4 Page Spread....

Having a great day today, GREAT. Beautiful weather, people are beating down my door :-) and I got my preview copy of Sew Somerset. I have a 4 page spread in it, and yahoo that makes me so happy. I am also happy because when I look at these pictures it shows that I have lost 20 pounds!! I'm going to get into the studio tomorrow and make something, I 'm feeling inspired right now. Hopefully I'll have something to share with you!! TTFN everyone. And, I'm still waiting to hear from the winners of the drawing!!

and the winner is..

sorry it's taken me so long to get this post posted, I actually picked the winner (well the little V picked the winner last week) but I just haven't posted it until now...I know you have all been waiting so patiently for this, and I promise not to drag it on to long.... he he he Before I announce the winner, some exciting news. I've been invited back by the new owner of ScrapMuse to design their newsletter once again. I've decided to give it a try, after all, my good friend Vic is going back as well....so - look for me over there. In other EXCITING news, I still haven't announced the winner yet...but I promise, I will. And she'll be happy. But the news, I sent in a big box of lovely cards to Stampington for the Holiday Issue, and it looks like they spread them all around their publications and they'll be publishing them everywhere, doing the happy dance! In the most EXCITING news of the day, the winner of the copy of Art from the Heart is Stephanie from On the Funny Side of Life...email me with your mailing information and I'll get the book out to you this week Stephanie - and congratulations! Since I'm feeling pretty bad about dragging this out for so long I've decided to send another little ditty to someone else.

Stay funny said...

ohhh would love to add this book to my collection! Thanks for letting us play!

Dee Dee said...

Oooh la la. My inky fingers are crossed in hopes of new inspiraton arriving via your book. :)

So, dee dee, send me your address and I'll send you a little goodie too! Sorry I don't have any pictures today...maybe tomorrow. TTFN everyone and thanks for playing my silly game with me!

Post Number 249!!

Art from the Heart Give Away....

Leave a comment on this post and I'll draw a winner when I make my 250th post, which is only 1, yes, ONLY ONE post away. Spread the word, leave a comment and maybe you could be the winner!
My husband went fly fishing this week and this huge turtle came and rested on his flippers. You can tell it's huge by looking at the last picture. The straight thing on the right is the fishing rod and the straps on the bottom left are the straps keeping the flippers on his feet. AMAZING...and, it was a snapping turtle! He said it hung out there for at least 10 minutes.

Post Number 248

Art from the Heart Give Away....

Leave a comment on this post and I'll draw a winner when I make my 250th post, which is only 2, yes ONLY two posts away. Spread the word, leave a comment and maybe you could be the winner! And, since I'm feelng kinda guilty about being pretty busy this week I just might have two posts today.... Just a quick quote for the moment, I've got to get back to Minnie Mouse.

Happiness resides
not in posessions
and not in gold;
the feeling of happiness
dwells in the soul.
Democritus

Post Number 247

Art from the Heart Give Away....

Leave a comment on this post and I'll draw a winner when I make my 250th post, which is only 3, yes ONLY three posts away. Spread the word, leave a comment and maybe you could be the winner!

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On to new business... It's Monday, beautiful Monday. I was so happy to wear my flip flops all day, but the space between my two toes aren't so happy right now. A random list is in order for today because I'm a little (ok a lot) scattered:

• If you haven't seen or purchased Donna Downey's new book, Fabric Scrapbooking, you must. I picked up my copy before I went on vacation and just now have gotten a chance to look through it. Wow. So many awesome, step by step projects.... I was gaga over the letters and the canvas - thanks Donna for the great inspiration!

• If you haven't commented on my post for the give away of Art from the Heart you probably have a few days yet. This is post number 247 and I expect to do the drawing at 250. Spread the word, I'd like to get some more comments on that post.

• If you are into scrapbooking and also on the look out for a kit club to try out, check out ScrapMuse. They are celebrating their 4th year anniversary this month I was on their design team for over 3 years. Loved that place!

• My dear friend Nat gave me this award a while back. Thanks Nat, it totally made my day!! I keep forgetting to post it , but not today!! This is the award:

This award is generally given to bloggers based on their creativity, design, interesting material, and contribution to the blogging community, no matter what language. Very cool.There are some rules that go with it. You have to pick 5 blogs who deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material and also contributes to the blogging community no matter what language. So, I'm giving it to:

1. Bonorama Mama: for her wonderful photography and lovely creations that she shares with us.
2. A Bird in the Hand: Colette never ceases to amaze me with the beautiful things she posts on her blog all the time! You've got to spend some time at her place drooling over her creations!
3. Jacqueline's Craft Nest: Jacqueline is the loveliest person, and she makes the nicest cards! She has an amazing way with color, and stamps!
4. Tammy Tutterow: a kindred spirit. Meant to be friends, plus she is an awesome artist!
5. Outside the Lines: Marilyn Healey. That's all I need to say. Everything she creates is a home run. Beautiful, elegant and a must have!

So many more to list, so little time!! So that's it for my random post today, time to get the Little Valentine in bed. I promise to have some interesting photos tomorrow, promise!

Tussie Mussie Swap

Tussie Mussie for Vic, originally uploaded by CatherineScanlon.

