Here's my latest layout! I love this picture of Joshua.

nothing too exciting happening here! i haven't got anything new really to tell, but i feel the need to update anyway.

i had a really awesome time at a testimony workshop on saturday with D.I. some people have had REALLY interesting lives, and you can really see how God has worked with them, and through them. my life seems pretty boring in comparison to some of the life stories i heard.

i've been really cramming to get my scrapbook pages completed for the 50 page club at lovebug scrapbooking. i have to do 5 pages a month. considering that each layout takes ~5 hours (or more!), it's been keeping me pretty busy and i've had some really late nights. i'm loving the challenge though. jennifer, my sister-in-law, has joined me in the 50 page club. isn't it cool how the internet can make 2 people ~who live 3 provinces away from each other~ seem so close! (although the phone helps too!)

i've had 2 visits from super good friends who live far away. christine ~the mother of my four beautiful god-children~ was here. We always have awesome talks- thanks Christine for being a soul-sister-in-Christ! and wendy, my dear friend from nunavut who will always think i'm young, ~i hope you still think i'm 23 ~thirty years from now!

my kids are on spring break and i can't seem to ever get the house clean....and i'm thinking.....how will i get through summer?

this month has definately been an awesome month for scrapbooking! fyi, i receive monthly kits from an online store named lovebug scrapbooking, and i'm a frequent poster on their forum. I LOVE THIS STORE!!! every month, members of the forum and design team host 'challenges'. the participants in these challenges are then entered into random draws. well, this month i won three random draws! woohoo! yay! i've only won once before in my whole life, and it was a pair of canucks hockey tickets ~ and i didn't even go to the game (jonathan took a friend ~ i figured they'd enjoy it more!) anyways, one prize was a $5 GC to Lovebug and the other two are rak's. thanks deanne, darlene and sophie for hosting such great challenges!

and to top off my VERY BLESSED month, I won 1st prize in the contest i entered at lovebug. (see my last post!) the challenge was to alter any item using fontwerks products. i love fontwerks products ~ especially their stamps! so, what was my prize? ~ 2 sets of their alphabet stamps!!!! i'm soooo excited to use them! THANKS LOVEBUG!

i do have to say that i feel a little bit guilty for hogging most of this month's prizes. SO, next month (April 1st) i'm going to host a challenge, so that i can share a RAK with someone! Come check out the 'i challenge you' forum at Lovebug!

this is an altered clock i did for a 'fontwerks altered item' contest at lovebug scrapbooking. i had no intentions of entering this contest, however on the last day to enter, i found myself wandering around the house wondering what could possibly be altered! my eyes lit on this clock i have sitting in the bathroom! (for those who know me - YES, i do keep an eye on the time while i'm in the bathtub!). i've always hated the yellowish tones of this clock, it just didn't match my bathroom! so, i decided to see what i could get done in a short time (while ignoring my children and household chores as much as i could get away with) .......i had a lot of fun! but i also had a lot of "oopsies."

• i spilled black paint on the paper, so i ended up "distressing" the paper
• i used white pigment ink and it kept smudging - i didn't even think to try to heat set it, duh!
• i tried to mod podge over it and completely smeared the white ink - had to re-paper the whole front!

despite all this, i managed to get pictures of the clock in 15 minutes before the deadline! i don't know if it stands a chance, but it was fun to do and i learnt a lot.

my biggest lesson??? this morning........ jonathan told me to move the clock or nathan would wreck it. (it was on the kitchen table) i told him i wasn't worried because it had been there all yesterday, and he hadn't been interested. (i was in my morning rush to get the kids ready for school and didn't want to think about 'the clock' anymore) anyway, i hate it when my husband's right - and he ALWAYS is! just as i was rushing the kids towards the door, nathan somehow got at it and knocked it off the table.........grrrrr......... the back mechanism came unglued and the clock hands came off their post...........grrrrr...........it's fixed now, but during this process i managed to smudge some of the ink again! buying the white STAZON ink is now a MUST for me! gotta go shopping!