P 52--Week 12

Good morning friends! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Mine was pretty good!  I didn't get a whole bunch accomplished but I still feel good about what I did get accomplished including the scrapbook pages I'm showing you today!  A-Manda Creation has a brand new kit out called Movie Night.  It is SO fun that I tried to talk Kyler into having a movie themed birthday party but he stuck with the football theme instead.  I know he'll have a much better time with his football theme though!

These are the pages for week 12 of my P52.  I am right on track with this project and, frankly, I'm pretty happy with myself for sticking with it this long.  In between these layouts I create for the A-Manda Creation creative team as well as for things like Jon's mid-tour leave and I'm going to take on my Hawaii photos here this week.  Should be fun!

 

I went to see Act of Valour with my friend, Lori (yep, Lori and she was the first person that I met when we moved here).  Her son recently enlisted in the Army, completed basic training and moved to New York.  Lots of change for her!  Anyway, I wasn't sure how I was going to do with the movie but it was actually really good!  I enjoyed it a lot...'til the end when...well, I won't tell you so that if you see it I don't ruin it for ya. 

The photo above is approximately what the two page layout will look like together.  For whatever reason I couldn't get it exactly straight for the preview but I know it will look great all printed out!

So...I hope you have an amazing Monday!  It will be what you make it so make it a GREAT one!

Thought of the day:  If only our tongues were made of glass.  How much more careful we would be when we speak.  ~Shaun Shane

Happy Snail Mail

Happy Friday morning friends! Anyone else doing a little because it is Friday? It has been a good week off of school for Kyler but I'm definitely ready for Friday.  Thank you for stopping in today to check out the new sketch from Sketches by Carly and what I made with it.  I hope you head on over to the Sketches by Carly blog to participate!  This sketches sponsor is Carly's Digi Shop!  So, not only does Carly make up super cute sketches but she designs digi's too including the cute Snail I used on my card.

o, you know I got the snail from Carly's shop, the paper is from MME and is called Happier.  That is some uber cute paper for spring!  I think this will be fun to send to a long distance relative.  Inside it says "sending you happy snail mail."  Who doesn't like mail that isn't a bill?

It was a late night for me last night.  I was messaging on Facebook with a friend when she told me that she was in the ER with her 2 year old son who had experienced a seizure.  I asked if her husband was with her, she said no (he works about 2 hours away), so I called Todd and had him run over there and then I went to sit with her until her husband got there.  What a scary experience for them.  Hold and hug your children a little tighter tonight, k?

Thought of the day:  Being a mom is the best decision I made in my life.  Few other decisions have brought so much joy and love into my heart.

Antique Rose

Yep, can you believe it? I'm here two days in a row!  Hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday so far!  I've got another scrapbook page to show you.  I received some photos of the Victorian house that my mom and dad turned into a bed and breakfast in the mail the other day and scanned a this photo to get a scrapbook of that time started.  I used the gorgeous kit from A-Manda Creation called Timeless.  That kit will be perfect for scrapping these pages!

This is my mom and dad.  I believe they used the photo on this page on the website they had for the B&B.  I think my mom would have liked this page!  I'm entering this into Lets Get Sketchy!'s 3rd Challenge. 

Thought of the day:  Love on the ones your with as they won't always be with you.

More P52 Pages

Happy Tuesday friends! I just thought I'd stop in and show you my last two weeks of my P52 project. As we go through these longs weeks of March with not much going on it gets harder to find something to scrap about. Soon, though, things will be picking up and then I'll have all sorts of things to share!

So, during week 10 I joined a short term class at Jazzercise called Ballet Body.  It is pretty kick butt however I do find myself stronger each time I take the class...about three times a week.  My weight loss partners and I won that week, too.  And, I was elected Corresponding Secretary of my PEO chapter that week.  Both of these pages are made with Look Whoo, a new set from A-Manda Creation that isn't even out in the store yet. 

Last week was a very slow week but good none the less.  we had a new Carl's Jr open up here in town.  Todd and Kyler went to the grand opening...arriving probably at 5:45 AM!  They were giving out coupons for a combo a week for a year for the first 75 (but actually gave away 95 of them) but Todd and Kyler didn't make it into that 95 people.  Funny thing is they didn't even eat there as they didn't have the time to wait.  They went to Perkin's. 

