the brown truck

Yesterday a man in a brown truck came to my house. I was so happy to see him! He left me with this:

Yayy, I just LOVE getting packages from the UPS :) Maybe thats why I like to order scrapbooking supplies online (or maybe its so I don't have to haul a squirmy 1 year old along to a store!)... I love the thrill of waiting for my box to come and then when it does its like Christmas morning as I tear into the box and drool over the contents!

This box contained lots of paper (yayy, my favorite!), and some orange flowers that will be used as part of a decorating project for Tylias new bedroom. Yes, that will be in a post soon :)

OK, goodbye for now as I disappear into my little scrapbooking world for a few hours!

baby Carly

These are some of the birth announcements I made for this beautiful little girl... I finally got to make girly announcements- seems like all I've made are boy ones lately!

Photo's taken by Sharla Stenersen photography. Gorgeous photo's make such a difference :)

I'm so jealous of that hair!! My 16 month old princess still doesn't have as much hair as

this baby girl!

For this child I prayed... 1 Samuel 1:27

I just love this bible verse for birth announcements :)

Happy birthday...

.....to ME!

I'm not usually one to celebrate my own birthday-its a lot more fun to celebrate someone elses!
But I have to admit it makes me feel loved when my family makes the effort to make it a special day:)

Last night Justin took me to one of our favorite restaurants- the Melting Pot. We had such a good time- its the perfect place to just take your time and really relax as you eat:) And the fondue is so yummy, too!



And then he took me shopping and spoiled me....this is for a future project that I've been wanting to try for a while now. That'll be another post :)

And I picked out this gorgeous bedding... I love it! But now I want to paint my bedroom walls! I'm trying to decide between a dusty aqua or a deep cream...what do you think?

And then tonight I'm going to have dinner with more family.... I have so much to be thankful for!!

Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your many blessings, See what God hath done!

Yes, I have many, many blessings!! Thank You, Lord!

green challenge, week # 2

So the challenge for this week was a craft using the color green... heres mine:

This wasn't the first tooth Tylia lost, but it was the first picture I took of her missing teeth! And I happened to find that tooth in my drawer, so I thought I'd stick it in the little envelope, along with a little journaling :)

Baby Micah

I recently designed these birth announcement for this adorable baby boy...

What a precious little blessing he is :) It was a joy to design his birth announcements!

Save the date

I've been making lots of photo cards lately- birthday invitations and baby announcements... I also made a set of these save the date cards. They're made in postcard size, which I love! I think it would be neat to do baby announcements as a post card, also- which I made a while ago for a family member. They turned out adorable :)

I think this one was my favorite :)

I'll post some of the other cards I've made soon...

green challenge #1

Wow, I completely skipped the pink color challenges #3and #4! woops- sorry Karen! hopefully I'll be better this month! Anyways, heres my collage of my fave green things...





1. my cuttlebug for scrapbooking!!
2. green eyes- oh, how I wish I had pretty green eyes!
3. green grass in the spring... although around here in the great Pacific NW we have green grass almost year round :)
4. PICKLES! yummy :)