12X12 pages....

One page of I THINK what is going to actually turn out to be THREE. GASP!!! Nikki's last Bday party with her friends in Ca. Not THE BEST layout NO DOUBT but it's DONE!!! And she'll like it. I KNOW she'll want all these pics. It IS for her after all.....

SIMPLE, SIMPLE!!!

Page 2 of 2

Joe and I have fun hiding eggs for the kids on Easter. This year I didn't get extra candy--like they need it anyways...so we put little trinkets from around the house in the eggs....Nikki got a BP keychain. LOL

Easter Page one of 2.....

I KNOW I'm backwards tonight....I uploaded the pics first and did them backwards....work with me tonight huh?! :)

Page 2 of 2

Page one (left side page) of a two page layout.....what I'm TRYING to get away from...

I have a bit to finish up here.....like a lot....need to journal and probably add some type of embellishment.....any suggestions?

Sammo playing inside some storage boxes. This was way BACK when we lived in Ca....

Gosh these pics make me SMILE!

He was such a little boy!

Samuel and his best friend Riley.....last year. I just HAPPENED to be outside to get these pics......LOVE 'em!

Samuel's 'Treasure Leg'. The story behind these pics......

I'd JUST come home from class a few years back and Sammo was talkin', talkin', talkin from the moment I stepped inside the door. I was half paying attention to him....just getting home, dinner time, long day etc, etc.... Finally....I get down the stairs and I ask him, 'What? Samuel WHAT do you need???' When he responds, "LOOK Momma! It's my treasure leg. And 'X' marks that spot!!" I looked down and YES, indeed, he'd made himself a treasure leg complete with 'X' marking the spot. HOW could I be mad....even though he'd written ALL up and down his leg? Nope! I whipped out my camera and took some pics!!! What a memory! :)

So...this is ONE of those pages that needs some finishing too....Looking for some of those lightweight gold coins....we had some around here SOMEWHERE.....of COURSE NOW that I'm looking for ANY.....nope! Can't find a ONE!!!!

Alright well I DO work in the am so I'm going to bed NOW.........

Thanks for stopping by. I KNOW it's been FOREVER since my last post. Just been SO busy!!!

I'm kinda feeling 'back in the groove' now and I'm REALLY feeling the DESIRE to scrapbook again so HOPEFULLY I'll be a little more consistent with my postings.

Have a GREAT week!!!

-S

Scrapbook Retreat

I went to a FABULOUS Scrapbook Retreat last weekend. I've been SO SUPER busy since I got back that I haven't had a chance to think about, much less post, pictures of what I got accomplished. I certainly didn't complete as many pages as some of the other girls BUT I had to take care of a few things while I was there AND my husband had JUST returned (the first day of the retreat) from being gone for a month so he came down and stayed in the room with me the second night. :)

I promised Lainey I would post them today. I'm a girl of my word......so here goes......YES! It is 9:38 PM and Lainey is PROBABLY headed to bed if she isn't there yet BUT the day isn't over for me quite yet!! :)

Some of the pages DO need some finishing touches.....that is ONE of the things about being ANYWHERE aside from my OWN studio.....I never know what ALL to bring......SO yes.....I need to finish a few things up.

Right now I'm finishing up a 12X12 album for both Nikki and Samuel so I have some 12X12 pages BUT I also picked up an inexpensive 8X8 album ($7 at Walmart-last one!) and decided I was going to use it for ME....just those pics I probably have doubles of that will go in the kids' book but that I want too. So I worked on some of those........

Looks like blogger isn't going to cooperate with me tonight so I'll post the 8X8's first and put the 12X12's in the next post.

I am going VERY simple these days. LONG GONE are the days of spending hours on a page. I am TOO far behind and have TOO many pages to scrapbook!!

This is my handsome husband! This picture was taken...geesh I can't remember either last summer or the summer before.

SIMPLE or WHAT?!?

Man, I LOVE this man!!! :)Me and 'Beans'.

