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Digital Scrapbooking Magazine...Sneak Peak

Well just a reminder that time is running out to get an entire year of the all new Digital Scrapbooking magazine for a mere $11.99 Do NOT miss this opportunity!!!  You can't beat that deal!  All you have to do is go to the website and sign up!  Not only will you get a full year of this incredible magazine but you will get to see moi and you don't want to be scrambling to get a copy and see my pages do you???  Haa haaa....lol!  Anyway there is also a sneak preview on the Simple Scrapbooks Magazine website which you can see right here take a peak and what the mag is going to be all about!  It's soooo damn exciting!!!!!!!!!!!

bisous!

Cupcakes!!!!!!!!!!!

I have so many pictures to share since I have taken such a long break from the blog.  Plus I went to France and all.  So here are some pics for your viewing pleasure! 

These are Gingerbread cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting and crystallized ginger on top from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World! from the amazing Isa Chandra Moskowitz These little babies actually won top prize at a work bake off!!  Did you hear that???  The Vegan baking WON!!!!!!!!!!  [insert evil laugh here] These are seriously AMAZING!!!!!  YUMMMMM!!!

These are the fellow prize winners, Cookies and Cream Cupcakes with orange frosting (for Halloween at the time) and orange Oreo cookies which are Vegan by the way.  Not really healthy but every once in a while OK.  YUMMMM!!!!  Sooo much fun, another recipe from VCTOTW.  I LOVE that book so freaking much!!!!  It does not disappoint!

So you are probably thinking to yourself, where are the pictures from France lady??  Well I'm still sorting through all of them, there are a ton of them but here are a couple to share.

This is me hiking in the Sauternes Sweet Wine region, it was soooo amazingly beautiful...and muddy...really muddy...

This is a picture of me taking a picture on the same hike, there was this amazing and strange bridge we had to climb over to get to and from the trail.  The contraption is a now-defunct mechanism that used to raise and lower a dam wall. 

We spent half a day in St-Émilion, Bordeaux's most famous wine town. Where we of course did some wine tasting.  Here we are having lunch at a pizzeria, that was actually built into the basement of a large medieval tower. Jenn, Jessica and I are right underneath what used to be an old chimney carved up into the rock. 

And here I am sooooo happy and excited because I found some Vegan Margarine...in France...YAY!!!  Perfect for the roasted vegetables I was about to make for dinner!  Rock on VEGANS!!!!

Back to the Blog day 2...

Thanks to everyone for stopping by, and sending me messages :)  I can't believe I neglected my poor little blog for so long!  It's good to be back! 

Well I made the announcement in August that I was chosen and asked to be a part of the Creative Board for the all new Digital Scrapbooking Magazine which is a new bi-monthly magazine launching via the awesome team at Simple Scrapbooks Magazine.  I will keep you all abreast of the developments, the website is due to "officially" launch the end of the month, so stay tuned.  That will be really amazing and you will get to see my picture and layouts on the website along with all my fellow Board members.  The first issue should hit newsstands in February, I believe but stay tuned to this blog and the website for more details on that.  I have a couple pages showing up in that first issue and am working on another project for the second issue.  I really can not accurately explain how exciting this is and what an amazing opportunity it is for me.  I've been working away and everything is really starting to get rolling which is even more exciting.  Be sure to check out Molly Newman's Blog (associate editor) on the Digital Scrapbooking Magazine site as well for more information and updates.

Now you know all about that.  I probably won't have a chance to post again until after the weekend as I have a project to finish and work and a million photos to organize from my trip and hopefully start playing with.  I'm really happy it is a 3 day weekend, I can use an extra day to catch up, relax (at least try) and do some laundry!!!  It's a serious situation, I haven't even unpacked really, my bag is just sitting there, taunting me.  I also need to clean and organize my room which is always fun.  You see I moved from a 2 bedroom apartment in Oakland to a 3 bedroom apartment in which I inhabit the smallest room.  I have downsized, sold furniture, given some things to my parents but it's still a tight squeeze.  It does feel good not to have soooo much freaking "stuff".  It was cleansing, but I haven't quite gotten my room completely together and organized yet so also a project for this weekend.  Sounds like so much fun doesn't it?  There is something quite relaxing and therapeutic about cleaning and re-organizing, as sick as that sounds!  Oh well, it's worth it to live in S.F. and my apartment is great and my roommates rock, I couldn't ask for better roomies!  That's all for now, more to come as promised.

Ciao!

Where have I been????

Well.... I just returned from a European excursion, France, Spain and Switzerland in a whirlwind 15 days!  Whew am I ever tired!  Before that I was taking a blogging break, just too much going on in my life.  I moved from Oakland to SF, changed jobs, and then all of a sudden it was the holidays and time for my trip!  I apologize for leaving my readers hanging (all five of you) lol, hi mom ;) I'm back for 2007 with so much news!  I'll break it up though, not going to try to squeeze it all in to one post. 

First up I returned from my first real vacation in probably 5 years to an awesome little surprise...

A message from the ladies at Dishin' the Digi Coast 2 Coast radio show on DiScTalkRadio. 

Congrats! You've been spotlighted on the Dishin' the Digi- Coast 2 Coast show on DiScTalkRadio. The show will run from 01/09 - 01/15

Here is the link http://www.disctalkradio.com It is free to sign up!  If you want to listen to the show just register (again it's free) and go to listen now afterward to listen to the most recent show.  You will see a list of links (mine is at the top)  to featured layouts/artists/products that will be discussed on the show, in order of show appearance.  I listened to the show last night and it was great!!!  I loved it!  This will be really interesting to those who both know all about digi scrapbooking and those of you who just know I do it ;)  Anyway it was extremely flattering and a really lovely welcome home surprise!!!  Thanks ladies!!!!!!!!!!!  Please go check it out and think about subscribing, there is an amazing kit involved!!! 

I don't have any pictures from France to share yet, stay tuned those will be coming early next week maybe the end of this week, I'm swamped at work and have some freelance projects to complete this week (YAY!).  I will have a post tomorrow though to talk a little about the new Digital Scrapbooking Magazine my part as a Creative Board Member and basically how freaking awesome this magazine is going to be.  The website will fully launch VERY soon but don't miss out sign up for your subscription to this mag NOW!!  I'm sooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since I have no pics to share from France yet, here is one I just received from a friend yesterday of me and friends (obviously) at the Travelocity Holiday Party right before the holidays.  I have to share because it's just so freaking cute!!! Even though I haven't fixed my red eye yet ;)  It's still damn adorable!! Again I apologize for the extended hiatus and hope some of you will return to my silly little blog about my digi scrapping adventures, vegan adventures and all around strangeness!  Ciao!