Life

Well life has been crazy this past month.  I feel like the time is just whizzing by and I can't control it....and we all know how much I LOVE to control things.  I can't believe how fast the year has gone by, the Halloween decorations sprouting up in the stores is a constant reminder of how quickly time passes.  It makes me want to embrace each day and be grateful for all the wonderful things i've been blessed with. 

I have been having such a great time taking classes through Jessica Sprague's website learning all sorts of new techniques to better my scrapbooking.  I also enrolled in a photography class to learn how to take my camera off the auto mode and start using it for all the greatness I know I can get out of it.  I have been working on my skills in photoshop and loving all the new things i'm learning and trying to soak it all in.

Meanwhile, a couple of weeks ago my mom and I had a chance to get away and attend a Scrapbooking retreat called Creative Escape.  It's supposedly one of the most prestigious events in the industry and was absolutely mind blowing.  I'm still trying to digest all the information we learned but it was so worth every second.  Coming back home it was extremely hard to shove everything back into our suitcases (it's a good thing mom brought an extra bag) because of all the free stuff they gave us and all the discounted things we bought.  It was so much fun :)  They kept us busy from morning till night with classes, dinners and extra crafts until we crawled back to our room and fell into bed.  It was so exciting but absolutely exhausting.  My favorite moment of the whole week was getting to meet Jessica Sprague.  I can't express in words how much I idolize this woman.  Not only is she is an amazing teacher but she is so sweet and down to earth.  In her class my mom and I sat right up front and just cracked up at her hilarious stories.  I'm sure we will be reminiscing about this for a long time.  It was great to be able to spend quality time with mom doing something we both love to do.

Well the week has graced us with 2 ear infections and there has not been a whole lot of sleep around this place and I hear Lily crying now so i'm going to wrap this up.  Hope this post finds everyone well and i'm going to try to post some new pictures of layouts i've been working on.

Kristie