Memory Makers with Catherine Feegel-Erhardt

Blogging my days away....

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:40:53 GMT

If you have time stop in over at my personal blog....

http://www.creativeondemand.typepad.com

I have come a LONG way with my computer skills...I even figured out how to set up a blog of my own..... WITH PICTURES! I know, it is shocking to me too!

Don't be a lurker....post comments... I will probably write back...

Now, off to build an ark... it has not stopped raining since EARLY this morning.

Catherine

A Tee for you....

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:39:49 GMT

Memory Makers has opened a little shop on cafe press... i think this tee is great! they have journals, kids tee (different theme), mugs, messenger bag.... that I just love.... go check it out. let me know what you bought!

http://www.cafepress.com/memorymakersmag

have a great evening...

catherine

scrap pink

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:27:19 GMT

ASK THE MASTERS.....

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:17:04 GMT

CREATIVE ON DEMAND......

JUST FOR YOU!

Ask the Masters...Making the Most of your Scrapbook Supplies has hit store shelves.... so exciting!

I am so proud to have been a part of this wonderful book. there is so much amazing art work between the covers.... so inspiring. Great job to all of the Masters who contributed to this fabulous book. I loved that we were "assigned" a supply and let loose with our creativity... that was FUN!

These are a few of my favorites....Nicole, love your LO on page 20... soooo pretty! Ronee, I am going to scraplift your layout on page 24....thanks! Hillary, I love the photos cut into circles. Crystal, the alcohol inks on pg. 48 are so rich and pretty... Michele, page 54 is magical! Lisa, your mini album on 105 is so pretty. Ronee, I am going to "technique lift" your ribbon use on pg. 110....so cool! Brooke, I love the use of chipboard letters to make the flower on pg87...Jill, page 48 is so captivating and feminine...

Shelia, such an unique use of the corner rounder on p. 29...Shannon, you always amaze and inspire me..love your layout on pg. 44. Suzy, i love sewing and love your use of the sewing machine on pg. 38..I can see this technique working with a teen photo too.

Go check them out.

Have a fun day!

Catherine

WHAT I LOVE....

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:48:10 GMT

MM has a "call" out for February 2008 issue

set to run the chosen layouts in the reader idea gallery

theme... WHAT I LOVE...

i decided to jot down a few things of WHAT I LOVE these are things or concepts that make ME...ME!...

WHAT I LOVE......

*of course my kids, husband and family

but to be more personal..... here is my list.....

my camera

my toes

my kind spirit

my artistic soul

my photos

my coffee in the am....especially when i drink it outside...ulitmately outside at the beach

my new work out routine...4:30am is EARLY but... hopefully worth it.

sushi of almost any kind....especially yellow tail....devine

a well made COLD vodka, 3 olive martini, straight up (not so much while training but...)

my feet rubbed

a good soul-filled / belly aching laugh

clean hands

a clean bathroom

the smell of bleach

a sharpie marker

painting and drawing (need to get back to that)

sewing and my sewing machine

babies ... especially asleep... that little puff of breath they release..

fabric

sharp scissors

quality papertowels

GPS

my shiney OLD hardwood floors

naps

ok.. my list will go forever. i guess that is a good thing....doesn;t it mean that I love a lot in my life... I do. I HAVE to finish my list...albeit corney to some ... I LOVE...

Memory Makers Magazine and F+W publications.... because of these wonderful people I have been given the most amazing experiences this past year. I have traveled, I have created, I have expressed myself, and most importantly.... I have made friends....

Thank you MM and "effin W"...YOU ARE WHAT I LOVE!

xoxoxxo

Catherine

Now, please leave a comment... tell me what you love..... then create your art and submit it for the call...

Congratulations! The Masters & Runners Up are chosen!

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:47:15 GMT

WOW! how exciting! how wonderful! (how bittersweet but still sweet)...

WELCOME to the family! I am so excited for you all.... Journal your experience! I wish I had from minute one! It will fly by so fast!

Enjoy your experience.

the class of 2008...

Tracy Austin
Montgomery, Alabama

Iris Babao Uy
Manila, Philippines

Staci Etheridge
McKinney, Texas

Greta Hammond
Elkhart, Indiana

Caroline Ikeji
Alhambra, California

Brittany Laakkonen
Superior, Wisconsin

Amelia McIvor
Southbank, Victoria, Australia

Lisa Pace
Frisco, Texas

Amy Peterman
Muskegon, Michigan

Tracie Radtke
Chicago, Illinois

Also a big MMM welcome to the runners up!

Lisa Garay
American Canyon, California

Gretchen McElveen
Helena, Alabama

Amy Martin
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Kim Moreno
Tucson, Arizona

Celine Navarro
Mireval, France

Danielle Quarmby
Upwey, Victoria, Australia

Genevieve Simmonds
Vancouver, British Columbia

Mandy Steward
Lake Forest, California

Jeniece Tackett
Belleville, Michigan

Cindy Tobey
Kentwood, Michigan

I am so excited for you all. As with so many other people who share your passion for scrapbooking...I look forward to seeing your art. January will be here before you know it. (even though it is 97 degrees at 6pm...)

