Book of Faves: the cover.

I think this is the most perfect baby kit ever! I am so glad I have a little girl *squeals of joy*

Right now...

Listening: to The New Adventures of Old Christine on TV.

Eating: a delicious tamal.

Drinking: cafe au lait.

Craving: real coffee.

Wearing: pjs... Hey, it's still too early around here *grins*

Feeling: restless.

Weather: 60°F but it's gonna get so much warmer :(

Wanting: to find great new shampoo and conditioner.

Needing: calamine lotion for these damn mosquito bites.

Wondering: when, when, when???

Loving: how my girlie just told me she looked gorgeous before going to school.

Have a good one.

Another Book of Faves page...

Still creating my Book of Faves, using all those pictures I absolutely love but hadn't scrapped much before.

Here's number five in the series...



Oh, and color me surprised to be journaling on my pages lately *gasp*

I used One Little Bird's Billet Doux kit, like I have in all the other previous pages of this project.

Man, it feels GREAT to be creating again!



Right now...


Listening: to the morning traffic. Yay?

Eating: nothing. Too early to eat.

Drinking: Ditto, but I could sooo use an espresso.

Craving: Espresso!

Wearing: pjs still.

Feeling: not too great, actually...

Weather: 59°F. Not bad, but it won't last long *weeps*

Wanting: to go back home already!!

Needing: to know what's going on with a weird situation.

Wondering: what today will bring.

Loving: that my Nati is super excited about getting me a birthday present. She makes it all better. Always.


Have a great week, lovelies.

Hugely shameless lift...

Since I have frozen all kinds of digital stuff acquiring until I have used all my kits at least once, I got creative trying to make me some of those AMAZING Curated templates by Paislee Press, whom I adore.

Here's what came out...



The über talented Karla Dudley taught me how to make those shadows in one of her tutorials, which you can find on her blog, here.

Toodles, loves.

Who knew I liked lavender...

More oldie but goodie pics of my baby girl, all ready for Hawaiian day at preschool.
Her face in these pics kills me dead. Just sayin'.




I used One Little Bird's Focal Point kit and Karla Dudley's staples and jewel brads. I know, huge surprise there, huh?



I saw this on a pal's blog and I thought I'd give it a try...

Listening: To Bridezillas on TV on the background.

Eating: A lollipop.

Drinking: Nothing, but I need a decaf diet Coke pronto.

Craving: The fish tacos I'm about to eat.. Yummy!

Wearing: Um... I'm gonna plead the 5th here. Ha!

Feeling: A little worried about someone I love *weeps*

Weather: A pretty perfect 74°F. Let's hope it holds.

Feeling: So tired of waiting to go back home to Miami.

Wanting: A phone call with the best news evah...

Needing: For the damn gas company to restore our service so I can have a hot shower. Ugh.

Wondering: When, when, wheeeeeeeeeeeeen?

Loving: My Nati's voice on the phone.

Toddle loo, dhalings.

Even more faves!

I'm just having too much fun doing this. Templates=Anilú scraps a lot.

Have a wonderful day. Kiss.

It's great to be back!

Just a little page using some pretty old pics of Nati having this crazy conversation on the phone. Nothing that girl loves most than talking on the phone.



Used Paislee Press' Sorriso kit on this LO.

Ah, fresh new blog look... You like?

For this one I used nothing but one of Karla's brushes (she RULES the brushes) and some type and brads.

I was feeling very minimalist here and I had wanted to use that very cool hot pink/navy blue color combo.

Kisses, lovelies.

Book of Faves #3...

I am so in love with this kit! It's just perfect for all those adorable baby pictures of Nati that I hadn't scrapped yet.

Plus, scrapping with Karla's templates is a joy.

Here's my third page, now I'm gonna go work on the cover...


Have a great weekend, lovelies!

A book of faves. Part deux.

Here is another one of my Book Of Faves full of the best pics I have of My Nati.




Of course, still using Karla Dudley's book templates and One Little Bird's Billet Doux.

Off to make some more...

A book of faves... Part one.

