Missing my Mom...

...I miss her everyday but today is the 4th anniversary of her death. I'm not going to be sad. She would not have wanted that. Going to have a fun day!

I haven't done any scrapbook layouts of my Mom in a while but here are a few from the vault:

 

 

 

Have a fun Friday.
Call your Mom.

Love to you,
~L

Can't wait for this...

I love Sheryl Crow. Always have. She is doing a benefit concert on MLB.com to raise money for Stand Up for Cancer.

Read more here.

Happiness

I just got these quotes about happiness in my inbox and I just have to share them with you. Love them!!

“I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.” -- J. Kenfield Morley

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." -- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." -- Helen Keller

"You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy." -- Lydia M. Child

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I love this quote...

 

I decorate my house with my layouts. They are in frames on the wall and on easels. I like to be able to look at them and share them with others without obnoxiously pulling out all of my albums! Well, for months I've been looking at the layouts around the house and thinking I really need to update them. This one is a start! It has the colors of my house so I think it would look great. I love the quote and I try to live it. We all should!

Have a great Wednesday, my friends!

Love,
~L

Lipgloss!

Because it's fun and girly and we love it!

 

Oh, and Stacey...
I even busted out the Shimmerz today! Yeah!

Kiss kiss!
xo,
~L

Two days in a row??

I got to do a little creating last night while watching the Red Sox lose! Bummer. Oh well, I was happy to be creating again! I found these totally cool digital frames called Thrift-Store Chic Picture Frames Deux
By Kitschy Digitals at 2 Peas. Aren't they fabulous? I've been playing around with them lots lately. This layout just cracks me up. My girlfriend Denise is the one person who just might be as obsessed with lipgloss as I am so I created this layout to make us laugh! I changed the quote a bit, LoL!

 

Speaking of lipgloss...

Here are a few that Denise and I have been digging from Sephora lately:

Smashbox
Hourglass
Guerlain KissKiss Gloss

and of course my fave:

Buxom Lips!

♥♥♥
~L

Surfer Dude...

Big SHOCKER...
I scrapbooked for the first time in four months! I made myself a yummy mojito last night and sat down in my scrap room. At first I did not even know where to begin. Denise sent me this picture of her son Daniel at the beach so I printed it and the mojo started flowing! I'm so excited to get creative again.

 

Hope you all had an enjoyable Fourth of July weekend. Mine was quiet and relaxing. This was the first time in years we weren't in Washington for the Fourth. I really missed our friends that we see every Fourth. Next year!

so lucky...

So, it's been a while since I've created anything. It's also been a long time since I've opened up mail to find a publication that my creations are in. Today I received a copy of Paper Crafts Card Creations Vol 7 and my So Lucky card is in it! It's my first time in Paper Crafts Magazine so I'm excited. I am so feeling the itch to create and get back to digging into all of these fabulous papers and supplies. Denise brought me some cool new scrapbooking stuff from AZ so I think I may just have to pull out the old Glue Dots this week!

 

~L

Deuce!!

Yes, Friday was my wedding anniversary but we put off our celebration a few days because my BFF, Denise aka Deuce came to town! It was a lovely, fun, relaxing, perfect weekend! Way too short.

 

 

 

 

Love you, Deuce. Come back soon!!

Sweet 16...

 

Today is our 16th wedding anniversary! Wow, that's a loooong time!

Here are a few of my favorite quotes about marriage:

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~Doug Larson

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. ~Robert Anderson

And my favorite:

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ~James C. Dobson

tgif!
♥♥♥
Lori

Life's tiny delights...

Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer. Don't fret about copping life's grand awards. Enjoy its tiny delights. There are plenty for all of us.


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But Very Much Appreciated!

Happy Father's Day to Special K!

Here is one of my favorite Dad quotes:


Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.
- Unknown (but very much appreciated)