OH! I may have a photographer on my hands...

Jarrett LOVES to take pictures, and he is pretty darn good at it! So here are some pictures "The world according to Jarrett" that he took on Christmas day!

Classes Classes Classes...

Oh I am SO SO excited!! I love to teach, and especially when it is something fun and cute and totally altered! LOL... yes, that coming from ME... who used to say... "I am SO not into altering.." blah blah blah....

I have my first official class on the books and on the website! Well not REALLY the first, but the Basics class we set up before never happened. So the FIRST class that I have a feeling might actually fill up. YAH!

Also... fun ideas and projects on the horizon... it is kinda cool actually utilizing all of these ideas in my crazy head. Before they just kind of sat there and never came to fruition. Now I feel like I have an outlet and when one idea comes out, another 10 form in it's place! SCARY!

Store news... inventory is coming along nicely. I am not thrilled with our lost/stolen list, but that is to be expected I suppose.

Jason and I will be spending New Year's day at the store inventory-ing the rest of the stuff. So far we have about 1/2 of the 12x12 printed paper done and we still have stickers and cardstock left. Not bad. It has been so great to do it over the last 2 weeks. Just one or two catagories a day depending on how big they are. That way we aren't stuck there ALL day long! I may go in tomorrow and start printing up the rest...stickers is going to be a HUGE catagory!

So I am off, but will leave you with a couple of pictures from Christmas morning...

Ahhhhhhhh....

It's over... well mostly anyways! I feel so much better now. No more hustle and bustle and stress and presents and all of that stuff! Our day was.... interesting to say the least. The kids were awesome and came into my bed at around... oh... 5:55 am... and stayed there (mostly sleeping) until almost 8am! Then we went out to see what Santa brought. Santa had a VERY tough time unwinding twisty things and setting up Spiderman and Barbie... and really didn't get done until about 3am.. but anyway... they were most excited at their surprises! They played with that until Daddy got home from work at 9:10am... then Papa came over, Uncle Cory got up and away we went! Stockings were investigated and present ripping began. The kids were so excited at what they got! Which made us very happy.

We had brunch and then off to my Gparents house. That was... um... nice. Then around 3:30 we headed over to Jason's Gparents house to have Christmas dinner. That was VERY nice. The kids played and we chatted and it was very cozy.

Home we came and relaxed. Then Cory, Jason and I stayed up until the wee hours discussing religion, God, Jesus, Christmas and the whole grand scheme of things. It is pretty interesting to hear all of this from Cory, since he is a Religious Studies major in college he gets to take a ton of very cool courses.

Anywho... this week will be spent inventory-ing the store... most of which is already done! YEAH!

Have a fabulous week all!

Welp...

The stockings are hung from the fireplace screen with care... there are 9 tiny carrots, 5 cookies and a glass of eggnog with nutmeg by the fireplace... and soon there will be trucks, Barbies, cars and Bratz dancing in the children's heads... and tomorrow, tomorrow will be a day of fun, fantasy, friends and family. I just hope we can survive it all..

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT!

Looky what I did today.....

My very first photo shoot. Not for money, I am most definately not there yet... but for a dear friend who just recently had a baby. I am making her birth announcements and wanted to play with all of this darn camera equipment... I think they turned out pretty nicely... here are a few of my favorites...




So fun to play with these... and I hope that my girlfriend likes the way they turned out!

Fudge Fudge Fudge....

Smells so so good! Ok, so for Christmas this year our house has turned into the fudge factory! Thanks to Rachael Rae and her 5 minute fudge wreaths! Add a cute plate, some fancy ribbon and a bow and WHALA... Christmas yummy goodness.

In other news... our tree is decorated and I THINK I got "THE" photo of the kids for our Xmas cards! Yes, I haven't finished those yet, BUT, I did already send 50 handmade cards out to my customers... so don't give me lip about not getting the rest of them done yet!

