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had a day to stay home and scrap, yep , i almost forgot how but not quite!!! Here are the projects i created with the SavvyNSassy August sassy ribbon kit which is yummy. I LOVE red, always have, to wear and decorate with, i loved using it with all the different patterned papers.

Its still COLD here, rainy and dreary, i can see a wee bit of sunshine and blue sky but its not enough for me. I suppose we'll drain the pool this weekend (Cryin here big time) as it doesn't sound like it will warm up much and i'm sure the water is way too cold to enjoy. The kids are ready for back to school with new supplies and clothes, even though they are not anxious to really go back to school the preparation is always fun. I found myself some fab new shoes for work/school too so I'm all set!!

We have our tickets booked for Maui, our passports will be in our hands this evening, the condo's are booked and I've got part of my wardrobe already planned to take, it may be close to 2 months away but i know how fast time flies, sooo excited. It feels more official now but till i step foot on the airplane (a big jet which will be a first for me) It won't seem quite real.

SO hope you are enjoying summer and sunshine where you are!!! send some our way pretty pretty please!!!

Sunshine, where are you?

Just a quick post to let you all know we are home from our sunny okanagan holiday, the kids and i had a great time visiting and shopping and lazing on the beach (well mitch worked hard at perfecting his waterskiing skills and that means early mornings on Lake Okanagan) and i miss the heat and mom's good cooking already. It has not been nice since we got home, i sure hope summer isn't over here yet, we did not use the pool enough. This week i'm just getting unpacked and the house cleaned and stuff ready for the local fair that takes quite a bit of our time so its another busy week with no scrap time to speak off, i hope i don't forget how to make a layout when i finally do get back in the groove. will update soon with pics. Oh and love coming home to find goodies in my mailbox and today i got some gorgeous ribbon kits from Savvy N Sassy and i can hardly wait to play with them. Hope August is treating you well.

It figures...

Why is it that when you have all the time in the world and plan to do something creative, you have no mojo, no juices flowing, and then when you're out of time you have all the inspiration in the world. Yep, just not fair. But I was productive a bit yesterday and today so here are those layouts and ya know when something just clicks and you're giddy with excitement when its done? thats how i feel about 10 years later!! i just loved the photos (Sears portrait) and the color combo, fun with scalloped edges and a lil bling for fun. Here's hoping someone else likes it enough to publish it!!!

Happy to have taken Second place in the challenge contest at Life Preservers and can't wait to see the prize Shellye sends.

The kids and i are packing our suitcases and sleeping bags and heading to Bible camp sunday for the week so I'm praying for strength and patience and no cuts in the kitchen!! I'm sure it will be lots of fun, it usually is. Have a good week.

Ribbon Ribbon glorious Ribbon

I've been having lots of fun creating with the great Savvy N Sassy ribbon kit i got for my dt assignment for July. It coordinates with the Zany Zinnia Tropical Breeze Kit and you can get the Ribbon Kit here. Lovely collection of flower trim, chocolate ric rac, laces and ribbons, yum. Here are the projects as well as one i did last week with a photo of my Great Grandma (and the black ribbon from SNS which went so well with the paper line i used) that i found and enlarged. Remembering.

Its HOT HOT HOT and i LOVE LOVE LOVE it, swimming and sunning and relaxing. Life is good, hay is ready to be cut so hope we can get that done before the weather changes (or maybe it won't and we'll have another gorgeous summer which would suite me just fine).

YEAH, my books arrived, Understanding Exposure, Digital SLR's for Dummies and the Unofficial Guide to PHotoshop CS2 so guess what i have to read and study over the summer, LOTS of info to absorb and take in, but i know i will reap the benefits of understanding these two important (and most expensive) tools of the trade. And improving my photography is a goal i can work towards. Did i mention i LOVE my new camera? Apparently the 50mm 1.4 lens is da bomb so better start saving my pennies for it, its a pricey one.

