All kinds of good news this week.

Just on for a flash, but wanted to update you all on the good news I just received.

I just found out that my layout below - Dream, Laugh, Play will be featured in the next newsletter at GDS! Seriously, how exciting is that?

Next, I made it to Round Two of the Supreme Team Contest at GDS!

So excited!

How much more good news can one girl take! EEEK!

((Feverishly knocking on wood... this girl is clumsy and realized she may have jinxed herself by asking that question))

Maddie-ism

Every night when I put Maddie in bed, she will say to me, "Lay wif me mama?"

Who could say no?

So, I climb up into her bed and I say, "You first!"

She says, "No, mama, you first!"

So, I say, "Starlight, Starbright ....."

Then she says it too. "Starlight, starbright, star I see tonite, wish I might, wish I might, have the wish I wish to night... and then I pick one and I make a wish, mama"

Every night I whisper to her, "What did you wish for baby?", and she never answers me.

Until last night.

I whispered, "What did you wish for baby?"

She whispered back, "Mama, I wish for choc-o-lit."

A girl after my own heart I tell ya!

Beckie Wallace Creative Team

I did it. I made it onto Beckie Wallace's Goddesses! I am so excited, pumped, enthusiastic and just plain tickled that I got picked. I know she had an amazing turn out for her call and to know that I was selected really made me feel validated as a digi-scrapper.

When I saw the names of the others who were selected along with me, the wind was knocked out of me. These are the women I look up to, look to for inspiration and ideas and admire for their artistic creativity in scrapping. To be among them is an absolute thrill.

Thanks Beckie :) I won't let you down.

So to celebrate! A layout! I used Beckie's Free Spirit Kit to scrap my daughters looking lovingly into each others eyes. I am so glad I have documented this moment, and I can't wait to whip it out one day and show them that they really did love each other!

Sunday blogfest

Well, it has been a very busy week for me recovering from the holidays, recovering from Mike's wicked holiday schedule, getting the toys unattached from those damn wires they use to put them in boxes and trying to prepare for my job corps courses.

I taught my first two job corps classes on Friday, and they were awesome. These students are the reason I went to school to be a teacher. I wish I could keep them for the entire semester, but alas, I am only an orientation to the real college (ROFL!). Those of you who know me, and went to school with me will understand that statement.

On to a different subject, I was able to complete some digi-scrapping stuff this weekend. I am happy to say so. I have a ton of stuff I should be doing for this weeks job corps courses, but I put it off and truly, I have enough. I just tend to over-do it. So here is the latest.

I like to call it 'My sleepy angel'. I took this picture on Christmas morning, just before Maddie got to nap. Can't you tell that she is just about to keel over? She is absolutely exhausted, and I was lucky enough to grab the camera just as she slid down the wall with her usual drama-filed sigh.

Credits: Karla's Kaleidoscope Designs 'Midnight Snow' Kit.
Font: CK Joannie

I will find out on Tuesday night (MY BIRTHDAY in case you didn't know) if I move on to the next round in the Supreme Team Contest at godigitalscrapbooking.com. I can't wait to find out!

I also applied to be a member of a creative team for one of my favorite designers at GDS! Yikes! So exciting!

Recap - catch up - fly by post

I gave up ya'll. I just submitted my layout for the contest. I didn't even wait for any feedback. I couldn't take it any longer. I was up all night (as anticipated), thinking about what I could do. But it is almost like a test, if you haggle over a question and change it. I was probably the one you originally thought.

So, it is official submitted, and now I am wishing that I wouldn't have done that. But, alas, it is done.

EEEK!

Oh well, what is done, is done :)

I am teaching for the Job Corps for the next week or so. That should be fun.. I can not wait (no sarcasm... I mean it.) I will be on my ol' stompin ground down at the Allegheny Campus. Oh, the irony!

Anywho, talk soon. I am off to be with an old friend who lost her dad this week. It makes me think about how fragile life really is, and that I, too, will someday be in her shoes. This friend and I grew up together, and we lost touch for a long time. I am glad to say, we met up again while I was subbing at her son's school! It is just strange how people come in and out of our lives, and then reappear at certain times.

Ok, enough sad stuff! I am off. To lighten the mood, here is a funny video of Mike playing with Lauren the other night. Her giggle is so adorable and contagious.

Perfectionism...

It is a nasty, nasty thing to be a perfectionist. It is ridiculous, like an addiction of some sort. I wish there were some sort of program because seriously, I will be up all night for the next few nights thinking about this, dreaming about it, possibly even getting up over it.

I joined a contest over at godigitalscrapbooking.com that over 160 people are participating in. Why, do you ask? Because I am an idiot! I realize that I am not going to win this contest, but it will be enough to send me into a frenzy for a few days. God forbid, if I make it to the next round (GOODNESS, I may have to be tranquilized or something.)

I am excited about it, and it is a ton of fun, but I take everything to a dumb level that doesn't even need to be.

The idea is this. A designer gives everyone the same kit, and you have to submit a layout using ONLY that kit. The designers and moderators of the site vote, and decide who will move on to the next round. No templates allowed, no scraplifting... there are rules here!

With each round comes another kit, and another go round.

So here is the layout that I am working on. I have to submit it for the contest by 1/7 and seriously, I will be working on it until then. Tweaking and changing and modifying things to make it just so.

I would love to hear any critiques, thoughts or suggestions you may have on how I can improve my layout! I worked really hard on it so far.

Damn skippy

A new post to thank Cheryl for her incredible birthday gift in my pyzam widget at the top of my blog. She left me a lawn chair and referenced the best game ever! Now, you didn't think I was really NOT going to post this picture did you.