Bad Blogger.....

I am so sorry everyone, I have not posted in forever! I was away for a week to Las Vegas for my sister's wedding and I am back to work next week so this week was spent getting things ready for that! This weekend over at LCOM we are having a Grand Opening cyber crop! There are tons of great challenges and could be just what you need to get your mojo going on this rainy day! Be sure to come on over and check it out! Also LCOM is having a Design team call and the final day for submissions is today, so get those applications in! LCOM is a great place to be!

Here are some pictures from our trip to Las Vegas....
Freemont street (also known as Old Las Vegas)

View of our hotel from the helicopter tour we took of the Grand Canyon...
Hoover Dam...

Photos in Grand Canyon....
The Strip lighting up at night......
That's all for now, have a great week!!!

Wedding shower card and pictures

Yesterday was my sister's wedding shower and I just wanted to share a few pictures with you. But first here is the card I made using sketch 27 over at CardPatterns.
Here is a couple pictures from the shower. Our childhood friend Maryse got down so it was great to see her and my cousin Teena also designed an awesome ribbon hat for my sister.

LCOM Sketch #4

Another week of great work over at LCOM! This week Cindy Stevens has designed a wonderful sketch for us and you can check out all of the work on the blog. Also this month Pink Paislee is our sponsor, what amazing goodies they have given us!! If you play along this month with the sketches you have a chance to win some Pink Paislee goodies! So be sure to link your LOs to us in the comment section of the blog and get scrapping! Here is my LO this week...

LCOM sketch #3 and Miss New Brunswick Pageant

Last week over at LCOM the design team had our reveal for sketch #3. This month's sponsor was My Little bit of Whimsy. My LO is below and be sure to go over to the blog to check out the rest of the design team's work.


I also just got back from the Miss New Brunswick pageant. Here are the results:
Miss Congeniality - Miss Carleton North Brittany Billings
Miss Talent - Miss Woodstock Deidre Allaby
2nd Princess - Miss Nackawic Ellen Graham
1st Princess - Miss Bon Ami Karine Meunier-Pelletier
Miss NB 2009 - Miss Salmon Festival Heather Nichol
This was the 2nd year in a row that Miss Salmon Festival won the Miss NB title. It was a great group of girls and I am so proud of all of them! Here is a couple of pictures from the pageant.

I got a blog award! Circle of Friends award

Thanks so much to Sharon for awarding me with the "Circle of Friends" blog award!! I am honoured !!



I truely am amazed of how many FRIENDS you do get to know and how many of your blogs I follow on a daily basis. Even though we may not know each other face to face its so much fun watching all our creativity blosom online here. What a great award and again Thank you SHARON I truely am honored !

So here are the rules:

Nominate 5 other bloggers you feel have become part of your circle of friends.
Link to your nominees within your blog post.
Include these instructions on how to pick up the award in your blog post.
Link back to the person who gave you the award in your blog post, to show your appreciation. Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award .
Here are my nominations in no particular order:

LG
Amanda Winchester
Amanda Muirhead
Tina
Tracy T

Thanks so much to everyone for giving me so much inspiration!!!

August GDT at Scrap That!

Just wanted to share some exciting news with you all. I participated in the Scrap That! blog hop on the weekend (by the way if you have never done this it is so much fun and you get to see so much scrappy goodness) and was chosen to be their guest designer for August. I am so excited to be a part of this team for August!! Scrap That is a Canadian based website/scrapbooking online store. Come on over and check them out!

Some florida pictures and a Toot!

Well I found out last night that I am going to be published in the August 1st issue of Scrapbook News and Review! It is for a layout titled "Dance Diva" that I did for a scraplift tag on another site, I am very excited for this! Scrapbook News and Review is an online magazine.

Also i wanted to share some photos with you from my recent vacation with my Husband to Florida. Here are some fun ones we took out and about.....



My husband enjoying his lobster....
And finally one of me from the conference with Erin Gruwell, the teacher from Freedom writers. This was taken after the closing session of the conference. She is such an inspiring teacher, I hope that I can be that inspiring for even one of my students.
Thanks for stopping by, hope you are having a great week!!