Mrs.Big Shot & December Kit

When I found out that I won the design team spot at Love Is In The Details and I would be getting a Big Shot machine (plus much more) I was in a daze. I then spent the rest of the day singing Mr.Big Shot who do you think you are.....Now I have my Big Shot I will be singing Mrs.Big Shot from now on. She is just so darn pretty, she is blinged out and she is awesome!!!! My poor Cuttlebug will not know what happened as he has been shelved.

I am also loving the December Kit. It is so inspiring and comes with so many awesome papers, stickers, chipboard pieces and embellishments that I could fill a whole album and still have leftovers. Here a few creations I have done but there will be much more to follow.

Big Announcement

So I have big news....I an going to be on the Design Team at Love Is In The Details!!!! OMG! It has always been my dream to be on a design team and I absolutely love Love Is In The Details. They are an awesome group of women led by the most awesome lady ever, Lori!!!! Thanks so much Lori!!!! Click here to see the announcement!!! http://loveisinthedetails.ca/blog/ I am so excited!!!!!!

Time Flies

So I was looking through old Christmas folders and I found this picture and just had to share. They grow up much to fast! and so did I..... *sigh*

December Already!

Well it sounds like a cliche but honestly where did the last month go? It seems we were just celebrating Halloween and now we are in the full holiday swing. We have put up our Christmas tree, made some yummy treats and we even have wrapped gifts under the tree. It is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!!!!

Another non-Christmassy layout!

Waiting for the awesome monthly kit from Love Is in The Details before I launch into my Christmas pictures.

To see or purchase the kit you can find it here, it is to die for!

http://www.loveisinthedetails.ca/scrapbookingcanada/product_info.php?products_id=9883&osCsid=b5ec11d1ebd1e0ed25acd81319caabb2

Well I guess the holidays are coming, there is snow on the ground, lights on houses and carols played in every store you go to. I am not sure if I am ready for the holidays just yet, give me a week or two! So here is a layout I did from the holiday that just passed.

One more card

Here is another one.....

Another Card

Yes I am card crazy lately, I just can't help myself!!! So here is another one....

Sorry for blurry picture!

Toothless

Who knew how hard it would be to take a picture of Nic with his newly lost tooth?? Open your eyes, smile with your teeth and look at me. Well it was not that easy. More then half the pictures I took his eyes were closed or his mouth was closed, or both were closed....what good is that???? This was his first tooth that he lost on his own, the bottom two came out via the dentist. He was very happy that the tooth fairy left him a toonie and very confused about why she left inside his pillowcase. Okay, maybe she had a bad day and was VERY tired!!! Give the lady a break! Anyways here is the best picture I got, and yes this was truly the best I got. UGH!

Pets

So the kids have been homesick but who can blame them? Nic has also been saving his money for a pet fish so we told him we would help him out and split the cost. Aidan decided he would like a dwarf hamster. Hopefully they will help ease the homesickness a bit.

Here they are.....

Jacksanna

Thumper

Halloween Highlights

So Halloween came and we were sure shocked at the turn out at the door. Going from our usual 150 kids in Brandon and running out of candy to 28 kids and so much candy left over it could put put a whole school of kids into a sugar coma! Thankfully Mike's sister is a teacher and we passed some treats on to her for her class. Anyways here are some pictures from the night....

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Everyone!!! Have a great day!

This made me laugh so hard...just wanted to share in case you guys never saw this!!!! From the Ellen show.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T36KFPGkUJA Hope you are having a great day!

Cards

So to get out of my scrapbook slump I have been making some cards. I have found a lot of inspirational blogs out there and they have really helped. So here are a few cards that I have made this week.

*Note the Halloween card was a total scraplift but all the others are 100% mine.*

Books I am Loving right now...

Never thought I would be interested in a book that involved supernatural creatures but OMG the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer have totally blown me away. I could not put the first two books down and I have to get the next two ASAP!!! I highly recommend them!!!

Some pictures from our summer and the boys on the first day of school...

4 months!

I am always giving my friends a hard time for not updating their blogs and here I am 4 months without a paragraph, sentence or even a word. Sorry! So what is new with me, well we left Brandon on the last day of school and drove to our new home in Winnipeg. It is fantastic! We unpacked our butts off for 5 days and it looked like we had lived their for years! So after those 5 days the boys I left for a summer at the lake. It has been going well but we are missing home, friends and most of all Michael. Summer is flying by as we are all busy working and we are on countdown mode to our return home. Can't wait to start getting my scrap area established and settling into the house. So that is a brief update - hope you are all having a great summer!!!

SOLD!!!

Well our house went on the market last week and is now sold! This is finally starting to feel real. I was informed yesterday from Nic that he will be moving in with his friend and not moving to Winnipeg with us! Poor guy, guess I am not the only one that is just realizing that we are REALLY moving! I am hoping that the boys adjust well to all of this. So now the fun part begins, looking for a new place!!! We are hoping that this will be our last move and that this next home will be our final destination!

Times they are a changing

Boy it sure has been an interesting start to 2008, I guess the best word to describe it is change. I don't like change at all but most of these changes are 100% awesome!!! I left my job at the start of the year and then a month after that Mike got a great promotion and we are moving! We are not just moving we are going home! Can't wait! Of course there are some down sides like the boys leaving their friends and school and me moving away from my best friend Shar. These things will be hard to deal with but we will try to get through them the best we can. As long as the four of us are together we can get through anything!

On another positive note a friend of mine opened up a LSS (local scrapbook store - for you non-scrappers) on 18th street! It is call Scrapbooking at Shelley's and is awesome!!! Nice and open, awesome stock and such a great positive atmosphere! You must check it out!!!!

Nicolas turned 8

Nic turned eight this past weekend! WOW!

Where did the time go?

He had a fun sleepover party with his friends, and his

Baba and Gido came to visit. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG GUY!

Scrapbooking

So as most of you know I am a passionate scrapbooker, and a passionate scrapbook shopper! Well I am on a spending freeze from scrapbooking supplies, thank you new furnace, and trying to use up all the stash I have collected over the years. I am actually having fun and getting some pages done!

Now I need to pull out the camera and start snapping some more pictures so I can scrapbook so me more!

Please Stand By.....

Trying to update and change my blog a bit.....having a little trouble! Gotta love computers!!! Please Stand by while I try and fix some problems! And if anyone out there knows a lot about Blog html's could you please help me???!!!!

Place Cards

I made place cards for our table on Christmas this year. I got the idea after my Mom & Dad sent me the place card holders. They are not very really Christmas themed but they fit our style perfectly. I loved how they turned out! (you can click on the picture to see it bigger)

Fresh Start for the New Year

The New Year did not start out exactly as planned for me but things are looking up. I decided that it was time to take my life in another direction and have left my job at Paperbag Scrapbooking. This was a good decision but I will truly miss all the friends that I have made there and hope that I can keep in touch with you all. I have some great prospects coming up and I am very excited about where these new opportunities will take me! Please fell free to call or email me anytime. aidanick@mts.net I am always looking for a good crop party or interested in grabbing coffee!!!!! Amber

Walking With Dinosaurs

We took the boys this past weekend to Walking With Dinosaurs at the MTS Center in Winnipeg. WOW!!! It was pretty incredible, the boys were blown away! Of course I brought my camera along but only about half of the pictures we took turned out. Here a few of them...