Cool Room stuff

I was so excited to get this wall mount from Ikea. Dean and I put it up on my bedroom wall. It's not finished yet, but I think its a pretty cool concept. I really like how its turning out.

Amy and Ryan gave me 2 of these silver racks from the yard sale. It was very nice of them... I love them! My stuffed animals look awesome on one of these!

Amy's Yard Sale

**Amy and I at her previous house's yard sale** - we were exhausted by now.. so please don't mind our appearance :-P

I'm glad I got to help Amy and Ryan during their yard sale today.. They had tons of fun stuff, including many Star Wars toys, and lots of nice furniture, some of it really hard to pass on. Really, if I had the space I would have totally gotten some for myself. It was fun though, I had never worked, or been at a yard sale before; so it was a really nice experience. But man, some people are CHEAP! We let Ryan do most of the pricing and all of the haggling. Apparently we're no good at that lol.

Overall, I'm always happy to help. Especially someone like Amy and Ryan, they deserve that and so much more.

Rock Climbing

Today Dean and I went rock climbing. It was, as most of the things we do, an interesting experience. We didn't take any climbing pictures cuz there were a lot of people and we were just starting out, but I promise some fun pictures next time we go (we got the "rock block" so we'll be going there again sometime soon. :-) )

We learned quite a few things today... one of them - things are not always as easy as they look.

I am SO happy I got to do this with my honey. It's a sport that I actually enjoy and am ok at it ;-P.

There's several challenges ahead of us, but whats life without them?

Things you gotta do at least once -

So I've been thinking, and there's just some things in life you got to experience - hence my pierced tragus :-P.

I'm going to start up a list here of these things/activities. I'll keep adding to them as I think of more :-). Don't worry, this list will not include doing drugs of any kind or smoking cigarettes, I'm strongly opposed to that.

Here we go -

• Go Skydiving
• Learn to drive a motorcycle
• Get a tattoo
• Go Zorbing
• TRY to snowboard
  
• Ski
• Climb a mountain - even a little one
• Swim with a dolphin - I've done this before but I want to do it again :-)
• Be a member of the audience in a TV show - how cool would that be?
• Learn to ballroom dance
• Go camping
• Scuba dive
• Run a marathon

This is all I have for now... It's a pretty solid list though, don't you think?

Summer Lovin'

I LOVE this page, if I may say so myself :-P

I fell in love with this paper as soon as I saw it. It's as if a vision had come to my mind with some waves and some surfing penguins. Aren't they adorable?

I was so excited the whole time making this, just ask any of the croppers :-)

Crate Paper - Static

Made this sample layout for Scrappy Boutique using only ONE sheet of pattern paper (double sided).

This is one of the upcoming Crate Paper lines that Stacey ordered from CHA. When she asked for some single sheets so she could make a layout with a "coming soon" sign this is all she got! (It's the cool blue one and the creamy one)

So here's what I did with one sheet of pattern paper. Thanks for looking :-)

Pierced Tragus it is!

So I did it! I still can't believe it. Whoever knows me knows that this is a big deal for me lol. I just woke up one day and said.. I wanna pierce something, I figured its something that you just got to experience at least once in life (I got my ears pierced in the hospital a few days after i was born so those don't count) plus if I ever get tired of it I'll just take it out.

It was a very interesting experience. I mean, imagine me (dressed as above) walking in a tattoo place. funny sight isn't it? Anyway, Dean was with me the whole time and it was really nice to experience this with him. You're also probably wondering how bad it hurt; to be honest, it didn't. The guy kept asking me if I was ok, and I'm thinking "is he doing anything?" lol. I couldn't believe it wad over so fast! Hopefully it'll heal fast too, it feels kinda sore right now.

Now.. I gotta be honest, I'm not a fan of the ring its way bigger than anything I would want there lol, but in 6 weeks (I know it sounds like a long time but it'll go fast) I get to change it for a tiny little gem, I think it'll be super cute! Right on time for my graduation!

It was an overall fun-different night.. we went to the movies after I got this done and watched Jumper :-)