The one with another Sale!

Catch the Moments is having another BIG sale! Even bigger than the black friday one. Kits are only $12. I suggest heading over to check it out :)

I have been super busy... not much time to get crafty! But tonight I have the house to myself so hopefully I will have some fun things to share soon. Have a great weekend...

The one with an oldie but goodie..

... picture that is :)

I love this picture of my friend Liv and I. There is nothing special about it except that it brings back a ton of memories. Hence the title...

I remember when these coats were all the rage... when we got them and where... how much fun we had shopping together.... the tiny, gross apartment that her bf at the time was living in (where the pic was taken).... the super snow storm we drove in to go out dancing that night.... how cold it was walking back to his place that night. Silly little things but makes me think back to my university days!

This page is a mash of a ton of different manufacturer's products! TPC Studio paper, May arts ribbon, AC thickers, Zva pearls, Cordinations paper, Prima flower, Girls Paperie clock, Stamps from both Studio Calico and Kaiser Crafts and paper from MME. Phew!!!!

Lots of fun plans going on this weekend - My work x-mas party was last night and tonight we are going with 40 of our friends to Boogie Fever in Ferndale, MI! Going to be so fun. Its our Christmas/5 peoples birthdays parties all together.

Have a great weekend,

The one with a RAK!

Today was a good mail day for me! Waiting on my porch was my first Catch the Moments Kit!!!

Its filled with lots of Christmas paper. All Crate Paper here and one piece on top is Echo Park. The flower is Dear Lizzy and the brads are Crate paper too!

Its super cute and i can't wait to get working on it!!
I also bought a bunch of stuff from the store.... check out these NEW thickers :)
There was a thread over on 2peas today talking about how many Thicker packages you have... it prompted me to count today when I got home. Officially I have 67 including these two new ones!!! Yikes.... maybe I should not have counted ;)


Got some of the dear lizzy ribbon trim in a couple new colors... some Jenni bowlin buttons and some AC Christmas ribbon too. Love the turquoise rose ribbon with the gems... think it will look great with the Crate paper!!!


Oh ya... and about the RAK ---- Well you have to head on over to Catch the Moments Blog! Lots of dear Lizzy goodies up for grabs. The rules to enter -- become a follower on the DT blogs and then report back to the main blog. Sounds pretty easy to me!


Also if she gets enough followers on the main blog there will be a BIG sale happening. So head on over!

Have a great night!

The one with some Props...

Just wanted to thank Sue and Mary for BOTH sending me some props! Got this blog award (my first ever!) from them this weekend.

This award has a few rules.....
1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this
2. Share 8 things about yourself
3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards


So here are my 8 things.....
1. I love chocolate... anything chocolate! I could live on just chocolate :)
2. I am a super picky eater. I have a long list of thing I won't/don't eat and a hand full of things I do... and even then.. those things have their exceptions! (weird I know!)
3. I love IKEA. I camped out overnight for the Grand Opening of the Canton, MI IKEA!
4. Golf is my favorite sport and the only one I am good at. I am a 5 handicap now :)
5. I took a golf lesson this summer out at the Butch Harmon academy (if you are an avid golfer this will mean something... if not then just know hes Tiger Woods old coach!)
6. I love to travel and see new cities.
7. I cannot stand to sit on a beach and read all day. What a waste of time ;)
8. My favorite shows at the moment are Parenthood, Modern Family, Cougar Town and Grey's Anatomy.

Phew... that was harder than I thought it would be! lol :)

Now on to 8 blogs that I think deserve this award... (lots of ladies I would love to send this to just got it this week so I will try not to duplicate!)
1. Angela Hathikhanavala - Paper Cupboard
2. Casey Wright - Creative Casey
3. Lisa Kisch - Babies, Paper & Song
4. Sarah Rice - She Scraps
5. Nancy Keslin - My little Corner
6. Marcie Morgan - Just a Country Girl
7. Brenda Weaver - Sweet Paper Treats
8. Devon Hickmann - Catch the Moments

Hope you all had a good weekend! Mine was busy as usual... but fun.
Need to get some scrapping done this week and I will have some fun stuff to share :)

Today is also my birthday! 29 on the 29th. I think thats called my Champagne birthday or something :) Since I have already celebrated on friday with Jess, Saturday lunch with Liv and dinner with my family on Saturday... no special plans tonight :)

The one with some tea!

I am definitely a tea person! I can't even stand the smell of coffee, or anything with coffee flavors... yuck! lol. I know I am the odd one here :)

I grew up with a very Irish Grandmother who always had a pot of tea going. I grew up on it. I even had it in my bottle as a child... with lots of milk and some sugar (I was told anyway!).

Growing up it was always red rose tea... but now my tea horizons have expanded. I love the English breakfast and earl gray tea from Tea Forte. I buy the English breakfast in event sized boxes!!! My tea of choice in the morning is a Tazo Tea called Awake - a lot more caffeine and a stronger flavor. (Tazo has a really cool website too btw!) You can get it at Starbucks too. I think I have come up with the most confusing tea order that you can have there..... I always swore I wouldn't be one of THOSE kind of people .... but I need my venti-awake-tea-one bag in - one out - with room for milk!

Back to why I am talking about tea.... well I have a layout about our 'tea party'!

This is Mary, Chris and I at CHA in the Making Memories booth.

They made it look like the cutest little french cafe! So we had to get a quick picture!

The paper is Making Memories (of course!) as well as the journal spot, photo corners and the brown ribbon trim. The little tea pot element is from Crate Paper Restoration line along with the chipboard flower. Glimmer misted some AC thickers to be the perfect shade of pink too!

Now if we could only get some sun here... I would be able to take better pictures for you. Hopefully soon the sun will show... I am getting tired of these dreary days and its not even December yet!

Happy Thanksgiving to all you Americans! Enjoy your long weekend!