Big cyber hugs all around....

welcome and have a fabulous year!

Catherine

*photos taken from the MM website (hope that is ok...)

INSPIRATION....?

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:44:17 GMT

ha! how about some perspiration.....

it is HOT here!

102 in the SHADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How is it where you are?

excited for YOU!... Loved US!

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:51:58 GMT

So so so hard to imagine that ONE YEAR AGO...I was laying my "possible" entries out on the table... questioning, doubting, wondering.... then choosing, packaging, shipping!...entered Memory Makers Magazine contest... "MASTERS". DONE! Then, back to LIFE...on to forgetting about it and then being SURPRISED by a phone call. A phone call from, "I'm sorry, what was your name again because this time I AM paying attention and I want to remember this momement...." (I answered my cell phone in the library UNDER the sign that read "NO CELL PHONE USE IN LIBRARY"... (SSSHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!) as the thrill filled my soul and the tears ran down my face!....and my daughters looked on with worry! (Erin Edelmann... I remember)

What a wonderful year... I have LOVED every minute of being "creative on demand"! I tell you that when "the" announcement came and my cell phone started to ring from as far away as the north east of the USA ( I was physically in the desert of AZ... creative escape)... my life changed! That is when "THE" announcement was made to the public. I had known for several weeks prior but I swore to keep mum! ( I did pretty well on that promise... only to family and friends...wink.. and the several few who witnessed my call in the Jan Platt Public Library and those who saw me jumping like a fish out of water in the parking lot... so excited!)

fast forward... waiting for the first assignment... tick tock... tick tock... the wait seemed endless...

I remember sitting at my computer, meeting my fellow masters on line..., tapping the keyboard... building friendships...sisters....WAITING for the assignments to begin...we made our own challenges... our own pages... only to ourselves... or NOT... waiting for THE REAL assigments... THEN .... WHOOMPH! creative on demand!...

we started to get busy... a good busy! I loved the rush! I stepped up to the last minute deadlines... I loved the calls for this cover or that layout...I am proud to say that I NEVER missed an issue! I got them all done! ( I thank my husband who never complained and my kids and a great baby sitter...)

This has been a great year! I have forged a path that I would have NEVER imagined 3 years ago when I walked into "the scrapbook shoppe" ... stuffing my basket with paper and embellishments for my son's eagle scout album....and lexi told me to put 1/2 of what was in my basket back! She saw that I would take it home and get frustrated..... good call Lex! thanks!

I have met some of the most amazing women EVER! Michele Skinner, Katrina Simeck, Crystal Jeffrery Rieger, Ronee Parsons... all who call me "grandma" and that is OK! You will all be my friends forever! You are always welcome to escape your frozen "wonderlands" and come to a real PARADISE on the west coast of FLorida! my door is always OPEN to you! The "effin W" staff... AMAZING! Loved meeting you all... Greg, you are a sweetheart!, Christine... love working my fingers to bloody nubs for / with YOU! Eileen, so organized... Erin, ... Miss you. David ... so sweet and entertaining!... missed you in CHICAGO... Patty, peaceful patty... so sweet! Courtney,... fun to email with (healthy baby and easy birth!)...love the name catherine by the way!.... Beth, thanks for your sweet encouragement and time...I know that I am missing names... but my heart swells with love and admiration for these folks who have given ME a chance or two... or three or four.... Thanks for the MEMORIES... It has been a fabulous RIDE... a ride of my life ... alll 44 years of it...."grandma"....

I know that OUR term is not really UP but the new (yet unknown) Masters have entered and have met the first of MANY deadlines... now the waiting begins for them... I will pass "THE GLUE STICK" on.... with pride... BEST OF LUCK TO YOU ALL WHO ENTERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am glad that I am not the "judge"!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Catherine.... aka... grandma!

crazy blog

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:27:09 GMT

is not stacking my photos again... arrragggghhh!!!!!

it takes a lot of editing and manipulating to get them to do what i want and then can't post text without mumbling a few things that i shouldn't.....

i need a blog plumber!

try one last time....

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:26:44 GMT

cha cha cha cha cha cha (right hand goes back over head to snap.. head snaps back to the right as well) following the conga line... all the way to chicago... i am so excited to be going to the craft and hobby association summer trade show. i am grateful to f+w publications and memory makers for allowing me to come along. i am giddy, i tell you, just thinking about all the new products that we get to see and sometimes touch or even smell. (hambly is scented vanilla, have you ever noticed that?) i have seen a few sneak peeks on several blogs and web sites and i have some that i am so thrilled to see... basic grey looks so great, rusty pickle looks fun, of course the heidi swapp stuff (doubt SHE will make it, you know new baby and all but it wouldn't surprise me to see her standing at ther booth.. SHE needs a super woman cape!), scenic route,... oh, i am drawing a blank. let me know what you want me scout out and i'll see what i can find for you.

as much as i look forward to getting to chicago and hooking up with some old friends from CE yahoo board and the other masters and F+W staff this part I dread...

flying.... gulp!

cool photo though... sunset at 30,000 feet.

this crazy kids I so look forward to seeing again...

michele skinner and katrina simeck....crazy fun! oh the laughter!

and of course the ever talented crystal jeffery rieger....so sad that ronee parsons isn't going to be with us again this time.... you will be missed friend!

wish me safe travel. will try to post while on the road...maybe these youngsters can teach old grandma here how to work this blog......

why is my blog wrapping the photos again...

