Here is a sneak peek of another class I will be teaching at Lasting Memories. This “Family” class is full of techniques that can be incorporated into future projects and layouts. You can either hang your “Family” banner or you can set it on a table as a mini album. How you decided to display it is up to you. Either way, people are going to love looking at it.

Okay I am off to work on my layout classes. Sneak peeks will be coming soon.

Have a great day,
Lisa

Really has its perks! I am so excited I can hardly contain myself. When I was one month shy of turning 6 years old I received the best doll ever for Christmas!!! Her name was Sketchy. I loved this doll so much. I remember playing with her and being so excited about the pictures she and I created. Mom and I cannot figure out what happened to her as Mom is not the type to give away a prized possession so we figure she must have gotten misplaced during a move. Over the years I have searched for her on eBay hoping to find one in good condition. Sometimes I would get lucky and find a nice looking Sketchy doll but no easel. Or I would find one but she was in very poor condition. She looked loved but not loved by me.

Well a few weeks ago I did another search and BAM there is a Sketchy Doll still in the original box. I told Dad a.k.a Santa I could not believe I found her and he bid on her. We missed out on that one BUT I did another search the very same day and BAM there is ANOTHER Sketchy Doll listed in even better condition. I could not believe it and was thinking what are the odds of this happening? So, Dad bid on her and just a few minutes ago I became the proud owner once again of Sketchy!

I cannot believe I will have this doll. I plan on putting her up in my scraproom to look at everyday. She brings back some of my fondest childhood memories. I plan on creating a mini album of my journey with Sketchy. It took 39 years to complete this journey but it was so worth the wait.

Below are some photos of me getting ready to open my Sketchy Doll on Christmas Eve and holding my Sketchy Doll Christmas Day. Yep it was 1970… the clothes and decor crack me up.

“Notice my brother Richard wearing his cowboy attire and his Dallas Cowboys football helmet.”

This is on the way to my house.

My sweet friend Stephanie… I think sweet friend I’m not sure after tagging me but since I can’t not come through here goes.

Here are the rules…

Link to your tagger and post these 3 rules on your blog.

• Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
• Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
• Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I still jump into bed with the fear that someone will grab my feet. My brother had something to do with this issue.
2. I have to bring a diet coke with me whenever I go anyplace in my car.
3. My favorite movie is “A Scent of a Woman” I loved it when Al Pacino said “Out of order, I show you out of order. You don’t know what out of order is, Mr. Trask. I’d show you, but I’m too old, I’m too tired, I’m too f****’ blind. If I were the man I was five years ago, I’d take a FLAMETHROWER to this place! Out of order? Who the h*** do you think you’re talkin’ to? I’ve been around, you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen. Boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn’t nothin’ like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that. You think you’re merely sending this splendid foot soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs, but I say you are… executin’ his soul! And why? Because he’s not a Bairdman. Bairdmen. You hurt this boy, you’re gonna be Baird bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, F*** YOU TOO!” and this quote too “Now I have come to the cross-roads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew, but I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard. Now here’s Charlie. He’s come to the cross-roads. He has chosen a path. It’s the right path. It’s a path made of principle that leads to character. Let him continue on his journey.” Gosh I love this movie!
4. I trained my golden retriever Sonny in the field to retrieve birds and put two field titles on him.
5. I never take our Christmas tree down until sometime in March… yep it is still up. CHA comes first.
6. My favorite flower is a Peony
7. My Dad is Santa Claus so you better not let me find out you have been bad cause I can go straight to the source.

Andrea Wiebe

Debbie Harmer

Katie Watson

Sandy Wiley

Shelley Haganman

Suzy Plantamura

Wendy Vecchi

Okay I have passed the torch onto you 7!