Some Moments Are Truly Precious

I'm such a lucky mom! My son and I have a close loving relationship and every time I get to spend time with his long time girlfriend Ashley, I love her more.

We spent much of yesterday together, finishing the evening with dinner at a Greek restaurant, Hubby in tow and then enjoying some jazz and a nightcap at the hotel's bar. For the record, mine was a Perrier.

This morning, they stopped in at the Palm Beach Four Seasons and took me to lunch! Great food, great view, very relaxing, but more, much more than that, what mom doesn't revel in being treated to lunch by her son! It is proof on many levels, that you must have done something right to create this amazing person that you are so very proud of, and who is actually happy to spend some time with you! Like I said, lucky mom!

Once they left, i spent the rest of my day printing pictures, scrapping my trip and catching up on one of my guilty pleasures, the Bachelorette on Hulu .com!

As for tomorrow, I'm driving to the Gulf coast to catch up with my bud Janie! Yeah!!! Another magnificent day ahead!

On the Water

In Beverly Hills you tour the homes of the stars in a bus, in Palm Beach you tour the homes of the Fords and Khols and Fishers etc on a boat! That's Captain Kevin in the picture getting ready to take the boat out of the Shellfish Marina!

Lucky me to have spent a wonderful afternoon with Ashley and Shaun! Love those two! Again I apologize for the single huge picture! I'm still posting via my iPhone.

Breakfast on the Beach

What a beautiful morning! After spending time finishing my latest read of Fern Michael's sisterhood series on our balcony with a view of the Atlantic Ocean, I went for a walk on the beach. Sand, surf, quiet, heaven!

The picture above shows the view from where I sat eating breakfast! Not sure if you can see the ocean because of the lighting. The picture is big because I'm posting via the Blog Writer app on my iPhone. Tonight Shaun and Ashley are coming down from Orlando, to spend time with us. Yeah!!!

CHA Day 2

What a day! I finally got to meet Cathy R who has been an online friend for 8+ years. Hours later, Cathy won an e-Craft, that sexy new cutter that I've had my eye on for a year! I'm so happy that you won!

I forgot to take pictures with my iPhone today so you'll have to wait a day to see what caught my eye! With that I hop on a plane at 7am so that means catching the shuttle at 5! Oh I finally did bump into Lori, the owner of Scrap Paper Scissors shopping, shopping and Shopping some more! Lots of prettiest coming your way ladies!

Nite all!

CHA Summer 2010 - Day 1

Hello from CHA where they love bloggers and buyers all!  I had a packed day and haven't even done half of the show!  I did spend quite a bit of time at Best Creations, E-Craft where I met Suede from Project Runway!  He is such a sweet guy! We talked about his time on Project Runway and how many good things have happened since the project!  He created the dresses that you see in the picture using the e-craft.

I also got to spend some quality with the wonderful Nikki Sevils.  She is such a sweet lady!  I love all her new collections!  We talked about the very sweet Gerri-Ann and also about Linda of Hilltop fame! We spoke of Florida and how what scrapbookers want varies from state to state and region to region.

I also got to talk to Donna Salazar!  We did joke about her great genes!  You would never know from looking at that beautiful face that she is old enough to have grown children!  I enjoyed speaking to her about the pictures on her new Kiss the Cook Collection, that she took of her mothers vintage cooking utensils collection. It is always interesting where inspiration takes a person and comes from

I've got a lot more pictures to share, but right now I'm on a friend's computer (thanks Connie B.)and can't reduce them to upload more to the blog! More tomorrow!

Counting down!

Just a few more hours to wait!!!

Hello From CHA Chicago

Well folks it wasn't smooth and easy but I did make it to Chicago and CHA. Thanks to Delta's usual timeliness I was over an hour late, but based on my experience that isn't bad!

I'm sharing a room with my friend Pat and her best bud Connie! After dropping my things in the room we went over to the convention center where I got my badge printed! Then we went to the "Taste of Rosemont" a eating tasting feast put on by some of the best restaurants in the area to welcome the CHA brass, exhibitors and attendees! I was so happy to see Jo and Jill from Whim-so-Doodle! I say I saw but Jo actually spotted me first! I really do miss their beautiful scrapbook store and the wonderfully talented Doodle Divas!

After stuffing our faces we went to look at the innovation showcase! Some cute things! Can't wait till tomorrow and the official opening of the show!

More tomorrow!

Win a Home Accent Cricut Cartridge!

In honor of CHA Summer, I've decided to giveaway one Home Accent Cricut Cartridge! You have between now and August 15th to enter to become eligible to win this cartridge! Join my followers, or tell me if you already are, Tweet or put a link to the post on Facebook and come back here and add your name and link in the Mister Linky box bellow. Don't forget to add a comment telling me that you are a follower or have become one and if you are new, who sent you. Send your friends and make sure they leave a comment telling me that you sent them! You'll both get an extra entry! So one entry for the link, one entry for the comment, and one entry if you send a friend and they mention your name in their comment! 

