paper passion and pixel mania

some pictures
FINALLY

today is a triple... no wait, quadruple day for celebration!
first... we finally have internet at our new house. i can't believe it's been over a month.
second... after a ton of hard work our new house is cleared of boxes. (not that there aren't some boxes stuffed in closets, but everything that needs to be unpacked for now is unpacked!) yahoo.
third... my fantastically wonderful husband built me some tables for my scrapbook room, and i was able to unpack my room yesterday. (it's been a month since i've been able to do any scrapping, too! yikes!)
and fourth... my hubby and i dug a 100ft ditch (with the help of a ditch witch, but not without some work with the pick ax and ditch shovel) to lay conduit for the electrician... we have a functional new hot tub! so we can soak our aching muscles from digging ditches, hauling boxes and general moving aches and pains! :)

and now for the pictures... laura sent me a link to a video of pictures she made from cha... and the others are a mix of pics from my camera, and other floating cameras during cha chicago. :)

cha on first approach...

it takes some real muscle to set up the glitz booth... good thing patrick (laura's husband, and the awesome designer of all of the woodwork on the glitz booth) had me there to help...

so you wanna know a little (ok, for me it was really big) secret i've been keeping?
i had a product release at the glitz booth at cha! it is a digital template cd. with 50 layered digital templates, 2 calendar templates and a digi kit! holy cow... will somebody pinch me... because it still doesn't feel real!

setting up the glitz booth

the very fabulous renee pearson - digital scrapbooking extrodinaire & author of my favorite how to book on digital scrapbooking - falling prey to a couple of weird-o pranksters

renee, the glitz girls & me

isn't that the coolest table you've ever seen? another one of patrick's creations.

laura, me and erin on cha opening day

the very sweet lori fairbanks from creating keepsakes. it's so fun to meet people irl (in real life) after loads of emails... she's even cooler irl!

it is against some code somewhere, i'm sure, to go to chicago and not eat a real chicago hot dog. i'm just doing my part to comply! and if anyone knows where you can buy the jars of those peppers they put on those hot dogs... i'd be in your debt.

the yummy chicago hot dog vendor

finally getting a chance to talk to my sweet baby girls

the rubber stamping queen of collage suze weinberg

and my favorite southern flavor... my soy 07 buddy gretchen mcelveen

another cool irl meeting of an internet friend... latrice murphy...
yah, i'm regular sized... she's just a giant ::wink::

liz hicks, latrice & me... ckmb friends

some of the very fun girls from the hybrid class i taught at cha & their friends. :)

and just in case you haven't seen enough pics... here's a slide show with even more! :)

Glitz Design CHA Summer 2008 Chicago! from Glitz Design on Vimeo.