Stay Classy San Diego

I'm still recovering from my busy weekend in San Diego. Everyone knows I love San Diego, like do I ever go anywhere else? Probably not but that's OK.  I'm going to move there one day - sorry Mom. Its just so darn likable and so relaxed and the people seem so laid back and friendly. I could go on and on but you I know I'm always on a mini vacay when I roll into SD and it feels like home and I like that. Just a warning, this post is total ramdomness but its still awesome so let me preach on.....

So I left MPK at the crack of dawn (made it in less than 2 hours, thank you lead foot) to join in for some crafty goodness with non other than Amy Tangerine and Kelly Purkey at my favorite scrapbooking store on the planet, PaperTales. Ok, to be fair I haven't assessed many other scrapbooking stores because I live in SoCal and any paper store is like a dying breed but I heart them PaperTales ladies because they are super sweet and they have the cutest store and I just want to buy everything, everything from the washi to the stamps to the cute little knick knacks to the mason jar decorated lids to the doilies and well you get the point. I love it. Samantha and Mike laugh at me and my excitement but its ok because they know it makes me happy and that makes them happy.

The day was jam packed and honestly I just don't have it in me for an all day crafty showdown. Man I was tired, dunzo by like the third class (i probably should have slept more the night before instead of washing clothes and packing my basic kit that wasn't so basic but like half of my craft supplies, oh well - live and learn). I left with 4 layouts and 2 mini books, dang. Thats like the most I have ever done, like ever so I'm awesome. But Where's the 8 hour energy drink? Seriously I felt like I had run a marathon, ok maybe not a marathon but I was tired and hungry, wahhh but still worth it. I had alot of fun meeting new peeps (some from the studio calico message board, yeah I'm a nerd like that for all my non-crafting peeps, there is a whole new world out there in cyberspace and these ladies are taking over, trust) and of course some scrappy heroes, pure awesomeness. I'm loving the new Amy Tangerine line, all those bright colors and watercolors are gorgeous and just fun, so very bright like my colorful sparkly nature, ha. I had the most fun with the 2 watercolor layouts and even tried my hand at the famous watercolor straw technique, yay. I'm not really a mini book person....yet but I can see why there is such a following of all things mini. Perhaps I need to invest in an instax camera or something mini to get the mojo flowing, hahaha. I'm going to justify the purchase because you just can't do a mini book with a 4x6 print, I tried and well its not the same, just doesn't vibe and well my Mom wouldn't be proud unless everything was just so therefore I might have to purchase it for the greater good of the craft closet. Just another thing to add to my amazon wish list ( along with my nail polish addiction products). We also learned some misting techniques, I feel like the first question I should have asked was who's Mr. Huey? I'm really curious where that name came from. Random, I know. Overall fun class, cool people, tons of fun things to buy at Papertales (the owner informed me I just need to spend $40 more to get a free $10 on my next purchase). I love enablers and I'll be sure to stop by PaperTales on my next San Diego adventure which will be in a few weeks because - Hello baseball season, I (heart) you Padres and PaperTales and San Diego. Stay Classy San Diego, Stay Classy!

layout of Rab and her bball team. Its kind of flat and still not done but misting was fun (and messy).

I love this paper, love. Pic of my Ellen Peeps and to Mike and Samantha it wasn't that I didn't want to use their pictures its because I didn't have any that fit the colors. Next time kimosabe

Pic of my fur babies, i love them so much. This one is flat too but just learning the techniques was fun. I'll fix it up this weekend hopefully

I love those little flowers, I am a papercutter and love using embroidery on paper. Its kind of therapeutic. I love the bright colors of this line. Plus I had to show my NKOTB love....swoon. Forever.

Details on Samantha and Mike's weekend adventure to come shortly. Samantha says I need to show them more love. hahaha

It was a slam dunk

I should get a Mom of the Year award because I'm awesome like that. Hahaha, some might differ but honestly putting Samantha on a basketball team was the best thing I've done thus far. Little did I know she would love it so much. I'm so glad I did because I was having flashbacks to her soccer days where I was running the field with Samantha telling her to not give up, hurry up, suck it up, ok ok it wasn't pretty.

