Just One Word, Just for Fun!

Just One Word - Just a little bit of fun for tonight:

1. Where is your cell phone? non-existant
2. Relationship? Hot
3. Your hair? Mid-length
4. Work? Teacher
5. Your sister? Kate
6. Your favorite thing? Scrapbooking
7. Your dream last night? Forgettable
8. Your favorite drink? Coke
9. Your dream car? Beamer
10. The room you're in? Living Room
11. Your shoes? Flip-flops
12. Your fears? Drowning
13. What do you want to be in 10 years? Proud
14. Who did you hang out with this weekend? Family
15. What are you not good at? Relaxing
16. Muffin? Banana Nut
17. One of your wish list items? Printer
18. Where you grew up? Everywhere
19. Last thing you did? Laughed
20. What are you wearing? Clothes (silly!)
21. What aren't you wearing? Naughty
22. Your pet? Old
23. Your computer? MAC
24. Your life? Busy
25. Your mood? Intangible
26. Missing? Hubby
27. What are you thinking about right now? Hubby
28. Your car? Mazda
29. Your kitchen? Small
30. Your summer? Short
31. Your favorite color? Pink!
32. Last time you laughed? Tonight
33. Last time you cried? Yesterday
34. School? Work
35. Love? Babies

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New Photo Mats!

While I was away on vacation, I sold two photo mats! Both of them with a seaside theme and both for new babies. I can just picture the sweet baby pictures that will fit inside the mats. Add the perfect frame and what a keepsake! So unique, not something that either new mother will find themselves opening again and again at a shower. I am really pleased to know that my creation will be a one of a kind for their baby's nursery.

Vacation was great, now back to the grind!

So, we St. Peter's have been on a much needed vacation. We traveled from KY to VA for a visit with family and friends from our home state. We accomplished so much while we were there; shopping, haircuts for Rick and Aidan, pool time, beach time (Nags Head, NC), sleepovers for Olivia, time spent with Mom, etc.

We had a really great time in NC on the beach with Rick's Dad. Aidan really loved the water, but didn't want to sit in it! He was perfectly happy to stand as the water rushed over his toes. Olivia, of course, was a little fish! She had a blast making sand angels, playing putt putt and riding the go carts at night. Oh, and who can forget the trips to get ice cream?!

This picture I've posted is from a photo shoot we took on the beach. We did some shots of just the kids and some of the family. It was really fun and we got some good moments out of it. Yea, us!

I am so excited! I just got back from meeting with a client. For the next few weeks I am going to be completing a scrapbook for her son. She compiled all the pics she could find from this past year, his senior year BTW, and I can't wait to get started putting them into a form that she and her son will enjoy for years to come. I will post pictures of my work as soon as I have some. I think the book is going to be my first hybrid book. A little bit of digital scrapping and a bit of the old fashioned kind! Well, I am off to get started. . .

No, I am not dead . . .

Woa, I have been sooooo busy this last month! I thought I was never going to slow down. So, what have I been up to you may be asking? Well, finishing up the school year, making props for "Love's Labours Lost," planning my daughter's 8th birthday, AND completing two scrapbook orders both due within a few days of each other! While the last month has been k-ra-zy, I have enjoyed the heck out of all the creative energy that has been flowing in and around me. Woo hoo!
I mean, my first scrapbook orders for my new business? Come on, how exciting is that!? The first was a birthday scrapbook (8x8) for a little girl who was turning 3. Lots of pinks, greens, blues and reds - so pretty. The second scrapbook was for a man who was stepping down as president of a board. I was hired to put together all the memoriabilia from his time on the board, which was a number of years. So, a 12 x 12 book later - and a finished product was born. I have 3 more orders to complete this summer and who knows, maybe more will come strolling my way??
Olivia's birthday was at the local bowling alley. She and her friends had so much fun! And what an easy party, I tell ya. We were there for two hours. Plenty of time for 1 and a half games of bowling, opening presents and eating cake/ice cream. Most of the kids seemed to really know what they were doing on the lanes, it was sweet.
Making props for the Shakespeare show was fun and stressful. But, it is done and I am not going back only forward.
Oh, I also had a table at a local craft show last weekend. Got a lot of foot traffic, lots of very nice comments on my product but only sold one photo mat. Disappointing but I am trying to move on. Have a couple of marketing ideas for my local mommy and me groups, just need to make it happen.
Enjoy the pictures of all my various work from the past month!

Great Fun at MayFest

Every Mother's Day, we go to MayFest at Gratz Park here in Lexington. It is the sweetest little park with a fountain that depicts children playing in the water. We love the atmosphere and we especially love checking out the artisans that come to show their wares. The kids have the best time riding the ponies, getting their faces painted, petting the "exotic" animals in the petting zoo and, this year, bouncing in the moon walk. Weeeee! I just loooovvvee these pictures of the babes in the moonwalk, aren't they too fun? After we go to MayFest, we typically go to Midway and walk this little quaint strip of shops, galleries and cafes. This year, Aidan was desperate for a nap, so we postponed our Midway jaunt for mid afternoon. The drive through horse country was bee-utiful. And, I found the sweetest painting for Aidan's room at a gallery in Midway. The print shows "Jack" climbing a beanstalk wrapped around a giant tree upon which sits a castle. All in all, a wonderful day with the family - I am one lucky lady!

It's Been Awhile . . .

I have been soooo busy with work, acting, keeping up with family and the dreaded housework! Last weekend my mom came to visit. It's funny because her visit coincided with the Queen's visit to KY. Yes, THE Queen of England came to Lexington, KY. It was the Oaks and Derby weekend here in horse country, so it made sense that Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip were here. They are big into horses. Anyway, the state was all a flutter!

I have continued to work on honing my digital scrapbooking skills! I have some opportunities to show my work again and want to go about it differently than last time. When I showed my work at the last show, there wasn't one bite! Everyone said the product was cute, but they thought it was geared toward people with kids. So, I have had my thinking cap on trying to figure out how to market what I want to do for people. I really believe that the service I can provide in making albums for people is a good one. And the fact that it is important to me that the albums have a quality to them that expresses an art form is important to me too. Can it be that even though people want their pictures in an album but don't have time to do it themselves, also don't have time to send me their pictures so I can create an album for them?? I just don't know. There is definitely an element to this that requires the consumer to participate in some of the leg work. I am a bit stumped!

Well, here are some layouts I have created recently. One personal layout and one for a friend, sorta client. I am ready to use that word client on a more regular basis!