My Love for Fast Cars

Under most circumstances, if asked, I would spend the vast amount of my spare time scrapbooking. That is, unless I am given the choice to spend a sunny day cruising around in a fast, old car. A new small car is wonderful for when I am looking for fuel efficiency; however, I am talking about my other, other passion. When it is not about my children, my man, my career, my family or hobby of scrapbooking. When I just want to do something for myself: sitting in a 60's or 70's Firebird, Camaro, Corvette, 'Cuda, Charger, Challenger, GTO, GTX, Roadrunner . . . the list goes on (but ends abruptly before Mustangs) is what soothes stress in me and gets my adrenaline pumping. I love the sound of 350 or 400 Big Block and as crazy as it sounds I love the smell of gas, grease and leather interior. Chrome is a thing of beauty as is the lines of these cars. Well, as you can tell, I spent part of the weekend taking a look at some cars. This one is my favorite . . . having had two of them myself and driving them whenever I could. I rebuilt the 400 in the 1967 and loved driving it (mainly because it had a vertical shift and rumbled when it idled). Enough car talk, I'll get to scrapping the pictures as soon as I get them developed. Hope everyone else had a great weekend.

Love You Madly Sweet Love You

Used up some older paper here, a scalloped heart, some bling, rub-ons, buttons, flowers, did some doodling and added some of the flower grid chipboard from the Maya Roads tin. I painted it pink and figured out how to make it into a heart. The xoxo on the bottom are also from the grid chipboard pieces with STICKLES on them. Another PINK page for my PINK Jaderoo.

Basic Grey

Basic Grey pricing has come down a bit (thanks to the Canadian dollar). We still have some in the store and will hopefully be getting more in soon (I can't stop using it -- it is wonderful) The colors seem to work well with so many different kinds of photographs. Come on in to Just Scrap It - The Scrapbook Shop and check out all of the new layouts.

pUGLY dogs

Used some of the Jolee's Boutique stickers for these older pictures of Cal with his two Chinese Pugs. These pups were unique. The Runt (Lincoln) was bought first and Kleff came from another family when she was two or three. Lincoln thought that she was the boss and constantly tried to prove it. They were originally bred as fighting dogs in China and you saw it daily in Cal's house. I think the funniest thing about them was the "lack of bark". Lincoln "barked" at the TV every time there was an animal on it -- she was the ultimate "tough chick" but she could fit in a shoe box.

Mutant - Cal at the Water Fight

A little new, a little old. I used a new basic grey line here and some old embellishments. The circular grid is from a Maya Roads tin. I painted the grid black and used a few of the circles on the bottom -- painted them green and put glossy accents on them.

Sharon and Dionne

This was my favorite picture Dionne and I took while she was in town. We visited a few times around her family reunion commitments. In May, she helped raise money for Breast Cancer by agreeing to shave her head if they reached a certain goal. It is starting to grow back now. Lucky for Dee, she can pull off pretty much any hairstyle (as we have seen before). Fortunate for me, the picture worked well with my favorite new line of Basic Grey.

Journalling

It's a blue blue kind of day (overcast). I loved the thunderstorms over the weekend; however, it didn't do much for the hair and dressy clothes during our 25th Highschool Reunion. Got some photos, gettin' more online soon. Album up and coming! Again, not home, can't upload pictures of my new pages. Will try to do so tomorrow if I can get to MY computer. Gearing up for Rhea's wedding. I'll be one of the ones in ORANGE.

Dionne

Dionne was in Saskatoon today. I snapped a few photos and will try to scrap them and get them blogged soon. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.

This Book Belongs to Lucas

The Scenic Route Collection of Stickers had this "This Book Belongs to . . ." so I used it with my favorite picture from his party . . . one that captures the mood of the day . . .I am around on my 40th page of the album. Done the waterfight, the gift opening and the guests. Still have to work on cake, nintendo and breakfast. Hope to be done soon.

Lucas' Birthday Book

I used the Scenic Route Paper and Sticker line for Lucas' Birthday Book. The sayings and colors were perfect.
I took pictures of each of the kids that came to Lucas' Party. They were all soaking wet but happy and in a rush to get on with their war.
The neighbor got in on the fight. There seemed to be so many pictures that I wanted to use so I used them all.

Lucas' 8" x 8" Birthday Album

I am twenty-five pages into an 8" x 8" album for Lucas about his birthday party. Forgot my camera today, but will try to get some pages online for you asap. Used Scenic Route paper and stickers which have worked very well. Makes an album easy and fast.

