Two Page Layout

Two page layouts intimidate me! I don't ever do them. Back in September during May's Use Your Stash class I learned some new approaches to make them a bit easier. I had started to put one together, but got distracted and never finished. Well today I decided it was time to face the challenge and just do it! There were some fun photos from our Toronto vacation this summer that fit nicely into the page design. A few of my favorite pieces from my stash: travel stickers (Canadian flag and coins), coin shaped brad and font/banner from my free Blackletter Cricut cart.

My Pink Stamper Blog Hop

My Pink Stamper and her design team are having a fun Blog Hop challenge. You visit each blog to find a mystery word and they all string together to come up with the design challenge. I decided to go with a thank you card since I am a bit behind in my holiday thank you notes.

Dot Paper: Paper Trey Ink

Butterfly & Thanks: Gypsy Wanderings cart

Bling: Cell phone charms from the Target $1 spot

Bakers Twine: Saved it from our bakery boxes at Christmas :)

Get Well Card

Outside: Inside:

A friend of mine has been going through some rough health issues this week and since laughter is the best medicine I came up with this somewhat immature and silly card. I am hoping this will make him laugh.

One Little Word Title Page: Positive

Getting My Mojo Back

It has been far too long since I have done anything remotely creative and decided today to change that. I was catching up on my back log of Paperclipping Roundtable episodes and heard about Ali Edward's class One Little Word. It spoke to me. I already had a word in my head, something I had been ignoring, something that I need to focus on, something that can lead to great change in all aspects of my life-- my word for the year is POSITIVE! I am going to be a glass half full girl! I am committed to being very open-minded as I take this year long journey and looking forward to what may come out of it.

Where is my Cricut?

Can you find my Cricut in this mess? Moving has completely disrupted my routine and put my scrapping on a temporary hold. However, I am so very excited because I will be getting my own scrap room! I finally have a space where I can be as messy as I want and simply close the door to hide it. No more packing up mid-project and losing momentum. Right now everything is in boxes. I had the best of intentions of getting this room set up first, but then realized we need a functioning kitchen and unpacking the dishes took priority. Here is a picture of my room "before" and I'll post an "after" once it gets set up.

Blizzard of 2010

Lamp post icicles
Snow drifts on the roof

Our car.. somewhere under there..

December has been the fastest, craziest month ever and just went I thought it couldn't get any crazier - *BAM* *POW* *POP* BLIZZARD!!! And normally I would be so thrilled to enjoy a bonus day off from work and lots of hot chocolate with my hubby, but today was the day we were scheduled to move into our first house!! We have been waiting so long for this day and now we wait a little longer. This is going to make for some sweet scrapbook pages once we are finally settled in. Another reason why my December posts have been light. Everything has been packed away in preparation for the move. In the meantime, I wanted to make sure I documented a few photos from today. Estimating ~17 inches with the wind continuing to howl. Looking forward to getting home.. hopefully we don't have to wait to much longer!