Digital Layouts!!!! I figured it out!!! Yeah Me!!!!

OK I finally figured it out- Thanks to 2 peas in a bucket.com for their awesome tutorials about photoshop and other topics related to crafting.

Anyway here is one of my digital layouts- I am getting better- this was the very first one I did- I love scrapping digitally- not as much as paper and glue- but it is a lot of fun.



This is another layout that I did. It was a lot of fun- I figured out how to use elements like stamps- that is what the black dots on the sides are. There is a whole other world in digital scrapbooking. It's kind of neat!

Hope you enjoy!

Love to all,

Dawn

Awesome Blog Candy

Check out these blogs they have awesome blog candy to give away-

http://dizzienoodleheartscrafting.blogspot.com/

And this one is tooo fab!

http://mypaperhugs.blogspot.com/

I cant figure out how to put the pictures from 1 blog to another, but trust me they are great!!!

Love to all,

Dawn

Digital Scrapbooking

Ok so its summer and I am not working that leaves me with some extra time on my hands- I have been reading several blogs lately where the girls are using Adobe Photoshop to create some fantastic scrapbook pages, they look just like the ones that I create with paper and embelishments but they are all done on the computer- Soooo I had to give it a try- now I didnt buy Photoshop (are you kidding me its 100- but costco has a 30 cupon if you are interested) anyway Adobe lets you have a trial version for 30 days so I have been "trying" it out, and I LOVE it- now its not as much fun as the glue and paper and such, but it does give really neat results- I have been trying to upload some of my pages but blogger is being a pain and not uploading them- I will continue to try.
If you want more info about digital scrapbooking contact me and I will share what I know- I have done some digging around and found free papers and embelishments to download.

Happy Happy Birthday!

We have lots of birthdays in our family: Lets see how they all turned out...

First we celebrated Paul's 36th (my, my he's getting old)- on May 27th- we had dinner with his family and friends at Ichiro's - the dinner was good, seeing the family and friends was great, but the cake was WONDERFUL! Birthday cake is my favorite food!

Teagan told Paul that she was going to have a Hannah Montanna cake because that was her favorite and he could have a Spongebob cake because that was his favorite- well here it is (or was- it was too yummy to last long).

Then we had Carter's 1st birthday in Columbia- we had a great time at the bubble party- Carter didnt know what to think about all of the people there , his cake and the balloons. We all had a great time helping Carter celebrate the big 1.


















And last but certainly not least on June 6th we had Teagan's 5th birthday. Teagan had a Hannah Montanna Pool/Slumber Party- She had a Hannah Montanna cake, Hannah Montanna plates, Hannah Montanna Cups, Hannah Montanna "Nakins", Hannah Montanna goody bags- If it had Hannah Montanna on it she had it. She even got a Hannah Montanna bike from MeMe and Papa Red. She had lots of fun swimming in the pool, eating hotdogs and cake and then having 3 little girls and Maggie spend the night for a real Slumber party. Wow it is hard to beleive that Teagan is already 5, seems like yesterday she was celebrating the big 1.

Well all of these parties and not one of them was mine. Oh well mine will be here in 4 months- I am already making my list. I like to celebrate my birth month- not just the day :)

Bikes, Babes, and Waves

My favorite picture ever!!!

I know I am a slacker when it comes to blogging- I really don't know anyone who reads it besides my family and they know everything anyway- but here goes. I haven't created anything lately- I did do a couple of demos at AC Moore and I am going to teach a class there in July so that is exciting, I haven't taken pictures of my recent tags I will try to post them later. I do have some pictures of the past couple of weeks events that we have been going through.

First there was Cinco De Mayo- now here is a great holiday for us- we get to celebrate the 5th of May, we need to figure out how to have a celebration every month...

Here we are at Murphy's , had a great time with Kat and Dee- and various other regulars.

Then came Bike Week 2009- I think that I have permanent seat marks on my backside from riding so much, (but it was GREAT). Anyway we spent the majority of the week with Paul's friends (and now my friends) from Boston- Manch Vegas Choppers. They were a GREAT bunch of guys who come every year for 10 days. There were 8 in the group, and we did a lot of traveling with them. We rode all over the south end as well as to Pawley's and Georgetown. It was a lot of fun, riding in a large group- some of the guys were a little "different" looking so you can imagine some of the looks that we got- and for most of the time I was the only girl- so it was like I had a posse' with me everywhere I went.

Kat and I are sitting on the swing at Dead Dog in the Inlet.

Paul and I are at Murphy's again- I think that we lived there part of last week. :)

This is Donnie- a.k.a Manch Vegas Chopper- he is the sweetest guy- We had a lot of fun hanging out this week! Donnie was part of the posse' that watched out for me. I never got to far away thats for sure.

And last but not least a day on the beach, catching some rays (me) and waves (Paul). Sundays are becoming our beach days- we have enjoyed playing in the sand with Teagan, fishing with Kat and Dee or surfing with Paul, Tom and his sons.

Here are some pics. of Paul surfing on Sunday:

Ok not really surfing yet- but my camera is crappy and the shots of him in the water are too far away-

That is pretty much it- we have been busy- lots of fun but really busy!

We also had Keirsten's 40th birthday, the Super Suckers Concert and mother's day all in between, more about those later!

Love to all,

Dawn

A couple more pics

I found these pictures and they amazed me- This is the fire coming up to Hwy 31

This next pic. is of the fire jumping hwy 31- How amazing is that????

Prayers Needed

I know that I haven't posted in a LONG time, but I am posting now- asking for prayers. We have a MASSIVE wildfire spreading through our county. The fire started yesterday, in a neighborhood that my students live in, about 5 miles from my school. It has now burned more than 15,000 acres, over 60 houses and damaged 100 additional homes. We have students and staff members who have lost homes, been evacuated and some waiting to see if they have to leave their homes.

Please keep our children and their families in your prayers.

Here is the link - the videos and pictures are unreal.

http://www.wmbfnews.com/global/story.asp?s=10228981

Maggie and I are very lucky- we get to sleep tonight in our own beds, and not have to worry about waking up in the middle of the night with a fire at our back doors- but we have over 2,000 people that cant say that tonight.

To my staff members and my babies at school- I love you all and will be thinking about you throughout the night. Please be safe.

Much love to all- Dawn