I got an award!

I want to thank Melissa from Disney Dream Designs at http://disneydreamerdesigns.blogspot.com  for giving me this Beautiful Blogger award!  I was so excited when I learned she picked me!  Thank you so much Melissa! Part of the award is to share 7 things about myself... so here we go:

1) My first passion in life and above all things is my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

2) I am the wife of the sweetest and most supportive man I have ever met: Steve Farquhar (est. 1977).

3) I am the mother of Valerie (29,  married to her high-school sweetheart George) and Daniel (23, married to his high-school sweetheart Lexie).

4) I love Paper Crafts! I recognize I have a  God-given PASSION for it.

5) I love to teach! The more I give myself to others the more the ideas come!

6)  I pray for all my followers and people who write to me!!!!! (Shhhhh.........).

7)  Do you ever wonder why I scrap so fast? Well, My full time job (2006-2008) for 2 years and 10 days was to scrapbook FULL TIME for a lady who has the largest private scrapbook collection in the world!!!!!!
Sometimes I would make 88 pages in a day! Sometimes I was slow and only made 20. They set up a studio for me to work at with everything I needed (yes, just like a store). I would say my most challenging project was to make an album for a millionaire lady  who brought Andrea Bocelli as a surprise for her husband's 70th birthday. (He even brought his piano and wife from Italy to the US for the occasion!!!!). The album was done in black, white, silver and purple (yeah... purple, you read right), VERY elegant, each photograph double and triple matted with a very expensive line of papers that you do not see at stores. I used crystal swirls that were like $15 per package in almost every page!!!!! The funny thing of this is that they only took like 3 or 4 pictures of Andrea! They were so busy taking pictures of the decorations, the food, the mansion, etc, etc, etc, that they forgot about their special guest!!!!! I called my studio the "Scrapbook Sweat-shop". This is the reason why I can scrap from one style to another in a heart beat. Just show me the paper and I show you a layout!
(ha, ha, ha, ha.... I LOVE PAPER!!!!!!).