I got into a swap with my two dear blog friends Shawn and Vic. We decided to make these Victorian things called Tussie Mussie's. they were supposed to be mailed and at their new homes by May 1, but I was so derailed by things going on around here and vacation that I didn't get to the post office until May 1! You can see a few more pictures in my flickr.

Here's a little sneakie peakie of the flower that's on Vic's. HOPE you like it!! I think we're swapping pincushions next, and I can tell you I WILL be on time this time!!

Have a great day everyone, and don't forget - this is post number 246 so you have until my 250th post to reply to the post BELOW to get your name in for the drawing of my book, ART from the Heart!

Art from the Heart GIVEAWAY!!

I am still trying to think of the details for the book give-away....I think my brain is still on vacation!! I guess we'll just make it simple. . . Leave a comment on this post and I'll draw a winner when I make my 250th post, which is only 5 posts away. Spread the word, leave a comment and maybe you could be the winner!

Exciting News to SHARE!!

I confess that I've been keeping a little secret from you all...but today - no more secrets...ha ha ha. Where to begin...well at the beginning I guess. My dear friend Vicki Chrisman instroduced me to Tammy Tutterow last year sometime. If you follow the link to her blog you'll see that she is one crazy talented artist. She designs for Basic Grey (yes....BG the lucky duck) and Pink Paislee. My first business with Tammy was Heart in Hand Scraps. After a while Tammy asked me if I would be interested in contributing art to her new site, Fairy Davis. Fairy Davis is right up my alley as it features individual high res images to purchase for download for a minimal fee. Yes, you can get just ONE image instead of a whole collage sheet. And the price, well it's pretty dang reasonable and the image quality is awesome! This is going to be a very popular place!! This is what Tammy has to say about Fairy Davis:

Fairy Davis (born 1908) was a lovely young woman who lived in the West Frankfort area in southern Illinois. I met Fairy through the pages of her photo albums which I found in a flea market in Springfield, Mo several years ago. I fell in love instantly with the captured moments of her life and that of her family and friends.

In the years that I have owned Fairy's albums I have looked through the pages many times wondering about her life. Though I have found out a little about her through internet genealogy searches, much of her life is a mystery to me.

At FairyDavis and Friends we not only love vintage paper goods and photos, we celebrate them. We find delight and inspiration in them. The items you find in our boutique are high resolution digital copies of images from our own personal collections. Every item is truly a unique treasure that you won't likely find elsewhere.

Fairy's albums and photos have been a true treasure to me and a prized part of my personal vintage photo collection. It is with love for her memory that I offer her photos as well those of others to other papercraft artists so that her beauty may live on through other's art.

I hope you will visit Fairy and download her and her family and friends to use in your vintage art inspired projects! Stay tuned for some some images and projects from me in the near future. AND - the details for the give away of one copy of Art from the Heart will be posted either later today or tomorrow. I PROMISE!

Home from Colonial Williamsburg

and what a great week we had. The weather was bad the first couple of days and then things turned beautiful and hot, which is a great contrast to the weather here right now! Cold and damp. We had a long train ride through the night on the way down to VA, little V. kept sliding out of his reclining seat and I'd wake up and get him situated. We also mistakenly chose seats near the front of the car, so all the trips to the bathroom from the other passengers kept us awake. Other than that, we had a pretty uneventful couple of traveling days. We went to Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown Victory Center and the Jamestown Settlement. Wow. How amazing. I can't imagine living in those times of hardship - we have everything we need and then some.... The only bummer was coming home....to find out that our banking information has been compromised and we've got a huge mess to figure out. Thankfully our bank suspected fraudulent activity and cut off the accounts before things got really bad. Though, there is still several thousand dollars worth of charges and over draft fees that need to be sorted through. I hope we can get this figured out AND SOON. I need to order credit reports and make sure that no other personal information was compromised....oh gosh. This bites! Anyway, because of this banking business I haven't been able to wrap my brain around the give away of a copy of Art from the Heart, but I'll get to it and SOON - I promise! TTFN.....

I'll be back...

I've been pretty busy, and pretty un-inspired to blog or even do much of anything. Right now I am running around like a chicken with no head to finish up some projects before we go on vacation next week...but I'll be back to my regular blogging when we come back, around April 28th - ish..he he. Our house/dog sitter comes on Saturday and we're leaving on Sunday...and we are all looking forward to some good, quality time away from here. Little V has asked me a million times how long until Sunday....it's almost here dude, almost here!

When I come back I'll also be giving away another copy of Art from the Heart....I think it will be to celebrate my 250th post...so keep checking back - but not until after next week if you would like to get yourself one!

Congratulations....

The Winner of the Friendship postcard is:

Happiness, is the word!

Ewa-Christine

Christine, reply to this thread with your email address and I'll get in touch with to get your address so I can send out your lovely postcard across the ocean to you over there in Sweden! THANKS for visiting.

I've been buried under my big assignment, you know -the one that I was trimming 175 photos for, so no Golden State challenge for me today. Plus I made eggplant vegetarian lasagna (yummm!!) with tomato salad. It was a great dinner! Anyway, since I didn't take any pictures of the lasagna, I thought I'd leave you with these lovely pictures of the Little Valentine eating smoked eel sushi. YUCK>I think I'll stick to my california rolls and the adventurous fried sweet potato roll.