I know it's been a while.. but you have to check out what the latest is I have been working on....
http://www.scarletlime.com/Jewelry.html
November 24, 2009
September 03, 2009
Heidi Swapp is coming to Idaho!
My dear friend, Heid Swapp (who I love an adore).. is coming to Eastern Idaho in October!! She will be teaching at my favorite local scrapbooking store, Scrapalicious, just 30 minutes from my house.. in Rigby!
Heidi is one talented girl and if you haven't ever taken a class from her before.. you SHOULD.. they are amazing.. She is so awesome.. just someone you will never forget! I heard they still have spots available.. so if you live close by (or you live in Utah.. we are only about 3 hours from SLC).. you should come! Sseriously!!.. She is doing three classes, a mini album, an energy journal and a layout classes which includes 6 layouts! And if you do the Saturday classes, lunch is included from this cute little restaurant in Rigby and my friend Alicia.. who owns the store.. has so many fun things planned. Plus her store is SOO adorable.. and she sells home decor there too.. She will have tons of great sales going on at her store, so it will be a fun-filled event.. all weekend long!
The info is below and if you want to find out more about the classes, how much they cost, etc.. you can visit her website
www.aliciaking.typepad.com/heidiswapp
Here is more info on it!
July 07, 2009
July 02, 2009
4th of July Fun.. and a giveaway!
Well Happy 4th to those in the US (and Happy Canada day this past week too!)
We are off for another family camping trip this weekend.. this time just locally at Heise Hot Springs, but still fun! (last weekend we went to Palisades with our friends, the Hone Family. It was a BLASt). Palisades was amazing.. one of the most beautiful places I have been to in Idaho. We did the real camping thing (not like Heise).. and it was fun! We swam, rode ATV's, played games, sang songs by the campire (made up songs too).. it was fun! We have already planned another camping trip there in August with the Yancey's. Can't wait!
So.. we are off for Heisi today, Heise is a bit more "camping" friendly.. they have manicured lawn campsites, with hookups. They have bathrooms, showers, swimming pools, a pizza parlor, golfing, atv'sing and even river raft trips down the snake river. We are going with my family for the 4th (a last minute trip we schemed up yesterday! LOL).. but hey it works! We are still close enough that we can go view the Fireworks in Idaho Falls (I have heard the biggest firework display in the midwest!).. So it will be fun. ,
Before I leave, I wanted to do a quick post about a giveaway we are doing for Scarlet LIme! (our Kit club).
Scarlet Lime's July kits debuted on the 1st and we are going to giveaway two kits! We are giving away our main kit and one of our project kits. Simply post on today's blog either here or on our Scarlet Lime blog, and you will be entered to win! If you post on both blogs.. you will be in double! LOL
here is a picture of the two kits we are going to giveaway!
This is our main kit, which includes ALL exclusive papers designed by Melody Ross!
and here is our project kit for July.. designed by Melody Ross! It's a SUPER cute banner project for summer!
You can check out both kits on our website www.scarletlime.com
have a fabulous 4th of July!!
hugs!
Chrsity
June 18, 2009
Guest Design for Color Combo's Galore!
I was so excited to be asked as a guest designer for ColorCombosGalore!Janet is a color combo genius and twice a month she posts color combo challenges on her website! She was recently featured in Scrapbooks Etc, July magazine.. (page 20 if you are interested).. so I am proud of her!
check out her website too:
http://colorcombosgalore.ning.com/
I got to pick 2 colors I wanted to use and then she added 2 more! The color combo turned out super fun! Salmon pink, grass green, black and cream!
Here is the layout I created using her color combo:
I am off to get a newsletter out for Scarlet Lime.. which by the way.. is going to show a peek of our upcoming kits for July.. and YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE what is going into July's kits! It's BIG! I can't wait!
have a fabulous day!
June 15, 2009
Summer fun has begun..
