summer treat

Went to Target today to return a basketball that we had gotten a while ago. Right after we got it (like a day after), the basketball hoops were taken out of our subdivision...not sure why. Anyway, our new basketball was useless. I exchanged it today for store credit and decided to splurge on a few treats from the Archer Farms line of foods found in Target...key lime and white chocolate cookies and diet orange cream soda. For some reason, pop always tastes better out of cold, glass bottles.

Yum!

more from NaCl (Salt) Lake City :)

The Great Salt Lake...

I took a trip to Antelope Island on Sunday...and saw some antelope up close! :)

It was a beautiful place!

(More photos to come.)

MeMorY wOrKs Retreat

Well, Memory Works sure put the "treat" in reTREAT!

We received L O A D S of creative goodies!

I just got back from the land of scrapbooking...UTAH. What a beautiful state! The retreat was held at the Davis Conference Center.

Here are a few of my photos from the weekend.

We got to hear keynote speaker, Stacy Julian and got our very own signed copies of her newest book - fun!

baseball and apple pie

What says more about an American summer than baseball and apple pie?

Yesterday, I did a photo shoot of a baseball we took to the Las Vegas 51's minor league game last summer. I then printed it and cut it out for realistic looking baseball tags to sell at my shop. Here's the final product:

photo album

I have just received an order to make a customized album...5x7 this time. I had to search high and low to find the perfect album. There aren't many 5x7 albums out there. Frames? Yes. Albums? No. I finally found one at JoAnn Fabrics and it was on a great sale, too. That was a bonus for me and for the customer. Off to play around with some green fabric, blue embroidery floss, and buttons, buttons, buttons. Will post a picture of it when finished.

tuesday morning

Another school year is done. Now I have time for more crafting and creative projects. I am so hooked on etsy and am spending much time on my two etsy shops.

Check them out here:

www.applesandchalkdust.etsy.com

(paperie)

www.scrapsnthings.etsy.com

(home goods)

Some of my latest projects: