Expo - 2012

We spend the morning at the Scrapbooking Expo. Krystel and I had a lovely Saturday morning glancing, taking pictures and getting tons of ideas and inspiration. Our favorite booth was and it always is Graphic 54...Their papers are very whimsical and sort of vintage, the colors are old and faded and we just love the look..They always have lots of displays and their paper right next to it, so if you like the display chances are you are buying the paper...and of course we did. Krystel is little by little getting into this fun art, her taste is more vintage and she is the one that made me a fun of these paper designers. This year they added lots of metals, sort of Tim Holtz kind of trinkets..they certainly add to their already beautiful designs.

Last days of summer

Not quite ready for the summer to end...even when the fall weather is so inviting to do so many outdoors things and my favorite time of the year. Our summer came and went and with Cristine's wedding seems that it really was a fast summer. We'll have wonderful memories of this summer, great family times and the most fun wedding memories....

Swiss Days-Midway Utah

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This year we decided to attend the Swiss Days in Midway. I really did not know what to expect as I had never attended before, it is  a real treat for all of us crafters and lovers of the handcrafted things. When I see what people are making and so much creativity it brings inspiration to my world !! Krystel, David and I had a lovely afternoon,  we spend the night in Park City after a great dinner at our favorite restaurant in the area and since David needed to go back to work on Saturday Krystel and I did some serious shopping at the Outlets Stores....of course....how can we not add some shopping to our weekend?

Tabiona- Utah Retreat 2012

These are some of the samples of cards that I made while at our 2012 Tabby retreat. This is our fourth year  and I can only say that is getting more fun and creative every year. Nothing better than spend 4 days with great girlfriends and share tons of creativity. All these ladies are quite talented and we learn so many new techniques when we are together...it is refreshing..We are all friends now for about 17 years  and through the years we have experienced an amazing evolution of talent and creativity...It was fun also having our friend Jolene join us this year from New Jersey.  

The BIG day...

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 Radiant faces coming out of the Bountiful Temple

Taking pictures at the Temple grounds

The wedding was so beautiful...Cristine looked radiant, the dinner was wonderful and all of our dearest friends were there as well as  family. It was a great evening and now it seems like a dream. We had so much preparation and  anticipation that it seems that events came and went really fast. Our newlyweds are in their honeymoon this week so David and I have been moving more and more presents into their little apartment. Today after we took a big load of boxes I looked around and envision the wonderful times to came ahead, how they will make their little place a home...