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I’m No June Cleaver

Yep, to dispel any rumors there might be floating out there. I am NO June Cleaver :)

I will admit to hiring a housekeeper, and even a part time nanny ;) (Hey a single girl has got to live, right??) But there is one thing that I try to do every now and again, and that is bake. I remember when I was a child, coming home from school and finding my mother in the kitchen whipping up a batch of her famous chocolate chip cookies. The smell of them, that feeling inside of ‘ah, thanks mom!’, and just the simple warm chocolatey goodness :) YUM.

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Today was a baking day. Nothing too complex, just a perfect batch of chocolate chip cookies. YUM!

I also HAD to snap some photos of Lorynn today. I was out driving and I saw the most fantastic dandelion patch.. Now, I almost love dandelions more than I love roses.. I know, I am strange. Wild flowers, [in this case weeds] that grow in such abundance are just too irresitable to me. I love fields of any kind :)

I got some great shots, I haven’t been able to sit down and really look at all of them yet. And I’ve got more sessions from last week that I need to process too :) Yes, my work is never done..

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And EEKS.. I see I forgot to watermark these.. How terribly irresponsible of me :)

Tonight marks the beginning of Little Dreamer’s Second Birthday Celebration! We’ve been working on some fabulous fun things that I think you will all enjoy :) Be sure to check it out!

Happy Friday! Have a fantastic weekend!

Got Snow?

Yep, it’s just regular, run-of-the-mill Utah weather :)

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All the flowers and trees are trying to blossom and then it just goes and snows :)

I wonder when REAL spring will begin? Hmm.

I have, however had a great week so far, silly weather and all. I’ve been working like a crazy woman. Fancy Pants deadlines, templates for WHCC, Photo Sessions, preparing for Little Dreamer’s Second Birthday, new goodies for the shoppe, promotions for ScrapBlog, then of course there is being a mom and sleeping, right? (who needs sleep?)

I was working yesterday and I could hear Lorynn singing and dancing in the other room. I poked my head around from  my computer (hey, it’s a big moniter) and this is what I saw:

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This is the view directly from my office, and it just made me laugh so hard. She was singing and dancing up a storm, man, I love spunky five year olds! :) I was actually surprised that she hadn’t lined up all her animals on the floor to watch her amazing performance..

We had a fabulous Easter. Had family visting, got to hang out with Lori :) I posted a bunch of our Easter photos on my Facebook account, then realized that I didn’t blog about it.. If you want to see our Easter Soiree, you can pop on over to FB. Now with facebook, it’s just another place to goof off when I should be working, right?? I will admit to being slightly addicted to FB.

And NO.. I will NOT join Twitter, you just can’t make me do it!

The Universe Speaks…

Oh no you didn’t…

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Oh Yes, I Did..

The girls and I were downstairs in the kitchen. *CRASH* We run upstairs and this is what we find. It was too funny not to document it. Holy S**T. Really?

Man, the universe just told me it’s time to get a new flat screen.

Just Had To Share!

I got an email today from a very excited mom :) One of my photos from my session with her adorable son, Mason, ended up on the cover of Memory Makers Mag.  I am so proud, I just had to share it!

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Isn’t he a cutie! :) This should be on the newstands in a few weeks. It’s my first cover, so I am pretty stinking excited.

So, today, I am trying to finish up a million things.. I have to admit that my head has been in the clouds just a little bit lately ;) I would give you the juicy details but I am not ready to share yet. It’s good though!

I do promise that my new antique actions will be out later today. Thanks to the fabulous Lauren Barden for helping me get them to function properly in PSE :)

We are also announcing a bit of WELCOMED news at Little Dreamer. We are switching to a new and improved shopping cart. THIS SATURDAY. We will have a happy little Valentines sale, as well as a goodie for you when you register for a new account.  More news on that later today, watch for our newsletter for all the details.

So happy Wednesday, Make it a good one!

 

One of those days

Have you ever had one of those days when you were just CRAVING something?? I stopped drinking soda almost a year ago. But for whatever reason, I just can’t get it out of my head today that I would LOVE an ICE COLD Dt. Mountain Dew straight from the can.. AHH. Now that’s pure refreshment ;)

I WILL NOT SUBMIT!

Today Is the first day of the newest addition to our little family. Our Nanny, Betty. (OH YEAH!) I have her coming three days a week, part time, so that I can actually get some work done. Yeah for me! Today I am trying my bestest to catch up on emails, working on a new Photoshop Action :) and Trying to finish off my Valentines kit. Who knows, I might actually have it done BEFORE Valentines day! (Now wouldn’t that be something?)

So, just popping in here to blog land to wish everyone a happy Friday :)

GO CARDINALS!!

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I need a couple of willing testers to test out my new photoshop action. Here is what it looks like:

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It’s actually two actions, one to colorize your photo, Vintage Color, and then a second one to add it to the antique paper.

I am looking for Elements users, on a mac using PSE 5, 6 or 7 Elements users on Vista, using PSE 5, 6 or 7 and Elements users on Windows, using PSE 4, 5, 6 or 7.

I also need a Photoshop 7.0, and CS4 users :) Send me your email and I will send you links to download.

 

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I have enough testers for this action :) Thank you so much for your help!