Cari is having a HUGE sale!

She is a fabulous lady, and awesome designer....pop over to Sunshine Scraps!  

She has some really nice stuff!

Oh yeah I did!

I am making a mini book of our mini vacation (without kids) to Arizona for the conference.  I am enjoying the process...and my youngest daughter Anna(with 2 broken arms) took some pics of me prepping.  Dying my hair and uhm, well scrapping the dead cracked skin from my hooves, I mean feet!
I scrapped it! bha ha

I used my buddy, Julie. It is. newest kit, Nostalgia:

It really is a beautiful kit, and is 25% off right now, if you buy it quick.  Go to Plain Digital Wrapper and put it in your cart...and enjoy a lovely time scrapping.  You can also get a nifty add-on over at Julie. Itis. blog.

Now for the layout you have all been waiting for:

I survived conference!

This is the sun setting behind us, as we head East thru the Mojave Desert.
We drove all Sunday, to the curry hotel...that made my poor hubbies eyes water...but exhaustion and little blue Tylenol PM pills caused me to collapse into a deep sleep!  I awoke to hot! I mean Needles, California is HOT! The AC was pumping, but the glow of hot seeping under the drapes was just beyond hot.  Yeah, yeah a dry heat! 

After showers we headed to the Denny's off the highway for fun laughter with the cohorts in the ministry (up the road from us) Dan and Peggy.  They are veteran drivers and attenders to the conference so I relish all her advice.  The top advice in which I will forever be in debt is to bring seat cushions! 

We got to the tent and tears began to flow! I didn't take any pics that first night due to being totally overwhelmed.  Vanessa is living for God! oh how I love that girl, and then another, Jesse and precious Jada who is a woman of God, and then Isaac and Naomi (the anointed couple), it kept blowing me away, Nathan, thin and still on fire for Jesus, the Luna boys, and a new convert Jacob! I kept crying looking at them, serving God, precious souls we prayed and fasted and then prayed some more for are making good decisions! Okay, I cried alot!

then I got silly with Vanessa:

oh how I love that girl! she sent me the fun pics and more of the folks from Alamogordo! 

I keep looking at Jesse Jr, with that 18 inch neck? wow! 

I also got to meet two blog friends in the Potter's House world!  First was Kerri, and for some reason, perhaps exhaustion? I didn't take a picture, but I loved her, she is a hoot and her kids beyond awesome.  Real kids enjoying life!  

I did take a picture of what I believe is the most photographed baby in the fellowship, dear Lily Rice:

After I uploaded the pics, to show our kidlets the adventure and folks at conference, I clicked and the girls yelled, "LILY!!"  She is famous you see! The dreamiest child, who was bouncing around the tent from one arm to another!  I also got to meet my blog friend Patti, and I went back and asked dear Peggy to take a pic of us to prove we had met:

 A funny to finding her.  I have been reading her blog, since Lily was born, and I went back in time and read her previous posts.  I love that she homeschools and seems calm...I search for calmness!  Patti has a few children, uhm more than 10! To me, she was a tall willowy woman, strong and gentle.  I was looking for a woman my height.  I told Peggy, and laughter...you see, her children are not giants, but she is taller than them in the pictures...since they are 1. children and 2. her offspring!  ha ha
So although she is not tall, she is a giant to me...in faith and fortitude, and I am so glad to have met her in real life!

Get the full view!

 

It is a beautiful kit and the colors are just superb! I had a blast playing.  

You can actually pick the kit up now at Pickle Berry Pop at a 20 % discount if you hurry!

Here is the final layout, of the sky in Arizona:

 

Sneaky Peaky from Dawn!!!

 

Don't you just love the colors? I did something totally different with this kit!  I used this picture:

 

This is the view from our hotel in Prescott, Arizona!  I love the desert skies!  So......find out Thursday, how I used this awesome kit, and you can see the whole kit then too!

off to conference

 

We are off to conference! 

Pray for us, traveling mercies and for our children to be safe with Lisa while we are gone!  

PLEASE!

♥Freebie Time

I had a blast with  anew kit from Julie. It is. The kit is called Summer Sweet and I got to play!

As soon as I saw the kit, I knew I had to practice my shadows from Miss Behaving's Class over at Deviant Scraps.

This class is a video tutorial and more.  Miss Behaving grades your homework, yeah there is homework and helps you to achieve the right shadow.
This is my final for the first week using the Summersweet kit from Julie. It is.

Miss Behaving is having another class start on the 15th of July, so you can sign up now.  It is a limited amount of people, so sign up quick!
Okay, so after the shadow fun, I got to playing with the rest of the kit...and it is just so soft and wonderful...full of all kinds of fruit, but the nicest flowers too!
My girls and I were out one Saturday, and this dragonfly came flitting down and just landed on Abby's arm.  I was so excited, cause I had my camera with me! I snapped a few pics!  I love this curl of hair in Abby's face, it is always there...and it makes me smile:

I would also with Julie. It is.'s  blessing like to give you a QP made from this very same layout, without Abby and the writing of course! ha ha ha

Freebie Link
it should work now...so sorry