Sunday, June 26, 2011

Wow....been a while again

I've had strong urges to journal/write/document lately, but really haven't taken the time. Things have been crazy busy for me - in a lot of good ways - cleaning house, getting rid of excess, renewing and redoing.  Trying to spend quality time with family and friends, and not sweat the small stuff. Not exactly easy most of the time for me, so I do have to work at it.

One big change for me is the phone call I received earlier this week, saying that my home based scrapbooking business will no longer be do-able as of July 31.  Club Scrap has found that it's not financially able to support the home business as well as their every day business, so they are cutting out the FFC portion.  Understandable, because after 5-6 years, it's just not picking up like they had hoped.  Poor timing all around.  But....made a big decision for me a lot easier....I've been struggling with it myself - both time constraints, and just having the people available to come out to workshops all the time. The economy has definitely taken it's toll on this area for sure.  The other aspect of the business is the space taken up in my house - I've been in the process of cleaning things out and trying to simplify a little, and the inventory makes it really difficult.

So now on to the bigger and better aspect of that whole scenario - I need to sell out my inventory. So if anyone has any desires for some great scrapbooking products and awesome quality papers, chances are I have what you need!!

I've also been trying to take a little time to do things I like to do - I love to travel around on my days off, see new things, be active.   A couple days this week, I actually went straight to the gym after work - that sure makes the whole evening go a lot better, I find. Now to just allow myself the opportunity to do that on a regular basis, and everyone will be better for it!!

Hopefully have some fun plans for the upcoming weeks, will have to see how it all plays out.  For closing, I will finish off with a couple photos from my mini-road-trip yesterday....

Monday, February 21, 2011

Comics Junior kit

So exciting to actually scrapbook a few pages today - haven't had a day off in forever, and all my spare time has been used up on other projects and other fun things and fun people :)....but since PSL is going on, figure I might as well get scrapping!!!
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Testing, Testing...

 I just tried to publish a post twice from my Picasa account like I usually do, and for some reason it errored out. So I"m going to just try to insert one of the pics here and see if it works.....

This is one of the many things I got spoiled with on my birthday - a delish Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Cake!!  Yummy, and well received by all!!!
Ok - seems like this is working, so I'll carry on with a couple more neat pictures.  This next one is a shot of my Vibram 5-finger shoes - my gift to myself from my parents' Christmas money gift they sent to me.  I had worn them on a short walk, this was my first real tryout with them.  Ended up with a blister on my heel, but loved the shoes for the most part....

Oh guess what?? I have to purchase storage for my pictures to upload more.  Hmmmmmm.  We shall see about that one....

'til then....

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Random things from January

I got to use a skidsteer for the final phase of the pond/fountain demolition.....it made the job sooo much easier and really did a complete job of leveling it out. Now to get the money for concrete!!!

My two cats. Cameo is SOOO big, it's crazy...and Ziggy is an anti-social fluffball. They love boxes, and the new rug I bought.....

We look photoshopped in here, but we are actually at a Canucks/SanJose hockey came in January....great fun!!!

William came for a visit (think this was actually December) and I got to try on his arm dude hat (with extra pins and stuff because he is actually moving up in rank!!)
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Happy 2011...and a month...

I just realized it has been since forever that I've posted here.  Life has been crazy for me - crazy, but excellent at the same time.  I am getting very established at my job and feeling good in my supervisor role.  I am feeling in control of my finances - somewhat, as much as can be when some things are just out of my control.  I have super friends and a great 'family' here, though I miss all the gang back home in BC (and wherever else they are now) as well.

I hope to get back to posting some new scrapbooking stuff here soon - so stay tuned!!!

Monday, September 13, 2010

San Francisco -

Allie is just about as tall as me now - incredible!!

This could be my store....except I never even did any wine tasting :)

Hanging out by the water...so pretty there

And Allie found her store too - wow!!!
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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Yosemite

So I have been enjoying the remainder of the summer by being a tourist in some 'local' areas and just having fun taking photos and hanging out. This is from a trip to Yosemite. Hiked about 4.5 hours in one day, saw El Capitan and Half Dome in Mirror lake...was sooo pretty - postcard worthy!!



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