My Top 10 Moments at CHA

CHA OR BUST…. We are about to head out of town for a few days of crafty bliss at CHA!  Whoo Hoo!
Art Inspired Studios owners Patti and Diana with DT members Denell, Tina, Me and Robyn (Kelly, Amanda and Nidia are flying and meeting us down there)

Here are my top 10 moments of CHA 2011  (in no particular order)

TEN:

Hanging out and having fun with my Design Team pals =)

  Me, Denell and Tina having lunch at ESPN Zone

Robin, Denell, Tina, Amanda, Kelly & Me at Teresa Collins Booth

Kelly and I at Jenni Bowlin’s Booth. 

Kelly, Ricardo and the Guy from October Afternoon :)

Tina, Me, Robin, & Denell having Cocktails our last night at CHA

NINE:

Being at the right place at the right time… Tina and just happened to be passing by House of Three booth just as a Make & Take class was about to start.  The class was invitation only but if there were any “no shows” the empty seats were first come first serve.  It was just lucky there were two seats and Tina and I were the only two standing there =)

 EIGHT:

The Maya Road Booth

I just thought this booth was so cute!  I love their new Jumbo Bottle caps!  I hope the ladies at AIS ordered some.  I can’t wait to get some and play!

SEVEN:

Fancy Pants Designs

 

Another super cute booth.  I am excited to get my hands on some of the new products.  The Brag Book was really cool.  A spiral bound notebook with 80 pages including 50 journal pages 15 (2-up) photo sleeve pages and 15 pocket pages.  you have to get this album!  They have also added chipboard banners and filter flowers to there line.  Really cute!

SIX:

Meeting Claudine Hellmuth. 

She was so sweet and does beautiful collage work.  She has a cute line of products you can check out at her website

And

This Guy…

Ranger Tim

FIVE:

Girls Paperie

Love the booth my photos don’t do it justice. 

did this cute little make & take

FOUR:

Taking Classes

Here are some pics from the Little Yellow Bicycle class I took.

Tina and I with LYB Design Team member Greta.  Who designed the projects we made in class.  She is so talented.

Layout using the Elizabeth Park line

Notebook with a small book inside using the Twig line. 

THREE:

Meeting Cynthia Sandoval from Doodlebug designs. 

This lady is just too cute for words!  Love her!  I did a little research on her and learned that she draws all of the design for her company!  How cool is that.   Not to mention she really hooked me up!  (Read on.. You’ll see) and be sure to check out doodlebug designs here to see their new stuff.  Super cute!

TWO:

Meeting

 Dear Lizzy

She is just the sweetest thing!  She saw the album I made to document my trip to CHA and asked to look through it.  I was a little embarrassed because it wasn’t finished but she said she loves it.  (well, what else would she say… She is so sweet)  I used all papers from her Dear Lizzy line.  She posed for a photo with me and signed my album.  Um, did I mention that she is super sweet?

and

Teresa Collins

She is also super sweet!  I just love her products and was so happy to discover that she is just as sweet in person that I thought she would be.  She was also kind enough to pose for a photo and sign my book.

and now…

MY #ONE MOMENT AT

Winter CHA 2011

MEETING

THE ONE AND ONLY

STACY JULIAN!

Take it from me.  This lady is the frosting on the cupcake!  I just love her. She was the founding editor of Simple Scrapbooks, she founded Big Picture Scrapbooking now Big Picture Classes and is the author of Stacy Julian blog.  She has such a fresh colorful outlook on life and is so inspiring! 

I have two of her books.  Last year at CHA my friends Diana and Patti borrowed my books to read on the airplane and had the idea to try to find Stacy and ask her to sign my books to surprise me.  My understanding is that tracking her down became comical.  Every time time they asked about her they got the reply “she just left” or “ she went that way”  

This year was my first opportunity to attend CHA and I heard Stacy was there so I kept checking FB to see if I was ever anywhere near where she was.  (yes, I guess you could say I was stalking her.) Anyway my stalking led me to the Doodlebug Designs booth where I met Cynthia Sandoval.  Who happens to be friends with Stacy Julian.  I guess she felt I was a friendly stalker and told Stacy about me… Guess What???? The next day I got a call from Stacy on my cell phone asking me to come back to the booth and meet her.  WoW!  So of course I dropped what I was doing and rushed over.  I felt like an eleven year old girl about to meet Justin Bieber!  LOL

Stacy was so kind.  She chatted with me, signed my book, took some photos with me and even invited me to play in the doodlebug photo booth!  You can get to know Stacy at her blog

Stacy, if you ever see this… Thank you for the great memories of my first CHA!

