This month's challenge was my idea, take 3 sheets of pattern paper, they can be double sided and use every little piece to create as many projects, layouts and cards. I ended up with 4 layous and 3 cards. My papers were 2 from Scenic Route Sonoma line and the other was from October Afternoon Daydream line. I have lots of fun with this, I can' believe all of these came out of 3 papers. So here is my work for the challenge.








I'll be back later to update on my mini vaca/birthday and plans for next month. For now enjoy the rest of the week.

I'm starting to get excited about going to Disneyland this weekend. We have an aunt (my great aunt actually, who is 75 years young) who is visiting us for a month from El Salvador, she has never been to Disneyland and my mom loves Disneyland so we are going to Disney this weekend. One of my aunts who lives in LA is going with us also. So that's 3 ladies who will not go on any rides with me. I will be going by myself on Space Mountain and all the other "big" rides. My cousin might be available and join us for one day so I can actually have a partner in crime to ride the "big" rides. But I'm sure I'll still enjoy the rides and the fact that Monday is my birthday, I will have some fun.

So I have been working hard. My 30k checkout is almost done, just have a couple of more follow up appointments tomorrow and that's it. Last week I did the sleep study, it was hard sleeping with all that stuff. I'll get my results tomorrow. But so far everything is checking out good. Just got to lose some weight and eat better so my "good" cholesterol can be higher.

My kitties are doing great. My parents are doing good too. I have been trying to keep not so busy but it never works that way. I finished my GG assignments for this month. I really enjoyed them. Now on to completing the CJ challenge, I got my 3 papers ready.

Here are my GG assignments:





Also, my next class is now available for signups at Picture Me Perfect. You can see it here and sign up at the store.

Also, here is my CJ challenge for the month of May. This month's challenge was to use 10 items from your stash. Yeah, since my stash is huge, I had no trouble doing this. I took it even further and all of my items used in the Layout are from my stash. Most of them came from Kerry Lynn's kit club - Kenner Road.


Pattern paper is October Afternoon and My Minds Eyes. Cardstock is Bazzill. Letters: American Craft and My Little Shoebox.

I love the red, white and blue, it all came together perfect for the photo of my family on Mom's and myself US Citizenship day.

So I have been told that I haven't updated my blog in forever. It truly has been a long time. But I swear there has been very little time for me. I'm overwhelmed. Work is extremly busy, I have been in training for the past 2 weeks. Had tons of stuff to do for scrapbooking assingments. Completed my CJ challege for the month. So right now I'm officially burnt out. I have no creative juices, I'm overly tired. What did I do, I scheduled a weekend, more like 5 days where I have nothing to do. No places to be nothing. I will be cleaning my scrap stuff, but that is it. No work, no nothing.

I'm so grateful that everything is great. I'm in the middle of my "30k tune-up" or as everyone else knows it yearly physical, eyes, women's health, etc. Everything is good. Have to loose weight, but I knew that. Just got a few more appointments to get thru and hopefully everything comes back good. Which BTW, if you are the person who is drawing blood from me and I tell you "Ouch that hurts as you poke me with the needle" it really means that hurts can you not hurt me any more. I bruise easily. I have a bruise for over a week that it looks really bad from the girl that drew blood from me and she said to my comment of pain, "you're OK", not I'm not ok. look at my arm now. Geesh. Now I think people are thinking that someone hurt me because the bruise is really bad, it's been a week and it looks ugly.

Anyways, those are my ramblings as I'm wiped out. I hope to come out of this weekend rejuvinated. Here are some of my work for Garage Girl.

This month's challenge was to use as many circles as you want. I have always enjoyed how Erin does a bunch of thin circles on her LOs so I sort of did that. I used Creative Imaginations paper that went perfect with the sunset photo of the group last year at the beach house. I also used the new Hambly overlay, Creative Cafe ruler paper, Maya Road chipboard word, some stickles and glimmer mist.



I also used the new binder border punch from EK Success. I had tons of fun doing this LO, I just got to figure out how to put it in my typewriter to journal.

I had a lot of fun yesterday at the Copic Certification. I'm now certified. Watch out, LOL. What I do know is that I need to practice a lot of my techniques to get bettter. And as with anything, I'm a shopaholic step one, now I "need" more cool tools to use my copics.

As I write this, my parents are in flight, my sister called me to let me know that they had left El Salvador. If you read this before 1 am tonight, pray for them to have a safe flight. I can't wait to see them.

Have a great day.

Well, it has been a while since my last update. I know, I'm really busy and sometimes forget to update until someone reminds me. But my parents made it ok to El Salvador, they come back on Friday. I'm excited to see them and see all the pictures and hear the stories. Kitties are doing great. Misifu no longer has the lump on her leg. She will most likely never be vaccinated again, so we don't run the risk. Diasque is doing great with his diabetes. I think we have him under good regulation. He is not going to be seen by the vet until July. Me I'm tired, this week I will be working really early. I was at work this morning at 5 am. On Wednesday I'm going to a Copic Markers certification. I have loved these pens since I first hear about them. I have quite a collection, but don't know how to use them correctly, Maria took this cert in Vancouver last year, so I know I will be learning some cool stuff. Shelly is also going with me.

Also thanks to Laurie G. I got a spot to Creative Escape. I'm excited, I even got the time off. Hopefully nothing prevents me from going. I can't wait to get my creativeness going on.

this past weekend I taught my message board class, all of the students were great. They went home with a wonderful project. Some were even gifts. We finished the class early, which is a first for me. I never, ever finish ontime. I went home to clean up my "corner" mess in the living room and tried to pull stuff for the garage sale that started yesterday and goes until Thursday at Picture ME Perfect. There were some great deals. I came home with canvas but I need nothing else, I have way too much. Wow I probably could have a garage store like Suzy had before with all of my stuff. Let's not talk about cardstock, way too much. I don't need any cardstock, but specially pink, green, blue, orange and purple. Way too much. I'm hoping once I'm all organized and cleaned up my huge mess of scrap stuff that I will be able to kit things before going to scrap. Let's cross my fingers. So this goal of cleaning my mess is the one that is hard to keep up with. Along with exercising more.

Well hopefully everyone is having great time. I will post soon my CJ challenge, it has been done for about 3 weeks but haven't had the time to scan it in. I will share soon.

Have a great week.

I just finished checking them in. That process bites. Their software was annoying it kept booting me out. Wow, I made a mistake and will have to get it taken care of tonight at the airport. But I got them checked in and seats where they wanted, up front, daddy on the window and mom on the aisle. Now on to sleep for the next 3.5 hours until kitty needs food/insulin. Today, shhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell my boss, I might be too tired and taking cat naps...LOL