Author: intensemagic

I’m really hoping that this day does turn out to be super fun! We have a special party planned. We found out when my oldest was 12 that he is color blind. It sure explained a lot of the arguments I had with him as a child over his clothes matching and what color the moon was. Part of me felt really bad because all that time I had thought he was just kind of being a pain. The biggest issue it caused for him was when he joined the military and the list of jobs he could do shrank to 3. But, that’s what led him to his life as a Paramedic and teacher. Things do sometimes happen for a reason. Fast forward and he is now 26. For his birthday last June, my husband and I, his dad and stepmom, and my mom all went in together and bought him a gift certificate to get a pair of Enchroma glasses. If you haven’t heard of them, they are supposed to help people who are color blind to see many of the colors they haven’t seen before, or at least see them in all their richness. He ordered them a few weeks ago and they arrived on Tuesday. Today we are all meeting at mom’s for a “color reveal” party. I am so excited for him and I really and truly hope that he is one of the 80% who actually sees a difference! At least they offer a money back guarantee if they don’t work. We’re all looking forward to it.

But, while I have a few minutes, I thought I’d stop by here, share the story, and add a few pages I worked on with some awesome new releases this week.

DYD is happening at The Lilypad! I absolutely love documenting December! This will be my 6th year doing it and it is one of my favorite projects of the year! I’ll talk more about it as December approaches, but I did get my cover done for this year!!

 

Just Jaimee has a super fun kit out this weekend as well – Dogs! This is my sweet baby!

 

And over at The Sweet Shoppe, River~Rose has an absolutely gorgeous new kit – Flurries. It almost makes me like snow haha

 

I spent some time last night catching up on PL. I just have this week to do and I am up to date. You can see all those pages HERE.

I’m going to spend the rest of my free time today working on some December foundation pages so that I have a jump on it before December actually gets here!

Hope you have an amazing rest of your weekend!! Peace, out…

It’s SOSN at The Lilypad!! Just running by really quick to share a couple of pages I did for this week’s SOSN sale. You can grab these kits and much more 50% off right now!!

Sundara by Etc. by Danyale

 

Go Team Papers and Elements by Little Butterfly Wings

Press Play #5 by Lynne-Marie

I’ll be back later this week with new goodness!! Can’t wait to share! Have a great rest of your evening!! Peace, out…

Early Saturday mornings are the best! Quiet, peaceful, just me and my coffee for a couple of hours…heaven. As I was sitting here planning the day, I totally realized that I completely forgot to come and share the pages I made for Simple Scrapper in August and I also need to share the ones for September. So, I’m going to just hit them all right now!!

I love being a part of the team at Simple Scrapper. I really feel like it helps me to create some meaningful, purposeful layouts and inspires me to create pages that I may not have thought of otherwise. The Premium Membership offers exclusive content and a supportive, generous, and inspiring community. Some of the benefits include a private Facebook group, Spark Magazine, chats, podcasts, sketches, and story starters. Totally awesome! Here are my pages for August:

 

And for September:

Seriously, if you haven’t checked out Simple Scrapper Membership you really should. The resources and information you receive is phenomenal. And if you join now, you also get Nourish – a 12 episode video class on creative self care.

I am also up to date on PL (with the exception of this week) and I will share those soon. Before I go, I want to share a couple more pages from BYOC at The Lilypad that I did last minute:

And I think that’s it for right now. I have some more things to share but I’ll save that for a new post. Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend!! Peace, out…

This is the most dreaded day of the year. The end of summer vacation and the start of a new school year. I do love my kids and what I do, but…. 🙂

I figured I should take some time to come by here and add a few updates. This first week back tends to be rather crazy.

I have a few new layouts for this week from some fabulous designers:

 

I am also playing along with the Masters of Scrap Competition at Scrapaneers! I in no way expect to win, but I love things like this to challenge my creativity and help me to think outside the box. Here are the layouts that I have done so far:

I was so incredibly thrilled and honored to win 2nd place in the Minimalist Tournament with the last page here!! Two new events will start tomorrow and I’m excited to see what they will be!

And so, tomorrow I start back to work and I am also planning to dive in to Shaun T’s Focus T25 Workout for the next two months! I took my measurements this evening and I will weigh myself at work tomorrow. I’m not necessarily looking to lose weight, but I truly want to get in shape and up my fitness game. I hope that I will have time to post updates on that here as well. I need to take a before picture and I’m really not looking forward to doing that haha. But anyway, until next time… peace, out…

 

Summer vacation is coming to an end. As much as I hate to see it go, there is a part of me that is craving routine! I know things will be hectic and crazy until we get back in to the groove, but at least I will be able to do things on more of a schedule. When I fly by the seat of my pants, a lot of times things are left undone. Like coming here more often ha!

I just thought I’d swing by this morning and share the pages I’ve done the last week or so. The sales have ended but these are still some really amazing designs that you just might not want to miss!

And while I’m here, let me mention that has a fun template challenge going on over on her blog HERE, where you have a chance to win $10 to her store! Here’s the page I did for the challenge using A Daring Adventure Collab with Sara Gleason.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope the rest of your week is filled with wonderful memories!! Peace, out…