Yum...sushi!

It was a necessity, I told you! We hadn't visited this restaurant yet but I can promise you this...we'll be back again really soon. The food was stellar, the service was prompt and pleasant (always a winning combination) and to top it off, Seth was all over it like a dirty shirt! Who knew he'd be so into Japanese food!?!?! He was feelin' the love for the camera too! LOL
Ray's and my lunches were super good and HUGE! I couldn't finish all of mine and I think next time I'll get more sushi. The food was delish and if you are a Whitehorse resident or visitor, definitely hit this place.

I'm not a big sashimi fan but Ray thought he'd died and gone to sushi heaven! LOL


Of course, I did do almost all my other errands (including the post office) so it was a pretty good day.

Tonight at Noah's school is the annual Bison feast. The grade six & seven classes go on a Bison hunt as part of their curriculum (all you anti-hunters, please keep your opinions to yourselves. I understand that some of you disagree with hunting but i kinda don't care! sorry if that offends anyone) So as part of their Bison hunting experience, we're going to go and eat it ! Yum again! I'm bringing my pumpkin bread pudding because it's a potluck so it will be a pretty fantastic dinner I suspect. The dinners at school always take place in the gym and the lights are gross and make a nasty yellowish orange cast on the photos so there prolly won't be any from that. Too much photoshopping to make it worth looking at. So I'll be busy today baking & knitting up a storm and getting ready for the National Scrapbooking Day crop in May (if you haven't registered, you've gotta...it's gonna be a truckload of fun!) Enjoy your Thursday!

ugh...the hump

It's a classic Wednesday hump-slump-shlumpadump-lump. Neither the beginning nor the end of the week and I'm trying to rock out some feel good about running errands mojo but I'm just not feelin' it. For me, a trip to town to run errands literally takes all day and a good half hour of driving at mach 3 (okay, maybe more like 100km/h) just to GET to town. It's a hit-the-post-office-and-the-dollar-store-and-maybe-wal-mart-and-try-to-squeeze-in-some-sushi kinda day, actually, the post office and sushi are critical but the others might get squeezed right outta the plan but we'll see...I'm gonna strap on my big fat camera and play paparazzi a little and might even blog something fun, exciting and Yukon-ish later today (remember, that's a MAYBE!)

Now, let's go and get stuff done Jedi style!

Left Hangin'

Okay...I admit it, I totally left all of you, my faithful blog readers hangin' over what was left of Birthday week and the fabulous treasures inside my marvelous box from my lovely pal, Karen. And after some gentle - and not so gentle - reminders (thanks Allison) I have recovered from the Birthday week related blog burnout. Shocking to admit, but there it is...the cold, hard truth about my failure to deliver. I hope you can forgive me for being such a big fat slacker.

So to honor my darling pal Karen's creativity in her Birthday week selections for me this year...here's the rest of what I got...


Now, I have an almost-debilitating sweet-tooth (when I get a craving, dude, watch out!) so Karen sent this little treat. It was a rice-krispie square egg covered with peanut butter and chocolate and it was hollow but not empty...no, it was crammed with Jelly Belly jellybeans (yum!) that were glued in place with more chocolate!

And this was a bit of a dirty trick. I think Karen really enjoyed pulling this little prank although, I have to admit that I love this glasses case. The one I was using for my sunglasses was a strictly utilitarian (read:ugly) case and this one is far, far cuter.

This was easily one of my favorites from Birthday week. I have been needing a kitchen timer and just hadn't picked one up yet. This was a very well selected gift for sure...and if you know me and my penchant for hoarding cool yet useful kitchen gadgets then you wouldn't be even a little surprised by my excitement over my new zester. It is so cool! It grates ginger like nobody's business, I used it for an Indian dish I made last week and all I can say is "DUDE!"

This was the final gift in the package which, I later learned from Karen, was a huge gamble. Sure, buying someone else shoes without them there to try them on is a bit risky but I like a little risk!

So there ya have it. Now it's Karen's birthday week...go on over to her blog and see what I gave her...don't forget to wish her a happy birthday (it was on the 5th)

We have a winner!

There weren't too many to choose from so the odds this week were really good for those who participated in this month's design challenges. Using the pages submitted to the photo-pool on Flickr, our Design Team voted on a favorite page and that page was created by Luv2Scrap! ( you can email me at lotuspaperie@shaw.ca with your mailing info so I can get your kit out to you) So if you want a shot at winning a kit of your own, just play along with the weekly challenges. Make sure you upload your pages to the Flickr Group and include which week your page is for in the title when you upload. If you are unsure as to how you can add your page to the group photo pool, just visit the 'Organizr' page and select the "groups" tab, from there you can choose the group that you want to add your image to. It took me forever to figure that one out! LOL.

Of course, you can create and upload your pages to the photo pool whenever you like using whatever products you like. You do not HAVE to use the Couture Collections, but we like it when you do! Who knows, maybe your page will be the next winner. Thanks for participating again this round and I am excited to see the pages for this month.

On a side note, there are only a small number of Couture Collections that remain for this month so if you are thinking about ordering one, you will want to get your order in before they sell out!

One more thing...if you love to scrapbook and like free stuff, maybe you should consider trying out for the Design Team... Go HERE to read more about what's involved.

Challenge 66 - a little wild

Well, this week is anything but ordinary and the total opposite of predictable! Due to a shipping delay from our manu's our kits are arriving late to some of our designers but Jessi & I DO have our kits so the challenge this week is a 2-part challenge. This image below is in keeping with our usual challenges of sketches & other artistic inspiration. I love the use of text and the impact of the horizontal elements in the image. I thought is was great fun to work with. So using the Rookery Road Couture Collection, Jessi & I created our pages to give you a bit of inspo for using this month's collection. I love how we can achieve such different results with using the same materials.


As usual, you are invited to share your artwork with us by uploading images of your pages using the Flickr Group. We'd love to see what you create using this movie poster as your challenge image. You are not required to use the kit to create your page but you definitely can if you want to! You have all month to get your pages submitted and we'll vote on a favorite once the month is over. Be sure to mention which week your page was created for. A winner will be announced during the beginning of the following month and the lucky winner will receive a free Couture Collection! YAY! So go on and get scrappy!

Jessi

Vanessa

But because most of the designers are still waiting for their new Couture Collections to arrive, they were given carte blanche to create whatever they wanted using up past kit leftovers. Here are their wonderful creations...
Danielle
Christine

Sallie
One of my favorite things about Tania as a designer is that she'll take any challenge and rock it out like nobody's business! When this girl uses up scraps, man, she uses up scraps...check it out!