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here are the pages i created with brittany at pebbles in my pocket.  i love that place.  they were fun. i loved using paint and just being messy and crazy scrapbook-y.

•Reunited: you know i adore the kettle sea salt & vinegar chips.  i had fun painting all the edges of this with (my favorite) acrylic paint-

•Seaplane: this is such an incriminating photo of me back in my days interning here.  they (sob) made me model against my will in a high fashion show when i was miss. snobby back in high school and (sob) people from school came to see me (roll eyes here).  obviously i am not model material and you can tell from this lo, and yes, the photo is on the web and i screamed (a horrible, 1950s alfred-hitchcock-the-birds) when i saw it-

•the boston lds temple: gorgeous. i am really into ribbon right now, and they have such a good selection at pebbles. the big clear "m" is for mass : )

the weekend review: saturday's edition

•It was such a treat to meet Miss Brittany.  She is good people, as I say, good people. 
•A little background- she and I met via the wonderful world of blogging and instantly became blog buddies
•Since Britt works in "da business" (no, not the mob, the other business) we had to crop.
•First stop P.F. Changs for lunch:

•Oh my goodness how cute is she?  I wish you could see the darling little sundress she had on- very southern, a girl after my own heart!

•So um, maybe we ordered the wrong stuff, but we were not really impressed.  But it was about nourishment dear readers, nourishment.  We had lots of scapbooking to do.
•Well, just take a look at Britt's trunk.  She obviously came prepared!  Thank goodness Pebbles has a ramp, I about peed my true religions when I saw this...

•We did not lack for a thing!  I really prefer cropping, it is I think, more economical than buying stuff then going home.  When you're right there you just buy what you need.  I made 4 layouts while spending $20.00 I think that is pretty dang good.  This was my first time cropping at Pebbles, I've done it at Archivers before, and I love all the space they give you. 
•And wouldn't you know it, a nice girl came up and talked to us, and we all exchanged blogs.  It was nice to meet you Erica : )

•We stayed for about four hours, laughing, and making a mess.  It was scrapbooking discord at its best- my favorite kind of cahois!
•Because cropping is akin to a mental/creative/left brain marathon we were hungry
•Back to University Mall, but this time for CPK. Mmm.  She had the white, I had 4-cheese with avocado (it tasted so good!)
•Then, because she is a Bath & Body Works expert we ventured there and picked up goodies- I love their new, mini hand sanitizers, and as usual I picked up a giant tub of sea island cotton cream : )
•Back at the ranch we chanted for another few hours about life, school, jobs, boys, Church, Utah... you name it.
•She's a gem! 

new home

I've moved.  In hindsight, after taking advice from this lovely blogger who I am now addicted to, and only with a bit of googling- in under one hour I had my own domain name*.  This was one of my elusive goals, and it just feels good to have it checked off.  It's cheap.  Do it. 

So, now adjust your bookmarks please, introducing...

Creole Wisdom
www.creolewisdom.com

*Dang, I should of majored in computer science or something. 

blurb

I had so much fun making my blurb book.  I decided not to include my first year of blogging, and any of the unpleasant Matt stuff, because it is my blurb book!  Haha.  Reminds me of a saying I have tacked up that says: if it's not in the scrapbook, it didn't happen.  Snaps to that!!!


And the spine... one of my favorite features of making this:

Eventually I am planning on making both a book about both my grandmas.  This summer I'm making one for my sorority.  Almost everyone in my house is hooked.  Two girls have already made blurb books for their moms for mother's days, and Kate made one for her boyfriend. 

first shower

I threw my very first bridal shower for Mrs. Jana (!) Saturday.  I gathered ideas from all around and consulted other people who had btdt.  Here's how it turned out.  Ya, I'm sort of proud.  I love doing this stuff!

•Decorations: MSL luminaries and floral heart

•The menu, oh the menu.  It was divine: fruit & veggie platters + dip, sour cream coffee cake, 3 kinds of quiche, and petit fours.  All homemade.  Lots of work.  Thanks to marvelous mom!

•We played two games: "Guess that Love Song" and "Have you Ever."  For the first one I simply made a CD of love songs, had the guests guess, and the winner won some chocolate.  "Have you Ever" is just a fun party game for any type of shindig- you put 5 fingers up and go around saying "have you ever _____ " if you have done _____ you put a finger down.  The last person with a finger up wins.

•Gift time.  I put an antique shutter I have been carrying around for 2 years up for those who brought cards and not packages.  I just stuck them in between each shutter.  Jana got some great goodies, no lingere though ; P  But I'm pretty sure she doesn't even need it!

•Portrait of each guest + mom.  I wanted to do sort of a photo-booth inspired shoot.  Love how it turned out:

•All in all it was quite the spectacular event.  It would not be complete however without my beverage of choice: perrier served a la lemon slice in a vintage champagne glass.  Ya for parties!

see a happy girl

exhibit one:
Happy girl with a new camera bag*

Photo taken by mom with the new 50 mm 1.8 lens that is great, light, and delivers sweet results-

*Also happy because Alex called last night and texted twice!  Communication, Communication! 

sometimes good things happen

Like spring.  Like perfect, gorgeous, glorious, warm weather.  Like Today as the start.  I am so happy.  Time for another window-gazing spring self-portrait:

I am contemplating life and keeping a low profile to escape today's Greek activity of Jail n' Bail (more on that later).  I should be doing my homework, but I believe a nap is in order-

Ms. E

Just a little photo share from Emma's internship shoot last weekend. Fun, fun. Is she not gorgeous? Like I always say, a real Snow White come to life.

in the spirit of sundays

So you obviously know what I do Sunday mornings, but what about the rest of the day? So, in the style of the blog-famous Nie I present:

Don't I look pensive, serene, and calm? That is what Sundays do to me! They chill me the h-cough-heck out. I love em'

I like to look around my surroundings (in this case, my parents' home). In this room alone (counting behind me) there are over 9 antiques. My mother is always dragging me to antique stores! She has great taste!

Walking around the living room, for the millionth time that day. Just thinking about things and drinking sparkling water (common).

Something fun to do...

Happy Sunday afternoon. And would you believe my self control? I did not take a nap... not once!

[valentine's] box

sung to the tune of Justin's famous video, the sorority had an all-evening valentine's box making party. being proactive, sammie and i went to archiver's to get some extra supplies. i love how it turned out!

it was a snap to put together, here is what i used:
•pink and green ribbon
•Basic Grey green pp (snowflake print)
•Bazill white sparkle paper
•Crown transparency
•Doodlebug letters
= v-day box to please