I really want to play with this photo of the kids, guess I will have to google some Photoshop tutorials.. or not... maybe I will just clean it up, send it off to Costco to print and go make some cards! Ok.. probably not tonight as it is already 11:21pm. But tomorrow... and Sunday, yeah, definately Sunday since I will have downtime at the store.

Night all... and I am FINALLY feeling Christmas-y... the tree is up and decorated, my yummy holiday 3 wick is on the table, there is Christmas music playing in the background and my cats are fighting under the tree... ahhhh



Ok, so I lied... apparently it didn't matter what time it was... and here are the 2 variations of "the" photo....hmmm.. now to choose which one!

Wanted to share...

my creative-ness from the other night. So here ya are!

AHHHH CHOOO!

Ok...we are SO DONE with this dog-sitting gig. Although I expected it to be a pain.. and not fun.. because guess what... WE ARE NOT DOG PEOPLE. Oh the kids like to THINK they are dog people... but they just make the poor thing more hyper than she already is. Goddess help us. See the problem? It's the whole, "we are not dog people" issue.

SO really... when you are told that.. by the way, I am going on the road for training for 3 friggin months and need you to watch my less-than-1-year-old-puppy... what are you supposed to do? He watches our kids WITHOUT FAIL whenever we need him to, and many weekends when he is just plain bored. But HIS grandchildren are a whole different story... they are not puppies. I am not allergic to THEM. They are finally past the whining, barking, clawing at the door, digging up the backyard phase... and we stopped at 2 because we DIDN'T want to go there again.

So now what? We can't tell him that we CAN'T watch his dog... what in the HECK are we supposed to do? This is just a week.. how in the HELL are we to deal with 3 months?? Not to mention the fact that my 2 sweet CATS hate us now and hiss at us whenever we come within 5 feet of them.. which is relatively infrequently as they now are forced to live imprisoned in our front room so the dog can't attack them. ugh ugh ugh

Not to mention the fact that $HIT... it's CHRISTMAS-TIME and I haven't had a chance to shop but ONCE... and on top of that I need groceries, and toiletries, and necessities.. and well, I have a STORE TO RUN ALSO. Why o why did he decide to become a trucker this year?

WE ARE CAT PEOPLE... do you get it now??

I was creative!!

And I am SOOO in the groove now baby! Christmas presents will be made tonight... well some of them anyway. SO MUCH TO DO and I am soo excited! I love making fun gifts to share, and the store has TOTALLY given me a place to put all of these ideas! WOO HOO~!

NOW.. on to bigger and better things! DD is going to be doing a YEAR LONG CLASS with SJ of BPSB... hehe... and I am SO SO excited! Check out DD's blog for details! WOO HOO!

ps.. we are dog sitting for a week while FIL is gone... prelude to dog sitting for 3 months when he goes on the road.. and guess what... I think I am allergic to dogs.. AAAHHHCHOOOO... ugh

I need to be creative..

I am feeling the need to be creative right now.. but I can never seem to fit it into my schedule... which honestly makes NO sense.

Dacia and I were chatting last night about how we haven't chatted in such a long time. Are you kidding me? We used to have bi-weekly chit chat marathons... and because of that I was forced to purchase a headset for my home phone so I could have my "hands free" for the computer! But somewhere awhile back we both got distracted.. and guess what Dacia determined that distraction to be? TV. Stupid fall season line up. We are glued to the flipping tv every night... so much so that we don't think to call and talk to each other! LOL This realization made us both laugh at the silliness. The even DUMBER thing? We both have DVR... we both record those stupid shows so that we have the ability to WATCH THEM LATER. doh...

Anywho.. I still feel the need to be creative... probably due to the fact that I have been watching all of these creative ladies blogs the past few days and am now feeling inspired to make something... maybe I will get off my rear and work on something today. Let's hope.. ugh

So much to do...

