An excellent question

My husband keeps telling me that I need to post something here on my blog, but I don't really understand what his issue is since he represents approximately half of my readership and he is already fully aware of the boring mundane events of my life. Nonetheless, it has been a sweet forever since I have blogged, so here is an Annamarie anecdote that Ron thought might amuse the internet.

Annamarie and I were lying on my bed watching the American Idol finale when the Black Eyed Peas appeared to perform the oddly catchy Boom Boom Pow, backed up by some zebra robots or futuristic convicts of some sort. Not surprisingly, what really caught Annamarie's attention was Fergie's bizarro fingernails.

"Are they fake?" she asked. "Stick ons? How long ARE they?" And most importantly, "How can she open cheese sticks?"

When my friend Sandy left to spend three months in New Zealand, I told myself that I was going to do one scrap-related thing every day while she was gone. Clearly I misunderstood myself, and I did approximately one layout the whole time she was gone. The scrapping fire seems to be rekindled in me now, and I've created a bunch of layouts in the past week, including these: