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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

One week...

Thank you so so much to everyone for your sweet comments!! :D They mean so much!

I can't believe it has been one week already since I had her!!! She is just as sweet as can be. But is a bottom-less pit, so I feel like I am CONSTANTLY feeding her! Laugh! I wish I had some pics to share with you all but the week has flown by and we have all just been in a daze here. No routine for anything yet, but family just left 2 days ago, so it being just the four of us is still new. Creedence is doing wonderfully! She tries to be gentle bless her heart! But she wants so much to just play with Aurelia and show her all her toys and things. We keep telling her soon, very soon. We both know too well that the first year goes by soo fast! I layed awake the other night looking at my sleeping munchkin Creedence and just cried. Bringing home Aurelia made me realize just how big Cree really is! These are precious times, but extremely short, so I am trying to focus on just being present and not getting overwhelmed. There are emails I need to send, projects that need to be made, deadlines coming up, but I just sit with my two little girls in bed and watch Sprout or read a book because I know that is where I truly want to be.

Thought I would share with you all the most recent LO I've finished. I made it with the Noel Mignon Very Virginia kit (which has since sold out!), for the most recent challenge that went on over there. Love how this LO turned out! (although on my blog the pic looks a little dark? Is it just me?) I was trying to go for clean and simple, yet messy and distressed at the same time? :D Laugh! Either way, I really love this LO.


Right now, in between feedings and changing the tiniest diapers in the world, I am trying to finish up a couple little LOs that I started for the Sassafras Lass DT call. They got set aside when I went into labor last Tuesday night. :P Oh well. I would have had them done in time, but I was holding out for the new Noel Mignon Truly Scrumptious kit to arrive!! (Sorry this is now sold out too!) It is jam packed with brand new Sass Paper Crush and stickers! But alas, it is somewhere in transit and still hasn't arrived. :P I hope I get it real soon!! Until then I have TONS of older Sass that I am using, and that certainly isn't a bad thing as working down my stash is essential! :D


Well that is all I have time for at the moment...wee one is wakin up! I will be back soon again, and hopefully with pics next time!!! Take care!!

~Amy

Saturday, January 29, 2011

My Cup Runneth Over...

Our sweet little one finally arrived.

Aurelia Sierra Mae Johnson
born 1/26/11 at 4:49 am
weighing 8lbs 1/2 oz.

I can not express in words how full my heart is right now. Thank you everyone for your thoughts and well wishes! And thank you to my dear family for all your support, especially in watching Cree!

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Noel Mignon Blog Hop!!

Hi Everyone!!! :D I have desperately been meaning to get back on here and start doin some more posts, but gah it has just been hectic!! :P Thought last Thursday we were gonna have to head into the hospital, but nope the contractions stopped. Not sure if I have progressed any more since, but either way I am still very much preggin along here. Laugh!

I am stoppin in real quick to let you all know that an awesome thing is going on right now: a Blog Hop over at Noel Mignon!! :D So exciting! If you already know this then that means you came from the lovely Jill's blog! If you didn't know about the blog hop, well head on over to Kim Moreno's blog as she is the first on the list!! :D Here is the description of how to play along:

Welcome to the blog hop for the NoelMignon February kit, "Truly Scrumptious"!

Let's play a little word scramble game, shall we? As you can see, there is a letter showing in my sneak, and there will be letters in everyone's sneak peek.

Here are the rules:
1)Follow the hop in order(go back and start at Kim's blog if you are starting here).
2)Leave a comment on each blog showing that you have picked up your letter from their sneak.
3)Collect all the letters and unscramble the word.
4)Leave a comment on the last blog of the hop on Thursday, revealing the secret word, and you may be one of 3 lucky winners to win $10 off their kit purchase!

It's that easy!! Here is my sneak:

Isn't it incredible?!!!! I am dying over the colors! Just love it! :D Now since I am the last stop for the day (Wednesday), this means you all need to pick up tomorrow (Thursday) morn with the super sweet Diana! She will direct you where to go from there!! The best of luck to you all!! Hope you enjoy all the sneaks as much as I am! And just so you know this amazing kit goes up for sale on Friday morning, so don't miss out on it!

And last thing real quick, just wanted to remind you that we are having a Crop this next month! Super fun stuff planned, so mark your calendar! See you all there!!

And Thanks so much for stopping by!! I will be back very soon with more updates! Take care! And have fun with the blog hop!

~Amy

Monday, January 10, 2011

small-time catching up....

