Donna Downey

This weekend Donna Downey was in town to teach at Young Play Memories scrapbook store. I was able to take Saturday off so Leilani and I signed up for two of her classes. This was the first time I've been to this scrapbook store and man, was it huge! The classroom was upstairs and can hold up to a 100 ladies! Imagine that! They had a decent selection of stuff to choose from so Leilani and I didn't exactly go home empty handed. We tried to be good and mainly just got stuff that Monica doesn't carry at Scrapbook U. I think I was just overwhelmed by the sheer size of the store. It even had a coffee area near the front. Not sure how that part worked since we didn't see anybody sit down for coffee. Heehee. Anyhow, I'd post my projects but one of them was a book binding one and that did not get completed. I was missing the chipboard for my covers so I had to wait for them to cut it and then to punch holes took me a while... my Japanese screw punch definitely got a work out during that class. The other projects just need a few of the inside pages done. They didn't have enough eyelets to attach these tabby things so I need to look for my huge eyelet stash. No biggie. Anyhow, here's a group shot of Michelle Rout, Veronica Leggett, Leilani Karellas, Donna and me (with no makeup...blah!). Donna thought Leilani and I were sisters and couldn't get over our height.

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a great start to the new year. I got to spend my New Years with this darling. She recognized me right away, gave me a big smile and actually came to me!!! You see, I was the only other person besides mommy, daddy, and grandma that she would let hold her. Other family and friends that she hasn't seen on a daily basis got rejected by Miss Chloe. Anyhow, she's got on a wig that Mommy got for Daddy's surprise birthday party but we forgot to give it to daddy to wear. I say it looks pretty good on her. Heehee. This shot was taken with my new camera, a Nikon d80. It was in auto mode though. It's kind of hard to have it in manual mode with a baby...especially this one...she's a mover. So definitely no time for any adjustments. But I'm so loving my new camera. I wish I was able to get more shots of the kids but with other family visiting and all that was going on, it was kind of hard. Plus Miss Chloe has been sick and is just getting over her cold. Now the rest of the family is getting sick, including Auntie Jean. In fact, daddy was pretty sick two days before the party and we were trying to think of back up plans. Luckily for us, he was feeling a bit better Saturday morning and went to see a movie with a friend while we frantically cleaned and decorated the house. Sorry about squishing the two pictures together. I was trying to separate the two but Blogger is not letting me. Ok, need to hit the hay because someone needs to go to work in the morning. Blah!