for CHA tomorrow!!! YAY!
Annnnnd...here are some creations I did with the new products created for the show...that will be displayed at our booth! If you are going to CHA...I hope to meet and see you all that are going! :)
All the photographs on these creations were from a photo session I had with the owners of Sassafras this Summer...LOVE this family!
Have a great weekend everyone! Wishing you all blessings and happiness.
Loves,
K
Even when things turn upside down...we have to believe and have hope.
I recently watched a couple of movies that spoke volumes to me...and had to share a couple of fun things I got from them. With so much happening in my life, from losing my mother in law (still struggling)...and moving and all the adjustments that go along with that. Planning a wedding...small it will be...but special. No date set yet, there has been a couple more conflicts that have come up, but as soon as I know, I will be sure to be posting for sure! :) Finding a new church home...working full time. It takes time to prioritize things that is for sure. My kids are still with their dad in AZ having a good time with him and his family. I can't wait for them to come home, but I'm glad they are having a good time with their dad too.
From "The Great Debater's"
Who's the Judge?- The Judge is God
Why is He God?- Because He decides who wins or loses, not my opponent.
Who is your opponent?- He doesn't exist.
Why doesn't he exist?- Because he's a mere decenting voice of the truth I speak.
From "The Bucket List"
Egyptians believe there are 2 questions that are asked to you when you die.
1. What Brings you Joy?
2. Have you brought Joy to another persons life? (or something like this)
Anyway...those are some fun things to get you thinking huh?
Here is a fun shot of Todd and Charlie I got today goofing around. :)
This month I am so excited and honored to be asked to be a guest designer for PageFrames! Seriously AWESOME products!!! You can see all my uploads here...and here is one of them:
Les...I have not forgotten your tag girly! xoxo LOVE YOU!
SO here goes, my attempt at actually finishing a tag! I am SO bad at these things!
1) 10 years ago......
Ha! I was at the end of my 20's!!! LOL...yes, that means I am at the end of my 30's this year! (copied your's Les! :)
2) 5 things on today's "to do" list....
-Pick up cushions for barn
-Scrapbook
-Process photographs
-Catch up with blogging
-Post LO's for Page Frames guest designer position (done)
3) Snacks I enjoy....
Cheeto's aieee aieee aieeee!!!! LOL Oh and LOVE Milky way with the MORE caramel! :)
4) Things I would do if i was a millionaire:
-Give back to God with tithing to my church from it
-set up investments for my kids future as well as ours
-Take my mom to England and go in lots of Castles...always been a dream of mine
-NOT CHANGE who I am
5) Places I have lived: Now to tag 5 more people...and I'm adding one more too! I hate limits! hehehe :))) I hope you all have a wonderful and Blessed week this week. Next post is going to promise a Sassafras sneak peak...so keep posted! YAY!
Oregon (born and raised), Washington, Montana, Arizona...and now back to Montana
Please keep my brother in your continued prayers, as he battles his cancer...click here to read his story....and thank you so much for your love and support!
I LOVE IT!
I will take Winters forever to NOT ever have to see another 115+ day again! It is so BEAUTIFUL here in every direction...so HOME!
I LOVE my Job! My boss is a BEAUTIFUL and wonderful woman who I thank God every day for her and ask that He pour His blessings out to her for her thoughtful and beautiful heart. I will be managing all the rentals for next season...and I am currently working on just getting things in order and going through training for doing that all for next season.
I LOVE that I get to work with Todd...and still be allowed flexible hours to care for my kids.
I LOVE that I am close to my family here too...20 minutes from my dad and Mom Mary..and 11 hours away from my mom and Frank and brothers and their families too! :)
I went horseback riding with some guests...and I saw an ELK! GORGEOUS! Check it out!
Me on a horse...on top of the mountain with Flathead lake in the background. :) And I have a braid in my hair...and even cowboy boots too!!! They are the most comfortable boots EVAH! :)
Here is an Elk shot I captured whie on the trail! :)
This is a young guy believe it or not...and he still has his velvet on.
Todd and I went for a drive after church this past Sunday...really not intending on doing that, so I didn't grab my camera bag when we left in the morning...and we saw a baby bear! Some of you may have gotten it on your phones because I did send it to a ton of people I have on my cell phone. That was wild!
