February Already?!

One month has flown by so fast already. Amazing, isnt it? Yikes! I took a mad dash down to the lake (Lake Michigan, that is) and tried to catch the sunset. Unfortunately, I was too slow.. but I thought Id share what I captured tonight.. brrrr eh?

Stuff!

Hi Everyone! How are ya? For those who know me.. know I love gadgets. I probably get this from my dad.. although he is on the extreme of this. My "extreme" is my scrapbooking, but I love technology even as much as I get flustered with it.. I love it. So, just for kicks and to well.. blog.. I went around my studio and took a few pictures of things I "dig".. can you tell what all of this stuff is? :)

Organizing!

One thing about me.. I'm a neat nick One thing I try to be is very organized.. ok wait, I'm obsessively organized.. except for the ribbon bin which was constantly over flowing in my studio. When Lu and I went to Muskegon a week ago.. I bought a new container for my ribbon. I finally got to that little project and re organized my ribbon. Yay me! I love that I can see what I have now and don't have to dig to the bottom to see if I have a particular color. So, how do you organize your ribbon? :-)

Chasin the winter blues away.. using some new stamps.

Happy Thursday. It is a sunny one. I got out today.. for a change. In the winter Im a hermit. I hate the cold, I hate driving in the snow.. even looking at the snow makes me cringe. Im just not made for winter weather. Why do I live in Michigan? I'm really not sure sometimes. Summertime has its benefits but winter.. bleh! So, to chase a day of blehs.. Lucinda had the day off, and we stamped all day long. The day started with brunch complete with mimosa (ok the mimosa was a mistake.. sorta.. I felt sleepy after eating.. almost too relaxed to think - I have to stay away from alcohol when I stamp!). But, as we got going.. we really went to it. We each made 26 cards. We dug into some new papers and stamps that I just had delivered thru stamp club. It was fun! I was digging making valentine cards. We had warm chocolate chip cookies.. and then later.. pizza for dinner. We made a full day out of it. Here are some of the cards we made. I hope you enjoy.

A few brown boxes...(I'm smiling!)

I'm jumping for joy.. yippee!! Ludington Stamp Club goodies arrived today. My UPS man didn't let me down! This is when the joy of opening a brown box, and fondling all the goodies and sorting and and and.. oh my!! Need I say more? LOL. So, yeah... I have an addiction to rubber.. whats it to ya?? :-) Seriously tho.. it was fun to sort all of this stuff. It is going to be like Christmass every month all year, as we meet once a month right thru December of this year. Yeehaw! Now, I'm assembling my stamp sets and ooohing and ahhhing my goodies. I cant wait to stamp with Lu and make some Valentines stuff.. ! Happy Stamping!

When it is cold.. there is one thing to do... STAMP!

Happy Hump Day! It has been a few days since I've blogged.. yikes! It has been so darn cold here. I am not one who loves winter in the least.. in fact.. I hate it! Yes, hate is a strong word and I mean it LOL. But, to chase those freezing temps away.. Ive been stamping.. stamping with my friend Lu. We made a great bunch of cards this last weekend.

Then.. there was stamp club which started last night. Twelve ladies and one fantastic Stampin Up Demonstrator (check out Jenny Peterson's blog link to the right) who has some pretty creative cool ideas.. Ill share what we made last night.. cool stuff! Sale A Bration is going on right now, which made it all that much more fun.. whats not to love about freebie extras, great friends, yummy food and fun!?

Brrrr !!! If not found by spring.. please call 911! LOL

Holy cow.. its snowing.. and snowing.. and did I mention.. snowing? It has not let up since Christmas.. and Im sooooooooooooooo tired of the snow! Please, make it STOP! LOL.. Here are some pics of around my yard.. and also Lake Michigan which is 1 mile down the road from me.

More Holiday Fun & Friends....

Its fun especially this time of year to get with friends and have a few laughs. For me, girl time is like cheap therapy! I've been under a little bit of stress.. so the laughter is a good way to cure some of it. Today, i met up with Jody, Pat, June, Colette and Tammy at a lil pub downtown. We had a great lunch and 3 hours flew by fast. We found Santa in the phone booth too! I think he was having a little refreshment on his way back to the north pole. :) It was good to see you guys.. thank you for the laughs, the good times and friendship. Happy New Year to all!

