I got my FIRST award! How Cool Is Cool!!!

I received this "Cool Blog" award from Barbara at Just Passing Through. Thank you, Barbara, for thinking of me!

Here are the Rules:
• Display the image of the stamp "Look How Cool Blog" you just won!
• Post the blog link you provided.
• Indicate your choice of 10 blogs.
• Let them know.
• Post the rules.
• Check if the blogs post the prize and followed the rules

My "cool" blog award choices are:

Denise at Being Craft-De, that's me!

Tracy at Tracy's Whimsical Thoughts

Ashley at Dreamsfulfilled

Amy at ScrapJunkie

DGirlLV at Keep Your Mind Open

Joni at Joni Gray

Inger at Twisted Scrapper

Roxanna at Movefearlessly

Efie at Efie's blog

Bonnie at The Maltese Scrapper

Scrapbook Challenge- February 16-22!!!

Okay ladies, this is the layout that I completed for LAST week's challenge regarding birthdays, but didn't actually get it done until LAST night....................danged friends keep me from scrapping with silly things like lunch and drinks and chatting and catching up. Don't they know that there are important pictures that need to be cut, taped, embellished, posted?! What on earth? Love ya Cheryl..............great Mexican and margarita and friendship.

I've Been Tagged...........

I guess I'm supposed to post this picture and explain 'cuz I've been tagged by Karilee at http://blessedmemoriesscrapbooksbykarrilee.blogspot.com/2009/01/ive-been-tagged.html

This is a very special picture to our family. I'll show you the whole story in a minute. Anne was calling her Auntie Chelle immediately after receiving passing marks to earn her Black Belt in Kung Fu in July 2007. That grin was contagious. Uncle Clint (the cop) and cousin Lexi were there as was Uncle Curtis, Auntie Jen, cousin Alex, Mom, Dad, sister Lacy and her boyfriend, Trent. She had a fan club. Unfortunately (or otherwise) Auntie Chelle was cousin Cole's basketball coach and they had a big game that night.

So, below is the competition. She had to do many things, but some of the highlights were when she had to show take-down techniques and used her friend James as her attacker. Her forms were very strong and she happens to be one of the best kickers in the school. Her upper foot on her scissors kick is over 7' and her lower foot is consistantly 2.5-3 feet off of the floor. And, yes, I'm just a little prejudiced. : ) The handsome hunk teaching her how to properly tie her Black Belt is Lama, the instructors son and one of Lacy's good, good friends and has also become one of Anne's chief supporters.

Now, I believe I have to tag six additional people, but I'm not at all sure how to do that, so for now..............................................beware, it could be you next.

Love and Blessings.

Carla

Scrapbook Challenge! January 11-18!

You may finally have me and I'm scared.....................I got a load full of the cricut last weekend and I almost love it. Now mind you, the one I actually have at home is a used model that has no cartridges right now. It was an amazingly generous gift from the mom of the wonderful kiddos I babysit periodically. She's a sweet friend and checked it out to be sure it worked, but the seller just upgraded and wanted to keep the original cartridge. So, I didn't even try it out.......yet. I was at TWO different crops last weekend, both had cricuts and one even had the 12x12 cutter attached to the computer!!! Okay, I'm not quite THAT sold yet, but that one does actually belong to "the mom" AND she lives next door! So, I'm going to test drive several cartridges from the "Becky store" and see which one(s) I need to have to start my collection. The above title was done with the cricut, but I also did a layout with "Hockey is Life", "woof, yap, bark", and a "Tinkerbell" and "Piglet". Also discovered Glue Dots......Lulu is mounted with Glue Dots, pretty cool. Who would've thought that there was still product out there that I hadn't at least heard of?!?!?!?!

Scrapbook Challenge! January 4-11!

