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Happy Mother's Day

Hope everyone had a great one.  I have had one of the best weekends in a while.  I spent Friday night cropping with friends.  I made this 12 x 12 shadow box using a Lori Whitlock cut file from the Silhouette store and some papers from Echo Park "For the Record."

I really like how this turned out.  It was pretty easy to put together as well.  I will be making a few more of these later on.  

My kiddo's did pretty good today too.  DD make me a canvas using an idea she saw on pinterest, and DS and DH got me scrappy and crochet stuff. DS thought enough about it to read the package, remember that I had been having hand pain when I crochet, and find some gloves that are supposeds to help with the pain.  

Ok, I am off to chase the puppy down.  He is really quiet, which is never a good sign with him.

Posting a Few Layouts

I re-photographed a few layouts to send for a call and thought I would upload.  At least one of these has never been posted.  The others I am not sure about.  Anywoo, I needed to post a few layouts.  It's kinda been a while.

I got some really good pictures to scrap, just need to get them printed out.  I also have some vinyl work to post.  They are gifts, but I figure I can post them here.  I know for a fact that neither my Mom or MIL is going to check my blog, so it's all good!!  ; )

 

Easter 2012

Happy Resurrection Sunday all.  I hope you had a great day.  Thought I would actually get a few pictures off the camera and posted in a timely fashion.  These are the *official* Easter pictures.  You would think that as big as my 2 are they wouldn't have a fit for a basket and taking pictures.

Since they are really too olds for baskets, they got gift bags with stuff they needed in them.  You can't see DS's gift but here he is playing with it.

And since they got baskets, they had to pose for portraits.

 

Ok, gotta go now.  Blaze is has gotten very quiet which is never good.  Need to go find him.

 

We Have a New Baby!

Not a human one.  I am a little too old for that.  But just as cute.

Meet Blaze.  Isn't he adorable.  He is a 12 week old Yorkie mix and is working us to death with the whole housebreaking thing.  He is getting pretty good at it, but man is this work.

And while he has tons of toys (I couldn't resist), my socks are apparently his favorite things to play with.

Alright, time to go get him in his crate.   I am tired!

Happy Birthday to my Baby Boy!

It is hard to believe that 15 years ago I was giving birth to the best son a mother could ask for. He has the most sweet, loving spirit a son could have. Just about time to start driving lessons.

Love you!

 

A Quick Monogram Cup

I found this cup at Dollar General a week or so ago. Today I decided I wanted to make something quick. I used my newly downloaded Monogram KK font to do this interlocking monogram. Loving this new cup. I need to run back and get more!

 

The Buccaneer's Bash

So, guess how I spent my entire weekend?  Sitting on a soccer field.  Two games Friday, two games in the rain on Saturday.  We didn't win the tournament, but we were runners up.  Not a bad deal all in all.

 

 

He did really good.  My photos aren't that great, but they are scrappable for the most part. I really need to invest in a faster long zoom.

 

Silhouette Sketch Challenge layout

Last week, on the silhouette blog, they posted a pretty cute sketch challenge with a prize for one lucky challenge participant.  It was the super cute new rolling tote in pink.  I have been wanting one, but since I have a perfectly good C.Gull rolling tote I can't justify buying yet another one. (I am seriously thinking of giving DD my C.Gull one to go with the cricut, cartridges and gypsy I gave her.)  Anywoo, I figured I would try the challenge, use up some random pictures I have printed out and didn't use, and try to win the tote at the same time.

So, this is my entry.  I used the 4 x 6 project life cards to cut the chevron pattern, the "my girl" title and the butterfly cut (in shadow only).  Oh, and I took the relief chevrons and used them to place my butterflies on.

I didn't win the tote, but I kinda like this layout.

A P52 Catchup

I have truly not been feeling the themed P52 challenges. I kept thinking that I was going to end up with 52 random photos of things that didn't mean much to me at the end of the year. Kind of like doing a bunch of random layouts because you have an assignment, without having much meaning to them.  So....I am sort of taking a week to catch up and add a few photos of things that have a little meaning for me. Well, a few are in response to themes, but most are just what was going on with me at the time.  I am probably going to follow this philosophy the rest of the year,  So here goes.

This photo is actually a themed one, even though it wasn't shot during week 4.  I took it spefically for the mismatched theme.  It sort of screams mismatched to me.  In keeping with the Mardi Gras theme, this one is just a random one that sort of epitimizes what Mardi Gras is all about, take at the Joe Cain day parade.  One of his Merry Widows.

And these last ones fall under the theme of inspiration.  I couldn't just pick one because they all are my inspirations.

That's about it.  This should take me up to 8 photos, which is exactly on point for the year.  I may not be following the themes always, but I have had my camera in my hands more this year knowing I was going to pick a photo for P52 than anytime in the past!

 

Final Layout for Sketches Creatively Yours

My term with Sketches Creatively Yours has come to an end.  Here is my last layout for them.  

These are a few older photos of DS that I have printed.  I am trying to work thru a bunch of pictures that I printed and never got around to scrapping.  Some are YEARS old, but I think I will go ahead and scrap them anyway.  

We also had 2 birthdays to celebrate in February.  DH celebrated his with a superbowl party at the beginning of this month.

and DD just celebrated her 20th birthday!

Because I am exceptionally slow taking photos off my camera, I am just getting around to wishing them both a happy birthday on here.  Happy Birthday you two!

I also have a bunch of  photos to add to my P52 files, some using the theme and some that are just photos that mean a lot to me.  I will try to get around to adding in those this weekend.  Have a great day!