Its all good in the hood

It really is.................................. I am...........

reconnecting

having summer fever

finished another book and on to another

the weekend is here and im loving my plans

granola cereal and fresh strawberries anyone?? now why have a waited so long to ever eat that, I dunno! outrageous I tell ya.

dreading going to the store tomorrow to pick up a Jonas Brothers gift for a 10 yr old birthday party, hahaha.

and I received this in the mail today from one of the sweetest chicks ever, Leigh-Ann over at Freckled Nest(go check out her stuff, she has some very cool albums, totes, buttons, all sorts of stuffs)

my silly comment was picked by her boyfriend.............it was like a picture of her dog with a bubble by his head and you had to fill it in. I chose to write ""Yo its snoop dogg over there!!!" And with that I won this cute little "Rad" book. I think I will fill it with rad things that I like, hows about that? Bam! (pardon me, I'm a bit wrecked on coffee and nature valley bars, oh and Witness is on)

Peace out!

Here I come!

Yes, my trip has been finalized, tickets and all!!! I will be going to Northern California June 21st-July 2ND, how freaking excited am I???? Um, very:) Sorry Will, but the suitcase just cant fit you, and with all these rules and regulations I'm sure we would get caught. To be quite honest with you all I'm not just up and ditching my boyfriend for the Golden State, this is a sort of work related job. I will be escorting the wee one I watch to see her dad for 12 days, but I'm sure I will have a great time..... I'm so giddy!

OK enough of my aimless rambling on about my upcoming trip(yipppppppeeee Cali) OK I'M DONE!


I sent out the "Hope" album today. Way to go me on getting errands done on time, it must be this summer like weather, or err Spring like.

I will be working on another one tonight for someone who is going through some really hard, hard, trying times. It means alot to me to make art for people and make them smile.



"Sex and the City" hits this weekend, minor giddiness going on over here for that as well!!



And I leave you with this link to a great store that has opened up in my hometown. They seem to have very unique, beautiful things..............................Lealand Eve Boutique.



Be back tomorrow with some possible images of some new stuff!

Dr doolittle

Dr doolittle, originally uploaded by coloredsprinkles.

Um, just trying out digi scrapping. I promise I wont post anymore tonight. Just had to share my simple page, it was fun but I still love hands on, finger coated in paint and glue and all:)

"Hope"

This is something I worked on this past weekend. It took me awhile to pick the perfect quote I wanted to put in it, and I was very happy in the end when I decided on one that I had came across awhile ago.

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tones without the words and never stops at all" - Emily Dickinson.

This book was made a for a secret someone and will be going out in the mail sometime this week.

Its made out of left over cardboard that I had laying around, and just tons of scraps, paints, gesso, doodling, yada yada.

I need to make more of thes
post about going ons below this one.

Double feature

It has been a long weekend for me. I went home(well to Will's house) on Thursday evening and arrived back here in CT today. Sometimes it nice to get back into routine, but I still miss being out there, its soo much better than this town in my opinion.

Alot of sitting around, being couch potatoes went on.

Alot of bookstore browsing went on, a barbecue and yesterday a visit to the park. It was a much needed break for sure.

Some of my new favorite things have been:

1. no nail polish. Who would've thought that me the Queen of nail polish would opt for a bare nail?? It started to feel like suffocation almost, I don't know maybe its the summer. PLUS every time I paint my freaking nails they chip or get messy from making things. So I'm going nude for a bit(not a big deal to all of you but I feel good about it)

2. I'm not a big fan of McDonald's, however, their $1 sweet tea is just soo yum. I love iced tea just not the powdered kind, I like fresh brewed. That is what it tastes like, but with lots of sugar. I know the sugar thing is not all that great but ya know.

3. Historical novels, I just cant get enough. I think I have enough to last me this whole summer and then some. I just get so lost in them for hours.

4. This may not be a new favorite thing, but I have decided to grow my hair out FINALLY. You must hold me to my word, because there will come a time that I want to just chop it off.

5. Dresses, I am going to start dressing a little bit more girlish, this I have decided. PLUS they are just more comfortable then say shorts or jeans.

Thats my list of sorts. Excuse me for just being all over the place, I have so much going on in my mind, and so much I want to share.

Enough of that. So just for fun I am gonna leave you with some pictures of my animal/insect loving boyfriend. His heart is just so big. He found a tiny baby caterpillar crawling on his leg and of course he let it sit there for a bit, watching it crawl on his arm exclaiming how cute it was. I named him Harry(yes we have no lives) After a bit Will decided to find it a safe place somewhere on the leaves of the near by tree. He is such a Dr Doolittle.

Oh and today I read that I made the Catwalk over on SIS!!!! My "Fishstick" layout was chosen by one of the Fashionistas named Diane, thank you once again if you are reading this, very sweet of you. I just love to make stuff and share it with others and also look at the stuff they make. It makes it even more special when people decide to make it known that they appreciate my stuff. Its really special. SO THANK YOU:)

fiddeling around.........a tribute to Fishstick:)

Well Fishstick was my very awesome Goldfish about 2 years ago. Go ahead laugh it up, lol. But seriously, the fish was like no other. I won him and about 5 others at one of those carnival games and out of the bunch he last about 2 years. He grew pretty big, and seemed like he wanted to live life on the outside of the bowl instead of looking out from the inside. There were a few times at night when I would hear him splashing away, literally jumping out of the water like he was some sort of Seaworld fish that put on shows. He was a pretty rad Goldfish I tell ya!


Only seemed suitable to make a little ditty for him
EDIT: It should say "I would hear him jumping out of the water" I left out the hear in that sentence, bummer!

I should be cleaning, but......................

I had to finish this layout. Its definitely colorful, summery and well strawberry:) The layout may have done better without a picture, just maybe a collage of sorts. I have to stop thinking that I neeeeeeeeeeeed to use a photo in each thing I do, I DON'T! Right?! Maybe tonight I will focus on that. This layout was just done with some random paper I picked up from Michael's, no big name brands here people. I did a sort of basket weave thingy, I liked the effect of this, very sweet.

The strawberry stickers are from the Martha Stewart line though and the piece I did my journaling on is from the K & Co Amy Butler line, didn't I tell ya I loved it? I did some blue paint wash on the card stock and then some gessoing(spelled right?) here and there. I think its like a sugary color explosion.

Journaling says:

"Strawberry fields forever............one of my favorite places to go sit, and think on a beautiful summers day!"

and there is a Polaroid of Strawberry fields, ta da!!!!!

Oh, was so silly to hear I won the RAK over on the Peachtree Studios blog. Thank you once again!!!!

Ok, over and out. Must go mop or something.