Honestly I just wanted to get her out of the house and a little exercise and I knew she could be a good basketball player if she tried. I'm crying inside because now its over. I'm happy to have my Monday and Wednesday nights back but I would give them up forever if it meant my baby was happy. Although her team didn't have a prayer in the beginning of the season (4 of the 11 kids had no prior basketball experience), they improved and really could have taken the championship because of their hard work and defense, alas 3rd place - but we'll take it. The one thing I love most about the season besides the fact that Samantha was excited to play, practice and make friends was that these kids (who probably were brought up differently and I'm not trying to stereotype here but they came from a rougher neighborhood than we normally hang out in) totally embraced her. They didn't treat her differently, they encouraged her, they laughed with her, they genuinely liked playing with her and it showed. Since the kids at school give Samantha a hard time, it really breaks my heart to know that these kids, the ones from the rough neighborhoods and broken families were the ones to open her eyes and make her realize that its not her - she's a beautiful girl with wonderful qualities and anyone is lucky to have her as a friend- its the kids at school - those bullies. I hope she's able to contine a friendship friends the girls on the team, the boys are sweet but they are boys and well I dont' even want to go there yet.

In other news, we finally saw the Hunger Games, yay. Finally on sunday - just me and Samantha went out in the thunderstorm that we like to call Los Angeles lately and got our new Hunger Game shirts totally drenched because we were too cool for umbrellas. But it was so worth it, loved the movie. The only thing I didn't like about the movie was the whole panning of the reaping, it made me so dizzy. I love that we both read the book and saw the movie together. I like reading her books, shhh don't tell her. Can't wait for the next movie. Next time maybe we'll see the midnight showing, that would be fun and I'll be tired the next day but anything for my rabbit. Oh and I'm Team Gale because that boy is beautiful, yes beautiful.

Obregon Park Pee Wees "Lakers" 2012

Nail polish diaries

I would say I have become completely obsessed with my nails recently. Not the whole fake nail bit but polishing them. I've been told I have pretty hands and nice nails (even a foot model recently, lol) but lately I have fallen in love with changing the shade of my nail polish and all the awesome nail designs out in the blogesphere. I even dedicated a whole board on my pinterest . My secret wish would be to have a nail polish line. Wouldn't that just be amazing, seriously how amazing. Of course the first line would be like "POW!" blinged out sparkly, love the thought of that seriously.

So this weekend I ventured out to get my eyebrows waxed because I was seriously resembling Chubaca's girlfriend. I go to my special lady because you all know we have a special lady that only we can trust with our precious eyebrow shape. I've had a few eyebrow ladies in my time but I'm always horrified to go to someone new because I have such thick eyebrows and I they always want to thin them out and I don't want to look like I used a sharpie on them. Whats wrong with a nice thick eyebrow, just clean them up please.  My first eyebrow lady ever was horrible, made my eyebrows look like pasted on sperms, hahaaha and she swore she was awesome and made it seem like I was a hairy beast. I'm glad I can laugh at it now even though I had no idea then until I looked at pictures of me and realized that perhaps I get a new lady. Anyways, my newest lady is quite efficient but pretty busy on the weekends. So I'm waiting and drooling at all the new colors they have in stock and started thinking that I needed some nail art. I wanted Hello Kitty nails, my other obsession. I would say I use to be pretty conservative when it came to my nails which is why they are in such good shape.  I only had fake nails once in my life and hated it. I believe I took them off within days because I couldn't open my own can of 7-up. I felt ridiculous. Back then, I would get a manicure on occasion but would always go for a light shade on my fingers, all bets were off though for my toes. I love a tanned toe with a sparkly polish. I've just taken care of my nails and they grow like a weed, nice and strong. But the evolution of nail art makes me want to get creative. I seriously have to learn to write with my left hand though because I have no control when I'm painting my right hand and then I can save tons of money and not have to pay $15 for a Hello Kitty design on my nails. I would say it was worth it though, even got a little blinged out red bow. I know, I know. I'm thirty-something and I have hello kitty nails.....i don't care. Lets just add that to the list of Hello Kitty shoes, Hello Kitty undies, Hello Kitty stationary and well the list goes on. I'm totally in love with my new nails and I've received several compliments on both my brows and my nails (two snaps and a bag of chips people!). I'm bringing back the kitty for a little touch up this weekend or perhaps venturing into the cheetah nail territory (I'm really not a cheetah girl but all bets are off with my fingernails, ha). My peeps may be shaking their heads but I love dramatic nail art and I'm just doing me, right.

Hello Kitty blinged out with a touch of black. - love it

xoxo

I know today is a commercialized day but o.m.g. what is not to like about holidays. I love holidays because they make you feel warm and fuzzy, sometimes you get stuff (haha), you get to give stuff (sweet), you brighten someone's day on purpose (well it should be like this every day), people are generally nicer, o.m.g. the diy (yes, i love, i die, i swoon), sometimes you get days off (not this one sadly) but overall I just love holidays and wish we would treat every day as a holiday because I think we'd be a much happier planet with a much smaller balance in our bank accounts.