So summer has begun officially (we are about 3 weeks into summer vacation) and already lots of fun family memories have taken place. BBQ's with family and friends, going to the Drive-in to see Night of the Museum 2, camping at Heise Hot Springs, Jeni, ben's sister came to visit and we had a "girls night with Allie, we've ate lots of smores in our backyard around the fire pit, we've made at least 10 trips to the snow shack, we've had lots of late nights watching movies, golfing (with the kids), took the boat out (to see if it would run.. and it didn't! LOL), hanging at the skate park (watching ben and cody trying to be younger than they are), picnics at the park and more! Oh and did I mention Braden, our oldest, broke his foot? (hasn't stopped him from golfing everyday with his friends though). Our most recent adventure was taking Braden and 7 of his friends to Lagoon down to Utah. It's a theme park about 3 hours away.. and Braden thought it would be fun to drive down for the day and go to Lagoon then camp at the campground connected to it that night. We ended up taking Allie and Preston and two of their friends as well, with a total of 12 kids in all! We had to drive two cars.. in order to bring all the kids... and ben pulled our camp trailer, so we and the girls had something to sleep in, while the boys slept outside in tents. It was a LOTof fun! We have decided to take Ethan and Noah to Lagoon by themselves next week, for a day trip.. because they were too little to come on this one. It should be fun! We also have a camping trip planned for next weekend to Palisades Lake.. and I have to tell you i AM SO SOO excited for that trip. We live only about 1.5 hours away from that Lake (actually a few lakes)and yet we have never camped at any of them. We live 2 hours away from West Yellowstone and have never taken our kids through that park either! Can you believe it? So this summer we have alot of camping trips planned.. we always go camping to other places.. but never around here.. and we live so close to so many beautiful lakes, mountains.. rivers.. etc.. so this is the year!
Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to this summer!
Hope you are enjoying your summer..
May 02, 2009
April 17, 2009
Fun things to share!
Boy have I been busy this past month.. still working on the house thing (Allie's room is ALL done, and our room is textured and is getting painted by my handy man husband, Ben, on Monday!)I wanted to show you pictures of the process, but my dear, sweet daughter... accidentally broke my Digital Rebel. It wasn't really her fault, but man I am not loving living without a camera. I was going to order a new one right away (unfortunately mines not fixable).. but then I read that Canon is coming out with a brand NEW digital rebel in May with new video technology.. so decided I better wait for that!
So I don't have update pictures.. but I DO have some exciting things to share with you!!
I have been asked to be a guest teacher on the fabulous website Got Crafts! Got Crafts is a on-line community that offers on-line classes, daily inspiration and more! This EXCLUSIVE 3 week class is going to be loads of fun and chalk FULL of inspiration! It's called Eye for Design: color creative and is the first in a series of classes I will be teaching for them! The great news is, since it's an on-line class, ANYONE can take it!
Pre-registration starts today and I have a special coupon for all of my favorite friends, family and Scarlet Lime followers! Simply use the code: SLgroupie when checking out and you will receive $3.00 off the class price! PLUSif you pre-register before May 4th, you will also be entered to win 5 fabulous prizes INCLUDING a 3 month subscription To Scarlet Lime, starting with our May kit!
I am seriously excited about this.. Janna and Valerie at Got Crafts have been doing online classes for the past year, and they provide one of the best online experiences around! Just so much stuff included with your classes.. and they do a great job of making you feel at home!
PLUS they are so generous, they are letting me give away 2 spots into the class that begins on May 4th! All you have to do is post on today's blog post, to get entered to win. (p.s, we also have another giveaway, going on our Scarlet Lime blog, for two more spots, so you can enter HERE and there, for double chances!)
