My Only Sunshine

CHA Summer 2009 - Craft Rock Stars

This year is my first ever trip to a CHA convention and while I am trying to look calm and collected I find it hard to keep my cool faced with all of the crafting rock stars.  How often do you stand this close to Tim Holtz while he smiles right at you?

 

How about everyone's favorite Crafty Chica?

 

Maybe Suze Weinberg is more your speed?  She posted a photo that I took today on her blog.  Oh, and what a great day I had with my friends Lisa Pavelka and Jenny Rohrs.  Does it sound like I'm name dropping?  I am, because I spent my day being awestruck and I may well have embarassed myself. 

I haven't even mentioned the best part, I met Carol Duvall!

 

Tomorrow it's all about Vickie Howell.

Don't forget to check out Craft Critique for the rest of my coverage of CHA Summer and to see what the other Craft Critiquers got to see.

I won!

You know that pointe shoe photo I posted?  I won first place with it over on I heart faces.

 

I'm pretty proud of myself because the people who enter photos on I heart faces are amazing photographers.  The other award winners had stunning photos and many of the non-winners awed me.  Click the badge and take a look at all the other wonderful pics.

On a totally different subject, I'm headed to CHA tomorrow.  I leave for the airport at 4:15am.  I'll be spending five days in sunny Orlando with crafting rockstars while Buster takes a week off to be home with the kids.  Pretty cool, huh? 

I Faces - Feet

My entry for "Feet Week" at I Heart Faces just had to be ballet feet.  How could it not be?  This picture is one I took of one of the "Big Girls" at our dance school to potentially be used on a postcard for PR.  Marie has "good feet".

iPhone Thursday - Volleyball

See the kid in the bright yellow, with the ball?  That's Bitty.  This week she has been going to volleyball camp at a high school across town.  Neither of my daughters have done much involving team sports in their lives, being dancers.  This has been so much fun for Bitty and for her Mommy getting to watch.  She's far tinier than the other kids though she is roughly the same age but she does great anyway.  Buggy thinks her sister is awesome.  In the fall Bit will play on a team made up of mostly kids from her school. I can hardly wait.

iPhone Thursday - The 4th, Madonna, and PJ painting

I live in the city.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not urban, but I do live in a large suburb that is right on the edge of a very large chunk of urban sprawl.  I love being a city dweller.  I have never ever wanted to live in the country, or even close to the country.  Middle of nowhere is not my thing.  Having said that, I love that the neighborhood we moved to a year ago sometimes has a very small town feel.  Even though we have all the benefits of living in the city we also have a very close friendly community holding us tight.  As an example, for the 4th of July we had a neighborhood association sponsored parade and party.

Here are the Girlies and the cousin sitting on the side of the street just east of our house.  All of their patriotic red, white, and blue looks good against the green grass doesn't it?

 

This is what our parade looked like.  Pretty red cars, flags, and kids on bikes with streamers.  As my SIL says, it's all very Mayberry and I love it.

 

The other day Bitty asked me who Madonna is.  That was after she had come up with the pink and black outfit.  My kids are such rockstars.

 

The Girlies are helping me paint Bug's room.  It is taking forever due to all of the built in woodwork, which is black.  The ceiling, doors, and windows are all black as well.

 

Did I mention the walls were gray?

 

The painting is hard work.  It's made fun by doing all the work in our PJs.

Marks Paper Company

Want to learn more about this project?  Want to read my review of the lovely paper you see?  Go take a look at Craft Critique.