At church last night, our Pastor Mark ran the entire Louie Giglio video of the How Great is Our God tour. Wow!!! It'll take your breath away! Here's Part I; you can watch all of them on YouTube and there are others as well. The "key verse"... LAMININ!

Louie Giglio: How Great Is Our God Tour - Part 1

Relay for Life!!

I'm getting ready to participate in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. I did this before and it was great fun! I'm only trying to raise $100 - should be do-able.

I am a 7 year survivor and while I credit God for my recovery and give Him all the glory, I am grateful for the hard work of other people and of the American Cancer Society. I would be so grateful for your help too. Please visit MY RELAY PAGE and consider donating. Even a $1 donation can make a difference and would be so appreciated!

God bless!
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Blessed be the Lord!

What a glorious day here in Phoenix. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it! I'm charged up from a wonderful time of worshipping God at church!

I had a wonderful weekend with great friends at the Creating Keepsakes Convention that was in Mesa. This time I didn't take any classes (not that I couldn't use a few) so that I could spend all my time on the vendor floor doing make 'n takes and checking out product and SHOPPING!!! Oh, my GOSH! My husband is the best in the whole world and was such an enabler!!

One of the neatest things I got was a Ribbon Ring - really a great idea for organizing all the ribbons I've had stuffed into baskets on the floor of my scrap room. I sat on the couch last night putting all my ribbons on tabs!

The best deal I found was the Xyron Design Runner. The package deal that was offered ROCKED!! It was the Design Runner (retails for $99)PLUS the Design Disc Maker (retails for $99) PLUS the Accessory Kit (retails for $24.99) PLUS any disc of my choice (retails for $34.99) all for $50! I snapped that baby right up! Haven't played with it yet, but I have the afternoon!!

A New Scrap Store!!

It's open!!! Our new West side scrap store - Crop Girls!!! Yea!!! I was at the grand opening on Saturday with a couple of my good friends and we had sooo much fun! There was, of course, a healthy crowd, but it was very well done and we left with many treasures - plus I did win a door prize. Yea!

Here are a few of the cards that they had on display that I just have to make. I can't wait to get there for a "set a spell" crop!!!

It's Friday!

A whole week has gone by. Wow. Well, it's been a good week so I'm not complaining! I've taken 4 of the Digiscrap 101 classes/tutorials and have four respectable layouts to show for it. Better yet, I'm learning enough about Photoshop and Photoshop Elements that I'm not intimidated anymore. These are top-notch tutorials that can realistically be completed in one sitting. I make sure to gather photos of my own for the layout before I start the lesson (I peek ahead to see the layout). What's really neat about these tutorials is that you download all the class materials ahead of time so you have the exact files that the video uses. Of course, you can use those over and over.

The other really neat thing this week is that two of my friends are doing some of the ScrapbookingClasses live, online classes with me! I love this one because you are IN the class with several other people and you can all chat together. Only the instructor has a microphone and webcam on so you can hear and see the lesson! There's always a layout sketch available before the class so you can gather all your stuff and scrap along!

Finally --- am I anxious for the superbowl (lowercase intentional)? No! Am I anxious for Crop Girls to open up? YES!!! Grand opening is one week away! Yea!!!!! I can't even wait!!! How cool is this? We'll have a/an LSS!!!!!!!

Under The Gun!

I'm finally well in progress with my Christmas scrapbook project. That's right, I'm a little behind! I'm making 26 scrapbooks for everyone in our church bulletin stuffing ministry. I'll post pictures soon, but they're all the same mini-book with the same pictures. Each one though is embellished and arranged differently. It's a chance to "do it over" 25 times. Ha!!

New Blog - 1st Post

This is my first post in my first blog! This is a project that I am using as I homeschool my 6th grade son - he's creating a blog as well, so we're learning together.

My blog will be mostly about scrapbooking and other, related things. Hope you continue checking back to watch my progress!