SO MUCH COMING IN!! It has been a big week at the store, packages arriving daily! So much Christmas stuff that I had to completely re-arrange in there.. no room for it all! Plans and plots on the horizon... my mind is awhirl lately! Which is scary, since I have so much holiday stuff to do!

In Alea news.. I finally set her up with her own email account. She loves it! It takes her 30 minutes to type out 2 sentances, but she is fascinated with getting responses! How cute! Mostly she emails her cousin in Phoenix, but she also emailed my brother in No. California and her uncle in Florida! Her parent-teacher conference went AWESOME and they had nothing but good things to say. She had 4's on most of her things (4 being exceeds expectations) and the rest were 3's... so we are right on track for that! She is loving Girl Scouts and I absolutely can't wait until we can go camping with them. I treasure my girl scout camp memories as a little girl!

In Jarrett news... we had a rough weekend with odd fevers that just came and went. Which of course made for a very grumpy 4 year old. I found him playing with sissy's Leapster today.. she was actually letting him, and he was doing great! Guess Jason and I made the right decision getting him one for Christmas! I am very nervous about him starting Kindergarten next year, and really need to get on the ball with working with him on his letters, writing and whatnot. The boy is a lefty and it has intimidated me thus far. He is starting to write his name and other various words in pre-school, and his teacher assures me he is right in line.. but I have that 2nd child guilt going on... you know.. that we don't pay as close attention to him, or work with him as closely as we did with her... anyway.. I digress.

In us news... no news to say! Jason figured out how to put his fender back into the clips and now you can barely tell I banged up the pretty new car... all is well there... he wants some really weird electronic things for Christmas... nothing new there. I think I want and Ipod. A pink one. So I can put something brown on it and make myself happy. Well that and have a non-skipping music player for working out! Again.. that means I actually have to work out.. oh well! Off for now!

*Update on Falling Apart...

Welp, I think I found out why I was having those really bad UTI's... Kidney stones. Ugh. Yesterday I woke up feeling like yet another UTI was coming on... but it wasn't quite the same and my lower back hurt really badly. It got worse and worse until finally I was pacing around the house in so much pain I could cry!

Jason took the kids to Papa's and off we went to the ER. They were awesome, got me checked in and into a bed in a hurry. Iv in, pain meds in... ahhhhh.. sweet relief! I went and got a CT scan and they found a kidney stone about 2 mm in size. I was given lots of pain meds and sent home to "pass the stone"... and I don't think the worst is over yet. I spent most of the day yesterday gaga on my meds and today am feeling much more normal. So far I am just achy in my back, though they said it could take a few days to pass. I am supposed to drink tons of water to flush things out.

Anyway... we are cleaning the kids rooms out today in preperation for Christmas. I need to get rid of the things they no longer play with, and figure out what on their wish lists will be worth getting. Fortunately this only requires me to sit on the floor so I am not in much pain right now... hopefully this goes away fast!

Harry Potter...

I am SO sure that everyone is talking about this movie this weekend... and the hub and I went to see it today. A M A Z I N G . Even though they tweak the story a bit to trim it down... cut things and alter things a bit here and there.. it worked man. It was awesome. I tell you what, I know they are in pre-production of the #5 movie.. if these actors for ANY reason decide to NOT do all 7 stories, I will be SO FLIPPING PISSED OFF. I just can't imagine seeing anyone else doing them. I can't FATHOM them not finishing the entire series. Ok.. so anyway.... it was awesome, very hard to watch emotionally.. and I want to see it again. NOW.

Falling apart...

Who was it exactly who said that 30 is the new 20? Cuz apparently they were wrong. I am FALLING APART! My back hurts in the morning... I get UTI's WAY too frequently, I am hormonal moreso than before and am prone to teenage acne around my period each month.. WTF is going on??

So anyway... I think that my super secret teacher has just backed out on me... I am waiting on more details but DAMN I could cry... maybe I can swing something major for the store anniversary! Who knows... ugh... off to Sim for awhile... at least my SIMS aren't falling apart..

