First Day of School

Love getting first day of school pictures!!! Even if my kids roll their eyes, LOL. Cierra if you read this, just be grateful I don't follow you into school anymore to take pictures! :)

A GREAT Weekend

I had an awesome weekend! A group of ladies from the Club Creating Keepsakes message board decided to meet up and spend a weekend scrapbooking. I had met one of them (Amanda) before and I was very excited to meet the others! We met up at a hotel and got a room to scrapbook in. We all had so much fun!!!! This is an amazing group of talented, kind, funny women and we had a BLAST!!!

Here's our small, cozy room.

Shopping at Craft Warehouse. Steffanie and Laurie.

Heidi looking oh so cute in her silly prize!

Adele (A-deal) :) who doesn't like pink got smothered in it!

Amanda, Adele, Laura, Steffanie and Laurie.

Laura, Me, Adele, and Amanda
Adele and me.

Someone got their car Saran wrapped. :)

I wonder who could have done that?????

Just a few pictures from the weekend. I have more that I'll have to load later. We are ALL looking forward to doing it again next year, not soon enough!! Between the 9 of us we got 102 scrapbook pages done!!!! WOW!! I finished 11 so I'm very happy!!!

Starving Children

I really do feed my kids, honest!!! Some days they seem to do nothing but eat, LOL. What a bunch of goofy boys!! They can really suck it in. Even though Mason thinks he starving, here's the proof that my kids can clean a dish! The rolls in this pan are still warm!!! More than half are already gone! The rest of these probably won't see tomorrow!

Mmmmmm, Rhodes rolls are always a hit!!!

Love this fabric

I wanted to make a scrapbooking bag for a friend of mine so I went to JoAnn's in search of some cute fabric. When I found this fabric I immediately fell in love with it!! Here's the finished scrap tote.

When I get in the mood to sew I start thinking of all the different things to sew. Usually it's, WHAT'S NEXT?? :) Well, how about this. A little cover for my large camera. When I'm using it and carrying it around I'm always worried about bumping it on things and I don't' want to have to carry the big camera case we have for it. So after a little trial and error I came up with this. Sorry Alex! I'll have to make a camo one for him when he's in control of the camera so it's not all girly :) And I have to add that I love the little yellow button! Adds just a touch of BOMBERS to my camera bag :)

Water Park Mini Album

July Stampin Up Projects

We celebrated Christmas in July! I actually love making things for the holidays BEFORE the craziness of the season kicks in. It's fun to think about Christmas projects early! For the first time I used bleach on my card! Yep, bleach! It was pretty cool and I just might have to use that technique again!! First stamp your image (the red ornament). Then pour a tiny bit of bleach on a paper towel in a plastic container, then spritz with a little glitter spray. There's all kinds out on the market these days. Then, using a small stamp (a flower in this case) dab in the bleach and a little in the glitter and stamp over your red stamp. It will bleach out that area. Very cool!! Thanks to my friend and demonstrator Louise!!! She always has fun projects!!!! Plus it's just fun to hang out for an evening!!

The second card had me a little worried, LOL. We inked up a stamp using 3 different colors. Light to dark. The parent in me just kept seeing my kids mixing ink colors from one pad to the next., I'll admit, it drove me a little nuts, LOL. Anyway, ink up your stamp in the light color. Then to the next darker color ink up around the edges of your stamp. With the darkest color ink the VERY edges of the stamp. Then stamp on your card. Cool, right?

Stampin Up Catalog

July means that I get a new Stampin Up catalog!!! It's so much fun to flip through a new catalog and check out all the fun things. Not only the new product but all the new creations, cards, crafts and scrapbook pages. It really is an idea book as well as a catalog!!! One of the first things I do with my new catalog is label all the sections so i can find what I want quicker and easier! And speaking of my label maker, it's wonderful for this use also!!! I have a handy dandy punch for punching page tabs and I just printed my labels on the clear adhesive. So much neater than my hand writing :) Now I just need to take my book to an office supply store to have it spiral bound and I'll be set for another year!

Label Maker

I LOVE LOVE this little tool or machine or whatever you want to call it. I could spend ALL day labeling things in my craft room and around my house, it's pretty cool! I love the fact that I acn change the size of the font, do upper or lower case as well as number and dozens of little pictures! I can print on clear labels as well as white (and other colors I haven't played with yet). This is just a small sampling of the labeling going on around here.

Swimming Lessons

Summer is in full force and the kids LOVE going to the pool. Mason and Spencer have been going to swimming lessons for the past few weeks. They are doing really good! They are fish, just like I was! :) About a week ago I was dropping off the boys for swimming lessons and Carter was having a melt down in the back seat because HE wanted to take swimming lessons too! It took everything I had to convince him that he had to wait just a few short days before he could go also. Carter has now been attending swim lessons for a week now and he loves it!! I can't say that for the first day though. He cried and cried. The funny thing was that he did everything his teacher asked him to do but in between his turn he would get out and cry while he stood in front of me. It was quite amusing!!