Magic Hour

Here is a birthday card I made for Kelly back in March. Its mainly Heidi Swapp & K&Co products. The paper is from their wedding line. I thought it would be a good challenge to use it on something non-wedding!



I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. We had a heat wave in the bay area and it was beautiful. It is rarely ever 75* in Pacifica. Everyone decided to head out to the beach to cool off so it was difficult to go anywhere!

I headed down to the Scrapbook Depot for Carina's birthday sale. I was one of the lucky first 38 women to get 38% off of my purchases! I went a little crazy because I haven't gone shopping there for a long while.


Dan & I went to Mel's Diner on Geary for dinner. It was so weird being there when it was still light outside. I love this time of the year! There is something about their scalloped paper place mats that inspires me. I passed the time by drawing sketches of my ideas for the upcoming Mojo challenge.

On our way back home we saw this cool building. I like the font and colors a lot.


We stopped at St. Ignatius so I could get a photo during "magic hour." I have a self portrait from August that I took at night. You can see it here. Magic hour is that time when the sun is low in the sky. Most of my photos are taken during magic hour because I really like how they turn out. To learn more about this kind of lighting click here. Is there interest in learning more about photography techniques and tips? I'd love to share if so. Just drop me a line and ask me a question. Or just say yes more please! :)


Kristi & I scrapped for a few hours last night. I always get more inspired when I'm with her. I'm really interested in learning how to use alcohol inks to distress my pages. I can't share what we worked on but I should be able to in 6 days or so. :) Hopefully I'll have some other projects completed before then.

Gotta Love That Extra Hour

We went to Mel's diner in the city on Friday night. We can't stay away from that place too long! I actually had a hamburger instead of breakfast for dinner. I learned that inline skates or rollerblades weren't invented far after the roller skates. The car hops at drive ins did not wear the regular roller skates,they wore inline skates, and that was a myth started by George Lucas with his movie American Graffiti.

I went to Nick's Restaurant in Pacifica to support the army mom's fundraiser. They are always mailing stuff back to our troops and they put an amazing night on. Kelly's uncle's band was playing so Jenna, Tiffany, and I met her up there. We had a lot of fun dancing with Jenna's co-worker's baby Otto (14 months old).

I love gaining an hour from daylight savings time! How did you spend yours? Usually I would answer "sleeping," but not this year, I combined two challenges together for this lo. I had so much fun playing with the colors. And I totally loved masking! I also challenged myself to get a little more carefree with the staz-on and I'm actually ok with all of the crazy inking. I stayed up and worked on this:


Dan, Lisa, and I visited Jenna who has been working at Ristorante Portofino's since August. We got wonderful food and the staff was incredibly hard working. Jenna took this photo of us at our booth.


Happy Birthday Kelley! Looking forward to celebrating with you tonight!