Bzzzzzzzzzzz

I love summertime but NOT so much the bees that are always around and it seems there are lots this year. Poor Mitchell got stung (or bit) on the forehead the other day while out with his dad on the quads and his face is just getting back to normal, it swelled quite a bit, so perhaps we'll have to be prepared for a reaction next time around. My peony finally bloomed after 3 years, of transplanting from Grandmas gorgeous garden so that makes me happy, i hope the other one will next year.

Just a few layouts to share that i did this past week, got my first DT kit from Savvy N Sassy so will have lots of fun with the ribbons they put together I'm sure. And i am now the owner of an ATG tape gun, the grandaddy of taperunners LOL. Thanks Rhea for doing the legwork and bringing those in, I'm sure we'll all appreciate the seemingly endless feet of STICKY adhesive and not having to worry about running out, not to mention the economy of it. I've added a link on the side to the new Savvy N Sassy BLOG so be sure to check it out for contests and news and inspiration.

And if you haven't purchased the summer issue of Canadian Scrapbooker you should, its fab, and not just cause i've got two layouts in there LOL. I love that we have an all Canadian Magazine and it can be found at the grocery stores and Zellers i see now so easy to find. Enjoy.

Its suppose to be nice and hot the next few days so I'll be - yep, you guessed it, lounging outside by the pool reading a book!! with some scrapping thrown in there of course.

Summertime and the livin is Easy!!!

Well for now its easy and i can sleep in a bit. The kids are off to camp for the week, the sun is shining and the pool water is warming up, my camera has taken many pics already and i'm anxious to get them developed, i scrapped 4 pages for challenges at Savvy N sassy that i'll share and i'm excited to share that i made the Savvy N Sassy Design team starting July 1 so yeah, bring on the awesome ribbon kits!!!

I must say i'm proud of my kids, both coming home with Academic Achievement awards and excellent report cards, they wrapped up another season of 4-H and Greg and I enjoyed some serious horseshoes and bocce ball at the school staff bbq at the lake! IT feels good to say I have the summer off and i'm going to relish the next 2 months as my work load will be heavier in the fall than it has been since.........well probably before i had kids, i haven't worked out of the house "full time"for man years.......it will be a change and a challenge.

Here are some pics and pages for your viewing pleasure. Happy Canada Day everyone, fly your flag high and pray for our politicians and the decisions they have to make that effect all of us and our country as a whole!!! I pray that "GOD Keep our Land, glorious and Free"stays part of the national anthem forever!!!!

3 More days!!!

and school is officially finished, work for me is DONE for this year and we can say Summer's Here. I must say i'm still giddy with excitement at having finally got my new Camera, the Rebel XTi with a zoom lens. its awesome. learning how to use it to its fullest potential will be a job but i'm up to it. SPeaking of jobs, i was offered a 20hr/wk position at school working with a few kindergarten kids who need extra help, its not for sure yet but sounds good. will mean none of the unexpected call ins that subbing brings which i look forward to. Pray for me, i'll need extra patience and energy to do this job. :)

Anyway, despite the crazy busy past 2 months i've managed to create some layouts i'm happy with, here are a few of them. Just participated in an online crop at Scrapbookers Clubhouse and got 5 layouts done and they had a great WORLD theme and some awesome challenges. was lots of fun.

Jumping for Joy!!! its June

And that means the weather is warmer, the last day of school and work is almost here, 4-H is over and the kids are happy to have finished another successful year with their calves. the cows and calves are out on the pasture enjoying all the green grass, my summer sandals are out and ready to wear daily, my windows are all clean and sparkly (well almost all of them) and the flowerbeds are starting to share their colors (as well as those rotten dandelions :) . I can honestly say May went by with a blurr, just rediculously busy and the kids and i ended the month with colds but we are on the mend. Have lots of fun layouts to share with you, mostly design team ones for L2S using Cosmo Cricket that i can't share there with the site down for the summer so here they are.