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:15:22 GMT

4 years...

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:19:20 GMT

how can it be that 4 years have passed? 1460 days ago I was given the most amazing birthday gift... we named her Elizabeth Kane

She had the most amazing orange tinted hair that stood straight up ... like a baby orangutan! She has these beautiful blue eyes with a twinkle just like my dad's. She was a happy little baby...most of the time...

And now.... she is FOUR! A happy twinkle blue eyed four year old... who is mastering swimming...

Taking a break from scrapbooking today.... (sorry Christine editor at F+W books)... we are going to have our nails painted... "rainbow nails..... pink, red, orange, silver and blue...with peach dots."

tammy is the best!

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:38:48 GMT

I have a friend. Her name is Tammy. She is the wind beneath my wings. SHE solved my clog!

3 cheers for Tammy Nelson!

everyone give Tammy a "hip hip hurray!" HIP HIP.._____________

HIP HIP..______________

HIP HIP...________________

thanks Tammy!

I owe you (at least) dinner! (or a new printer)

text still wrapping? photos still not here? how about text?

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:23:09 GMT

is there text? is it wrapping like a good little text should? who is the good little blog? coo chee coo! who is the good little text? you are, yes, you are little text!

or is it one long irritating line of text? if it is just take a deep breath and tell yourself that you are looking out onto the horizon (of text).. you are in your lounge chair sipping something cool.. milk, cocktail.. whatever... as the waves gently lap onto the shore... there now that is not so bad.

let's see about a photo..

YEAH!.. is this going to work? for the 10 thousanth time?.... cross your fingers and hold onto your volkswagons.. I am going to post to weblog.... ready? set? post.........

july 9, 1963...thanks mom!

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:19:22 GMT

...---... Live Earth Day!

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:33:43 GMT

My blog has a CLOG!

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:05:10 GMT

hello, hello.... is thing on?

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:05:46 GMT

test test test...

BAHAMA MAMA is back!

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:39:07 GMT

Floating around the Sea of Abacos has always been my husband's dream. To just get on the boat and GO! We tried to do this trip about 5 years ago. I was pregnant with Eva and we knew that with a new baby our boating time would be cut very short. That trip we ran aground (he was captain that time) = (not my fault!). The rudders were ripped off the boat day ONE! so we didn't get to make his dream come true. Fast forward to 2007. He headed out June 1 ... There is no water in the Okeechobee waterway so he had to go down and around Florida and then over via the Gulf Stream. I packed the girls up and we headed over for Fathers Day weekend.

Treasure Cay, Abacos, Bahamas..

the water is clear, the clouds are blue, the houses are pink, the sunset is orange, the sand is white

the people are very nice

but the postcards are slap UGLY! (I told my husband that I am going to move there and make a mint designing postcards and maybe open a scrapbook store.....)

Here is a hint of my photos...enjoy...

How can you tell it is summer?

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:11:19 GMT

Summer break is supposed to be that, right.... a break? Holy smokes! I have been so busy in the past 2 months... especially the past 3 weeks.... all to include a deposition of a crime that I witnessed and WON"T discuss. (nor will I ever be a witness again)... and then there was Vacation bible school... now that was A LOT of work! I was in charge of class room crafts for 225 kids x 5 days at various skill / ability level but all on the same theme. I have a headache again just thinking about it.... Enough said there! Then we have the summer schedule of swimming lessons and various activities....as the day gets HOTTER and HOTTER! Got to love Florida in the summer! I did find some fun going to what I thought was a crop with Donna Downey but it turned out to be a class.. (note to self... READ the description as listed by the store hosting!) Oh well, it was a much NEEDED break from being a single parent or my 3 plus the 225 I mentioned earlier... NO Bruce and I did not get a divorce... He is stuck with me (and my scrapbooking supplies! ) ... it is all part of that summer thing... My sister in law brought a new baby into the world... welcome baby >>>>>>>> still not SURE of the name... It is a boy so it is NOT Catherine!. but all is well and healthy on the west coast of the usa. Several deadlines have come and gone ... all deadlines have been met...so far! Fallen behind in a few online classes / challenges but I will catch up... I have several swaps and circle journals to contend with.. CJ... all on track but a deadline is a deadline...

I have been B U S Y !!!!!!!!!! and love it!.. mostly!

Here is what we did tonight ... just for fun.... before the mosquitoes came out...

look who is in control of the ebb and flow of the spinkler....

what are you doing this summer?