New Orleans Art Museum Gardens

Don't you just love this Blue Dog?! We are pictured at the New Orlean's Art Museum gardens. I sat the camera on a flat surface and set the timer. Not bad since we all fit into the shot! By the way, I write reviews of my travels and opinions on Trip Advisor, and you can see my review there. So far, I have left most on the great food we had. Hope everyone had a great summer and enjoyed maybe seeing sights and people you really wanted to. I know we did!

"My Creative Time" is having a blog hop

"My Creative Time" is having a wonderful blog hop with inspiring artwork by their very own Design Team members! Hope you join in on the fun and see her newest stamps and dies for great cardmaking!

Here is the site: http://www.creativetimeforme.com/ See all the designers' work from there.

Enjoy! Beverly

New Orleans French Quarter and Market

This Joan of Ark statue is at the entrance of the French Market in New Orleans.

The Central Grocery Store has the best Muffuletta in town, but very little seating so be forewarned! At $14.50 for a whole one, it fed all five of us!!

Here is my portion. It was delicious with the olive salad spread on before layering it with all the meats and mozzarella cheese.

The kids at the counter eating...very tight but worth it for the yummy Muffuletta, and air conditioning!!

Cool car we noticed while walking through the French Quarter. It was painted for Sailor Jerry liquior, just parked on one of the side streets!

Finally, the kids take a break in the alcoves down one of the side streets. Real life! Well, hope you enjoyed my photos from our trip and I will post the layout another time.

Beverly

New Orleans Trumpeter Shamarr Allen

Met and heard famous trumpeter, Shamarr Allen, whose concert was wonderful, of course! He played one note on his pocket trumpet for over 5mins!! How does he do that!? His rhythem and tones were infectious to the point people jumping up to dance, and join in! The band really rocked it, too!! His songs about personal stories like remembering his grandfather, Chester, brought me to tears, while the smooth jazz sounds touched all. He is not wanting to do just jazz and played from many genre. Loved all of it and of course got one of his CD's. I highly recommend listening to his newest songs on itunes. I enjoyed his New Orleans jazz deput album, and got "Meet me on Frenchmen Street". Enjoy!

Beverly

Teresa Collins is feature Host of My Craft Channel Blog!

Celebrity Craft and Scrapbook Host, Teresa Collins will be sharing her passion of paper crafting and Scrapbooking mixed into the artistic flair of Home Decor on http://www.mycraftchannelblog.blogspot.com/. So go to their site and join in on the giveaways as we await her debut.
There will be 20 giveaways of 20 Cricuts in 20 days!!!! Plus get Teresa's newest cartridges as a bonus!! Also see her blog at http://www.teresacollins.typepad.com/ where she has great inspirations. You may know Yvonne, manager of She Scrapbooks in The Villages, north of Orlando, Florida, who is on TC's design team.

Stampfest Orlando 2011, meeting Tweety Jill

Lee Ann and I headed out to the StampFest Orlando 2011 stamp convention. We had such fun and even met Tweety Jill where we made beautiful cards. Here are my two. The collage emphera materials, and stamps that she has created are just wonderful to play with and make into unique works of art. We both came away with over $100 worth of her products and highly recommend using her web site if you haven't bought any yourself. http://www.tweetyjill.com/

Taught at Creating Keepsakes Convention, Buffalo, NY 2011

For the Make and Take, I taught the technique of making the shabby chic roses you see here. Distressing is so easy with a Distress-It-All, made by of course, Zutter. See www.Binditall.com

Lee Ann showing the spot I stood in most of the show!!

Lee Ann Winters and I just got back from working for http://www.scrapbooksnstickers.com/ at the Creating Keepsakes Convention, in Buffalo, New York. We had a fun time but it was a lot of work!! The booth you see in the photos is actually bigger than that because Lee Ann was on the other side of the wall teaching another class, of Scraptique. I even ran the register while doing make and takes every day!! The ladies in Buffalo were so friendly and loved learning new things. Everyone was so nice!