Salt Lake City visit February 2010

Last weekend I flew to Salt Lake City to visit my BFF or bestie Kari, and my sister Becky. Some how I got NO pictures with Kari??? Not sure how that happened. So you will just have to trust me, we had a great time! We had a great dinner at The Melting Pot, coffee, a couple spa treatments, coffee, and shopping! Oh, and some really scruptious fish tacos! Yum! Thanks Kari, next time I will stay longer for sure!

Then I headed to my sisters house... this is Izzy isn't she a cutie?!
My mom and son Adam met me in Salt Lake also, which was fun! This is Sydney, she is working on her scrapbook! :)
Noah skateboarding! :)
My sister Becky, Sydney, brother in law Matt, Ellie and part of my momma!
There's my momma, Ellie, Adam and his girlfriend Lacey!
My nieces Kourtney and Ellie eating peanuts and waiting for our table to be ready at Texas Roadhouse. Thank You again Matt for a great dinner!
Adam and Lacey.
The poker players! beginning at the head of the table Noah, Cooper, Brayden, Sydney, Ellie, Lacey, and Adam.
Cooper cooked us ALL breakfast of waffles Sunday morning! So yummy!
Waiting for the waffles to be ready. Lots of topping for them too, fresh fruit, whipped cream, Nutella, syrups!
Becky made cranberry scones both mornings too! My favorite! Thanks Becky! My next trip I could so spend a week with each of them!

Daffodils 2010

My friend Andrea and I decided to head down to Mt. Vernon and check out the daffodils, do a little shopping in LaConnor and have lunch! This is one of the first fields we found in bloom! It was a perfect day to view the daffodils! :) But we discovered the daffodil fields do not welcome visitors like the tulip fields do.
We were greeted with no trespassing signs everywhere we went!!! :( We were not the only ones trying to walk through the daffodil fields. (That is Mt. Baker in the background)
So pretty!
After trying to walk through several fields and only being met with no trespassing we headed to LaConnor for shopping. I needed to pick up Genna's birthday present... We of course had to have lunch on the water! :)
LaConnor is just beginning to spruce things up for the crowds of the Tulip Festival. It is starting 6 days early this year because of the warm weather we've been experiencing! Woohoo!

These guys kept talking to us as we were eating our lunch, they seemed to quiet down once I snapped their picture! Haha!
Rhodies and Azaleas are blooming all over Bellingham too! These were in LaConnor. Love them!
This was some funky car parked downtown LaConnor. Those are shoes attached to the top!
One last field before heading home! This is Andrea, she works with me at MBI and is also my furbaby sitter and house sitter :) Thanks for going with me girl!
Trespassing sign??? Oh, I guess we didn't see it??? Hehehe! So worth it! Wish you were here!
Koko did not get to stroll through the daffodils, she had to sit in the car while we "broke the law" and trespassed for the pics above.

I'll be back later with some pics of my trip to Salt Lake City!

Shelves in the studio

The hubby finally helped me put the shelves up in the studio. I love the look of them, I still have some "fluffing" to do to them, but am loving the extra room to display some of my favorite things.
Originally I had planned on buying another of the cube shelves, but when I moved the guest room around I ended up with an extra little cupboard. I think I like it! I just need to paint it white to match the others. Plus it will hide some of my "stuff".
As you can see, the top shelf still needs to be "fluffed"! LOL!
I made the canvas over the weekend! The hubby leaves tomorrow morning, I will take him to the airport at 3:30 am. Not sure at this time when he will be back... hopefully soon :( I will miss him!
I love you babe... be safe, and hurry home! Oh and don't forget to bring me something back! :)

Valentine wrap up...

My friend Jessica and I made a total of 141 of the M&M Valentines to sell at work for Relay for Life... they ALL sold! Yay! We are going to make some to sell for St. Patricks Day next.
I made 20 of these decorated suckers to take to my work, along with 3 Dozen Chocolate Covered Cherries, and Lettuce Wraps. Above is a closeup of the stickles I used to bling them up a bit.

I had forgotten to post the completed Valentine project I made using a kit from Treasury ($10) I LOVE it!
Spring is popping up ALL over Bellingham! The back yard...
Under the trees...
The side yard...
We hadn't been down Chuckanut since last fall, so we headed to Larabee State park for our walk today! The sun was out, the temp was 52, people were EVERYWHERE!!!
I LOVED this shot! How fun would that be??? I am not sure Koko would hold that still! I would be willing to try though! Hehe!

We even found spring popping up by the beach... so pretty! Is spring popping up where you are?

We came home and had a yummy dinner of crab legs, baked potatoes, salad, and I bought 2 pieces of New York Cheesecake at the store just for a simple little after dinner treat, without the leftovers of a whole one. Hope you got to enjoy a LOVE-ly day too!

Valentine mini book 2010

We don't really do a whole lot for Valentines Day, we just like to keep it simple.

I started out my gift for Scott with the left over pictures from our mini photo shoot, some black and cream paper, and some doodads of hearts, ribbons and embellishments. I knew I wanted something he would be able to take with him on his travels. (He recently started a new job that will require him to travel quite a bit)
I decided to make a mini book, that would fit in a small tin. I started by decorating the tin first.
I created an accordion book with black card stock, then used the black and cream DP to decorate each of the "pages".
I used the computer to create some lined tags to write my thoughts on, and printed it out on cream cardstock.
I used the embellishments, hearts, and ribbon to decorate the pages.
The accordion book fits nicely in the tin, and won't get damaged while traveling. He can then take it out when he gets to his hotel room and keep it on his night stand as a reminder of home. =) I then made a card using a picture that was taken of the two of us at my company holiday party a couple weeks ago. I used a clear sticker, and an adorable crochet heart my friend Jessica made for me! I LOVE them! (Thanks Jessica!)
Above is a closeup of the sticker and heart on the card. Love the closeups my new camera is able to take! =)
Above is a closeup of the little heart lovelies that Jessica crocheted for me! =D
Scott brought me flowers, aren't they pretty? I think the roses are called Fire and Ice?! So pretty!