Looks what new an exciting!!!!!

So we have some exciting news for everyone!!!!!! Are u ready????

Welcome Melissa aka MeeM's to the embellished memories design team!!!! We cannot wait to see all of your beautiful creations this year with us!!! so.....

Your design team for 2011 is

Tammy O

Ronnie H

Mel G

Melissa R

and kicking in inspiration here and there will be Edith H

Back by much popular demand......Monthly kits.....yes u heard rite Kits!!!! Page kits with design team inspiration!!! The release of these kits will the 15th of the month ....keep your eyes peel'd for Feb's coming soon!!!!

Next...

There are 5 NEW page kits in the store....

Sweet little one,

sew what,

too much fun

& celebrate... and one perfect layout for valentines day!!!!

2 from Mel, & 3 from Kari...

And last but not least

watch for card kits coming soon

Have a great weekend everyone...drop by the store and say hello...I'll be working on Saturday !!!

Freshly restocked Tim Holtz product now in the store!!!!

~tam~

good monday morning!!!!!!

Hope that u all had a wonderful weekend!!!! We had 2 birthday parties here for Az, she turned 12 on Friday...where does the time go??? I cant remember life with out them!!!!

Here is your prompt:

#4 How do you accessorize?

With my job as a massage therapist, I cant really wear any jewellery, especially anything on my hands and wrists. Im not really a bling bling girl anyway. At the moment I cant even find my wedding rings....I tucked them away to well...I know that I will find them when I'm not looking for them!!
When I get dressed up to go somewhere my girls like to help me accessorize, usually a necklace and some earrings, and sometimes a bracelet.
I always have my nose ring, and my 2nd holes in my ears with earrings...but usually all ya get!!!!!

Have a great week everyone, chat soon.

~tam~

Good Morning!!!!

hey everyone!!! looks like the weather is gonna get better this week...yeahhhhhh!!!

So we have some exciting things coming up with the design team..watch for news soon!!!!

is there anyone out there following the journal entries??? Give me some feed back... let me know what ya think, or what your responses are....

#3 Do you have any regrets???

Everyday, I try to look back over my day and see if there is anything that needs to be "fixed".If there is i try to get it back to normal with in 24 hours, if i don't, i wont sleep at nite. I usually dream about it, the situation or the person. I like to have balance in my life.
I try to not let things linger so that i dont regret letting something go.
There is ONE thing i do regret, that is...... trying that first cigarette, knowing that i have an addictive personality!!! But this year will the year for better health for myself. I do have a plan to quit, and have a good friend in place to help me to make that happen!!!!( or ill be running naked in the coulee's this summer..lol)
Other than that, rite now i have no other regrets, and hope that i can go thru the rest of my life with none.


“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.” Mercedes Lackey

I hope that you have a wonderful day, with no regrets!!!!!!

~tam~

Wontcha take a picture for me?

Feel like being inspired today? Go grab your camera, and take a picture from or of your back door. I know it's cold out, but suck it up princess, it'll only take a minute.

I've got some amazing frost patterns on the windows of my back door, and instead of worrying about how I should really fix that, I'm enjoying taking pictures of it. The windows look quite pretty really. I'm amazed by the amount of snow we have, even though I shouldn't, cause it is, after all, January. If we had this much snow in say, August, then I'd really have a right to be upset.

So go grab your camera right now, and go take that picture. Don't worry, I'll wait here for you.
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Oh good! You're back! How was it? Did you actually go outside?? Yah, I don't blame you.

So now you got this picture, what are you going to do with it?? If you're a scrapper, scrap it! Title ideas? "The view from my door" "Winter Wonderland" "Gag, I hate winter" "Gotta get some better insulation for the door" ...are some ideas that come to my mind.

If you're not a scrapbooker, hang on to that photo, get it printed, and start an album titled, "Random pictures Ronni talked me into taking", cause, you know, I am going to ask you take random photos again this year. Probably eleven more times. If you're scrapping this, you could make up a whole scrappy album dedicated to this too.

Btw, here's the photo of my back door, enjoy your Saturday, see you again soon!
~RonniH.

Art journal idea:

hey everyone...just wanted to show you how i'm doing my journal for the art journal...now remember all it takes is really a pen and paper, you dont need anything fancy....

speaking of fancy....i started with the "fancypants" note book.
sorry for the poor quality photo's poor lighting tonite:(





Then i took the 12x 12 pages and cut them in half, rigth in the book so that i would have almost enuff pages to do my whole year...i will have to add 4 half pages later on...and i will show u process as i go.

I used alot of my sticker letters to do the titles of my prompts, and just hand journalled the answer to the prompt....(the reason u see a purple ruler on the bottom half of the page is to hide one of the next prompts...I wont show all my pages but i will throw a few up here and there.
Please feel free to put your answers in the comment section and share with us..we love to hear feed back.

Thanks for looking!!!

~tam~

Journal Prompt #2

hey everyone....isnt this just lovely weather we are having!!!!!! grrr bring on the sun!!!

Here is your prompt for this week, its a little deeper than last weeks, its something to think about:

Describe your faith:

I was baptised Catholic when i was 12 yrs old, I really love celebrating the Mass, I find it very beautiful. I believe that God created the earth and every thing on it. I believe that He sent his only Son to die for our sins.

I try to pray daily, and not just when i "need" something. My morning prayer is ...
God thank you for today, please help me to be a better person today. Bless my thoughts , words and actions, that I may be more like your son, Jesus. Bless my family and friends as they go thru their day, please take care of them.....Amen

I want to have a closer relationship with God and know that all i have to do is open my heart to HIM!!!


I hope these prompt are helping you to do dome deeper and meaningful journalling..have a great day!!!!

~tam~

It's that time AGAIN!

March 4th, 5th & 6th... we are having our 4th Anniversary Croptacular! It should be a great time... as always. Over 30 hours of croppin, light refreshments, goodies, draws, tons of laughs that you won't want to miss! Space is limited... & first come, first for our special seats downstairs! OHHHHH, what will we have planned for you this time??? Surprise, surprise of course... Come in & sign up today, you won't want to miss it!

Happy New Year....

WOW ...did u guys see the post below by Ronnie??? absolutely awesome....U must admit we do have an awesome design team and staff here at Embellished!!!! There is so much talent here!!!

So with the start to a new year, I have some new things to tell you...things will be a little different this year, but I do believe that u will all be very surprised and very happy!!!!

This year my commitment to the blog will be done through an Art Journal...I hear so many people say that they never journal on their layouts, well pics can tell most of the story, but journaling will tell the emotion...

Every week i will put up a prompt on what you are journal about and I will put my response, sometimes it maybe raw emotion, and just the truth (unless it is very personal then I will just let u know what I wrote about)...So get yourself a book u can write in, keep this and don't be afraid to use some of this journaling on your layouts.
Also feel free to post your reply back to us, we so love it when u share with us here on the blog!!!
so on with the show.... I hope that you enjoy the year of journaling!!!!

#1) WHAT'S BUGGIN' YA???

What's bugging me today?.... Is how crankified my children are!!! they did not get enough sleep last night...Little do they know they are headed to bed early :)
Another thing buggin me ...THIS SNOW!!! People become so stupid, when the snow flies, it's like their brains go south for the winter!!! We become moody, tired and forget how to drive, grrr it just pi$$es me off...That's whats bugging me today!!!!

~tam~