This picture was taken a FEW years ago....she and I went to see Kenny Chesney in Spokane.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this paper!!!

I LOVE this picture. One of the few of just me and her.

Teeheeehee.....

Joe's and Sammo....Sammo was SO little then. I did a 12X12 pretty much the SAME thing except for where the green rub on is here there on the other it says, Like Father Like Son. Just LOOK at those crazy looks! LOL

My Beans......

Easter a few years ago. My GOSH!! LOOK at how YOUNG she looks!!! Her hair was SO long.....I think it makes her look even younger!!

Ahhhhh......My DEAR Sweet friend Pat, and her new husband George, Pat, who is also Sammo's Godmother. I LOVE this woman!!

I didn't do any journaling....she sent me the pics....I wasn't there......

This is the last of the 8X8's....

I have a few finishing touches to add to this page....just didn't have a few of the things I wanted to use there.

Anyways.....this is my friend Jan. We used to work together....some of us got together for her birthday to celebrate....

Looking at the layout now........again......I think I WILL add some journaling.

Anyways.......those are my 8X8 pages. I'll see if Blogger is going to play nice so I can add the rest!!

PICTURE CHALLENGE

The 6th Picture Challenge...

I've been challenged by LAINEY!!!! (I {heart} you Lainey!!!!)
These are the challenge instructions:
•Go to your photo folder in your computer.
•Go to the 6th folder of the photos.
•Go to the sixth picture.
•Put the picture on your blog and description of it.
•Invite six friends to join the challenge.
•Link them in your blog and let them know they have been challenged!

Of ALL the places I'd be somewhat 'organized' it WOULD have to be my pictures. UGH. They're all organized by year and then month.....

SO, this is my picture!

It's from a few weeks back when I went ice fishing with Joe. This is him, drilling one of the holes. Good time.

SO....I tag:

* Laurie @ Live, Love, Laugh, Create

* Rachelle @ The Ink Boutique (just because I haven't heard from her in a while)

* Aura @ Aura of Design (because I REALLY haven't heard from HER in a while!!)

* Katrina @ Kindred Thoughts and Things (because I'm wondering if she even REMEMBERS HOW to blog?!?) :)

* Peggy @ Colour du jour

and...........

* Courtney @ Created by Courtney

Or course just because you're name doesn't appear here....FEEL FREE to consider yourself tagged!! :)

Charlene's Birthday Card

This is the birthday card I came up with for one of the girls at work, Charlene. Interestingly enough, I was inspired by one of the other girls' scrub tops.
Charlene was off all week last week, her birthday week, and just returned to work today. She liked it. I was pretty pleased with it too. :)

Materials Used:
Misc black cardstock, Daisy White CS (CTMH), misc hot
pink cardstock
True Black ink (CTMH), Bubblegum ink (CTMH)
Time Well Spent stamp set (SU!),, Birthday Blossoms (Stampendous)
Stickles-Star Dust

Samuel's Valentine's

I SO snagged this idea from

Laurie over at Just Give Me Stamps. If you've never visited her blog....GO!!! OH MY GOSH!! Her artwork is AMAZING!!! Hers are a little more involved. I needed a little simpler and easier. Most of my paper is scraps-which explains the varying colors of pink, for the girls of course. I embossed the cardstock with one of my cuttlebug folders punched the white strip with a MS punch adhered it all and added riboon. I worked on them today at lunch so I didn't have to worry about finishing them all tonight. (Samuel has to have his Valentine's turned in tomorrow....and NO candy this year....why we went for pencils!!) I think they came out pretty cute! I'm pleased. :)

I STILL have a birthday card, or TWO or THREE.....or more......to get done. Maybe tomorrow??? Have a GREAT week!!!

Sympathy Card

A sympathy card for my friend Katrina. Katrina's Aunt passed away last week and the services are today. Please say a prayer for Katrina and her family. She/They were very close to her Aunt Dorothy and I know she will be missed greatly.

