HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZ!!!

Okay, so if you know me...you know that I have an extremely bad memory and I'm reeaaalllly bad at calling people. So, today is my sister Liz's b-day and I've been wanting to call her ALL.DAY.LONG!!!! But when I finally got a chance it was way late. Not here, but where she lives (in Texas...darn that 2 hour time difference!). So I wanted her to know that I did not forget her birthday, and I can't believe how old..er..I mean, I can't believe that another year has gone by. So much has changed and so much has happened in such a short amount of time! I'm so glad that she's my sister. Sure in highschool we may have had our differences, but we also had a really fun time together. We were quite the pair and could make anybody laugh with our craziness. Seriously...I don't know how many times she caused me to go running to the bathroom before I had an accident from laughing too hard. She also did anything to make things perfect for me...driving 100+ mph to get to the flower shop before it closed because I forgot to get the boutonniere for my winter formal date (which she got right on time), buying my $200 dress for winter formal (which I still have), and I won't ever forget when she went out and got me a steak dinner right after I had Mikayla...seriously...that was the best. She's done so much more than that, she's been my rock and my confidant my entire life. I really don't think you could find a more energetic, fun, caring person if you searched every nook and cranny on this Earth.

For Liz...finally!

Here you go, Liz! Sorry it's so blurry...Joel was watching something on tv and not really concentrating on taking a great picture (obviously). I had him take 2 just in case, but he chopped off my head in the other one (so you're stuck with a blurry picture but at least my head is fully intact).

Elizabeth Kartchner Challenge

{contest continued @: pumpkinpatchscrap.blogspot.com}

Scrapbook Challenge #3

For the challenge on Project Runway, the contestants met with the legendary fashion guru: Diane von Furstenberg. Diane presents the designers with their challenge: Design a look inspired by her fall 2008 collection, A Foreign Affair. Diane was also the guest judge in the episode.

I am so incredibly excited to announce that we have our own scrapbooking icon: Elizabeth Kartchner!! She won Creating Keepsakes Scrapbooker of the Year 2007, she writes articles and she also designs layouts for the scrapbooking bible: Creating Keepsakes! She has a fun, fresh sense of style and our challenge is to design a layout using her work and style as our inspiration. She will then judge this challenge and choose a winner!

You can go to her website to get a sense of what her style is:
http://www.elizabethkartchner.blogspot.com/
And here is a link to some of her layouts:
http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/portfolio/view_album.php?album_id=5200

It is such a pleasure to have her be our guest judge, so please ladies, let's go all out!!

A few of her favorite things...

This picture sums up perfectly what Mikayla loves to do lately: watch The Bee movie on her slide (or as she calls it, her "wee") while wearing her "duckie" swimsuit and tutu.