Here I will relate a conversation I had Saturday afternoon with my lovely seven year old niece.

First some background; this past weekend was the opening of the Portland Rose Festival. This first weekend is especially busy in that we do the Fireworks Spectacular on Friday evening and then the Starlight Parade Saturday evening. Both events require arriving early in the afternoon to "stake out" our choice spot. So while reloading the car Saturday morning, I shut my tailgate on my garage door remote and the casing shattered. Luckily, it still works when you push the little yellow button on the circuit board.

At the parking garage, about 12 miles from my house:

Niece: Can I see the smashed garage door opener?

Me: OK, be careful

Niece: Can I push the yellow button.

Me: Oh no, you can't push that my garage door will open. (teasing)

Niece: Oh yeah, then someone could get into your house.

Me: Oh, they might steal my scrapbooking stuff.

Niece: Only if they're Scrapbooking Geeks!

Me: What!?

Niece: He he he he. Marilyn's one too. (Marilyn=melonscraps)

Tonight
Me: I just post a picture of Squirrelly-Girly with only one of her four front teeth. I'm a Computer Geek too!

PS She's scrapbooked with me before!!!

Scrapbooking Tink

These are the questions asked during the recent RAK Race.
Marilyn asked... Cool, a skittles RAK! Do I count? lol Yes, I've heard you. I think you nomally start with one, then two, on to three, then you tend to get lost.

scrapamac asked... that is sooooooooooo cool! Do I count? lol I'm not sure, check with Marilyn; she can help if your lost

gotscrapz- ckmb asked... am I the only one that hasn't seen skittles in person yet????????????????? No, 've heard this a lot. I think it's mostly lost of habbitat that's endangered them so.

PattiM asked... Skittles, Skittles, who wants some skittles?? I DO, I DO!!!! We ALL do!

Kay asked... Oh and that ATC is fab! I think mine is going to be the most boring one. I'm just not that creative!You're not the only one that didn't make the deadline! lol Mine did get "postmarked" ontime. Does that count? LOL They let you in the Post Office? What about the Wanted Signs?

luvzenkm2 (Leea) asked... so does this make you a frenzy starter? Oh course it does, I'm a trend setter, baby!

Lanita M/ divanurse CKMB asked...Did you custom color your skittles? Yep, I have a tutorial a couple of post below

Thanks every body for all your great comments is was so much fun be so popular; I loved reading them all.

So here is my quick tutorial on how to dye skittles in 6 easy steps...

1. Gather your skittles, alcohol ink, a bag-ette (mini baggie) and a paper towel

2. Bag you skittles, often I like to use a couple of colors because sometimes the base color will show though.

3. Drop 6-7 drops of Ranger Alcohol ink in the baggie. Experiment with mixing colors.

4. Shake - Shake, Shake, Shake. Shake, Shake, Shake. Shake your skittles

5. Pour your newly dyed skittles on a paper towel to dry.

6. Ohh and Ahhh, aren't they pretty?

Now who wants them? Let me know in a comment and I'll draw for a winner of these wild plum beauties Sunday at 3pm (PST)

We are gearing up for the Rose Festival Fireworks Show so I thought I'd throw up some pics of a previous year. Yep, beautiful kids and a beautiful city. We are blessed.

(These picture are from 2005, hopefully my photography skills have improved!)

I finally made those ATCs I've been designing in my head. They were due for a swap on Friday. Originally, they were due on 5/16 and when they extended the deadline to the 23rd I though, "Well, why can't people just do their on time?" Now I am all shades of embarrassed because I didn't even make the extended deadline.

This swap's theme was "Your favorite Bible verse", my fave is John 13:34

I give you a new commandment: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.

I had it printed on overhead transparencies at Staples. Then I stamped flourishes from Basic Grey (pink) and Inkadinkadoo (black) The butterflies are punched from DCWV glitterstack with MS triple butterfly punch. I Fun Flocked their little bodies. I hope my fellow swappers enjoy them.

Embellishment Redux

So, in a fervent effort to avoid a much larger task, I decided to re-organize my embellishments. I keep most of my small embellishments in a system of small acrylic boxes. Here a link to an old message board post where I tell all about my genius system: http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/mb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=85775&p=741379&hilit=AMAC#p741379

Overtime, these guys can get a bit mixed up so I pulled them all out of their cases and reorganized them so that brads were with brads, rhinestones with rhinestones. It was pretty impressive to see my embellishment city

Now, there all back home, with only the fringes fraternizing with other embellies.

And I shared how I store my Skittles on the AMR board

http://amrforums.altrock182182.x10hosting.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8611&st=0&sk=t&sd=a#p101157