We looked at pink and yellow interiors yesterday, and today, we're looking at this cheerful and feminine palette translated into an oh-so-perfect for spring wedding (while welcoming back the long absent inspiration board!)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Birthday Scrapping and Trying a New Product
I had fun in my scraproom today. In addition to working on a "to be revealed later" project, I also did some scrapping of the Birthday photos. I used a new (to me) product on the scrap pages, Fabric Paper by Dear Lizzie and American Crafts. It is fabric that is backed with an ultra-thin adhesive foam. The fabric paper cuts nicely with my paper trimmer, though I did not try it on the Cricut today. Don't worry, I have more of the fabric paper and that will be my next experiment.
I used Base Camp and Storybook cartridges to complete my layout. I cut the phrase Happy 50th Birthday with Base Camp and attached the letters to the flag banner at the top of the fabric paper. I then cut a two layer tag using Storybook where I matted the computer printed journaling. My friend Kathy gives me grief for not journaling often enough so I am working to mend my ways!
I cut an extra tag set and affixed it under the edge of one of the HUGE-I-FIED Prima flowers. The other Prima flower is on the left page, afloat on a field of flowers. I used three lazer cut pink flowers from my stash of long ago purchased die cuts. Between die cuts and alphabets that I no longer purchase, I should be saving money... Well, except for those new cartridges!!
I have to say that I quite like the Dear Lizzy Fabric Paper and look forward to using more. I am not sure where else you can purchase the fabric paper, but I plan to "google" it and find out if there are other patterns.
♥ Red Hair & FOTD ♥
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trying on my Red hair wig.
it's super long & wavy. loves itttt!! the red hair is soo bright but you probably can't really see it bcaz of the bad lightings. ~~
this posts will be about my randomness. lol. ^^
I don't really think this counts as FOTD though caz I don't really wear make up in this pics. lol~~
just some eyeliners & stand out circle lenses. hehee..
webcam timee^^
now, I gotta go do my assignments & memorize my lines for the debates & study for the oral exam I will be having next week.
pls wish me a very good luck!!^^ :]
love.love ♥♥
trying on my Red hair wig.
it's super long & wavy. loves itttt!! the red hair is soo bright but you probably can't really see it bcaz of the bad lightings. ~~
this posts will be about my randomness. lol. ^^
I don't really think this counts as FOTD though caz I don't really wear make up in this pics. lol~~
just some eyeliners & stand out circle lenses. hehee..
webcam timee^^
now, I gotta go do my assignments & memorize my lines for the debates & study for the oral exam I will be having next week.
pls wish me a very good luck!!^^ :]
love.love ♥♥
♥ Award & I won both Giveaway from Ruby Rouge Jewelry & Chewlry Jewelry ♥
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such a beautiful great day for me.
first of all I'd like to say HUGEEE thanks for all of you that have been reading my posts & actually show some love by giving comments!
it means a lot to mee^^ so thanks!
also HUGEE thanks too all of my followers. new & old one, you guys are the coolest!^^
thankss so much for sharing some love!
as for the new followers, I'm sorry if I didn't followed you back yet but I promise I'll get around to it asap.
as like, seconds after I post this blog^^
I also would like to share some good great news!!
I have been notified that I won 2 f the great great fab giveaways!!
first, is from the Ruby Rouge Jewelry Giveaway
I won this fabb 'Birdy On The Branch Necklace' piece..
pls check out her Etsy shop to see more of her fabb jewelry design! >> Link.
so this is my gift~~^^ cuteee huh?! heck yeah it is!!
here are some more of her other fab design~~
okk, so I'm definetely tagging this 10 sweet blogs~ hehee.. & anybody else who wants to take it-- pls take it!! you know you deserve it..
it's from Makeup by Kaylena.
she's soo pretty, check out her blog to see beauty tips^^ thanks for tagging me this, Kaylena!~~
it's the I ♥ Your Blog Award. I'm tagging this to anybody who think they deserve itt~~ go aheadd it's youu!! ^^
soo that's it updates for today. thanks for readingg^^
love.love ♥♥
such a beautiful great day for me.
first of all I'd like to say HUGEEE thanks for all of you that have been reading my posts & actually show some love by giving comments!
it means a lot to mee^^ so thanks!
also HUGEE thanks too all of my followers. new & old one, you guys are the coolest!^^
thankss so much for sharing some love!
as for the new followers, I'm sorry if I didn't followed you back yet but I promise I'll get around to it asap.
as like, seconds after I post this blog^^
I also would like to share some good great news!!
