Cards!

I've been doing more cards lately -- they're nothing fancy :-) but they are a bit better than previous attempts. LOL!

Most were done for a "Card Mania" event at Dixie Pieces. All during the month of October the DT are posting card challenges. GREAT idea for getting your holiday cards done on time. Hey, maybe this year I'll even get them sent out in the mail! :-)

What I've been working on....

My kit from Scrapbook Heaven had such great colors -- I happen to LOVE browns and oranges :-)

Love these photos of my (then) 3 kiddos. I was trying to be all "professional" with the shots and poses. So funny now.....




My "not so ordinary" boy :-) He'll make some girl very happy one of these days! Love him to pieces!



These photos were ones I took last fall -- October 16th, to be exact. The weather is certainly different this year. I don't have their fall photos done yet this year and it's been so frosty out -- don't know if we'll get a chance to.

This layout was done for our Sisterhood of Scrap challenge for Monday.

Thanks for looking!

10-Day Give

I saw this while blog-surfing and thought it was an amazing idea! As a family, we will be doing this for the next 10 days. Kinda like the movie "Pay it Forward" -- and if we can make a difference in the life of one person, it will be worth it!

I can't wait to update you with how it went :-)

Layouts, again :-)

I've been doing more "girl" layouts lately -- this Basic Grey Lemonade is perfect!


I used a sketch by Pink Sketches for this layout.
"SWEETNESS"



"LOVE THIS BOY"



"JOY" My dad got so much joy from his grandchildren around :-)

"HAPPY DAY"

Thanks for lookin'!

Sweet Child of Mine

Isn't she sweet!?!! Love her so much!

I used patterned paper to make the flower. I cut out 2 circles, wrinkled them up then cut the top circle to make petals. Then I rolled the petals under. Added a button on top!

Check out the challenge on Scrapping Out Loud! blog.

Thousand Words Thursday - Sept 10

We conquered Gros Morne Mountain :-) It was NOT easy (especially for the old folks, LOL!) but we are so glad we did it!

Not a great photo as we were in the clouds. About 15 minutes after this photo, the clouds blew away and the sun came out.

Here we are halfway to the base of the mountain -- a small part of the 16 km hike

Some layouts...

FINALLY, I managed to get some time in my scraproom. Haven't created anything since August 23rd!

Anyway, here's one I did for a new challenge blog I found, ScrapFIT.

I have hidden journaling under one of the photos.

This one was done for a challenge on Dixie Pieces, and also for Courtney's challenge on Scrapbook Heaven.

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What a summer!!

I've been absolutely too busy to post much this summer, so I'll try to do a quick re-cap :-)

~5 sisters and 1 brother visited (and lots of kids). I think at one point there were 17 people sleeping here.

~Mom was home for 8 weeks (that flew by way too quickly!) We went on a few outings, though we didn't get time for rafting -- next summer for sure! Oh, ......she bought a new car

~My birthday was celebrated with family. My big sis made me a delicious cake! Devin gave me a beautiful bouquet of roses and we went out for supper.

~Benjamin's pet hamster, Charley, died. She was only 4 months old. Very sad day :-( He later bought a new one, named Henry.

~Jessica participated in her first swim meet and did a great job!

~I made MANY decorated cakes -- busy summer for that!

~Luke left for 6 weeks of glider camp with the Air Cadets. He arrived home, a certified glider pilot! So proud of him!

~Jessica's birthday was celebrated a day early as she left for camp on her actual birthday. She went for 2 weeks to Air Cadet basic camp.

~Timothy left for 3 weeks of Air Cadet PE-RT camp (physical education) Had an awesome time. Came home 10 lbs heavier -- all muscle! Won the Award of Excellence.

~Many of Mom's family were in NL this summer, so we planned a mini-family reunion. Just wish ALL could have been here. So much fun and really neat to see the second-cousins having such a good time together. Wish we all lived closer together!

~We also planned a big party with the cousins and played some old-fashioned games such as sack races, three-legged races. What a laugh! Oh yeah, can't forget the candy toss!

~Devin took each of the kids (except Benjamin) on a canoe trip down the river. Benjamin's turn is comin!

~Benjamin and I visited several cemeteries in the area -- still looking for headstones of some of our ancestors.

~Lots of playground time, tennis with Mom, Devin and Timothy, Nintendo DS (Mom even bought her own!), hiking and swimming.

I think that about sums up our summer!

This coming week Devin and I are hoping to take our kids on some little day-trips around Newfoundland. There's so much of our province that we have not seen yet. Praying that it will be a relaxing time as we head into Fall and the new school year :-)

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