Where does the time go?

Obviously it's been awhile since I've posted although I never imagined that it would be 7 years. So many things have changed. I finished grad school with my masters and teaching certificate and was ready to conquer the world of teaching. After hearing everyone say that they always needed math teachers, none were needed for that school year. It took me until the next school year to get a teaching position at the high school teaching math. I loved teaching math and interacting with the students but it just wasn't meant to be. After teaching for 2 school years I went back to working at Public Assistance. I felt that I could make more of a difference to the families coming in for help. After a few years I was able to combine my teaching credentials and Public Assistance when I was able to become a trainer. Now I'm training new workers about all the different programs that we have in Public Assistance and how to help the families seeking assistance.

For the past 2 years I've been using goodreads to keep track of all the books I read in a calendar year. In 2017 I successfully read 254 books and in 2018 it was 255 books. So far through the end of March 2019 I've read 62 books so I'm on track to be in the same ballpark as the last 2 years. The book that I finished today, Fatal Reckoning, the newest book in Marie Force's Fatal series. While this may be the 14th book in the series, it is still just as good or better than the first book. Marie grabs the reader's attention right at the beginning and never lets go until the ending. Emotions run the gauntlet as the heroine Sam Holland deals with the death of her father and picking up the cold case in the latest attempt to solve the shooting that left him a quadriplegic.

Marie Force is one of my favorite authors and I follow several of her series along with Fatal. Since Marie allows her fans to follow her on Facebook, she had several fantastic giveaways leading up to the release of Fatal Reckoning. I was lucky enough to win a signed copy of the book as well as a mouse pad. Still jumping up and down since I won.

April 2012 CSD QP contest

Definitely running out of time for this one, but I made my page just in time. Talk about last minute. Whew! Anyways, here is my entry for the April 2012 CSD QP Contest:

Download HERE

This month's lovely kit was Sun Sun Sun by Butterfly Design. Now please go to the CSD forum to download all the other pages made with this kit so that you can have a matching album for all of your pictures.



Blue Poppy kit by Star Song Studio

I was given the opportunity to work with Star Song Studio's newest kit, Blue Poppy. The colors are absolutely gorgeous and it helps that I LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors blue and purple. Did I mention that I love the colors? (giggle) This beautiful kit contains 12 papers (all 12" x 12") and 33 elements and was inspired by rare blue Himilayan poppies that Ann personally photographed and extracted. Without further ado, feast your eyes on the preview for this kit:

Available at the following stores: CSD, Digidesignresort, E-scapes and Scrap, and Heritage Scrap.

Here are the two pages that I did with this fabulous kit:

Go check out all the other kits that Star Song Studio has available at her stores. You'll be amazed at the amazing products that she has to offer.

Cool Scraps Digital QP Contest March 2012

Well better late then never, however I still made it with time to spare. It's time again for the Quick Page contest that Cool Scraps Digital holds every month. This month, Pmarie graciously allowed us to use her fabulous kit Spring A ling Ding Dong. Absolutely gorgeous and very versatile. Here is my quickpage for the contest:

Click on the image above for download or click: HERE!

Don't forget to check out the contest thread at CSD (here) to be able to download all the other entries in this contest so you can have a complete QP album for all your pictures. Also think about joining next month because the kits for these contests are all fabulous!





Cool Scraps Digital QP Contest February 2012

Well I participated in the Cool Scraps QP contest again this month. We were given Graphics by Polka Dot's Sweetness kit, which is absolutely lovely. I had a hard time only coming up with one quick page for this kit. It can be used for so many things, however it works perfectly for Valentine's Day. Please check out the link above for the other free QPs made using this kit. If you collect them all, then you'll have a huge QP album to quickly insert your own pictures. Here is my QP for you to download:

Download: Image linked above or click here.