This was just a cute quick picture of Cynthia I took after she was eating a powered donut one day - cute smile and sweet memory for her to have.
The sketch is from Sketches in Thyme - I really enjoy the sketches they have, they are great ones to work with.
It's going to be hard to take a scrapping break for a few days but the time spent with Rebecca is so much better- it's house hunting time for her!!
When the new challenge at Child's Play was the Game of Life, I looked at the colors and found this picture. There's not a better person to have spent my game of life with and we still are at it.
The little car border reminded me of the game and the map also did. It was a fun challenge to do, check out the other great layouts the team created. Child's Play
April has been a wonderful month, I've had family here, spent time with friends, been to Disney and had time to enjoy being here.
I think it can probably be summed up in some pictures.
And so many more to add. I got a wonderful surprise from my friend Clare in new Zealand the toehr day - a box of scrapping embellishments and a wonderful cookbook - Clare knows where my heart is. !!
2 more weeks left and there's alot on the list to do !
I can remember quite a few different years that we had a lot of snow on this date back in PA, when I was growing up I think we used to start to be able to see over the snowbanks about the beginning of April
This is the first challenge for April at Scrap it with a Song - from the Beatles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tV11acSRk
I decided to use a picture of the snow with the sun shining on it for the challenge.
Since I'm in Florida - you know I'm having some sun!!!
Now isn't this a perfect challenge for a family of bakers, I should be doing a layout of Bob on here.
Child's Play Challenges this time is based on the easy Bake Oven. The hard part of this challenge is deciding which person to use and which photos, I thought these pictures of Jonathon from a couple of Christmas's ago were perfect. He was such a good sport letting his little sister put an apron on him.
Check out the great challenges on there and the fun and creative ways the other team members did the challenge.
" You & me be your Charming self"
The combination of these three places gave me some great ideas and some wonderful inspiration to get a layout done.
The The Paper Bakery kit came in the mail and I love this month's selection of papers and embellishments they had this fantastic sketch on their site to create with so it was a great combination to inspire me.
Next I was looking on some of my favorite blogs for some ideas and Bird is the Word had up the word Charm and I had a title for my page and Scrap your Crap had use MASKING/WASHI TAPE. on your layout so I found three places to use some wonderful yellow tape I had.
I started with a picture that I wasn't quite sure what papers to use with the colors and found out with the overlay and the colors in the Paper Bakery Kit that everything came out great.
Starting off the month with my stash challenge at Kitchen keepsakes with one that sure looks like a St. patricks day layout, green, green and more green.
The challenge is:
Green, green and more green.
It's March so that means St Patrick's day is in here. Let's celebrate with using up some green. create a layout with 5 green papers, four green embellishments and something sheer, either velum or a transparency.
5 green papers
4 green embellishments
something sheer
First I spent hours, well probably more like days getting ready for the crop this last weekend, it was put on by Dee and her wonderful group from Cheeky Chics Scrapbooking. Fantastic , well managed and organized crop, fun from beginning to end. The resort was great but the very best part was the friends, laughter and the time with everyone. What a wonderful group of women the 15 in our group and the entire room of ladies.
Through some unfortunate circumstances Jules and I lost touch with a wonderful lady Jill, that is kind and so darn funny, friendship has been renewed and we just had a wonderful time together this weekend. I can't wait until the next crop in April to repeat it over again.
So it's the three J's back together!
Yesterday we went and saw Jonathon, it was so nice to see him, give him hugs and catch up on how great he's doing. The visit was to short but time always is with the ones you care about.
The crop was not only fun but really productive, I got 26 layouts done, of course I had my papers cut, title picked out and embellishments so it was much easier than starting from scratch. A lot of them were for design work so it's nice to be ahead on those.
Check my other blog for more of the ones from this weeknd. Creating From the Shores
So Julie has been asking (quite a few times) and Rebecca has for some house pictures so not to occupy five pages I did some collages of the pictures .
Main floor, part of living room, dining room. Since I guess it's more helpful to get a clear picture I scanned some of the before pictures, they don't match up perfect but I lost a group of them so these are about all I have of when we were looking at the house to buy it.
The bedroom before kind of scared me. LOL
Now -
The black jacuzzi is now been replaced to be Bob's work at home office.
The kitchen and breakfast room areas.
It was a huge project but considering the couple of family major events that went on through this and we were plane flights away from here it really came together pretty good. It was worth all the time and work that went into it.
Monday I went to St Armand's Circle and met Jules and Jo Anne for lunch and some shopping, what a perfect day with such fun friends. Jules and Jo have been friends since high school, which Iguess really isn't that long ago. LOL
I met Jo about 4 years ago and Jules is nice enough to share her with me.
Always fun to get together with them and the weather that day was just wonderful, I don't miss being up north when it's like this out. I do miss everyone at home though- A LOT !
Kitchen Keepsakes I just keep having more fun at this site with a group of the most wonderful women. It's the 15th so it's my day to post the sketch for February.
Here's my layout based ont the sketch with a couple of my favorite girls Cynthia and her bf Maddy.
Check out Kitchen Keepsakes, we've got a lot of inspiration and ideas there now not all kitchen based so everyone can find something to inspire them.