If you want to find out more about my class, you can click below
Eye For Design [color creative]
or cut and paste this link into your browser
http://gotcrafts.typepad.com/classes/eye-for-design-color-creative
I also have to share with you my new favorite thing! A few weeks ago, I was visiting a blog of one of my dear friends and saw a post about these wonderful camera strap covers from *SHEY* {B}'s Etsy site! You know how I LOVE the color red, just about died when I saw the red and white damask strap, so I had to get it for myself as an early Mother's Day gift. It was just SO me! I received mine last week and am totally in love! She has so many styles to choose from and you can also get them customized with extra padding, a pocket for your lenses caps or even extended lengths! You seriously have to check out her website! (and another p.s.! she is also one of our sponsor of the April newsletter, and is giving away one of her fabulous straps! So make sure you check out the Scarlet Lime Blog to get entered for that!) Here's a picture of the one I ordered.. SO in love!
Make sure you check out her site.. it's really cute. I have alot of favorite things from Etsy that I have purchased recently, I will have to show you them when I can take some pictures!
Well it's FINALLY warm here! Sort of.. it's almost 60! and the good news is, we have 70 degree weather in our next week's forecast! I am SOOOO excited! so tired of the snow (which it did by the way this week.. snow..),but I was also thankful for our late snowfalls this year.. because last week, we had some very dear friends, Retha and Zander, visit us from South Africa. They have talked to us alot about how they have never seen snow, never been in a snowfall and have ALWAYS wanted to go skiing. Well fortunately for us, they had a meeting that got canceled, and we happened to get a ton of fresh snow at a ski resort just 2 hours away.. So we took them on a day trip to see snow fall for the FIRST TIME! Ben taught Zander how to snowboard (he's never skied or snowboarded in his life).. and he did pretty good! Retha and I spent the day in the lodge, just chatting, drinking hot chocolate and watching the snow fall. It was an awesome experience for us. We got to share something with them, they had never experienced before.. much like our visit with them back in November in South Africa.. what a cool thing.. Love those two!
Well so it's going to be a nice weekend.. filled with lost of outdoor activities (getting our garden started..).. I can't wait!
I hope you have a wonderful and warm weekend too!
March 19, 2009
Moving on up, a birthday and a redo!
So.. after going back and forth for the last few months about moving or just adding on, we have decided to just add on to our house! When we bought this house over a year ago, we KNEW it was too small for us. It only has 3 bedrooms, no dining room and one full bathroom.. and with a family of 8.. that’s not much space! We have managed okay with only three bedrooms.. we have 3 boys in one room, Allie in another and Ben and I in a small room downstairs. That means Braden and Parker have been in the “food storage” room in the basement.. (don’t worry, they have a door to the outside connected to their room! LOL).. but as they kids get bigger.. they are going to need more space. We don’t have a dining room right now, so we currently all just stand around the kitchen eating each night, and we don’t have a family room either, so there is only one gathering room, right as you enter the house, that we all hang out in. We knew when we bought the house we would add on to it, but we waited a year to live in it to see exactly “what” we wanted to add on. Then back in December we got the itch that maybe we should just move instead of adding on. It’s a buyer’s market right now, and we can get a lot more for our money. We found some awesome houses.. that were HUGE, gorgeous and IN our price range…. but after thinking about it long and hard.. we decided to just stay where we are at. We couldn’t part with our little old house!