Earth Muffin

Deb coined this phrase for me. Sky is my nature lover. She takes care of plants, animals, insects, reptiles, etc. So, when Deb saw these pictures, she called Sky my Earth Muffin. To me, a muffin is a healthy comfort foot and Sky is happy and healthy when she is outside in nature. The term fit her perfectly. Her favorite color is green, so I went with this Crate Paper line. The title is a Technique Tuesday acrylic font that I colored in with our fantastic gold gel pens. "Muffin" is chipboard painted.

A Project and a Page

Lucas loves to play chess with his friends at school; so, I decided to make him a chess/checker board using some of the paper from the store. I painted a canvas with "Shopping Bag" paint and then distressed it with Tim Holtz ink and then sprayed it with water. After it dried, I sprayed it with webbing spray and again let it dry. I covered the board with paper as I wanted it to look and then used bottle caps for the chess/checker pieces. I sprayed webbing on the tops of the caps in two different colors for checkers and then filled the insides with the appropriate chess pieces and then filled them with Glossy Accents. Again, waiting for it all to dry. Since I enjoyed the webbing so much, I did a page of Sky with it and added some "Stickles" lines and dots around the circle. It's nice to do something different once in a while. Now, I'm off to do Lucas' 10th Birthday Album. I think it will take an entire album.

Surprise

This was the first, big, real SURPRISE party Lucas has ever experienced in his ten-years. Faith got him to the backyard gate exactly on time and all fifteen or so of his friends from school were ready and poised for attack. The waterguns and waterballoons were empty within minutes which gave Lucas some time to regroup, get his nintendo gear out of the way and get his watergun which was strategically placed just inside the gate. You can see the waterguns spraying him in the picture. He loved his party so much and has already asked to have another one next year. Except he wants to know about this one. The shock was a lot for him. We had about 20 kids in the backyard for the day until around 7 or 8pm and then some for a sleepover. I think the last guest left the next evening around supper time. Lucas didn't want it to end.

Beach Mutant

Even the Big Boys enjoyed the waterfight. While I was taking pictures out in the front yard, Cal ran out from the backyard, did a somersalt, jumped up and sprayed Dean the next-door-neighbor (he looked like a commando dude). The fight elevated and within minutes the 10-year olds were on Dean like flies. Cal came in and dried off . . . then the doorbell rang and he went to answer it. It was Dean with Josh in front of him like a shield. When the guns ran out of water, Cal let Dean in. Cal asked where Josh was. Dean replied: "Hey man, it's every man for himself, he's on his own." I asked if he was enjoying himself and he said, "Ya, until I started losing." I guess the funny part about it is that Dean is a Saskatoon Police Officer. That says alot for 10-year old boys.

Round One

Once Lucas got into the yard and on the deck, he got attacked and attacked over and over again. Finally, I got some of his friends to be on his side. Here you can see his best friend since kindergarden, Reed (with the glasses) helping Lucas out. After talking to Lucas since the party, he said he had never been so scared or surprised in his life. He wasn't sure how to react. Since Faith couldn't get his Nintendo case out of his hands, Lucas was scared his games were ruined. They weren't though, his plastic case saved them from all wetness.

The Ammunition

It took a few hours the night before to load all of this ammunition. This is approximately 500 water balloons (a few broke while filling them). We strategically placed the buckets around the yard so they could be used throughout the fight. Some buckets weren't found until later which was nice because it only takes minutes to throw 500. We still have to pick up the broken balloons off of the lawn . . . fun job. We also had about 20 water blaster guns. I had bought 16 and some kids brought their own. Each guest got to take home a watergun . . . which was also a hit.

Jade and Nathan

Jade and Nathan spent the majority of the waterfight in the house peeking out. Nathan said, "Those kids are insane!" He played some Nintendo with them later when they came into the house. Then later Jade and Nathan had their own waterfight while the 10-year olds were eating supper, cake and unwrapping gifts.

Just a Note

It seems like such a long time since I have been able to blog. I have been working on a birthday present for my son and it has taken me quite some time. I finished today and will have some pictures here for you soon...can't ruin the surprise. My Spud is turning 10 tomorrow...which is both wonderful and sad for me too. My baby is a "two digit" age. I just hope he never gets tired of sitting on my lap or chatting with me as he does so often. He has such a wonderful soul...so sweet...yet so boyish...love it...love him. My Jaderoo turned 15 yesterday; she is so beautiful, she has the heart of an angel and the bedroom of the tazmanian devil. Can't wait for them to get home tomorrow so we can celebrate their birthdays. Hope to get some good pictures. I'll let you see soon. Hopefully everyone has had a great long weekend.