Paper: Fancy Pants and CTMH(Twilight, Cranberry, Naturals) Inks: CTMH (Twilight, Cranberry, Golden Ember, Garden Green, Black) Ribbon: CTMH (Ivory) Stickles (XMas Red, Turquoise) Stamps: CTMH ?? Name?? OLD WOODIES set BUT my ALL TIME FAVORITE!!! and With Sympathy by Great Impressions

LOOK at what I got!!!!

First of all........

THANK YOU PEGGY!!!!!

Do I EVER feel SPOILED!!! :)

Peggy dropped this GORGEOUS bag off to me this evening!!!

If you remember I'd won it in Peggy's Comment Contest a while back but it wasn't quite finished....

It was SO WORTH the wait!!!!!!

I CAN'T WAIT to start using it now!!!!!

I ran into Peggy early today at their store here in town, I was buying some ingredients I needed for dinner.

I only wish I'd gotten a picture of Peggy at the door handing it to me now. LOL

Isn't it beautiful??!?!

You should only just see it IN PERSON!!

And the INSIDE!!!!

You MUST go to Peggys blog at Colour de Jour.

She has WAY better pictures posted. You have to scroll down a bit but they're there. I PROMISE!! :)

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You Peggy!!

I LOVE it!!!!

It's been a while. I know, I know......

My friend Korie is having a baby!!! Korie and I went to nursing school together and carpooled many 'a day together. She went with me a few weeks ago to Wenatchee, the day we went LOOKING for a dress for Nikki for Tolo--Oh My Goodness.....I'm thinking Korie won't be forgetting that day for quite some time AND I'm thinking she's REALLY HOPING for a BOY!! :) Don't get me wrong...girls are just fine............when they're BABIES!! Those of you who have, or who HAVE HAD, a teenage girl(s) KNOW what I mean!! Anyways.......

Korie is having a BABY, she went with me shopping for the day....we found this CUTE scrapbook AND matching paper (at Target none the less). She was admiring this book so I told her I'd make her up a scrapbook for the baby. I worked on it last week so thought I'd share what I've come up with. The pages are pretty simple but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

What do you think??

Front of the book. Korie can put a picture of baby in there when he comes. :)

This is the first page.

I THINK I'm going to somehow do 'Welcome (baby's name) or SOMETHING before I give it to her.....I just haven't figured out WHAT for sure yet.....

Ideas????

(TRY not to look at my HUGE MESS in the background). HOLY COW if you only saw my work area right now.......

I tried to couple these pages together BUT they're each separate so she can take them out and rearrange them how she likes.

As you can see.......

I didn't get too crazy embellishing these pages. I know Korie bought a matching sticker pack for this paper so she can use those if she likes.

I AM going to stamp some images from a stamp set or two for baby's weight, date etc....

The page on the left, and the wanna look like quilted pages are my favorites!! I don't know why.....

just are.

I think this is the ONLY page I did photo mats for....why?? Who knows?!

You never know how someone else is going to want to put their pages in.....

Another one of my favorites.

The square in the middle says:

"Life affords no greater responsiblity, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. -C. Everett Koop"

Isn't it the truth.

This is the last page.

It's a pocket page. I actually cut the page protector so the top will be protected and she can still put little momento's in the pocket. That little silver baby clip there kind of holds the page protector to the paper.

By the way......

This paper (Monkey Around Paper Pad), also from Target, to match the book is by K Marcella. There were 12 designs, 36 sheets for like eight and change in the pack and let me tell you it is a NICE paper. Not too thin not TOO heavy--a NICE weight! I'll definately buy more of this brand paper---LOL--silly me! I did!!

That's all for now.....

I'm off tonight so I'm HOPING to MAYBE get some creating done today. We'll see. I moved MORE stuff up from my other room last week and it's kind of a mess up here so I guess I REALLY should TRY to get some organizing done. We'll see what I feel like doing later on but right now I'm off to pick up Salvador!

Enjoy your Sunday!!!