Well gee...

That last post was pretty wasn't it? I now know part of the reason I was feeling so crappy. I had yet ANOTHER horrific UTI. I was in SO MUCH pain by Tuesday morning... ugh... it is finally getting better. Now I have an appointment to see the Dr. next month to run some tests and see why I keep getting these.

In other news... I am an Auntie once again! Jason's brother and his wife had their 2nd baby on Tuesday morning! Lil girl they named Mia. So sweet! Can't wait to meet her... of course it won't be until mid-next year since everyone and their family now live in Florida... whine...

Alea's parent teacher conference is today... let's see how that goes... not expecting anything bad... better not hear anything bad!

Today sucks...

Can I just whine for a bit? I promise it doesn't happen often.

I feel awful about a situation at the store. There really isn't much I can do now about it since it didn't involve me. But I AM the owner, and I felt I tried my best to do the right thing. Apparently it wasn't enough. I hate feeling like this. I hate that there are people out there that now have a bad taste in their mouth because of me and my store. I hate bad publicity. HATE HATE HATE this whole thing. Now there is nothing left to do but deal with it. I don't deal well with people being unhappy with me. It eats away at me. I get down and have a shitty day... like today. I snapped at my husband and my kids... they didn't cause this. I don't really know what to do other than sit and whine and cry about it. I know I can't please everyone all of the time, but dammit I can try right?

So that is that... my whine is over. I know there will be days like this and situations will always pop up that I can't "fix"... but still... I don't like this feeling. ugh

Back from the mountains...

And oh what a feeling! I absolutely LOVE the cold, crisp mountain air. I absolutely DO NOT love the coyote I saw run by as I walked outside!! BACK inside I went! There was no fog, no rain and I took an amazingly crisp afternoon walk with some of the ladies. And Fall. I SAW FALL. Did I mention before that I live in San Diego and we don't GET fall? Yah yah... some of the trees change colors, but since the trees are few and far between, you don't get that sense of FALL. It was awesome!

Did I scrap? HELL YAH. Didn't think I would remember how. But apparently it is like riding a bike, get right back on and keep going. I started out with 2 cards to get the juices flowing and it went from there. 2 cards, a chipboard accordian book thanks to miss d.d., a 2 page 8x8 layout from my 30th bday at Benihana... and then I got on a roll. I am making a love album for the hub and I for our 10 yr anniversary in January. Pages need to be DONE I tell ya! So I did some pages... 8x8 and 4 spreads for that book. Then on to the 12x12. Finished up a few "started" pages and ended up with 4 2 page spreads! Not bad for not having scrapped in forever.

Wanna know my secret? THE LADIES.
We work so well together and bounce ideas off of each other and the creativity is infectious! With so much product and laughter, energy and ideas... it is hard NOT to be creative! I needed this weekend. I think we all did. I am so so glad we went. SO glad.

Here is my favorite nature picture from the weekend so far...

Oh my gawd....

I LOVE SHOES! Have I told you this yet? Well, if you know me, you know I have a few... uh hum... let's just call them obsessions shall we? SHOES is one of them. I LOVE SHOES and the funny thing is... I love my feet in cute shoes! Ask most women and they will be hard pressed to find a part of their body that they like... my fave part is my feet. I have cute feet! I love to show off my pedicure. I LIVE in sandals!

Another healthy obsession... eBAY! I have ordered the CUTEST shoes from LEI, Steve Madden and a few others and they are SO CUTE! SO CHEAP! SO AWESOME!

SO... here is the greatest thing ever... finding an amazing deal on eBay for BRAND NEW (eww on the used shoes) Steve Madden's chunky brown suede loafers. The EVEN BETTER PART? Finding them after 3 months, not even knowing you had lost them! STILL IN THE BOX AND NEVER YET BEEN WORN! These will be AWESOME for this weekend! LOL

SEE YA!

