Toot...

So a few months ago I was asked to design three projects for My Little Shoebox. They were for a TV show. The show is Scrapbook Memories and it runs on PBS. Well today, my TiVo finally recorded it. I'm so excited to share that one of my projects was shown it's this one:


I'm so excited to see my work on TV. I'm also so proud to work with a wonderful group of inspiring women that are in Suzy's design team. Erin, Krista, Michelle, Nichole and Pattie all have projects/layouts shown during the show. Way to go girls.

I love My Little Shoebox, seriously, they are the coolest collections I have seen, I love all their colors. My favorite new line right now is "A Little Birdie Told Me" I worked on some projets again for MLS and were displayed at their booth in CHA-Summer. Since I was in a rush, I didn't get to take a picture of them. I'm so bummed, but maybe I'll get to take them soon and share with you all.

Back to my toot, if you have DirecTV search for it. Here in the Bay Area is on DirecTV channel 22, PBS will show it again on Saturday August 23rd at 1:30pm, the title of the episode is "Favorite Vacations" episode #1302.

Here are the other two projects I did for Helen earlier in the year,




Have a fun weekend.

Busy Bee...

I have been busy since my last update. I attended Scrapbook expo on August 8th and 9th. I helped out with 2 classes for Scrap for a Cure. I helped out on the Friday's class and taught the Saturday class. Wow it was tons of work and fun. I haven't taken a picture of the projects but those projects were so cull and the Scrap for a Cure girls are awesome. They give tons of product and always have neat techniques. I did go over my budget at expo, thanks to Maria who told me to pick up some nestabilities for her and then I ended getting some for me too. It was great to see so many people. I love this hobby because I have gotten to meet so many wonderful friends, I'm so lucky. I was so exhausted after the expo that I didn't want to do anything. But we had our CJ crop, good thing that I'm done so I only had pass the CJ to Veronica. I got energy after dinner, but still I was exhausted that weekend.

I have also continued to clean my mess, and slowly but surely I'm making progress. Still have tons to do until I finish and have a clean scrap area. So my aunt is in town this week, she is my dad's oldest sister so they are having tons of fun together.

I have also done my PMP's Garage Girl assignments. I'm having so much fun doing LO's. Next on my plate is creating my class for the Big Event at PMP in November. My class for September is now available for sign ups. I have gotten so many beautiful comments. Like I tell many, this is a book all about me at 31. Who I am today. So that when I read it or my family reads it later much later in life, they can see all that I was involved right now. I wish I had something like that from my mom. Wow that would have been awesome. If you click on the image on the left bar for THIS IS ME, you can sign up online.

I leave you with my assignments:






Have a great week.

Working, working....

working. Really that's all I have been doing in the last week. I finished my class for September. Now I have to start working on my BIG EVENT Class in November. And my regular work has been busy too.

I did went to John Mayer's Concert last Saturday with Erin, Suzy and Janice. It was tons of fun. I had never been on the lawn at Shoreline Amphitheater. The concert was great. I needed to hear two more songs and it would have been totally AWESOME. But wow is he an AWESOME GUITARIST. He did this on one of his songs:



I was at AWE, granted we could barely see him. But we were having so much fun us girls enjoying his music. Fun times.




Have a great Thursday!

What to give the person who has given you everything...

You give him THIS:



This was the best picture I could find on the net, I'll update with my own photo once I have a chance to take one.

My dad has always been there for me. Pushing me to be the best that I can be. Along with my mom, they both are my foundation. Without them I wouldn't be here today. I wouldn't have been able to pursue my dreams. So for that he got a brand new spanking 2008 Toyota Tundra Crew Max. My dad has never owned a brand new car of his own, they have always been used cars. It's also my mom's but since she doesn't drive, he'll have to take her everywhere. We had been shopping around for a few weeks or so and had walked out on deals which just weren't working for us. But yesterday was a good day, we went to Gilroy Toyota, and found that puppy just like we wanted, with all the options we wanted and the options we didn't want weren't there. It was meant to be. The only funny part is that we have way too many red cars now. It took a while to get the deal, but it was done, and my dad has now a new truck to use. Not to worry about getting broken down and him not able to fix it because he's not allowed to be near a running engine with his implanted defibrillator. We left to Gilroy around 11am and didn't get back home until 7pm. Since it took so long to settle everything, from bargaining the price of the truck and them washing it and detailing it. But my dad finally got a hold of his truck, which he has already nicknamed "Rogelio" as in rojo in Spanish or red in English.

My brother and I followed them on his new truck and he was all smiles on the drive home. My mom was too, I was surprised she wasn't crying a river, as she is really emotional, but she was just happy to see my dad so proud and happy. My brother told me something that really stuck, in his words: "Your dad isn't happy about the fact that he got the Tundra, for him it could have been a new bike, it was the fact that you bought it for him that has him so happy." It makes me so happy that I have been able to give something back to him for everything they have given me.

Thanks Papi for always believing in me and helping me be the best person I can be.

Love you both.

A Crazy Tornado...

has hit my house. OK, I admit, I'm a shopaholic "Step 1". Since I love to shop it goes for everything that I'm involved. I have been shopping scrapbook supplies way too much and haven't been organizing. Really not enough time in the day. I'm way too busy. But it has gotten out of control. I swear it was a fire hazard. So last weekend was a long weekend due to the 4th of July holiday. I took a few extra days off from work so I can clean up the mess I have made. I thought 3 days will be enough to clean up. Yeah, so not the case. My family room is a mess and my bedroom is still a mess. But not fire hazard anymore. LOL. I will not be posting pictures as I'm too embarrassed that it was so out of control. I still got tons of things to organize and put in it's place, then I have to start sorting thru the things that I don't want. Yeah, it will be another month before I can even say that I'm close to being done with my scraproom.

On Tuesday, I was so fed up with the cleaning that I didn't get much done. I instead had plans to go see American Idol on Tour with Suzy. I didn't hold much for it. But it was actually pretty good. I was in love with Michael Johns, Seysha Mercado, Jason Castro, Brooke White, David Archuleta and David Cook. It was a fun concert. We were in nose bleed sections of the HP Pavillion, but had center of the stage view, not so bad.

I also posted all my LO's that I have been doing lately:









Have a great weekend.