My first guest creative team

I am soo excited I have been given the opportunity to be a guest designer for Amy Cheeseman for October and November. I am so honored since I am a newby digital scrapbooker. I love her creations and was thrilled when she accepted me. This is the first time I have ever tried out for a creative team in my life. I can't wait, but I hope I do her product justice.

Camera play

Yep-Sunday I got to play with the new Rebel. Dh and I went to the arboretium for the afternoon and took tons of pictures. I found a great book at the bookstore that is not technical verbal vomit-I can actually understand this book. :)

Back has been really bad since then too. I am getting really tired of the pain, but know that my job is not safe if I have surgery. I don't really want to have fusion surgery anyway. So now I am starting physical therapy again. Hopefully this time it will provide some releif. I am near the end of my pain tolerance today for some reason...it really has been worse but all I want to do is cry...........

such as my day.

It arrived

My new camera arrived today....no battery power so I could not play with it....but I did touch it, and turn it over, and examine every nook and cranny. I know that I am in trouble because it came with 2 150 page manuals. Plus a big 3 foot by 3 foot get quick start guide. And there were two little manuals in the box too. I spent about 2 hours reading all of them and hope that I can merely point and take a picture. Holy moley it can do alot of different things. You can basically manually control everything down to the noise it makes. I am just awed by all of the features. I may be in over my head that is for sure....hopefully Borders has an idiots guide for the camera.

Maybe I can get dear hubby to go out the weekend and get some photos of the zoo or the arboretium. I wanna play with it somewhere pretty.

My dh is the man

I am jumping up and down doing the happy dance. My dh bought me my dream camera, just because he loves me......A Canon Rebel xTi 10.1 megapixel. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


He sent me an email showing me it on sale on the dell website. I was so bummed, because that is "the" camera for a scrapbooker. I would love one....I decided to bug him about it. I finally started feeling guilty so I gave up and went back to getting my work done at work. Imagine that.
So then he sent me an email later in the evening showing the sales receipt for it. I can' tbelieve he actually bought me one. Now I am soooo excited and going to be stalking the mail man, the UPS man, and every other delivery driver. It is not scheduled for delivery until the 21st....I don't think I can make it 5 days.....that is an eternity.

Addicted to Digital

I am addicted to digital scrapbooking. I have been spending a great deal of time looking for the newest and coolest digital stuff on the internet. I am amazed about how many freebies there are out there. I love the blog by Ikeagoddess she links 4-6 digital freebies every day. Now I found a new site that does digital freebies too.....I am in love with all of the freebies. I am already up to 486 papers jpg.s saved on my computer. I have an account with photobucket to upload all of my creations to and can do a slide show to blogger. Can't wait to try it out, but I need a few more layouts first.

Going to try to go to the botanical garden tomorrow for inspiration. Wish me luck.

Doing it Digi is over and I am definitly addicted. I love doing digital layouts, but it does take me hours to do. Today I did my first all digital layout on my own. Using purchased papers and embellishments of course. I keep looking for free digital stuff on the web, and have found tons of it. I am grateful so it is definetly getting cheaper to do that on paper. I do love paper sb too...but I think that this is my new found favorite.

I hope to get better as I practice....but I was never one who had alot of patience. I will have to keep trying.