Summer is half over

What have I done:

travelled to Vancouver Island for a week of visiting with my family

ski- dooed on Nanaimo Lakes with the nephews

Saw Kung Fu Panda

Had a few Corona's

Booked a Winter trip to Mexico with Kalie

Crafted with mom as we marked a year since Gran passed

Hiked in Golden Ears park with the Dobie clan

Walked 10 km with Julie one early Sunday morning

Ran down to Seattle Outlets to shop at the new Kate Spade store

Walked 16 km with the Walking group

Came home with 2 new Kate Spade bags, one was a birthday gift from Mom and Dad.

Birthday Lunch at the new Boathouse with Jen and Lynelle

Birthday dinner with Patricia and Robin

Did a few morning Aquafit classes with Lynelle

Went on my first date in 3 years

Walked 17 km with the walking group

Went on my second date in 3 years, three days after the first one

Had special ice cream with Jennie and Courtney

Had my nails done

Out dancing with the girls at the Point in Port Moody

Sat on Kuldeeps rooftop patio in Vancouver and drank wine during the day

Saw Mama Mia and had yummy Greek food with Shonia

Emptied the full laundry basket and refolded clothes into my dresser

Bought some bathing suits for Mexico

Designed a card class for August

Stayed in my PJ's for a whole day or 2 or 3

Washed the floors

Created my first Christmas gift but I cannot tell you who its for

Walked 20 km with the walking group

Made a present for Connie and Mark's wedding

Finished the book I started reading at Christmas

Started a second book and have many ready to read

Visited with Kalie in the hospital a few times

Cropped all day with Mom at the Breast Cancer fundraiser



What is left to do

Empty the crawlspace and tidy up in there

Mail out thank you cards to the Kindergarten families for their gifts at the end of June

Go camping for at least 2 nights

Have date 3,4,5,6, ect

Design the rest of the cards for my August card class

BBQ at Julie and Rhys house

Clean up my scrapbook supplies

Go back to visit family in August

Five days left of my first year with Kindergarten

....he kids have 5 days left ill they have summer holidays....my kids, as in my students in Kindie. I have 5 more days the following week and then I can relax, walk, read, create, visit and do whatever my heart pleases.

This summer a group of friends and I are going to host anothe fundraiser for the Weekend to End Breast Cancer, I am walking again in September.

I plan to visit family on the island. See some friends, work on some plans I have brewing in my head- in the creative side of my head that is.

Maybe there will be new things on my short list...new things that I have not anticipated. Perhaps .....who knows....

Unveiling, asymetrical, not parted in the middle, not blunt. Steph squealed when I said "sure' go for it. Then in my typical fashion I said..."no" wait! Ha......I loved it and feel trendy!

I got a new haircut and wow....it's a change and I love it. Should have known that it was "different" when my hair dresser squealed for joy.

Crop Ticket sercured for.........

The BC Scrapbooking Crop for Kids this September.

I cannot believe how intense buying a crop ticket could be. In fact, I have never had to buy a crop ticket before because when you are part of the host LSS putting on the event, you don't need a ticket. Some of the ladies from PE are going to teach again at this event. I am going to be playing.

So buying this ticket tonight online was a funny experience. I was such a geek that I refreshed every few minutes to watch them disappear in front of my eyes. Over 100 tickets sold out in over 2 hours.

My sister is coming over from the island for the weekend. Shonia, her and I have a hotel reservation in one of the fancy rooms on the fourth floor. This will be a fun weekend. I will for sure have enough time to pre plan and get some work done that weekend.

Cardio

30 mins, program 2, 289 calories burned, red cheeks and working upward.

National Scrapbook Day countdown

.....National Scrapbook day is on Saturday! So that is 5 sleeps.

I don't know what you give to someone when it is National Scrapbook day but I plan on giving out some prizes.

I have had many people at work (my school) ask me to host or maybe teach a class. Well, we are going to gather this Saturday at the school to have a crop. I am hoping that more people email me this week to register because right now it is a very small group. Although, it is a group of my favourite friends.

