{ Throwing My Arms Around Paris... }

That's right... if you haven't heard - Bert and I are going to Paris!!! So excited.



My sister Janette is going to love this one... back to the old days with Carolyn, Sean and his brother!

{ A few layouts }

Just a few layouts. The one below I created especially in application for the design team at Lotus Paperie.

My girl at 16.


A favourite day out at Pt. Roberts, Washington with Bert and the boys.

Took a great road trip to Dawson City with my girls this past summer.

Want a FREE Photo Session for Your Baby, Children, Pet?

As per my previous post, I’ve decided to live a more creative life in the next year and am learning so much with my photography that I want to expand on it a bit. I will be starting a new lifestyle portrait photography business.

There is a place and a time for "studio" photography, but I will never ask your kids to say "cheese". And I prefer to use natural light. I want to capture the essence of who your family truly is and the relationship between everyone.

To begin my portfolio I’m going to offer a couple of free sessions, and in return I would be able to use those images as start up advertising for print marketing and on my website.

A session is valued at $150 and will be up to 2 hours duration on location (or several locations possibly). You will receive a CD with your post-processed images (color popping, B&W conversion, skin softening, etc.) That way, we both share the copyright and you can choose to have your photos printed where you want.

I will be doing the following free sessions:
Maternity – 2 sessions
Newborn – 2 sessions
Babies – 2 sessions
Children – 2 sessions
Teens – 2 sessions
Family – 2 sessions
Pets – 1 session

If you are interested in applying for one of these free sessions and don’t mind being a “model” please contact me at celticdawn65@hotmail.com or you can call me at 867-633-5771.

And happy holidays...

Living a More Creative Life

So this year I've made a commitment to live a more creative life, to focus on the craft that I love so much, to make time for creativity every day. To expand on my photography skills daily. So looking forward to it!

Scrapbook Supply "Garage Sale"

It's time to clean it all out again! I have WAY TOO MUCH STUFF and am trying to pare down so I will be hosting another "Scrapbook Supply Garage Sale" (similar to what I did two years ago.)

I have American Crafts linen albums (3 dark pink D-Ring, 1 green / 1 sky blue / 1 brown Post-bound), cardstock, TONS of patterned paper, embellishments, books, stamp sets, ink, organizational units, you name it!

It starts at 9AM and starting at NOON verything will be reduced by 10%, and every 1/2-hour after until it at 4PM it will be 90% off. Anything left at 5PM will be donated to my daughters school or the Teen Parent Centre.

So COME EARLY to get the GOOD STUFF!

Saturday - Nov. 8th 9AM to 5PM
101A Wilson Drive
Call 633-5771 if you need more info.

Hope to see you there!

{ Altered Magazine Files... }

So I was feeling inspired a few weeks ago as I was rearranging stuff for work and looking for a new way to store reports. I decided to move them into my current magazine folders from IKEA and bought some plain white magazine files from Staples.

I chose some coordinating pattern paper and Mod Podge'd it onto the files, then painted the edges with the same blue acrylic paint to tie it all together.

I was looking for some 1" metal grommets for the holes, but those are extremely hard to find! I ended up ordering some from a sewing notions place, but they were a 2-piece plastic job and just wouldn't work. I ended up using some humongous washers from Canadian Tire and just glued them on with Diamond Glaze. The center opening was just the perfect size and adds a nice "industrial feel" to them I think.


The titles are on with business card holders that Judy at Yukon Office Supply was kind enough to order them for me. I heard about them from Aby Garvey at Simplify 101 - they are great for labeling the ends of storage boxes in the closet to recycling bins, and lots of other stuff.

I used a Rhonna Farrer brush from a free digital kit I got at Two Peas in a Bucket for the title block and the font is Bleeding Cowboys (downloaded from the internet). I'm loving this font right now!

I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. A nice addition to my scrap space. And in my fave colour combination too.

{ Proof that a good time was had by all... }

Yes - that's a Herma Tab stuck to my sock! I was sorting through my laundry from last weekend and found this. (For those of you who don't live in the scrapbooking world, a Herma Tab is a double sided sticky-tape square used for scrapbooking, hee, hee...)

We had a fantastic time at our annual scrapbook retreat out at Sundog. Cheryl makes arrangements with Heather and Andrew to have a great little cabin that we stay in every year called "Panorama".

There is just enough room for four of us to have our Canadian Tire fold-out tables and we each bring a light and are responsible for a couple of meals... oh yeah... and the wine, etc.! And CHOCOLATE!

I had to miss it last year because of work but this is the 4th year we've done it. We have the core group of the four of us that usually go, but we had two other gals join us this year - thanks Loretta and Vanessa for stepping in for our two regulars who couldn't make it!

Lots of old projects finished off and was very inspired by the other gals and got a few pages completed even!

And Saturday was a lovely day to take some photos.

{ Crazy Week... }

Well, the van was sold before I left on a business trip. Lady wanted to rip the keys out of my hands and gave me cash right there. I set her straight and made her go get insurance and plates first. I rented a car for the rest of that week.

I left last Monday for Fort Simpson and Yellowknife, NWT for work. Good meetings, always love meeting the people and seeing the sights.

New car should be here late this week, or early next - can't wait! Carcare Nissan was kind enough to give me a loaner for this week. Those guys are great! I must admit I've always been a Nissan kinda girl and have missed it when I haven't owned one. New car is a 2009 Nissan Versa Hatchback in metallic navy blue with CVT transmission, Sport and Technology package (Woo, hoo! Bluetooth and XM Satellite radio!) Can you say "LOADED"? So excited.

Haven't had a chance to update the blog re: our "family" trip to Alaska in August. Was good... Bert and I, four kids again, and his parents. They are FANTASTIC - love those folks.

I leave you with a picture of us all from the trip... Cheers.