My Annual Girlfriend Valentine Party 2012

For the past few years, I have a Girlfriend Valentine Party. Each gal brings a Valentine Box, Valentines to give and a treat to share. It is such great fun to see all of the creative things that my "Gal-intines" put together for the party!

This year we had trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for "Best Valentine Box", "Best Valentines" and "Best Valentine Attire". Each year we change it up a bit...

I only got photos of about a third of my fabulous friends as I am always too busy jabbering away. I am so sorry to have left some people out of these pages, but if they will email or post their photos on facebook, I will make some more! I hope that you have a wonderful Valentines Day. XOXOXOXOXOXOX

Halloween Decor 2011

Smith Spooktacular 2011

Thanks everyone for making each Smith Spooktacular better than the last!!!!!!
Check out the paint job on the Shave Ice trailer that I did on my Kelley Smith Art blog!

Girlfriend Valentine Party!

My photos are not the best, but the party was a HUGE success! I will insert better photos as I receive them. Thank you all for coming and being such good sports! It amazes me how talented and fun all of my friends are. Happy Valentines Day!

I recently joined this "IronCraft" blog roll. Each week there is a different arts and craft challenge. I thought it would give my creative juices a workout. This week's challenge is called "Just Bunt". I made this Banner Bunting with all $1 scrapbooking items from Target a while back. (The bunting that I am working on now is not ready for this weeks challenge, but hey, I just joined this group a couple of days ago. I am VERY excited for the challenges.)

Anyway, I just love that Valentines Day is 6 weeks after Christmas, it is a drag to have all those fun decorations up and then nothing, so yeah for Valentine Decor! Red and Pink surroundings await!

Digital Scrapbooking...

I used my MemoryMixer program to make these pages of the Glamchildren chowing down on their hot dogs. I have all these cute embellishments to use but always end up keeping my pages kind of simple. I still think scrapbooking with paper is faster, but that is probably because I am still somewhat inept using the computer. In the mean time, I will "Keep Moving Forward" and try to concentrate, have confidence and use a little courage to become a champion at digital scrapbooking!

Stay-cation Day...

Today the girls and glamchildren came over. Some caught up with scrap booking,

Some swam...

Some made bean bags.
and some made art.

and we all had a good time. I like stay-cations!

Grandparents Day at Nash's School

I had a fabulous time during Grandparent's Day at my Glamson Nash's school on Wednesday. He wrote me a darling letter and we made crafts. During the "boring time" Nash perfected his many different facial expressions to reflect his many moods. That boy is Hilarious! Yeah Nash!