The Paperlife

Liz Kartchner will be in the house tomorrow

Thats right my good friend Elizabeth Kartchner joins me tomorrow as my guest on Your Paperlife with AMy Coon.

Liz brought by some adorable projects to do with fabric in your paperlife.  Be sure to join us tomorrow (10/13/11)  When the show goes live on 

www.mycraftchannel.com

Here is a little blurb from tomorrows show

Fabric Techniques

Amy hosts the talented Elizabeth Kartchner. Once awarded "Scrapbooker of the Year" and designer of American Craft's Dear Lizzy Collection. Elizabeth teaches us her flower making tips in today's episode.

See ya there!

Hugs, Amy

Fall is my Favorite!

My birthday is is the fall, I was married in the fall (10 years last week to be exact!) and I am a farmer's daughter so fall was always a time of joy, happiness and reaping the rewards of a summer of hard work.  So when it roles around each year I dive right in and savor every moment.  A big part of the Coonkids fall in the local pumpkin patch.  And it is just the coolest.  Jaycie Claire visited las friday for a school field trip and I tagged along.

back on the haywagon with pumpkins and friends.

decorating her scarecrows face that got to ride back home on the bus with them and stay in their classroom.

stuffing him with hay.

down the mountain shoot.

off the hay shoot.

and the best part of every kids day, jumping on the giant pillow.

So much fun! And I get to do it all over again next week with Tucker's class. Yay me!

Also, for those of you who may not have heard, my show Your Paperlife debuted on My Craft Channel!!!

It is my episode with southern california photographer Tammy Mitchell and it is very informative, check it out!

Episode 2 will release later this week.  How it works is, once the episode has released you can watch it anytime.  You might want to sign up to be a member of the site as well because they have some rocking daily deals for everyone too!!

Hope your making beautiful fall messes of your paperlife!!

Hugs, Amy

Celebrating 10 Years Today

******note: our anniversary is the 6th but I can't stay up any longer to publish this thing on the right date, so just go with it!******

Albeit not in the same house, or town, or state for that matter.  But, thats nothing to phase us.  We are still celebrating 10 great years of wedded life, Cooner and I.  And I know many of you reading this probably thought it would never happen with everything we have been given to overcome but, what can I say he makes up for my short comings and I for his, perfectly and it works, we works.

I don't think many guys could put up with me, and I recognize and accept this.  You have to be a strong man to deal with my passionate way of living life, my colorful life in general, my all or nothingness, and non-stop brain full of ideas!  hee hee.  I am pretty strong willed and determined, and really lack skills in the patience area but, Jason is the exact opposite, he can sit back and let me "freak out," go all or nothing on one of my crazy ideas, and because of the qualities that attracted me to him first, his strength and confidence, he is totally ok with it all, even actually enjoys it I think, gives him more to tease me about.  We hardly never waste time arguing, can't remember the last time we even did, and have had only a handful of fights and when we do, he always lets me win, so that works out great! HAH!

Thank you for putting up with ten years of that Jace!  What we have first and foremost is a strong friendship, the same strange sense of humor, and the ability to just "be" with each other and be ok with that.  I have been stranded in a hotel room for a month, hundreds of miles from anyone we knew, about to do the most amazingly terrifying thing I have ever done in my life, with him and we both came out alive.  We have overcome so much in these 10 years that was not always the perfect life thrown at us, and we did it together, with very little help of anyone else because, no one we knew could ever know what it felt like to be in our shoes.

And 10 years later look what we have, a marriage that survives the miles time and time again, the 2 most amazing kids on the planet, and just over all a blessed and fun life.

Happy 10'er Cooner Love You!

OK really really quick note.....

My Craft Channel is officially LIVE!!!

Go here to check it out:

www.mycraftchannel.com

my show "Your Paperlife"  will debut on Friday and my first show guest is Tammy Mitchell and amazing southern California photographer with excellent tips on how to get your everyday snapshots to tell the story!

EEEEEEEEE!!!

So excited but first, must clean the house before we all forget where our front door is located!  HAH!

Keep making beautiful messes of your paperlives!!

Hugs, Amy