A couple toots, some really cool stuff, I am excited about a Little Toot and Sitting on Pins and Needles!

Today is such a cool day for me. It's an exciting scrappy day. So much so, that I mentioned a toot in my title twice, LOL.

I am busy working on some projects for submissions and I am seriously embracing hybrid scrapbooking. You know this summer, I really got into the digital stuff and it just really went from there. Now, I have always, since I started scrapbooking, done journaling and the odd bit of graphics on my pictures and enjoyed playing with photos, but now I have really embrace digital papers and seeing how they will mix with my much accued paper stash. Gotta use that up and get my fingers inky or it just wouldn't be right.

And now to the point of all that.

So, I am stalking the Prima Blog (I'll explain that too), when I come across......

Prima Hybrid!

Holee heck, could it get any better than that? Love Prima, am lovin' hybrid and they come out with this??!!?!? WOOT! Love it and it is only a CHA Winter sneek peek!

So now onto the stalking.....

Why the stalking? A few of you gals know that I entered the Prima Design Team Call because seriously, I love their stuff. I never really realized how much Prima I have actually used on pages and projects until I started prepping my entry for this call. And I am LOVING the Iron Orchid stuff. Even faired not to shabbily on this contest back in March of last year!

Seriously, to sum it all up into one big statement, I'd love to land on their DT because I love their stuff. Please send the good vibes and I promise if I don't get a call, I won't pout.

Well, I might pout a little, but only to the confines of my couch and a box of chocolate.

However, I must must must wish luck to all the ladies that entered along with me, and good luck to the people pouring over to the entries. I am sure you don't have an easy task.

Look to the left of this entry, and you will see some links to great scrappy blogs. I like to include great links for you to follow, but also because a lot of those great links are to my friends. Again, surfing my friends blogs the other day and as usual, I am reading up on Leica Forrest's blog because she always has some great things going on 'round there. Lo and behold, she listed me as one of her favorite blogs. What a sweetie! I think I had an in though, I am orginally from Saskatchewan. Nah, but I always cheer for my home province scrappers. Kidding aside, Saskatchewan has some scrappy talent.

Go check Leica's blog out, you'll go back again and again, I guarantee it. She a bubbly, talented fun-loving gal.

http://10-4livingoutloud.typepad.com/leica_forrest/

Since I already got you cruising the net, I'll send you somewhere else too. The girls over at Maya Road have been so busy with CHA that they searched for some inspiring projects from various scrapbookers.

Today, I got a little note from design team member Lisa Pace telling me they featured two of my projects on their blog! Cool!

It is the purse mini album I did in my last post and this Christmas tin and mini album

And I have to send a big kudos for this tin. My girly-friend Anam Stubbington inspired me to do this tin because of a project she created using the same tin and mini album. Now, Anam, I was going to link it, where did you put it online? Tsk, tsk! I can't find it!

note to readers about the previous statement (pssst, lean in here): just know that Anam's work kicks butt and I fully recommend that despite not seeing her version of that tin, she has some really neato stuff on her blog that you should check out anyways.
http://anamstubbington.typepad.com/
Thank you. That is all. :)

That is about the size of it! See you later!

Told You I Was Busy........

I don't know what it is with Hubby and ice fishing with me. I come home from work and there he stands at the sink with at least a couple of fish. Brags to no end how many fish were there. So, the time comes that I go out to that same spot and not one fish to be found.

Nothing. Nada. Skunked.

Oh well, at least someone in the house is catching them!

Friday night we decided to try a new recipie with the whitefish we caught and holah! Delish! We found the little gem in the pages of Outdoor Canada.

Whitefish Florentine

Serves 4.

1 lb. spinach

1/2 tsp. sugar

2 tbsp. butter

2 tbsp. all-purpose flour

1 1/4cups milk

3/4 cup mushrooms, thinly sliced

3/4 cup grated Swiss cheese

2 tbsp. chopped parsley

Salt and pepper, to taste

1/2 to 3/4 tbsp. nutmeg

1 lb. whitefish fillets

Wash spinach thoroughly and pack into a saucepan. Sprinkle with sugar, cover and cook over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes. Lift lid and cook for an additional 2 minutes. Drain and spread spinach on the bottom of a greased 1½-quart casserole dish. Set aside. Next, in same saucepan melt butter, stir in flour and cook over low heat for 1 minute. Add milk and stir to blend; cook until slightly thickened. Add mushrooms, cheese, parsley, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Stir until cheese is melted. Next, spread fillets over spinach and pour sauce over fish. Bake at 350ºF for 30 minutes

Anyways enough fish tales, here is something scrappy......

That wasn't the only thing I did. I created a fun little Maya Road mini album. It was so much fun to do too. And I am also willing to teach it at any local scrapbook stores or retreats too.

Chipboard Purse Album and Key: Maya Road
Patterned Paper: Daisy D’s
Flowers: Prima Marketing
Rub Ons: Hers by Urban Lily
Chipboard Letters: Center of Attention by Heidi Swapp
Buttons: Craft Supply
Metal Foil: Stix 2

Thanks for looking!

Ring in the New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone! I think 2008 is gonna be a good year. I feel it. It came in a little rocky the past few days, I suffered from the retched holiday hangover.

No, I wasn't partying too much on New years, in fact it was fairly laid back and spent with my pregnant neighbour! No, I spent the last two days with a ridiculous headache. I think it was the change of pace getting back into the routine of work that threw me off. So, no creating the past couple of days.

But I am back at it later tonight. But for now, I just had to pop in and send some greetings for now! Be back later!