JustMeAgain

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Talk about having a happy-dance kind of day...wow!

I've walked around all day today with a permanent grin on my face! Thank you so much Ms. Ali Edwards for the link and your kind comment about my last entry. I'm so humbled by it. And all of you who visited this blog this weekend and those of you who took the time to leave comments or send emails, thank you for your wonderful feedback! I think I e-mailed a reply to everyone individually, but in case I missed anybody, rest assured, I will write back soon. And thanks Adrienne for e-mailing me last Saturday to give me the heads up on Ali's post! You are so sweet! And Toya, thanks for the link too!   

Today has been a busy day, between church and helping my daughter with a homework assignment, most of the day has gone by already.  Plus, today was the first day of introductions at Shimelle's class You Think You Know Me, so I've been going through several e-mails getting to know the many talented women who are signed up on this class. I loved last year's Christmas Art Journal class so I'm really looking forward to another great class with Shimelle.

Some people asked me about the frames on my photos. I use a combination of frames, elements and brushes from various digital artists including Rhonna Farrer, Anna Aspens, Heather Ann and several others. In the left hand side column of this blog, I have a sections called "Where I Get my Digi Kits From," there you can find links for most of the places I usually purchase digital elements from. The program I use for my digital pages is Photoshop Elements. And I got to say everything I learned about digital scrapbooking I learned initially thanks for the wonderful Renee Pearson. Through her book and her class at Big Picture Scrapbooking I was able to get the initial knowledge I needed to get into this wonderful new form of scrapbooking. Now I have been learning tid bits here and there from reading magazines and even from other blogs!  Any time I see something interesting, I ask. The digital community is extremely helpful! That is another reason why I love blogging. I get to know so many wonderful and talented friends from all over the world.  I hope this is helpful for those of you who had questions on this topic.

And well, today I'll share my entry pages to Jackie's Circle Journal. A few posts ago, I had shared here some pictures I took of Jackie's wonderful Circle Journal called "Famous Women in History." The CJ is already on its way to Canada for my friend Nikky to work on her entry. But as I had promised, here are a few pictures of what I did. I chose Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Mother Teresa.

A new Circle Journal and a fun weekend

I love three-day weekends, but they surely fly!  This is why it's Tuesday night and I am barely updating.

First, let me share this new Circle Journal that I just joined in with Jackie, Niamh and my friend Nikky in Canada as well as several other super talented ladies from Arizona, England and Canada.  I am very excited to get to know everyone in this new group.

This Circle Journal has 11 people signed up! Each person chose their own theme and they are all include truly phenomenal topics.  I will be sharing the entries for those albums throughout the next 11 months. My theme was "My Favorite Musical."  I am sure when I get this back I'll be thrilled to look at everyone work of art.  Can't wait. 

In my next entry I'll share my blue album that I just received in the mail...my first fully completed CJ!  It is worth its weight in gold. Precious indeed.  I promise to share pictures soon.

And well, now back to this weekend.  Truly fun.

Let's start with Friday night.  My friend Melissa had a birthday party and it was SO MUCH FUN!  I'll share a layout here.

And then, Saturday night (after all the laundry and housecleaning got done -yes, chores first, fun later) we had dinner with a group of several dear friends...and well, I can only say this:

Mexican food + Margaritas + friends = A GREAT TIME

Pictures from this later this week.

Sunday we had an amazing sermon at church. Our pastor is back after having had about four weeks of visiting pastors and book authors in a special series planned for this year.  So, it was fabulous having Pastor Eric back. I had missed his words of wisdom and inspiration.

And well, this brings us to Sunday afternoon....my friend Crys did such an amazing job at explaining our adventures that I'll just share a link here.  We had a ton of fun with an all-girl sleep over at our house.  Waking up on Monday morning I had another cooking attempt in the kitchen, but this time with a great deal of help from DH.  I made french toast. Believe me, that's big. I had fun playing with kitchen utensils. See?  Slowly, but surely. Soon enough I'll post pictures of truly phenomenal gourmet meals created by yours truly. Well, maybe not. But it sounded good, no?