a scrapbooking i will go...

Last night was scrapbooking night with my friends...something we haven't done for awhile due to the hectic summer vacation schedule. It was so good to organize photos, play with my new August scrapbooking kit from Hip 2B Square, chat with friends, and eat chocolate! Here are a few pages I made last night. Quite a few of them are dedicated to my baby girl and all the funny things she is doing these days. And I also did my son's Kindergarten spread finally...thought I should probably get that done before he starts first grade next week!

just another day...

This happened while I was designing stamps today. Sammy found my chocolate stash, and to make it worse, it's 80 degrees today (no air conditioning) and it's all melty. Apparently my daughter likes chocolate as much as I do.

playtime again...

We just revealed the September Monthly Mix set and I am just in love with these new images, they are so much fun. I've been wanting to do a grouping of apples for quite some time....and one of the things I love about the Mix sets is that it gives me the perfect canvas to do one-of stamps like this. (With our sets, we try to keep the images in themes so we often will take images out of the set if we don't feel like they fit the theme well enough.) Isn't this card so "September?"



I also am in love with the tree from this set that Meridith drew. This is a little monochromatic card that I think turned out lovely.



The rooster that Joslyn drew for this set will be next on my list to play with. My mother collects roosters so I have a card for her in mind...

I have a friend in town right now and we had a blast going around to some iconic places in Seattle today...including the Ballard Locks, the Freemont Bridge "troll" (look it up) and Cupcake Royale (of course!) We found this awesome frame sculpture down by Lake Union, I'd never seen it before! It frames the lake perfectly and then you can add yourself into the picture. Aren't these adorable? The first pict is of me with my kids and the second is of Katie, who also happens to be Katie Jane of our Katie Jane stamp collection.





Tomorrow we have a fun day planned in downtown Seattle....we will go shopping at Pike's Place Market and then head over to the Seattle Art Museum to see the Andrew Wyeth exhibit. I love having friends in town to take sight-seeing because it's a good way for me to visit all the places I love as well!

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I had time to play today...finally! Well, actually I've been playing all summer...I can't really call my business "work" as it is too much fun. We went to CHA in Orlando and had such a great time, if you haven't seen the photos yet go to the company blog and take look here! We've had a lot of house guests lately too....my husband has been calling our home "Hotel Ulberg" because of all the visitors we've had this summer....and it's true. I have another friend coming tomorrow! I love having company and I'm glad I live in a place that people like to visit...Seattle is just gorgeous in Summer...there is nowhere else I'd rather be...

I've been wanting to play with this camera image in the Hey Sunshine Monthly Mix set for quite some time, it's one of my favorites. I used a little SU Crystal Effects to make the "lens"...and the patterned paper in the background is from our Bloomin' Doodles digital paper pack. Isn't it cute?



I love this little purse and I had this big, fabulous sparkly letter T (for "thanks") that I wanted to use on something. The paper is from Bloomin' Doodles again, and the Thanks sentiment is from Everyday Sayings. Just a cute little Thank You card...I always need those.



I've been playing with next month's Monthly Mix set too and have samples of that to post on Friday when we reveal the new images!