Monday Monday....

The weekend just flew by! But it was probably because I was having so much fun! The scrappy girls and I went down to Tulsa for the Creating Keepsakes Convention Friday & Saturday. We had lots of fun, spent lots of money and ate lots of great food! (Olive Garden, The Cheesecake Factory and I was even persuaded to try some Asian food at Peiwei--and it was pretty good!)Anyway, I just have a few things to share this morning...first is a picture of Tate taken with my new camera. I added a texture layer from LCH Photography...they are SO neat!



And the next 2 are a couple of my layouts for my class this Saturday at Chasing Rainbows. And I'm super excited about my class Saturday. Along with my regular favorite people that will be attending my class, my good friend Charlotte from The Nook is also driving down to take my class and do some cropping! I'm so excited to see her again! She's the sweetest! So, here's 2 of the layouts we'll be doing on Saturday:





And one of the best things that's happened in the last week is that I found my good friend Stephen on MySpace. He was seriously one of my best friends ever back in the day and we lost touch when I moved from OKC to Kansas, so we've been chattin it up and catching up on everything that's happened in our lives. He was the sweetest friend ever and one that I had missed the most from my past! The internet does amazing things!

Have a fantastic week everyone! :)

I {heart} Brown!

Brown -- as in the UPS guy that is! Wanna see what he brought me today? Well, do ya?? I'm still in awe.........






Yes friends...that would be my new Canon EOS 40D Digital SLR! Talk about quite a change from my little Canon S2iS point & shoot...but I've been doing nothing but manual mode on my P&S for a while now, so I'm a little familiar with settings, but this thing has so many buttons and gadgets on it that it's a little overwhelming. I played with it a little while I was at work (needless to say that I didn't get much done today in the way of work!). It's been rainy out today, so I havn't got any good shots to share yet. I also got a great guide on my specific camera and I'm already several chapters in. It's helped a ton and seems to be a great book so far--very easy to understand and process!

I still don't know how I talked the hubs into letting me get this...and it was a lot easier than I even dreamed! Just a few promised favors... *snicker* I really figured he'd buy another cow or 2 with our extra money...but really, we have enough for the moment I think! Camera ----- Cow, Camera ---- Cow...hmm, easy choice!

Finally, A New Post!

A few of you have asked me when I'm gonna finally update my blog, so...here I am! It's late and it's raining again. It has been all day, but I have to tell you that the cooler temps today have been really refreshing! I sleep good when it's like this, so I'll be ready to cuddle into my down comforter with my new copy of Breaking Dawn after I finish this post. Yep, the 4th and final book of the Twilight Series is out. It kind of makes me sad...this has been one of the best book series I've ever read and it's almost over! I'm about halfway through the book, but I'm trying to take my time so it doesn't end so soon.

I've been keeping myself busy with some crafty projects too! Here are a few layouts I've done...some for myself, some for the scrap store. There are actually 2 more that I've done, but don't have pics yet...they are for my August layout class at
Chasing Rainbows and they're currently being displayed in the store.









I've also been on a mini accordian album kick lately...Here are 4 of them...the other 2 are made, but don't have pics in them yet.





















And this last one is a class I'm teaching at the store on August 16th. It's a Chatterbox Mini album and it's adorable! I love the shape of it! I'll have pics of the inside posted in my Scrapbook Nook Gallery either tonight or sometime tomorrow!



That's pretty much it for me! Have a great weekend/week!