I'll be posting from CHA starting tomorrow!!!!

Class Offerings

I thought I'd show you the classes that I'll be offering at Scrap, Paper Scissors.

The first one offered is "Heat Wave" offered on Sunday August 22nd from 1-3:30pm.

The Second class I'm offering is Lovely Canvas Book offered Sunday September 19th from 1 to 3:30 PM.

The Last Class offered is the "School Days", 2010-11 offered Saturday September 25th from 1 to 3:30pm.

One of the things I'm big on is making sure my students complete their album before they go home.  So most everything is pre-cut for you allowing you the time to learn the techniques and put the books together!  I promise, we'll have lots of fun!

Here are some pictures from the Class Launch last Friday!  There are a lot of awesome classes being offered!

Coupons

Hello coupon lovers! There are some great new coupons this week.

AC MOORE
They have a new ad and coupons! (50% off one item 25 to 31 July)

ARCHIVERS
A new ad with a new 30% off coupon, good until the 28th!

HOBBY LOBBY
HL has a new ad and a product specific Krylon Paint coupon.

MICHAEL's
Nothing so far this week!

Well folks, like most bloggers, I love comments so please feel free to leave one when you come and get your coupons!

Retreat - Lake Cumberland , KY - 22,23,24 October 2010

I just had a talk with my new friend Kim and I am planning a scrapbook retreat at her log cabin near Lake Cumberland the weekend of October 22, 23 and 24th.

Scrapping starts at 9am Friday and ends at 5pm Sunday. Cost is $150 per person and includes the following:

Your bed space for Friday and Saturday nights, supper on Friday, breakfast and supper on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday. If we get enough people, we can also spend Thursday evening and night and get breakfast on Friday morning.

 Please et me know if you want to chip in $15 and have me buy the drinks, snacks and sandwish stuff for us to have for lunches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday!

I will be the onsite store and will also bring my Cricut Create and Expresssion and all my catridges as well as my Slice and all the cards I have for it.

4 of the beds are doubles. So we have a total of 12 spaces if  8 people are willing to share and 8 spaces if no one wants to.  Please email me if you are interested.  A $50 deposit is required and full payment by October 1st.

First come first served!  Please email me for additional information.

Coupons...

Hello coupon lovers!  There are some great new coupons this week.

AC MOORE
Lots going on at AC Moore this week.  Here is their weekly ad for you to peruse and they gave us a 50% off coupon for this week and a 40% off coupon for next week! Click here to go print the coupons!

ARCHIVERS
A new ad with a new 30% off coupon, good until the 21st!

HOBBY LOBBY
HL has a new 40% off any single item coupon this week.  The weekly ad also includes Simplicity patterns at $0.99 (one of my favorite sales), 30% off scrapbook adhesives, and Slice products, amongst a whole lot of other specials!

MICHAEL's
Michael's came out with a Bonanza Sale ad this week. 15% off coupon good today Sunday the 18th from 4-8pm only. There are a whole bunch more including 40% off one item, 20% off all Martha Stewart, and 40% off artist pads, open stock paper, scrapbook paper pads, paint, pencils , markers, Jolees and Sticko, syrofoam all valid this week. All the coupons are available here for printing! Michael's has a maximum coupon limit, so hurry over to print them! I recently went to print some coupons and was met with a message that said that they had already allocated their maximum number! That will teach me to post the coupons and not print them right away!

Well folks, like most bloggers, I love comments so please feel free to leave one when you come and get your coupons!

Wedding Book Video

I wanted to show you the video of the wedding book since I think it shows better than the pictures the dimensions and the glitter of the paper I used. I love the paper.  The price point is slightly higher, but there is so much more to this Best Creations line, that I thought it was worth it.  In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't met the people at Best Creations, but Pat has and they are giving us our passes to CHA. I had bought their paper and used it prior to meeting Pat, so you know that I honestly love it.  In a previous post, I showed you the little book that I had made for Jessie using the same paper. Let me know what you think! Oh I wanted to say that the dog in the album isn't a collie but a sheltie. Not a difficult mistake to make when you have no way to gage the size since they definitely have a similar look! Best Creation paper is available online at A Cherry On Top, my favorite online store.  I've provided a link to their store in the left side column of my blog!

Coupons

I promised some people that I would keep on posting any Archivers coupons, so here they are:


AC MOORE
 There are  new 40% off a single item and 60% off framing coupons for AC Moore good until the 17th.

ARCHIVER's
Archivers has a new ad and a new 30% off coupon good only until July 14th! In fact I'm about to print mine out!

HOBBY LOBBY
HL has a new ad and a new ad and a 30% off coupon on Artist Books.

JOANNS
Last weeks coupons is still good until the 17th.