Cleaning Cleaning.. do do do doooooo

Blah blah blah CLEAN. In order for me to have a successful weekend coming up, I need to ORGANIZE. In order for me to lose weight, I need to CLEAR A PATH TO THE TREADMILL. So today was a cleaning day. 18 loads of laundry and about 100 stamp sets lighter, you can see MOST of my floor! AMAZING!

It wasn't a completely blah day though... the store called and our QK Holiday gift sets arrived! Also the Zsiage line that I won at Memory Trends came... as well as something else that is escaping me at the moment. 5 more Pink Squeeze's are due in on Wednesday so that will make the ladies happy!

And best of all? Our friend Danny came over after work today and just left about 30 minutes ago. He hung out and had dinner and just chatted a bit and played with the kids. Alea and I Easy Baked for the first time.. wow they sure have come a loooong way! An overall GREAT day... but it ain't over yet... gotta tackle a few more spots in the room before calling it a night! See ya!

OMGOSH...

I am so crazy busy today! Good news is that everything I needed to do got DONE. Now I just need to wrap presents, take a shower and head off to dinner! In other good news... I may have some news up my sleeve in regards to the store... hmmm... fun fun

OH YEAH... forgot to update everyone (who am I kidding) that we are still ON for our retreat! YAY!!

Sniff Sniff.... boo hoo...

Tomorrow.. my daughter will be 8 years old. EIGHT. When the hell did 8 years go by? I am still the spry 23 yr old that I was when I had her... at least I still FEEL that way. I DEMAND TO KNOW WHEN THIS HAPPENED.

Ok.. so tomorrow will be a full day...

Get up at crack of dawn and take children to school... go home, change out of "drop off kids at school clothes", shower, etc. Head to Target to buy said 8 YEAR OLD birthday present. Pick up 4 yr old and take him home for nap. Transport 24 cupcakes to school by 1:15pm for school bday party. Take 8 year old to get a haircut after that. Home. Dinner at Olive Garden with family at 5pm. 4 year old gets to head over to Papa's house for a boy's night... while Mom & Dad take now 8 year old to see Chicken Little. Home. Sleep.

Sounds fun eh? Anyone have any good gift ideas for an 8 year old?? hmmmm

Oh NO.....

I think our retreat might be falling apart... man I hope not! Fingers crossed that we still go... I really want to!!!

In other news... Alea is home sick again today, with a cough. She woke up at 11pm last night and I gave her some Nyquil... she slept without coughing until 6am. I decided to give her some more and keep her home, but she should be good to go tomorrow. She hasn't coughed and isn't all dopey like I thought she would be.

Her birthday is in 2 days and I have NO idea what to get her. She has so many things she doesn't play with already. We are boxing clothes and toys up to donate, so that will be making some room. I think she is over her Little People playhouse, that puppy takes up half her wall! So today I have to go grocery shopping and see about finding her a present. We are going to take her out to see Chicken Little on Friday night after we go out for a birthday dinner. Holy COW.. my baby is going to be 8!!

I thought I would share this cool photo I took about a month ago. Jason yelled for me to grab the camer and come outside. Looks like cotton candy.. with the sun setting it was amazing!

Holy Frijoles!

These past 2 days have been CRAZY with all of the products coming in! WHOA! The store is so full I am going to add some more clearance! LOL

Anywho... wanted to show off a couple pics from Halloween.. and share this great thing! A customer of mine came in today and asked if I knew about the Ali Edward's classes up in Irvine in January... umm.. NO!! So she said she would find out if there was still availability and we could totally drive together! HOW FUN! So yeah, I get to officially meet Ali now!

NOW... I was just perusing my bloggin girls... and Donna has announced she will ALSO be teaching in Irvine in January! ARG!! So now I need to see what that's all about and maybe I will be making 2 trips up there! We shall see...

Welp...

