Stacked Stones Studio!

Have you checked out this month's paper crafting kit? I have been having a lot of fun playing with it myself...I made a little mini-book and put it in the brown jewelry box that comes with the kit as a gift for Royce for Valentines...just a little place to write some sweet notes to him. There are some other layouts in my gallery ...and more to come in the next few days.

This is the view out of my hotel window in downtown Dallas. Love the lights of a city at night. The conference has been terrific. Really lovely people to work with -- and terrific music. I am now off to spend the night and a few hours tomorrow with my sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew. Just an added blessing to the trip to get to see family too. Have a great Sunday

I thought it was only yesterday that I blogged...and then I checked the date on my last post...and had to just laugh...time just speeds by (when you're having fun, have a huge list of to do's .... or you are over 40!). I had so much fun getting together with a group of ladies that I have met on SIStv . We all got together for a day of scrapping, eating, giggling and all around fun on Saturday. It was actually one of my most productive days ever at a crop! It helped that we did several "round robins." Have you ever done that with your friends? The basics are: you start a layout with your picture...and you have anywhere between 5 - 10 minutes to begin. Then the buzzer rings and you hand it off to the next person at the table -- and you take the layout from the person on your right...and have 10 minutes to work on it. and so on and so on -- until your layout comes back to you....with a bit of everyone else at your table on it! I love it because it stretches me in a coupl...

We have lots to do this next year! I have been having the best time getting ready for our next taping of What You Make It . I have begun to get emails from you, our viewers, and it is such a treat to begin to imagine you on the other side of the camera while I am taping. Several of you have mentioned that you liked the segment we did on "scrapping our faith" -- so I have been working on some regular segments on that topic. Here is one of the layouts I am going to show you how to make this month. It uses our What You Make It Februrary Paper Crafting Kit that will be available in the store in a few days...and features the "fussy cutting" technique...where you cut out a portion of the patterned paper to use as an embellishment. I promise, it looks harder than it is -- I'll show you a couple of tricks that will have you "fussy cutting" all over your pages! Everything on the page (with the exception of the letter stickers) are in one of the February kits.....

Welcome to 2008. Have you made any New Year's Resolutions? I have a few -- and I will share them with you -- that certainly helps with accountability, right? But first a funny story... This is the honest, truth. A few year's ago I was standing in line at a Target store waiting to check out during an "after Christmas sale." I was amusing myself by people watching -- and I confess..."people listening" as there was a very animated group of women behind me chit chatting as they waited to check out too. The topic of their conversation was "pet peeves." They were talking about things that their husbands do that drive them crazy...and you can guess that there was a fairly common and specific list of complaints. But one of the ladies chimed in with a kind of unique one... she said, "I hate it when he uses a word that he doesn't know the meaning to -- and acts like he does...you know WORDS matter!" At the time, I had a couple of thoug...