Album Alejandra

It´s funny how you think since I get to stay at home I´m going to blog a lot more and then realize that you are super busy and forget or do something else or you are simply not inspired and not because you are being lazy.

Es gracioso cómo una llega a pensar que como no tiene que salir a trabajar y sólo estar en la casa, va a tener más tiempo de escribir en su blog; luego se da cuenta que está o muy ocupada o se le olvida o simplemente no está inspirada... pero nunca por que estés flojeando.

This past two weeks I´ve been working on and off in this birthday present for Alejandra the daughter of dear friends, she turned 15 and as it is traditionally done she had a huge party and wore the purplest (is that a word?) dress I´ve ever seen, she looked great and danced awesome and hope she likes what I made for her.

Las últimas dos semanas estuve trabajando en un regalo de cumpleaños para Alejandra, la hija de unos queridos amigos, quien cumplió 15 años y como es tradición, tuvo una super fiesta y usó el vestido más morado que he visto en mi vida; se veia super bien y bailó fabuloso. Espero de verdad que le guste su regalo.

I made this album with DCWV Pocket full of poisies and the Glitter Stack, I also used tons of Primas a whole bunch of blings and a lot of Stickles and is not much of my style but I really love how it looks.

Hice el album con Pocket Full of Poisies de DCWV y el Glitter Stack; también utilicé un buen de flores Prima, mucho bling y Stickles, y aunque no es mucho mi estilo, realmente me gusta como se vé.

I have a lot of projects to do on the following weeks so I´ll be blogging about that, and I promise to write more since is taking me a while to post.

Tengo muchos proyectos pendientes para las próxima semanas y voy a estar blogueando acerca de eso, así que debo escribir más, ya que me está tomando un rato escribir.

Off to cut with the Silhoutte since she is behaving tonight.

Me voy a cortar con la Silhoutte ya que hoy está de buenas y se está portando bien.

Santa was here!

And the gifts were awesome, tons of scrapbooking supplies, Diana got a popcorn maker and a few goodies to go with it (she looooves popcorn), and I got......an Amy Butler scrapbooking bag!!!!! In Pink and with goodies inside!!!!!!

We had a blast at Julia´s last night, the food was incredible and we got gifts from her and she and her mom loved the gifts we gave them.

It was an awesome Christmas and not because of the gifts, we spent the time having fun, trying to not get so stressed about the season and really and focusing in the future and present, the best gift this Christmas for me was knowing I´m in love with someone that is in love with me.

¡¡¡Feliz Navidad!!!

Merry Christmas everybody!!

In a while we´ll be getting ready to go with our friend Julia and her family to spend Christmas eve with them and then tomorrow just stay here and eat yummy food and relax and enjoy what Santa brought us.

I finished my final gifts really late last night, this is a mini accordion album for Julia and her boyfriend Jorge so they can put special pictures of them during 2009. I used DCWV Pocket full of Posies and Old World, and some cut and paste vintage images from K&Company.

And this is for Julia´s mom Nina (her name is also Julia but no one calls her that) so I made this for her to put on her dresser or wherever she could need it, she loves those colors and owls and this paper Urban Rhapsody from K&Co. have owls and birds and vintage stuff and colors.

Hope you have an awesome time with your family and friends that you eat yummy, stay warm, drive safely and Santa brings you all the things you wanted.

I leave you with my favorite performers of the season dancing one of my favorite Christmas song.

The process to a layout

Have you ever wondered, just how do scrapbookers start doing their thing at least at home? I do and a lot. For example what does Toni do before creating awesome cards or how does Sarah prepares to do her super cute layouts? (just to mention a couple)?

Since today I´m going to be scrapping and already have half my chores done, I´ll show you what I do (don´t expect anything super exciting lol) just the plain, regular, easy going scrapbooker.

Ok first of all I clean my work area wich is my desk right next to my pc, I always do this first cause I have cats and fur travels and far and they always lay here so that goes first.

Then I pick up what I´m going to work on, this time was a layout for this week´s challenge on Get your scrap on!, so I picked my picture and started searching for papers.

Then I tell the kitty to please give me the chair back, he usually does, I need my chair empty to rest my knees because you must know I need to work standing up, otherwise it just doesn´t look ok.

(What do you mean is YOUR chair, I don´t see your name on it)

By this time I´m getting a bit thirsty so I grab my favorite drink, Diet Coke with lots of ice, you must have something nice to drink so inspiration flows lol.