Halloween is officially over. Now begins the everyday whine that goes something like... "Can I have some candy? But I want breakfast/ lunch/ snack/ dinner/ dessert!! Please... come on... just one... "

YAY. So I took my pictures of the carving... of the finished punkins... of them glowing in the dark.. what did I NOT take pictures of? My kids dressed up. WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH ME? My camera was totally in the car too. Geez

Today is Pumkin Carving Day...

And I WILL TAKE PICTURES THIS YEAR. Why is it that I always forget? I even forgot to take pictures of the finished pumpkins last year... that is just WRONG. Now if I could only find my battery charger for the camera... I know it's here somewhere... hmm

In other news, the hub found out yesterday that he needs his gallbladder out. He hasn't had any sort of surgery or hospitalization since he was a kid. Ok, that isn't entirely true. He had the snip last year but that was a walk out of the office thing. He is nervous and talking to people DOES NOT help. He has heard everything from... "My doctor told me that I had maybe 6 more weeks before it turned gangrene", "I had to be on a liquid diet for 1 week prior and 2 weeks after surgery", "I was out of work for 6 weeks"... and the list goes on. His one GOOD story was told to him last night by a co-worker. He said that his wife had hers out last year and was only out for 4 days. End of story. Phew! He goes to see the dr. on the 9th to find out options and time frame. What a fabulous way to end the year!

In other other news... I feel like scrapping today. I have some Bazzill class kits that I want to put together for display and to sell... think I might do that this afternoon while waiting for the hub to get up so we can carve those punkins!! FUN... have a great Saturday!

I love Fridays!!

Late Nite Fridays are my FAVE! I get to hang out late at the store and chill with the ladies! Work on projects if I need... file, or just peruse the net. Today Around The Block arrived... well part of it anyway.. and it is SO FUN! I can't wait to play with it all! Also, a couple of my overachiever Designers brought back their projects already! WOW! They looked awesome! I am so excited about having a Design Team. That means no more pressure to put up samples... phew! Anyway.. I have to be back at the store in a half hour so Cindy can go home. I have some Bazzill Class Kits I want to put together... should be fun! SEE YA!

Phew... another day done..

And for some reason I am EXHAUSTED. Jarrett didn't feel well today but wanted to go to school. They called me at 10:30 and said he wasn't doing so hot. I was in the middle of my facial and didn't get the call... so he stayed at school and cuddled with his teacher all day. Today was Alea's first day back at school since Monday... she has been out sick. Jason went and got an ultrasound to see if he has gall stones... let's hope he does or doesn't. Not sure which to hope for. I hope he doesn't because surgery is a scary thing... I hope he does, because they can fix that. Ugh.

We had our very first Design Team meeting and I am SO excited to get started! I can't wait to see what the ladies bring in. It is just so nice to not have to stress about making samples... I barely get a chance to scrap at all, and the store DESPERATELY needs samples. This was a relief for all of us!

Tomorrow is a late night and I LOVE late nights! I get to see my regular Friday night ladies and talk and hang out and yeah, work too. Maybe I will start altering some things I have put aside to play with. Who knows! Nite all!

I am kind of freaking out...

Right now there is a lot of stuff piling up. Memory Trend orders are starting to charge and ship, Payroll Tax, State Tax, CHA registration, end of month bills. Yikes. The store is going well, people enjoy it and mostly have fabulous comments. But still I stress a bit. I need to get more people interested and excited about the store. Advertising is not my strong point.

I am also trying to think of inovative things to do.. items to kit up, promotions for the holidays... etc etc. Anyone have any ideas? What would YOU like to see offered?

Crap, I just found out that one of my Christmas gift items won't be shipping until the end of January. This should make me happy since that means it won't CHARGE until then, but this was supposed to make an AWESOME Christmas gift. Crap. Crap. Crap.