I'm happily still scrapping every chance I get and having fun again doing it.
I haven't taken lots of new pictures lately, but I have lots of oldies but goodies that I hadn't scrapped before, so yay!

I could use these book templates by Karla Dudley on every LO I make. They are genius and make the process so easy.



For these pages of my Book Of Faves Of Nati, I used One Little Bird's Billet Doux kit. I loved the kit name so much. So very ad hoc.

I have many more of these pages to come, so I hope you like.

Later honeys.

First draft...

This is what that birthday LO I posted a few days ago was looking like, before I undid that whole thing and went a completely different way.






I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. I just needed, NEEDED to use that number mask by Karla, already. But, I will use it again soon in another page I like better than this one.

Kisses, dears.

Yet another new blog look

I am having so much fun creating these headers for the blog. I dunno why I held onto the old one for so long.






I've been in love with the teal-gray-mustard color combination for a while and I found this great digital kit with those same colors and I had to have it. Of course it's been sitting on my hard drive for ages and I am just now putting it to good use.

I'm the incurable hoarder. For shame!!

Getting back in scrapping shape. I think...

So, I guess inspiration and/or mojo are like a muscle which just needs to get some exercise to get back in shape.

Mine is slowly getting there, and I'm still doing my page & kit a day thing and it's working. I actually look forward to my daily page. Yes I do!

Here's today's...




I shamelessly lifted one of Karla Dudley's AMAZING templates & used One Little Bird's Flashback kit also Karla's stitches which I love and use on almost every page I make, along with her essentials kits.

Have a great weekend.

Feeling nostalgic....

And wondering where the time went. One day I was bringing her home *blink* she's seven and no longer my little baby.




To top it all off, she'll be eight this Summer. I want my baby baaaack!

I used nothing but tags and fasteners for this page. Elements are Karla Dudley, Sahlin Studio and Studio Baers Garten.

Have a great day, lovelies.

A new Spring wallpaper for May

artwork copyright Rhonna Designs www.rhonnadesigns.com

I'm still playing with my Rhonna Farrer brushes and I felt like a change of wallpaper for my Mac's desktop was needed.

I'm loving her beautiful, flowery images and all those butterflies... Love them!

Here's what I came up with. It's for a 1280 x 800 display, so if you like it just click on the image to get a larger size and save it to use on yours too.

Toodle loo.

The most wonderful month of the year is here!

Here I am channeling my inner Rhonna Farrer. I got these amazing brushes and spring-y images on her blog and hadn't had a chance to use them. So, I brought them out to celebrate the start of my favorite month...







The month of May is my birthday month and this is my last year as a thirty something. I have to say I'm kinda excited about it.

Here's hoping this year's better than the last few...

Happy May!

Blog look no. 2

Like I said, I'm gonna be changing the blog look a lot.




This one was inspired by a LO I did a while ago and since I'm loving all things red and blue with a "brown paper packages, tied up with string" feel, voila!

I just have to figure out the background. Not sure if I'm still loving that shade of blue.

Happy weekend, lovelies!

Thank goodness for such inspiring scrappers...

I'm really having fun with this, my little challenge to actually use my digital kits, instead of hoarding them.

I shamelessly lifted one of my all time fave scrappers evah, the amazing Keisha Campbell.

I used Sahlin Studio's Vintage Carnival kit.

New blog look, long overdue....

So, as you can see, I have done a blog revamping. I was kinda tired of the same old look and I think I'm gonna be changing it a lot from now on.

Since Blogger has made it much simpler, I feel the need to make lots and lots of new blog looks to suit my mood. Ha!

I hope you like.

Day four...

Ah, I have to say, I'm really enjoying this little challenge I gave myself. I can feel it getting easier and I actually look forward to creating my pages and choosing the kit of the day.




I lifted Susan Weinroth this time. Her page was paper, mine's digital.
I had wanted to do a LO with a BIG black and white picture and Susan gave me the push I needed.
I used Sahlin Studio's Grandma's Dresser kit. So full of vintagey goodness. Loved it.