No more pencils, no more books...

I remember that silly rhyme we used to sing on the last day of school and school was officially over for my youngest daughter this Thursday. Next year she will be a senior. She will be taking drivers ed this summer, so you all better watch out. lol. Can you believe that half of this year is just about over. Next Friday is the 4th of July already. This is the first time in a few years that I haven't spent it with my Sister :-( ... but hopefully she will come visit me this year. It is a big trip by car, approximately a 10 hour drive but still a lot closer than she use to be. I just love spending time with her, I sure wish she was just a little bit closer so that we could see each other more often. Anyway, enough wishing and hoping, I am just glad she is closer than she used to be. I have two more layouts to show and without further ado.... I used the June Wedding Monthly Mega Kit, a collaboration kit made by the wonderful designers of Stone Accents Studio. I dug up some wedding photos to make my layouts, although the kit is versatile enough to scrap other layouts as well. The first layout is of me when I married my first husband. Although we divorced we were able to stay friends. The second layout is of my oldest daughter on the day she married my favorite son-in-law.

New York

Friday I went to New York City for the first time since I had retired almost a year and a half ago. I really didn't want to go but they were having a luncheon for Annie, one of my former coworkers. She is retiring in August and I felt it was only right to go and wish her well. I had a very nice time at the luncheon and then went back to the office to see some other former co-workers. Actually some were more than just co-workers, they are friends. I got lots of hugs and kisses and was told how much I have been missed. Everyone oohed and aahed and said how relaxed I looked. So it was very nice seeing them and I am glad I went. I have a few more layouts to show, these are for the baby book I am making of my first Granddaughter.


Mommy & Me
Credits: First Friends by Cathy Cher of SAS

Listening
Credits: First Friends by Cathy Cher of SAS

Seen any good movies lately?

I am normally not a movie goer, I think the money they want to see a movie now a days is ridiculous. $10.75, for a movie, can you believe it? Forget it if you want some popcorn and a drink. But anyway, I did go to the movies, I saw Sex in the City and a few days later I saw The Happening. Sex in the City was ok, that is if you watched the series. It sort of brought a happy ending to the series. The happening was a disappointment, the movie wasn't that bad, it was just the story behind it that was stupid. Anyway, it was a change of pace and I got to spend some time with old friends. So, I have some new layouts to show. The first one "Sisters" are my two daughters. The pictures were taken over memorial day weekend when my youngest (16) went to visit my oldest (38). I really like the way this one turned out. The second one is my daughter Kelly with her best friend. They told me that they were going to go to "the hippy shop" in Jersey. I thought that they were calling it that as it had hippy like clothing in it. But that is the actual name of the shop. It had lots of 60 style clothing and odds and ends in it. Lots and lots of tye-dye stuff. And of couse my daughter takes right after me and took plenty of pictures. The last two layouts I made for my daughter. Her father passed away when she was only 11 years old.

Sisters
Credits: Ninis Garden by Sweet Made

Hippy Shop
Credits: Ninis Garden by Sweet Made

Bill
Credits: My Dad The kit, by Sweet Made

Fun Days with Dad
Credits: My Dad the kit, by Sweet Made

Well, that all folks, see ya soon!

Hello! Anybody there?

Sometimes I wonder if I am just wasting my time writing something here. I don't think anyone (except for my Sister) ever comes to my blog and reads what I have to say. Not that I have anything interesting or exciting to write about. My life is just hum drum, except for the drama I get from my 16 year old. But actually, that is just the way I like it. I have had my share of excitement and now I just like the peace and quite. I love getting up when I want to without the rude alarm clock waking me. Then I do what I want, when I want to. Isn't life grand. I spend much too much time on the computer, but it is what I enjoy doing the most. And speaking of thing I enjoy doing, here are 2 more layouts. These were a little hard for me as I got this sports kit to work with but I didn't have any sport pictures. So I had to steal a picture from my girlfriend, it is a picture of her grandson who just turned 5. The other picture is of my Son when he was just a baby. Oh I almost forgot, my layout Kandid (seen in my last post) was choosen to be put in "todays garden tour" in The Scrapping Garden. It isn't the first time one of my layout was choosen but it is always nice to be recognized.

Baseball
Credits: Sport Mega Kit by Sweet Made

Batter up
Credits: Sport Mega Kit by Sweet Made

Heat Wave

Oh yeah, we're having a heat wave. Two days in the 90's and the weatherman says it may hit 100 tomorrow. Whew, thank goodness for air conditioning. I am not complaining, I am just grateful that I don't have to go to work in it anymore. Nothing much going on here right now, but its plenty busy for Kelly. She took her SAT's Saturday and will take her ACT next weekend. Then starting the week after she will take her finals and her regents. I signed her up for drivers ed. so watch out world. If everything goes well she will start on June 30th. Other than that, I am enjoying scrapbooking. Below are 2 new layouts I did, and did and redid and did over again. lol, but now I am happy with the results.

Kandid
Credits: Goin Dottie by EllenM and can be found at Stone Accents Studio.

E & J

Credits: Goin Dottie by EllenM and can be found at Stone Accents Studio.

A few more and a new face

I have a few more layouts to share. The first two are of my Granddaughter and will be added to her book that I am making for myself. The next two layouts are of my youngest Daughter and her friend Jen. Yes Jen is the new face I was talking about. Jen is my daughters best friend and I must add she has really shown herself to be a true friend. I really like the layout I made of her, I think it came out nice.


September 11, 2005
Credits: Retro Earth Day, by Ashalee Wall, available at Ashalee And Sweet

The Littlest Mechanic
Credits: Retro Earth Day, by Ashalee Wall, available at Ashalee and Sweet

Rockers
Credits: School of Rock, by Sweet Made, available at Ashalee and Sweet

Queen of Rock
Credits: School of Rock, by Sweet Made, available at Ashalee and Sweet

Well, thats it for today, I will be back soon with more.

Only me!

I know I am somewhat inexperienced when it comes to the computer and may not be a computer wiz, but the weirdest things happen to me. I swear my computer has a mind of its own. Either that or it is haunted. Or maybe it is just telling me to get a new computer. Many, many thing have happened with this old computer but the lastest bout has been with this blog. I only started this blog less than one month ago and my first post went just as it should have. I was so excited, I got 15 comments (of course it was my sisters doing, but still 15 comments wow). Then I put up my second post. Of course I had to go back and see if I got any comments and of course I didn't. But I kept on coming back and I noticed that there was nothing there that said comments. So next time I saw my sister online I asked her to go and see what she could see. She said oh, you have no place to put your comments, what did you do? Well I didn't do anything. So anyway she showed me how to fix it and I did and of couse she said well you had to change your settings. (which of course I didn't). Then in my last post when I was adding the credits to my pictures, the first few went fine. Then all of a sudden it started to double space and there was nothing that I changed, nothing that I did. Then today I came here to put up another post and my counter is gone! I have no clue. Where did it go? Why me?
Anyway, I got a few more layouts to show.


Birthday party
Credits: Garden Party by CanDesigns, available at Stone Accents Studio


Garden Party
Credits: Garden Party by CanDesigns, available at Stone Accents Studio.

So that is my story and I am sticking to it. I didn't change anything!!! I had alot of fun working with this kit. Such pretty elements. Oh and I did recolor the 2 floral corners at the top of the second layout to match the papers I used.