Never knowing where I'll be

21 days into August

This month has gone so darn fast and as I result my blog has suffered this month so it's time for some catching up on it.

There's some changes in the house of course and it's really kept us on our toes, we've been to Massachusetts to visit Kathy and Robert in their new house, had multitudes of people at the cabin between the Davies weekend and everyone from Pittsburgh coming up it was around 50 people coming , going, staying and having a great time.

We're going to Cleveland again tonight to take Rebecca back to pick up her car at Chris's and have dinner with them- they are so much fun to see together. Tomorrow is school shopping with the little boys and a movie with the girls in the evening - then Wednesday we're heading to see Mark in Colorado.  So between Syracuse, Cleveland , Buffalo, Lee -MA. , and a few places along the way our heads haven't hit the pillow much at home and I'm missing just being here. 

I've had to adjust some of my design team priorities because I can't give them the attention they need, I don't like having to change things but sometimes you just have to.

I'm a week late in posting dome things but here is the curret challenge at HMITM :

It's called just relax:

The challenge is to do a layout:

- About something that you find relaxing.
- Close your eyes and dig into your stash of scrap patterned papers and randomly pick out at 6 or more pieces of papers and use those on your layout. No peeking!
- Do the same thing and pick 10 or more random buttons, ribbons or pearls.
- Use 3 bits and pieces lying around on your desk (not patterned papers). If you have a clean desk, use 3 left-overs from your last project.
- 1 recycled item

I scrapped two of my favorite men :

 
Then  the sketch challenge at Kitchen Keepsakes is up this month and some great and wonderful changes are going on there soon. Kitchen Keepsakes.

 
Time to get some things done - church, pack, laundry , shower and etc - not in that order though.

Clowing around and one week in is August gone already

It's going to fast this year this friend of mine summer and it's been a busy one. Things at the house are moving along and keeping me more than busy.

The lodge was filled to the brim last weekend with our annual weekend with the Davies group - I think there were 23 of us there, it's a blurr, 4 dozen eggs, 6 lbs. of bacon, pies, turkeys , 12 loads of laundry- mostly though it was a great weekend of time with friends.

Our challenge at HMITM went up on Monday and what a great collection of layouts the group had for it this time. Our challenge was Clowning Around.

We were to use:

* 8 buttons
* 1 flower
* 11 different patterned papers
* one red circle (for the clown's nose)
* Mist or paint
 I got everything in but the paint or mist - I have no idea where those are packed at the moment.

 

 
 This weekend we have the Pittsburgh group there so we'll be joining them for the weekend or they joined us which ever way you want to say it. There will be 18 of us tonight so I need to get my baking done.