California Dreamin' part 1

Aw, finally back home from my trip to Southern California! What a great time it was to just hang out with my mom and sister! We shopped and ate and laughed and laughed!!

My highlight of the trip was our visit with Thena Smith (http://thenasmith.blogspot.com/). She is such a joy! We ate at a wonderful little cafe in Coronado over looking the San Diego bay! We laughed so hard! She is hilarous! We talked about her new book that is ready to be released tomorrow, "C is for Christmas". I just finished listening to her on World Talk Radio! She is so wonderful! Oh and here is a picture of her and I, San Diego is behind us! Isn't is beautiful? I have a few more pictures to show, but it will have to wait until later.

Raegan

I Needed Some Pictures....

For the upcoming Halloween kit, so we invited some friends over tonight for a photo shoot! Well, okay, while you will probably see a layout soon, that's not really why they were at our house (and we had never laid eyes on these people before in our life!) Our house was a movie star tonight! And so was my husband! Low budget, couple of local New Albany guys doing a series of detective movies on DVD, asked if they could use our porch for filming, then decided to do a scene IN the house once they got here! This segment was a dream segment and will be entered in the Waverly Hills film festival to show in October! Then it will be incorporated into the longer movie. Tim played the weird butler and came to the door polishing a skull. Anyway, one 1980s hearse in our driveway, 6 goth people, a cute little cheerleader, one vampire and a werewolf putting his makeup on in our bathroom...it was all a little weird, a whole lotta fun and Tim said the quote of the evening was when everyone had packed up and left and I said, "Why is there still a werewolf in our bathroom?" Elizabeth

**** KIT SPOILERS ****

some spoilers....some nice, big, dreamy hints! You've asked for it - YOU GOT IT!

Sept Dream Kit....the new Sassafras Lass papers, Maya Road chipboard book, Gin-X coaster rings....dreaming of ledger and 12" brackets! You're in for some awesome surprises with this kit!!

Sept Embellishment Lover's Kit.....like a spelling test gone CRAZY! A brand spankin' new stamp set with 80 WORDS, then another 20+ chipboard words! Of course, ink, a tin, and a dozen different 8" brackets!! You'll be using this kit for a very very long time, as it is soooooo versatile!

Oct Dream Kit.....it's the sought after Scenic Route Capetown line! Patterns and strips too! Chipboard Alphabet with both positive and negatives....and MORE! Gotta keep some secrets!

Oct Embellishment Lover's Kit.....hot new 7 Gypsies! We're talking a brand new mini album, a just released naked seal stamp, rub-ons, gaffer tape, not-even out-yet label stickers.....it never ends!

AND, we're working something very special - a limited number Halloween kit.....maybe we should call it our Scrapbook Lover's Nightmare! lol This will be offered to subscribers only, and we can ship it with your other kit to save in shipping! So, if you are thinking about subscribing, this alone is a fabulous reason to do it!


consider yourself spoiled today!
Abby

September Sneak Peek

Funny Things That Husbands Say!

Okay, so I'm working away on my paper bag recipe album yesterday and I get to the very last embellishment I want to add....a brass photo turn. I couldn't decide if I should use a brass brad in the center or a colored one so I asked my dh to come in and help me decide! So, I pose my question to him and do you know what he said, and he was so dead serious....he says, "Well, do you have any colored brads?" Do I have any colored brads? Hello! I showed him my two and half clear storage boxes full of tic tac like containers with about 3,000 brads and he just said, "Oh." Then we had to decide whether to use green or red. In case you are wondering, we went with the green and my it looks so nice. Elizabeth

a thin line....

between fan and stalker. You be the judge......

Tis the Season!

Okay, I highly recommend an annual Christmas in July crop! It was so much fun! What a great way to get those Christmas layouts done, or should I stay started? The Christmas music really put us in the spirit and I loved getting my Christmas dishes out to put our goodies in!

Christmas Crop in July?

Yes, that's what we did Saturday! Elizabeth, Mindy & I worked on Christmas' past. I was able to get a few pages done, but I was distracted with all the 2003 pictures I came across! Do these things mulitply over the years? I did discover that I had mostly completed 2004 but have not even touched 2005! I have a lot of work to do prior to taking one Christmas photo for 2006! Which really means, I have to have them all scrapped prior to Thanksgiving, cause this is when we celebrate the holiday with my dh's family.

Oh what fun we had! Elizabeth had a few Christmas decorations up, (ok, she always has them up), we had wonderful snack food and of course the day would not be complete without hours of Christmas music! We had it all, however it was a bit hot outside, LOL

I have the pictures of the decorations, and Elizabeth has the ones of us cropping! We hope everybody will be able to come next time. It just wasn't the same without all of the Design Team being together!

Happy Holidays a few months early!!!

Raegan