A Pocketful of Licorice

It's National Scrapbooking Day and I've got a bunch of CD May layouts!

Happy NSD, all you scrappers out there!
I've got a bunch of layouts to share today. I made them using the May kit, Strawberry Lemonade, from Cocoa Daisy.
This kit was another great one for me - I'm a bright colors kind of scrapper. I loved all the oranges and pinks and yellows and reds. Tricia's done it again! Here are my favorites with this kit...
I made a mistake on that last layout. We actually went to the White House on that day, not the Lincoln Memorial. Lincoln was the day before. I'll get around to fixing it before I put it away.

I'm going to see my brothers' band tonight - they're playing a Cinco de Mayo show at Twin Rivers. Should be fun. Hopefully I'll get good pictures. :)

If you're a scrapper, I hope you get to scrap today! Enjoy!

one more quick sneak peek...

of the May kit from Cocoa Daisy. Mainly because I really love the way this layout turned out...
The kit goes on sale May 1 and the DT gallery is looking really great! Stop by and check it out!

great vacation!

Tomorrow it's back to school. We've been off all last week. I went down to DC with Paola and Kristen to visit Kavita. Highlights include eating at the same restaurant three days in a row (Dos Gringos in Mt. Pleasant), seeing the president's motorcade and new dog, trying absinthe, shopping in Georgetown, eating amazing Lebanese tapas and seeing a strange movie at the film festival. I'm sure I'll be scrapping a lot of those pictures soon.

We drove down on Tuesday and back up on Friday. I spent a lot of the weekend at Cocoa Daisy's first online crop. It was really great - we had so many wonderful ladies online playing, chatting and cropping with us! I'm already excited for the next one!

I did a bunch of projects for the crop - many of them with the April kit, which was so fabulous, but which is sold out.  Here are some of them...

This one was for Kim's music challenge...

This one was for Kim's fabric challenge...

These next three were for my hand-cut titles class...

This one was for my TV inspiration challenge. It's based on a Flight of the Conchords poster...

This was for Ronda's album cover challenge. It's based on Radiohead's Hail to the Thief...

And this one is for the same challenge. It's based on a DJ Mark Farina album cover...

I did a few more but it's getting late.

I need to get ready for bed soon (work tomorrow) but I wanted to post some sneak peek's from Cocoa Daisy's May kit - the DT gallery will be revealed on May 1st and the kit will go on sale. It's red and orange and pink and springy and very pretty!

Check back in a few days for all my May layouts!
Good night!

I'm excited for this...

something exciting!

We're having our first ever online crop at Cocoa Daisy! I'm so excited - the challenges are going to be so much fun! Come join us!

more April CD projects

Hi Everyone!

We've got something really exciting coming up over at Cocoa Daisy. Save the dates: April 24th -26th for Cocoa Daisy's exciting online event! Sign up for the Daisy Talk newsletter to get your updates.

And I've got more April projects to share...

Another fantastic kit - it was so much fun to play with! And if you haven't been to the CD boards lately, stop by! Lots of exciting things are happening - daily prompts, weekly challenges, ways to win stuff. Check it out!
The weather has been gross 'round here and the rain and cold has been making me feel sleepy and drained. I'm hoping for some sun really soon!

April gallery is up at CD

And it's so full of pretty stuff. You can see it here. I think our designers really outdid themselves this month. It helps when the kits are as pretty as Tricia's always are. Here are some of mine...
 

recently added

I like sharing music. Here's what I've been listening to lately - new-ish indie stuff and some old but classic albums.
Holy crap this album is so good. I know that's not news to some people but I was unaware of its existence until recently and now it might be one of my all time favorites. The Way Young Lovers Do kind of blows my mind.
Jason Schwartzman writes awesome pop songs!  And is in some of my favorite movies. West Coast isn't on this album but it's my favorite Coconut Records song.
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's are lovely. I'd call them smartly pretty. Incidentally, that phrase was a band name suggested by So and So of Teen Girl Squad. Sometimes the universe makes sense. I especially appreciate that the band name is a nod to Margot Tenenbaum. I enjoy it when the things I love converge on each other.

Thanks to Nick for this one. Sweeping and epic psychedelic rock - now with 100% more mariachi horns! And the mellow tracks are lovely and poignant. Wow. Plus, the cover art is great!

And Otis Redding. He's kind of an all-time favorite. But I've neglected him. I decided to remedy the situation and put some of my favorites by him on my iTunes...Try A Little Tenderness and That's How Strong My Love Is are the ones I listen to over and over again.
Anyone have any other suggestions for me? I kind of thrive on having new sounds to listen to.

April Cocoa Daisy Sneak Peek!

Today is the first day it really seemed like spring to me. I think I was feeling as spring feverish as my students today because they kept on getting off topic and I barely tried to stop them. By the end of last period we were basically just playing games with the smartboard. We'll have to make up for it next week. On my way home I passed a thermometer that was reading 67. So I went running. In a sleeveless shirt. I love spring!
The April kit from Cocoa Daisy is lovely and springy and fun. It will go on sale in a few days and the DT gallery will be revealed - it's looking really pretty in there! Here are a few little peeks of what's coming up...
...and you have to wait to see why the word "sexual" appears in a layout about moving into a new house. ha!

Meghan's Mid-Month Challenge

Meghan posted the March mid-month challenge over at CD. It's based on those facebook notes that ask you to post 25 random things about yourself. I already did one on facebook, but I loved the challenge of doing it on a scrapbook page so I did it again. My 25 random things have been adjusted to fit into the tiny bubbles, though...
Mine's pretty similar to Meghan's because I loved the colored circles on black.
And if you like scrap challenges, keep your eye on the Cocoa Daisy message board. We've got some big plans for more challenges - with prizes!