Instagram...

Instagram takes the coolest photos...I love it.   I love my iPhone camera, I can't believe I'm saying that.   After taking several courses in photography and photoshop with my DSLR I admit I love how easy it is to take these instagram photos.  Probably because it is so incredibly simple.  And fast!

I took this photo of the kids eating their ice cream at Hewitts Dairy, I took them there for dinner tonight after grocery shopping (makes sense doesn't it?   Spend $150 on groceries then stop for dinner??) 
I lost my DSLR battery charger, ever priced one of those?   $80 plus tax.  Seriously?? 

So I bought it off ebay for $8, should be here by Wednesday :)

The kids and I started and finished the front garden today, it was driving me cray.   I went out this morning and purchased the plants and hanging baskets, don't ask me what they are as I have no clue, the flowers are pretty though....LOL.   Hey I'm a scrapbooker not a gardener.

I filled it in with black wood chips, my father in law brought them a few weeks ago and they have been sitting in the drive way every since.  Nice to have the entire pavement back :)

Another instagram photo :)

Heading off to CKC next Friday, pretty excited about that, I didn't go last year because I went to Scrapfest instead (there is only so much money) So this year I worked Scrapfest with Boys Rule and didn't do any shopping so I will be able to spend a bit at CKC.   I'm taking three classes, one of them is for the Smash book, am I the only one who does not have a smash book?  Well I will have one on Friday!

So my creative interests are changing again, it's exciting when that happens but my wallet gets a bit nervous...lol...don't know why :)  and I tend to be stalking mixed media art more and more....I have taken several of Christy Tomlinson's classes and I subscribe to her Scarlet Lime mixed media kits and I am in love with the projects she creates.   I am yet to actually make a canvas art!  I have one started downstairs, I really need to finish it.  So I found this blog/store that is physically close (Kitchener) and I have been stalking their blog and watching their videos....wow...love it.   They are called the Art House Studio  and they do some pretty amazing things over there.   I have just registered for a mixed media workshop there with Donna Downy!!!  eeeeekkk!  I am flipping out!  So excited!!  ...and it just so happens that I will be spending some time at my parents trailer this summer....in Kitchener!!!!   See!!  It was meant to be!  LOL

I think I need a mixed media room now.....

Echo Park....

I love it....all of it....here is one I did with some of their new product...

January layout....

Managed to get a few done...if it wasn't for the Learning Factory not sure I would even have them! January was busy for me, Olivia had her 5th birthday and Rich had his surgery....all is well in our household now :)

Look who stopped by today...

I think he was checking on Richie....

Bad Blogger Award

goes to me...

been busy...you know what it's like...

every heard of the pax wardrobe from Ikea? Yep got me one :) love it!!

Here is a photo (directly from the ikea website) I have plain white doors so that it will match with the rest of the doors in my house. They slide...or should I say glide :) then the light goes one....pretty sweet I must say. Thank you dad :)

That's were I've been...organizing my stuff into my new pax. It's a big job you know...because I saw that really cool picture of the sheets all folded up and stored inside the pillow case...it's Martha's site and you can find it here...yep I had to do that too...looks pretty neat I must say.

Be back soon :)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!