my head is spinning!

i'm not sure what i was thinking when i took on a second job ontop of a full load of classes! by the way, that's 100 open house invitations for work, 250-275 wedding invitations, 70 shower invitations, and a 30 page digital wedding album (which is very difficult because the software i have to use is like a foreign language!)....check out my deadlines.

i want to scrapbook and take a nap!

holy shit...

how amazing are these gorgeous shoes?!

and these heels...HOT! the part in between the silver is actually bamboo but u can't tell in the picture.

yup, those are my new GUCCI shoes!!!! Farah, Marilyn, and Chrystal pitched in and bought them for my birthday! I am in LOVE with them...seriously! The first thing I did when I got up this morning was put those babies on! I swear, I've never owned such a gorgeous pair of shoes! Ok, enough of the shoes...check out these beautiful earrings Marie got me....

I swear, Marie always gets me the best jewelry! I don't think I've ever not liked something she's bought me...Marie, I can always count on you for awesome jewelry! She bought me a cute make up bag I have been eyeing too, which can also be used as a cool clutch! Then a bunch of us girls went out to dinner and they surprised me with this pretty cake (it's pink and brown).

They really spoiled me last night....thanks guys! All of you are truly the best! I really do have the best friends!

So today we spent the day on the lake. Here's me and Adam, by the way Adam had an entire pitcher of Margarita ALL to himself!!! nasty!

another pic....adam, my brother, and chrystal.

it was a good weekend....wouldn't you think so too if you got those Gucci shoes? : )

first birthday surprise

and probably the only one...i don't think you get to many birthday surprises when your 31! man, i can't believe how old i'm getting! seriously, time goes way too fast and i think it just gets faster and faster as you age. it's kinda scary. Anyway, here are the beautiful flowers my aunt sent me....
i love the vase...so plain and bigger than the ones I have. i love the bonus for getting flowers sent to me...a free vase!

I made these bridal shower invitations for one of my best friends...it's a sex in the city theme. We whipped up 80 of these in less than 3 hrs....

It's crappy out (and I LOVE it)...very dark, windy, and rainy which means its time for a serious nap! especially since i'm going out with the girls tonight for my b-day celebration...can't wait to drink tons of wine...yummy!

i wish i was rich

how beautiful is this clutch?! i want it SOOO bad! too bad it's $300 dollars!

and i've had my eye on darwin bell's awesome wall art...i would love to have one of these!

i think adam's getting me one of these gorgeous necklaces for my birthday...actually i know he's getting me one...i'm custom ordering it to say "i will make a difference" and the charm is actually glass....can't wait to get it!

my list of "i wants" can go and on and on.....i swear shopping DOES make a girl feel so much better!

so i made this for the gutter girlz ...the challenge was to scrap about being a woman using panty hose....so my aunt gave me her fish net stocking and i made this....by the way, it took me forever to make this and i'm not too thrilled with the way it turned out. i pictured it to look better in my head....

oh, marie, mishy, and chris...i took these from you mom. i asked her if i could cut them up and she said, "yeah take them. whenever i try to wear them i just feel like a...a hooker."....she was laughing like she was embarrassed when she was telling me that...you know what i mean right?! she cracked me up!

goose is a pervert

every once in a while i'll catch goose doing this...

yup, that's my underwear...i guess one pair wasn't enough for him today...

moral of the story: make sure your panties land INSIDE the laundry basket!

in the dumps

I really hate it when i fall into the dumps...sometimes i just don't know how to get out of them...that's pretty much how my weekend went. Although i was depressed this weekend, I managed to go to a graduation party and a wedding. The wedding was absolutely stunning! A little too formal, but breath taking. They served TONS of food....lamp chops and crabcakes for o'rderves...just to name a couple..and a 5 course meal served. Each course was served with a different glass of wine (all imported from Italy, of course!)...and the reception hall....OMG! let's just say it was at a yhat club in one of the richest (if not richest) city in MI....we were surrounded by Lake St. Claire and it was a gorgeous day...what a wedding! But I have to say that although i was so down the 6 or 7 glasses of wine really cheered me up! gotta love that wine, i swear!

