Happy 5th Birthday Owen!!
Today is our son's birthday and we decided to buy him his own Nintendo DSi. I really struggled with the decision of whether to spend this kind of money on a child. Honestly, it goes against the grain of what I feel comfortable with. My husband loves to buy the kids whatever they want for special occasions, which I do too, but I have a hard time stomaching spending that much on a 5 year old. I'm not sure that he will take proper care of it so that is mostly where my issue lies. David is not going to be the one who will always have to be like "Owen put your DS away, Owen don't put it there it will get ruined, Owen move your DS it's going to fall" That will be my job. Anyway,

i dare you not to fall in love with this song. double dog dare you.
I'm in love with it. Gorgeous. I know she's weird at first, she's hard to take for a lot of people. If you look past the artistic(? questionable for some) "look", this woman has talent. The kind that comes from a passion for her art. It can't be faked. The real deal. If you look past the exterior, she has an inspiring dedication to what she does.Here are some quotes from an interview By DJ Ron Slomowicz, About.com Guide::About having t

December Daily Day 1/2
Last night I got two days prepared for my December Daily album.Here they are:I gessoed the whole background of the two pages and then I plyed around with paint. I painted red acrylic paint bordering both of the pages. While still wet and adding some water, I added a little bit of black paint around the edge to make it look more distressed. I ripped some of the paper when it was damp in the upper right corner. Som

December Daily Numbers Cut Project
I haven't added anything new to my Etsy shop in donkey's years but I just added something that I think might be of interest to some people. Earlier this week I showed you my progress so far with my December Daily album. Some people were asking me if I could make the numbers available as a project. So I have them available in my shop now. For $4, you get an actual "project file" in .scut format, w

Mojo MIA? Four Alternative Sources for Inspiration
I wanted to share my article I wrote for this month's ScrapMuse Newsletter here so here it is: For this article, I thought that rather than share the obvious scrapbooking sources that we are all used to going to, i.e. The challenge sites, the sketch sites, perusing galleries, checking scrapbooking magazines etc., I would share with you some of the “alternative” sources that I go to when my mojo needs resuscitation. Here are my top 4 “Alternative” Sources for Inspiration: