I'm sick.

Sorry nothing new from me. I'm sick. I've been sick for 4 days and can't stand it any longer. I am finally giving in and going to the doctor today.

I hope all is well with you guys.

Viva Las Vegas.

My Mom, my brother, my kids and I went to my children's school Harvest Festival last night.

The Harvest Festival is like a carnival and it is used for fun and to help raise money for our school.

Kids had a blast and there was an Elvis sitting....(my neighbor) lol.

Each child's class fills a basket with goodies and they are auctioned off. We went home with two of them! One was filled with Legos and the other with Hot Wheels. The kids have been busy with them all day!! lol

I spent part of my day actually scrapping!!!!!!!! Can you believe it?? It has been so long I almost forgot how. (jk)

I made a layout for Scrap Our Stash but I can't post it here until they post it there...so you can look forward to seeing that in the near future.

I also made two cards. One just because I wanted to use my Cuttlebug and one for a card challenge at Sketches4you. It is Dannette's Card Sketch Challenge. I used my Doodlebug scraps from my SoS layout so it went pretty fast. I am showing you the one I did for Dannette's challenge.

Hope you are having a scrappy Saturday!

Feline Playful Blog Candy

Karen at Feline Playful is having a celebration!

She has reached 500 followers and would like to give her followers a chance to win some candy. You should go check out her blog! http://felineplayful.blogspot.com/

Just look at all that yummy goodness!!!

600 Followers!!!!

Woo Hoo!! I reached 600 followers today!!!

I logged on to just check things out and this is what I saw!

I know I was excited when I reached 500 and said I was probably going to add something to my Blog Candy Giveaway. And have not gotten around to doing it yet.

Welllllllll......I have decided that I need to do something extra special to thank all my followers!!

Especially since I have been so crazy busy lately that I haven't even been posting anything interesting to look at!!!!!!!!!!

This kind of happened to me as a surprise so I don't really have anything pre-planned.

So here is my idea....

I am going to pick an additional 6 names on November 1st and send a small rak to each of you. What I send will be a surprise but it will be a good one. Not as much as the main prize but still definitely worth getting.

And I will still pick the first name for the original Big Candy Giveaway.

So now 7 people will be getting candy from me. You will have to follow the same rules as posted on my blog candy giveaway. (this includes commenting on the actual candy post)

And after I post the names of the winners you will have to email me your mailing address by November 7th or I will draw another name to replace yours.

So there you go...exciting news!!

Thank you so much for being such great followers!!

My Goddaughter is Married!!

I know you are all waiting with baited breathe for my next awesome scrappy creation....well.....too bad...(jk)

I haven't done anything for over a WEEK!

I have been way, way too busy!

This weekend my husband and I went to California to my Goddaughter's wedding in Auburn.

It was gorgeous! She was gorgeous! The weather was gorgeous! (do you see a theme here? lol)

She couldn't have asked for better weather or a better location and view. And, WOW, was she so beautiful! Look at the pictures and tell me if you don't agree...

And then on Sunday my husband and I went to Amador County to spend the night at a Bed and Breakfast with some of our best friends who live in San Francisco. (Mike and Holly)

They drove up to meet us in Dry Town on Sunday and we spent the day wine tasting.

We checked into our B & B in the early evening and then went to a fab dinner at a cool restaurant called Taste. YUM!

Getting there was a bit tricky. It was a cool, foggy, dark (super dark) night and Holly's phones GPS basically sent us out to a empty field in the middle of nowhere... It was just like it was out of a scary movie!

We did eventually find out way to the restaurant safely and had an awesome dinner.

We flew home this afternoon.

My plan is to make something scrappy tomorrow...(really...that is my plan) and if I actually get something made I will post it for your viewing pleasure!

I hope everyone had as nice a weekend as we did.

Marlene has Candy!!

Hello everyone,

Why are you here instead of at Marlene's blog reading all of her snarkiness and looking at her wonderful art?!!

http://disguisedasagrownup.blogspot.com/

Marlene is one of the funniest woman out there writing a blog today and she is a wonderful artist too. Her blog is not to be missed!

And if her awesomeness isn't enough....she is giving away CANDY!! You all should rush over to sign up to follow her and then you will definitely want to follow her. She is the best!

And she is sweet too. See this card pinned up on the wall by my desk??!! She made this Zombie card which is hysterical and posted it on her blog.

I looked at it and couldn't stop laughing. I commented (as you all should be doing, because that is what bloggers live for...lol) and told her how much I loved it and that she needed to send it to me so I could pin it up on my wall and look at it and laugh.....

And what did she do??!! She sent it to me!

So here it is pinned to my wall and I am smiling just typing about it. So see what good karma she is sending out??

You should look at her card in the second picture up close. It is not only funny but really gorgeous in person.

Anyway, go check her out. You will be happy you did. And you might even win some candy!

"That Layout"

My friend, Denise is having a blog candy giveaway on her blog.

http://lalasworldblog.blogspot.com/ She is giving away some super yummy stuff. She has an awesome blog that you should be following anyway so go check it out!!

I am now on the DT at Scrap Our Stash http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/

The challenge this month is to do "That Layout". The one that you have put off doing for whatever reason. This is a great little push to help you get it done.

I chose to do a layout about my dog, Tucker, who died last year. When he died it was just too fresh and hard to think of doing anything. It has been a year and it was still hard (I cried the whole time I was scrapping) but it was doable. And now I have a nice page to help honor his memory.

I am a major "dog person" and this dog was my kid before I had kids and he was my kid until the day he died. (he is still my kid) If you aren't this kind of dog person you will probably think I am a little silly but that is okay. I loved him and he loved me. And I am glad he was in my life for 14 years. And if love could have kept him alive he would have lived forever.

I used paper from Basic Grey's Max and Whiskers and some Sassafras Lass Alphas for the title work. I used a Sassafras Lass Stamp and a Basic Grey stamp with some brown Ranger Archival ink. And the sketch is from Sketches in Thyme

I made the leaves by stamping the leaf pattern on my pp and then I used my bone folder to outline the veins and then folded each vein to give the leaves depth and dimension.

I would like to encourage you to go over to Scrap Our Stash and check out all the great creations that people are doing for this challenge. And use this challenge to encourage yourself to do "That Layout".