Hi Everyone! :D I'm back sooner than my usual, but later than I had wanted to be. My goal this year to get into a everyday/every other day/every 2 days kind of blogging routine. So I am hoping this morning I can get some work done on that. :D I have lots and lots that I haven't shared with you all. I have been keeping my galleries somewhat updated, but have been slacking on the blogging of my LOs. I wasn't sure if I should try to show them all in one lump sum, just to make sure that they actually make it on here (laugh!), but I decided instead that I really should work on the blogging routine, and always having something that needs to be shown will help with that.

Firstly though, I want to thank all of you who still read this blog, and for all your wonderful comments! I read every one of them, as they all get sent to my email, and I have the best intentions of writing each one back, but it just doesn't seem to happen. I am going to really work on that this year, so if you left a comment on my last post, then I will be getting to writing you back real REAL soon! :D And I know I mentioned a while back that I had lots of stuff to giveaway on here, and I want you to know that I still have all that stuff! I am still going to do the giveaways, but at this time I am having a hard time lifting boxes and going through stuff for the different packs of giveaways, so I think they will have to wait til the baby arrives and I can actually do stuff again! So thanks so much for being patient with that, but I gotta ask you to be patient a little longer. It will be worth it! :D
Speaking of the baby, I had my 38 week check up today! :D (No progress from last week though :P Still dilated to just 2) We are getting so close it is really making me nervous! I am very anxious to have this baby, as my body is just shot right now, but I am also extremely nervous about delivering as many (MANY) things did not go right last time, and it just makes me worry about what is to come with this one. I have a much better understanding this time as to how much I can go through, but I just don't want it to go as far as it did the first time because it put so much stress on Creedence during her delivery, and I don't want that to happen with this little one as well. So things are to be done a little different this time, but I still hope to be able to do it naturally. The big thing that will determine how this one goes is if this one starts on it's own! :P Inducing did me in last time, and I want to avoid it if at all possible this time. Either way, I will be keeping you all updated on how things progress before I go into the hospital. Neither Jed nor I have phones that can do internet stuff (I actually don't even own a cell phone! :D), so all updates about the delivery and arrival of our wee one here will be after I get out of the hospital, but I promise to make sure that happens! :D
Ok so I started trying to figure out (from memory mind you!) what LOs I had shown here and what ones I hadn't. Well it hadn't been working out too well for the last ten minutes so I have resorted to going back through my own blog to see what is actually on there. :P Pathetic! Laugh!
So I guess I will start with a few things that I wanted to announce about that are happening over at Noel Mignon! :D

First off is a class run by the amazing Virginia Tillery that starts on Saturday the 15th! :D I am taking the class, and seriously can't wait for it to begin! It is a companion class to the Very Virginia kit (only 2 left!) that came out just a little bit ago. You are not required to have the kit to take the class, but seriously who can resist this gorgeous kit!!! Go check out the kit here. And check out the class description here. :D It should be tons of fun!

Next thing going on over there is the announcement of the Valentine's Crop!! :D I am super excited!! Already planning my challenge, and trying to get ideas for other things. The February kit will be here with me soon, so I will be ready to begin as soon as it hits my front door! The sneaks for the February kit have not started yet, but don't frett! They will be starting very soon! Just watch the message boards as the kit items have already started arriving to Noel! She did give one little verbal sneak here, in case you simply can not wait to know what is kind of in the kit! :D (She is seriously such a huge tease for doing this! :P)

Hope to see you all there at the Noel Mignon message board for both of these awesome events happening real soon! :D

The last thing I wanted to announce is something that had me squealing! Literally! I have tried out for this team before, and did not make it, and got crushed. :( But I moved on and thought maybe I would try again another day. Well then they had their Featured Guest artist call, and I decided to go for it! It actually works out much better for me with the baby coming and all. :D But HOLY COW I was stunned that I actually made it!!! Yay! I am super honored to be on the list with all these amazing ladies! I can not thank Pink Paislee enough for the opportunity! And this will be my first Guest Design spot so I have actually hit a scrappy milestone too! :D Laugh!

Well seeing as this has turned into a pretty long post, I will just wrap it up with a LO share. :D A LO about my OLW for 2011, for the She Get's Misty challenge over at Noel Mignon, and made with the amazing Very Virginia kit I was telling you about. :D

I will be back soon with more to share! Take care everyone!! And be safe! There are a lot of storms out there right now.

~Amy