A House of Color

new stuffff

There's new stuff 'round these parts......wanna peeek????

All new Prima goods are NOW SHIPPING!!! so if you see something you like...chances are your LSS will have it right now...if not very very soon! :D good stuff...swooooon. I don't even want to open any of the packages!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I've been busy you guys!!!! I can feel the stress building up in my chest--isn't that like the WORST? Well that and the disturbing thought of ninja eskimos ice fishing in pink snakeskin leatards--of course. BUT I must say I can't even begin to tell you HOW excited I am for the next few months!! It's all been such a dream...a DREAM of mine for years...hard for me to believe it's all real-ya know?--it's just that good of a feeling--I'm waiting for something to go wrong--like my hair falling out or being diagnosed with some rare illness--or robots to knock on my door and pinch me awake.

This next CHA show will be interesting...there will be a lot of products that I designed for Prima in the booth--some new concepts and things that I'm really excited to share with everyone....and crossing fingers that people like it. I will actually have my own line of papers this time around amongst other things ;) and then a month after the show my FULL LINE of never before seen products (that I designed for Prima) will be available in Michaels! We're talking papers, alphabets, chipboard, you name it...it will be there. But you won't be able to see this line at CHA cuz it's exclusive for michaels. March can't come soon enough! hehe.

My next book will debut at the next CHA show as well.....stressssssssssss. stresss stress. You guys I'm not kidding...I am losing my mind. And a part of me wonders.....did I already mention all this stuff??????????? you know what. I think I did. o wells...there's my "losing mind" confirmation...you know just in case there were any slightest doubt.

Darryn and I broke up last week. There were a lot of little things that just didn't sit right with me. He was fuzzy sweet around me, but I'm pretty upset that the first few weeks he was SUPER enthusiastic about art and just a lot of things I was into....come to find out that he's not really into any of it. Things got boring fast...I started to notice that he judged people which as an artist myself---something I def. don't dig. He never wanted to go anywhere fun...he was too picky with movies, he never held my hand, never opened a door (not that it's a requirement..but once in a while would be nice right???), so just stuff like that. It was almost like as soon as we became exclusive...he didn't feel like he needed to still "try" if that makes sense?  Not to mention that his job travels so much that he's gone 75% of the time. It wasn't gunna work out.

I better go before I bore the heck outta ya and scare you away for good! lol. hugs, Adrienne

just cuz

Nothin extraordinary to share today...just gettin my work on :) I'm doing the whole "meeting the parents" thing tonight with Darryn and his family at a steakhouse. Random pics...

I. will. beat. u. up.

haaAAaY

Darryn swooning me with his heavenly guitar playing.

hugssss, Adrienne

o o o o o oooooo

Just you wait...the next www.scrapinstyletv.com collection is gunna make you pee your pants--in a very GOOD way :D

whewwwweeeeeeEE!

I'm here. I'm TOTALLY here right now...
someone should capture this on video or sumpin.
Well I have many reasons on why I haven't been keeping up with my blog for some time now...and I'll go ahead and clue you all in--LOL as IF your sitting on the edge of your seat hahahha.
I don't even remember what my last post was about...it's been that long hah. But for labor day weekend I went to a bbq partay with darryn. THIS is what I remember from it people. for realzzzz.

And now for the GRAND
FINALE!!! (uhm it really WAS the last of these kind of pictures too! haha)

And then I got in trouble for taking a picture with flash in the car while darryn was driving :x

I'm just gunna come out with it--I was slightly intoxicated hahah. In fact, I have absolutely positively NO IDEA how I got the streaky colorful photos to come out the way they did...I should drink more often eh???
This last weekend I spent working on some projects I'll talk about later. Darryn and I also went to the aquarium in long beach which was supa fun. Here's a vid. and some pics (btw--I have no idea who the "oraphis" guy is in the video LOLLLLLL)

I'm excited to try some artistic editing with these soon. I'm not sure if I'm mildly disgusted or fascinated with the jellyfish...but I couldn't take my eyes off em.
We also celebrated my uncles bday on sunday! we ate at a really REALLY awesome resteraunt on the beach. What was really nice about it was that it's kind of secluded from the busy city so there wasn't a lot of ruckus and was verrrrry relaxing! The food was really great to boot too! still have to edit some of the pics but here's on of me with my sweet Oma (grandma).

