Well I've officially finished taking the CPA Exam, let me tell you that is a confidence buster of a test if I ever seen one! Unfortunately, for 2011 it seems there is only an 8% pass rate for all 4 parts the first time. So we shall see how this all pans out! Seems like a lot of confidence busting work for a back up plan, but everyone keeps telling me it will be worth it in the end. I sure hope so!

SO you may be thinking what are you doing to celebrate such an accomplishment? Well I bought myself a roundtrip plane ticket to Denver, Colorado! There is a WHOPPING 10 days between when my plane got here and when it leaves! I am so excited to be here on this vacation! It is about damn time! So while I am here in Colorado I plan to work on revamping SkyleRae's! So be looking for the new products and changes! I am pretty excited about the changes that will be coming up some soon, some not so soon, but all exciting nonetheless!

I will try to keep up with regular postings so you can follow me on my vacation! Tomorrow we are going to take a Cog Railway to the summit of Pike's Peak! I hope that we have a nice clear day and I can get lots of great pictures! I will try to keep you posted!

xoxo,

Just An Update...

“It is while trying to get everything straight in my head that I get confused”

~Mary Virginia Micka

This quote got me thinking about my life lately. It truly fits my life to a T right now. I’m stretched thin between studying to pass the CPA Exam working 40 plus hours a week and trying to have somewhat of a life. No wonder with all of that I have barely had time for myself! I take my last part of the CPA Exam on October 20^th, then hopefully I can begin to get my life back on track towards the things that I would much rather be doing, such as crafting, cooking, sewing, and the whole being domestic part of life.

I thought I would check in with you fellow followers and let you know that I have not fallen off of the face of the earth, rather I am just trying to juggle everything at the moment, and SOON it will be back to “normal” just in time for the holiday season! I hope to get back to regular blogging as soon as I finish testing. So stay tuned and I will be back in action very soon!

XOXO!

Happy New Year 2011!!!

HAPPY 2011!!! I hope each and every one of you had a fabulous holiday season! I know I did.

Now you are all probably wondering, where the heck has SkyleRae been since August? Well the craziest semester of my life happened, and it all went down hill from there! And now I only have to conquer the spring semester and I will officially have a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. I am quite excited about this! So I will probably go back to hiding under my textbooks for 4 more months! I have one more week of break before that happens though, so hopefully I can get some projects shared with you!

Wishing everyone a Happy 2011! And I hope to post soon!

xoxo,
SkyleRae

Card Club Challenge #8!

How are you guys loving these Card Club Challenges? I have to tell you, I think I may possibly becoming addicted to the challenges, they are so fun! I would like to see you guys play along as well! So in a comment send me a link to what you've created! I can't wait to see!

On to Challenge Number 8!!!! Now the last couple of challenges have been, for the lack of a better term, challenging, and I thought, what can I do to keep the bar set just as high? Well I came up with a great one (or I think so anyway)! Are you ready for this?

Challenge #8 is to create an anniversary card, BUT you HAVE to create your own background. No Designer Paper allowed in this challenge!!!! Now ladies I want your backgrounds to have some demension, not just plain, show me some texture and some beauty and most importantly let your creativity fly! I hope you are ready for this!

So I know you are all dying to see what I made:

Do you recognize the paper? Its from yesterdays post! I know you all we're just dying to know what I created out of that lovely paper that I made! So here it is!

Don't forget to check out the other Designers blogs:

Rachel May

Dee Dee

Oh and Dee Dee you are the next designer for the next challenge, August 22! I can't wait to see what you ladies come up with!

To make my card I used:

-Plastic Wrap Paper (created by yours truly)

-Adornaments fibers

-Stampabilities Fresh Flower stamp

-Stampabilities Happy Anniversary stamp

-cardstock