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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.

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.

 

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!

 

 

New Layout and a few Pics

Just finished this layout.  This is the first for March.  But...I am cropping with the Sistahs Saturday, so I should finish out the 3 for the month then.

 

And a few pics from the parades. 

 

 

 

And some night ones.

 

 

 

And me with my loot.

 

Okay, off to spend my Shoe Station coupon and pick up mexican.

 

Dressed, Blessed and Serenaded

Talk about a busy weekend.  Yesterday was the culmination of one of the busiest weekend yet.  But it has been one of the best.  Our house is officially dressed for the holidays, and has been dedicated and given back to the lord.  Just having those two done feels like a ton of bricks lifted from my shoulders.  Here are a few shots of my favorite holiday dressings throughout the house.  Almost every room downstairs has at least a small touch of Christmas.  Next year, I want to expand to 2, maybe 3 trees and cover the whole house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following the hard work of getting everything dressed, we were joined by about 30 friends and family to bless our home.  My brother was unable to join us at the last minute due to illness, and DD did an excellent job of filling in for him to read the scripture.  Our paster offered prayer and family and friends joined us for refreshments.

 

 

 

And lastly, the Youth choir at our church serenaded us with "Oh Come Let Us Adore Him", a christmas concert.  They did an outstanding job.  Even DS, who does not did not want to be there, did a good job.

 

That's it for me this weekend.  I am officially pooped.  Gonna curl up and read one of Debbie Macomber's christmas novels and try to pretend I can actually breathe.  The kids decided to share their cold germs.

 

The End of a Busy Day, Closing out a Busy Long Weekend...

I finally found a day when I can get all my family in one room of our house at the same time. We are doing our house blessing on THAT day.  Even though I will likely not have the accent furniture, drapes, whatever for the house.  I made a schedule for this weekend to get much needed things done.  I am beat down tired, but I got everything done and then some.  When I still had some unboxing to do today, I would not even come inside to change (scared if I came in, I wouldn't go back out).  Stayed until all the picture boxes were unpacked and all the trash was taken to the recycle center.  Whew!  That was a lot of work. 

As of today, with the exception of our homeplace sampler, which has apparently been put in some unknown box, completely mis-labeled, by the pack out company, I have located all the pictures and rooted out the really bad ones that will immediately go to goodwill.  I have found TONS of that stuff packed in random boxes, completely mis-labeled as I have unpack.  The bad thing is, the remaining boxes are some that came from places in our old house that should only have things that we were planning to throw away.  Hopefully it hasn't broken. 

I currently have the remaining pictures sitting in the room that they will be hung in, so I can see them in that room and determine whether they need new mats.  We have substantially more square footage now, so I really need more pictures to adequately cover the walls.  I am thinking of taking apart some of the baby cross stitch framed samplers I did for the kids and re-frame them with my photography.  They are good frames, and could be reused fairly easily. 

We also made like 4 trips to the recycle center trying to clean out the packing paper and cardboard all that unboxing left.  DS got soooo tired of me dragging him to the recycle center that I ended up buying him ice cream as a reward.  Imagine 4 FULL  van loads of recycle goods.  Needless to say, the bins are all full to the brim now.

And, just to show you how country this area is, this is what I saw across the street from our recycle center.

 

Apparently this tree was awful good, cause she had her head stuck all the way out of her fence.  Here she is after she saw me taking pics.

 

And if all this unpacking is not enough, I managed to take a holiday decorating/entertaining class at Pottery barn today.  Then pull up at church just in time to photograph the kids with their Operation Christmas child boxes being dedicated.  Needless to say, I am taking the rest of today off.

So, heres the schedule for the rest of the week:

Monday/Tuesday:  complete coloring my copic final image, photograph the sampler one and the final one and upload to Simply Scrapping.  Hand/Fold the laundry from this weekend.

Wednesday/Thursday/Friday: cut parts of Christmas cards, organize for assembly.  Need about 35 more cards.

Weekend:  Hang pictures that are not going to be re-matted.  Assemble Christmas cards.

Let's see if I can do it!

 

City Champs

Congrats to my Boy on his teams city championship win. They did not win the county tourney, but they played with a lot of heart.  We are proud of you.

 
 

 

 

 

Photos courtesy of Daddy.  He rocked my 30 D.

 

 

Downloaded a Few New Photos

I have a new goal.  Every time I download photos, I have to process them.  When I get 50, I upload and print.  Well today, I downloaded photos from both cameras.  I actually have 50 to print, but I am waiting on a sale.  Anyone know of a print sale I can upload to?

I thought I would share a few with you.  Here is the big girl in her dorm room. She got sick this weekend and I ran up to take care of her.  Then, I had her in Ikea while she was on pain meds. She would walk a minute, then rest a minute.  But we had fun!

Then these are from our Labor day trip to the beach.  Okay, I got them out of order.  Sorry, I don't scrap in order either.

And finally, here are a few from the Jaguars 9 to 4 victory over the Panthers.  First a great warm up shot, them a couple from the game.  It was a night game and not well lit so I didn't get many.

Well, that's it for me.  I got new portraits of the little boy, but typepad is major slow tonight.  Maybe I will upload the new portraits of him, and the one of DD later this week..

  

My Kitchen Vinyl Adventures!

I have really wanted to have some vinyl lettering in my kitchen area, every since we moved.  I finally got brave enough to try it out.  I love how it turned out.  The art is courtesy of DS, from his art class last year.  I liked it so much, I framed it.  The vinyl cuts are from Plantin Schoolbook, Gypsy font and Home Decor.

Here are the close up detail shots.

Well that's it for me right now.  Been on the road all day, trying to get my parents back home from their cruise.  I am headed off to bed now.

Coming Together Nicely

Things around here are starting to come together nicely.  Saturday, the furniture was delivered.  Here are a few pics of what I chose.  Here is the great room. The patterned chair is the absolutely most comfy place in the world to work on a laptop.  I got it for DH, but I have spent most of the time in it. Ooops!

And a veiw of the greatroom from the kitchen.

And for the kitchen I selected a pub table, in the black finish that I love.  Because of the way the kitchen is shaped, I used only 2 chairs at the table and the other at the bar.

Here is the rest of the kitchen.

 

Last room done this weekend was the dining room.  Can I just say, I LOVE THIS ROOM!!!  My gold and black china patttern is going to look lovely on the merlot colored wood.

 

Last but not least, my first born is graduating from high school.  Thursday was the Senior Awards program, today the baccalaureate and Tuesday will be graduation.  On Wednesday or Thursday, I will do a big post dedicated to her, but here is a little sneak peak.  We are so proud of her!

Okay, that's it for me.  See Ya!