I've got pretty much everything in our house organized and my scrapbooking area all set up...and even some scrapbooking too! I can't share everything I've done yet here...because it's for a guest design position for July for Page Frames! YAY! Here is a sneak peak of one of the creations I did for them. They have seriously AWESOME products with so many versitle things to do with them...ENDLESS fun!
Here is my latest I did for Design X. This is my (Almost) step daughter Alex on her graduation night. :) BEAUTIFUL young woman! :)
...and we have added more AWESOME talented girls to our team...and it RAWKS! If you ever want to step out of your box...or simply try a challenge...come check it out and try one...we have AWESOME RAK give aways to winners who do the challenge weekly! Gotta love free scrappin goods right? :))) I hope to see some of you girls over there trying some of these fun challenges! :)
I'm counting down the days for my kids to come back home to me...4 more weeks! YAY...they are in AZ with their dad for his parenting time with them and having a good time there which is a good thing too. :)
Now...I better get ready for my day...lots to do.
Please keep my brother and his family in your prayers too. He is struggling with the Chemo and staying strong in his faith. He is having pain too. Please pray for his pain to be taken away...and the treatments to be successful! You can click here to view his caring bridge website and leave him an encouraging note if you would like to as well...THANK YOU to all of you have already done that...it is so uplifting for him and warms my heart like words can't describe! xoxo
Have a wonderful and blessed week this week!
Loves,
K
10 days with out internet...and loading up the biggest uhaul truck, and driving to Montana, and unloading the uhaul, and unpacking everything...and we are finally getting settled and loving it! :)
and to all to all this fun joy...check this out! This made my day to get this email! :D How totally AWESOME is this? I LOVE Glitz! :))) Thank you so much! xxoo!!!
Here are a few fun photographs...and there are so MANY more to process too!
On the way up, we stopped in Salt Lake City Utah so I could do a photo Session with some special friends...and owners of Sassafras.
And here are some fun shots of Foster helping Todd and a cute one of Olivia too. :)
It has been BEAUTIFUL here! A mix of everything for the Weather...in fact today it is SNOWING!!! Gotta love it! SNOW in JUNE! hehehe
How cool is this!
I hope you all are having a fabulous start of your Summer!
Loves,
K
I am currently in the process of moving my house this week and next...so I will have my blogs on hold until I get situated in Montana.
For those of you who would like to follow me with the progress of my brother Foster and his cancer, here is his Caring Bridge journal, where there will be weekly updates and some links to check out as well. Thank you so much in advance for all of you who are joining me with prayer for his healing. I believe he is going to beat this thing!
Love and blessings,
K
We are getting ready to move out of our house and move everything up to Montana by the end of this month, where I will be working this Summer. :)
I got a fun email from Pink Paislee, and they picked ME to be there member of the week! WOW...what a special honor...Their products are GOOD TIMES! :) xx
Olivia had a wonderful Birthday last weekend...and here are a couple of photographs from that fun time.
I especially love this photograph below because she wrote a sweet note to all her friends thanking them for coming...it was PRECIOUS! Her phonetical spelling is priceless...so be on the look out for this in a LO I will be creating for sure! :)
She was blessed with gifts galore and a FANTASTIC time with her friends that could come.
I hope you all are having a wonderful and blessed week.
With so much love,
K
*Edited to add a special prayer request for my brother and family in Oregon. His name is Foster and is married to Jill and they have 2 children, Jhordyn 18 and Bailee 12. He was just diagnosed with bladder cancer...and tonight we just found out it is in advanced stage 4. His treatment is still undecided at this time...I just ask for everyone's good thoughts and prayer support during this time. Here is a photograph of my brother who has always been my protector through everything in my life...more than a brother, but my friend, my hero in so many ways. I hate this.
What a great weekend! I actually got to do a little scrappin in the midst of packing boxes! :))
Since it was National Scrapbooking weekend, I had a couple of websites I participated at for some fun challenges. At POTP, I actually posted 2 challenges for the fun...and at SIS, I actually did one of the challenges. I did only get one LO created for this fun...but it was just fun to scrapbook some too.
Anyway...the LO I did for SIS was a sketch by Corinne Delis...and it got picked for a Dutch magazine publication! YAY!
Then...check this out! Page 4 Basic Grey's newsletter...YAY! :)))
We have a fun challenge over at Design X this week...in honor of Mother's Day, so come check it out! We are also doing a Design Team call too, so I hope to see a lot of you trying out for this! It's so fun!
