Golfing FUN!

This post has been in my drafts since Monday, and I've been meaning to post it with a little video I took, but I had to rotate the video 90 degrees in QuickTime Pro, and can't figure out how to get the video to display the same way in Blogger. Blogger keeps reverting it to the original "sideways" position. Argh!

Anyway, I played golf last Sunday with Chad, Shawn and Tim in Long Beach, and did pretty well. I kind of stunk it up on the front 9, but redeemed myself on the back 9. When I say "redeemed", I mean I scored a 45 on the back 9 - which is pretty good for me considering I don’t play that often, maybe 3 times a year at best. Every time I play, I think about how much better I would be if I played more often... but golf is such an expensive sport! Anyway, I was lucky to be raised with a dad who is not only passionate about the game, but taught it as a Phys. Ed course at the university I attended. He would tell you that he is “a student of the game”. That is the understatement of the century. My dad is OBSESSED with golf, and plays almost every day at the country club my parents belong to in AZ. After 41 years of marriage, my mom has just recently started to actually love playing the game. My dad bought her lessons from a golf pro, because he has learned the hard way that you should never try to teach your spouse how to play a sport...especially golf. It can get REAL UGLY.

BEST ADVICE EVER: Save your marriage and pay someone else to teach your spouse how to swing a golf club correctly.

Although I totally appreciate my dad's knowledge and take every chance I can to take advice from him while playing a course - I wasn't always so appreciative. When I was a teenager, I pretty much HATED GOLF and would get SO MAD at my dad any time he would offer up advice. My dad wanted nothing more than for his 3 daughters to LOVE the sport he so loved.... but he had to learn the hard way that unless his daughters (and his wife) ASKED FOR HIS ADVICE, he shouldn't offer it up. It wasn't until I was in college when I started to realize how fortunate I was to have a dad who could help improve my golf game so much - and for FREE! Now, if only my husband would start asking him for lessons... My dad would be in SEVENTH HEAVEN! Maybe one day, you never know! ;-)

My Early Valentine...

Yesterday, I made a Scrapblog layout for Chad as a sort of “early” Valentine’s Day gift. I couldn’t wait until Valentine’s Day to show it to him (because I’m a kid like that), so when he got home last night from work I showed him – and he LOVED IT! Then, he said “I’m going to give you YOUR Valentine’s gift early, too! And I said he didn’t have to do that, but he really wanted to – so he went into our home office closet (where he had been hiding it), came over to me and gave me the most AWESOME “early” Valentine’s Day gift in the WHOLE WORLD! I’m not saying I haven’t LOVED his other gifts for me in the past (the Sarah McLachlan concert tickets were A-MA-ZING!), but this one is extra special on a different level, because he put so much thought and personal effort into it – and if you are like me, it’s the little things in life – the ones that don’t take much money, but a LOT of HEART that mean the most.




He MADE this for me! He actually “raided” my scrapbooking supplies when I wasn't home, and MADE this for ME!!! He explained to me that he found the idea online, and followed directions and everything! What cracked me up was when he said “The instructions said to – what do you call it…adorn???" And I said “embellish?" and he said “Yeah, yeah – they said to embellish ‘as you see fit’... and I saw a lot of fittin’!”

I have decided to wait and open it on Valentine’s Day (part of me doesn’t want to open it at all – for fear of destroying the awesome wrapping job), but only on Valentine’s Day.

PS: I am absolutely head-over-heels in love with my man! Chad is not only the most wonderful and perfect husband, but he is also my very best friend in the whole wide world.

Woo hoooo!
GO CHAD!!!

Look at what I made on Scrapblog.com!

Have you heard of Scrapblog.com? Instead of trying to explain it myself, here is an excerpt from the site:

"Scrapblog is the easiest and most fun way to share and print your photos. With Scrapblog, you can create beautiful and completely one-of-a-kind layouts, share them online with your friends and family, and even print high-quality photobooks, greeting cards or postcards."

Here is my very first Scrapblog, and I think it turned out pretty cool!



Scrapblog.com features a SUPER easy drag-n-drop style interface, which makes it really fun to play with, and tons of beautiful designs to choose from. It's basically the easiest way to create a digital scrapbook page and instantly share it with anyone you want.

Seriously - no one asked me to say this stuff. I just really like it, and wanted to share it with you!

Disturbed...