Then some inspiration from magazines, I´m not that creative I need all the help I can get, this time I was checking out Scrapbooks etc.

Then I turn on the tv to watch something truly inspirational.

Oh yes nothing inspires more than Leonidas yelling "This is Sparta!" I love watching this movie because of the movement and art, the hot guys in very little clothing have nothing to do with it.

And then playing and cutting, trimming and punching finally voilá I´ve got a layout all done!

So hope you like what I do to scrap and at least had fun. I would love to know how do you prepare yourself to scrap or stamp or make cards.

Create and conquer

This past couple of weeks I put my ALBM album aside and worked on a banner I saw featured on TvWeekly, and I had a ton of fun, it was easy and fast to make and I took some pics today so you could see it, is going to hang over my door in my scraproom and it´s super springy I´ll have to do one for halloween and Christmas now.

(the pretty kitty in the back is not included in the banner)

(is kind of a long banner, excuse the mess in the back)

I´m so happy and proud of myself today I started conquering one of my biggest fears: lizards; I am terrified of lizards, big or small, green or blue, vicious or tamed, caged or free they simply FREAK ME OUT!! But today leaving home to go to work I greeted our neighbors who love animals and have a wide variety of them, including 4 dogs, 1 ferret, 1 rabbit and now also a green lizard and they wanted to show it to me, oh yes you know it I started to freak out and they were trying to get me to get close to it and I politely refused and then it occur to me, why was I so afraid? So I got close and gently rubbed Rene´s (green lizard) back with my finger, its been over 12 hours and I can still describe in detail exactly how it felt to touch it, I felt so good about myself maybe next week I allow them to place it on my hand, is a small step for manking but a huuuge step for me.

Tomorrow we have craft meeting and who knows what could happen there, fun times for sure, I also worked on a card today I´ll take a pic tomorrow and also work on my ALBM album, have a great weekend everybody and hope you all create a lot!

Tool time!

This is in my opinion the the best toolbox out there, of course I am biased since is my toolbox but you can ask anybody I talk about it and take it to any crop big or small, is like my pacifier, if I have it I know everything is going to be ok and I have anything I could possibly need and I´ll give you a sample of this:


This is the top layer, also known as the pentahouse of the toolbox, I carry there inkpad for inking, eraser, set of brushes; the red is in the bathroom soaked cause I forgot to rinse glue and well I´m rambling never mind, also letter opener that works as a bone folder (cause I don´t have one!!!) fine tip markers in blue, red and black and fine tip sharpie, mechanical pencil and you can´t see it but white ink marker.

Then comes the inner removable tray tha hols twezers, waterbrushe, sandpaper, crochet hooks, sequins, glue and of course my rounder corner punch.

And the bottom part that has my Fiskateer scissors, I´m #1337 just in case you were wondering, Fiskars finger tip craft knife, tacky glue, glue dots, glue lines, staples, stapler, Olfa circle cutter blade, embossing pens, sharpener, rounder corner scissors etc.

Is a simple Truper toolbox completey see trough so I can see what I have there all the time and this has made the difference when I craft because I know exactly where everything is and I don´t loose time looking for anything and when I go to crops is super easy to carry around and doesn´t take that much space.

2Peas Blogger Challenge:
Do you have any spring projects you excited about?

Well the "A little bit me" book has me really excited and I blogged about it here yesterday so you can take an early look.

So how do you guys carry your tools an stuff to crops and other places??

10 things that make me happy.....

Sarah from 2paws designs and several other bloggers had this challenge and I really wanted to do it too, but kept forgetting so here are mine:

10.Watching movies I love (like 300 or Love Actually)
9.Buying stuff for crafts, scrapbooking, stamping, knitting doesn´t matter
8. Kisses and hugs
7. Having a good hair day
6. Having a day off
5. Scrapbooking
4. Reading blogs
3. Eating and making cupcakes
2. Trying on clothes that didn´t fit and fit now
1. Cuddling with a kittie

When I went to Walmart today I found this, gotta love the little surprises Walmart offers once in a while, this just made my weekend I taste it and images of Sex and the City pop in my head ahh memories!

Also rented some videos, The DaVinci Code, Crash and A Night at the museum, seen all but could totally see them again and get inspired with them, maybe tomorrow I watch Nightmare before Christmas. Also tody we have daylight savings so we loose and hour wich makes tomorrow the shortest day but I´ll continue crafting.

Have a great sunday everybody, and hope the weather is great wherever you are!!