Caught a Caterpillar

My favorite page that I have done lately. New paper, older pictures and playing a bit. I dunno, I really like it. Fun!!!

Growing Up

New Penny Lane paper with some old, old pictures. I cut out the "weed". The pictures need some explanation: the sword was carved by my brother Dale when he was into the "Hobbit" books. The "thing" in my mouth is a sausage. Ya, and that is my brother Ken.

Gamer

I cut out some of the patterned paper to create this page. Then I used a Jolee's and cut out the t.v. screen and put in a picture of what Lucas was playing.

riding

Twenty five pictures on a two page spread -- ya! Not much to say about this other than there are circles and tons of pictures -- but effective to capture the way the day went.

Gamers -- Lucas and Reed

These two boys have been best friends since their first day of kindergarten. They sat beside each other and have hung out always. They began gaming together and play everything online and on everything else together including riding bikes and playing baseball. This is the beginning of gaming and then came Runescape.

Special Kid

Old and new paper, old die cuts and cool memories. Lucas asked Faith to dance at Rhea's wedding. She loves to dance, she wanted to dance (and as Faith says -- her dumb boyfriend wouldn't dance with her). She got to dance a few times with strangers and her siblings. I think Mikey has learned his lesson because he danced with her recently at their winter formal.

Lucas . . . Again

Can you tell I did this one at home too. A new acrylic stamp with stickles, old acrylic lettering, old dies, old paper, old skeleton leaves and old sticker words. Now, while I know I don't get on line as much as I used to to update my blog, it seems that no one is out there looking. Are you guys still out there? I can't get onto the internet at work anymore and check anything and my home computer is acting up. I seem to not have much time to get my laptop so I must apologize for being lax. Hi Guys!!!!

My Kids - As Kids

I have found some more endearing pictures of my girls and am slowly getting them done. Again, using paper from home, I have created a few more children layouts. This first one is of Sky in the Baby Crawl. What a cute little munchkin. Love the baby colors.

Sky also has many expressions and always has ever since she was tiny. So I did this page because it is so her. All I had to do was add the striped paper which ended up looking like ribbons and then added some bling, flowers and some rub-ons. Again, scraps and stash from looking through stuff. Good title for my life: Scraps, Stash and Stuff.

Then there is this page of Faith in an outfit that Gram made for her. Must be where I got my love of crafting . . . watching Mom sew and knit and crochet. Now she does watercolor. My girls were so lucky to have my mom sew them these cute outfits. This was a new line of paper with old embellies.

Sharon as a Kid

I have decided to do some pages of my childhood while using up some papers I have at home. I cut out some daisies and added micro beads to them on this page. The other is about the floats we used to ride on as kids in Sutherland. Again, some old Basic Grey paper together with some newer embellishments. Stuff you never thought of putting together comes together when you are at home and have no other options.

Days Gone By

Yes, once again, I have ventured into my past and decided to begin doing some heritage pages (I guess I shouldn't call them heritage pages if I am in some of them). The Teresa Collins line has inspired me to do some more. It is nice to get some new heritage papers in and do some more. Ralna has ordered some more really cool stuff and I can't wait for it. I have taken most of my scrapbooking things home and taken some time to do some there.

sudoku

Yes, I have been broadening my horizons. While scrapbooking has always relaxed me, I find that I don't have the time to pull it out at home much. But, I have been doing it more lately because we have been so busy at work with work. So, just before bed, I read or do a sudoku puzzle to get my mind off of day to day stuff. There is also another diversion and I understand I share it with many other ladies: Mariokart Wii. Ya baby, what a blast. While I am very lame at it, I enjoy playing it with Lucas. He got me to play with him online with one of his friends the other day and . . . I beat the little noobs. Page to come . . .

Play Play Play

Cuteness or what? I have loved these pictures forever. I love how Lucas is looking inside the wooden train. He has always loved to play; usually with anything with wheels. I love to see the look on his face when he doesn't know anyone is watching. Love, love, love . . .

Vacation

We got this wonderful paper in at work a bit ago. When I was browsing through old pictures, I found this one and the colors matched. I did a simple, but effective page proving that, YES, once in awhile, I do smile.

Grade 1

I'm all over the place with this set of posts. Lucas in Grade 1. I have always loved these pictures. I love that you can see what Lucas is drawing on the while board. Such a cute picture. Then someone in the other pictures is so proudly holding his Canadian Flag up . . . upside down. Ya gotta luv Grade 1. They are so precious, honest and cutsie. Ralna's letter stamps stamped on the red, stamped on the yellow, cut out of the yellow and glued on the red.

Precious

I know I've used this paper already . . . but guess what? I love it. Then, the picture worked perfectly on it, so . . . I used it again. They will go in different albums, so I'm not worried.

Wheeler Wedding

Well, a few more pages done for Mike and Rhea's wedding. Unfortunately it is just like anything else with me, I do one and then do something else. As you can see by my other posts today, my topics are rather varied. Anyhow, I have four new ones for the Wheelers.