I also wanted to tell you how much i am loving PS these days especially with the help of the CK Computer tricks for scrapbooking as well as online help from friends, i will be including lots of pics and elements that i've played with in PS CS2 as the summer goes on. Its a learning curve but it feels so good to master something.

Hi All!!

just a quick post to show you my recent layouts, the first one using Zany Zinnia's kit and savvy ribbon for a challenge on Savvy n sassy's RIbbon rave contest, the second one for a challenge at Scrapbookers Clubhouse using a sketch there, and using my newest MOSH POSH kit, LOVE new goodies to work with and can i just say the bazzill bling flowers are amazing.

FYI, there was a conversation not long ago between dd and i, actually when she was organizing all my scrapbook flowers into colors/jars and she asked "how come you don't have any black flowers mom"? well i decided i have black paint and white blossom, make one LOL. but i just got an awesome box of stuff from Lisas Scrap shack today and in there was a package of black bling blossoms so expect to see those on a layout soon.

Happy Mother's Day!!!

to all my friends and family who are MOMS, hope you had a special day and were treated to breakfast in bed or lunch out or something to make you smile and feel appreciated. I hope my mom and grandma are having a great time on their trip, i want to say thanks for all you do and LOVE you both. Here is a fun page i did yesterday in honor of my Grandma who is amazing, riding a bike at her age, so active and strong, i hope i am like that in my golden years. This was for the ribbon RAVE contest at Savvy N Sassy, great challenges so far.

I got a dozen beautiful red roses from my family, so thoughtful, and was a lovely relaxing day. the believe layout i did for my dt assignment at Timeless Inspirations and i just had fun mixing the black with the cool colors of the patterned paper.

the Love2Scrap site is still down, going into withdrawal here so hope its up and running real soon, miss you guys.

Soccer starts tonight and the kids are sooo anxious to get out on the field, weather is looking up, green grass everywhere and the trees are popping so i am glad to see the blah brown disappear.
this week will fly by with lots of stuff going on, always an adventure. Chow for now.

May Day May Day

My schedule for May is looking quite busy so i hope to have a little scrap time between soccer practices, 4-H events, work and all the other things that spring brings. Hope everyone had a great National Scrapbook Day and celebrated with fellow scrappers online or at a real crop. I did a few pages but was a rather hectic weekend and with having our main computer crash and getting a replacement (at quite a steal i might add) and all that entails my brain was on technology overload LOL.

Anyway, for those who hang out with me at Love2Scrap the site is down for maintenance and will hopefully be up today or tomorrow so keep checking back. A good time was had by all at Timeless Inspirations and the challenges are still up and not due till wednesday nite so if you are looking for some ideas and inspiration be sure to stop by the SPring Fling forum for a looksee. Rhea and Share over at SavvynSassy have again put together some beautiful coordinating ribbon kits and i can hardly wait for them to arrive in my mailbox. I'll share a couple layouts i did recently that i love.

Oh and i forgot to shout out a big THANK YOU to Em (wordsmith) for the awesome weekend we had there scrapping and visiting and it was a great retreat. I completed 15 layouts so it was productive for me too.

here are 4 of the ones i did at Em's, and i have to share pics of my puppies, oh i love them, they are sooooo adorable. ANd thanks to my cousin Jana for sharing pics she has taken of her precious daughter Kayla, what a ham for the camera.

Mom, so sad you are not coming for your annual spring visit, we will miss our crib tourney but hope to see you soon.