So you all might be wondering how the job is going at Prima. I totally luv it there! It's an awesome blessing to work for such a down to earth company...we are kinda like a little family :) awwwww. fuzzy. In fact, here's some pics I took the other day there

This is Pom and Tami--the two sisters behind Prima.

Tami got a new fancy camera

This is sweet Sandi, Pom, and Tami

And tami didn't have any pics of herself so I took a bunch of her to post on her facebook thingy

I'm not sure if I posted some of the newer pics I did artistically...I'm looking forward to doing a whole bunch more but these were a few I did last week.

This one was actually taken by corinne delis (you're such a goddess!!) but I edited it for the striking effect :D It's Helene, Lucy, me, and Corrine in this one back from when I was in Holland. yesssssss can you believe it?? A year later I'm still editing holland pics! HAH.

So thats all the visual stuff I've been up to. Now for the boring text-only schtuff lol. The reason my blog has been put a bit to the side is because I'm starting to get very overwhelmed with multiple things I'm involved with right now. I will never get rid of my blog because I really enjoy posting...but realistically I just can't keep up with posting multiple times a week anymore. I guess thats just life eh? it catches up with us hehe.

As you may or may not know, I will have a line of exclusive product through Prima being sold in Michaels next year so naturally that has taken time away from things. But in addition to that I am working on a line of product that will debut in the Prima booth this Winter at CHA. I'm not sure if I mentioned this already, but I signed a contract to write another book--can't spill any details yet but you will see it in January :D...I'm hard at work trying to get that done. I also have a 3 page article to write for Entre Artiste magazine...and if that wasn't enough to excuse my absense hehe I also  have to prepare all 100 kits for the classes in France next month as well as the prizes and well...of course preparing for the trip itself. Not to mention normal stuff like uhhhhm sleeping, eating, spending time with family and boyfriend, day job, errands etc. ya know???

soooooooo, I'm still here and I'll always be here. Things have just been piled on top of each other lately so I had to cut back my time from something and unfortunately it was the dang blog postings hahah.

Other news--I unfortunately had to resign from scrap in style tv. insert big sad face. I really truly luv it there and I will miss being a fashionista but it wasn't fair for anyone because I was sooooooo backed up with things that I wasn't able to get my monthly requirements done. And I know there are hundreds of ladies who would give anything for that gig and who would have no problems with the requirements so I figured it was my time to leave. No drama at all...no hair flips or obscenities ;) . Jeanette completely understood where I was coming from...I just don't have the time to invest anymore. I'll still post in my gallery there and chat every now and then.

and not sure if I mentioned it but I also will be designing for Rose Moka now! I can't even put into words how excited and blessed I feel for that opportunity. Their materials are heavenly and I'm totally looking forward to it!! :D
I will be scrapbookin this weekend so keep an eye out...I'll try my hardesssssssst to post this weekend! :D

and btw--I'm totally smitten with darryn. he's pretty gnarly. horay for random thoughts.
Hugs, Adrienne

tonight

Have lots to share :D will do a post later tonight with lotsa pics. Off to the long beach aquarium with sweet darryn ;) see ya soon! Hugs, Adrienne

bleck

Still sick...can you believe that? It even played a joke on me this bug cuz I felt horrible on wed, thurs, and friday morning...but friday afternoon felt much better, sat and sunday I felt like it was almost gone and then monday it came back with a magical force and I feel 100% worse LOL. what is up with THAT. So yah, I'll try to update soon ;)  hugs, Adrienne

siiiick

bleck. I've come down with sumpin not so fun. I'm not really sure WHAT it is tho...weird. but have some things to post but too tired to do it right now :(  is there a flu bug going around???

hugsss
Adrienne

THE best scrapbook mag ever!

Has finally debuted you guys!!! remember when I showed you issue #0 of Entre Artistes? So now I have in my little hands issue #1!!!! and it's KILLER!! I may not be able to read french but I would totally buy it just for all the eye candy. Celine really knows what she's doing with this...and it totally shows!

