Catching up on Journaling

I spent half the day yesterday catching up on journaling some of my older albums. I used to be so bad at not doing the journaling after I finished a layout. Now I don't mind so much. I have vowed not to do a new layout until I get all caught up. Hopefully I will finish by this weekend , cuz I want to go to a crop this weekend. The online group I belong to is getting together again this Saturday in Grand Rapids. I'll see how the work week goes and hopefully can make it. Anyone interested in going?
I am trying out the updated Picasa and they have a lot of new features. This collage features is one of them. I love the picture of the Pinney Women. Thanks to Steve Hathaway scanning an old picture.

Wordle

This is from a cool site called Wordle

http://wordle.net/

your can print it out and put on layouts.
Click on it to see a larger view.

New Layouts

These few layouts are from pictures from Brianna and Jessica. I was in the mood to do an orange layout and these pictures were perfect. The whole layout was done with paper & embellishments from Target dollar spot. Journaling reads "After months of Waiting.
The above layout is done with Jessica photos she took while she was in Alabama in May. I just love the top picture of Tyler. Journaling:
1 for the money, 2 for the show, 3 to get ready, and, 4 to go





I went through some older photos and found this one when Tyler was at my house and just learning to crawl. Just love the look on his face! Journal reads: My darling adorable Determined grandchild. When you started to crawl, you did so as you do everything determined. Sure it wasn't pretty at first, but after many attempts of rocking back and forth, and going no where you finally got it. I hope as you go through life, you find with a little determination, anything is possible. Tyler 2006.

Before and After..........

I found this by the side of the road about a year ago. It was a Post Office hutch that sat on a low table. I talked them into just selling the hutch for about 40.00 and has been sitting in my garage since. The top and the sides are oak, and the inside is pine. Finally stripped it and did a little restaining, wiped some Murphy's Oil, added some shelves and with the help of Mikes Moving Service ( Mike T and Mike Z) getting it down into my basement.....





TA DA...................................................................




A perfect scrapbook hutch !! It is sitting on my oak desk I had. The stains don't match but know matter how hard I tried I could not lighten up the wood. You should've seen the nails that came out of the thing. They must of been a least a hundred years old.



I found some great plastic storage that has hinge tops on them- 3 for 2.49 (which I may paint all one color) and jars at IKEA for the cubby holes. I am planning on picking up a few more. I will put my embellishments up there. The nook (center pic) to the right will be a space for the latest and great books, center for flowers and ( right pic) the left side will be for my pages in progress. The shelves are larger than 12x12 so will work out perfect. Now I want to paint the walls...........Hmm....what color??

Target Treasures

Target has some great finds in their dollar spot. Make sure you

go check it out before it all goes. It has been ages since we have

scrapped, anyone interested in getting together soon. I am pretty

open for the next month if anyone would like to come over one

Friday or Saturday evening. Just let me know and we can see if

we can get a few of us together. When Brianna was in town we

scrapped a couple nights. I did my first Kalen page, in pinks. Hard

to go from doing boys pages to girly pages. But it was fun. I will

post it soon. I also have to post a picture of the hutch we put in

the scrap-room. It is really cool. It needs some finishing touches

and then will be awesome.

I Have Been Busy............

Finally posting the layouts I did at the last crop. Just pulled out some old pictures I had. Above is a layout of Jessica and Calvin while they were on vacation in Florida a few years ago.
This one is of a shot Bri took of Tyler sitting on the steps at their home. One of my favorite pictures of him.


Above is while Meagan and I were down at Jess's at Christmas time. Was able to get out on the water one day and brought back some great memories.


Random photo of me and scrappin about my favorite spot-Up North!

One of Jessica at her rehearsal dinner. Hard to believe it was a year ago from now when we were all going crazy with wedding plans.

And my favorite layout.........of course of Tyler. Yes that is Tyler amidst the Christmas bulbs. Photo by Aunt Chelle.
I know its all about Tyler and Jessica this time. I will pull out some pics of Bri and Meg soon. And can't wait for the new baby to come!! Yah Hoo another baby to scrapbook!!!

Cool Site-Scrapblog

This is a really cool site. It is like having photoshop online for digi layouts. This is my first attempt and just used a template. You can do it from scratch and get pretty creative, and there are a lot of embellishments to add. It did bog down my computer, but I don't have much memory on my computer, most of you it shoud be fine.

The site is Scrapblog.com. Check it out

Round Robin Layouts

This is Brook's layout that was done during the round robin at the crop in Brighton a couple weekends ago. It turned out really good, and I think Brook
liked it too. I ended up going back the next day, Sunday and scrapping for a few hours. Got quite a bit done. Below is the layout I had the girls do in the round robin for me. ( I reposted after I added some journaling)

Is any one up to scrap this month?? Let me know and we can plan something.

Serious Croppin

Getting ready for some serious cropping this weekend. Brook and I are going to Scraptales for a all day crop on Saturday. I ordered 50 photos, so definitely have enough to do. Should be about 13 of us, and some of the girls are coming from a couple hours away. So should be fun.

I bought a new toy a couple weeks ago. Meagan had given me a gift card for Joanns and with a coupon, brought it down to where I could justify buying it. (It doesn't take to much to convince me I need a new tool, etc)

It is the Cuttlebug and it embosses and uses die cuts. Pretty nifty and not to big. I still love my Cricut but you can't use your coupons on the cartridges so they can still be pretty expensive. With this you can, so the accessories are not to much.
I finally finished the renion book from 2006. Here are few layouts. I am going to do a slide show soon and will post that soon

American Idol

I have been working on the past reunion (2 yrs ago) book and will post soon. It is a smaller album-a 8x8 size and after doing about 12 layouts I was anxious to do a larger size page. So thought I would do a fun layout...and who but Tyler would be a great fun subject. Used some of the $1.00 foam embellishment I bought at Target. Love the dollar spot at Target.