Update

I haven't written lately but have been busy scrapping. I have been busy doing some books for hire....did one Baby Boy album for someone who needed to give it as a gift and then another Little Boy album for someone else. Since I have girls, it was new for me to work on so much "boy" stuff. I also worked on my own Tennessee Vacation scrapbook as well. I used an 8x8 album and it was so quick to do in that size. I used Fancy Pants rub-ons on these pages and OMG do I LOVE them! I recently found this company and LOVE LOVE LOVE their stuff! On the couple page...everything but the strip border is a rub-on and on the Horse page...the frame is Fancy Pants rub-on and the words are K&Co.

Now I am back to finishing up my Christmas 2005 layouts before I need to do Christmas 2006. I am pretty much caught up except for the Christmas ones. I have kept up this year with doing layouts of recent pictures as soon as I get them but somehow Christmas 2005 got put on the back burner. On this layout of my husband and I, I used a real felt bow from our decoration stash.

On another note, looking forward to the Orlando Memories Expo in a couple of weeks...hoping to find lots of Fancy Pants rub-ons there. This will be my 5th year going to this event. Every year I meet my bestest friend/scrapping buddy there (we live 2 hours apart) and we shop until we drop.

Nashville Mini-Vacation

Just got back from a few days in Nashville, TN. What a great place! This picture is one of many barns we saw along the countryside....it just caught my attention. We went with a few friends who have a sister that lives just outside of the city. In 4 days, we saw as much as possible. This trip was a spur of the moment getaway so nothing was really planned. Our friends were looking for land to move there and we tagged along on the look.

On another note.....we ate at the "best" italian restaurant -- Sole Mio. It is 2 blocks south of 3rd and Broadway for anyone in that area that wants to try it out. One of our friends that we were with had worked for this restaurant years ago so the owner and her daughter came to meet us and have dinner with us. Let me just say that the Chicken Marsala is the BEST in the world. It has a cream sauce and not brown like most others. The chocolate amaretto cake was to die for!!! The owners were extremely nice and the atmosphere along with the food were superb!!!

I must also give a shout out to the Creation Station in Franklin, TN. I went to the Factory shops there knowing that there was a scrapbook store there. It was a monday and when I got to the SB store, it was closed! Luckily, the owner and her daughter were inside putting up new displays. I knocked on the door and said I was visiting from Florida and begged to come in the store. They were so nice and let me come in and shop!!!! I got to be the only shopper in the store. This store has lots and lots of great stuff so anyone in that area of Franklin, TN....you need to check Creation Station out. Thank you to the owners for letting me come in and shop, even though you were closed that day.

It is good to be back home though except for the piles of laundry awaiting me. I am feeling jetlagged from the 12 hour drive and just can't get started -- LOL.