Quick Share

I recently added this LO to my gallery. To make the circles I used my Creative Memories circle cutter and then adhered pattern paper to the back of my cardstock with pop up dots. (Love those!) The half pearls are from Basic Grey and have been a little obsession of mine lately.

Oh and a very tiny toot for me...my name was listed in the CK Reader Gallery in October's issue. That was a fun surprise!

I have a video that I want to share here of Colin. He sang four, yes four, made up songs highlighting various superheros. There is also breakdancing involved.
Trust me, it's very funny.

Okay now I'm off to play for a few minutes before heading to bed. My Studio Calico box came today and it was a much needed bright spot in my day!

I'm Back and I Have Lots to Share...

Hey ladies how are ya?!
Let me just start this post off by saying that things are going really well in the Faust household and I am the most relaxed that I have been in a long time. It's very possible that may change but I wanted to post it so I remember that it was real, lol!

On to the important stuff!

I had to do a little searching but I found the link to where I purchased my Thicker Storage Container in the previous post.

Here's the link at the Office Depot website. I was able to buy this in the store but recently our Office Depot closed so I don't know how many stores are still around. Thanks for the comment Anjanette, trust me I understand how imperative it is to get an answer when you find the thing that feels like it will solve a Thicker emergency! Hopefully you are able to find it soon!

And I also wanted to give a shout out to erink88 and say thank you for loving my blog! I am working on my photoshop post about how to take photos of LO's. I hope to post that this week.

So have you guys seen this?


Oh my gosh, I can't even explain to you how excited I am to see the rest of this release. So stinkin' excited!

I also want to share a little about my trip to Valley Forge this weekend. So I helped with about 8 classes this weekend including 4 for Creating Keepsakes and Papercrafts. I will say that they CK and PC classes were really well done and the products in the kits were the most current. I was truly impressed with both sessions and how well prepared the teachers were. I have to say that the best one was Susan Opel's class that she taught for Paper Crafts. You can definitely tell that she was a teacher in a past life and did a great job keeping the class on track with the materials. She even had me thinking about making a few cards, lol.

Since it's late I will keep the rest of this short. Some other highlights from this weekend include....
-Shopping with Cassie and getting some dinner at the Mall.
-Running into other CKMBer's and getting to catch up a bit.
-Staying up late in the hotel scrapbooking and watching Comedy Central.
-Shopping at King of Prussia Mall, okay mostly eating.
-Getting my teeth whitened since I had about an hour to kill before going to the crop. Gotta love all of the stuff that pops up in a mall these days!
-Getting an extra issue of the July Issue of CK at the Send Off Crop.
-Everyone else getting copies too and some very lovely ladies asking me for my autograph. *blush*
-Sitting with some lovely ladies who made me laugh and welcomed me into their group.
-Realizing that I NEED to buy a new printer. A Cannon, large format, 9000 series to be exact. During the show they had some Cannon reps demoing their stuff at the crop. I figured that I would bite. I had my thumb drive with all 3000 of my photos on it. The rep printed that fabulous photo of Colin flying that vintage plane at Knobels. Yeah...um...just imagine that as a 13 by 18 print on high quality glossy photo paper. Yeah...it was that good. I think they sold quite a few of those printers that night.
-Finishing 2 Collage Press LO's that I hope to share soon.

All in all it was an awesome weekend that provided some much need rest, made a dent in my scrapbook stash and allowed me to hang with other women who are just as passionate about this stuff as I am. Life. Is. Good.

Now if I can just find a frame....

July Creating Keepsakes

So did anyone checkout page 72 in this month's issue of CK?


That is yours truly and my little guy in a publication that you can find in the grocery store. Colin wasn't too impressed when it came in the mail. I doubt he will be too impressed when I take him to the store to hold it while I take a photo. Which I will do by the way.


It also made the sketch section which I thought was pretty cool.

Just a quick post today since I am getting our bags packed to take Colin for a sleep study tonight. He has bizarre sleep habits to say the least and while I'm not super optimistic that this will give us a ton of answers, at least we can hopefully rule a few things out. So think of me tonight when I laying next to a little boy hooked up to monitors when I could be scrapbooking.

Here are a few more photos from our trip.


Colin woke up this morning...after getting up to turn the lights off in all of the rooms upstairs and then going back to bed...and said, "I wish we could live on the cruise ship."


I have to give props to my husband for taking this shot. I think he captured Colin and his grandparents perfectly! They definitely had a blast together the whole trip.