Gearing Up

Took a quick (and fun) shot of my camera before it gets put to work even more then usual around here. You see tomorrow I will be once again documenting my every move as I take part in Ali Edwards A Week in the Life project.
I'm excited to get this project underway, I had so much fun with it the last time and so much in my life has changed that I think now is the perfect time to capture it.
I plan to share photos and stories here and will also show off the completed project. In addition to A Week in the Life I'm also continuing work on Lain Ehmann's MotherLOAD course on Big Picture Classes. It has been an amazing experience so far.
I have to say I am feeling creative, inspired and motivated lately so stay tuned!

Amy, Amy, Amy

So strange that my last blog post I stated I was listening to Amy Winehouse as I was creating in the craft room and here we are less then a week later and Amy Winehouse has passed away. Such a shame that such a magnificent talent could not overcome her addictions, it is such a shame that we will never have another Amy Winehouse album and so very very strange that she's all I was listening to last week.

You will be missed Ms. Winehouse

Crafting+Music = A Happy Girl

I'm hanging in the scraproom, crafting, cleaning, writing and coming up with ideas. Got a little Amy Winehouse playing on the ipod so all is right with the world!

Craft Update

So some of you might be wondering what I've been up to during the period of time that I seemingly abandoned my blog, but I promise you I've been creating up a storm. 

I participated and completed Layout a Day in May. I don't know what it is about Lain's prompts that keep me motivated day after day for an entire month but she does it and does it so well! 

So here are some of my favorite May LOAD layouts! 

A layout about Easter

One of my favorites, it was a great day but I had fun with the layout too

Me and Claire - my Super Friend

I had fun with this one playful pictures, playful embellishments

 It is really fun getting pages done, telling stories, letting my creative juices flow. Will post many more layouts very soon!!

She's Back

Sorry for the lack of posts but your favorite coffee addict is back and ready for action!

Fun with Photography!

As you might recall Mike got me a cool new camera for my birthday and I've been trying to figure out the settings, and play with it as much as possible and I've been trying to just develop a better eye for great photos and just document everything - I know you are probably thinking "don't you already do that" but I'm really trying to grow as a photographer and not just take a crazy amount of pictures that I won't ever or can't really use.

Thankfully the fabulous Katrina Kennedy started the amazing site CaptureYour365. The prompts Katrina provides and the fabulous inspiration I've been finding in the gallery and message boards are really helping me look at things differently and take more interesting photos.

Here are a couple of the newest photos that are my favorites - at least for right now!

Way back in January when I was in the midst of my week long birthday celebration I mentioned that one of the super fantastic presents that my husband Mike gave me were tickets to see Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes on the Jay & Silent Bob Get Old Tour! After all this waiting it was finally time for the big show!!

Now because Mike is awesome and tomorrow is the 11 year anniversary of when we started dating we turned tickets to the show into a little mid-week getaway! Yesterday I worked only half a day and then we headed to the Royal Pacific Resort over at Universal and checked in and kicked off a much needed 24 hour escape! The hotel is beautiful, we had a great room, we explored, we had drinks, we laughed. We had an absolutely spectacular meal at Emeril's - I mean seriously spectacular and after dinner we took our full and happy selves over to Hard Rock for the show!

Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier kicked off the show with an hour and a half Smodcast recording! Hysterical! I laughed so hard!! Then the next hour and a half was Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes - also hysterical and at parts a little sad but a magical evening! After the show Mike and I strolled back to the hotel in the pouring rain, we laughed and talked and went over our favorite parts of the show and the evening as a whole.

This morning we woke up to tornado warnings - WHAT?! I've probably mentioned before I am absolutely petrified to drive in the rain and the weather forecast was grim and had the rain not letting up until much later tonight. So we took our time getting ready for the day and checking out and then had a fabulous breakfast at one of the hotel's restaurants it was nice and relaxing and then hand in hand we walked and explored the hotel, did a little shopping and then I made a command decision - We're going home! As much as I would have loved to stay at the hotel I knew we had to get home too. So off we went, picked Hooper up from my friend's house and then came home. Sure I had a white knuckle grip on the steering wheel most of the way but we made it safe and sound and have not moved from the couch since! The fur babies have taken turns coming to cuddle with us I guess even though we were only gone over night they missed us!

I hope all my Florida friends are safe and sound as it is still absolutely pouring rain out there!