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What, Me Cook? Yea right!

That is totally what my husband would tell you I would say if you asked him. Lately it has become tradition that either on Saturday or Sunday evening, I cook a brand new meal for us to eat after he gets home from work. It totally makes me feel good

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Start to Finish: Wrapping Up 30

30 has come and gone and now I am on to my 31st year. This weekend while I was scrapbooking, I thought that a review of my 30th year would be perfect for my scrapbook as it was a great year. First: Pull out papers for the project that went

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Layout Love….

After seeing that another online friend did a wrap-up of her layouts today, I decided I would do the same. So here’s to the unblogged, and recently created layouts! 🙂 Tomorrow I will be back with another Start to Finish Layout that I created this weekend. Leave some love and

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Book Review: A Warrior’s Soul

When I first began to read this it was hard for me to get into because I knew nothing about the culture or detail behind any form of martial arts. I quickly got past that and took the book for what it truly was, a story of how a young

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Self Portrait and Start to Finish: OLW

The first two weeks of February apparently were filled with purple wearing. I swear I didn’t plan to have both week’s self portraits of me wearing purple. Oh well! 🙂 February is always my favorite month. It’s a short month. I get to celebrate Valentine’s with my husband. My new

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Happy Birthday to Me!

So this week’s self portrait is literally taken this morning on the way to school/work. I got a new outfit on Wednesday night from Lane Bryant (tank and sweater) after exchanging some stuff from Christmas and felt that it was perfect to wear for my birthday. Today is the day

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Love Affair with Tags… AND A TUTORIAL!

This weekend I began a torrid love affair with tags {well I don’t think it ever went away} and paint. I pulled out my #8 shipping tags, some paint in various colors and my Distress Inks and went to town! One of the layouts that I created as a part

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WOYWW & Reunited

Yes, that’s my crazy workspace!  There isn’t much of it but it is mine and I like it.  You can  see remnants of my painting from this weekend in the red cup of water with paintbrushes and my big white envelope from the mail that I was using as a

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Ye’ Olde…. SFYTT February and Hambo

I am always in need of Birthday cards for one person or another and so this past week when Hambo Digital Stamps released the Dragon {I crack myself up!}, I totally had to use the birthday phrase! I pulled out the Sketch for You to Try from my stack of

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Copic Storage Solution… FOUND!

I have been on the lookout for the “perfect” storage solution for my Copics {and other markers and writing utensils}. Hubs had received a notification on his Craigslist app that there was a local place that was clearing out various things and as I was interested in one of the

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A new way to follow….

As Google Friend Connect is being phased out by the end of the month, I want to make sure that all of my readers have a way to follow my blog in a way that suites them. If you are like me then I take the link from the blog

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Start to Finish #6: Documented

Today’s Start to Finish inspiration comes from another 2Peas member, SarahPhalen, and her digital creation “In Serious Thought“. I loved the lines of this and how simply some scraps of patterned papers could come together and create a layout. I set out to use up some of the scraps that

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