This house was built somewhere between 1905-1910 and it has all the features of an old, lived in house. It also has a very private backyard.. which makes us feel like we are in the country, but we live smack dab in the middle of what I call “the perfect neighborhood”. We love it here. We love that all of the kids in our neighborhood (from ages 8-18) play night games in the subdivision all summer long, we love that we are just around the corner from my dad’s house.. 2 blocks away from the library, grocery store, bank, post office, and community outdoor swimming pool. It’s an older neighborhood, so it’s filled with a lot of families, of all ages.. and we love it. The houses we looked at buying were newer houses, built out of town (still in Shelley) but out of town, away from all of that, and we would miss it. It’s funny how sometimes even though you can have a nicer, newer house.. the “perfect” house.. isn’t always worth over having the perfect location.. you know what I mean? So since we decided to stay here, and just add-on, we have also decided to not overbuild for where we live. Which means, the master-bedroom we were going to build on, is no more. We are just going to build on a family room/living room, and two more bedrooms. Ben and I have been living in the smallest room of the house, right off the living room.. because with 6 kids, they need more space than we do. There is actually a master-bedroom in this house, that the previous owners built/added on.. upstairs. It’s a huge room.. with a walk in closet and a big bathroom (just down the hall). Because of space issues, we put the 3 youngest boys in there (actually 4 at one time).. but since we are going to add-on, we decided it’s time for Ben and I to move on UP and the 2 boys to move down! Noah kinds ends up sleeping wherever each night anyway (he starts in his bed, but ends up in the living room, our room, allie’s room.. etc). So we decided he doesn’t need a bed right now, and can make due until we add-on).
When we moved in, we re-textured and painted most of the downstairs, to get rid of that old (rough) texture on the walls.. but since we decided to move upstairs, we thought we better do it right and re-texture and paint all of the rooms/hallways up there too. That included the “master-bedroom” and Allie’s room which is also upstairs. So for the last two weeks, our house has been in crazy mode. Beds, dressers, toys, etc.. everywhere.. and we are still not done! LOL.. Since Allie’s room was getting repainted, we decided it was time to get new bedding and do some re-decorating. She had a bigger queen size bed in her room so when guests came over, they could use her room. But now we will use the boy’s room for that. So to give her more space, we have downsized her bed to a twin (one of the beds ben built for the boys, and he repainted it white). But she also got to pick out new bedding! She has had High School Musical bedding for the last couple of years.. and so I was surprised at only 9, she wanted a more grown-up look! She actually picked out the paint all on her own, and her bedding.. which is very modern and so much more grown up! I was impressed! We got the quilt at overstock.com and the light at drugstore.com . The quilt is actually SO pretty in person! It has lots of different textures to the patches.. and it’s a comforter not a quilt. SO fun! We got her a new dresser (the one she has had for years, we found at the dump and repainted it, but it’s just not big enough to hold all of her clothes anymore.. and the drawers were so hard to open). So we bought her and all of our boys new dressers at a local second hand store here in Shelley called “Hidden Treasures”. Great stuff! The dressers were all new but so inexpensive! (our boys have not had dressers for the last 2 years, we bought those big grey tubs at wallmart and lined the “master-bedroom” closest with tubs. They each had 3 tubs- one for shirts, pants, and pj’s. That way the could just dig through their tubs to find their clothes.. I thought it would be much easier for them, than big tall dressers). Now that they are bigger and in a room that doesn’t have enough room for all the tubs, we broke down and bough them dressers too. Ones that actually open! LOL
So we have been busy with that. Allie’s bedroom is all re-textured and painted, and so is the hallway, now we just have to do our bedroom and the bathroom. Our bedroom is SUCH a mess.. stuff everywhere.. we just moved it all up and basically threw it in there. There is a ton of space up there, but right now you wouldn’t be able to tell with boxes everywhere, tubs, etc! but it’s a work in progress.
Yesterday was Noah’s 4th birthday! It was a fun simple birthday party with just family, cousins and a friend, Lauren. He was So funny because we have been asking him for the last month what he wanted for his birthday and he kept saying “I only want an ice-cream sandwich!”. We would ask him,, don’t you want toys? Or something cool? And he would say NO, only an ice-cream sandwich! Too funny! He actually ended up getting a little bit more. We bought him a bag of tootsie rolls, a pack of tic tacs, and a bag of soft chewy cookies. And a plastic bowling set we found at the dollar store. It was the cheapest easiest birthday ever! I made cupcakes.. and we served ice cream sandwiches for desert! He also got a few fun gifts from his cousins.. and it was fun. You should have seen his reaction when he got his presents! He would be like “ TICK TACS?? I GOT MY VERY OWN TIC TACS!!” We all were laughing so hard. Funny kid!
