This just doesn’t happen where I live. But it did last night in the wee hours and I was awake to see it!!

The kids played with it this morning before school:

(how cute is THAT?!)

Was checking out some blogs and saw this on my old friend Jill’s blog (hey Jillybean!) so I decided to do it too! Nothin scrappy for this entry – I can’t show anything I’m working on right now. Yet!

Current Wishlist: a new computer, a Nikon D90, an external hard drive, ACDSee software, an upgrade to PSE 7 or 8 (I currently have 5), an iPhone. Lookit that… all technology. I’m a geek.

Current Color: pink. brown. together or not.

Current Drink: Water. I’d like to say “venti, breve, no water, no foam, Chai Tea Latte with Pumpkin Spice pumps” from Starbucks. But that has waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too many calories and, for the first time in my life, I’m actually dieting (er, uh… changing my lifestyle?) and there’s no sugar allowed.

Current Food: organic healthy stuff.

Current Favorite Shows: Lie To Me, Survivor, So You Think You Can Dance, Biggest Loser

Current Shame-Inducing Guilty Pleasure: see “Favorite Shows”

Current Needs: a trip to Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s

Current Triumphs: Apparently did well enough on my article and sketch projects for Scrapbook Magazine (UK), that they asked me to do both again for the following issue!

Current Bane(s) of my Existence: The fact that we’re STILL not done unpacking from the move. *groan*

Current Indulgence: Facebook. Not the games though. Had to hide all those. Nope, just the Live Feed for me, please.

Current #1 Blessing: My husband and three children. I am SERIOUSLY so blessed!

Current Outfit: jeans, Ugg boots, cute jacket, cute scarf, cute hat. Yep, still dressed from having shopped at Old Navy earlier this evening. P.S. got crazy good prices with the 50% off outterwear sale combined with a 30% “give and get” coupon!

Current Excitement: Having the $$ to shop at Old Navy (and Costco) today.

Current Mood: Sleepy. Should be in bed.

What’s on your “Currently” list?

What an exciting day!! I got another request from Scrapbook Magazine! They want me to create a sketch and a digital page based on my sketch. That’s going to be such an enjoyable project. And Kaisercraft announced the new Digital Creative Team and I’m on it! Such an honor to be among such talented women from all over the world! What an amazing team that’s going to be.

Here’s my latest page:

Well, actually that isn’t my latest page. It’s just the latest one that I can display publically at this point. I have a dozen or so that I’ve created lately that I can’t share yet!

So “National Digital Scrapbooking Day” is this Saturday. Designer Digitals is having their quarterly sale and special chats that are going to last all day! I love these festivites and am feverishly working on my to-do list so I can scrap and attend the chats guilt-free. What are you doing?

Cos I’m on fi-yah!

Since we last spoke, I’ve had a bunch more things picked up for publication, PLUS a request for a feature article plus four layouts for Scrapbook Magazine! (UK) I’m international now. :p A request for one layout for the February issue of Creating Keepsakes, one layout for the March issue of Scrapbook Trends, two layouts for Scrap n’ Art eZine Nov/Dec issue, and four layouts for the next issue of Scrapbook News & Review eZine. All digital. It’s super exciting for me. And somewhat surprising since I only started digi scrapping about seven months ago.

Saw this posted on Facebook and about a week and a half ago, I posted it on FB too. At that time there were 12K views and a few days later it had 16K views. Well, at this moment, it has 78,571 views! I’m happy for him, whoever he is. It’s a fun song (yes, I just admitted to liking a Miley Cirus song) but this video is WAY better than Miley’s. He’s using ALS (American Sign Language) to sign “Party in the USA”. And he’s just too cute. If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is:

Thanks for reading my blog today. And please forgive me for the lame post title. But I am pretty excited.

Ok, I know this is a “once-a-month” blog and this will make three whole posts for the month so far, lol. But I finished a scrapbook page today and I just love it so much, that I can’t wait to share. It’s the result of two challenges actually. The first challenge comes from the Creative Inspiration blog to Create a Grid Using Stitching and the other from the challenge blog at Scrapbooks, Etc to tell why you love scrapbooking. I’ve been scrapbooking for almost 8 years (next month is my scrapversary!) and I’ve never made a page about my favorite hobby ever. Until now. So here it is:

(you can click on the image for a larger version so you can see the details)

Isn’t it such a great feeling when you’ve made something you totally love?!

*squee*