Blog hop

There is a fun blog hop/treasure hunt going on over at Sassy Lil Sketches if you are looking for excuses to surf the web and play with your scrappy goodies it is a fun one! I did this card to go along with one of their two sketches. The peacock is one of my designs and is colored with Copic markers. Looks like I might get a chance to teach some classes locally on the Copics so I am excited about that!

The girls had a super duper second day and today Lori is full time! She is beyond thrilled and I think I might be too. I am looking forward to weekend fun! Oh and the Birthday was a huge success the "surprise" was a BIG surprise and Sara could not have been more pleased. I am not sure who I enjoyed watching more, Sara getting her gift or John giving her the gift, both priceless!

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And They're Off!

So the first day finally arrived and we dropped off our beautiful Sara right on time to her second grade teacher. She was as cute as a button and looking quite grown up.

Because Lori is going to full day Kindergarten she gets a separate drop off time for the first two days. She was more than ready to say I am good to go Mom! She towered over the little boy next to her. Don't mess with my girl! She too looked beautiful and very grown up! Yikes how did that happen?!


And finally here is a page I squeezed in late last night! Wonderful sketch from Sassy Lil Sketches again Thanks Ladies!

ICopic

So I found this great new site to feed my Copic passion. Icopic is an online supplier of all things Copic. And can I just say that with one order they have a customer for life! Spectacular service, great range of product including the latest and greatest! So they are running monthly challenges and I thought what a fun way to keep practicing and getting some projects done so here is my card from the second challenge.


The inspiration was primary colors (red, yellow, blue) and cupcakes. I think I got it (he he) had a lot of fun with this! and thanks to a new friend Heather for the way cool Hambly paper that is silk screened with the yellow cupcakes. Here you can see the actual challenge.

We are in countdown mode to skill on the family front. As well as zoning in on Sara's B-Day so lots of crazy errand running, the girls are excited!

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August Sketches

Here is my card sketch from Sassy Lil' Sketches! Thanks ladies, and here is the August 7th layout as well. Yes I have been busy!

Day at the Fair

So what did we do at the fair? Weeeeeelllllll......





Then what would the fair be without...





Our very favorite event the sheep shearing! Got lots of good picks of the sky glider, the butterfly pavilion, and more. We had a great day!

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New Class!

Yep I got 'er done and now you can sign up for it! My next class at Get It Scrapped is officially open for registration. Just click on the photo above and get all the information!

This has been keeping me scrambling for a few days but I think I just about have it all together. good thing considering school starts in a week and a half and I am supposed to be working on my next class Yikes! But all is good I tend to do better with a lot to keep me going anyway. Off to the zoo today!

Oh and check out my new doo dad on the right hand side woo hoo pretty cool huh?

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I am finally official!

Well after a few months of teaching Copic tutorials on-line I am now official! This weekend I got to attend a Copic certification class and now I am officially representing their product. I am pretty excited since I really do like the product. I am hoping to do some live classes locally and at the certification class met Nancy a wonderful lady who organized the certification class at the community classes and found out she has taken my Doodling class! What a small world! She would like me to come to Lincoln next spring to teach a day of doodling! I am thrilled and look forward to visiting with her more.

The trip over all was a huge success. We all visited the Omaha Zoo on the way to Lincoln which was AMAZING! Then the girls and Dad did the hotel pool and the Lincoln zoo while I was in class. We stopped at Cabella's on the way back through Omaha to top it all off. Quite the 2 day whirlwind event. Now we are wavering between days with heat index in the 110 plus and wild thunderstorms bringing LOTS of flooding at night.

Here are the threesome at the tail end of our trip late Saturday, they did great!


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August Publication

Hey I thought I would share the link to my next published layout! Scrapbooking.com picked up work for August and September as well! I will post when the September layouts go up. There will be three layouts in that edition.

Sunday

Well the weekend has come and gone and we have had much fun. The girls earned passes to the local water park through the library reading program so we got to try out the water fun for free! Much fun was had there even though Lori is still a 1/2 inch shy of riding the bigger slides. We sneaked on one anyway he he. I escaped for a couple hours to scrap with my local scrapping buddies, thanks Susan and Megan! I managed to finish my last sketch of the month from Sassy Lil' Sketches.

Today was church and lunch at Famous Dave's. It is Dave's Birthday so all those with the first or middle name get some free food so of course we were amongst the hoards. It was quite funny seeing all these grown men running around with their "Hi My Name is Dave" name tags on. Got the groceries done, picked a large bowl of tomatoes of our vines, napped and now while John hits some white balls I will attack the lawn. Good Weekend!

Hugs all!