Did a few more pages for my "confessions" journal...i think it's getting as full as it can for right now...can't think of anymore (maybe one) but i love this mini...it was so fun to make.


yes, i do wash it...and please no comments about my old pillow case that i hid from everyone for years (ohhh that could be another "confession")....

this next one i changed, i hated how the original confession looked, so here's the updated version...

this next one really is true...not one single pair!

thanks to michelle, i have someone to "keep me safe" when adam goes out of town....thanks mishy! oh, that's what i'm gonna do my next layout about and it's gonna be about u!!!


this last one was redone too cause i hated how the original one turned out....this just looks better to me.
anyway, i'm drained. it's after 1am. i work tomorrow and i don't want to. i need to go to bed. i'm out.

internet = lazy

Seriously, I don't know what I used to do before the internet! I really have an obsession with it. I think that if I had to choose between my cell phone and the laptop, the laptop would win...hands down! With the crazy storms we've had, power went out everywhere (but not at my house, thank god!) and our internet connection went down. So since I had no internet this morning I actually played a "good" wife...i cleaned AND i cooked!!!! I guess that's what it takes...take the internet away and i'll actually get something done around here!

Luckily it came back up and I can post a few things I worked on this weekend. I finally made the cover for my "confessions" book....I love the fact that it's getting full.


a confession....
and I LOVE these MM alphas...this is a page in my "R" book....

and Chris, finally a page for you! Sorry, Mish...yours is coming soon! It took me FOREVER to get this page done tonight....i just wasn't feelin it. Hopefully my creative juices don't stop flowing...i love that i've been scrapbooking more...feels so good and I'm actually using my stuff!

and that's it for now....

hello stanley

Although I was feeling a little down tonight...i was happy to watch the wings win the stanely cup! The last second...literally...was such a close call but Woo Hoo cause WE WON!!

I don't have too much to say lately...not sure what's going on with me. But I have been scrapping ALOT that's for sure...and loving it! Tonight the mojo really wasn't there but I still worked on some things. I made this for my "R" mini

and this is a layout i might put in my mom's book. it was extremely hard to scrap....took me forever and i'm not really happy with it, but i just wanted to finish it. I couldn't find the right paper so I printed the lyrics to one of my favorite Madonna songs, "Promise to Try" (she wrote it for her mom) on cardstock.

This picture of mom was taken at my bridal shower and I absolutely love it!! It just shows her exactly the way she was....always so much fun, always so happy...so loving. It's my favorite picture of her but it's also a very difficult picture for me to look at. The blurriness of it makes me see how she just faded away...gone...nowhere to be found.

By the way, this was supposed to be a funny post, but Adam wouldn't let me post what i wanted to post...he said it was rude and really it was. I took a video on my cell phone of the most annoying guy on earth. he's in my class and all he does is rock back and forth in his squeeky chair for 3 hours non stop....IT DRIVES ME CRAZY! For real, it does! I really get angry and nervous and distracted. For the entire class period I debate whether or not to kick his chair...never have...yet. But i did take a video (you can't really see his face in it) to show my friends and hubby, who i text during class to bitch about him...too bad i can't share it with you guys...it really is kinda rude of me to do.

flattered

Candice emailed me this morning to tell me that her and I are featured on the SIStv's catwalk this week!!! For the cousins who don't know what i'm talking about, SIStv is a scrapbooking website where scrapbookers can post their layouts and talk about scrapbooking...pretty fun, huh?! I know! Anyway, every Tuesday the design team members, and the Jeanette (the woman who started the site) pick their favorite layout and Jeanette picked ME!!!!!! How cool is that....check it out here.

So that just inspired me to scrap more! Here's another page I did today of goose and his toys....he LOVES them! And this is how he ALWAYS sleeps with them in his mouth...it's the cutest thing!

This our old man right here....doesn't he really look like one? With a "huh?" look....

layouts layouts layouts

embrace yourselves people...i have 6 layouts!!! i think that's the most i've ever posted at once...and the most i've ever done in 2 days! i'm so proud of myself! i went scrapbooking with one of my favorite scrapbookers today...she's SO inspiring! i seriously love everything she makes and she has the coolest supplies....so jealous!

So here are some layouts I've made...




this one was totally jacked from Katie. I loved her version so much I had to have one of my own!


and these go in my journal...



I'm on a roll.....i think i might be doing some more while I watch the Red Wings game tonight. Go Wings!