This time last year, we faced the coming of the new year with nothing but dread. We knew Mike was going into custody in a few days. Life as we knew it would be over for the forseeable future. There was nothing to look forward to about 2011. But 2011 has passed now. It felt [...]
How I Became A Die Cutting Addict
November 8, 2011 by
My journey to die cut machine fanatic has been a long and winding one. Thirteen years ago, when I started scrapbooking and I also worked in a scrapbook store, I had access to an Accucut die cut machine anytime that I wanted. But despite the general popularity of solid color die cutting in scrapbooking back [...]
Scrapbooking & My iPhone
October 4, 2011 by
Today the Scrapbook Update staff is having a blog hop all about crafting with our phones…which means I get to talk about one of my favorite topics: my iPhone. My life is pretty much on my phone. It is my constant companion from dusk till dawn (and in between, too). One of the best things [...]
Cards | I Love You
August 26, 2011 by
This week was an especially difficult anniversary for my husband and I – the tenth anniversary of the stillbirth of our son. As that date approached I knew that being apart as we remembered that awful loss was going to be extra hard. I wanted to do something special to bring some comfort to my [...]
Cards | Using Office-Inspired Supplies
August 24, 2011 by
Welcome to the Scrapbook Update staff blog hop on The Nally Notes! A blog hop that gives me an excuse to play with all of my office supply-inspired scrapbook stuff is like Christmas for me…an excuse to “assign” myself to play with some of my favorite things! The only problem is figuring out which of [...]
Layout | Second Grade Changes
August 22, 2011 by
Another school year started today at our house. It’s hard to believe that my little girl is a big 3rd grader now! While she was on summer vacation the past couple weeks, I was reflecting back on how much she had changed during her 2nd grade year and decided to make a layout about it. [...]
Seven Months Down
August 13, 2011 by
This post was originally supposed to be titled “six months down” but CHA kind of hit like a hurricane around here, and best intentions about things I was going to post on this site went out the window. (Case in point: the previous post of the June #6 tag that I just got around to [...]