So anyway.. I am about to go get my monthly facial pampering session. It is 1 of 2 things I do for myself every month. Facial. Pedicure. I love going, because my esthetician has become such a good friend and we laugh and chat the whole time. You would think that would counter the idea of having a nice relaxing time... but I am so social, I love to chat and hear how my friend's lives are going. Right now she is about 8 months preggers and getting ready to pop. SO exciting!

See ya all later...

I can't wait until 2 weeks from now...

My scrappy girls are going on a retreat. We will head up to the Bailey House for a weekend of eating, chatting, scrapping and bonding. We need it. I need it. I haven't scrapped since.. well since I made the page about my hub's beautiful new car.. and then we all know what happened to THAT.

I am excited. I can't wait to get away to the quiet of this house. I hope to see fall. Never really have seen a true fall season. Here in Sunny Southern CA we don't get much in the way of "seasons". We have Summer and Spring really. LOL. Being up in the mountains with so many trees around, crisp clean air and roaming deer and wild cats (eek!) will be soooo nice. I have stayed in the Rose room that past 2 times we were there. All of the rooms are so quaint and cozy. LOVE IT. Ahhhhh

2 More weeks.

I love to blog.. do do do doooo...

So.. I have been starting this blog out slowly. Two weeks ago I crashed my hub's new car... this week we got the estimate on fixin. $857. Did I mention how absolutely TINY that wall was? But again, when you have plasti-car every little ding and dent and bump costs a fortune. So that's that.

On to better things. As the official Primedia Famous Scrapper's stalker, I have recently found several new victims! It all started with BH. Oh yeah, Becky Higgins. Lynda introduced us to her at HIA years ago and I was verklempt! I stalked her by way of trade shows and email, and she escaped by moving to another state. WhatEVER. LOL. While I sat back and quietly admired BH, my scrapper obsession fizzled and was finally once again re-kindled via the Memory Trends trade show this month. My new best friend Donna Downey was there and SUCH a sweetie. She kidded the hub and we chatted about some very UNscrappy things. LOVE HER WORK AND HER. She rocks. I actually signed up for her class before her books came out.. and when I saw the books I fell IN LOVE with her style and ideas.. it was so very cool to meet her and find her spunky and sassy and so fun to talk to!

Heidi Swapp was another favorite. She took a picture of the hub doing her make n take. Did I mention my hub has tattoos, pierced ears and a fauxhawk? She said it was the next generation of scrappers and I will scream if I see that picture turn up in one of her pages! She cracked me up with her Target comments and laid back style!

I re-found Tara Whitney after I got back and started frequenting the blogs.. and am totally inspired by her story and her photos. Her photography is AMAZING. Totally what I want to do when I grow up... cept I am 2 years older than her and I own a scrapbook store. But that is beside the point. She also looks so fun and cute. I would love to meet her and hope to get the chance one day. Maybe if I lose some weight I will have her do a family photo shoot.. one day right?

The really sad thing? I think that I could TOTALLY hang out with these girls and we would become the best of friends. All of them seem so kick back and fun and funky and that is TOTALLY me. Too bad we all live so far apart... and, well the fact that they will probably avoid me forever more since I have just labeled myself their official stalker... LOL

So I have a problem....

I am an A$$HOLE. My husband just spent 4 days with me and a TON of other women at a Scrapbook trade show. He schlepped the bag around, attended my classes, made new friends, made projects and had a GREAT time. So what do I do? I go and CRASH his brand new, 2 month old car. Backed that baby right into an invisible concrete wall. How STUPID could I be? Pretty darn dumb I tell ya. And what did HE say you might ask? He laughed. Said he was glad I wasn't hurt and accidents happen. HUH?? You aren't even mad?? You aren't going to call me names? I think this makes it that much worse. Of course, he hasn't SEEN the damage yet, maybe he will call me a few names before the night is over.

PS... here is the car BEFORE I jacked it up. Now the seam right behind the gascap is hanging out and below the reflecter is a huge dent and ugly scratches... sniff sniff...