Before my appendix came out, I was pretty prolific. Now, it's still hard to sit for long periods of time. My poor belly button will never be the same... But I was talking about using ephemera. And, I've been using tons of it. Not just for vacation LO's. For just about everything. What is great about this, is that my personal style is standing out clear as day! Right before we went on our big trip, we went to Bottle Rock. It's a huge three day event in Napa with bands of 5 stages. Not … [Read more...]
A divorce by any other name would smell sweeter…
August 13, 2015 by 1 Comment
Genealogy is such an interesting topic. For most of the people in my tree, I'm happy to have a birth, marriage, death, and census record. For most of the women, it is much less. Lately, I've been focusing on my maternal grandfathers line. I'm sure that he has lineage going back to the Revolutionary War, and I've got one or two records to go and I've got it all documented. The 1910's and 1920's were bad for documenting I guess, as that is where I'm hitting brick walls. Anyway, there … [Read more...]
Vacation Scrapping Progress
August 10, 2015 by Leave a Comment
About three weeks ago, I had my appendix out. What a scare. I stayed over night for two nights, and had such an intense pain. It hurts crazy bad. I've been unable to sit for long periods of time because, well my belly button hurts. So, I was making tons of progress on my vacation album, then it all came to a stop. Luckily, Scrapbook Expo helped get me back on track! While my husband's birthday normally falls on a Expo day, this year, it fell on the Sunday, and we only cropped on Friday, … [Read more...]
SHARK bait at Seacliff State Beach
July 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
One of our favorite things to do in the summer is to visit my cousin Angie over in Aptos. This day, I begged her to let us visit. She was working on costumes for the 4th of July parade, and welcomed the help. After we finished creating a large shark for Dereck, we decided to walk down to the beach. There were great white shark warnings that day at Seacliff, and we were hoping to see some fins. The kids were excited at the prospect of seeing sharks, but after 10 minutes of looking they … [Read more...]
Thinking about ephemera…
July 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
I don't know about you, but I am an ephemera junkie. We go out to eat, I keep the kids menu, and often the receipt. We go to the theatre, I keep the playbill, the ticket, and most times the coaster from the restaurant we had dinner at before the show. However, there are often times that I seek out things to buy as ephemera, and use in my scrapbooking. A great time to do this in when you are on vacation! We recently took a trip to England, and I was on the look out for things I could use in … [Read more...]
Oooh, it’s Lawn Fawn’s Snow Day!
October 31, 2014 by 1 Comment
I can not tell you how excited I was when Laurie from The Creative Escape let all her old designers know that she needed help with new displays for the store. I've been kind of reclusive since LOAD, well, we all know how I love LOAD. There have been so many problems at home. Honestly, we switched schools yet again, and I don't know how, but our problems are seemly... Gone. Yep, gone. It's crazy, and my petty cash pot is empty, but Sean is finally THRIVING. Finally. I went into the … [Read more...]
Good Day Sunshine!
September 9, 2014 by 1 Comment
Last month I had the pleasure of going to Scrapbook Expo. I love going to Scrapbook Expo. All the fun people go and crop. It's a blast. I love seeing people I haven't seen in a long time. This expo, I purchased the Good Day Sunshine Collection kit by Simple Stories. At first I was a bit scared of the bright colors, but then I thought to myself, I'll temper it with a bunch of white and see where it goes! Golfland Love! This is where I started, with our trip to Golfland. Sean has been … [Read more...]
Summer Lovin’
July 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
One of the great things about not working in the summer time is that you have lots of opportunities to hang out with cousins and friends! Yesterday we were hanging with my Aunt Dee, my girl cousins, and their kids. We had a great time at the Morgan Hill Aquatic Center. They have a shallow pool, two water slides, and then a area for play with water squirting above your head. It's perfect for kids. Sean just loves his second cousins. He really loves one of the boys in particular. This … [Read more...]
Thank You card for K2
June 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
As the "coordinator" for the K2 graduation party, I have to well, coordinate the party. This includes getting the cards together for all the teachers that work in Sean's classroom. There are 6 of them. So, I went to Michaels, thinking I would find some inspiration, before I walk over to Scrapbook Island to get some apple stuff. I found these totally cute Recollections frames for the new Fuji Film Polaroid cameras. I was thinking these would be really cute as a card! So I picked them up, … [Read more...]
LOAD524 – Day Thirty-One, Magic Awakening
June 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Bah. The last day of LOAD514. The prompt, Dream Vacation. Such an easy prompt. Disneyland, of course. Then Ireland, but Disneyland is my most favorite place on earth. I'll talk more about this LO when I update this post, but I wanted to make sure that I posted my last LOAD LO today... I'll be trying to continue LOAD every day in June. Lets see how it goes. Where is your dream vacation? Do you have more than one? … [Read more...]
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