my not-so-secret obsession…

It used to be I didn’t want anything to do with them. They were for people into country style, people with blue checkered curtains, people like my grandma… and then something changed.
Last Christmas she thought I was starting to have interest in buttons, so my mother gave me a jar of buttons. Not JUST buttons, but […]

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~ Happy Birthday ~

   Yesterday was my mom’s 65th birthday and my Aunt Patty will celebrate her’s in a couple of days.  We enjoyed spending the day celebrating two wonderful ladies that have touched and impacted our lives.  My uncle wasn’t able to attend but sent along 65 beautiful roses to accompany my mom on her special day. We […]

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Cookie anyone?

  I cannot begin to tell you all how surprised and delighted I was when a dear friend sent me cookies. Not just cookies- but extra special “squillen” (aka Suzanne Quillen) cookies. This has totally boosted my mojo, and really made my weekend. Of course… I had to share with Miss Elizabeth!!!
Today I will celebrate such good […]

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The Big Boy Bed

We did it.  We officially moved Owen into a Big Boy Bed!  He has one of those convertible cribs and has been jumping, rather hard and high, in it as a crib. We decided yesterday to go ahead and move him into the toddler bed version of the bed.  We hadn’t moved him yet, for two […]

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Recovering…

Hello all!  I know that I have been unusually quiet this week - sorry!  I have been recovering from CHA and the week just kinda got away from me!
I did want to tell you about Friday night - I went to the Scrapbooking Lodge in Elgin for their 29 hour crop.  It starts Friday night […]

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~ Buzz . . . Buzz . . . A Fantastic Saturday ~

I had a blast buzzing around today at the Red Bee in Tustin (http://www.theredbee.com/).  Karen gave me a big welcome.  I had a blast with the ladies there.  Such an enthusiastic group of gals that crafted the day away at the Red Bee’s Summer Scraptacular Weekend (it’s not over yet either).  I taught a mini class […]

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My day in “the garage”

Ok, I’m exhausted! But I wanted to post and say how much fun I had today. I taught a mini-book (Cloud 9) class and also a fun Cloud 9 make n take at Suzy West’s place in Fremont. She’s got a store inside her garage- and I must say she really packs in the FUN […]

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Special Friends

A special gift that came from owning my scrapbook store was the wonderful friends that I made from my customers.  In fact, many times customers became even more than friends, they became family.
Let me tell you about Jim and Chris Woodberry.  On days when we would have special sales, when customers would be in a line […]

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~ Need More Energy - Add Some Color To Your Life ~

While reading Stephenie’s post, a great feeling of empathy came over me (I hope you got some good rest ladies).  I understand about being a tired girl . . . I too have a very busy schedule.  I work full-time from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. (10 hour days) Monday through Thursday, have a little one, […]

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Sonoma County Fair

As a kid I was raised on this fair. You see… I was in 4-H and every year I brought market hogs in to the fair and pretty much lived there for a full week during the show, auction, etc. So I *know* these fairgrounds. And during non-fair times I’d frequent the grounds showing my […]

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