I have been notified that I won 2 f the great great fab giveaways!!
first, is from the Ruby Rouge Jewelry Giveaway
I won this fabb 'Birdy On The Branch Necklace' piece..
pls check out her Etsy shop to see more of her fabb jewelry design! >> Link.
so this is my gift~~^^ cuteee huh?! heck yeah it is!!
here are some more of her other fab design~~
loving this Alice in Wonderland inspire key necklace. it says 'drink me' too! how pretty!!
this one is my absolute fav, the 'Gold Tree Necklace with Pink Rose'
thanks again to Sarah (the owner)^^ looking forward for the necklace to arrives!! soo excitedd!!
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second giveaway that I won is from the Chewlry Jewelry Giveaway
the giveaway was arranged on Fire and Ice blog. go check out this blog too if you haven't already they're bunchss of giveaways there!!^^
I won the Chain Gang Necklace which are, like.. one of the coolest necklace ever~~
pls go check her Etsy shop to see moree design of the pretty jewelries~~ >> Link.
soo, this is what I won. such a cool necklace huhhh! of course^^
& here are some of the other pretty things from her Etsy shop~
the 'Simplement Paris Necklace'.. ohh so chic & fabs of the Eiffel Tower charm!
now, this one is my fav.. the 'Belly Up Necklace'. soo cutee, look at the skulls!^^
I'd like to say huge thanks for Chewlry & Fire and Ice that makes this possible. soo happy^^ will be waiting till they arrives~
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then, still good news, I got 2 award!!
first, is from the pretty Vanessa~
thanks soo muchhh yyahh~~ you're soo sweet for tagging me this..
it's the 'Sweet Blog Award'. aww we're all sweet afteral!!^^
The Meaning :
Sweet Blog Award is an award for blog or web which you think so friendly and make you enjoy to visit it often.
Homework for Dearest Friends :
Make a post about this award, the picture, the one who gave you, including his or her link. Send this award to 10 of your friends. Don't forget to visit them and tell them about this award. Copy this post from 'start copy from here' until 'end here'.okk, so I'm definetely tagging this 10 sweet blogs~ hehee.. & anybody else who wants to take it-- pls take it!! you know you deserve it..
1. Makeupgeisha (lani)
10. Joanna
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then the 2nd award would be the 2nd time I got it too~~ but anyway I'm still excited to have been tagged for it. hehee~it's from Makeup by Kaylena.
she's soo pretty, check out her blog to see beauty tips^^ thanks for tagging me this, Kaylena!~~
it's the I ♥ Your Blog Award. I'm tagging this to anybody who think they deserve itt~~ go aheadd it's youu!! ^^
soo that's it updates for today. thanks for readingg^^
love.love ♥♥
Dish With Trish
Flood Watch:
It's so weird how things happen sometimes...I am having my hardwood floors refinished at my house which is very exciting. We recently decided that we had to have the ceilings done because they were all peeling and then we thought maybe we should paint the walls too and then it became obvious that while we had already cleared all the furniture we should just go ahead and do the floors too. Awesome.
So while they do the floors and then they dry we had to be out of the house for the week. We went to stay for the week at the Marriott in Warwick near the airport, glamorous -no, functional -yes! Meanwhile the rain continued all day yesterday and things were flooding like crazy.
We looked out the hotel window last night and realized that they had closed the road to the airport and route 95! it was so quiet! and actually really creepy. My husband referenced the book The World Without Us and some Armageddon type things, not comforting.
