Chicago bound in Aug!!!

Want to find this and take a pic for my blog friend and lover of Abe! Jamie!!
finally get to go to one of her stores!!! awesome-- :D I am hoping for a great clearance or just something I can afford--fingers crossed!



It will be just the girls heading out on the 6th of Aug. My daughter(14), her friend(14) and my niece (25) ( of course I am going). I can not wait!! I have never been to Chicago. We are going to see the concert Lollapalooza on Friday and then on Saturday shop until we drop!!
We booked our hotel and payed for the tickets! I can't wait( can you tell?) !!!! I am super excited!!

I have been a bad bad blogger and have the thought to blog but when it comes to it , just not feeling it. :( my job has drained me from just about everything. I finally mailed off my atc swap--sorry girls for being a slacker! I am still working on a project for miss Lindsay ( I have more layouts finished and doing the binder ( making sure I don't melt this one--:) ) Did all the layouts I needed to but still making more just because its fun. Plus she is the cutest!!

I finally bought a new phone yesterday! If you don't have twitter or I did not email you please text me! I was without a phone since last Monday night and it killed me. Another thing I lost every single contact( okay the phone was 6 years old). I am now out of the stone age and have a phone that take pretty good photos and has the net!! Yahoooo thank goodness for technology. Without it I wouldn't have met the great bloggers in this world and some have become great friends.

xoxo gina

childhood collection

What did you collect as a child? Or do you still collect it? I no longer collect but I love being able to pull these books out to remember the times of collecting. I remember trading stickers between friends. I tried not to have doubles in my collection and I usually traded the extra sheets or ones that family would buy me that were doubles. Some of my collection are falling off due to being so old--:( no sticky left. I will not over load this post with all my collection but here are some of the 80's stickers. check out tomorrows post for more--:D
xoxo gina

blog awards

Lindsay

Carrie

Jami

Sasha

Kristie

Passing these awards onto these 5 cuties. you can do the same!!
please check out my post of my art journal pages and happy mail from today. thanks so much xoxo gina

art journal pages and happy mail

This page was one of my faves I wanted to fill the page with all the music I love. I could have kept going but I was running out of room--:(
Look what I ordered through this cuties shop
My happy mail partner for June was the cutie Carrie. She bought me a pez I had never seen and a camera I did not have in my collection. The camera still has film in it but of course it is all been taken. I love all my owls she sent me and my hello kitty mirror! Thank you so much Carrie!! love ya!!
When I received my journal from Lindsay she had sent me these cute goodies a long with it. Thanks so much!!!

Today I cleaned off my desk and around my area. I now can walk without tripping over things.

I hope you enjoy seeing my art journal pages. I want to thank Janel for these challenges and let her know how much they mean to me. I love being able to doodle what I am feeling or what I wore that day. I hope I can continue to do so when it is over. I have to say I love love the paper and pen idea!! thanks so much Janel!! love ya

xoxo gina