Okay ladies! Vi joined my Wingate DIVA crop last night and we actually remembered to take a picture.............so, here we are looking all gorgeous and croppy. (work with me here)AND, I got the challenge page done! WooHoo! It's my FIRST 12x12 paper page. AND one of my very, very few turns at using that new-fangled, contraption, Cricut, thing-a-ma-jiggy! Pay no attention to the date on the page..................I'm really not that far behind........................OUCH! (lightening hurts when it strikes!)Love and Blessings, y'all!
clc

S2L Scrapbook Challenge: Dec. 28, 2008- Jan. 4, 2009!!!

Ever with your guy at a football game and notice his eyes wander over to the sidelines.......You know he's watching the cheerleaders. Well, in our case, it's okay because Anne's earned a spot on the danceline and it's one of the best in the state! She's having a ball! Now, some might say the danceline isn't a sport, but in Lakeville, there's no other team that practices the amount of time that the Lake-Liners do; 3 hours a day, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Even the football players are amazed and impressed. Of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that the girls can kick their legs over their heads or jump up in a Russian leap and land in the splits........

So, here's my SPORTS layout. To heck with the game, the real entertainment is behind the bench!

Scrapbook Challenge- December 14-21!!!

Anne and I have been to lots of weddings in the past few months.....this one, however, was last night!!! Drove through SIX inches of blowing snow to get there! Anne was the date of one of the groomsmen and there family was kind enough to ask me to stay with her during the wedding. They'd asked if I wanted to attend the reception, but I let Anne do that on her own. SHE HAD A BLAST! As she tells it, EVERYONE wanted to dance with her and talk to her and thought she was "hot"! Uh-oh! Don't tell Daddy. It was such a beautiful wedding. Even the snow was gorgeous, all big, fluffy flakes..........just lots of them.
It's not exactly blue, brown, pink and beige, but it's "anything"!!! I'm going with the anything part of the challenge this week. It does have blue and the bling is kind of "beige-y" and the "pink" is just more RED-ish-ish-ish. Whatever works.
Please check out my providers for this digi-layout:
double heart-PandabearDesigns
bling-unknown
blue stars bkgrd-BooLandDesigns
“celebrate”-LizardDauDesign
Thanks to all the wonderful designers who share their talents so I can play!!! Most of them are from right here in "blogspot" land.........

Scrapbook Challenge- December 7-14!!!

I am so very excited! This is the first layout challenge I've actually completed in a month! This one was way too easy. I love red and gold. I collect red and gold. This event was one of the best too. The pretty, pretty blonde is the younger sister of the beautiful brunette, both of whom babysat Anne and Lacy when they were young. Shannon and Anne have been bestest-buds ever since. "Shanny" went to college in AZ where she met Bren. She would take Anne to Twins games or cheer Anne on at her softball games when she was home. Breezy and Shanny were the reason Anne started playing softball. Bren is a great guy and also treats Anne very special. They got married in Hawaii last June, but that was way too much $$ so we joined the entire neighborhood etal. at a MAJOR bash in September in MN. I got the background papers from FLASHGRAPHICS (a fantastic digi-scrap group) and the ornaments (don't they just "look" Hawaiian?!?!?!) from vianne-creativedesigns (talk about creative!)

S2L Scrapbook Challenge! October 31- November 7!!!

Yeah, she knows she's cute and she knows how to use it! Our Bailey is 9 years old and full 'o p--- and vinegar. I even used a font called "Beagle" from MSWord. I've used seveal different designers to make this page. If you like it, please go check out their sites. Most of them are right here on blogger as well.
Designs by Vicki_Raining Cats & Dogs Collab
Water LO Project_ev_forest
ShabbyPrincess_SM_WoodBrad

S2L Scrapbook Challenge! October 24-31!

Hopefully, I did this right. I've just started digi-scrappin' and it's awesome, but I don't have all of the programs and knowledge yet. This was actually done as a powerpoint slide and then printed. Not bad for the first one. I feel like I should note the wonderful designers who helped with the freebie product, so thanks to the following.......
DAC_RachaelH_TrickorTreat-paper
Shannonfahrnbach_HappyHalloween-elements
cnash_daydreambonus_swirly2