A Beautiful Disaster

The Last Day of Vacation...

Alas, I have to go back to school starting Tuesday. It's bittersweet, I enjoy having some downtime for once, but I'm excited to start my new classes! I'm almost done with my AA in Graphic Illustration and all that's left is 6 art classes.  This semester I'll be taking 4 of those 6 classes: Color Theory, Visual Communications, Drawing II and Digital Imaging.  I'm kind of excited because for once, every single class can be applied to my work, which makes it feel all the more worthwhile!

On this last day of vacation, I'll be preparing to deal with my course load again by pulling swatches and brainstorming kits, perhaps photographing some new elements to extract and some other busy work. I'm trying to get ahead in the coming weeks to lessen the stress as well and I'm hoping this will help.  Look for a new Create A Kit contest coming soon too!

I'll leave you with my Studly Sunday p365 shot and my layout with I Loved Her First..happy Martin Luther King day!

Wifey snuggles before bedtime are the best :)

I Have A Non-Smoking Husband

Yesterday was Studly Sunday and I'm happy to report that my Studly husband has decided to become even studlier and quit smoking! He decided this completely out of the blue Saturday night when I was in bed so I woke up to a smoke-free husband.  He normally is UNBEARABLE when he's quitting smoking. So much so that I beg him to go have a smoke for God's sake!  But Sunday I was so impressed! Instead of spending the day in bed, he actually got up and went to church with me, he was in pretty good spirits all day and he keeps giving me all these nuggets of wisdom he's garnered from the "How To Quit Smoking" websites that he's going to do to help him quit!  I'm so happy for him!

Of course, in honor of his first day of no more smoking, he had to light an old one up and have me take his picture (gee..go figure), but seeing how excited he was to smush out the butt, I think he'll do well :)

He looks miserable, no? Eh well, the first week is the hardest!  Good luck honeybuns :)

In other news, I put out some new product Saturday..12x24" Stitches and a new kit called Live Your Life :)

I scrapped with Live Your Life layout too!  It's for the SSD book of me challenge...I think a fun little book of me at 25 will be cool for my kids to look at 20 years from now!

I'm trying to scrap with my new releases each week..sort of a little personal goal of mine this year but it seems that life gets busy pretty fast..so we'll see how often I get to.

Oh, also, one of my Smilebox albums is finally up on their site!  It's with Kristin and I's January AMAAT Kit from 2008 (recolored a little) and it came out super cute! If you're not using Smilebox, you don't know what you're missing!

Here's a quick little example I made up with it using our snow pics from a couple years ago 

Let It Snow

Have a happy Tuesday!

Skinny Saturdays

Well here we are, January 2nd.  Saturdays are the days I go to Weight Watchers, thus Skinny Saturdays.  I really really want to lose 25 more pounds this year before summer so I figured keeping track of my progress with p365 will help me to stay on track.  I've already lost 28.4 lbs as of this morning.  On December 4th I was down 28.2 so I've stayed stagnant for a month which I'm actually proud of considering it was Christmas.  But now it's time to get back on board!

I admit, the slow progress since around Thanksgiving is somewhat frustrating, but do you know how I broke out of it?  I compared last year at Christmas to this year and Oh My Gosh.  Even if I didn't lose any weight lately, I am 100% better off versus this time last year, so I am happy.

Here's my photo for today:

I promise that not every Saturday will be pictures of me, as I have Mugshot Monday for that, but I figured today was a good day to do a comparison shot, so shall we? This is a comparison of me Christmas Eve 2009:

 

OH MY GOSH! Seriously, Patrick and I both just stare at this in shock, we can't believe the difference. Good motivation though. One of my goals in the new year is to exercise more, to help get over this plateau as well. My puppy is getting puffy too so I shall start by taking her on walks! LOL

In other news!  I have a new kit out this week called Pieces of Me.  I absolutely love it and hope you do too. I'll just post a preview here and if you want to check it out you can!  I also did my first layout of the new year with it too!

You can click on the LO to see full credits :)

Everyone have a productive (or relaxing) Saturday!