As I put my new Doodlecharms cartridge away (in alphabetical order, of course!!) I thought it would be fitting to use my collection for my PAD today.
So at last count...22 regular cartridges, 7 in the double box that holds the solutions cartridges that don't come in a box of their own and the 7 that are preloaded into my Gypsy plus my George cartridge that is being replaced by PC that makes a grand total of 37. Yippeee!!!
I have probably the best job in the world because I love to read and to create and being a page at my local library allows me to earn a living doing something fun and exciting for me.
Today I rearranged our graphic novel collection and that was fun! We are also taking inventory of our entire collection at the moment, weeding outdated books and getting ready to launch our winter reading club. :)
The Mega Millions jackpot is $355 million! You know what they say? You gotta be in it to win it...so I picked up 2 tickets today, I figure all I have to lose is $2! So my picture of the day is my tickets, pinned to my fridge. Good luck!
So I have decided to try out for a spot on the design team for My Pink Stamper!! 
The challenge calls for a project using pink, brown, green...pretty colors, they work so well together. Actually I have to say that pink and brown are my 2 favorite colors when I work with paper...but then I guess all my pages would look the same if I did that! Ha!
For this challenge I used a paper line from Quick Quotes called Picadilly Pink and I was so happy to be able to open the package and put it to good use for this layout. One of my favorite cricut cartridges would have to be Picturesque and the reason for this being when I saw it the images just screamed of my beloved mom! She loved all things beautiful, flowers and butterflies and pretty designs.
I cut the rose at 5" with green cardstock and only used the stem and then I also cut it in lime green on the shadow feature. The reason I cut off the rose and didn't use it is because I had some flowers that my mom had given me to use for scrapbooking and I had been saving them so this was a perfect opportunity to use these beautiful pink flowers and add them to my page. The photos are matted with brown as well as pink cardstock. The butterflies are cut at 1 1/2" on the cricut and then I added crystal stickles to all of them to give them some shimmer and glue dots are holding them just in the middle so that their wings can be 'flying'. I added some chalk and some lines with my black marker on the stem to add some depth.
The photo on the lower right is of a memory wall at the 5K race I did last year in honor of my mom and I used a bling circle from Heidi Swapp to make mom's photo on the wall as the focal point.
The vellum quote, "Remembering Mother" is from Quick Quotes as well and I matted it with pink cardstock and added a green organza ribbon to finish it out.
Fly my beloved Gypsy, fly like the wind to Utah and come back to me all fixed and ready to play again!! I will miss you so very much while you are away. Yes, I was blessed with a Gypsy that decided to die after just 2 uses. :( Lucky me, huh? So I have sent it back to Provocraft and with any luck I will have it back within a couple of weeks. I am really hoping to bring it with me when I meet my sister for dinner on the 21st so that I can link up all of the cartridges she has been snatching up lately! 
Today's PAD, Picture of the day, features my favorite librarian (who also happens to be my supervisor) showing off our brand new very beautiful PINK book cart!! Isn't it awesome??? Our department is the envy of the whole library because of our very pretty new addition.
Nothing special...just my breakfast this morning, it was a somewhat non-eventful day for me other than working.
Trying to stay on track with my Weight Watchers points and start my day off with some protein.
Enjoying the first day of 2011 by taking our son to see a Beatles Tribute show, Twist and Shout. The show was fantastic and Alex had a great time.
I've spent the evening working on a layout that I hope to enter in a challenge over on My Pink Stamper so we'll see how it turns out, I'm waiting on some things to dry before I can finish it and post it.
Happy 2011, everyone!
