Life is good

This is the hard part. I love scrapping and I love being on creative teams but then I have to post. Posting my layouts on my blog is the hardest, because I never know what to write to nobody who reads my blog. lol. Yes isn't it ironic. I don't know what to say to nobody. I know I shouldn't care. I should just post the layouts and not say anything. But that just doesn't feel right. Oh I know that my Sister looks at my blog on occasion but she doesn't count cause she is my Sis. So anyway I put it off. Then I know I have to post this layout I finished almost a week ago. So here I am sitting in front of my computer thinking to myself, what am I going to write. What is exciting that I can say? Well nothing exciting here. I can say that its almost the end of October or that Thanksgiving is coming, but everyone who doesn't read my blog knows that already. So I sit here blank. Then I turn on some music and I sit here listening to a new song (to me) that I heard my daughter playing over and over. I really liked the song and asked my daughter to give it to me. The song is I'm Yours by Jason Mraz. Anyway I sit here, listening and I think to myself, how lucky I am. To sit here, at 2 in the afternoon, in front on my computer listening to a song I really like and feeling good. How lucky I am to be able to do what I like when I want. So nobody, I don't have anything exciting to tell you but actually thats the way I like it. Life is good! So thats my story and I'm sticking to it, lol. Here are my week old layouts. The kit I used is Old Homestyle by Stellarific Creations.

I just can't decide

I was driving down the street last week and just happened to look out the drivers side window. I was passing clove lakes park at the time. It just so happened that at that moment I was passing a path into the park. I thought to myself that it would make a beautiful picture. So a few days later I took my daughter there to take some pictures. I have to tell you that she wasn't as enthusiastic as I was. lol. When I saw the October SAS Monthly Mega 'Gathering Leaves', I knew that these pictures would be perfect for this kit. I made one layout from it, and saved it, but then I started fooling with it and came up with the second one. Now I don't know which one I like better. So I am posting both of them and please someone tell me which one looks better. For the second layout I used pictures I took this past Saturday when I took my grandchildren to a garden center that they had made into a Halloween playground. They had those blowup things that the kids can jump in and other fun stuff for them to do. I went with my girlfriend, her grandson and her grandsons cousin. Afterwards we took them to McDonald's. They really had a good time.

Marie-Therese Gown Giveaway

You are not going to believe this. This handmade gown is just beautiful and it is being given away. Go to Marie-Therese Gown Giveaway. I have never seen anything like this! Good luck!

Where does the time go?

I told you my Sister was here for a 10 day visit, but in a blink of an eye she was getting in her car to leave. It's so sad to see her go but thank goodness for the internet. It seems as I sit here at my computer that she is just on the other side of my screen. If I just want to say something to her I send an instant message and most times she is there to respond. After I finish one of my layouts, I send it to her and open mine up. So when she is looking at it I am looking at it with her. I know it sounds silly but it just makes me feel that she is here with me. So here we are the end of October already, before you know it we will be decorating our trees for Christmas. Can someone please slow down the clock? Time is moving much too fast and I am enjoying everything. I guess that is why I stay up so late at night, because I don't want to sleep my time away. Anyway, I have a couple of more layouts to show and here they are...



Avisit with Great Aunt Betty
Credits: My Winter Blu by Sweet Made

Kelly December 1991
Credits: My Winter Blu by Sweet Made

Snug Harbor
Credits: Autumn Fantasy by Sweet Made

The Road Test
Credits: Autumn Fantasy by Sweet Made

The Car
Credits: Autumn Fantasy by Sweet Made

So thats it for today, but I will be back soon.

A few more Halloween layouts

Its almost that time of year again. Time for us to buy the candy for those cute trick or treaters. It sure has changed from when I was a kid. I don't ever remember anyone putting razor blades in apples or worrying that someone may have poisoned the candy. Not that I know anyone that it has happened to, but you hear it on the news almost every year now. Sometimes I wonder if those stories are true. It is just so hard to believe. Anyway the first layout is pictures of my grandchildren that I took last year. Yep, had to go trick or treating with them just to get the pictures. The second layout is of my youngest daughter on halloween back in 1n 1996. The kit I used is Oogie Boogie Revamp by Ashalee Wall. It really has great papers and elements in it. Just perfect for my halloween pictures and I sure do have alot of them. Go ahead, click the link up there and take a look for yourself.

My Sister is here!!!

I am so happy! My Sister is here for a 10 day visit. I haven't seen her in almost a year but truthfully it doesn't seem that long as we talk just about everyday on the computer. But now, for these next 10 days, I get to see her, kiss her and just hang with her. I really wish we lived closer together, but even if we did live closer, I don't think we could be any closer. I am blessed to have her as my Sister. I have a few more layouts to show. These aren't for the book I am currently working on as I need to go through pictures. This new book is really a big project. The pictures I am using are not digital so I have to find the ones I need and then scan them. I have hundreds of pictures and some are in albums and some are not and.... they are not in any kind of order. Oh well, I am doing the best I can. For now, this is what I have.



Kelly - Halloween 1995
Credits: Sweet Halloween by Sweet-Made

Kelly Halloween 2007
Credits: Sweet Halloween by Sweet-Made

Afternoon at the playground
Credits: Bits Of Mallorca by Lara's Digi World

Hanging with Sis
Credits: Bits of Mallorca by Lara's Digi World