well, is everyone having a fun summer?my creative slump is waning and i could not be happier about that. i created with my creative genius friend wendy last week and i couldn't be happier about that either because it had been way too long and we have this great creative chemistry that always brings my mojo back. we created 3 summer layouts with the fabulous new cosmo cricket line mr. campy. they did such a fantastic job with this paper that we were amazed at how little embellishing we felt compelled to do, the paper is so great it sort of is the embellishment!! fun, fun, fun paper.
i continued my creative day by working on my atc's for the august mdw atc swap club. the theme is "your calling card". so i guess it should reflect your style or some other aspect of your personality. if i could draw like the talented miss casey maupin (who drew walmart for the july americana theme), i would have drawn a red mary jane shoe. funny, i wonder if anyone else thinks that reflects who i am? probably not! anyway, i ended up making it pink and red and i used the really pretty eye candy swarovski crystals that creative imaginations recently put in the stores. the atc club is really a lot of fun and i am looking forward to seeing everyone's calling cards. thanks to my pal daniela for putting this club together.
i went to redding a few weeks ago for a long weekend with my friends from high school. my friend linda and i drove up there and stayed with two of our high school friends who now live there in redding. it was a really great weekend. fun and relaxing. we even got to extend our stay by one night when the car broke down just as we were getting ready to leave for home that sunday. we ended up having to stay an extra night and get the car fixed. it was excellent!!
anyway, while there we went to the lss called scraps of life
http://scrapsoflife.org/. it was the only store i have ever been to that had more crop space than the space it had product in. serious crop space!! the ladies working there were very nice and they were having a 30% off the whole store sale and there was also a coupon for 40% off of one item. fun. i really love getting together with my high school friends because we have this strong bond that time does not change, ever.
no matter how many months it's been since i saw them last it always just feels like yesterday to me. amazing to me to think that silly crazy teenage girls can form everlasting bonds! i feel so very blessed to have these girls in my life. there are 8 of us in our little group but only 4 of us were able to make the redding weekend. our next get together is in our home town of sonoma in september for vintage festival, i really hope all 8 of us can make it!
here we are me, bonnie, linda and rain. i will have to scan a picture of us from high school and post it for comparison!!!
ok, so see what happens when i don't post for a while? i end up posting a huge long boring thing!!
but i do have one more thing to tell you all. a few nights ago i created with liz pagayonan's creating intentions kit which you can find here http://www.creatingintentions.com/ or click on the link to her blog in my list in the right margin. people, you need to run not walk to your computer and go to her site and buy this kit and do it now. it will change your life, i am not kidding. seriously, it is amazing. liz has created a method for creating art that comes from the depths of your soul. it is absolutely amazing. you need to go to her site and blog and read about it and what it all means. i just don't know how to explain it like she does. it truly is changing my life.
ok, i will shut up now and go to bed, it is late and i do have to get up for work in the morning.
well, one more picture can't hurt, can it? here is my grandaughter kelsey dressed in my clothes being silly. love this girl bunches and bunches. 
