New Friends

I really had a lot of fun with this layout.  It did not go in the direction I had planned for it to, but that's ok, I'll save that idea for another day!  I've been wanting to create a layout using just some strips of paper and also a layout using the negative parts of a die cut.  Think I used chunks instead of strips, and the butterflies were punched, not a die cut, but I really like it.

Panic mode has set in.  I leave for KY and a U-haul in 19 days. I still have a house not ready to move in, a full household to pack up, and husband determined to drive 13 hours straight through.  Which traveling in a U-haul will probably make it at least a 15 hour drive.  But, I am not stressed!  Yeah, right!  It's all great, going to be one big adventure.  Why I've never driven this far by myself.  And truly I will be by myself in the car, even though I'll be following the U-haul, I'll be myself all alone in the car... and I can sing as loud and as long as I want!  Anyone have any song suggestions to keep me pumped up and energized... oh and calm for when I get lost.  Because I have no doubt, I will get lost, at least once!  And while I'm lost, I wanta be singing fun window rattling songs!

First Splash

It was only fair that D took the first splash in the pool.  He is the one who wrote the big check, sure wanted him to feel as if he was getting his money worth! :) hahaha

Yes, I used pink on this layout!  Yes, it's about my husband! Nope, I don't see a thing wrong with it!  Honestly, it's just what I seemed to be feeling at the moment, what was working for me, and I didn't even give it a second thought. 

Lots and lots of things going on in the house.  Change can be a good thing, right? 

Ozzy doesn't think so.  We've had a guest dog for almost 2 weeks now.  Seems Miss Nikki has discovered that sleeping under the bed is the best.  Since that is Ozzy's spot, and he is a creature of habit, he's not thrilled with sharing his comfy place.  When Nikki goes down under, Ozzy starts pacing. He's on the bed, he's off the bed, then back on the bed, he sighs, rather loudly I might add, with his displeasure.  I'm sure next week I will find this funny, but for now I'm just sleep deprived!

Welcome Home

  I got up a little early this morning, thanks to Sir Ozzy not being able to be still. I'm telling you, he is just like a 4 year old!  And huge, I really need to post some pictures of him.  Yorkies are supposed to be small, and he was supposed to be a tiny one like all of his brothers and sisters, tiny is not a word used to describe him.  It's not just that he is big, he is stout!  I mean thick kind of stout.  I swear him flopping on the bed when you are asleep is like someone walking in and throwing a tree trunk right smack in the middle of it! But, I love him so!!  Anyway, Oz and I got up a little earlier than normal, got some coffee while he went outside to wake the neighbors, then uploaded a new layout.

I really enjoyed creating this one.  It all just seemed to flow so easily.  Plus, and here is the best part, I was able to use items from a kit I've had for, oh, hmmmm, I don't know... couple of years maybe! Shameful I know!  What's shameful about it is that I didn't use more! 

I'm late I'm late, for a very important date!

Ok, I'm really not late, just behind!  So very very behind.  I've got layouts created and ready to post, and pictures to share, but I've no time.  When I do have time I'm just to flippin tired lazy to even log in on the computer, plus it's baseball season still!!  And the pool has been so nice during another really hot summer.  And by golly I'm busy!  There be some needy people in my circle right now!

You should see my dining room table.  There is no eating going on there, instead the cricut has set up home there and being used almost nightly, cutting out 491 little pieces of animals for Jessica's classroom.  I've even had to change my mat and blade!  That baby is getting a workout!

I went to the Lakehouse for a long weekend a few weeks ago and created the layout below.  I had been wanting to start my album of the house.  I want to document when we first bought it, moved in, and some of the changes I we make in it.  I thought I better get started on it before David puts it up for sale!

My plan is to use crumb cake as my background page throughout the whole album.  I've never done that before, so it will be something new for me.  This is my cover page, no journaling.  I enlarged my picture to a 5X7,(something I need to do more often) and just had fun misting and layering.

now, if anyone wants to find me, I guess they can.... have my address and name out there in cyberland, along with a picture of my house! good thing I'm not being stalked!

Thanks for looking!  More pages to come.

Show Me....

  It really is going to snow in July... In the last 24 hours I've cheered for the NY Yankees and created two blog posts!  but... it was Jeter I was cheering for, and I like him, and he was playing in the All Star game... so that really doesn't count as cheering for a Yankee does it? 

Trying to get caught up here.  I've got a stack of layouts I need to get posted so I can get them in albums. 

Show me the food.... a fun layout about a buffet we had in Las Vegas.  The picture isn't much, but the memories are... and it's the only picture from there I have.  Casino's are funny about picture taking.  Almost had my camera taken from me while there. 

I love this layout.  I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it... and a few weeks ago you would have heard me saying that you'd never see me putting the strips of paper at the top like this.... but I like it.  Much more than I thought I would. It's just a simple clean layout... strips of paper and very few embellishments, but I like it.  It works here. You know I had to do some punching.

I am in love with this woodgrain paper.  Total love.  It's a good thing... I've got a couple more sheets of it I think.

This layout was also made using a Studio Calico kit.  April again, I do believe... City of Lights.  I'm determined to get this kit killed.  I'm also seriously rethinking how many add-ons I should purchase in a month... or rather shouldn't purchase.

Have lots and lots of scrapping planned for the weekend.  Wonder how many layouts I'll actually get done!  Thanks for stopping by!