Jumping over to the Island

Craving the words "Auntie Tam" I knew it was time to head over to Vancouver Island to spend time with my family here. Supposedly, the boys said that I was taking them to the new ICE Age movie since we "ALWAYS" go to the movies when I am in town. Sure little A...we can go to the movies. In fact, Auntie Tam wanted to drag you to UP as well...sure that won't be a problem.

It will be great to visit my sister and Mom and Dad. Dad has recovered from surgery and Mom is working on some family history as well. I am sure Sarah and I can find some trouble at the local LSS and maybe even sit down and play with her stash. I did not pack anything!

Miss you Gran

July 4th marks a different day for our family.

Love me

My class is now live on the BC Crop for Kids Site

Happy Canada Day to all.

My task today was to complete the project sample for the BC Crop for kids this fall. The class registration goes live for Crop Seat and Class Pass Holders on 7pm on Monday, July 13, 2009. Class registration for the genral public begins at 7pm on Thursday, July 27, 2009.

You can see it here. Piggy Tales approached the organizers and offered a class sponsorship and Photo Express is supporting the class through the addition of ribbon, Glitter Ritz and cardstock and of course me. Crafting a project for this type of event provoked thought and some planning. With everyone spending their time away for the weekend and benefiting BC childrens hospital, I thought it would be a perfect blend to create a mini album that will document the weekend. My sister is coming over from Vancouver Island to join myself and a few friends for the weekend- a getaway from our regular lives.

Not to be outdone by my sense of accomplishments by means of getting my class sample done, I also got some amazing news from one of my favourite scrapbook companies Quickutz. Through Facebook, they ran a promotion and the Grand Prize was a brand new EPIC 6 die cut machine out later this month. The machine went to the person who brought the most amount of people to the Quickutz People group on FB. Today they announced that it was me. Many of my Facebook friends through scrapbooking and through school joined the group upon request, so I am thankful to them for helping me.

Published!

With some encouragement from Andrea at Quickutz, I submitted a project to the gallery on their Silhouette site. When Andrea flew up to the Photo Express Crop, I spent the day assisting her with her demo at the crop. Many of us were keen to learn how the new software works to weld words together with the click of a button. Oh , how happy was I when I clicked that weld button!

QK has alot of online support for the machine now, between their website and many FAQ's , anyone who was keen to aquire a digital die cut machine can be assured they can manage the sfotware. It is easy once you play, of course you need a little time to get your feet wet.

The layout is online and you can see it on display at Photo Express as well.

BC Crop for Kids

Not only was I excited to re register this year to attend the crop but when Mary and Sandra asked me if I would be interested in teaching a class, I was honoured. Piggy Tales has graciously offered to be a class sponsor and I am having a hard time choosing from their paper lines. Now I just have to decide on a paper collection to base the projects from. Their names are cute and oh-so-fitting for this Kindergarten Teacher such as me. I have been able to narrow my choices down to Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater , Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Gingerbread Man. If you have any suggestions, please let me know asap. I am taking a little bit of a poll.

Today was re-registration for the people who attended last year, so Sarah, Shonia and I are all registered. I imagine that they will have us Photo Express folks all together assigned to a table by the doors again. We had serious amounts of fun being together and scrapbooking. We rarely get a chance to play as our group normally is involved in hostessing crops. Last years event was so well run, the hotel was easy to get around and I do remember laughing. I even have proof that I got some pages done too!

Maybe facebook should take a back seat?

....as it has seriously taken over my online time. I was not -so-bad at posting on my blog after it was set up in 2007 but in the last 10 months, woa....nothing!