Hey hey it's FRIDAY!!!

So i've been a busy camper again this week! Tonight (well Thursday night because I haven't gone to bed yet) I cut my friend Amy's hair off and gave her some summery blonde highlights. Can I just tell you how much I love cutting me some hair! And I really love when they leave with a giant smile on their face. Then I have one too! So I told you all earlier about my blogging party this month over at Serendipity Scrapbooks. Well, they are also having a great Christmas in July sale and a Design Team call. I plan on throwing my hat into the ring if I can get around to getting some scrapping done! My friend Aja post on their site too and I cut her hair off today also! Fun times! I've got more layouts to post but I'm tired and have to work in the morning so I'm off to bed. Did any of you go see the new Batman tonight? Who's going to see Mama Mia this weekend? If it comes here this weekend then I will be sitting my tooshy in a seat and becoming a Dancing Queen! Makes me want to run out and rent Priscilla, Queen of the Desert also! Love me some fab drag queens! Ok, I need sleep. Like SERIOUSLY! Nighty night!!!

Rock OUT!

So here is the other ATC swap I have done at the moment. This was cool because we each burned a copy of our song and the host is going to make them all into a playlist and burn the swap songs to disc for each of us. It should be a cool mix of songs. I decided that I would do a layout along with each of my ATC's since I signed up for ones that inspire me. So I just take something extra from the design to do the layout. I think the real name of the album is Rock Steady, which at the time I signed up I forgot. It is one of my all time fav albums because I love EVERY song and one just rolls into the other so perfectly. That is the one thing I don't like about the whole iTunes deal is that people are just buying songs and missing out on the experience of the album. I'm scared it will someday change the music biz forever. Buying the one hit wonder is nice with some songs but others you might miss the total package. Ok, enough with the soap box. So what is one of your all time fav albums? I love new music so leave me a comment so I can check it out!

My first ever ATC's!

So I'm totally addicted to the ATC craze! I first heard about Artist Trading Cards after reading an article in the newspaper while I lived in Denver and thought how fun it would be. This group would get together once a month and trade cards. Well, they do a bunch of ATC Swaps at SIS and I have joined the band wagon. I really love having little pieces of others art so this should be fun and there are some great little tutorials about making some albums for them. I also decided to do a layout for all my ATC's. Expand on the idea a bit. Well hope you all are having a great week. I have more to post but I'm off to bed now. Check back tomorrow!

Life...

is BUSY lately!!! I really would like it to slow down a bit and let me take a breath and catch up. Do you all have days or weeks like that? Always seems to be that way after I return from being away. I had a nice time in Tulsa. Saw some friends, did a bit of shopping, ate some good food, watched some movies and a bit of TV, got the hair colored :D This week I am the host of the Book of Me Challenge HERE and my local scrap store is starting their Bi-annual scrappy garage sale tomorrow. I have a ton of things going on this weekend and honestly, all I want to do is take a NAP! LOL Shocking, I know.



My journaling reads:
We always say "If I had know then what I know now." I wish I would have known to trust my intuition. To have confidence in myself. To not be afraid. I wish I would have known then to trust that God would get me thru anything & I would survive. I wish I would have known that popularity really wasn't important & gossip gets you nowhere. I should have never stopped creating. Internships ARE important. Things are not. You only have to live up to YOUR expectations, no one else's! No one is better than you or beneath you. Study hard! I wish I had known these things, & more, but then I would have had different life lessons.

Hope your having a Happy Friday!!!

A little vaca

I'm in Tulsa for the weekend. A little vaca was much needed. Did a little scrappy shopping yesterday. Took myself to lunch at Cheesecake Factory. I'm in love with their Loau Salad. YUMMY! Had dinner with some friends. FUN times. Hope your having a great weekend!

Happy Independence Day!!!

Happy 4th of July!!! I'll be spending my day with the Fabulous Christy. She's the one in the straw hat waving. She lives with her family in a spot in the road a few miles outside of town and they have one of those celebrations like you see on tv but never go to. They have a parade complete with tractors and kids in wheel barrows and horses pulling up the end. Then there is an arts & crafts booth which I am helping with this year and snowcones which the Springers are in charge. They also have a silent auction and then the fire department cooks up some hamburgers and hot dogs and everyone brings a covered dish. After we are stuffed we settle in for the fireworks. It's a fun, kid friendly time! These are some pics I took last year.



And here are some pics of fireworks that I took last year.









So on this day that we celebrate our freedom, I was asked what freedom meant to me. The word Freedom has a lot of meanings to me. Now that I'm sober I'm free from the confines of addiction. What I thought would make me a 'boring' person has given me a lot more freedom. Giving up cigarettes is another. It's hard to live life when you are always worrying about getting drugs or when you are going to have your next drink or cigarette. If you have enough money to sustain your 'needs' and the fact that you think you can't have fun if there is no alcohol or drugs or you can't smoke there. I definatly got more freedom by giving those things up than by doing them.

Then there are the freedoms allowed to us as Americans: Freedom of speech is a huge one. Freedom of religion. Freedom to be and live and dress as the individual pleases. Not so in MANY countries. WE are blessed to be Americans with our technology and medical miracles and the many comforts we take advantage of every day. So tell me what Freedom means to YOU!

Everyone have a safe, fun holiday!

The Cheese To My Macoroni

I just watched Juno and I LOVED it!!! Have you seen it yet? If not and you want to then STOP READING NOW!!! I just loved her attitude and the way she talked and how her parents didn't throw a hysterical fit. I liked that she gave the baby to the woman anyway. A bit unrealistic IMHO, but I loved it just the same. Soundtrack is AWESOME and it should be arriving in my mailbox in the next few days because my scrappy friend Gina burnt me a copy and sent it my way!!! Woot Woot!!! Love me some indie music. I've also been watching Season 3 of Weeds. I'm tivoing Season 4 to watch when I am done. I'm also blog partying this week at Serendipity Scrapbooks so I should be updating more often. I have some layouts to scan and load and I have my first ever ATC's finished. I must say I am LOVING the ATC's and can't wait to start getting others and seeing everyone's work. It is making me come up with some cool ideas for other projects also.

Anyway, I have like my 3rd or 4th sinus infection of 2008 and my head is a banging so I'm outta here. Catch ya' later.