I was going to update the blog but........

tonight is the return of Grey's Anatomy.
The world will stop and I will not answer the phone.

I love a techie geek

I wish they had brought this stage set up to Vancouver....

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=710075913

Good day for email news

Wowie!

I normally plough through my emails from anything that resembles an ad, stopping for real emails from friends and paying attention to those. Yesterday I stopped dead in my tracks and re-read the email.

Seattle Prime outlets announced a Kate Spade outlet. I have ONE of her bags and I have loved her leather pieces, so classic, timeless and very much my style. Now, she'll have her own outlet store....yahoo! I need to find a day to head down across the line and check out the stock. I'd love a red purse.....

Baby Shower Happiness for Baby Kameron

My friend Selena is hostessing a baby shower for Baby Kameron. We have waited a long, long time for Kameron so he deserves some extra touches. I need to get a photo of the banner I put together as well.

Fridge stocked

Meals prepped.....yeah me!

My "I Will" statements for Sunday

I bought new running shoes.
I am setting the alarm clock tomorrow morning.
I will walk on the treadmill.
I will get some cooking done so there will be some meals in the freezer.
I will create something tomorrow, even if it is a card.
I will do some cleaning too!

Happy Birthday Making Memories

Making Memories is a scrapbook company who makes many items in the industry and is always one that is recognized in stores all over the place. I have a stash of their product and have to admit that the stash is big.

Today they celebrated the Birthday of their Blog. I was home on Spring Break today because the plans I had to take the train into the city cancelled themselves with the looming rain and 8 degree crisp temperature. I have no idea why the spring weather is not showing up for my Spring break? Being home today turned out great for me because I watched the MM blog and posted too!

This afternoon my names was drawn for some 5th Avenue product. Wowie! The line is really nice as I already have some of it :) We , at Photo Express got our huge order in about 2 weeks ago. The paper is truly cute and well the embellishment packs are adorable too because it all matches so perfectly. I really like the blue colour in this line!

Lucky me!

Hint Hint

Spring Break on the West Coast

Wow....exciting news for me today.
I think it will push me out of the creative slumber I have been in.

I will post the details tonight.

Make sure to visit the new Melissa Frances blog. They previewed the new line of pink paper which was inspired by her battle with Breast Cancer. I am going to be looking for some of the paper in the lower mainland.

www.melissafrances.typepad.com

Snow day part 2

We have had a huge dump of snow and in the areas around Port Moody and Coquitlam, they have had even more up to 4 ft. The school busses do not run in this type of weather when the roads are dangerous. The Lower Mainland is just not a place where snow manageable unlike the prairies. People have not experienced road conditions that mean they have to change their driving skills. The roads are not slowly frozen over like they are in cold winter climates so when the snow hits, it sits on the surface and is most likely followed by rain.

I have now officially given up on my coping skills that I once had while living in Regina and Yellowknife. I am now shivering in my Gortex coat and mittens whereas I would once walk to school in a parka and Sorel boots. I have been indoor since Monday night, most of the time spent in bed , sleeping. I was battling a set of symptoms on Monday and while the K's were skating I was just trying to hold on. So the snow days did me some good. I slept like a hibernating bear would have. I baked a whole bunch of chicken and veggies yesterday and put 6 meals in the freezer but that would be the extent of my activities. I have had no energy so this was a gift- to recharge and to watch daytime TV while drinking peppermint tea.

Wonder what it will do tomorrow morning? We are expecting more snow and freezing rain.
GRRRRRRRREAT!

A little Jon Bon Jovi as a reward for 30 minutes on the treadmill tonight.

Nothing else needs to be said here.

Back to Aquafit on Monday Nights

...ok, so I had been going since last Summer and things slowed down to once and week and finally stopped through the stressful times that our family went through in October/November and then stalled in December. Wow...that pool was full. Full of ladies who mostly stood at the back and we were crowded as we ran around and worked out.

