Sunday Round Up

First off let me say Ballet is done for the year woo hoo! The princess had her recital at the National Ballet School yesterday. She was beautiful. Tears started flowing the second she put her pointed toe on stage. We couldn't take any pictures or videos, so here's a shot of the princess post-recital. Sorry for the unedited grainy photo!
Also, I'm done working Sunday until September...woo hoo!!! Our weekends are ours again. It will so nice to have a few days a week with no where to go. Especially since Sean start's school next week, so our week days will be very busy.

I have some big exciting news! I will be teaching my first ever Scrapbooking class this July. It will be at SDG Crafts on Eglinton Avenue in Toronto. My first class will be "Introduction to Scrapbooking" so if any of you want to get started scrapping and haven't known where to start this class will show you how.
The contact info is on my sidebar or you can send me a message and I will set you up! I'm so excited!! Roxanne and Andrew who run the store are lovely people and very helpful if you have any questions.

Here's a few pages I have yet to post:

Studio Calico

I was lucky enough to pick my own Mother's day gift this year since Sean and I were both working crazy hours (both of us even worked on Mother's day, so I'm still waiting for my brunch...lol). So I ordered a kit from Studio Calico. I've been drooling over them for years! It was so beautiful I didn't even want to take it apart, never mind cut it up.
I've only made one page so far, but now that I've finally plundered the kit there will be lots more projects to follow (actually, a bit of the canvas in the last post was from the kit too).

Stepping back.

For the first time in about three years I'm no longer scrapping for hire. I've decided to take a break from Design Teams this summer season...or possibly longer.

For practical reasons, it's due to a big change in the Murray-Moore household. As many of you know, Chef-boy is heading to teacher's college this summer. I will have my hands full being the main bread winner for a few months and keeping the princess out of his hair.

It's more than that. I'm burnt out artistically. I love that DT's force me to create and force me to finish, but I need to play, experiment, discover and grow. I need to be inspired rather than inspire. I need new challenges. I need to start blogging again too.

So, I've been making new pages, a new blog header, painting (please be kind...lol!) and exploring an exciting new opportunity that I hope will come to fruition.

Stay tuned for the journey!

Another day off, another sunburn

You would think I'd learn to use sunscreen by now. Oh well, the icky flu bug has left our house and all is well. A few weeks ago I came across this tutorial while hunting for Michael's coupons. so I gave it a go. I changed it up a bit as I skipped the hanging ribbon thingy and added another layer of paper strips to make it look fuller. As well, instead of lining the inside of the wreath with paper I used some flowers attached with brads. On the top of the flower I put grungepaper butterflies that I had punched out, painted, coloured with copics and decorated with pearls.
It was a lengthy project but fun. Now that I'm no longer on any Design Teams I plan on making more stuff for the house...but more about that next post!
Here's the wreath on my super ugly door!