candice mclean

studio friday ~ aged & antiqued

friday's assignment - aged & antiqued. what's better than those yummy rusty pickle walnut inked tags? love them!

bad blogger

okay, i've been the worst ever blogger. bad blogger, bad blogger!

i'm slammed - slammed with lots of things. so i've neglected my poor blog. i'll fix that tomorrow! :)

Happy Memorial Day!

God bless those who have served and those who are serving!

felix is on his way home!

so i met karen, another awesome rusty pickle chef, in orlando at the orlando scrapbook expo. she gave me felix the rabbit and asked if i would take him home to ca and send him back to little miss emily in pennsylvania along with a postcard. felix is part of emily's classroom experiment. i guess people are sending him all over and he collects postcards which are to be mailed back to the school. how cool is that! anyhow, here's a pic of alex sitting on my very cluttered desk. karen - he's on his way home!

just some finds

happy monday! i can't believe we only have 5 1/2 weeks left of school. i can't wait for the summer. i love sleeping in with the kiddos - well if you call getting up at 7 versus 5:30 sleeping in - and snuggling on the couch - and of course visiting the beach and watching the little ones build sand castles and run a muck in the waves. yes - daydreaming this morning.

i just wanted to share a few things...

i purchased a new idea book - "freestyle" with the autumn leaves designers and i'm blown away at the talent and the cool techniques. awesome - awesome - awesome! you gotta go check this one out.

many of you already have this one - "the big picture" with stacy julian - if you don't own it - you should!

i purchased the graphire bluetooth tablet this weekend. i haven't really had a chance to play with it but i can't wait to do so. i'll post some doodles once i get it up and running.

erin payne recommended this one to me. zig writer chalk collection in white - looks awesome on photos!

have a picklelicious day!

picklelicious duo

so gina and i have had a few more requests to come visit more local scrapbook stores for our picklelicious duo event - and we are excited to do so! if you are interested in having gina and i do a picklelicious event at you store, please contact either one of us. we can tailor our event to accomodate your needs. at this time point in time, we are looking at august - december 2006.

candice mclean - cemdesigns@cox.net

gina lovato - ginalovato@cox.net

keep a lookout - we just might be visiting your area soon!

rusty pickle road show

gina and i had a blast on wednesday at the pink pineapple! christi was the "hostess with the mostess"! she prepared "pickle juice" which was a sweet green punch, and she also provided the most delicious chocolate cake - YUM!

we had an awesome group of ladies attend. thank you everyone for being so super fun! i look forward to seeing you all again. here's a photograph of the ladies with their projects.

we had a few drawings and here's our lucky winners!

here's one of gina and i with the owners minus brittani. (terry, gina, christi, me and krystie)

thanks again ladies for having gina and i. we totally had fun!

studio friday ~ sounds

sounds you might hear in my studio.

the soft humming from my ceiling fan. i always have the fan on - i'm always warm.

the crunch of paper from one of my punches. lately, i'm totally into punches.

my printer. my printer is always going - prepping for classes or designing my own tags for albums - i love my printer! and i have a new one on the way - an epson 2200 - i'll be able to print on 12x12 paper.

the slice of paper or chipboard. what's a girl to do without a good paper trimmer?

the repetitive da-da-da-da-da-da from my sewing machine. no i don't know how to sew properly but i can do a straight hem. accenting my pages with a bit of thread here and there.