Got Paint? Big Picture Scrapbooking Class...

...with Emily Falconbridge (goddess, she herself!) Whew. Signed in today - just under the gun!! I think the deadline to sign up is tonight? Get on over there and play along! http://www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com/gotpaint.php

So here is my start of the first project...an Art Journal (to hold all the paint techniques we will be learning over the next 4 weeks.) I started painting some chipboard letters for my cover title and realized I did not have an "L" - hence..."Journal" became "Journey" -- works for me!!

Love Miss Emily's style and OH MY the gallery is filling up with some GORGEOUS work. Inspired am I!

Desperately Seeking Susan's Fairy Godmother!

Wouldn't it be great to have a fairy godmother appear with her magic wand and "POOF" you have two tickets (gotta take a BFF!) to SILVER BELLA!? Who wants to go?

Creative License Class with Donna Downey

Ok--real quick --posting these pics from Saturday's class for my sis and Aimee - will write more later - for now--lunch break is almost over (w o r k is a four-letter word.) Going to use this for my INSPIRED. event journal. LOVE THIS PINK AND ORANGE PAPER! (Redid the binding ribbon--the silk was too wobbly---used it to attach some WISHES on the inside front cover to hide the button closure stiches...) Front needs more BLING...but how gor-gee-ous is that PAPER? I would love a whole ROOM wallpapered in it!

I *HEART* Aprons

OK...I bought the REDVELVET ART kit in MAY because I had! to! have! that! APRON! I have been wanting to make one ever since seeing the fabulolus Rebecca Sower's - how gorgeous is that?? So it has only taken 10 months to cross THAT ONE off my list (how do these chicks get SO MUCH DONE?) - and it was SO FUN. Started at 7:45 am...finished in about and hour and fifteen minutes (and that was with an iron that is on the fritz because - uh--should have listened to mom when she told us NOT TO YANK OUT THE PLUG BY PULLING THE CORD FROM ACROSS THE ROOM. Riiiiight--in theory--that is rationale. In my life? When I wake up late for work every other day? Who has time for that? OK....so lessoned learned.)

Back to my apron-loveliness. THANKS to the Red Velvet gals for cutting all the fabric and providing great instructions with photos--cause I really am not a seamstress. I like the IDEA of sewing....but I still have to refer to the dang manual to thread the machine. And of course there is the bobbin issue. So, yes...I am a spaz and my patience level is ZILCH. But I fumbled along and I am pretty happy with it (just please don't point out to me that the pink fabric is oriented the wrong way.) I will be sporting it at my class today at The Crop Room with DONNA DOWNEY. Go me!

I AM GOING TO INSPIRED. ARTIST WORKSHOP!

I am so excited....I am going to Donna Downey's INSPIRED. ARTIST WORKSHOP. Thanks, Aimee for pointing out the payment plan option! I wish you were coming with me!

whooo-hoooo!!!