Well that’s an update for me! I am busy this week creating a online class I am going to be teaching for http://www.gotcrafts.typepad.com/ Ican’t wait! It’s going to be SUPER fun.. and hoping to launch it in April! Spring Break is just around the corner, have a lot to do around here, so not sure we are going to go anywhere.. but we will probably end up doing some fun things around town, like bowling, movies, maybe even camping out in the backyard.. it was almost 55 yesterday! I wore flip flops! I couldn’t believe it! there is hope spring is on it’s way!! LOL
Well have a fabulous week.. thanks for checking in..
Christy
March 03, 2009
Doing a little creating...
I know.. I know! shocking huh? LOL.. okay.. well not technically today.. (I have been sick with the flu since last Saturday and feel like it's turning into strep.. YUCK!) .. but i did earlier last week.. because this month for Scarlet Lime.. We had one of our Guest Artist Gals not be able to do it,
so I decided to create a few layouts with the kits to add to the Artist Gallery. It's been months since I scrapbooked.. so it felt really good to get creative and have fun.
I also created my class this past month for the event I am teaching at in May,Donna Downey's Inspired Workshop. The event is May 7th-9th and besides the actual event, they are also offering mini- workshops the day before the event and each evening of the event as well.. and I am teaching one of the mini workshop classes. The event is really centered around creative art.. not so much scrapbooking, in fact I am attending the event as a STUDENT.. which is the first time I have ever attended an event like this as a student! I have taught at MANY Of them.. but never just been able to relax and enjoy the classes being offered. We get to learn SO many things like painting on canvas, doing our very own Portrait of ourselves (scary! LOL)..creating a book out of fabric, making clay jewelry, and more! I seriously can't wait. I even splurged a little bit and am taking some of the other mini workshops offered.. (during the times I am not teaching)..and in those I am making a quilt piece, a purse made out of a book, art rings, a necklace, and a couple of fun art books.. SO fun.. seriously I think I will have to go to this every year.. it's SO much more about just being creative and using creative art to express yourself.. and just have fun. So anyhow, when I was creating my class, I wanted to do more of a project type class.. something that involves more than just scrapbooking, so I created this hanging album, that involves fabric, corrugated boxes (the we tear up and paint), crepe paper, beads, glitter.. lots of fun stuff...SO Excited about this class. And I found this cute little vintage looking stand to hang it from too. So fun! I am excited to teach it, but also excited for the students because the class itself only costs $25.00 but they will get over $60.00 in product jammed packed in this class because of the AWESOME sponsors of my class! (Chatterbox, GCD Studios, Making Memories, Jenni Bowlin, Scenic Route, American Crafts and more!)..cool stuff too and of course we will have lots of little goodies from Scarlet Lime in there as well.. so it will be a fun class. Can't wait to go really.. also because i am excited to learn about new mediums so I can come home and teach my kids.. they LOVE to do art, scrapbooking, painting.. etc.. and I think i can use some of what I learn to give them more ways to create as well.. should be fun. Here is the class I am teaching.
Well I better get back to bed.. I feel like I have spent the last 4 days on the couch or in bed.. but I just can't seem to feel better..I started taking some meds today and hoping I feel better by tomorrow sometime.. good enough to get some work done anyhow.. hate being sick.. tired of being sick! LOL :).. have a good night!
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- Heidi Swapp is coming to Idaho!
- 4th of July fun.. and winners for July Kits!
- 4th of July Fun.. and a giveaway!
- Guest Design for Color Combo's Galore!
- Summer fun has begun..
- winners for GotCrafts Class.. and more
- Fun things to share!
- Moving on up, a birthday and a redo!
- Doing a little creating...
Wow...You must be doing something right to order snow in April....oh wait...you live in Idaho...it could snow in June...How fun for your friends:) I'd love to win a spot in your class Christy!