When we woke up this morning we realized that 95 was still closed going both ways and that all of the traffic traveling south was being diverted right through where we were staying and that it was going to take forever to get up to Providence and that getting back to the hotel in the evening was going to be near impossible...turns out that we were basically staying in the hardest hit area, so now we are booked at the Hampton Inn far from the major flooding! But I know that there are so many people who have had to evacuate their homes and have lost so much, so I feel very fortunate that I only had this crazy story to tell...
This is the view from the parking lot right outside our room, well maybe it is a little glamorous...This is what they call the airport connector, this road goes to and from the airport and exits off route 95! You can see a little bit of the guard rail sticking out, this is on the side of the road, there is another set of guard rails in the center of the road too and they are completely under water! I wonder how long this will take to drain out???
A reporter said on the news last night "history is happening now" which I thought was hysterical and I will say it as much as possible from now on. But it inspired me to make this little vintage panorama to depict the 'history' of the flood of 2010, worse than any other flood in over 100 years, maybe more.
This is another view from the other side of the hotel that shows route 95 totally under water as well. Both north and south lanes travel under the little bridge shown here. In front of the geese is an on ramp and beyond them in the 95 south lanes, then you see the jersey barrier and the north lanes are under the sign. Nuts!!!
When we woke up this morning we realized that 95 was still closed going both ways and that all of the traffic traveling south was being diverted right through where we were staying and that it was going to take forever to get up to Providence and that getting back to the hotel in the evening was going to be near impossible...turns out that we were basically staying in the hardest hit area, so now we are booked at the Hampton Inn far from the major flooding! But I know that there are so many people who have had to evacuate their homes and have lost so much, so I feel very fortunate that I only had this crazy story to tell...
This is the view from the parking lot right outside our room, well maybe it is a little glamorous...This is what they call the airport connector, this road goes to and from the airport and exits off route 95! You can see a little bit of the guard rail sticking out, this is on the side of the road, there is another set of guard rails in the center of the road too and they are completely under water! I wonder how long this will take to drain out???
A reporter said on the news last night "history is happening now" which I thought was hysterical and I will say it as much as possible from now on. But it inspired me to make this little vintage panorama to depict the 'history' of the flood of 2010, worse than any other flood in over 100 years, maybe more.
This is another view from the other side of the hotel that shows route 95 totally under water as well. Both north and south lanes travel under the little bridge shown here. In front of the geese is an on ramp and beyond them in the 95 south lanes, then you see the jersey barrier and the north lanes are under the sign. Nuts!!!
(BTW photos are from my point and shoot camera, and this is exactly the reason I always have a little camera in my purse, you never know! now I don't have to wish I got a shot of the highway that time it was flooded and I was there to see it...)
Sneak Peek of a new Wags n' Whiskers release!!!
Happy Wednesday everyone! Hope you're having a fabulous week! Today is day #1 for sneak peeks of the new Wags n' Whiskers release! The stamps will be available for puchase on Friday and we're having a fun blog hop to showcase all the new images. The new release contains eight fun sports themed stamps from our fabulous artist Cris de Lara!! Today I used this adorable little guy called Slam Dunk! Isn't he just too cute? He's colored with Copic markers. The large circle mat and the stars were cut with my Cricut and the papers are from Nitwits. Please visit my Diva sisters to see their sneak peeks for today! They are all so talented and you are in for a real treat!! See you tomorrow with sneak peek #2!!Nikki, Lacey, Chris, Michele, Karen, Tina, Christa, Bree, and Debbie
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins
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| Gluten-free muffins with strawberries and chocolate chips. |
The moon rose almost full last night, hanging gold and low above the palm and ficus trees, urging the local beauty factor to give up its pretense of reality and meld with dreamland. The sky was a deep shade of violet with a wash of strawberry pink at the ocean's edge. Santa Monica continues to hold me in her sway. I am in love with her- and deeply grateful to be here, celebrating my first spring in California since the late seventies. I drink the friendly March sea air in gulps. I wander the alleys and sidewalks in a state bordering on bliss, photographing details and eye candy with my iPhone. It is a visual feast.
And I am savoring every bite.
