of the earthy Webster Pages papers and the bright bold Pink Paislee papers was so fun to work with! Here are some projects I created with the January Crop Addict kit.

December Crop Addict Projects

What beautiful Christmas papers I had the opportunity to work with in the December Crop Addict kit. The "Little Yellow Bicycle" papers had such a classic Christmas charm. My layouts came together so easily! The NOEL letters were simple wooden stand-up letters that I purchased at Hobby Lobby and altered with the papers. They look great sitting on my end table by my front door!

Scrap Within Reach projects

I had the privilage of getting to design with products from the manufacturer "Scrap Within Reach" and let me tell you... I am LOVING their stuff! Their papers are double-sided and distressed just to my liking! Their solid colors remind me of Basic Grey- one of my favorites. I had so much fun playing with them! Here's what I came up with using "The Cottage" collection!

November Crop Addict projects!

I can hardly believe its already November! It has been so nice to see the beautiful fall colors and feel that crispness in the air. The November Crop Addict kit really embraced those fall colors and back-to-school themes. It was a fun kit to design with!

Getaway Travel minialbum PEEK!

I had the awesome opportunity to design with a project kit for Crop Addict! The kit includes a great 7 Gypsies mini album and had fun Kaiser papers and travel themed embellishments. I designed this "Getaway" minialbum with the kit. The kit includes everything you need to complete the mini album. You can purchase the kit here.

Here's a sneak peek!! (Inside pages will be shown soon so check back!!)

Fantastic FALL CYBER CROP!!

Come join us at Crop Addict for their Fantastic Fall Cyber Crop this weekend! The festivities begin at 6pm EST on Friday, October 10th and end at 9pm EST on Sunday, October 13th.

Come ready to scrap and win prizes.

They'll be giving out over $1500 in prizes.

So clear your calendar, send the kids off with dh to the movies, the inlaws, hunting or some other activity and get your scrap goodies and play along. See you there!