Design Star Search & Challenge‬‪

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Are you ready to be Urban Anthology’s Next Design Star? Or are you just looking to be challenged and win a few prizes?‬‪

Join us in our “Design Start Challenge” Starting Friday March 27th on our blog at www.urban-anthology.com/blog‬‪Starting Friday March 27th we will be posting challenges and would like YOU to participate.

There are two ways:‬‪

1-      You want to play along for fun… each week join us for our challenges, submit your work according the rules and be entered to win a weekly prize. Complete ALL the challenges, and you will be entered to win a grand prize basket of goodies.‬‪‪‬‬‪

2-      You want to be Urban Anthology’s next Design stars…and be apart of our Design team? Join us on our blog at www.urban-anthology.com/blog on Friday March 27th for your first challenge. Complete the challenge and submit it according to the directions. The current Urban Anthology design team will then choose the winners to move on to the next round of the competition. Did I mention you will be entered to win prizes too. ☺‬‪‬‪

All the details will be posted on our blog shortly… until then… please join us in our [url=www.urban-anthology.com/forum] forum [/url] for fun challenges, tips, and conversation.‬

Time to walk...

It's time to get walking... enough sitting, enough procrastinating, its time to simply walk. Today was day #2 this week for going for a 1.4 mile walk around Glendora. It's a nice route through the neighborhood and half the route is up hill making for a good leg workout. I take Spyder with me, he enjoys the walk as much as I do. I truly appreciate our new house in a real neighborhood... with sidewalks (ok on some streets), nice people, and great scenry. I took my walk a bit late today, so the sun was setting, it was so pretty to watch, and to see the full moon rise... was awesome. My legs are still sore from day 1 of walking, so i can only think what they will feel like tomorrow... but no pain, no gain they say... Spyder is much calmer too, he was napping for the past 2 hours... and now he finally has decided to play with his toys.. off to relax a bit more, and then to bed for an early night... with exercise we must get ample sleep as well... it's time to build a new routine...so here I go, and watch me on my journey to become fit and lean.

Where has time gone!

This year sure has started out quick, I realized last night I had been nearly two monthsa since I updated my blog... I am now wondering where those two months went... But between home rennovations, CHA, scrapbook expo, my dad visiting, and numerous government holidays things sure start happening fast! The outlook for the next few months is busy as well, but this years busy life is fun... And not the ordinary!

So the other day I saw the sweetest thing, and wanted to share... This elderly couple comes into applebee's, sits in a booth, both sharing one side... Then the Mr. Pulls out his iPod!!! And puts on some classic 1920's or 1930's music... And they listened, talked and dinned on their lunch... Which they split the lunch combo with the 2 cheeseburger sliders and a side salad! It was too cute to see... I can only hope that Chris and I are like that when we are old!

A very Merry Christmas!

I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year... I can say that this year has been one spectacular year for me... and Christmas has ended the year well. I was able to spend Christmas eve with my husbands mom's side of the family, and Christmas Day with his dad's side of the family. His family from all around California was able to gather for a great celebration. Besides having a great time with family, and WAY to much food, I was spoiled with too many gifts as usual... but I got a few things I really was hoping for! My dad got me the Ott-lite I had been wanting for a very long time. So now when I go scrapbooking, I have a portable light to take with. My hubby got me a new cell phone, so I don't need to curse my old one out, that was on the fritz. And it has a camera on it, which I truly missed when I had switched over to a BlackBerry. And one gift that has been on my wish list for years, finally came true... I got a doggy! His name is Spyder... he was rescued from a home where the owners had to move into an apartment. The origional owners had rescued him from the pound... he is the sweetest border collie. Here is a photo of him playing with one of his many toy's. He loves balls! And will never stop playing catch (especially with my hubby, LOL)

Home sweet home!

Well, its been a hectic month, of painting, fixing, packing, and moving to our new house! We are officially living in our first home... Though it is furnished with not much more than stacks of boxes! Our move went pretty easy, othwer than the fact that the moving truck was a tad small... We had our kingsize mattress strapped to the back of tyhe truck, and we still have a bit of stuff to get from our rental! Our goal is to have things fixed up in the next month so it is ready for our first set of visitors... My dad and brother.

Last night we hoked up our new washer and dryer... Who knew that we would sit and watch it was our clothes for 10 minutes! We were so impressed with how quiet our new Electolux appliances are! It was very easy to figure out as well. There are so many options for washing clothes...

Besides moving I've been busy with holiday preparations, as we'll as releasing a sneak peak of the next kit over at www.urbanianthology.com/forum ... Its going to be a fantastic kit once again... :)

I hope every has a very merry Christmas, or a happy holiday for those that have other celebrations this time of year!

Take Care and be safe!

A scrappy kind of day!

Well, as most Saturday's go this time of year, I end up either scrapbooking at my house or heading off to a crop... it seems I become the football loving husbands widowed wife on the weekends, lol... so today I joined my friends Ching, Karen, and Yolanda for a day of scrapbooking at Scrap N' Yap. I haven't had so much fun scrapping, talking, and eating as I had today. I could not have been more perfect. We had some fantastic BBQ for lunch in a little restaurant called Joe's BBQ (I think that's what it's called...) and then we worked out way through some Churches Chicken, and finished the night off at A Cherry On Top for a frozen yougart BUFFET! I have never seen such a thing, about 10 choices of frozen yougart, we help our selves to a cup and fill it with the varieties we liked.... we then top it off with an assortment of toppings, and then they weigh it (I didn't want to look, it was a HUGE bowl) and we pay... I had a trio of yougarts... oreo cookie, cheese cake, and chocolate... I topped it with an assortment of chocolate toppings and for the "health" factor I threw on some raspberries, strawberries, and of course CHERRIES!

(Notice how HUGE, those SMALL bowls are!)

So besides EATING, we did do some scrapbooking (at least some of us, UH... CHING???)

Here is the layout that got rave reviews... Karen, thanks for letting me use your layout as a sketch for this! I love how this turned out using my November Urban Anthology Kit!

10 days and counting

Things have be busy this year... between starting a new business... my full time job, and buying a new house, it surly has kept me on my toes. I'm happy to say that in 10 day's we will be able to move into our brand new house. It is so exciting that this day has finally come! Today we took our final walk through of the house, double checking all of the items that were needing to be fixed as our inspector found. I realized how much work we are going to have to do to make the house ours... what seems like perfection when it is fully furnished... isn't quite that after the home owners start removing their personal items from the home. But none the less, its exciting to not live somewhere with noisy neighbors above us, traffic and trains passing buy at all hours of the day... and not being delayed by funeral processions, lol!

Between all the paperwork and inspections for the home, Ching and I have worked on creating our next kit for Urban Anthology. I'm excited to announce It's A Wonderful Life. This kit has a touch of winter, a touch of Christmas, and just and elegant feel to it! I can't wait for the holiday's to come to scrap with this kit some pictures of Christmas in our new home. Did I mention you can pre order yours now... just head over to the Urban Anthology Store, and better yet, it will ship before December 15... so you will have it in plenty of time for the holidays.