Welcome Spring

Hi everyone!
I hope you have a blessed Easter. We celebrate Christ risen at our house, but the bunny does also come.

It's been forever since i posted. So I have plenty to talk about - I've been busy making pages to submit to the next book from Memory Makers Magazine. Got a nice email today that they would like to publish something I made! I don't know what it is yet, but I'm pretty excited that something got picked up!

I've also been working on the projects for my Paper Crafting class at school coming up in April. I'll be working with 6 kindergarten and first grade girls. I think we'll have a great time. Can't wait to show you all what we're making. I need to get pictures taken.

So I haven't been able to show pictures of very many things that I've done lately. Here is one that I can show you, i love the colors. I'm so ready for spring and warm weather!
This page uses new papers from My Minds Eye, with some hand stitching and striped ribbon thrown in.



Enjoy your holiday and spring break!

Frosted Beauty

What a beautiful couple of mornings we've had.
I took some shots of the frost, then PSE'd them and added some Frosted Window frames by Julie Makotinsky at LittleDreamerDesigns.com
TFL!

Tomorrow is Holiday Day!

I was reminded today that my 6 year old has designated her own holiday, since Christmas is over. So tomorrow is Holiday Day, wherein we recognize all the holidays.

I asked her how we would celebrate Holiday Day. And it sounds like a lot of fun - we will give presents to people (and maybe the sisters will give some gifts to her), we'll hide some eggs for Easter, and give more presents for White Elephant Day, and give hearts for Valentines Day, and give candy for Halloween. Thanksgiving and New Years we'll just skip, since she can't remember what we do on those days. :-)

I can't wait to see what she does. I'm going to try to pick up some heart candy today to help with the festivities, since i foresee having some problems with the Halloween part. I think I might have some plastic eggs tucked away. I'm kind of excited to do this! Anyone want to join us?

Having a good winter?
In my opinion, the only good thing about snowy cold weather is that i don't mind a bit going to the basement and scrapbooking all day long. Here are a couple i've been able to do this Friday and Saturday - I've been playing along at a crop at Scrap Attack Scrapbooking. Thanks for the inspiration!



The paper here is from Chatterbox and Sassafrass Lass (i still love those little birds). I grabbed some extra cork I had on my desk for the date there at the side, and used some velvet ribbon out of the stash from Stampin Up for the border. the yellow trim is MakingMemories, i think. The Kraft journaling box is from Maya Road. I splurged and got a couple felt stems from Prima, then added the layered flowers.





And since the youngest child just turned 6 in December, I am really excited to be scrapping her birthday so soon after the fact! Usually I'm about a year behind.

These are Prima stitched mulberry papers - i didn't sew on them, they did. very cool effect though. I did use a border punch from Martha Stewart to do the frame around the main photo on page 1. I also slightly dyed the Prima mulberry flowers, using re-inkers from Stampin UP.

Welcome to Chocolate, Can I Chocolate your chocolate?

I need a moment... sniff sniff...
I love Christmas holiday so much, and i don't want to go back to real life. ever.
and i want some more chocolate too.
um yeh, my hands are shaking, i'm a junkie.

but between my bouts of chocolate binging and coffee guzzling this vacation, i have done some scrapbooking too. wow, it really was a perfect holiday.

here are a couple of the pages I have made recently.

I received some gorgeous Webster's Pages from their 12 Days of Christmas crop, and i've been loving it. here is one page...




look - i sewed! and distressed too. i love how this came out. that side little curved die-cut shaped edge, i traced from another piece of paper, wrinkled and worked it to death, then did the pleating and inking.

Here is another one, using more Webster's Pages







and finally, one more from this fall, my youngest's field trip to the pumpkin farm. it was chilly but they thought it was great fun.







i hate that the green lace washed out so bad in the photo. its a nice soft green in real life. i used some Prima gem centers over Fancy Pants crocheted flowers, on top of Am Crafts felt flowers. Paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle.



well, real life starts in about 9 hours. i'm going to bed and hope i can sleep, my internal clock is way off. how was your holiday?

Here are a few fun pages I just did - my favorite is the one of dd dressed up like someone else. lol.



Here are the girls at the store during closed hours. i think the sterile gloves are a nice touch, they're such a big help for their dad. lol.


My grandmother - she brings us her bingo winnings whenever we have a family dinner together. It's really a big deal for her, and we think its a hoot. We get stuff like dishwashing liquid, tissues, soap, sometimes ceramic figurines too!


the fall festival for our school was held at a local pumpkin farm this year. that was very fun and a nice break from the usual PTO games and activities in the gym. I had to try out my new green Glimmer mist by spraying it over some silk leaves. fun!

Christmas Gifts

Remember back before Thanksgiving and I aluded to some classes held at my house, where we made some Christmas gifts? Can you believe I finally am going to post some pictures! ah! I'm getting caught up.

This mug is bagged and ready for giving, but you can see the general idea. I used StazOn to stamp the image, then painted with ceramic paint. You want to be sure and use clear over the stazon because it will eventually wash off. Porcelain 150 by Pebeo is a good product to use for ceramic.



And here is a Santa Cookie Kit, when i gave them they also had some homemade cookies and almond bark inside. I covered the rolling pin with some patterned paper and then shellacked to seal it. Stamped the side of the tin with White StazOn. They came out pretty cute after I got the hang of stamping the white on the curved edge. The stamps were from a really cute mini set from American Crafts.



Thanks for taking a look! I'll try to come back with something more. I still have coasters to show you. So easy, and the kids were driving me crazy wanting to do them all the time.

Wow. I hope you all are doing a better job of enjoying the hoiday than I am. We have been party central here for the last two weeks and I just haven't had time to talk to you all.

Did I mention we had a couple parties? DeAnne turned 6. We did a Hello Kitty party. I'll have to edit photos before posting them here. It was very cute and really fun. Such nice little girls.

And Steve turned 50. And we got him good! We did a surprise "The Life of Steve" movie party. Including popcorn machine, red carpet, spot light (that said Happy 50th) and Oscar awards for movie trivia buffs.

I didn't have my camera at the party so I will get some pictures from my friends' cameras soon. But for your viewing pleasure - here are the photos that were displayed all over the house, with stories provided by Steve's family and college friends. My favorite classic comment, from 9 yr old Paige... "Why isn't Mr. Price wearing his wig in this picture?" check out the slide show below and you'll laugh along with the rest of us.

I'm slow but steady

So I'm a year behind in both scrapbooking and movie watching.
We just rented Twilight and watched it for the first time tonight. And I admit that I did not have high expectations for it. I rented it because my 10 year old wants to watch it. But i underestimated - I thought they did a really great job with the writing. I love the humor they put into the movie. thumbs up. (not for dd though - i think she would not sleep for a month) but i liked it. i see why all the girls are in love with Edward. My niece can play the whole theme song on the piano. throb.

And I'm a year late on scrapbooking Christmas too.
I am doing some of the challenges at Websters Pages 12 Days of Christmas crop, and i just scrapped the page below. I love the shot, its from last year of course. Did you see Dad has bows in his hair? It was a rare moment of him really getting to enjoy the little ones.



I picked up the snowflake garland at the little antique mall where we sell scrapbook pages and altered things. they just spoke to me and i'm so glad i listened. you may see them on every post for a month.

framed vintage goodness

I just made this over the last two days - the photo acutally took wayyy longer than the actual glass frame. This is a very close reproduction of the inspiration piece done by Iris Babao at Websters Pages. I had limited supplies, and i loved the Christms look, so i just went with her instructions and enjoyed the process. thanks for taking a look!