Kim, is the new instructor and I LIKE her alot. Both Lynelle ( my pool buddy from Junior Kindergarten) and I thought Kim was surely "kicking out butt" last night. We'll be going to the 7 pm classes on Monday nights. I just hope that Kim stays constant as our instructor. She is a real sized woman who exudes confidence and just seems like she is happy. I have respect for that in a big way and it makes me feel better about being there too.

Qk Soiree for Crew Members

Saturday night was lots of fun! Who would not love a private night in a locked scrapbook store with free product, over 300.00 worth of QK shopping sprees and yummy cupcakes. There were 50 ladies in attendance all dressed in pink, black and red. This is a photo of the team of ladies who made the whole Soiree happen. Thanks to Ron for taking such nice pictures.

Upon being gifted with some pretty amazing gift bags; tote, QK embossing die, Quickstrips, QK rubons, red twizlers and all the materials needed for the 4 stations that evening we had time to visit and shop.

I was the hostess for the Silhouette station, thanks to Kerry for doing the design work and Kate for prepping the kits. The main objective here was to show how versatile the new Digital Design Portfolios are- by highlighting the one named Sweetheart. This is some amazing software as my favourite part is that I can make my own layered die cuts while saving paper and cuts. I have some ideas mulling in my mind where I think I will NEED to get the WILDFLOWER portfolio in order to design some pretty projects.

Quickutz Soiree for our Photo Express QK Crew Customers

Tonight we had our semi annual QK Crew soiree event. The store was full of all things pink, black and white. There were many happy people who received some very lovely goodie bags and free take home kits to create some terribly cute projects , with all things Quickutz. It's been a long day of baking, icing and decorating cupcakes, finishing layouts and cutting out some samples to share at the station I hosted. I will share more tomorrow.

Try, ....Try....ewwhhh ( Like Blue Rodeo sings it)

Ali Edwards ( scrapbook designer guru) does this thing every year where she picks a word that guides her, gives her some focus and this year I want to follow suit. I have picked a word...can you guess what mine is?


Try to get back on the 100% track with eating plan. OK, this is more like doing it! not trying!
Try not to get caught up in all the things I don't have.
Try to remember all the wonderful things that are in my life.
Try to learn the numbering systems about my lenses....aperature is what again?
Try to be more honnest with people, in person, not in my mind once they are gone.
Try to not hold things in so much so that I bare the weight of the problems.
Try to laugh a few times before morning snack.
Try to make my goals and register to play softball again, maybe fastball in 2009.
Try to master my VCR and tape lots of Oprah to fullfill my entertainment on the new treadmill.
Try to push myself creatively which in turn will help me as a Scrapbook Instructor at the LSS.
Try to not buy any new makeup till the old stuff is gone or past due.

....not to forget

Try to convince everyone about why it's so important to love BON Jovi!

Here is one to get started.

Taken from the front row Dec 15th, Vancouver....by me!

My own martini

The Recipe For Tamara

3 parts Brilliance 2 parts Style 1 part Charisma Splash of Genius Limit yourself to one serving. This cocktail is strong!

What's" the Recipe for Your Personality?

My own martini

Spreading a little holiday joy- late!

I have done some Happy New Year cards, let's say they are custom ones in order to try to set a trend. I don't think Hallmark has the corner on this celebration yet. It would be more truthful if I told you that these cards were created out of a humble place.

I left school on the last day to go straight into my BON JOVI weekend, then Christmas came and I travelled to the family on the island. There was no time for me to sit and do Christmas cards so I knew I would have to send out something different.

If you know Martha Stewart or a the President of Hallmark and they would like to talk to me about copyrighting my idea of sending out Happy New Year cards, then feel free to email me :)

Happy New Year

WOW...could this predict my new year for me?

CANCER - The Cutie MOST AMAZING KISSER. Very high appeal. Love is one of a kind. Very romantic. Most caring person you will ever meet! Entirely creative. Extremely random and proud of it. Freak. Spontaneous. Great telling stories.