Yes, I'm back at running. And its been painful. And challenging. And fun. After taking time off during our vacation (and the week after), I am back to training for the Corona Del Mar 5k next weekend. With so much time off, I'm not expecting amazing results. I'll just be happy to enjoy the scenery.
Have a nice Memorial Day, friends!
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...we were relaxing in the Bahamas. Oh, how I am missing the island life. To relive my most favorite memories, I am scrapbooking the many (40+) instax pictures and mementos from our trip.
I had planned to scrapbook on the trip using the contents from my travel kit. The thought was good but I definitely wasn't able to keep up. I guess that means I was just having too much fun! I was able to keep the instax photos in order and I wrote a small snippet about what we did each day.
Side note- my Instax camera was a huge hit. To the non-crafty world, the camera seems weird. But it was such a fun way to document our vacation. Jon calls it my "Fisher Price" camera due to its bulkiness! And the Sandals' staff (who kindly took a few pics for us) thought it was awesome too!
Just going through the pictures and tickets/receipts/brochures makes me happy all over again. What an amazing trip. So thankful to be able to document all these great memories. Once my mini is complete, I'll share photos!
Of course, in the background I'm watching Real Housewives of Orange County Season 5 on DVD. Many thanks to my brother for the DVD set as a birthday gift!
Happy Saturday, friends! And happy Memorial Day weekend!
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Our Caribbean Escape in pictures:
It was such a beautiful vacation filled with sun, laughter, strawberry daiquiris with rum, rain, paddle boarding, lobster, sunscreen, friends, champagne, bug bites, romance, sunsets, crystal clear water, and relaxation. It could not have been a better 8 days.
And I'm already counting down the days till our next Caribbean vacation!
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We are packed and ready to go on vacation! Its going to be a nice week filled with sun, relaxation, friends, and rum.
Bon Voyage!
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Its been a week of randomness. Lots to do before we leave on vacation...3 days to go!
Finished up shopping and wrapping for our Mother's Day gifts. I really enjoy shopping for Jon's mom...she loves anything and everything from World Market. I put together a cute little basket filled with fun kitchen gadgets, pretty cloth napkins, napkin rings, and coasters. I had to wrap it up in cellophane with a washi tape covered tag.
We enjoyed some yummy hand rolled sushi by Handa Rolla Masta...so yummy! Love when the food trucks visit our apartment complex.
This week was my last Virtue Bible Study. I've been studying the Psalms weekly on Wednesdays since October. Can't believe my study is over...time flies by. Our small group questions was "what would you have missed this year if you had not been committed to this study?" Wow, great question. I would have missed so much. Fellowship and time with women, who became good friends. Time spent worshipping and learning God's Word. Just so much.
Looking forward to the Girl Talk Study.
It was also my last week volunteering for the Junior Achievement program through work. Its been so much fun spending time with the First Grade class, it amazes me how smart kids are. The class made me this darling book, filled with drawings are notes...oh it makes my heart swoon!
And I have been doing a ton of reading. Skinny Dipping was supposed to be for vacation, but I guarantee this book will be finished very soon. And $100 Start Up was just delivered. I'm already digging into this one.
Happy Thursday, friends! We've almost made it to Friday!
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And this is one of those moments. Meeting my favorite Orange County Housewife (Gretchen!) and boyfriend Slade. It appears that I am speaking in these pictures...what was being said, I'm not really sure. Best day ever!
Thankful Jon was there to capture my craziness via iPhone.
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Last weekend was quite busy. The kind of busy I enjoy. I had a list of projects to work on for NSD. With vacation stuff to do. A little bit of running. Reading. Spending time with Jon. Laying by the pool. Just fun stuff overall. And it didn't help that we had beautiful weather.
Scrapbooked another layout. Worked on Project Life and got all the way to April. Will I ever just be up to date? I don't think so.
Organized my travel kit. I'm taking these lovelies to the Bahamas with me, along with my new camera. Its sort of like scrapbooking on the go!
Finished AC's album. Finally. I find it to be stressful working on someone else's album and with someone else's pictures. Once I got going, it turned out good. I'm happy to have this finished now.
And I had to package it up for AC using a bit of washi tape and a tag with her name. Done.
Saturday we made time to celebrate Cinco De Mayo at Back Bay Bistro. Jon had Pacifico while I opted for a margarita. It was a beautiful day in Back Bay!
Less than 7 days till vacation!
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Wow, it's been a busy-hectic-fun day so far! The morning started off with finishing up an 8x8 scrapbook album for a co-worker. I'll be happy when I can the album over. I also participated in a few of the Studio Calico challenges:
(Sketch Challenge)
(Triangle challenge)
(Sketch challenge)
Its been such a fun day trying to squeeze in scrapbooking time! My apartment is officially a crafty-disaster zone!
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Good morning and happy National Scrapbook Day! I've already been awake for several hours and am working hard on a few projects today. So excited to start the Studio Calico challenges. Before I do that, I'm getting inspired by starting the SC Blog Hop. I'm think I must sign up for this...the description is lovely:
Karine and Céline naturally got together again on this project to bring you inspiration, right at home, this summer ! Whether you want to follow every single class or at a self-paced rythm, they will teach you new techniques, new color palettes, new way of designing your layouts !
Who’s the audience for such a class?
This online class has been thought, made, created for scrapbook lovers that want to have fun with us !Whether you are a beginner or advanced scrappbooker, the Summer Camp online class is just for you !
The workshops have been made to guide you, teach you tips and tricks, new techniques, bring you inspiration and motivation all Summer long !
Don’t feel scared or intimidated to join us (especially if you just got started with your very first Scrapbook projects) : the best thing about online classes is that you can follow the mat your own pace, without stress, at home, with friends or by yourself…well just do it the way you like !
Welcome on our blogs !
Scrapbooking is popular everywhere in the world. Whether we are from France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, United States, Canada, Singapore, Australia or any other countries, we ALL love Scrapbooking, we all know the products and the colors.
As there are lots of Scrapbookers all the world that haven’t had a chance to take real classes yet, we decided on doing this class in FRENCH and ENGLISH.
Then, all the workshops will be posted every Tuesday : a first class will be posted that day, by Karine or Céline, then one of them will make another project inspired by the one posted by her fellow co-scrapbooker, on Friday. That way, you’ll get 2 projects for one class !
We’ll also post ideas, tips, step-by-step projects, videos… inspiration posts, music, books, photos…for 2 months !
***Summer Camp*** : ONLINE CLASS SCHEDULE
Class starts on June 29th and ends on August 30th 2012.
18 layouts made by Karine and Céline.
2 mini albums (one with Karine and one with Céline).
A workshop posted every Tuesday and its inspiration posted every Friday by Céline and Karine : two different layouts to inspire you twice more ! It’s up to you to choose which layout you’d like to make or if you make them two !
Mini album Class with Céline end of July.
Mini album Class with Karine end of August.
Looks awesome! It makes me excited for summer!
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