Getting Together With Friends Around The Holidays!

Ho Ho Ho!! Happy Holidays.. as they approach way too fast.. yikes! A small group of us gals from High School decided to get together for a little holiday cheer. This is something we dont do often enough and we had a great time.. along with myself there was Lucinda, Cheryl, Nancy (who is home from the Navy for the holidays), Ronda, and Janet. It was a lot of fun.. and on our way out.. we got to see Pat and Terri. You all look great.. as always! It was so much fun.. I cant wait to do it again! Hugs to all.. and may santa stuff your stockings full of treats.

sprinkles and camels!

After the HH was over.. Sunday we took off and went to Phoenix early. Lia followed and we met up with our friend Sharon!! Sharon, it was so good to see you.. I've miss you so much. You rock girl! It was so much fun! We all got to have lunch together. We then went to Sharon's house and got to meet the rest of her family. What a cool studio she has.. I have to show you all (she is gonna kill me.. but this is a great pic of her). She also took us to a place called Sprinkles. Have you ever heard of it? Its basically a very YUMMY and expensive lil cupcake but.. worth every penny! So good!!! We then took a peek at her beautiful home and walked the Phoenix Zoo and seen the Christmas lights.. which was so much fun. We met up with a young man who was giving camel rides.. ! Did you know.. camels do not spit? Also.. you don't have to feed a camel for 8 months? A camel can go without a drink for 3 months and..... they dont store water in those humps.. its purely just fatty bumps. Who wouldda thunk? LOL. So, see.. the zoo was beautiful and educational.. I still say.. camels would be much less maintenance than dogs! I don't want a hippopotamus for Christmas.. i wanna camel! :) Thank you Sharon for spending your day with us.. it was so much fun and so great to see you! Merry Christmas!! *HUGS*

~~~... It's the MOST wonderful timeeeeeeeee.. of the yearrrrrrrrrrrr.....~~~~

When you are at Holiday Hideaway.. and hear that tune.. you perk up and the ellves from each table run.. get those brown paper packages tied up with string.. and you know.. those are a few of your favorite things. All I can say is.. wow! The generosity of everything we got as gifts at the HH were amazing.. thank you so all the sponsors who pitched in and especially great big thank you to Alain, co owner of Ranger Ink who packaged up the new Distress Inks so we could sample them.. and they do rock.. I cant wait to get my hands on a set! Also.. a very special thank you to Sizzix.. as we each got an electric die cut machine.. amazing!! Truely amazing! I'm just still in shock.. pinch me! So, day 2's projects were shipped home from Prescott.. and its saying I wont get them til Monday.. so I cant really show ya my grunge book (actually I sorta accidentally messed it up.. so you get the idea.. no pics of it.. its kinda yucky LOL).. but the other project we did was a dimentional canvas Christmas themed. It is very cool. :) Ill also show some other misc pics from the great time at HH! Thank you so much Tim, Mario, Michele, Kim, Keychain.... and the list goes on.. what a wonderful time!

Some of the projects.. a quick peek!

Where Is Dawn and what is she up to?

So, I guess I didnt totally explain.. but I'm in Prescott AZ for a Holiday Hideaway. Im having way too much fun and right now.. sleep is highly over rated. :) Today we did 5 projects.. my brain is a bit mushy but its also spinning with great stuff.. and new ideas. So, I am not sure what to share first.. cuz honestly Im just so estatic about what I heard about today..

Ok.. first.. Tim Holtz is coming out with his own line of dies for the sizzix machine.. called Tim Holtz Alterations.. omg.. these are to die for and if you dont have a sizzix.. you will definately want one now. Just a FYI, they do cut thru grungeboard. Woohoo! So, you wanna peek at one of the dies.. ?? BTW, we did a project today with grunge board making some roses.. which I think ill wait and post tomorrow cuz right now if i type too much.. im able to make some huge typos.. cuz I do need to try to sleep but.. here it is............
Also.. rumor has it.. ranger has some exciting news for CHA.. some new ink colors.. and thats all Ill say about that. :) Sweet! Um.. what else... ? Ill show you some of the projects in a seperate post... sweet creative dreams!

And they say it isnt cold "out west" .. Ha!

I just wanted to show you all that it does get cold out west.. brr! I was shopping downtown for christmas gifts and found these really pretty bushes.. look at this ice!