But Valentine's day in particular, i love the sweets (of course), the sparkle (its there, just look), the hearts (oh, i love the hearts, been doodling since 1984 hearts galore), the exchange of valentine's (i totally wish I was a kid because I'm much more motivated now to give the best valentine and sweets, hahaha), the love (yes, the love is priceless), the smile on Samantha's face when she gives a Valentine (although I have yet to see it, I know its there), a sweet handwritten note (at least from my sweetheart), chocolate (its in a category of its own, just yummy right), the romance (who doesn't love romance).

I love Valentine's day and I buy into it the every year and probably will til the day I'm no longer here but I also know you don't need a sweetheart to appreciate all these things because I pretty much do all these things for my peeps not just my honeybunch or my babygirl.

So, a few weeks ago I submitted a picture of Samantha to a project by TJ over at Mr. Taylor and his Lady. She was collecting pictures of someone you love for a project. Of course I have a bazillion pictures of my sweetheart and I but I wanted to send my rabbit because I just love that picture of her, she's so beautiful but not just on the outside - that kid truly has a heart of gold. I just love her. Check out the collage of pics here, just makes me want to hug someone and smile.

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A day in the life of me 2.8.12

I thought I would participate in the Day in the Life project by Ali Edwards. I think I did pretty good considering I was at work all day. It kind of made me look at things differently and made my day go by quicker. There were tons of pictures so I just uploaded them to my flickr account. You can see them here. I might try it again on Saturday when I have more stuff to post.

My birthday's tomorrow! Yay!!! I hope I get a pineapple upside down cake and some new nail polish (OPI or Essie). All would be good if I got just that. I'm an easy girl yes I am:)

My favorite picture of the day, Lovely Double

My wish

By Rascal Flatts

I find these words refreshing. Its nice to know there is optimism and love in the world. Its nice to know a few well sung words can make my whole day feel better. Its nice to know that I know a whole lotta people out there that feel the same way.

For whatever reason, I choose to read my news online instead of watching it at night. I think I do this because I can skip over and just ignore what I dont' want to hear. But today, I saw the headline about the Susan Powell disappearance and it breaks my heart. Any news related to death I just ignore but when it involves kids I just want to cry out for injustice. I never followed this story because like I said I choose to read my news and ignore whatever I can't stomach. I doubt there will ever be justice for those boys and their mom. As a parent I know that if anything happened to my daughter I would never be the same. I'm so thankful that my little issues in life are just that 'little' compared to some people and I pray everyday for world peace, ending hunger, cure for disease, equal opportunities, healthy living, I mean the list can go on and on. All I know is that those little words made me feel better today because I know somebody loves me and I'm sure they're wishing the same thing.

With February brings...

My birthday month! Thats right, not a week like Mike and Samantha seem to think. Oh and February brings love..swoon. The birthday count down is on. I've since stopped counting my age but let the record show that I was carded two weeks ago at Buca De Beppo. hahaha. Yes, I know I look young, I do and I will swear by it to Samantha and Michael. It really doesn't bother me that I'm in my early thirties for 10 more days, ahaha. I love February not just because of my birthday but because I love all the Valentines and hearts in the stores (yes, its commercialism but I don't care, I love it), I love the fact that I get an extra PAID day off (oh yeah, i love that), I love that Amazing Race is coming back on tv (i will be on that show one year, trust), I love that the SuperBowl is next week (even if my Niners won't be playing), I love that my little brother is celebrating his birthday too (although I didn't like the joint parties as kids - call me spoiled, ha). I love it most because its my birthday, ok I said it.

Since we're on the topic of birthdays, maybe a list of the few items I might like to see with my birthday cake might be in order.

Shemar Moore! haha, just kidding but seriously after that kiss on Ellen I have no doubts he likes women, Just saying.

I know, really. Why- because its convenient and cute and I'll have no excuse

I'm really loving the heart cardigan from F21 or the red one from Torrid

I really like them, Piperline i love you so

I really love these Toms wedges or some of their cute ballet flats

I absolutely love the Dear Lizzy line by American crafts and of course the new Amy Tan line (both go on sale in March)

I'd also love a weekend getaway with both babies, perhaps a crafty workshop or shopping spree at Paper Tales...oh and World Peace!