Inspiration

This is what a best friend looks like! A woman who is not only willing to act silly, but shares my love of art, textiles, and paper. We bounce ideas off each other, oohing an aahing over patterned paper, inks, and LOTS of books and magazines. We have shared many laughs, tears, good news and bad over the last twenty something years. Today was a scorcher (over 90 degrees) so we got together for breakfast to catch up on the past week's news and activities. We went to a few shops and perused the latest magazines at Borders while sharing ideas on products, stamping, inks, and different tools. Such a fun day! We wilted a bit in the heat between stops (even the going in and out was amazingly HOT).....but as always we left each other inspired to go home and CREATE. Thanks for a great day, friend ;-)

Meet Miss Ava

Well, this little cutie is Miss Ava. She is the beautiful daughter of Melissa and David, very good friends of mine. I'll be featuring Ava in many of my posts as I am lovingly working on her "First Year" of memories scrapbook. It is easy to work with such a photogenic baby and really sweet cutie pie - well you'll see soon enough. It also helps that her mother is an awesome and helpful photographer. We have done several things that should make this book very enjoyable for years to come and an especially personal look at the love that surrounds her. Melissa generously gave me her pregnancy journal so I would be very connected to the entire process of bringing Ava into the world. Also I gave her a list of very personal and thought provoking questions which will be included as "advice" for Ava - kind of "things your Mother wanted you to know"...I think Ava will like that. Well, that's all for now - stay tuned!