here's to all of you having a fun and wonderful fourth! i'll be wearing my sweet america flower and wishing that your day is full of watermelon, bbq goodness, cold drinks and sparklers. lots & lots of sparklers.
happy saturday!
xo
i'm not sure why but it never really feels like summertime until july rolls around and i've put out a bouquet of sunflowers. i remember when i was little and we lived on the kenner road ranch we used to have these 10 foot tall sunflowers growing along the back fence, remember that mom? they would be packed with seeds and they just screamed summer fun. i used to love standing underneath them gazing up at the birhgt yellow petals wondering how they could stand up so tall and strong.
i've been saving this poor neglected & tattered enid collins barrel purse that i found vintage shopping a while ago to use for this exact purpose. as soon as i picked it up i knew it needed to be turned into a vase and stuffed full of a big and bold bouquet, thankfully trader joe's had these huge sunflowers yesterday, and they are huge!
the bag is long past it's purse carrying prime so i stuffed it with a large vintage cannig jar and used an old tree frog to hold those sunflower stems tall and straight. the canning jar inside is making it look fuller than it is, without that inside it's so floppy and the strap is so ready to break right off.
but, there is nothing like repurposing something as amazing as enid, right?
happy thursday!
xo
we're slowly working ourselves back into some kind of normal.
maddie's recovery continues to astound me. every. single. day. her surgeon made a comment to us the day we checked out of the hospital about how he would never trade being a children's surgeon for an adult surgeon because of how quickly they rebound and bounce right back into being active and happy and well. we of course still have some struggles with the healing process {mostly at night when she's tired and everything just seems icky to her} but otherwise we feel blessed and so very fortunate that what she needed could be resolved so swiftly and without a tremendous amount of healing struggles.
so on that note i have a few items to share and then we are out to play and giggle and play some more...
last month the design team at hambly decided it qwould be fun to scraplift one another. you can see the entire dt gallery here, but i wanted to show the layout i created when i scraplifted this smile layout that peg created. seriously, is she not the queen of simple perfection?
what i love most, and it's something i really want to do more and more, is how i duplicated her simple design on the page. i LOVE the imapct it shows and i'm always a sucker for good repetition.
other good things :
- sneak peeks of the july kenner road kits are up
- jessi has a fab & fun class on the kr blog today too
- SO excited that this lady has joined the kr creative team!!!
- cannot wait til tomorrow when we can finally get our 2010 july 4th yosemite reservations
- sunday's me birthday & i'm going here
- 27 days until i get ot see her & her & her & her & her & her & well alot of you too! and, all while shopping for kr. yay!!!
have a happy first of july!!
xo
how grateful i am for the support!!
we got home late saturday. my life, maddie's life, our family life as a whole was forever changed by this last week. we met families who's children are fighting for their lives and had the most amazing care by the most amazing doctors and nurses. i have so much to say and share about our experience but we are still helping the bean heal and slowly catching up on so much lost sleep.
thank you SO much for all of your prayers & hugs & well wishes. i felt every ounce of it last thursday and have every intention of replying to each one of you personally, but right now i just want to be with my family and process it all.
happy wonderful fantastic tuesday!!!
xoxo
we've got three days until this one, my first, my girl, my best friend and my most beautiful daughter is headed back to stanford for another round of surgery. i thought that the first time we were there i would learn that worrying and fretting doesn't help, it doesn't you know.... but unfortunately my nerves haven't listened and i'm finding myself turning into a flitter stomached mama all over again.
about two years ago we discovered through some late night er visits with fevers and chills that she has vesicoureteral reflux. after 3 vcug's and two years of prophylactic antibiotics she's still a stage 4/5. almost the worst of the worst.
i've barely slept in the past two weeks. i either go to bed extremely late because i just can't quiet my mind, or i wake up at 5 am because my stomach is in a knot of worry. the worst though, i think, is the endless nights of 2-3 hour mid night insomnia. i get up. i drink a glass of water. i surf the net or watch something extremely uninteresting on hulu. nothing has helped. nothing will help until we are past this milestone and on the recovery end... this i know.
so i go about my day {and night} pretending and keeping us as busy as i possibly can. i mostly keep my worries to myself and pray that she'll be ok. i just want her to be ok.
please keep her in your thoughts.
xo
home sweet home + gravenstein hwy + occidental road
home sweet home + gravenstein hwy
home sweet home + occidental road
home sweet home + gravenstein hwy + salmon creek + occidental road
everything goes live this evening at 9pm pacific, but we're doing our first ever live chat tonight on the kenner road site beginning at 8pm... hope to see you there!
happy reveal day :)
xo
just another little sneak peek at the first of two classes i'm teaching this saturday at picture me perfect in fremont. the vintage banner class {above} is from 11-1 and my i remember layout class is from 3-5.
call the store to reserve your spot : (510) 744-9583 if you'd like to join me.
look for some june kenner road sneaks tomorrow ;)
happy monday
xo
new june projects for hambly. aparently i'm all about the pink this month, funny thing is i have two more layouts almost finished and they are all about the pink too ... must be in a girlie mood. lol i adore the all mixed up papers, makes me feel all amazing like my lovely friend dina without having to do alot of work.... ;)
the background brown cardstock was a piece i had leftover after cutting some strips for other projects out. i just filled in the missing areas with some vintage ledger paper { might see more of this for kr june ;) } and added the pink overlay on top.
this one is part of a clear scraps / hambly porduct swap we are doing. that little acrylic cupcake mini of theirs is so adorable. can't wait to hang this in miss maddies room... she was giddy when she saw me making it. such a lucky girl. :)
and just a quickie card. i had an extra paper rosette and an extra pre-stitched card so this took all of about 2 minutes.
happy friday :)
xo
it's been a hard week, i definitely won't deny that, i've been dealing with a hurting heart. it started last week while i was creating for the newest catalyst... i felt an old heart break pull apart. again.
but what i love most about ct is that i always, without fail, get so much of the pent up unspoken emotions out. everytime. and although i think that the words i wrote to go on the site with these pictures got a little jumbled due to my tears, i think the sentiment still comes across.
losing my grandfather wasn't a small incident in my life, but the man that i met right after, my sweet husband, was supposed to be. he was someone i thought at the time would be a blip on my life radar but he has turned out to be my bestest friend and perfect soulmate. that was completely unexpected.
my sweetie has been so supportive this week, especially since i've been a complete mess. figety. emotional. a little bit lost. feeling all together translucent. empty.
but i feel myself coming out of it today.
thanks again for all of the support.
xoxo
hey everyone! just wanted to let the local girls know i'm teaching two classes at picture me perfect on saturday june 13th; a vintage banner from 11-1 & a layout class {two of the four samples are shown above and below} from 3-5.
there are still some spaces left {call the store to reserve yours : (510) 744-9583 }
hope to see you there :)
happy wednesday!
xo
ps : thanks for all of your sweet words regarding the post about my grandfather. i think it's a testament to the love he gave that it still hurts. thanks for the support! xoxo