There are so many police car pursuits in Los Angeles that they have become commonplace, and I really am never interested in watching them. But last night was different. Chad and I were sucked into watching news coverage of a "low-speed" police car pursuit of a man suspected of assaulting his girlfriend with a weapon. The thing about this one was the guy was driving a $100,000+ Bentley at about 30 mph for 4 hours. News anchors and reporters were even speculating that it might be a celebrity of some sort. It was the biggest time-suck of our evening, and I can't believe we seriously watched that thing. What sucked us in originally, was when we landed on the news channel, the pursuit was taking place relatively nearby us. The police could have stopped the guy SO many times - he was driving SO SLOW! Why they didn't do it? I have no idea. Basically, they just followed the guy FOREVER all over the Los Angeles freeway system until he finally came to a stop by Universal Studios on Lankershim Blvd. What really bothers disturbs me, is that this guy ended up committing suicide inside that car, and I allowed myself to get sucked in to watching the last tragic and desperate moments of his life LIVE on TV for ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. I feel dirty. Ashamed.

I'm not going to dwell on it forever. I just had to get it off my chest.

CAUTION! ZOMBIES AHEAD!!!

Okay, so I'm a little late on hearing about this (since it was posted to YouTube on Jan. 28), but in case you live under an even bigger rock than me... you HAVE to see this video:



My friend Gabe is obsessed with zombies. He has devised a survival plan so if when they attack, he'll be armed and ready with a machete (don't bother with guns, you'll run out of bullets), escape route and hideout plan. What blows me away, is that he is not alone in this type of elaborate plan of preparedness. Apparently, there are MANY people who honestly believe without a doubt that zombies are absolutely real, and that they WILL ATTACK us one day. I first heard of this phenomenon while listening to KROQ on my way to work one morning. People were calling in, talking about their elaborate survival plans for when the zombies attack. These people were NOT joking. One woman said that she is literally more terrified about zombie attacks than she is about terrorist attacks.

Still don't believe me? Check out the Zombie Combat Club, and see for yourself.



That does it. I'm joining the Zombie Combat Club Facebook group.

Squirrel + Obstacle Course = OMG!

You may have already seen this before, but I was cleaning out all the old JUNK in my email inbox, and I noticed an email (that I had managed to accidentally overlook) from my friend Nikki. She sent a link to this video, and I wish I would have opened her email when she had originally sent it to me - because this is the craziest, coolest thing ever. Okay, maybe not EVER... but it's pretty dang cool.



PS: Nikki has a history with squirrels, or should I say ONE squirrel in particular. A squirrel used to "stalk" her when she lived in Hollywood. It would hang out on a branch, and stare at her through the window ALL THE TIME. It wouldn't stop. Nikki is like Snow White - she loves every animal in the world - but this little guy was starting to freak her out a little. There is a squirrel that likes to run along the fence just outside my bathroom window every morning. Sometimes this squirrel gets a "nut up it's butt" and just starts BARKING at me through the window.... like I'm bothering him or something! It really is quite entertaining.

I'm on "Cropped!" Melisa's CHA Diary - Episode 6

My lovely friend (and neighbor) Melisa Sanchez hosts an online scrapbooking video series titled "Cropped!" and came to the Glitz Design booth during CHA and interviewed me about my new line, Rebel. I am SOOOOOO EXCITED, and wanted to share it with you!

The video starts with Melisa checking out beautiful designs and projects in the Tattered Angels booth, and then my interview begins at the 1:14 minute mark. We had a lot of fun, and she even invited me to join her on another "Cropped!" episode to make a super cool project using papers and embellishments from the Rebel line. I'm not sure what the project will be quite yet, or even when we will shoot the episode, but I do know this....I can't wait!

Extreme Makeover: Blog Edition

"MOVE THAT MOUSE!"
"MOVE THAT MOUSE!"
"MOVE THAT MOUSE!"

Oh my GAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! (throwing my hands in the air)
My BLOG!!!
My BEAUTIFUL BLOG!!!

As you can see I gave my blog an EXTREME MAKEOVER, and I'm totally in love with it.

On another note, I am SO excited for this weekend. Not because it will be Valentine's Day or President's Day - but because our SUPER AWESOME friends Jessica and Peter, and Steph and Jason are coming to visit!!! They all used to live here (except Jason, but we forgive him) and when they moved away it was a MAJOR loss for us. We don't get to see them NEARLY as much as we want, but we are SO grateful for ANY time we get together. Seriously, these people are some of my VERY VERY VERY FAVORITE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD! Okay. I will stop gushing now. I just wanted to share.