Happy Birthday Dusti

Happy Birthday to Dusti... here is my birthday limerick for you!

There once was a girl named Dusti
Who's camera was really quite trusty
She went digital one day
with her scrapping.... Hurray!
Now her embellishments will
soon become crusty!

For those of you who don't know Dusti - she is an awesome crafter... and amazng scrapper who I have been begging to join me on my digi journey - and recently her friend the talented Laura Ping (designer at Polka Dot Potato) managed to lure her to the digi world... yipee!!

Happy Birthday Dusti - looking forward to celebrating with you tomorrow!

Have any hip trash?

So reCREATE is plugging along. We got word that 2000 kids from Rocklin will go through our education program. We will talk to them about the environment - ways they can make less trash, and then we will let them do art with some of our treasure. Here are some picture from a camp we had come through for an art project - the Sacramento Bee had a photographer come through, and also the Sacramento News and Review - I'm so excited the see our press!

ok... This is like 2 months late...

I never finished all the layouts for Jessica Sprague's - Digi in Deep class... This assigment is a bit of a cheat, because part of the assigment was to set up a mini photo shoot - But that just wasn't going to happen in my world at this time.

These pictures my husband took when we were in Monterey. Other than the cold breeze it was a perfect day at the beach - especially for flying kites. It was an awesome afternoon and I felt like my special moments with my kids were actually caught on film - and I'm grateful for that - even if I had bad hair!

Other Princess Party Stuff

Since Sela is obsessed with parties at the moment. (This morning she gave me a long monologue about Baby Laura loving parties and being so nice, and Nathan loving Baby Laura - complete with floaty hand gestures and giggles.)
So here is a picture of my thank yous and gift bags for the girlies. You can find the template for the purses here...

What else is happening? Zach got promoted to the Alligators in swimming lessons. He is VERY proud... and took the opportunity to brag to his little sister that he is better at swimming than her.... nice.... not.
I was on TV for mere seconds the other morning on Good Day Sacramento for reCREATE. The clip is here. Don't blink or you will miss me...

A Week in Monterey (AKA Ahhhhh!)

We just got back from a week in Monterey, Ca. Monterey is PERFECT for a family with young kids - we beached, hiked, flew kits, went to the aquarium, swam in the pool at the hotel, and just repeated these activities until our week was up. It is relaxing, and if you have any love for the ocean, you can't beat it.
One of my favorite days of the trip was the day we visited Point Lobos State Reserve. I have driven by there so many times on my way to Big Sur, and never ventuired in... it was so interesting! We took a walk to observe a bird island, then walked down a huge step of stairs to the most pristine beautiful beach I have been on in ages. Best part? Only 4 other people came by in the hour plus we spent there. Here are some pictures of that day.

 

We also spent a little time one morening visiting the sea lions at the Coast Guard Pier (a stones throw from where Mark and I both certified in SCUBA). Here are some pictures from that!

 

 

 

 

I'm going to save the other pictures until later so I can scrap them... but I have to share this one of Ci in the outfit Cathy made her...she looks so cute!