winner :)

and the lucky duck is....



congrats jen! please email me your address at : belladrummer@gmail.com
thank you all for sharing your inspiring thoughts :)
here are a few pictures of what's inspiring me right now

this is from today, out shopping with my mister and loving all this pretty ribbon


and right now,

loving this pretty little corner. brightening it up with new paper garlands, some crochet love and pretty pom poms.
almost ready for a belladrummer shop update :) but for now, it's just me in this sweet corner... making pretty things.
thank you loves,

xoxo
-d

art as life

from the drawing board to this:



i remember back in late 2008 accepting the once in a life time opportunity to design a few scrapbooking items for MAMBI. Never thought it would all come out like this. It's even better than I expected. Despite dealing with a recent diagnosis of CTS, an overbearing work schedule and life... this happened. Good came out of it. i think it really helped me focus my energy on creating rather than worrying too much about everything else negative going on around me.

Life. it's a whole lot of good. and a whole lot of bad. Some out of our control and even still there is a way to come out of it with a good perspective. This was my "happy" during those times. playing around designing with elements i absolutely love and even still use in my art. I feared that i would change. that i wouldn't like it so much after time. but thankfully, it's still making my heart happy.

i thought i could make one of you happy too :)



I am giving away a "Debee inspire: Chipboard Album Kit" that MAMBI so generously donated.
(international entries welcome :) I will pick a lucky winner this wednesday.

in order to be entered in the giveaway, tell me what makes you feel inspired or What you love to create with right now.

ps: thank you for the sweet anniversary wishes!!! it was so lovely :)

xo
-d

12 months

my favorite lyrics from our favorite song, Lucky by Jason Mraz

I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard

They don't know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goodbye
I wish we had one more kiss
I'll wait for you I promise you, I will

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I'm lucky we're in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday

and 12 of my favorite art pages ( one for every month :)
with my favoritist person in the whole universe:

























mr. handsome gets all of the attention. but then again he's all i've got :P and it's obvious in these pages he inspires me creatively. it makes my heart happy making pages i can smile at during the process and even after a whole year and going back to them. :)

there is no one like him. he's been my constant support for strength and comfort. I admire his cool. there isn't anyone he can't get along with. (he says it's a guy thing. girls are just crazy :) and most of all, he likes my crazy. these past 12 months we've really been put in tough situations, faced challenges and accomplished so much. we are beyond blessed and cannot believe we are where we are now. Not the condo, not any worldly good, he's what i like to call "home". wherever he might go, i want to be right there with him ( aside from jumping from a plane, then he's on his own :)

it's funny because 12 months have passed by so quickly, and almost every friday we wished each other a smile filled happy anniversary. and life has been good with him. 12 months ago on this very day, april 24th i married my most beloved friend.
i love more, i live more and i dream more because of him.

i'm counting my blessings i am able to call him mine.
happy one year anniversary mr.handsome :)

xoxo
- your babe babe

bad hair decade...over >)

i love the line in ms.congeniality where grace says "I'm having a bad hair day. Bad hair decade, really."

:)

i know how that feels. i feel your pain gracie lou freebush!

but my hair life is much brighter and happier now with my sister sara's mad hair cutting skillz.

i dare to even say the world is a cuter place. because she's cute. and everything she does is cute. even my hair :P

i just don't know what i'd do without her.

look at me.



i'm so happy i'm just giddy :)



or maybe it's the starbucks talking?

nah.
for sure it's the hair.



and this is what i looked like when i was 5 and had pig tails. except i always closed my eyes in the picture. i thought it was all about the big cheesy smile.

yeah, still got it. (the cheesy smile that is :)

ps: i chickened out at the last minute. looks like i will wait for summer for a short do. and i will cut my hair short i promise ;)
just my neck gets cold and i only have one cowl.

fact: i hate being cold
fact: it is 50 + degrees outside and i have a heat dish burning my feet as we speak
fact: debee is the biggest weenie when it comes to cold. even turns into a diva like the snickers commercials when cold.
fact: i have a blankie when i travel and i am darn proud of it.
fact: i sound like dwight Schrute from the office saying FACT: waaay too many times. i'm a dork.

but i'm a dork with a cute do.
so i'm happy :)
xo
-d

i've got bed head

for about 3 years now I've sported the short cut.
and i like it. i really really do. but every time it gets to about my shoulders, i hate it. super duper just want nothing to do with it. i pull it up in a pony tail, try to get it out of the way and just go.

or i use my sunglasses as a headband :)



then i think, and think and think waaaay to hard. when mr.handsome says i know what i'm going to do anyway :) (this was around the same time last year, right before my wedding)



and then bam!



crazy bed head with a crazy short hair do. which i really enjoyed all summer long. no fuss. no gel. no spray. no mess. it was a happy time. a good time.

i grew up with medium to long hair. past my shoulders but never to my butt. my dad really never let us cut our hair short. which i wished i could but never dared to try. until i met my lovely now sister- Sara ( i hate calling her sister-in-law, it's so legal. especially since she's my favorite :) and she really opened my eyes to what a good hair stylist could do.

my point?
i am for sure really sorry for hurting your pretty eyes with so many pictures of me. but there is a point...
second, i have a 4:15 appointment today for my hair with the beautiful sara
i have to decide if i let my hair grow out finally ( mr.handsome likes it longer) or just cut the darn hair again and get it over with (it just grows back right ? :)

oh decisions decisions... but if i were to say for lunch happen to drive up to mc donald's i could for sure tell you i would order a mighty kids meal with hi-C orange drink and a boy kind of toy ( the girl meals always come with silly princesses. i like the cars hahaa) and be on my way.

so i guess that's where i will be thinking about this big yes/no question :)

signed,
bed head xoxo
-d