And here is my take on it:
I am so, so in love with my Studio Calico mists right now (Calico White and Calico Shine)...I want to use them on everything!
I loved the patchwork-like aspect of the piece, so I tried to incorporate that into my layout. And, as you know, I love me some color, so I jumped on the opportunity to incorporate a rainbow. :o)
I also jumped on the trendy chevron bandwagon AGAIN. My chevrons turned out a little messy, but I kinda like it.
Layout: Patterned Paper: Authentique; Alphas, Paper Leaves: American Crafts; Flowers: Prima, Making Memories, Recollections; Bling: Recollections; Tag: Pebbles; Ticket, November tag: Maya Road; Mist: Studio Calico
Don't you love that photo? When E's sister got engaged, her fiance hired a professional photographer to come take photos (he was hiding in the bushes while he proposed)...such a neat idea! After the proposal, the photographer took some family shots and a lot of great ones of Laura and her new fiance, Aaron. I do not know the photographer's name, so unfortunately, I am unable to give him credit at this time. If I find out, though, I will definitely update! 
This is my future sister-in-law and I. We're showing off our "bling" on the day she got engaged. We will actually be getting married only a few weeks apart later this year. Yay! :o)
Layout: Cardstock: Bazzill; Mist: Studio Calico; Alphas: Basic Grey; "Today" card: Ormolu; Flower: Prima; Twine: We R Memory Keepers; Button: Making Memories; Clothes pin: Pebbles
Thanks for dropping by..have a lovely work week!
This was at our second port call, St. Thomas. The first picture is a self-shot with our boat in the background. The second picture is us messing around in the gift shop later that night.
It was "semi-formal night" on the boat...so we dressed up and wore our semi-formal Santa hats!DAY 23:
This was at our last port call of the cruise. We ran a 5k that day. It was my idea...and it was sort of a dumb one. After almost a week of eating A LOT and not exercising AT ALL, the 5k was a little rough.
We got off the boat that morning and went back to E's parents' house. I always love going there for many reasons, but also because I really love seeing Chester, their adorable doggy. Can't wait until E and I can get a dog of our own!
We flew back to Cali on X-mas morning, ate enchiladas for lunch, opened presents, and left the mess until the next day :o)
This was at a Disney "character breakfast." The waiters and waitresses made fun "napkin hats" for everyone to wear.
We took family portraits along the cruise ship's stairs...I love the results.
This is my favorite page so far! On this day, E's sister, Laura, got engaged on the beaches of St Maarten in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was so beautiful and her fiance was nice enough to let us hang around and take pictures of the whole thing. I think these pictures of the event are awesome!
Loved Sassafras' Paper Crush collection:
Loved those Glitz rub ons:
I made this for my guest design stint at Creative Scrappers:
I loved Studio Calico's Metropolitan kit more than any other. This was the first SC kit I ever bought and it is still my fave:
Such a weird combo of colors here, but I was pushed into it with one of Crate Paper's color challenges:
On this one, I was trying to clear out some of my brad stash...I think it worked:
One of the first layouts that really illustrates my new style:
This one features pictures from Catalina Island. And includes Merv, the seagull. E loved Merv, therefore E loves this layout:
Thanks so much for hanging in here until the end. I hope that you have a happy New Year. I'll see you in 2012!
This is my Pinterest board that is full of fun gift wrapping ideas. All the packages looked so pretty...too bad I didn't use any of the ideas this year. Maybe next year?
This day I left to fly to Orlando to meet E and his parents for a 7-day cruise. I look frantic in the picture, because, well...I was :o)
This is the day we boarded our cruise..fun times ahead!
These are E's and my Christmas lists. Thank goodness for Pinterest. I made my list on that site and he was able to quickly click on the picture and get to exactly what I wanted!
Ha! I know these pictures look somewhat ridiculous. I ordered Eric one of those really nice memory foam pillows, and for some crazy reason, it shipped in the world's biggest box. I really had to ham it up and capture it on film. :o)
I decided that one ugly faux tree was just not enough, so I added a second "birthday" tree for Eric. His birthday is in January, but I do birthday/Christmas shopping simultaneously. I'm still playing around with the idea of decorating it.
Enjoy the holidays...I'm taking a bit of a bloggy break to enjoy the season and spend time with family and friends...when I come back, you'll get to see all my December Daily goodness :)
I bought some gifts to wrap, box up and mail to my parents and my grandmother.
I made this wreath 2 years ago, for my first Christmas in Cali. I still like it, but I probably need to stop being lazy and make a new one next year :o)
The left side shows the stack of Christmas cards that I wrote to be mailed out. The right side is my actual Christmas card this year. I love the sequins and glitter floating around inside the tree!
It wouldn't be December without a Peppermint Chocolcate Chip milkshake from Chick-Fil-A! Granted, there are an INSANE number of calories in one of these delicious yummies, but as a Friday treat, I think it's okay...
This is our Christmas tree this year. It may look a little sad in this picture, but it doesn't look so sad in real life. E isn't here to help me put up the big one, and I didn't think I would be able to do it by myself, so I just decorated the faux tree that sits in the corner of the living room.
Today the stockings are up and ready to be filled. I ♥ Christmas stockings. It's one of my favorite traditions...not so much getting my own, but I love buying little goodies to put in everyone else's!
I kept this layout super simple and I'm pretty happy with it. I hope you can play along with us this month!
Here we are making sad faces because we are leaving Vegas. Unfortunately, this is the only picture I had from this day...and I look like a little boy. Oh well... But E makes an incredibly cute puppy dog face, does he not? In addition to the picture, I also put our hotel room keys in the little pocket.
So, I said it was cold here. This was a screenshot taken at about 945 in the morning. I do not think that it came even close to the 66 degree high that it predicted. And I know that 42 degrees is not cold at all compared to some places, but for Southern California, that is super chilly :-)
We were in Vegas this day, so I included a picture of us during the day and at night. I also included part of the ticket from the show we went to see that night.
Another day spent in Vegas. We did a lot of fun things that day, so I included a lot of pictures on this page.
Yesterday was our last full day in Vegas. I included a series of silly photos we took that had the Vegas Strip as our backdrop. I also included the ticket from a Cirque de Soleil show we saw last night.
