01/11 What is an Emporium?

I am not sure how Close to My Heart comes up with their names of their new paper packs. I think someone must be trying to educate our vocabulary and increase our success with crossword puzzles! I think of an emporium as a dry goods store with wooden floors and barrels of flour and sugar and bolts of fabric piled on the shelves. So I checked out www.websters.com and found the definition for Emporium.

em⋅po⋅ri⋅um - (1) a large, retail store, esp. one selling a great variety of articles. (2) a place, town, or city if important commerce, esp. a principal center of trade: New York is one of the world's great emporiums.

This is my favorite paper pack (at the moment) and my style and colors. So you will be seeing many samples from this paper pack. This is a quick thank you card using the new booking stamp set - True Treasures. Enjoy!

12/27 I am a "Florida Gramma" again!

Yippee!! Peyton Elizabeth was born on December 26th at 11:55 p.m. She has a beautiful face as well as a full head of hair! I can not wait to take pictures of her! I am so blessed to be able to be "Gramma" to all of these little ones. So in honor of Peyton I am adding a new 'sneak peek' of a paper pack called "Daydream". I have the project already picked out - wait until you see it!

12/21 Getting ready for Christmas

We made it to Marietta, GA yesterday to spend the week with our son and my two "grand dogs." I brought with me three of the new Spring papers and I am looking forward to playing with them this week. My first project today is to finish my swap cards for the standing SOM swap that I participate in. Unfortunately Nanci Hatcher had to give it up so Jen Rubio has taken over the swap. I hope to have my samples up live by the first week in January. Here is a SNEAK PEEK of the set we are using -

11/14 Experience FOUR seasons in less than a week!

Can you believe it? I arrived on Friday in western NY to a beautiful FALL day. So I took advantage of it and played in the leaves! My favorite season is Fall, so I was thrilled!

Then I woke up Monday morning to SNOW! I had not seen snow in 15 years and it was fun BUT only for a day! Here I am cleaning off the car - hey at least I got to wear the season's hottest fashion trend - a scarf!


Wednesday looked just like Spring - snow along the side of the road and green grass peeking through - remember? I left Buffalo, NY on Thursday and it was a cold, dark and rainy day. Yuk- this is the November I remember!

Back home to Tampa - a beautiful sunny, warm day - 80 degrees. Yeah - it's good to be back home!

11/05 It's time for the next holiday!

The end of the year has so many holiday opportunities to take pictures and create cards and pages. My first event of this Holiday season is my Scrapbook Club on November 14th at 6:30. We will be using CTMH's paper pack called Evensong for the page layout. I am so excited to say that I am finished with my 2007 Christmas photos before this Christmas holiday arrives!

This two page layout is from the Cherish book:


This two page layout is from the Imagine book:



Can join us for an evening of fun and frivolity!

11/02 Last Halloween layout

I am a lucky girl! I have many "adopted" grandchildren! The mom on the right is a former student of mine and I taught her how to sew! She made her children's costume and I was very proud of her for being so creative! Emma and Logan are BamBam and Pebbles and Rachel dyed Emma's hair red to complete the outfit! Addison is my most recent grandchild and she is now living in Buffalo with her mom and dad's family. Her Florida grandma - ME! - will get to see her next week! I can't wait!

Only the solid paper is CTMH - the rest is from Target $$ Spot!!! Coming soon - Christmas cards and layouts. Stay tuned......