You have to go there.....

Has anyone ever told you about....drum roll please..........StumbleUpon.com It is the most addictive surfing you will ever do. Go try it - you will NOT regret it. I promise. My Paige introduced me to it and we sat for hours the other day with it. Of course - it is fun with her new laptop.

THIS place has gone to the birds.....

THIS crazy place has gone to the birds!!! No....literally.

Swim little fishy.....swim little fishy

Of course Taterbug had to get in the act. She has the lips to make GREAT fish lips huh?

My sis was here for graduation and she stayed for 7 days. WE HAD A BLAST. I had to go back to work to get some rest. LOL. She has a new sewing machine and we had to venture to the quilt store. She doesn't have what we have here - Louisville has some great quilt stores. HERE IS WHAT WE MADE!!!!! AREN't THEY adorable. They are called Parlor Pets. The goldfish and there are 4 separate patterns.

My "baby" Paige. Where did the time go?

And I can't go without showing you Paige when she was little along with tatertot. She was and still is a beautiful girl. My babygirl. She can never change that. I think all mommy's feel this way.

Paige BOUQUET's for graduation party.

Now on to the fun part that Lark and I did. I had this crazy idea to not have real flowers at her graduation party but I would make paper ones that would last. So while laying in bed one night at midnight I thought up a Paige Bouquet with pictures of her in the center. Lark helped me get all 50 of them done-last minute of course. So hard to work 48 hours a week and do creative stuff do. I used green straws and a daffodil patter off of Martha Stewart's website. They were so much fun.

It happened and I can't believe it is over.....

Above is Paige's invitations to graduation ceremony and beside it is the graduation party invites I made. She drew the bulldog puppy since that is her mascot from school and I made it into an explosion card. I must say - I loved it. But after making 35 of them - I don't want to make anymore explosion cards for a long long time. LOL.

It happened and I can't believe it is over. Paige Graduated from HIGH SCHOOL. Everything went by so so fast. Wish I could do it all over again. Although the heat about killed us along with total exhaustion - she was surrounded by everyone who LOVES her and were her friends. It was awesome. Even her very sick great aunt and a great uncle ventured out into the 95 degree heat to show her how much they love her and support her. 95 degrees the first of June was a record for us. But I wouldn't have traded it for all the fun and good time we had at Paige's Party. I just kept going in and out of the house. WE ALL worked so hard to transport all the food and smoke the bar-b-que. My husband, her DADDY worked so hard and I know Paige really appreciated it. She wrote us each a 2 page letter about her life and I cried like a baby. She also got to buy her dream with all the money she recieved.....a MACBOOK. She is in heaven.

DID YOU SEE IT? If not you missed it....

I love all kinds of music. If it moves me then I fall in love with it. Well did you see on TV last night "Girls Night Out". It was female country stars - a salute to them. Well first of all I must say that Carrie Underwood...click here and go down to where you see her face and play that one....for the first time gave me goosebumps. I MEAN WOW. She was absolutely amazing. BUT....my all-time favorite of the night was Miranda Lambert and her new group called "Pistol Annie." I am in love with this song...click here.... ENJOY!!!!!

THIS one if my favorite!!!! Love this look. SOOOOOooooooo Paige.

PROM - WOW it brings back memories. I think my Paige looks gorgeous. ENJOY!!!

Last weekend at Artiscape - IN THE HOTEL ROOM we dyed her hair. She wanted it darker with a little red so we found a color and tried it and it is beautiful on her. Of course - everything is beautiful on Paige. The weather didn't cooperate - it rained and poured. So the clouds were moving above and it was changing my lighting. I got a few favorites ...I mean I only took 150 of them. I just can NOT help myself. I love photography.

WHAT IS YOUR most favorite images to use under glass? Any suggestions? WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM ALL OF YOU. THANKS for viewing.

ISN'T she CUTE. I am going to make Paige's invitations for graduation so I asked her to draw a bulldog. It's her high school mascot. She is adorable. The girl can draw ANYTHING. I'm so jealous. I think she will have to black pen her so she will show up better when I copy her.

Yo-YO....It's yo-yo time. When Lark came to visit the first of March she bought a kit called Yo-Yo Monkey. She did the actual kit - it was browns, golds and greens. Well I can't make anything BROWN. I need a COLOR. I combed through my stash of fabrics that I have been collecting for about five years. All my favorite colors. So I finally finished the yo-yo part of it - 16 large and 104 baby yo-yo's. YES I SAID 104. Whoooooo I'm tired. Thank goodness for the clover yo-yo maker or I would have hated every step of it. What a great invention. Now onto making the head and tail. OMG this is going to take me a while because I don't know how to sew really. I'm not a good pattern person. I SO WISH I KNEW SOMEONE WHO SEWED. More later when I actually finish it. I don't get much done in a hurry because I have to go to WORK. UGH!!! AND Artiscape is coming up really fast. So I need to prepare kits. LOVE Artiscape. It is a great Art Retreat and put on by the best organizer in the world - Lisa Ohmer of European Papers. I have a sold out class to teach and can't wait to spend one-on-one time with Paige. It will be bittersweet because Mike Meador won't be there. Now I'm gonna cry.

Debby Rollins hard at work - you go girl!!!

Sorry Dot - picture is a little dark.

Debi Wind showing off her goodies.

And the lovely Donna Bryant showing off her birdies.

The skilled Connie Newbanks who really didn't need me, but we had fun all day.

Well I had a wonderful day with the girls from KCG. It was so great to see everyone. I asked Paige what she thought of class and she said "it was so different - it was a warm atmosphere because everybody knew everybody. It was so laid back." I think what she said was perfect. A warm atmosphere. Since Paige has been with me for over 10 classes she should know. She is an awesome helper. Everyone walked away with 3-6 finished pieces on Saturday and they really did a good job. So proud of them. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME!!!!! It was fun!!!

Paige took some pictures so I am posting them. I HOPE nobody gets offended or their feelings hurt if she didn't get everybody. A couple of them were very blurry.

TEACHING next Saturday and I am so excited. I MISS teaching so much, but my job has gotten in my way. Things you have to do in order to have HEALTH insurance. Ya know.....kinda sucks but I am so thankful for my job - especially in this recession. Can't wait to spend the WHOLE ENTIRE DAY with all my friends!!!!!!!!!! I miss them so much I want to cry. BUT things will get better - I have to BELIEVE!!!!

I went to see my Niece for her birthday last weekend and I made her presents. One was this plaque at the top. That is her cat "Sydney". She loves horse so I used my horse stamp that I love and made her wrapping paper. We had a great time in West Virginia.

MERRY Christmas and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you. I hope that you are all well. Have to share with you this hydrangea bloom with our new fallen snow on it. Nothing sweeter than waking up to a White Christmas in KENTUCKY. It has been 8 years since we have had a white christmas. LOVE it.

Well I found a website that you all probably know about called Picasa.com. That allowed me to put Paige's name on her wallets and we got them today. They are so cool with her name on them and look like they came from a professional photographer without spending $500.00. She didn't want the grad year on them - she said that was old school.

Learning about different applications like Pacasa to put some cool effects on Paige's pictures. I love the name on it. Should I put 2011 or not? That is the question....What is in style these days???