Pandemonium

Lunch with the Girls

Friday I was able to leave the house and get together with some of the girls for lunch down at Gardner Village. It was so much fun!

Jessi was there, even though she's not in this photo because she was taking the photo.

And Loni, and Layle and Rhonna.

Jen Gallagher and Kristina Werner (Kdub) who are new Garden Girls at 2 Peas were there.

I also got to meet Carina Gardner and Holly Jones who are new digital designers at 2 Peas. 

We laughed a lot, talked a lot about designing stuff and just had a blast. 

Thanks girls!

And thanks Jessi for taking our photo!

Next time I'll wear my glasses that don't have the transitional frames!

A New Garden is Blooming...

at 2 Peas.

THis months theme is Family Matters so I did a 7 Gypsies photo carousel with photos from 2008. Here are some pictures. You can view more pictures and the products I used here:

More pictures...

So...I'm having a hard time keeping all my balls in the air this week. Lots to do and it seems like my blog gets pushed farther and farther down the priority list

Here are some more photos of the Gypsy Caravan event. 

I met some wonderful store-owners there.

What a fun group of women.

There were two girls who brought these super-chic vintage suitcases that they had "gypsied up" for the event.

And check out this advent calendar that Paula Cheney made. It was for a class she taught with Debbie Crouse in Arizona. She had a couple of kits left over so I scored one! Isn't is cool???

The digi kit that i designed for this week is a .99 cent photo place card for your Holiday table, called Know Your Place. I wrote an article for Better Homes and Gardens on their photography blog about making photo place cards this year to dress up your table. You can see it here.

This gave me an excuse to go to Pottery Barn and buy these fabulous orange plates. I'm on a serious orange kick lately. In fact, I'm going to paint my new studio orange.

Gypsy Caravan

I got home yesterday from the fabulous Gypsy Caravan event that 7Gypsies put on for retailers.

It was amazing!

The details and kits...the students and teachers!

Such a great experience.

Here are a few photos:

Janelle and I in the official Gypsy Girl t-shirts

Registration looked like you were walking into a Gypsy Caravan with this super chic umbrellas, vintage wicker baskets to hold the t-shirts and tote bags and a vintage dress form that had the charms to hang on the tote bags.

The name-tags were equally amazing! They were ribbon covered buttons with vintage-looking name tags dangling from them. Each Gypsy got a bag that had all the pieces to create a gypsy girl bracelet before classes even began.

Even the kits were packaged creatively. Mine were in pizza boxes. Janelle's were in burlap bags and Paula's were in cigar boxes with a hand-sewn tool kit in a little wrap up felt tote.

Each Gypsy was treated to a box lunch in a lunch room where the tables were decorated with hand-stitched gypsy tablecloths, vintage globes, vintage books and fresh ivy in cute little tea-pots and cups.

I'll post some more pictures tomorrow of this incredible event.

Fall in my backyard

I went out shooting a few days ago before the rains came.

Our house backs up to a beautiful bird refuge with a stream running through the middle of it.

It's a little oasis in the middle of the city.

Layouts in the Garden

November 1st brought a new theme to the Garden at 2 Peas. 

This month it is centered around Family.

Here is mine:

And here are some of my favorites from the Garden:

by Jennifer Pebbles:

by Jamie Waters:

By Jen Gallagher:

A little Halloween fun...

Our neighborhood has an annual event called "Halloween on the Triangle."

The Triangle is a grassy piece of land in the middle of the one of the streets next to ours.

We all gather there for hot dogs, chili and apple cider before the kids go Trick or Treating so we can see everyone's costumes.

This is such a FUN tradition!

 

New Christmas card digi kit

You can find it at 2Peas.

And the winners are:

The five names I drew out this morning are:

Ruth P.

LeAnne

Brek

Ferrill

Susan F.

Congratulations!

Shoot me an e-mail or leave me a post ladies and let me know which kit you want me to send you (you can find a link to all my kits on the post below).

And thank you to everyone else who posted!

National Digital Scrapbooking Day - Free Digital Kits

is tomorrow, Saturday, November 1st!

2 Peas will have a boatload of freebies - all the digi artist designed something for it. And there will be a chat hosted by "Moi" and a digi mini class!

Here is my freebie:

And if that weren't enough...all the digi kits will be on sale all day!

One more thing...I'm giving away 5 digi kits (your choice - you can view them here) in a drawing Monday morning. 

I know it's short notice but if you're around this weekend, leave me a post and I'll enter you in the drawing. I'll draw 5 names and they can each choose which digi kit they want me to send them.

Good luck and Happy Day Before National Digital Scrapbooking Day! Hope you don't have a sugar hangover yet. :o)