So there you go, The Top 10 Moments of my first CHA! 

Looking forward to next year :)

Has it really been this long....

Wow!  I didn't realize that it has been so long since I have updated my blog!  Ok, well we have lots to catch up on but in the mean time here is cool video I found of Becky Higgins giving us some cute hair tips :)  I can't wait to try! 





Was I right?!  Super cute!

Ok, I will be back soon with a Truhe family update.  I promise! ;)

THEY WON!!!!!!!!!

I am so happy that it brought tears to my eyes.  I wish my brother was alive to see this but I know he was watching from above.  I love you Jason!  HUMMMMM BABY!

One Proud Mama

My kids ROCK!  Brag Much?  LOL 

On Wednesday Dave and I spent the morning at the kid’s school for awards assemblies because Coco and Adam both received their classroom awards for “Character Counts: Trustworthy”.  Then, last night we went to the middle school awards assembly to watch Miranda receive her award for Honors Society (Honor Roll is a 3.3 – 3.75 GPA and Honors Society is 3.75 +)  She has really studied her behind off and still managed to make the Cheerleading team and keep up with her demanding soccer schedule.  She works hard everyday and deserves all she has accomplished.

 

It is my ongoing goal to figure out how to take a decent photograph in a school multi-purpose room.  Maybe I will finally figure it out by the time Grace graduates.  LOL

Here are the pictures from AJ’s Birthday Party.   I learned that if you have your party at Chuck E. Cheese on a weeknight during Fall Break from school, it is not so crazy and less people come.  Lucky for us all of AJ’s best friends were in town and just enough kids to make it a perfect birthday party.

 

This is the whole reason why AJ wanted to have his party at Chuck E. Cheese!  The “Ticket Blaster”!  I think he got around 800 tickets in there…

 

He ended up with more than 1200 tickets from the night.  It was enough to buy a 4 inch ball… Sheech, a trip to the dollar store would have been cheaper!  LOL  But he had a great birthday.

Happy 7th Birthday AJ! 

I LOVE YOU!

HALF MOON BAY

Since the kids are on fall break from school we decided to take a day trip and head out to Half Moon Bay.
For the most part we had a good time.  We hit the pumpkin patch first then headed down town to go to this little diner that I just love, I wanted to head over to the beach but at this point one of our kids was in desperate need of an attitude adjustment (yes Coco I am talking about you!)  and Dave and I had just had enough.  So we decided to head home before tempers got out of control and the whole day was ruined.  The good news was that we never divulged our plan to the kids so they didn’t really know we missed anything.  


   
The kids just love getting their picture taken in these things. 
  
So does Daddy!
                           They are getting so big!
This is the kind of thing that we get when Daddy has the camera
But every once in a while we get one like this


 

 
…and yes we did get pumpkins :)

Overall it was a pretty good day.  Grace and AJ really had a blast at the pumpkin patch and Miranda and Coco were pretty good sports.  maybe next year we will go to the beach first then hit the pumpkin patch on the way home.

It's almost time for the First pitch of the 2010 World Series so I better go.  Go Giants! Whoo Hoo!
I'll be back soon to blog about AJ's party at Chuck E. Cheese.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

Wow, it has been over a month since I have posted.  October has flown by.  We started the month by celebrating birthdays :)  AJ turned 7 and i turned… Uh, well lets just say 29


For my birthday my friends Tina and Denell took me here for dinner.
 
Then we stopped by this place.

for a little of this

Then we finished off the night at Art Inspired Studios to CROP the night away.
On Saturday our friends the Bailey’s came over to celebrate AJ’s birthday with us.
AJ REALLY wanted to have the Scooby Doo movies (yes, I said movies… they really did make more than one LOL) Dave found three of them cheap at Target so that plus Lego Rock Band for the wii and and party with his friends at Chuck E. Cheese  we had a very happy birthday boy. 

This is what happens when you give the camera to Uncle Matt!  LOL
   
The three little sweeties working in the “Kitchen” making lots of Birthday Cake.