Moving Week Has Arrived

I decided after much stress, packing, cleaning, painting, moving . . . did I mention stress, that I would sit for one or two minutes and blog. I am to be in my new condo on Monday, so this past week has been a packing week. Last week was a painting and steam cleaning week. The week before that was a puttying and sanding week. So , no I haven't been in Vegas or Disneyland or on a hot beach relaxing. I am soooooooo tired and not done yet. I , weird as it sounds, hope I don't get called into work tomorrow, so I can get some moving done. As terrible as it sounds, I can't give up a day of teaching if they call me in. It eats me up and I can always use the money. Most schools have parent-teacher interviews tomorrow, so I think I'll have my day off. I did take some pictures of some pages, I just haven't had the time to post them. So, I hope next week brings some updates. I hope you are all well. Talk with you soon.

Jade - Co-op Kids' Club Newsletter

I'm kind of glad Jade doesn't look at this blog often. I told her she would be glad I did this page one day when she is older. We picked up a movie this past week and then ran over to the Co-op to get some munchies, when I spotted this Newsletter. I picked it up and pointed it out to her. Of course, her eyes rolled into the back of her head. The clerk was wondering about it so I pointed to Jade in the flyer and then at Jade beside me. She smiled and told the next clerk. They thought it was as neat as did I. Jade kind of giggled too. I thought I should get it onto a page before the flyers weren't around anymore. I popped up a bunch of things on this page: the computer screen, the crayons, Jade and the title. It really looks neat in person. Since there was so much to put on the page because of the flyers, it was almost done by the time I glued everything down. I just wanted to highlight her.

Dream Machine

Sorry the colors went so "whack" on this post. I have always loved this line of Basic Grey so I brought it out of the stash. I used some amazing Prima felt (cut it a bit to make it fit), some Prima chipboard letters and some ribbon. Enjoying the page, enjoying the car. Just wish I could keep it clean in this mess we call Saskatchewan snow/sleet/flurries/slush/melt/mud mess.

No More Tough Guy Stuff Please

I decided to change the entire mood of this page. It began as a "Tough Guy" page. Then I decided that I didn't want to highlight the crazy things Matt had done; but rather state the point that the crazy things he did/does almost cost him his life. Watching my teenagers and thinking back to when I was a teenager and looking at Matt, I realize that teenagers think drastically different than adults. They think they are invincible and outwardly state that "they don't care" about the consequences. Well, after almost losing him to a single rollover accident on the highway (where the driver of his vehicle was killed) I feel it more responsible to scrapbook this page this way showing that I'd rather have him slow down, take care and stay alive. It's not worth losing our friends and family . . . So, I popped up some stars, added some orange brads on the large star, added to the title using rub-ons, added an orange circle using the coluzzle, a Creative Cafe arrow and journalled about Matt's accident on a hidden tag. Now I feel it's done.

When I Look At You . . .

This has always been a special picture to me. Somehow the page came together quite easily the other day. I found these sayings on on old sheet of patterned paper and the rest came together quite easily. I wasn't sure about the rub on but after the butterfly was applied and stickled, the stickles easily became a part of the rest of the page. I wanted to make sure that Lucas was not lost on the page.

Hot Rod Sucker

This was a fun page to do. I wanted to use the bicycle paper which had the blue on the back. I folded the bike paper back so you could see the blue. I used some mesh and then some ink around everything. I found one of Lucas's old play car wheels in with my buttons. I inked it and "drove it" across the page several times. I also made the title in the same way. I used rub-ons for part of the title. The next day I made a "sucker" out of a sucker stick and the sucker part out of glossy accents and Tim Holtz Lettuce ink. I made it on plastic and let it dry for hours. I cut it out of the plastic and glued it to the page.

Hi Lil' Guy

Man, doing this page was a challenge. Everytime someone came up to the counter at work, they looked at me with big eyes and asked whose baby it was. No, it's not Jade and Nathan's. The baby is Ty, my friend Rhea's baby. This was the first time he visited our house and everyone got to hold him. Jade was used to holding babies because of her twin baby sisters. Nathan on the other hand, had never held such a little baby before. Check out the old, old pink paper, my grandma's buttons and old ribbon. Cool huh?

Tough Guy

These papers looked so good together that I just had to do the page. I found a picture of my nephew Matt that looked perfect on it. I used some old foam stamps to do the title. I don't think I'm done with this page yet, but it was snowing outside and the store was closed and I had to drive across the city to get Jade so I just said it was done for the day. Any suggestions?

My Daughter Jade

I used an older chipboard flourish and added some Stickles and glitter. I used a couple of our dies for the shapes and some old flowers too. I wanted to do this page because of what Jade said the other day. When someone mentioned that we had the same eyes, Jade said that it was a good thing because she always liked my eyes. It made my day.

daydream

I have used this picture a few times here and there because I like pictures of people when they don't know I am taking their picture. Jade loves pink and the opposite side of the paper was herringbone. I added the blue because of her shirt. The rub-ons were left overs as was the ribbon and button. I love simple uncluttered pages like this.

Found some old pictures of the girls playing with their Polly Pocket Dolls in the basement closet. They used to love this. If they disappeared for awhile, I knew they were down their in their own little world of dollies. I added a few inches of ribbon, a rub-on and some buttons. Makes for a cute page . . . simple and effective.

Life is an Adventure, Live It!

Lucas loved teaching his cousins how to ripstick. I guess, just like anything, once you've learned how to do something, you make it look easy to do. Well, Matt thought it looked easy . . . until he wiped out. So I used some new Heidi Swapp paper and added some old rub-ons and ink. Makes for a boyish looking boy page.

Pookie Lion

This was one of my favorite trick or treaters this year. Rhea made Ty this adorable lion costume. He came over, sat, cooed, rolled over, ate and was just plain old cute all night until he fell asleep. What a cutie pie.