On to Bigger & BETTER Things...

Last month on May 12th Bree and I FINALLY got to met up and scrap at Memory Lane...we got there about 12ish and scrapped till about 11:30pm. We had lots of fun and I even got to start on the Vegas trip pages. I really love how it's coming along. I will post a few pages now and the rest later.

Here are the layouts that I got done

Vegas Baby!

April 26th I left to Vegas to met Blake...the other girls that were suppose to go had an emergency and couldn't make it.

I got to Vegas around 2ish...met Blake down by the luggage and we headed out for our sweet escape! We had sooo much fun and I just love this girl to death. We are alike in SO many ways shes just awesome!

I am not gonna write about the WHOLE trip just note some of the things that we did was...

Thursday

* went to In & Out Burger (MmmmMmM so GOOD!)

*got pedicures and manicures

*Palms hotel...shopped at Hart & Huntington, Playboy store, got to go into the Playboy club (a bunch of girls were standing around really upset because Rain (night club) was closed so some guy that worked at the hotel came by and asked them if they wanted to go into the Playboy club on the 52nd floor..so we followed!!! It was so awesome! We met and took a pic with one of the Playboy bunny.

*ate krispy kreams

*went to bed around 4-5 am every night.

Friday

*swam in the swimming pool

*ate at In & Out Burger

*got in a car accident (a drunk driver hit us)

*shopped at Pebbles in my Pocket (scrapbook store)

*ate ice cream at Cold Stone

*went to the show "Thunder from Down Under"

*had a margarita by the yard

Saturday

*Starbucks

*Mirage to met one of Blakes friend & see the dolphins and white tigers

*Hard Rock Casino

*ate lunch at Johnny Rockets

*got a tattoo & met Debra

*got in the taxi headed over to Ceasers Hotel to Pure night club

Sunday

*Headed to the border (Taco Bell) haha!

*shopped at Michaels Craft Store (new Martha Stewart line out today)

*Joann's Craft Store

*Target

*M&M World

*Coyote Ugly (dont go on Sundays it sucks!) at least it did when we went haha!

*In and Out Burger one last time :(

Monday

*got up and got ready

*Blake dropped me off at the Airport and we said out bye byes It was sad :(

*got home on the 30th at around

This was such an awesome Vacation and with such a great person to spend it with. Here are a few random pics from the trip...

5

WOAH!

I can't beleive that it has been almost 3 months since I blogged! How time flies! I know that April was a little busy for me but what are my excuses for March and May haha! Well I hope that I can start keeping up a little bit more on here. Don't know if many people read...but, I like to keep up and read later on in life what was going on back in the days. I am going to try to remember whats gone on and try to catch up in the next few days.

On March 21st I cut ONE FOOT of my hair off! I had been wanting to do this for a while now but kept backing out. Finally I got it done and I was so happy to get it done. I just LOVE it! I donated it to locks of love http://www.locksoflove.org/ . Here is a few pics of my new hair-do.

April was an awesome and very busy month for me. April 11th was my 30th Birthday. I can't beleive I am 30 YEARS OLD! it's so crazy. I had an awesome day. Anthony took off and we went out and had lunch with some of the girls I used to work with. It was awesome! I just love to get together with old friends...I miss them all so much.

After meeting with the girls for lunch. Anthony and I met my Mom and Dad up in Albuquerque and went out shopping. At around 5-6 we met my Uncle Joseph and Grandma at Applebee's to finish off the day.

The weekend after Anthony and I met with MaryJane, Jamie and Trish at Mac Grill. Jamie wasnt able to met us the weekend before for lunch with the other girls so we just planned dinner the next Sat. We didnt take any pics with I so regreat not talking any. But we had fun and talked and laughed!

After that I went home with MaryJane. I spent the night and we made cards probably till about 11pm then headed on to bed. On Sunday we got up and made more cards and got ready to head to the monthly Stampin Up party.

I did some layouts today...one from the Cali trip and the other is of Bree's baby girl. Bree sent the announcment to me about a month or so ago and I didnt want it to get messed up because it was so pretty so I scrapped it! The baby layout I used another great sketch from http://ericassketchit.blogspot.com/

4 Cali pages done today!

I woke up this morning and it turned out to be ANOTHER great day!!! 3 days of walking the threadmill and 4 layouts done! I was in a very scrapping mood today. I probably could have got more done but didnt want to burn myself out. So here they are. I just LOVE THEM!

This one was another FUN sketch that I got from http://ericassketchit.blogspot.com/ to do this layout.

2 GREAT quotes!!!

Today was a sluggish kind of day. I did walk the treadmill for 20 minutes which makes me happy. Thats TWO days in a roll! woo hoo! I didn't get any scrapping done so I will do 4 layouts tomorrow! I HAVE TO!

I made these two picture quotes tonight. I used photoshop to add the words and got the pictures just by goggling images. I think they are so pretty!

Today was a GREAT day!!!