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Easter Cards - Two From One
Have you been by Custom Crops yet this week to check out this week's new articles and projects? There is a whole lot of Easter going on at CC! And of course I contributed to the Easter Fest. Using Cricut Design Studio I designed one cut file that creates two great cards! The first card is my sad, sad attempt at humor and the second offers the opportunity for Easter stamping.
The first card features two chocolate bunnies in conversation. Sadly the bunny on the right cannot hear as well as he used to.... Someone bit off his ear!! This silly card sports several techniques: the front is framed in a welded border frame, the bunnies are elevated using pop dots, and the voice balloons use the mini gel pen adaptor in the Cricut to write the words, then finally the balloons were cut after replacing the Cricut's housing blade.
The inside of the card has a large balloon with the Happy Easter phrase and a background of printed paper also cut with the Cricut.
The second card had a scalloped background, two chocolate bunnies and is trimmed with a ribbon and bow. The inside of the card is blank so that you can customize the card according to your preference. I used this cute Easter stamp set and pink Stampin' Up ink.
You will find the cut file and complete instructions for these cards at Custom Crops. Follow the blinkie on the upper left side of my blog to go directly to my page at Custom Crops.
If you have not already done so, please leave a comment under the previous post, BBTB2, so that you can be including in the drawing for a $20.00 certificate from SCRAP YOUR TRIP!!
I have no idea what to call this, but I like it . . . Works For Me Wednesday
I'm thinking of just re-titling this..."Longest Blog Post Title in History."Anyhoo...I wanted to show you guys this handy-dandy measuring cup that works for me.
{Photo Credit: pamperedchef.com}
Why? Fill one end and it's perfect for liquids. Flip it and the other side is perfect for measuring solid, semi-solid and sticky stuff.
See...
Mine is from Pampered Chef...no, I don't sell PC, but I have seen them other places. Sur La Table carries a mini version! I still really don't know what to call it. A flip-able, measuring cup pusher-outer thingy. There...that's it.
Go on and check out the other Works For Me Wednesday tips at We Are THAT Family.
You can find Bake at 350's WFMW archives here. Next week's edition is "greatest hits."
Pink & Yellow: At Home
I would say I'm not all that into girlie colors, pinks, pastels, and the like, but then I wouldn't be telling the truth. While I haven't used such shades in any rooms of mine in a very long time nor have I felt compelled to do so, there is a part of me that still has a soft spot for feminine color schemes.
Perhaps it is the arrival of spring or because Easter is right around the corner, but for some reason, I am finding myself feeling cheered by the combination of pink and yellow; the rooms below mix these colors to just the right degree.
Perhaps it is the arrival of spring or because Easter is right around the corner, but for some reason, I am finding myself feeling cheered by the combination of pink and yellow; the rooms below mix these colors to just the right degree.
Mark Burstyn Photography
Masucco Warner Miller via Desire to Inspire
L: John Loecke Interior Design. R: Houzz.
Melanie Acevedo
L: John Loecke Interior Design. R: Houzz.
Melanie Acevedo
L: Helen Crowther. R: Palmer Weiss.
It's raining...Babies!
Well, to complete my baby trifecta, I headed into the hospital again this past Saturday to photograph the new and fabulous Rachael Emma!!! Isn't she perfect?! She's going to have to get used to her auntie Trish snapping a lot.
I love her expression in this photo below, it's actually amazing how many different expressions a new baby makes. Thank goodness because they don't really have much of a variety in posing.
I love her expression in this photo below, it's actually amazing how many different expressions a new baby makes. Thank goodness because they don't really have much of a variety in posing.
Did I mention that she is the cousin of Carter who debut on the blog last week?!
The nurse came in to tend to mom and we took the baby with us to the hallway...she looks kind of lonely here, but rest assured she has a huge family to love her!
This pose is classic.
I think this might be my favorite.
Someday she will laugh about this 'old timey' iPhone.
She has fabulous hair too!
She's looking like the other cousins here...strong genes!
Uncle Stephen comforting his new niece...since he's been a Dad for a week now he's a pro!
The whole package, so sweet!
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