Hall of Fame…

Ah…the days of yester-year. CREATING KEEPSAKES HOF CALLS ARE ABOUT TO GO THIS NEXT WEEK! It seems like just yesterday that I received the coveted phone call from Creating Keespakes Magazine that I had been selected as a Hall of a Fame winner…the most exciting thing I remember in that phone call was when the […]

March 16, 2007

Merry Christmas Eve Gift!

To my friends, family and faithful readers: MERRY CHRISTMAS! In our family, it’s a fun tradition to call each other on the phone and be the FIRST to say "Merry Christmas Eve Gift"…not sure what the reward is other than a fun little chuckle and a smile. Smiles are good. Laughter is even better. (BTW: […]

December 24, 2006

photo displays and more…

A fabulous book for great ideas! Last year I received an assignment from Creating Keepsakes Magazine to create some photo and scrapbooking projects for an upcoming book. Well, the book is finally out…it’s called The Ultimate Guide to Photo Keepsakes!!! Lots of fabulous ideas in this book for anyone looking to create some Christmas gifts, […]

August 6, 2006

Better Homes & Gardens

a favorite layout published in Better Homes & Gardens online "Scrapbooks Etc" Family article: Finally received this layout back after having been requested for it over a year-and-a-half ago (welcome to the world of publishing!!! LOL!) Find the article here (scroll down). Off to a family photo session in a few hours…a family consisting of […]

June 25, 2006

digital queen

no…not me…my sis! Having a DIGITAL DIVA for a sister is SWEET. Heidi is an all-around-digital-queen in my book. I’ve been tossing some ideas around with her over the past month and asking her all kinds of how-to questions relating to photo-shop. And she…always knows the answer! I have about a million different photoshop CS2 […]

April 27, 2006

circle of friends

fun with circle journals and scrapbooking… But first…a few of you have asked me (lots of emails too!) about the name of the "happy song" and/or the artist (previous entry)…I’m sorry to say that I don’t know! If anyone DOES know, do you mind emailing me or posting it in my comments so I can […]

January 11, 2006