Alright, there you have it for the day.  I hope your week is going well so far!  We are supposed to get some snow today, rain tomorrow.  Ick!  I'm so done with winter!

Thought of the day:  The phrase 'working mother' is redundant. 

St. Patty's Day

Nope, we are not Irish in this house but I am, for really the first time, having fun with St. Patty's day this year!  I'm even going to make corned beef and cabbage...a little different from the traditional recipes but I'm doing it!

I also made these super cute Leprechan hats for my "kids" (Kyler, Scott, and Ashley).  They are a new template by Creations by AR.  I will say that while I like the way this looks it literally took me 'til the third time to get this right.  I won't go into detail but, needless to say, none of these are perfect but I don't think the kids care!  I used the SVG file and cut it out with my Cricut so the actual cutting time was really nothing.  The biggest problem?  I now have two open bags of Hershey's Kisses in my craft room.  NOT a good thing.  I think I need to move them out of here!

It has been a great last couple of days for me.  Well, Thursday I did not feel well at all and pretty much sat around all day but Friday was great!  And I know today is going to be a great day too!

Well, that is it for me today.  Be prepared for lots of posts next week!  Have a wonderful weekend! 

Thought of the day:  An Irish saying for you.  May the luck of the Irish possess you. May the devil fly off with your worries. May God bless you forever and ever.

A quickie today...

Hey, there friends. It has been a busy week, can you tell? I'm just stopping in today with a quick sympathy card that I made this morning.  I cannot take credit for it though.  I saw it HERE and just knew it would be lovely this way too. 

I used Basic Grey cardstock/ink from SU! as well as Cherry Cobbler for the flowers.  Just added a bow with some lovely black satin/organza ribbon that I had in my stash.  The main image is from PTI and the 'With Sympathy' is from a*muse studio.  On the inside I just added a piece of white with the same corners and a sympathy sentiment.  I will be using this layout again as it is lovely and pretty quick to put together.

Hopefully, I will be back soon but in the meantime...have a great day!

Contest Page

Good Saturday morning friends! Who has fun plans for the weekend? I have a Lemongrass Spa party this afternoon but other than that...I am pretty free for most of the weekend which is always nice!

Today's page is one I've been wanting to make for awhile.  I have several photos of Jon from his golf days during high school.  This week the challenge on the MyMemories blog is to create a page with an A Saxon Creation kit.  Since I had bought her Golf Guy kit a while back to use with Jon's photos I thought it would be a good chance to make a page.  Isn't this such a fun page and kit?  I love the elements in this kit...that golf cart is fabulous!  So...I'll enter this page in the contest but I have never won a contest with a page I've made so I'm not expecting much. 

Anyway, enjoy your Saturday!

Sketchees by Carly #51

Happy Friday friends! I am so pleased to be at Friday...how about you?  It is also a fun, bright day on my blog today for the 2nd week of Sketches by Carly #52.  Like I told you last week the design team has been split into two teams and it is my week to share with you...yay!

This week's sketch is so versatile!  I used some patterned papers that I just have in my stash for this birthday card which is obviously male oriented.  The image is from Bugaboo, the sponsor of sketch #51.  Bugaboo will be giving the winner of this sketch 7 images of their choice.  What a great prize!

Alright, so hop on over to Sketches by Carly to see what the other design team members have made and get busy using the sketch so you can enter to win the Bugaboo digi's!

Thought of the day:  Hugs were invented to let people know you love them without saying a word. 

P52 Week 9

Good Wednesday morning all! Here we are at Wednesday this week.  This is the part of the week that always just flies right by...next thing I know it is Friday.  I like that!  I've got my most recent P52 pages to show you today.  Nope, they don't match and I'm totally okay with that.  Since the content was completely different as far as pictures went (and I wanted to play with a new kit) I decided to go mis-matched.  Kinda fun, I think!

So the kit on the right is another new one by A-Manda Creation called Beary Lucky.  It is crazy how fast Amanda is cranking out these great new kits, huh?  In case you can't tell it is a St. Patrick's Day kit but has plenty of accents for non-St. Patrick's Day layouts, too.  I gotta tell you though...I can't wait to get some St. Patty's pictures so I can use the cute bear embellishments, too!  (Click on the photo to see the pages larger)

Alright, friends...this is just a short post today so I'm off.  I hope you have a fantastic day today!

Thought of the day:  Love your parents.  We are so busy growing up we often forgot they are busy growing old. 

