How Does $35 Buy Me So Much Happiness?

I am currently getting a mani/pedi as we speak. It makes me smile just thinking about Colin seeing my "pretty toes." He is amazed that the color doesn't come off in the pool. Not to mention the chair massage I'm getting right now is pretty awesome.

So even though everyone I have asked likes the white dress in my previous post better, I picked the yellow one. Mostly because it's 2:30pm and I need to leave for the wedding in an hour and a half. (I still need to do my hair and makeup)

I'm going to try really hard to take a few photos before we leave since I never seem to have any photos of me let alone any photos of me dressed up.

I am looking foward to a lot of laughing tonight as I hang out with my best friends from high school. And even though none of them scrapbook, I'm sure we will still have loads to talk about!

One of My Best Friends is Getting Married....

on Saturday. His wedding is sure to be more like a class reunion that promises to be a whose who of my graduating class.
Needless to say, I must look FABULOUS!



I purchased both of these dresses today at JCPenney's despite
my previous boycott.

Now here's the issue.
I like the white one better but they didn't have my size.
I bought it a size bigger, I think I can make it fit with a few alterations or possibly just washing and drying it the whole way.
The yellow and black one fits perfectly but is pretty loud.
Now I tend to be a riot in person so I'm pretty sure I could pull this off...and I do want to make a statement. (Ex Boyfriend)
I'm just not sure if I want to yell that statement from across the dance floor.
However, if I can't make the white one work...I may be yelling, lol!

What do you think?
Is the yellow one cute or just ridiculous?
The good news is that I have cute shoes for both.
And the shoes that I have are WAY better than the ones they put on the models.
What were they thinking?

Yep, He's Trained!

Anytime I call his name now, he turns his head as smiles! This is great for getting his attention quickly to take his photo, not so great for time out, lol!
Oh well...win some, loose some!

Happy 4th of July!

Don't forget these if you are going to fireworks and you children don't enjoy them because they are too loud. They muffle the sound enough that even kids with a significantly low threshold for noise can even tolerate the show.
Here's hoping that you have great weather and loads of time with family and friends today!

Scrapbook Trends Online

I just caved and ordered an online sub to scrapbook trends, I even got the all access pass. I used the coupon that I got in my email which made the pass 4.99! I really got it because I was dying to see the July issue in print. I heard awesome things about it and I wanted to see if my LO was still in there. I am so glad I subscribed! The august issue is available too and they are both WONDERFUL!

I am so proud to be included in both of those issues! I LOVE this mag and they do a fantastic job staging LO's for photos. I love that they used a wire dress form next to my July LO. How did they know I would love that?!

Onto more depressing news...according to Scrapbook Update Ck Media has been sold. The first order of buisness was to hand out a ton of layoffs. I am so sad for the families involved and will be keeping them in our prayers during this transition. Even though I guess the writing has been on the wall for this to happen, it still took me back this morning when I read it. You can say anything that you want about CK and what they have done in the past, it is still terribly unfortanute for anyone to loose their jobs, especially right now, and especially in print media.

Well I have a little man knocking in my scraproom so apparently it's time to go swimming at Hershey Park. Wish me luck!

You Do Realize....

that summer is almost over right? I mean, it's already July and soon it will be Christmas...I'm just sayin'! So soak up the sun, the wonderful outside activities, and takes loads of photos to scrap!

Speaking of scrapbooking, here's a LO that I completed with the new Cosmo Cricket Early Bird Line. What can I say, I'm a sucker for bright colors, vintage inspiration and talking toasters....what is not to love!



Here's another LO that I completed with Early Bird. I used letter stickers as masks, markers and Maya Mists to make my title. I love finishing a LO in one sitting. This looks like it took me longer than it did but I would say that I finished it in about an hour.



Here's the closeup of the title.



That's it for now, as always, thanks for stopping by and taking a peak at my work!

A Very Vintage Park!

Can you believe how cute this plane is? I mean...the pilot is pretty handsome but I just can't get over that plane. Matt's company picnic was on Sunday at Knoebel's Amusement Park in Elysburg, PA. There's a small town feel to this adorable park. It has free admission and you pay in tickets for what you want to go on. It has amazing food and the entire park is very reasonable price wise.

Here are a few more....



This cracked me up! This was Colin's first time riding go carts and needless to say, he loved it! He went three times, lol!

And I did promise that I would share another LO. This one is Colin's little girlfriend from preschool. He really does like her and starts to blush whenever he talks about her. I didn't realize that this started already, lol! I wanted to make sure that I documented since this has been a pretty steady relationship :-)


(And yes I spelled "merry" that way on purpose. That's what it sounds like when he says it out loud and it makes me smile.)

That's it for now...I'm off to finish a few more projects!