A Lay Out A Day challenge

It's the 18th and I've got 17 pages done in January because of this challenge. Since the goal is to do a page a day, fitting it into your schedule and coming up with something fun and quick, I decided to do some pages for my Book of Me. Which usually goes neglected for lack of pictures. So this time, i'm working on baby pictures that Mom gave to me a couple years ago. awwwww. yeh, cute, but after several pages i'm over it. ha. but at least the pictures will be in page protectors and not all scrunched together in a pile. and it has been fun. i'm enjoying looking at the album as it comes together.


You can see most of the pages here


Here are the latest couple..

A Little Basic Cleaning

I admit, this is my attempt at brown-nosing Mary Frances.


I hope it inspires everyone who reads this to try it too - what better way to clean house than with a little scrapbook motivation? And besides that, this vacuum's main job is sweeping up all the bits of scrapbook scraps that fall on the floor. Between 3 young girls and me, it can get pretty bad. So it ties in nicely. :-)

The story of this vacuum is that it is about 25 years old. I think dh inherited it from his mom when he got his first place or something. And it was really ugly. Scratched and faded. But it works good and they still sell bags for it! So I tried to give it some new life. Now, the bag didn't paint too well. I'm working on how to improve that. But still. Who doesn't like a little Basic Grey colors to cheer up their vacuuming time!

I feel like an overgrown kid! :-)

I bought some Prima Paintables. I was going to submit for the contest at 2Peas, but never got around to it. So this weekend I finally got to play and i am having a ball. I have always loved watercolor, so i was all over these.

Here's my take on it - the first one. I've got another in progress and i hope to post it later this week.

My Productive Weekend!

My girlfriend Kristy over at KT Crafts was running a weekend crop and i got motivated and really got some pages done! The number of Disney photos i want to scrap is a little overwhelming, but doing some during a crop seems fun and so I dipped into the box and pulled these out. I like the idea of journaling a lot on one page and then having lots of photos on the following pages.

And you'll be seeing a lot of this Scenic Route line on layouts to come. Why?

I bought it twice. Yeh, I really love it. You'd think that would mean I would remember buying it? No, it seems that what it means is that I knew I really really wanted it. :-)

But these 2 pages, I love them! Nuffing cracks me up because I hear it everyday and I still love how she says it.

And dh had a rough day. I saw this picture of him and knew he needed to be imortalized for the fabulous father he is.

Last Scrapper Standing

NOT!

hee hee. these dares push you to do something really different. not because they are extremely difficult but i think because they are a bit edgy in their own artwork and they inspire others to be a little edgy too. And I am so completely Not edgy. i'm like a powder puff edgy. but i am at least inspired to do something different and have fun. so...

here's the first dare -

use 8 transparent things on your scrapbook page.

and i used all stuff i had in my stash for a couple years. thats a good thing too.

And I made it to round 2, so here is my newest attempt, we were to scrap about 7 random things. fun to think about, and it gave me an excuse to play in a format i would never use on a "real" page. ;-)

Some Reminiscing

They're having a contest over at Reminisce, and as luck would have it, we just received some of this at Scrapbook Corner. So i'm goin for it baby.

Here's my work to date!

And my favorite... i think...

Woo Hoo! Digital Freebies Coming!

Being a part of Everyday Digital Scrapbooking Blog has really stretched me in the digital world and I've learned so much! Especially from the very talented girls who participate in the CT. Lots of well-known designers are contributing to this kit - so it's one to keep an eye out for. In order to be notified, just subscribe at the blog.

Words of Wisdom

it was in an email string of funny pictures. but this one is my kind of humor and made me snort.

Booked

Ever watch Ocean's 11? When the bomb guy is telling them they're in Barney. and they look at each other like "huh?" and he says Barney... RUBBLE! and still they look, "huh?" TROUBLE!

DH just did this to me last night. We were laughing because thats one of our favorite lines - but he asked (with a mouth full of food) -
blahsomethingblah you booked?
and i said, "huh?"
Did you book?
"huh?"
did you make some scrapbook pages?
OH!
after how many years, he still doesn't know the right words. come 'on Steve. I SCRAPPED. But YAY! I DID!

We were given 2 lines of Reminisce to play with at Scrapbook Corner, and its been so absolutely fun! I don't know that a couple of these are magazine level - oh thats right, mine never have been anyway, :lol: but what i'm thrilled about is getting some of these pages done and ready for an album.

so here's a good question - i tend to work with current photos for most of my pages. but not in chronological order. So i'll have mostly 2007 photos on pages this year. but generally they are not sequenced by month or anything. How should I keep my pages, so they don't fall apart? I hate tearng apart albums and re-filling the pages. Maybe a box?

Here are the pages! some will be up at the store - hope they inspire.

In My Dreams

This post is dedicated to Mary Frances Fabbri, owner of Scrapbookeronline, and world renown vacuumer. As far as I can tell, this picture will probably make her swoon right at her computer.




My own dh has vacuumed for me a couple times, but only because i am not home at the time and somebody is coming over before i get home or something.

The thought of someone vacuuming for the pure love of it - thats MFF's territory.

Now for the crafter part...
Do you know any men that would forego a football game to hang out at a scrapbooking show? And would you choose to go with a dude, instead of a scrapbooking sista? thats the question. :-)