Easter 2012

Holidays are always a big occasion in our family. I love when everyone gets together. We our known for mini golfing at weddings, and games at holidays. For this Easter we played the game where you have to open wrapped presents while bundled in winter gear. I got some great pictures from that day. 

 The paper line is an old Heidi Swapp, that a friend gave me. I love the brown paisley paper the best. I am starting to buy whole paper lines, realizing how easy it is to make a series of matching pages.

 The flowers above are an alcohol ink creation. I mixed the pink, pool, and lime green together, and then stamped the flowers over the alcohol ink. The stamps are from Stampin Up.

I have a minor love for buttons.

You can tell how awesome my extended family. Our February/March/April birthday picture is a small portion of all the birthdays we have to celebrate.

Basement Makeover

As many of you know, I'm a basement scrapper. I should be thankful that I have a scrap spot, but the basement was kinda gloomy for me. I had some blast from the past carpet, that was pretty atrocious. So when we re-carpeted the family room last month, I got the old carpet to come downstairs. Since we live close to a river, and are just out of flood plain, we just throw down the carpet on the floor. We don't bother with the pad and everything else. This was good enough for me. I was happy for any facelift.

Along with this room being my scrapbook area, it is also the storage area for ALL my college stuff. Aka kitchen stuff, living room stuff, and more. So I was trying to be really creative to cover up all the ugly boxes. I wanted this room to have some personality and homey-ness. 

My scrapbook station. I built this myself from scrap wood about 8 years ago.

Paper storage and my cuttlebug station

My favorite part (besides the obvious carpet) is the fabric cover on the entertainment center. I cannot sew....or thread the sewing machine...to save my life. So I got some fabric, ribbon, and liquid stitch glue from Hobby Lobby. And from there I cut out the dimensions of the covers, and put ribbon along the edges to hide my sloppy cutting.

I am super happy with my renovations. This room is so much nicer and has charm. Its no longer a pile of boxes. I'm still sick....I got the cold 9 days ago from my little darlings. I've got 2 scrapbook pages to share in the next few days. I've got lots going on, but I'm loving life!

Back to School

School is officially back in session. And I'm finally teaching !!!!!!!! I've got 21 little darlings in my classroom. So my scrappy time has been decreased as I focus on my teaching, students, and classroom.

I'm going to try and scrap on the weekends. I've also got 3 online classes along with teaching, so I'm definitely busy. I will post as I complete projects. I'm made some cute stuff for the classroom, but it has my students names, so I cannot post anything.

I will leave you with some pictures of my flowers which I am enjoying while the weather is nice.

Seniors Dinner

During my years at college, I had a good group of friends from my church. Since we knew we were all leaving at the end of the year, we had a dinner night for the seniors. We went out for fish and pizza and then to a bowling alley. We took a group picture to commemorate the fun night.

Our friend in the red shirt is quite short. He happened to stand on the ottoman for the first pic. Then we needed a silly second pic to point it out. I miss this group, but we had great times together.

There is a little tag sticking out of the top photo. I wanted to write down everyone's names, but keep them semi-private. I like the wrapping effect of the twine.

Leap Day Blizzard

Remember what happened on Leap Day this year? I woke up to a text saying classes were cancelled for the day. Eventually when I got out of bed and opened the shades, there was no snow on the ground. It was still dry. Turns out the storm had stalled a half hour south of town, dropping 3 feet of snow in the woods. We would eventually get hammered with a good foot of heavy wet snow.

Do you see the path? The snow drift is level with the big grill.

Snow is hard to tell how deep it is-but that bank is pretty tall...and over 4 ft to the aisle=1hr+ shoveling

 This was the resulting page from the blizzard. I'm pretty good at shooting pictures on the road. I love how pretty the snow is on the highway. Its all big pines in the woods. I had to wait to go home for my trip, because of the bad roads.

March Heat Wave

Sorry for the lack of blogging. I took off on a wonderful and much needed vacation. Granted it was cold and rainy for the most part, it was a nice break from technology. While I was gone, I found out that I passed my MTTC's which are the teacher certification boards. So I am officially a certified teacher for general elementary from grades K-5, and a special ed teacher for K-12. Student teaching this fall, and then graduation is right around the corner.

The driftwood tee-pee at the beach at Deaths Bluff

We hiked down the size of a huge bluff to the rock beach

People leave their own sculptures at the beach

I had a lovely crop night on Friday with the girls at Creations Galore. This page was from our March Heat Wave. Remember the week we were left scrambling for any warm weather clothes when we spiked from our normal 40's into the 80's. I dragged my friends for a walk at the park. You would never have known these pictures were taken at the same place on the same day.

I finally have some new pages to share in the next few weeks. I love how this page came together. I never imagined fall papers for a winter/spring page, but I love how right the base paper is. I wanted to drawn from the yellows of the sky.

Valentines Day Dinner and a storage solution

This year, some of the singles girls from my church decided to have a dinner out. We don't always get time alone, to just girl talk. So we all dressed up on Valentines Day, and went to Applebee's. In our college town, Applebee's is a pretty big deal. And of course any reason to put on a dress is a big deal.

The polka dot paper is from My Minds Eye. I found it on clearance at hobby lobby one day. I really am getting into my Tim Holtz Distress Inks. I love being able to alter the shade of a paper, to match the vibe of the page. I used to be into bright colors and straight lines. I'm turning towards a little bit more vintage and distressed looks.

I finally have the perfect solution for the foam stamp pads that attach to the distress tool. I didn't want to buy a tool per pad, and I didn't want to throw the pads away. If you use TH inks, you know that you apply them with a tool--which holds the different pads by velcro. I was at Target the other day-in the office supply isle. I found some velcro dots from Scotch. So I picked them up. And Voila!!!

I decided to use the under side of a cheapy shelf. This was the perfect spot. The pads easily pull off the dots, and the dots stay put!