Sing with me, sing for the years

sing for the laughter....sing for the tears..... Dream on Dream on Dream until your dreams come true. Try getting that song out of your head today!

 I'm sitting here watching a Carrie Underwood & Steven Tyler concert on CMT. Never would have thought of them together, but I haven't moved. And that's what I've done with my morning so far! Another week done gone by, can you believe May 1st is Tuesday! This year will soon be half over. I'm not sure why it seems to be going so fast, but it is.

Went to TX yesterday for some cake tasting. It was yummy good. Had lunch with Jess & Josh. Then went and bought myself a dress for my date tonight! Love new clothes!! Went to pick up a few flowers to finish out my front bed and discovered that hanging baskets were half off. I picked up this huge Boston Fern, there were no prices around, thought it's prob $20 and I'm not getting it if it is. At the register I said to the young man, "before we get started can you tell me how much this plant is"... he said "well they are half off, lets check". $3.97. I said "SHUT UP!!" I thought, hmmmm, I'm going to get another one... and for some reason I felt the need to tell everyone I encountered that these plants were $3.97! Bet they sold a lot of hanging baskets yesterday!

 Here are a couple of more pages done for the Blow Out of 2010. I need to get busy, 2012 Blow Out is just a few weeks away. This guy, Vince Vance, he had us laughing all night long. You never knew what he was going to come out wearing!

Love the gold stars. Thanks Melissa! She showed me the gold Mr. Huey... and yikes! It is most amazing! The pennants with the Epiphany Craft Punch were just the right touch. Planning to use that little tool much more in the future. Used some washi tape on both pages, never get tired of it.

Have yourself a great day! I'm off to get a few plants in the ground!

I can't seem to stand

straight or still when I'm taking pictures of my layouts! I've found the perfect spot in my house to take them... and the are level and perfectly straight when I lay them down. My house is not lopsided... we had it checked! It's me. I wiggle... not like wiggle wiggle wiggle in the song... but wiggle as in teeter, old lady style!! Not cool! It's really starting to frustrate me just a tiny bit!! Hmmmm, maybe if I have a drink before, then I'll be relaxed... or just have an excuse for my teetering! (is that even a word?) At any rate, I can not get a straight picture of my layouts... and since my word for the year is embrace... that's what I'm doing.

Here are a few more layouts from NYC. These actually have me in the pics! How awesome is that. 3 years ago I looked at those pictures and thought, oh this isn't good, oh yuck... but now, I'm very happy to have them! Thank you Elaine for snatching my camera outta my hand and saying get over there! And I scrapped them with pride... cause if I look like I was a little out of sorts... well I was! I was being drug all over the streets of NYC for pete's sake!

There's also one of Serene, standing on her front porch, eagerly and not to patiently awaiting our arrival! Had she know what was about to happen after we entered her house, she probably wouldn't have let us in! Those pics will come soon! :)

and this... this is my very shy husband (hahaha, yea right!) dancing with a GO-Go girl! She was part of the nightly entertainment we had during the annual golf tournament. My sweet husband who is usually very tired after a full day of golfing!  How can you not possibly love a man who knows how to enjoy himself!

Lots of layering going on here. Border punches... my new love! I really like the fun look that the pennants give a page.

It's funny the stages we go through.  3 years I wouldn't have used those pictures of me... can we say vain??  At some point I started typing all of my journaling, because my hand writing stinks... but now... I want the memories of what I looked like then... cause one day I'll think I was smokin' hot at that time.... and there is going to be a time I want someone to remember what my hand writing looked like.... so EMBRACE!  (I am lovin' this word!)

and can someone tell me why the word journaling isn't in the dictionary??  Come on, it has to be a word... I use it all the time!

Have a great day people!!