I'm Just a girl

Do what YOU love...

I love this statement...It is my theme for the year...Do what you love, Love what you do...This is a sign made by a very talented and dear friend of mine...Liz Eaton...She is selling them off her blog! You can order anything you want! I love the rustic feel and look of it and the reminder each day as I head down the stairs to leave my house! Do what YOU  love!
    I hope you are having a happy Wednesday, doing what you love! Meg has been here all day helping get ready to move! De-junking! LOVE that! We are going to have one heck of a Garage Sale in a few weeks! The moving countdown has started! Kids are getting excited to finish up the school year and move to our new home!
    Off to baseball! Griff has a game! 

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Good times...

Thursday happiness...
Em, Tara and Cathy are in the hood...
can't wait to hang with my sisters...
Gotta love a little visit with friends!
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LISA GIBBS

YOU ARE THE WINNER!!!
Megan and I chose your name out of a box of many!
E-mail me and send your addy!
I will send you a box of my JUNK...your TREASURE!
Hope you all had a GREAT National Scrapbook Day!
Thanks for playing!
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And the winner is...

    I will be picking a winner this afternoon when I have some HELP! Thanks for all the posts! I read every one! I loved them all! Especially the poem! How cute! How funny!
    Ok so MONDAY is here...I have big exciting news! If YOU are going to CKU Houston and you might be there early come visit me at

Lonestar Scrapbooking!
! I am going to be teaching 3 classes! One Tuesday night and two on Wednesday! Check their website! I am so excited to be going to get to teach there! I hear it's a fabulous store! I will be teaching My fab life...Designers in the bag and My space! I LOVE that i get to go to Houston a day early! I have never been there so it should be FUN!!
    Ok off to pick up Max from school...
Happy Happy Monday!
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Inspired by...National Scrapbook Day Give-a-Way!

Ok...So I just was taking a peak at a few of MY favorite blogs and i was inspired by miss z's blog...i hope you have all had the pleasure this week of watching her on her blog...SHE is freaking ha-lairious!
    Anyway...She is giving away a box of goodies tomorrow to celebrate National Scrapbook Day...
Sounds great right? Well,now that i have spilled about moving you have to know I am doing a little cleaning, de-junking-packing-gonna have a garage sale kinda stuff! SO...Here's the deal-eio...I am going to give away a box of goodies...Hmmmmm they say...One man's trash is another mans treasure...Wanna Play?
    Because I am a little late getting in on this I am going to let this go all weekend...I will pick a winner MONDAY...So if you want to get in on the celebration leave your comment!
I will have all weekend to fill the box!
Happy Friday!
Happy National Scrapbook Day!
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Big Changes!

So...
The Asletts are moving...June 1st and this is our new house!
I am so excited for the change! I have been commuting to MM for the last 4 years...I drive 45 minutes each way...but...this house is 8 minutes from my office! I have been dumping $150 a week in gas alone! Now, I will have almost 2 extra hours a day with my kids...I am LOVING that idea! Loving the thought of a new home, new neighborhood, new school for the boys and hmmmmm a new design studio! Yeah that will be fun!
    I will miss our home, we have put so much time into redecorating it, but i feel so good about this! CHANGE...It can be good!
Happy Wednesday!
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Happy to be home Monday...

Home from Florida...Had GREAT classes...Saw old friends, made some new ones and ate WAY too much cake along the way! Thanks Lisa for a great time...
    Today i will do a little catch up, family, house and work! I have got to get to it!
    I just wanted to post a few highlights from my trip that I thought about the whole day yesterday as I traveled home...I met a woman last fall at CKU Orlando...Her name is Rachel she is a vibrant, darling gal. She was in my album track! Her smile is contagious...She was in Tampa this weekend for all of my classes...She told me she had just gone through a double mastectomy  and reconstructive surgery...She has breast cancer...She told me about what she is going through and what struck me was this...Life hands us out some bumps in the road...Sometimes they are MAJOR like breast cancer...Rachel's attitude was so amazing! She is headed for chemotherapy and radiation but she is doing it with a smile and a positive attitude...I was so touched by her and I think she was put in my life right now because I needed her to show me that life can be tough but it's all in how we deal...We have a CHOICE...So Rachel, you are in my thoughts, my prayers and know that I have been blessed by your positive outlook...Thank you!
I am going to choose to be positive not focus on the negative...
Happy Monday...
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Grateful for good friends...

I am getting ready to leave for the Ruban Rouge this week...Megan and I have been kitting up a storm! This is My fab life! I can kit 25 at a time on the bar in my kitchen! It's a ton of stuff! I am teaching 3 classes that i LOVE...I have LOVED the My Fab life class using 5th Ave... I am also teaching with the NEW Noteworthy! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! The class is using the fun artisan label shaped chipboard album and the Delaney line!  So FREAKY cute! Over the weekend I created the class in Addie too...These classes are going to be awesome! I am also teaching one more class...It's called Designers in the bag! I have asked a few of my dear dear friends to help me with this one...Friends like Ali Edwards, Cathy Zielske, Emily Falconbridge, Tara Whitney and Christy Tomlinson! Don't you want to take a class from all of them? Well that's exactly what this class is all about! Each one of them has designed a 12x12 double sided layout using fabulous MM product! I can't wait to teach it! They are the best friends to agree to do it for me! All i had to do was ask...I am so grateful for good friends right now in my life! It's amazing what support good friends can do for you!
    Speaking of good friends, my thoughts are with my BFF Lorie, I talk about her all the time on my blog, she is my best friend from Arizona. I love her like a sister...Her Dad Herm was in a horrid biking accident close to two weeks ago...They are avid bikers...Herm loved to ride! He was riding in a race and had some type of blackout. Well it seems that he had some type of stroke. He had some bleeding on the brain. He passed away today. I loved Herm, he was a great man...My prayers are with Lorie and her Mom, my dear friend Sherrill and the rest of the Funk family...
    Today be grateful for friends...Keep Lorie in your thoughts and prayers...
Happy Sunday!
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I know her, I've seen her, I LOVE her...

Happy birthday my BELOVED...
This is my dear dear friend Em...She and I met over a year ago and our connection was instant...We are so different, she is a natural, peace loving, green, earth mother...Me...not so much...She is an artist with a kind soul...I love love love her dearly!
I am so so so grateful to have her in my life...I wish I was with you to celebrate luvah...Know that I will be thinking about you all day!
love you...
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Big exciting news today!!!

Making Memories has a new website! It is so beautiful and clean and easy to navigate! I am so excited! Go check it out...but plan to stay a bit...So much awesome stuff to see!
GREAT job Jenny Weston!
gotta love exciting news!
Happy Wednesday!
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