It did start off a little bad because I woke up from a very bad nightmare but as the day went on it got really good. I got ALOT done which makes me happy. I am going to continue to try to get alot done like this everyday. I did dishes, got a load of laundry done, cleaned up the house a little, walked the threadmill for 20 mins (today was my first day since my back had been hurting me a few weeks ago), took a shower and even scrapped two layouts from the Cali trip. My goal up untill the Vegas trip in 66 days is to walk the threadmill every day from Mon-Fri. and do at least 2 layouts a day to get the Cali trip all finished up.

I used two sketches from http://ericassketchit.blogspot.com/ . She has some awesome sketches check them out! I promise you will love them! Here are the two layouts I did. The pics were takin from our San Fran trip back in Sept.

Stamped all day...

MaryJane got to my house at around 9:00 this morning and we did some stamping. It was lots of fun! I got 2 8x8 layouts done for Pink Cat Studio, one card done for PCS and 3 other cards with mine and MaryJane's new stamp sets from Stampin Up! I just totally LOVE my new skunk set! I can't wait to stamp a pink skunk hehe! I didn't scan one of the cards I made because I sent it with MaryJane to give to MaryAnn, a lady I used to work with that made me the CUTEST scarf...so it was a thank you card to her. Here are the others I made.

NEW Pink Cat Studio - Easter Stamp Set

Here are also another Easter card I did a few days ago along with two tags.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I woke up this morning and found these on my desk... aren't they just beautiful!!! Anthony is the best I love this man to death! And they are PINK!!!!!

IM DONE w/ Valentine's Day cards!!!

This is the last of the altered candy bars and 3x3 cards I made for the sale. I made 6 each of the 3x3 cards. I worked ALL day long. So the sale is tomorrow so we shell see how it goes. I am just glad I am all done with Valentine stuff and now I can move back to scrapping my Cali trip and have some fun with some Pink Cat Studio stamps.

Valentine Day Craze

Since Sunday I have been scrapping & stamping my little heart out! I have made 25 Valentine cards, 15 Birthday cards for a swap that I joined on Sunday with Valerie's (not me a friend) Stampin Up Demonstrator and altered 8 candy bar wrappers. The reason why I've been working so hard on the Valentine Day stuff is because my cousin's wife sells flowers, balloons etc. during the Valentine holiday and she asked if I would like to sell some of my cards and stuff. So I thought I'd give it a try and since I only have a few days to get ready for this I have been real busy. I figured It would be a great way to get some extra cash for the Vegas trip in April which is 2 months, 2 day and 6 days (thanks Becky for your ticker hehe) away from today. I am so excited for that day to come its going to be so much fun!

Here are the cards that I have made for the sale and swap. I made 6 of each card for Valentines. I still have 7 more candy wrappers to do and I really want to get some 3x3 cards done as well...but we will see how things go tomorrow. I have to get ready to go to El Paso with my cousins and go SHOPPING WOO HOO! we are staying there for the night then coming back Sat. So we will see how much I get done tomorrow.

Why I Scrapbook...(blog challenge)

The reasons why I scrapbook is mainly for myself. I always think um who will look at my work after I pass on??? I don't have kids. I do have a younger brother so I guess it would mainly be for him if he would even want them haha! For the ones that know me they know that I do not work and can't work because of my disability. I am really glad I have grown to love scrapbooking. It makes me feel so good when I can be an inspiration for others. I love the feeling after finishing a page and saying WOW! Scrapbooking makes your pictures look so awesome and so much fun to look at over and over again. Its so much fun to learn all the new things that come with this hobby. It never seems to get boring because there are always so many new things coming out each and everyday. I wouldn't know what I would be doing with my life today if I didn't have this fun hobby to keep me busy with.

Valentine Cards

I finally felt just ok to stamp today. I was having MAJOR withdrawals. For the past 2 days I have been on bed rest because of the pains in my lower spine. I have been having these pains off and on for about 9 months or so. In June or July I had an MRI because I was having so much pain and really bad pressure headaches. I thought maybe it was the shunt they put inside of me about 6 years ago due to the blood clot in my brain. The shunt is hooked on the lower end of my spine into my tummy. SO anyways...the pains have been really bad the past 2 days and I have been leaving messages for the neurologist and finally he called me back yesterday and said that the MRI was not normal and something was wrong. (I really wish they would have taken care of this then but now is the time). His nurse called me today with a resurgent apt. THANK GOD I have an apt tomorrow at 9am. I can't wait to get there to finally get results on what this pain could be. When the neurologist called he said it could be a pinched nerve or something going on with a root that is causing the pain.

Anyways...I got these cards done today and altered a candy wrapper!

The cards here are made with the new Paisley stamps from Pink Cat and other stamp sets used from Pink Cat Studio.

Candy Bar...

other cards..

I bought these really cute Bratz Valentine kids cards and used them on a few cards I made they were so cute I couldn't resist...

10 Things that make me happy!

Us girls saw that Elsie Flannigan blogged this and it inspired us to do the same so we used it as a blog challenge. So my top 10 things that make me happy are...

1. My boyfriend Anthony

2. My Doggie Dixie

3. My Doggie Fluffy

4. All my Monkey collection (I have so many more these are just a few)

5. Cold Stone Ice Cream

6. My Favorite Store

7. Flowers

8. The Beach in Santa Cruz


9. Hot Cocoa

10. And I saved the best for last! My Family & Friends