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Impatient.

That's me. I am a self proclaimed, impatient person. After yesterday's post, I really started to think about how much I actually miss my lens. I talked it over with mother and some other friends and decided to purchase another 50mm f1.4. When mine damaged one is fixed and returned, I will sell it via Craigslist or something similar. I just didn't have the patients to wait anymore.

In lieu of the newly purchased lens, I will share some recent projects. A few local friends (Gina, Krista (who should start a blog!), Mary, Elizabeth, mom and sister) got together for a crop in celebration of my sister's 21st birthday last weekend. It was a great time and I got quite of few things check off my to-do list. Here are a couple layouts I did:

We had some 3D glasses laying around the apartment...We had some fun times with them. My roommate thinks they make me look like Buddy Holly.

Here is one of the little guy. He is not so little anymore, but still acts like a kitten.

Training for the marathon is going really well. I usually run about 3 miles, 5 times a week. I have added in two long runs a week. I started with 8 miles and will increase them each week, while I still maintain my 3 miles the other 3 days. I feel so good when I get done running. I love the endorphin high you get from working out. I shot some photos of my gear so I can scrap about my training.

I am in desparate need of a new pair of training shoes. I have way too many miles on these shoes.

I am going to have to get used to running without music. They don't allow head phones on the course. I think that might be my biggest challenge. The music really keeps me going.

Its always important to say hydrated!

Fiskars News

I am so excited that the news is out! The Scrapbook Shop has got some great things planned with Fiskars! If you are a customer at The Shop, you know we love Fiskars, as are one of our top selling manufacturers. Rhonda just got back from CHA were she was able to see all the amazing new products that Fiskars is releasing. Recently they acquired Lil Davis Designs, Kimberly Poloson, and Ink. These additions to their previous Cloud 9, Heidi Grace, and others is going to be wonderful.

There was so many great new products from Fiskars that Rhonda had a hard time deciding what to bring into The Scrapbook Shop...so she bought it all! You heard right. We will be getting everything new from Fiskars! The shipments start soon and will continue throughout the year.

That is just the beginning of the news. Many of you are familiar with the Fiskateer program. May Flaum, one of the four head Fiskateers and scrapbook superstar, is coming to see us! She will be hosting crops, teaching classes, and offering training sessions from June 19th to the 21st. We will be sure to keep the info coming as we plan more, but check this out for the basics.

"Winner Winner Chicken Dinner"

Its time to announce the winner! Thank you everyone for the comments! Gina and I had a fun time doing this, we have chatted, and are planning on doing something like this again!

I have to say that Krista O' had the most creative comment! "Winner winner chicken dinner." I don't think that creativity can let that go unrewarded. So Krista, I put other a little prize pack for you! Shoot me an e-mail and we can get you your package!

The envelope please...or bucket, in our case...

Get excited! (Which I guess means act cheesy.)

Who do you think it is?

Congratulations Bonnierose! Send me an e-mail and I will get your your prize!

I cut the wrong comment and name...but Gina and I decided that before we drew, we were going to go with the name on the sheet, not the comment. Just want to make sure we set rules before everything went wrong. Check out Gina's blog if entered her drawing. She posted her winner, too.

In health news. Today I finally started feeling better. Some symptoms are still lingering, but overall I am feeling much better. I am just about caught up in school, too. I missed a couple of days as I was trying to get well again.

Lastly, I want to share this. It is one probably the coolest shirt if I have ever seen. I had to get it.

A big thanks to Gina for taking the photos for today's post.

CHA Give-a-way

I am really bummed that I can't make it to CHA this time. It really is one of my favorite times of the year. They changed the date this year, pushing it back to February. With the new dates I would have to miss school and I just can't miss that much. My college has a really strict attendance policy and there is no budging that.

But in lieu of CHA, my friend Gina and I thought it would be fun to do a little give-a-way. We both are doing separate drawings, so enter both! We need to pull together the prizes yet, but we will post photos as soon as we do it.

Comments will be open until Sunday, February 10th at 10 p.m. Central Time.

Irresistible Look

I woke up this morning with an awful head cold. Throbbing head, running nose, sore throat, and even my eyes hurt. I have been drinking a lot of OJ and trying to get some rest so I can kick this cold quick!

I dropped little Dexter (well not so little anymore) off at the vet today to get neutered. The vet said the surgery went well and he can be picked up tomorrow after 3 pm.

I did an interview with the Salt Lake City Tribune early last week. The article is available online here.

I was able to get a layout done today while I was resting. I played a bit with the new 5th Avenue line from Making Memories that I picked up last week. The colors in this line are so me. (Sorry, the photo is a bit blown out. I will take some new images in the morning)

Lastly, I want to share this photo I got of my pup. She's so camera shy, so I rarely get any photos of her. This is my Photo-a-Day for today.

Had to Share

Twice in one day. That's impressive. I had to pop on and share this though.
I was a lunch with a friend of mine today at Punch. Afterwards we decided to walk down the block to Patina (one of my favorite places to shop). We spent quite a bit of time in there. When I saw these, I immediately had to have them. I have a couple sets from this same company, but these are by far the best. The box is one of the best, too. Love the shape of the window and the bright color. Something fun will have to fill it up once I am done with the labels.

Also, if you are interested. You can find the brushes I used to make my new banner here. I love the look of them. So fresh and funky. I have really been into brushes lately and these were a great addition to my collection.

5th Avenue

The new Making Memories lines, 5th Avenue and Garden Party, came in at The Scrapbook Shop yesterday. I have to say, that 5th Avenue is right up my alley (I was going to say avenue, but that's even too cheesy for me). Usually I am not one to buy a complete line, but I bought almost everything.

They have some great designers. Some of my favorites in the line are the specialty papers. It seems every release they get more and more creative and think up more thing they can do to with the papers. Just can't wait to play with this new die cut window paper.

Flowers are something that I didn't use to use a whole lot of, but have fallen in love with as of recent. I love the dimension and softness they add to a project. Making Memories has added some great ones in this line. The patterned ones are great and who doesn't love buttons?