Melissa, I continue to be astonished at how beautiful your projects are and how you put a unique touch to each of your creations. Your use of the PTI products in your projects continue to inspire me to purchase them! Be proud of what you do :)

Dear Melissa, let me first say you truly are an inspiration and blessing even if its hard for you to see. You are correct though that many of us have the same tainted view of ourselves. I'm personally struggling with this very thing right now as I've done some unpleasant things that do not support my spiritual upbringing and beliefs. I'm trying to forgive myself and start anew, and drill into my head that I'm not a bad person, but its definitely hard for me. I pray you find some peace in your heart.

My favorite photo is of my son while we were on a road trip. Although he was young n the photo, I didn't know at the time that the clothes and pose totally captured his true personality to this day, and I love the photo and him so very much!

Beautiful tags! What type of metal pin or embellishment is that? I've never seen it before.

oh. em. GEE!!!! I have a vintage rolodex that I haven't yet done anything with yet....I see great things coming!! :D

Oooo, you gotta hit with those hexagons!! Hopefully you'll have a good stock on release night!! :D

Your vision and creativity is so wonderful! PTI is lucky to have you!

Wow - happy anniversary PTI! Sure sounds like alot of thought and research went into picking the new cases. I think the new DVD size cases will work for my storage needs just fine - thanks Nichole and PTI for keeping our best interests in mind!

Wowwie...I thought I had every tool out there...nice to know there's a fun new gadget to get into my hands! I am such a fan of your work Melissa...you inspire me to create! :)

I just have to tell you that your projects are always my inspiration for picking up new PTI goodies! You also have such a great eye for adding just the right mix of colors, textures and embellishments to your projects...very beautiful and I'm so greatful you share your art with us!

Whooohoo! I would love to have something like this to do this summer...my son will be off visiting his dad so that will leave me lots of free time to play in my craft area and use up some of that wonderful product I have been hoarding lol!!

OMG! When I saw the name you gave her, I just HAD to read the whole post and comment!! I love it! Great, great project!!!

Holy Stromboli!! What a week...I so looked forward to watching each evening after a long day at a non-creative job for some inspiration...and it did not disappoint. Thank you for sharing all your time and energy with us...

Bad weather day here in North Texas, so home with my son...just got a load of dishes out of the way and now back to working on my shopping wishlist for my tax refund check I expect in the next week....HAPPY!! Hoping to unpack a bin of craft goodies and start on decorating up an old rolodex I picked up from ebay with my scrapbooking supplies. Oh, and watching cooking shows...but that's making me hungry lol. I envy that you get to be exponentially busy doing what you love! I wish I could pick up and move there and be your assistant...I'd LOVE to be kicking out some club kits with you!!

There are so many items for 2010 that I thought are fabulous, but I have to say the PTI dies that match the stamp sets are my favorite...and specifically, my most favorite die is the Mat Stack series...soooo many uses and coordinating sets the imagination just runs away with me thinking about it!

Not crazy at all...I envy that you still have a chance to continue...I am too old now, but still struggle with the "what ifs" dialog in my head every day. I love the son I do have very very much, but do wish I had thought further on this subject and prayed about it even. Blessings to you and your family...how many ever it ends up being!

Wowza! What a great way to celebrate your blog-o-versary :) You're is one of my favorites!

Even though my decor theme changes each year, we always set out our family stockings that I found one year at Target on clearance - they are monogrammed initialed for each of our first names and color coordinated for our favorite colors...my son loves the stockings as our tradition :)

Wow, this would be fabric-u-lous to win! ;)

Wow what a giveaway! I'm looking forward to a Route 66 route trip out to Texas where I'm relocating back to...my family lives out there and I can't wait!