SUPER SUPER EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am really excited to share some news with everyone. A few weeks ago I was contacted by Cindy Wyckoff, Co-founder and Editor-In-Chief of Scrapbook Dimensions Magazine (www.scrapbookdimensions.com) and she has asked me to be the Managing Editor for the Magazine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me just say that I am unbelieveably excited!!

I love hybrid scrapbooking and believe that it is exactly what the industry needs in order to unite the digital and traditional industires.

We are putting the finishing touches on the magazine and the premiere issue will be releasing really soon! If you would like to receive a copy of the premiere issue you can go to www.scrapbookdimensions.com and sign up for the premiere issue (WHICH IS FREE!!)

It is such an amazing concept and I believe that this magazine will fill a gap on the newsstands!

With all this being said.... I'm planning to make this blog more interactive! I'm going to be posting challenges, projects and random thoughts to help encourage anyone that reads to step up and become a HYBRID! :)

Come back soon for more info and head over to www.scrapbookdimensions.com to get your free issue of the premiere magazine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

XO

I have been having such a great time scrapbooking lately. With the infussion of hybrid techniques I'm able to get back to my traditional roots while keeping my love for digital alive. It is fantastic. Unfortunately don't have any hybrid pages to display right now but I'll go ahead and add in some recent pages from the digi-side.

This is a layout of my parents when they were out here visiting Nov of '05. It was their anniversary and so we took them out to dinner and of course did our best to embarrass them! :) IT WAS FUN!!!

I just love my parents so much. They are just great and are good sports. It was wonderful to share their anniversary with them and to be able to spoil them a little. They have done so much for me...it is just nice to give back :)

I loved that the place where we ate made them get up and "play" with the anniversary song!



Jordan and Jade love chocolate... and so do I so we went one day to a local chocolate factory to eat some!It was enjoyable :)

Of course I think the kids enjoyed it a little more than I did. They had a lot of questions about how chocolate is made and where it goes once it is made. They wanted to know why people like it and we also read about the first time chocolate was sold. It was fun!


I'm finally getting to the summer pictures from '06 ! The children loved our pool this year. Both of them learned how to swim, dive and float on their backs. I decided that it is just easier for me if they are both swimmers! So we worked really hard to get them comfortable in the water. By the end of the season we were having a fantastic time in the pool.

I put together a montage of the two of them in the pool swimming, diving and floating. I just love the way it turned out! Fun stuff... makes me anxious for summer again... although I could do without the extreme heat!

Life comes at you fast!

Things have been amazing these past few months.

November we spent a lot of time with family. Holidays + family = good times.

December started off with a trip to Japan for me. It was FANTASTIC! I slipped right back into the language and into life there. Everything went way to fast but the trip was worth it. It was neat to see the changes over the past year and a half just as it was nice to see the things that are the same.

Back in the US we prepared for Christmas and for the New Year.

There is a new magazine about to launch (this month!) called Scrapbook Dimensions (www.scrapbookdimensions.com) I'm super excited about this magazine as its focus is on the combination of Traditional and Digital Scrapbooking. This is WONDERFUL news! It is exactly what the industry needs.

If you haven't checked it out yet I'm going to tell you to GO THERE NOW!

More exciting things to come!