SPRING, i think it has arrived

the snow is rapidly disappearing, our new dugout is almost full and i'm amazed at how quickly it filled up, there is green grass popping through here and there and the coralls are full of frisky black calves so spring must be here. I'm so glad. April was so busy with online crops and this and that, i got lots done and haven't taken time to update here, sorry. Blogger was giving me problems past couple days and i couldn't post but today no prob. I have some prizes coming in from those crops and i am so excited, love getting scrappy mail, and surprises to boot. here are a few of my faves from the past while. I'm off to scrapbook this coming weekend with 5 other gals and I am looking forward to it, will be a load of fun i'm sure.

may will be busy busy with 4-H stuff among what seems a million other things, so who knows how much i'll be able to post here but i will try. i have some fabulous design team packages to play with and post next week so will share sneaks when i get them done. I want to say kudos to Sarah's Shabby Shoppe for their week long crop and all i got done, to Savvy N sassy for the weekend one where i made some great altered items and won a great stamp set, the gals at Scrapbookers Clubhouse put on a great crop this past weekend and although the challenges at first seemed hard i did manage to complete several, was lots of fun. we are planning one at Love2Scrap for mid - may and hosting one at Timeless Inspirations may 5-8 so check back there for details. so happy spring and happy scrapping :)

Happy Easter!!!!

can you see me doing the happy dance, its finally Spring Break, schools out for a week and i am so glad. Looking forward to time at home, sleeping in, no lunches or work for me, lots of time to relax and scrap. We've got plans to go visiting (and eating) for Easter sunday and the kids and I are performing tonight at the Good Friday service.

I managed to get quite a bit of scrapping done this past week, here are a few faves for you and i must say i love using the photos of Lindsey from our little photo shoot, Groovy is just one of those memorable pictures. others were for challenges and such on my fave sites. they really motivate me.

Live in the now is a DT layout i did for Love 2Scrap using Rhonna Ferrer papers from the March Kit.

Spring Has Sprung???

well its March 26th and its beautiful here - finally! melting and warm and sunny but i am not holding my breath, it may not last but i'm "glad" to see the mud.

What a week, busy busy with our church supper thing that went well and i must say i'm glad its over, march has been stressful and i'm looking forward to a slower paced April with spring break from school in the middle there.

Poor Lindsey has got the chicken pox, she is not happy, about them or missing school but that is life, better now than as an adult like i was, NOT fun!!! I haven't dared try and snap a picture yet but i will, have to document the event somehow.

Here is a layout i did last week with a photo i played with in PS keeping her eyes blue as they are. A flower explosion on this layout "She", maybe thats my wishing for spring coming out on paper!

"Celebrate Every Detail" was fun to do, did it for a challenge or two on the boards and played a bit with some corrugated cardboard and stuff.

Oh and we have puppies, we thought we had lost our dog Zoe but she was only in hiding having two puppies, they are so cute already and the eyes are starting to open so will be getting pictures as soon as i can.

la la la la life goes on.....

oh blah de oh blah da life goes on yeah, la la la la life goes on. And it surely does, no matter how much we complain about the weather, can't change it and its still winter here oh yeah, still snowing. I got my hair cut, or rather cut shorter as the cut two weeks ago just wasn't short enough and was driving me nuts. Went to my first physio appointement and got some home exercises to do. THe therapist said the part of my back that was injured is one of the hardest to work on and get back to full mobility and all i can do is stretch and strengthen the muscles around the area so i will try. Enjoyed a trip to the thrift shop that i haven't been to for ages, unloaded 5 bags and came home with one new one, mostly stuff for dd but i found a few treasures for myself..
this week has been busy, and the week ahead will be even moreso and i am already tired thinking of it. i don't suspect i'll get any scrapping and very little chatting done so i'll leave you with this page i finally finished after 4 days on the table. for a challenge at the Clubhouse based on a sketch as well as one at Love2Scrap with the title being This I know.... check out my galleries for the details on this layout.


and i can't believe i haven't posted since i found out the results at Timeless, i made the design team there, whooooo, thrilled to bits and can't wait to get started. Great group of gals and lots of talent there too. was a fun race and love the results of the challenges put forth each week.

Love2Scrap gallery is operational again so i guess i'll be sharing my latest creations there as time allows. Oh and dont forget to come chat wednesday nite with Elsie Flannigan on L2S, should be fun, just hope i get home from town in time to participate.