Here's a great place to find color inspiration for decorating, crafts, scrapping, etc.

It's called "Color & Quote" from the "Big Picture Scrapbooking" website. It's also a friendly reminder to be on the lookout for color inspiration in unexpected places.

Bookmark it for the next time you need ideas for color combinations.

Scrapping Room:

As you may have noticed, my posting has slowed down. This seems to happen when I'm gearing up for a big event at work. We have a 4 day retreat coming up with 35 couples coming March 1.

I'm coordinating the event so there's lots still to do. So I'll be a bit distracted over the next few weeks.

I did want to show everyone a sneak peek of my scrapping room that I'm setting up. The first picture is before (well it wasn't really that bad. I embellished a little, but you get the idea).

The next picture is about halfway there. I love all the fun Ikea organizers on the wall and am having fun filling them up. I found the clear topped tins online. I'll post later where I got them...great prices!

I'm about 3/4 of the way done now, hoping to finish this weekend, then I'll post the final product. I'm very excited! There's even enough room to set up a 2nd table if someone comes over to scrap with me.

So my friends and I were considering the possibility of attending the Creative Escape Scrapping Retreat here in Phoenix in September. Not sure if we would have made it, since it's $599 per person without the hotel. BUT it doesn't matter anyway because, according to the website, the registrations sold out in less than 2 minutes!!! It's a good thing we didn't have our hearts set on it ladies.

Well, I just sent them an email to see if they need any volunteers to help with the event...thought it might be fun and a way to sit in on some of the classes. If I get any details, I'll definitely pass it on to our scrapping group because all of you would be awesome there!

If any of you see any announcements looking for volunteers (maybe on Heidi or someone's web site or in magazines) let me know. I think it might be a good foot in the door to a new career path.

Bits of news:

Just wanted everyone to know that we're still alive. It's killing me to check everyone's blog and see how much cool stuff is being posted. I've just been too busy to post myself, but I know how boring it is to keep checking back to see nothing new (hint to Randy and Don).

As mentioned before, our son Kevin is home from Air Force training. His wife, Erin and their dog, Afton arrived on Dec 10th. As you can see from the pic below, Afton is a lovable dog. They taught her how to carry her dish outside to be fed. Very cute! She's very smart and still really just a puppy at about a year old. Unfortunately smart dogs often get into trouble. A few days ago she jumped the 6-7 foot fence in our backyard when we were all gone and proceeded to run around to the brand new front door and scratch it up trying to get into the house. Kinda good news that it's actually being replaced again due to some unrelated issues. Sad news is that the people who are replacing it were planning to use it as their own front door and now it's scratched up. We haven't quite decided what to do about it. Amy blogged about Kevin trying to find Afton a new home and they've found someone to take her in Apache Junction. They have 2 acres, another dog and 3 kids, which will probably be just about perfect to keep a smart dog like her busy and entertained. I think she'll be happy in her new home.

Last Sunday part of our scrapping bunch got together to work and had the joy of having Erin join us. Miranda had a big project to work on, so she was plowing through. Erin has just started to scrap recently, so I let her use some of my supplies and she got several cute pages done. Linda and I were just too tired from the busy month to scrap, so we spent time looking at all the photos from her birthday party...another blogging opportunity delayed or missed.

Well, that's all I have time for...there's still grocery shopping, Christmas shopping, cooking, wrapping, etc. and we're celebrating Christmas with our Perkins family tonight! Hopefully I can post tons of stuff after Christmas.

If I don't post again before, please enjoy a Christmas filled with the love of family and friends!