My Life: Perfectly Imperfect: Beautiful Monday! & some scrappy news

It's not often that the words beautiful and Monday come out of my mouth together. In fact, I've probably never said those together. I am NOT a Monday person. I don't like getting back to having to get up early and get the kids off to school, especially in the cold, wet and, lately, very foggy weather we've been having. It's been pretty much nonstop fog for about 2 weeks- some days not burning off at all making it rather dreary. But today we woke to bright sunshine, and it's relatively warm out there. For the first time in many months, I actually walked up to the school to pick up Justin from school rather than drive, and it was very nice. It even feels like a touch of Spring, which I am so looking forward to. Here's hoping that the groundhog is wrong in predicting there's 6 more weeks of winter. I hope that this BEAUTIFUL MONDAY is the start of a great week.

In other news, there's lot going on in the scrappy corner of my life.

First off, I want to remind you that Scrapdango's Crowned contest started yesterday, but it is not too late to join in on the fun. The first challenge has been given, and it's a great one involving bling on your layout, and you have until Sat., Feb. 7th to do a layout and post it. If your layout is chosen as the best by the DT for the week, you will be sashed and win this wonderful prize:

Yes, it a full Lemongrass kit by Crate Paper. Wish I could win it. :) There are games going on during the week, a Miss Congeniality contest for the person who keeps the boards rawkin', there will be a new challenge each week with more wonderful prizes, and the overall winner who is Crowned will win a guest design spot for April with a full kit along with another full kit (choice of 2 from February). How awesome of a prize is that?!!!!!! So join us for all the fun throughout February.

In addition to Scrapdango's contest, I also just found out that I have been chosen to be on the design team for Scrapperie, another wonderful scrappy site with great kits each month. I am now a Très Chic Girl and am so excited to join another talented bunch of ladies and start creating with their wonderful kits. They are also having a contest over there called Fantastic February, and the theme is Love is in the Air. If you want even more games and challenges and prizes, this is the place to be. There will be 4 project challenges each week that you have all month to complete along with games and even classes where you can earn points. At the end of the month, your points can win you prizes from the prize pool consisting of gift certificates to the boutique, tons of mini kits, mini-albums, acrylic albums, stamps sets (with inks) cardstock packs, cards kits, Essentials, Extras and Trimmings monthly kits- and someone can even win a Pièce de Résistance kit! Here is an example of the last Pièce de Résistance kit:

Now who wouldn't want that?