Happy Crafting!

Hey everyone!

This weekend I'm at a crafting retreat with the best bunch of ladies! All sorts of projects and creative techniques are being made and used this weekend! It's always great to be inspired by your friends and get together with them twice a year! We usually all keep in contact online and having facetime is just the best!

You can get an idea of how crazy we are with the next few photos... notice there is just crafting stuff everywhere and very few people are organized lol!








As the hours go on, we tend to get a bit giggly with the free drinks and Britta ended up being very serious about never seeing The Rescuers Down Under so she swore on her Simon Says Stamp monthly card box to show me how serious she was!

This year is our biggest retreat and I'm enjoying meeting new friends that I have talked to online and seeing old friends!

Hope you all are having a great weekend!

Exciting News!

Hey everyone! So sorry I have just dissapeared! Between the holidays, studying for the GMAT, and much more it has been pretty busy!

So I have told a few of you that a month ago I started a new journey! I am adopting a healthier lifestyle and slowly in the progress of making a lifestyle change.  I choose these words over the dreaded "diet" word becuase this is truly something I want to maintain and continue doing for the rest of my life. I am someone who has failed at diets before and think I have finally found what methods work for me. It is all trial and error for everyone.

This time around I jumped into the deep end and started a really intense program.  For me, it was the extra push I needed to realize how out of shape I was. Not being able to finish the first workout really motivated me to push as hard as I could ever day! Now, I can complete all the workouts and it may not be pretty but I get them done! I still can't do all the plyometrics full out but that motivates me to keep going until I can do all those jumps!

What program am I doing? Turbofire!



I have officially completed the first month of this program and am really pleased with myself at how well I am doing! I have lost 11 pounds and 13.25 inches off my body! :)

I am so proud of myself for how well I am doing so far! Only 1 cheat meal this past month! :)

With my birthday on Sunday (Superbowl) I am allowing myself to induldge because I only turn 25 once! I will hop right back on the band wagon the next day and work my butt off this week so that the cheat day doesn't derail me too much!

Play time!

Hey everyone!

Today I spent the afternoon crafting with some very talented ladies! I worked on making a bunch of Halloween cards for friends. I decided it had been a while since I mailed some card out and thought Halloween would be perfect!

Here are the three variations of cards I made for the day!

Supplies:

- Darcie's Clear Polymer Stamp Set #POL79

- Memento Black Ink

- My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Halloween 6x6 pad

- Stickles in Crystal

- Copic markers (sorry don't remember the specific colors!)