These are all the designers for the magazine :) and lookie!--I'm one of them horay!!!! ^-^

A peek inside

More on the designers

I feel special ;)
And of course no magazine is complete without some Elsie in it! dude she's like a goddess. She did a feature for this issue so you can get allllll KINDS of inspo from her...am I persuading you to buy the mag now?? haha

and I was surprised to see this in it!! I didn't even know my book was going to be here :D awww fuzzy feelings

Wanna know more? Check out Entre Artistes! I will be teaching a few classes there in October so if your interested you can go to their website it's gunna be AWESOME!!! I promise you that :D

More little excerpts of the magazine...notice familiar faces?
Beloved friend and mischief accomplice of mine (hahahah kidding corinne heh)
Corrine Delis

Beloved friend and wickkkked cool Amber Ulmer

Beloved friend and SUPA sweet Breanne Crawford

and this is Celines bestest friend ever....well besides ME of course ;) hahha kidding. no but I met her at CHA and she is not only really sweet but completely adorable.

There are TONS more designers too but these are just the gals I know personally or have met :)
Onto more scrappy thangs. Last weekend I met up with Larrissa and cropped at Ever After (which by the way flippin ROCKS!). L is such a doll...I wanna be her when I grow up one day...is that creepy? I made a couple layouts so here they are :)

Horay for Rose moka!!!

This one I just did for fun cuz I've been dyin to use that mm paper and the sock monkey?---swoon.

Made this one with the www.scrapinstyletv.com collection checcck it out! I think there are still more left if I'm right.

more editing of photos

One of my favvvvvvorite pictures right now

The emotion is so powerful I almost believe it hahhh.
hugs, Adrienne

a little of this and that

Adrienne is up to no good people. yes, I'm causing mischief and mayhem ;)
Actually--I'm not, I just wanted to sound all rebellious for a second there. Anywho, so guess what I have in my hands right now?????

Uh huh. just THE BEST BOOK to have ever been made. ever. It's a compilation of all the limited edition art of Gama-go and I swear it's flippin killer!

I also bought more buddies from Stela...how CAUTE are these guys?? awww.

what else.
Here's a layout "in progress". yes this is what it's come to people...this is how much I've been scrappin that I'm actually posting an "in progress" layout rather than a  complete one. How lame lol.

But I dooooooo still have a completed layout to share with you...I mean not that your sitting on the edge of your seat or anything. but I did this one at CHA when all the new Prima product started pouring in, and since I didn't have pics, sweet sharon gave me a picture of her daughter to use.

how yummy are the epoxies?
and this was a card I made with the new prima transparencies. No doodling though...it was kind of a rush job.

The new Pulse collection is one of my favorites! Here's a little card using the papers and other prima goods

Here's some recent pics to share :D hurray for pics!
It was a killer sunrise on Thursday in Chino

ohhh lookie lookie there's Tami!

Totally random comment but do you want to know what the bestest most perfect smelling perfume looks like???

mmmmm my FAAAAAAVE :D

so what else. uhhm, oh yah I've been shopping for prizes to give away at my classes in France!! I'm having so much fun doing it! check out a couple of cute finds--

ohhhhhh and LOOK what came in the mail today!

oh WOOPS! Is it black and white??? I guess you'll just have to head on over to www.scrapinstyletv.com to see the new collection in color!
hah. i know, i know, thats evil of me ^-^

and lastly I will leave you with some pics of the make and take I made for Tami to take to Japan a couple months ago--never got a chance to share it. It's not exactly my style but that was kind of the point--can't always have my way HAH.

OH and I almost forgot! Tomorrow I'm going to head over to Ever After in Oceanside area where I'm meeting up with Larissa and we're gunna scrapbook our little hearts away! Maybe even take some fun pics! Can't wait to share!
hugs, Adrienne

Rose Moka

Havvve you seen THESE???

If not, thats probably because they are SO brand spankin new, and because I luvvs you all sooooo very much I am going to share the rest of the pretties that go along with these delish letters!
It's a new manufacturer based out of Canada called Rose Moka

and I have to admit...I'm in love with their stuff!!

Did I grab your attention? heheh orrrr did I distract you? Welps if you want to know where to buy this gnarly set of supplies you can go to their blog here: http://rosemoka.typepad.com/

I'll be doing some pages this week with all this yummy stuff and I'm so excited!! OHHHH ALSO!--If you are taking one of my classes in France for October this year we will be using a BUNCH of these papers and each registrant will get a sheet of the Rose Moka sticker letters too! eeeks I am so excited!!

Also, last night I hung out with my aunt and cousin and she gave me some of the pictures she took with her camera the other day. These are just the ones I put in my myspace pics...but I have more to share later.

K so just wanted to mainly post the drool worthy Rose Moka gear...I'll be back real soon I promise :)
Hugs, Adrienne