scrapbooker for hire

So none of you are left wondering, I'll just say it:

I resigned from the Rusty Pickle design team and not on necessarily good terms. Frankly, they owe me money and won't pay me (and I've been waiting for more than a year). This was my last project created with their products.

The journaling was taken directly from my blog post about that day which made this a super easy layout. Choosing black and white embellishments and a background that coordinates lets the pictures be the focus of the page (as they clearly should be).

I don't think I've mentioned this at all but a guy that also grew up in the tiny communities of Vale/Willowcreek is on this season of HGTV's Design Star. He's actually one of the finalists (like one of the final two) and this Sunday is when the winner will be announced. I hope it's him, Dan! If you've been watching I hope you've also been voting for him.

Anywho, that's that and you'll be hearing (and seeing) more from me soon.  

August. Where did you go?

Here I am on September 3rd very confused as to what just happened to the entire month of August. I scrapbooked ONCE last month (which I'll share later). I have precisely 25 days of summer break left. Like, what the fuck happened to the rest of it? Plenty, yes.  But I have not spent nearly enough time doing crafty things this summer. So, that's what I intend on doing for the rest of it (now cross your fingers for me that life doesn't interfere).

As for those of you interested in the giveaway, don't fret. I haven't forgotten. In fact, I even have a winner! It's Liz (JavaGirl). She'll be receiving a package full of Rusty Pickle's Rockin' America line to do something wonderful with. =)

This picture's from a few weeks ago when we were in the backyard. She's showing me a rolly-polly. See it in her fingers? She's pretty funny when it comes to bugs. She's calls them buggees and goes, "eeeewwwww, grooooooossss" in a really deep man voice and then she laughs hysterically for a minute before she does it all over again. Some bugs she's totally fine with others she refuses to touch for reasons unbenounced to me. She's weird.

I love this picture because for some reason it reminds me of Summer when I was a kid. 

Her favorite color is yellow. She loves to color with colored pencils of which she calls, "pi-nays" and I have no idea why. She's pooped on the potty a few times (the first half of the first poop in the potty scared her right back into her diaper where she finished with the last half of said poop). She says her name is "Terwance" and frequently asks, "Mom, wus your mame? wus puppies mame? wus daddy's mame?" 

She really, really loves to feed her puppy snacks and scratch his belly. I'm really excited to see these two grow up together.

Oh, and we went to the beach a few weekends ago. I'm ashamed to say that it was T's first real beach trip where she actually got to play in the sand and see the ocean. She surprisingly wasn't that impressed by it (the ocean) but loved all the sand and sticks and rocks and other beach debris that was laying around. She spent her time collecting rocks (which wasn't a surprise) and picking up trash (because she's the resident litter patrol).

I have some news to share in my next post so, stay tuned for that.

And, I'll leave you with a few more of my favorite beach pictures.