Amazing...

Amazing...that is the first word that came to me as I read about what happened last night at Creative Escape!!! Teachers from past Creative Escapes were given a $15.oo lamp to alter for an auction that would benefit the Leukemia Society. 100% going to the charity. Tim Holtz and Heidi each decorated one and theirs was auctioned off live last night at their closing dinner. Heidi's went for an amazing $8200 and Tim's went for...sit down...$29,000!!! Yes you read that right twenty-nine thousand dollars!!! Still gives me goose-bumps just thinking about it. I read that this totally overwhelmed Tim with emotion, I can only imagine. This was the woman who won the bid. It looks like Heidi was very touched as well!!! I found this picture online to share!
I loved my experience at CE last year and only hope that I get to attend next year.

WOW...

It's almost here...I am so excited...I still can't believe it...a dream come true...I am having a hard time waiting...but the wait is almost over...pictures to come this week!!!

Monday...

Another new week brought some changes to our house...

First, Bre started high school today. I am happy to report that after a little bit of a bumpy start she has decided that it was not as bad as she was thinking it was going to be.
I think her favorite part is the fact that she has more freedom then she ever imagined. She called me at lunch from her cell phone, happy and visiting with a new found friend.
I am still in shock that my baby girl is actually in high school. It seems like just yesterday I was walking her to her kindergarten class and she didn't want to let go of me. Yes there were tears on both of our parts. Today wasn't much different except she hopped out of the car so quick I couldn't remember if I got to say I love you. I know she is going to be just fine. She is organizing her book bag as I am writing this. This is one of her nightly rituals, she likes to be prepared and organized.
We also now have to get up at 6:00am. I know for some of you this is normal, but not for us. Last year she didn't have to be at school until 9:30 which was also the same time I had to be at work. So we usually got up around 8:00 and took our time getting ready. Now we have to be out the door by 6:45 to get to school on time. (I will be glad when I get to go back to work and get myself back in a routine as well) Hope everyone is having a good week and if you still have this last week of summer vacation...enjoy.
Nita, if you can sleep in, don't make yourself get up, that will come soon enough next week. I will talk to Syd and Bo soon to tell them good luck with the new school year. Love those girlies.
I would also like to thank Stephanie and Melle for being such great friends and helping Bre and I find our way in this new high school adventure.
Oh and Kristy, please tell Mason I hope he loves Kindergarten and makes lots of new friends.

new layouts...

Finally, new scrapbooking layouts. During the retreat I was actually able to get three done, totally happy about this. I haven't had the time to scrapbook lately and it felt nice to get back into the swing of things. I think the inspiration came from attending CHA and having a few new sheets of Bo Bunny to work with. I absolutely love this new line. Can't wait to get the store opened and get this product in. I think I will be getting at least two sheets of all of it. Love it. I was also able to scrapbook pictures of Bre visiting the Hot Topic store while we where on spring break, WE love getting to go to this store as we do not have one in Ocala. So much Twilight goodness, ahh. Anyway hope you enjoy.

whirl wind...

Wow, last week was busy, busy!!! I started off the week driving Bre to my sister's house so she could visit with her Aunt and Grammy while I was at CHA. Bre said she had a fabulous time, I think the funnest part for her was when she got to drive all around Aunt Mindy's three acres of property. Now she is on a daily countdown until she will be able to get her permit. I am so not ready for that. But I did want to send a huge THANK YOU to my sister and mom for taking such good care of Bre and Roxie. Just wish I could have spent more time with y'all.
I left my sisters Monday morning and headed to Orlando for the CHA summer show. Stephanie and Nita drove from Ocala and we got there about the same time. Checked into our hotel and headed to the convention center to get our badges. Then we went to Bubba Gumps for dinner (yummy), next stop was the Prime Outlet mall. Love that place and will definitely be going back.
CHA started bright and early Tuesday morning, as we are walking in to head to the first stop we walked by Making Memories and I guess I let out some kind of squeal, because they were releasing the first glimpses of the PINK slice. Well, I already had the blue/greenish one, but now it is PINK, we were given PINK slice aprons to where and hopefully be spotted and our picture taken so we MIGHT have a chance to win one of the new PINK slices!!!! Later that day, guess what happened, after much more squealing and hugging the poor kid who spotted us, Steph and I got our pictures taken and added to the NON winner wall. So we went about our business where we were much involved in ordering when Nita calls my cell phone, I wouldn't shut up long enough for her to tell me my picture had been added to the winner wall, not sure what this meant so we headed to Making Memories where, yes in deed, I find out I WON A PINK SLICE!!!!
And yes, there was much more squealing and hugging!!!!
That is not the end of the story, Nita and Kristy were also spotted wearing their aprons and they also ended up on THE winner wall. Stephanie did not win a pink slice,but she did win a fabulous prize basket from Cruise and Crop. Hopefully there will be some more talk about this in the future of SHE SCRAPBOOKS. We finished up the show Thursday afternoon, and headed home. Friday morning I headed out to the Homewood Suites for the Scrapbook Retreat. I had 32 women coming and had to have it set up by 3:00 pm. Thanks to Steph and Bre we got it done with about an hour to kill and started a three day long event filled with giggling, visiting, eating, three projects and and lots of fun. Thank you to all attended and have made doing retreats such a fabulous experience for me. I look forward to doing many more and can't wait for the next one.
Now we are on to the next week and I have realized we only have three weeks before school starts, four weeks before we take possession of the building for SHE SCRAPBOOKS, and about two months before we have our grand opening. If you would like to see some pictures from CHA and see some of the companies we have ordered stop by the SHE blog. We have the first CHA post up.
Life is good, Life is busy, Life is sometimes crazy but I wouldn't change where I am today for anything in the world.