Thanks Dana!

You know those little crocheted flowers you can buy at the scrapbook store for about $1 a piece? My SIL, Dana, taught me how to make them on Sunday. I love them. And now I know how to make them. I just love learning how to do new stuff. I actually took a crocheting class at JoAnn's a couple months ago and the other ladies that took the class were grandma's and kinda looked at me funny. I felt like they were wondering why I was there.

Anyway, Dana has a web site where she sells hair clippies and stuff using those flowers and some other super cute stuff. So if you want some, check out her site Here

Can you tell which one was my first one...I can!

All Aboard the Choo Choo Train

My "friend", Lindsay, (laughing @ my quotes, only she will get it) did a post one time about tooting her own horn. I am going to do that...again. My last post was tooting too. I took pics of some pages that I did a while ago...holy cow, it's been over a year! I liked these pages the best. After seeing some of the Layouts that people have sent for the E.A.D. creative team, I'm feeling a little inferior. So I'm dying to get down and scrapbook some fantastic pages. But instead I'm blogging. I was going to send some of these into a contest but didn't do it. Alot of those contests like a lot of Journaling. I never know what to journal on my pages...I need to do better. So make nice comments so I don't go kill myself using my cricut! LOL

This LO of Sophie is my typical style...a strip of photos on the bottom, side or top and a bigger pic as the main focus. A lot of my LO's are like this because I want to use more than one pic on a page (Unless it's a big pic). So when I did the next bunch of LO's I was proud of myslef for trying something different.

McKinley took these pictures of Brockston. It still makes me laugh cuz I didn't know she had the camera until I loaded these pics on the computer.

I had a bunch of little pics of the girls at their concerts. I didn't want to do multiple pages cuz they were so small in each of those photos. Just so you know, I get my ideas from books, online etc. I very rarely have an origional idea.

This is un-common for me to scrap one pic on a page. I was scrapbooking one time and the girls wanted to do it with me. So I set them up next to me with their own little make-shift desks and had Glade take our picture. It is a fun memory for me. See...why can't I put that on the page?

So there you have it. I need to know how to photograph pages better. I don't know what the tricks are. My scanner isn't that big. So if you have any tips, let me know! Thanks for lookin'!

Yea Me!

I finally designed something for my friend Emily's vinyl site and HERE it is! (Thanks for teaching me that Lindsay.)
I have never created something like that on my own and had a price on it. It makes me feel so important! I still feel inferior to the other designer but she is kind enough to tell me nice things!
So that's the first thing I've done for her and now I'm addicted!
We are starting a new scrapbook line that you can use instead of rub-ons. (Check out Emily's blog) I'm really excited about it cuz most rub-ons break apart and I have to try and fix it and it ends up looking horrible. Vinyl stays together and it will look better than rub-ons. I have tried to do a rub on
on top of my photo that is attached to my page and you can see the break in the rub on with the different layers. (does that make sense?) Anyway, vinyl won't do that! Excitement!
Okay, there's my sales pitch. If you have any suggestions, let me know! Can't wait to show you what we come up with...when we come up with more.
No pics for this post but wait for the next one. I've been instructed to take pics of some of my scrapbook pages. I'm a naturally obedient person (sarcasm is a gift!) so I'm going to do it. I just like people telling me how wonderful I am, that's closer to the truth.

Happy Birthday Kevin!

This is my baby brother, Kevin. His birthday is on the 17th, yep, St. Patty's day. He is serving a mission in Africa and having a great time! Well, that's what he tells us. Seriously, he has sent home lots of pictures of the beautiful people there and I just know he loves them. He has lost some weight and I can understand why. When he comes home, I'm taking him out for prime rib!

Happy Birthday Brockston!

It was Brockston's birthday yesterday and it was a fun day. I had fun hangin out with him. He keeps me laughing! I like age 4...potty trained, you can reason with them (somewhat), and learning is fun. I enjoyed my girls at this age too. Boys are different though. Everything is thrown! It's never just put down. And pretend play involves violence. (I didn't think Superman wanted to kill people, but yesterday, Brockston said he did.) He is a good boy~most of the time~I sure love this boy!

Pins & Needles

Update: We got a good appraisal...we are just in the process of making things work with our contractor...or another one. I hope we can start digging soon!


I don't have anything to really blog about. I just wanted to post a new post.
We will know our house situation by tomorrow and in the mean time I am sitting on pins and needles. Ouch!
http://zhouseplans.com/plans.htm?i=s1769kl01
Here is a link to our house plans. We have made a few changes to accomidate our wants but you get the picture. We aren't doing the bonus room so it is 1769 sq. ft. on the main and downstairs. It will be so nice to have 2 bathrooms and a place for all of us to sit at dinner! Does that mean I have to start cooking real dinners? Yikes! In all honesty, I am excited to be able to do that in my new kitchen.
But for now...tick, tock, tick, tock...