Looking back

As I was looking thru some older layouts this week, I ran up on this one. I created this in July of 2005, and it was part of my Memory Makers Masters contest entry. Time is going so fast....and can you guess my favorite part of this layout? These were some of my favorite KI papers (love their stuff), and I loved the photos of my soon-to-be school girl, but my favorite part of the layout is the journaling. I'm so glad I put all this info about her 5th summer on a page in her album. Do you do summary pages like this? If not, I can recommend it :D

Scenic Route Guest Designer

Who doesn't love Scenic Route?! I'm thrilled to be their Guest Designer this month :D
Check it out! www.scenicroutepaper.com/Site3/ExtraInfo1.aspx

A little more summer fun

So, I've been on a bit of a scrappy break since finishing up my first book, "Playing With Paper". But, who can resist this new K&Co Amy Butler product?!! And in a couple weeks, I'll be able to show you a few layouts (I know, it's been a while since I shared layouts, huh?) I can't spoil the surprise, but I will say I played with products from one of my favorite manufacturers. Can you guess who?

And, July brings the beginning of another big project for me. I'll begin working on my second book with F&W Publishing. I'll be co-authoring this time with Greta Hammond, and I'm really excited about it!! A little less work than doing it alone (thank goodness!), and we've got some really great ideas up our sleeves. More details about it later :D

Thanks to everyone that has requested to be on my advance kit info email list!! I hope to have something to share very soon.
Hope your summer is going well!

Exclusive Online Kits Info

With summer in full swing, and the bulk of my work for my first book completed, I'm ready to play with some paper! I have ideas swirling, and kids in one camp or another during the day, so I'm ready to begin work on some exclusive online kits. I also plan to move my blog to Typepad very soon. Here's how you can help - because I've not sold kits before, I want to anticipate demand. In other words, what a bummer if I said "get this great kit!" one day, and the next day had to say "it will be a month before I can restock". So, while I'm busy designing and planning and kitting, I'd like to get an idea of who might be interested. Let me say again - these kits will NOT be the same as my travel classes. So, if I'm traveling to a store or retreat near you, don't worry that you'll end up with duplicates.

To get an advance email notification of kits and sneak peeks, email me at angelia.wigginton@gmail.com to be added to my advance list. In a few short weeks, I'll have sneak peeks and more info. I'll send that info to my advance email list, in order to gauge interest before ordering product, so if you want to be first in line, get that email to me!

June is flying!!

I've barely taken a breath this month, and today is the 10th! The kids had camp all last week, and I drove them over in the mornings, and picked them up 3 of the 5 days. I also had 5 more kids in my van. With gas so high, carpooling is the only way to go, lol. It's a 30 minute drive one way, so that took up a lot of time. I also had my 7 year old niece with me all week. She was really easy to care for, but getting 3 out the door is different from 2 :) Also, my town was building a park/play area - an all-volunteer project, and I helped out there 3 days. It was hot, no shade, and hard work building a wooden playground from the dirt up. I haven't taken a photo of the completed project, but I will soon. Rich was there every minute that he wasn't at his "real" job until late at night. I don't know how he did it. I'm betting his diet is going better than mine though, as he couldn't eat much in that heat.

Have you ever deleted an email in your Junk folder, to realize that it was a "real" email. psivage, I think I deleted an email from you. Could you resend? I'm so sorry!

In other news, Paper Crafts just published a couple of projects I did early this year. My favorite is this little May basket with Fancy Pants papers, May Arts ribbon, and yummy K&Co felt embellishments.

I'll have an update on some other stuff I've been up to very soon!