Here is my LO for this challenge:
My little Olivia is going to be 6 this month...I can hardly believe it. I am trying to plan a fun day for her and her friends this coming weekend...and I'm running short on time. I hope I can pull this all together.
I hope you all have a FANTASTIC week!
With so much love,
K
And just when you thought things couldn't get any better...I get the sweetest call from my newest friend Emilie, whom I met at Winter CHA this year...I've always enjoyed her creations...so it's been such a fun blessing to form a relationship with her over the months. Anyway, she calls me up to ask me if I would like to join the Design Team at Scrap Faith blog. I LOVED this idea, because I so lover learning more and more about other beliefs and having the ability to openly share my beliefs as well. I'm super excited about this!
I've been a bit busy lately with projects, so I haven't been as good about posting on this blog...But some fun news. I have 2 publications going in September CK issue...and 1 publication going in Scrapbooks Etc. magazine. I couldn't be more thrilled about this! I wasn't sure if I could share...but I was told I could, as long as I didn't share the actual LO's created. One for CK was actually an assignment too! YAY!!!
I'm also currently in the process of packing up my house and getting ready to move. That is a bit of a stress in my life at the moment...but no need to go into the yucky details of all that. The good side of that, was that my sweet mom came down from Oregon this past weekend and left early this morning to go back home. She helped me pack things up quite a bit. It was just great having her here for a few days honestly. It was an extra bonus that she got to be here for Foster's 12th birthday which was yesterday as well.
There is a TON going on right now...so I definitely appreciate any prayers you might feel led to pray...and I welcome any good vibes this way as well!
With so much love,
K
OMGoodness I just got the BEST news EVAH!!!!! The Fabulous Design X team has just asked me to join there Design Team!!!! WoooHooo...I am doin the MAJOR scrappy dance for joy at this very moment! Would you join me with that? :))) These girls are UBER talented and this is just an AMAZING honor to be working with each one of these girls! YAY
So if you are ever in the mood for a fun very creative challenge...you will have to mosey on over to the blog and have fun stiring your mojo with all the fund ideas to help get your creative juices flowin'!
This is my take on this weeks challenge...come on over and see what the other girls have created with their AMAZING talent!!...and be sure to add your beautiful creations to the comment section to enter for a chance at an AWESOME RAK too! :)))
I will also have a link in my side bar for future references too...SO SUPER FUN! :))))
While we were in Chicago last weekend for Mom LaVonne's services, I got to stay with her brother Uncle Owen and his wife Aunt Debbie...AMAZING people they are! To thank them for letting me and my kids for coming and taking over their house for a few days, I did a little mini photo shoot of them and it was so much fun! Here is one of the photographs I captured of them that is one of my favorites.
Also...Thank you everyone for your good thoughts and prayers for Uncle John who is Mom LaVonne's other brother who had a heart attack at her services in Chicago. He is on the mend and getting back up his strength to have surgery in a couple of weeks. All the prayers have certainly paid off! Thank you!
and I want to leave you all with a quote that just sets the tone for my day today.
"Blessed are the happiness makers" by Henry Ward Beecher
Life has been a bit of a roller coaster lately with my mother in law passing and just the emotions that follow that have taken me a bit off kilter on so many levels....so I've bee spending time embracing these moments and feelings and reflecting on her love over me and my family over the years...and it's made me smile!
Did I tell you that after I spoke about LaVonne, my oldest dd...who is 15 years old mind you...got up at the podium and spoke at her service here in AZ? I was floored with how brave she was to do that...but also her eloquent words that were so wise beyond her years. We head to Chicago this week for services and burial there next weekend.
Anyway...I want to thank each and everyone of you who have shared your loving thoughts and prayers with us this past week...it has meant the world to me...more than words could express! THANK YOU! xoxo
I've had a couple fun things happen this week that have helped like crazy lift my spirits!
1. I was asked to be a guest designer for Design X...so that is so super AWESOME!..and I am so totally honored!
2. Got a couple of emails going on with some AWESOME mags that I am waiting to hear back from...but I can't share yet! Eeeeeeee!
3. I got another email from an AWESOME sketch blog Valerie's sketch blog to design a LO with one of her sketches...and I'm busy working on that....super fun!
Loads going on....and so exciting!
Here is my life motto that I thought I would share with you all today...in place of a photograph. :)
Have a wonderful and blessed week! (((smiles)))
The grass is always greener wherever you water it!
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