Just Happy

I busted into my Santa Sack the other day and had some fun playing with all the different papers,  chipboard bits and stickers.  There was a wicked neat Sketch Thursday sketch on their blog, so I played along.

I mixed some hand stitching with some machine stitching,
 

and was happy with the end result.

The flower on the bottom is paper with diamond glaze, the other, chipboard.

Well, we are super excited here in New England for the Patriots game tonight!    Here's hoping Brady and the guys end up with a "W"!

Have a happy Saturday!

Wordless Wednesday

Just 2012!

Hello and Happy 2012!  Four weeks since my last post.....yikes!  Lots going on though - the big guy had a total knee replacement smack, dab in the middle of December, on the 13th actually - to say it was bad timing is an understatement.........anyway........here we are anew in January. 
We enjoyed the holidays, despite his incapacity, but I must say, I'm glad he is almost a month into the mend now, and things are slowly creeping back to normal.  Very slowly.....

And there went a month pretty much!  Between playing nurse, shopping for gifts, working and the other everyday things that come up, I've found little time to scrap,  but did find some........and oh....did you get a Santa Sack from October Afternoon?  LOVED IT!! I only got the last one, but next year,   I want all five! 

As to the December Daily - I'm only up to the 18th, but I'm getting there...and none of the journaling is done.  I think I'm going to type it all up and then cut little strips.....

A trip to Macy's,

Fun T-shirt I bought at Wal-Mart,

A lazy day, all day,



Another Creative Imaginations project, among a couple of others I'll post very soon.

Thanks to them and their amazing Design Team Coordinator, Cheryl Mezzitti.  I had a blast working with their products.

If you are scrapping today, check out this fun challenge at Cocoa Daisy. This was wicked fun. I'm doing a second layout with it.

The weather has been unusally warm here.  Yesterday, in the 60's!  I met a friend for breakfast, and then spent a good chunck of the afternoon with my nose in a book.  I've been plowing through this,

If you like this sort of thing, don't miss this.  It will make the hairs on your neck stand up......

Read John Grisham's new one, The Litagors,  in December, too. Another good read by JG.

OK, I'm off for now.  Going to grab a coat, the big guy and his crutches and go for yet another walk up and down the driveway!!!

Enjoy your Sunday!

Just December

Hello and hope all enjoyed their Thanksgiving holiday!  I had a mishap in the kitchen again.  Suffice it to say I underestimated how long it would take to cook the turkey and dinner was a couple of hours later than planned.  Oh well..........we did enjoy it, just not when we thought we would.


Anyway,  I haven't blogged much, but I've been busy, lots of it paper and glue related.  I was crazy excited to be asked to guest design for Creative Imaginations this month and was completely inspired by the products I received.  I've been having a blast creating  for a couple of weeks now.


Oh, I always love a mini album.....

Check out the rest of the book on the Creative Imaginations Blog.  I've a few layouts and another book that will be coming up over the next few weeks.  And while you are over at the blog, check out the cool Christmas feature taking place this month.  Inspo!!!!!!

I've started snapping for December Daily.  Having fun with it so far. 

And today I'm strapping my camera around my neck and heading to the mall with a friend after we indulge in eggs benedict at a local breakfast spot.  Enjoy your day!

Just Perfect

My all time favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I watched it again the week before last actually.  Imagine my surprise when I saw this on Pinterest, pinned via Tammy Higinbottom.


  Its perfect.  And so true.

Do you Pinterest?

Just Ready for the Pictures Now

Happy weekend everyone, hope you are enjoying.

Well, I did it, and I'm thrilled about it.  I finished my DD album on Wednesday, and now, its all ready for the pictures - so psyched about that.  Now, here's hoping I have myself camera ready every day. 

Will be posting the pages out of order, just the way I created them.  For some reason I'm having a terrible time photographing and trying to scan these, so for now, I've a mix of a few.



I left some of the album pages white so they can be full page photos, with white AE  "25 Days of December" overlays, purchased here.

photo from Designerdigitals.com

I kept the pages pretty simple, but seriously, can't wait to add more ribbons, clips and stuff once the photos go down.

On some pages, I used  border stickers cut in half and then stuck together back to back, to give the pages a fun, colored edge.

From this album, I've moved on to this one.  I got a SWEET box from my favorite Magpie yesterday and I don't think if was ten minutes from opening my box to getting into my room.

And for now, we're off to a birthday celebration - the little guy has hit ten years old.