Timeless

Good Monday morning friends! I hope you had a great weekend!  It was a pretty low key weekend for me...as usual.  Today, I have a couple of pages to show you that are from another new A-Manda Creation kit.  This kit is called Timeless and is amazing for any older type of photos you might have.  I'm awaiting some photos of the bed and breakfast my mom and dad used to own.  It was called the Antique Rose Bed & Breakfast and I know the photos will be perfect with this kit.  In the meantime I've made a couple of pages with some old photos of me that I found the other day. 

The above pages has the oldest of the photos that I found.  The bigger photo is of me when I was 6 months old.  The photo on the top right is my brother and I and the bottom photo is of me with my grandma.  Those photos are a treasure for me.

The photos above are, obviously, school aged photos.  I don't know exact ages and I stink at guessing that type of thing but I'd say the top two are late elementary/early middle school and the bottom is probably 2nd grade or so.

I'm trying to figure out how to place two 12x12 pages on one 12x24 layout out so that I can show you them side by side.  I haven't figured it out yet but I will!  I may have to use PSE...we shall see.

That is it for today.  Have a wonderful Monday!  See you soon!

Thought of the day:  Made today ridiculously amazing!

Wishing you...

It's Friday and I'm doing the (happy dance in case you can't tell)!  I'm not sure why as my weekends are much like my weekdays but Friday still makes me happy!  Guess what today is?  Today we get a new sketch from Sketches by Carly.  The SBC design team has now been made into two teams, one will post the day the sketch starts and one will post the next week...we want to make sure you have lots of inspiration for the sketch!  Technically this is not my week to post but I happen to adore the card I made so I decided to post this week and next! 

So our sponsor for this sketch is Bugaboo.  They are nice enough to let us choose which image we'd like to work with (which is hard because all of their images are soooo cute!) so I chose this cute lucky turtle.  I paired it with a sentiment that says 'wishing you all the very best' and some cute St. Patrick's Day papers, added some fun twine and pearls and wahlah...a cutie card!

You can hop on over to the Sketches by Carly blog to see the sketch and what my design team sisters have made as well as see the actual sketch which my card is pretty true to.  Remember the winner of the sketch will receive SEVEN digital images from Bugaboo...they are so generous, aren't they?

Well, that is it from me today.  I hope you have a wonderful day and weekend!

Thought of the day:  If you have the courage to begin you have the courage to succeed! 

Purple Petals

Good morning friends!  How is your week going?  Good I hope.  If it hasn't...hang in there...the weekend is coming and maybe you can get some rest then!  I have a couple of more scrapbook pages for you.  These are using the new Purple Petals kit from A-Manda Creation.  I normally don't have any reason for a purple colored kit, having all boys you know, but I really like how these turned out. 

Todd and I love to spend time in Leavenworth for our anniversary.  We go through the shops, eat at our favorite restaurants, stay at our favorite bed and breakfast (that is if we can stay two nights as that is their requirement) and recently we added some hiking into the mix.  I love that!  The views are just incredible!  This particular anniversary we added a guided wine tour in an SUV limo to the mix of things.  While it was fun I wish we would have paid the extra for it to just be Todd and I.  A couple of people in the group were a bit...unique.  I guess many people would think Todd and I are unique, too though so I'll just be quiet now. 

I hope you like these pages.  I think they are quite lovely.  Tomorrow is a new sketch from Sketches by Carly so I hope you'll stop by so see what I came up with!  I can tell you that I really like my card this time AND I didn't forget this time!

Thought of the day:  Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

Need you to make a change....

First thing, first.  I know, if you are a blogger or follow any blogs, you know that Google Friends connect is going away as of March 1st.  That has caused those of us with Google Friends Connect to find a new way to make it easier for our friends to follow our blog.  So...I have added Linky Friends.  It is as easy to use as Mr. Linky is so I hope you'll make the change over with me!

Please know that I will remove the Google Friends Connect widget from my side bar on March 1st.  PLEASE make the change over to Linky Friends now so you won't miss any of the fun content that I will post in the future!

***Need a little incentive?  How about I do a giveaway on March 1st and choose the winner from all of the names that are following me in Linky friends?  How about a $10 gift certificate to the online store of your choice?  Yeah, I thought you'd like that!  Now go...follow me on Linky Friends!***

This post will stay at the top until March 1st so please scroll down to see my most recent creations!