Janna Wilson

Cake for everyone!

Man, leave it to all the friends on facebook to make you feel super duper special on your birthday!  LOL!  My phone was dinging as soon as I woke yesterday with fun fb birthday wishes, texts and ecards from my friends all around the country!  FUN!!! 

It was rainy, so I ended up just hanging out at the house yesterday and play with some new silk I got the day before.  My grandma always made me a scrumptious coconut cake for my birthday so I decided I wanted one and baked one from scratch.  YUM.  

Abby gave me that pretty green butterfly for my birthday ...it was the perfect addition to the cake!  She also gave me a two week NO CLEANING coupon!  hmmm?  Wonder who's gonna clean while I use that? 

As I was putting the frosting on the cake, Scott got home and brought me a coconut cake from the bakery!  He was so proud of himself for actually giving it some PRE-meditation!  LOL!  I'm proud too!  It's a yummy cake that I'm going to have a hard time staying out of!  OH NO!  Anybody wanna come eat some cake today so I can get rid of this stuff!!!  I told the kids to take big huge pieces and share with their friends at lunch!  hee hee!

The best part was just having a fun evening out with the family.  Really fun!  They took me to eat at my favorite place (Green Papaya-Vietnamese) and made a stop at Target on the way home --where I blew my birthday money!  (on clothes and hand weights)  And the best part was Scott moseyed through with us and didn't even complain one bit!!!

(I didn't have any lipstick on-- Sara, why didn't you tell me?? LOL)

 

I also got these AWESOME boots from my Mama...as an early bday present!  They rock my fashion world...which it doesn't take much to do!  LOL!

 

Well, that sums up number 34...here's to an exciting year ahead.  Somebody around here is going to be hitting the big 4-0 next month...better start planning!  :)

week 5: 47 pages to go!

Well, I have been scrapbooking several pages this week, but I actually did today's page, well, TODAY!!!  I decided to scrapbook ME!  Since it's my birthday, and everything, I thought that might be a good challenge for all of you too!   Lucky for me I even had my photographer (that would be Cash, 3) on hand to snap a picture today!  LOL!

Here's today's page!

 

  Only a one photo layout...sometimes, that's all you need to spark a memory--or a thousand memories.

 

Dare I?  Reveal the "me" underneath it all?  The make up, the happy face...sometimes, I think it's good to see and share a little reality.  I could journal so much more on this page about life now...maybe I will and add it to a tag behind the berry cardstock.  

Literally, another 30 minute page.  Though I admit I probably took more time than that making the silk rosettes.  These are a simple, no sew version that I fumbled together for this page.  Here's a great FREE tutorial by one of my favorite creative people, Jennifer Paganelli!  However, I didn't follow this tutorial in the least!  LOL!  By the time I found this tutorial, I had already developed my own type of rosette (the sewn version I use for my necklaces, which is much more sturdy, detailed and involved). It's as easy as you want to make it...for these, it was all about the hot glue gun. 

These colors  are so me right now...I'm loving yellow, magenta and grey. 

This week I challenge you to scrapbook TODAY...whatever today is for you...just a regular day, an exciting day...just be real and journal your heart.   

Remember sometimes just a bit of a stamp design can make a huge impact. 

Great products I used are from:

LOVE LOVE LOVE Core'dinations Cardstock.  The magenta is my favorite color.  The colors are so rich and have such great texture...yummy!  So lucky my lss loves it too! 

Other papers are Basic Grey (yellow butterflies) , October Afternoon (grey dot) and Pebbles Inc. (orange).

 

If you want to play along link up your page on your blog...you can scraplift my layout or do your own thing!  Be sure and add your page to the Flickr photo pool and tag it with week 5 so everyone can enjoy YOUR inspiration too!

Happy Scrapbooking!

weighing in...snowed in

Goodness...I think I'm finally back to normal!  I was laid out all last week --with Bronchitis.  Finally got it kicked and trying to catch up!  One good thing that came of the sickies...was that it helped my weight loss!  LOL!  You know me, I'm an optimist!  I'm about 3 lb from a HUGE, MAJOR goal now!  So losing a couple of pounds during my sickness definitely fueled my weight loss motivation!!!  I'm really enjoying this DVD by Jillian Michaels -- it's 20 minutes a day and even though I didn't do it all last week (I would have coughed up a lung) it's fierce and yet totally do-able.  I think you can get them for like $10 bucks at Target too.

I was supposed to go to Cali Friday night but my flight was cancelled...because of this...

BIG SNOW!!!!

...we made a snowman with the neighbors! (it wasn't the best snow for rolling but the kids managed)

...threw lots of snow balls!!!

...sledded with the neighbors behind the 4-wheeler!

...so much FUN!!!

 

...had to taste test the white stuff!!!

 
Someone said this was the best snow since 2000, I think.  It was about 5 inches.  Sara was only a toddler then...so this was like the first for all the kids...it wasn't bitterly cold...so they played out in it for HOURS!!!  We played a little too!  So, I'm sure glad I didn't miss this.  :)  Cali can wait a couple of weeks.

It's all melting away now...Cash is so disappointed.  The Farmers Almanac says we'll get more snow this month!  We'll see!