I've never had breast cancer.

But I'm sure my time is coming. My grandmother (both maternal, and paternal) had breast cancer. My mother has had two lumpectomies, and they are watching her closely. My friend, and attendee of honor, Cindy has had breast cancer. She was just diagnosed in January, and had a total mastectomy in March. She now lives with the scars all over her chest of the 3rd degree burns from the radiation. In fact, look around you. 1 in 8 women, will be diagnosed with breast cancer.

Did you know that EVERY YEAR, more than a million women are diagnosed with breast cancer?

When someone you know is diagnosed with breast cancer, what do you do? Buy them a gift, send them a card? Say I'm sorry? Saying I'm sorry just wasn't enough for me. I saw the pain on her face, on her families face, on her 14 year old daughters face. That's when I realized that saying I'm sorry just doesn't fix anything. Insert November 1, 2008.

I rallied up about 20 women, lots of chocolate, some great food, and rented a fire hall. And we cropped :)
The guys at the Taftville Fire House were awesome. They agreed that we needed to "Save second base" and they forked over that Fire hall faster than we could blink, and waived the fee. We did give them a pretty sweet donation for letting us use it, though.

So Aimee and I aren't really pros at the whole interior design thing, but I think we did a fairly good job. We hung some crate paper, and blew up some balloons. Okay, let's be honest. The boys blew up the balloons. My Gary, and her Jake were awesome. We took them out for sushi after the crop was over to say thank you. Those boys worked hard. In fact, there wouldn't have been any food if not for them. They drove about a total of 2 hours to bring food and drinks and double sided tape (what's a girl to do when she runs out of adhesive?). And they blew up about 25 balloons, and tied pink ribbon to them. Those guys rock ;)

All in all it was a great day. We raised a pretty great chunk of change, with the fee to get in, donations, and raffles. We even raffled off a brand new QK squeeze :)

Anywho, thank you a TON to Gary and Jake, you guys are awesome, and we're blessed to have you in our lives. We love you. Thank you to Aimee, who was right there with me through the whole thing, I couldn't have done it without you ;) And thank you to all the attendants, all the scrappers, the stampers, the donations, etc. Thank you to Robin, Moments in Time owner, who is amazing, and donated just about every raffle prize we had. You're an amazing woman, and I totally beleive in Karma.
And, of course, my friend Erin. Who drove ALL THE WAY FROM MAINE!!! to be at the crop. You'll never know how much it meant to me to see you there. You're such an awesome person, with a heart of gold. There is no doubt in my mind you'll succeed at your school. I'm sorry it didn't last longer, and everyone left kind of early, and the fire boys were antsy. I wish we could have cropped all night.

Working hard for Robin!

So my latest project for the LSS is to do blank baby girl layouts. I got three done this weekend...I know, not too impressive, but I had a lot going on. I took some quick pics of them..please disregard my stove which is from 1930. And the fact that I'm working out of bags, as I'm in the middle of moving, and my Prima storage-is the microwave.

I'm also still lovin' on my kit from ScrapCity. You girls just KNOW my style! Two cards I did for the girls at work.

I've been hangin' in the Scrap City!

So there's this kick-butt message board called TheScrapCity.com, and it's become my new home away from home. This past weekend there was an online crop, and I was busy! Here's some snapshots of some of the challenges I completed.

Challenge #2 was to use the ScrapCity kit I got in the mail to make 4 cards. I'd like to thank Wendy & Jen for that kit-it was AWESOME. SO many goodies in a pretty little box!

The kit that came in the mail:

And here are my 4 cards:

Challenge #3 was to use the sketch that Wendy posted to make a layout. I decided to use pictures of my friend Chelsea and I from over the years. When I first saw Wendy's sketch I thought it would be a great way to make some sort of timeline-therefore I chose the title "Then & Now". The first picture is us on our High School graduation. The middle is of us a couple years later in my aunt's pool at like, midnight! The last picture is us a couple months ago. I love that girl!

Challenge #10 was to use a Black & White photo on a layout. I took it one step farther, and wanted to make the WHOLE layout B&W...but..I had to use a little red, too! Again, Chelsea & I. And I really don't like the way it turned out. I wish I hadn't already used glue dots to put down the thickers crooked...I liked them at first...now I wish I could move them :(

Happy 4th!

Hey y'all! I've been really busy lately with changing jobs, my tonsil issues, etc...but all is falling into place, and I'm back to scrappin! Here's a quick little Blackboard album I did with all the 4th of July pictures. The 4th of July is totally my favorite holiday ever, always has been, but I've never actually scrapped it before. So I challenged myself-and this is the result. My other challenge was doodling. I've never, ever, ever had the guts to actually take a marker to a scrapbook project, but I did it-and again, this is the result. The pictures are a little out of order due to a photobucket malfunction, but, you get the idea! Thanks for looking!!

Designing for the LSS

Has been quite fun! I'm so blessed to have been given the opportunity to design for a local store here. The owner has given me such yummy products to use, it's really made me step out of my comfort zone and try new things. I've become quite proud of the things I've tried recently!! This is a BoBunny word book (PARTY) that I covered in the new Nana's Nursery pp, and using Bazzill bling cardstock. My idea behind this book was to make it for a Baby boy shower. I used my cricut to cut out "you're invited" and "it's a boy" and used lots of Queen & Co Felt shapes-LOVE those things!
Thanks for looking!!

If any of you are ever in CT, the store is called Moments in Time and it's located in Taftville. Here's the website-check her out!
http://www.momentsintimescrapbooks.net/

I finally did it!!

I made my very first acrylic album. I was so scared to get it started, afraid I'd mess up and wouldn't be able to fix it. However, I'm *totally* addicted to Clear Scraps albums now! I can't wait to experiment with all their wonderful acrylic products.I used the entire BerrySweet collection by K&Company, and random photos of my niece.