Prom!!

Well Prom has come and gone. What a big deal, with shopping for the dress, then the shoes and then last minute accessories. Finally the day arrived, we had a hair appointment at 11 o'clock that morning. We went to a hair salon we had never gone to before, Christopher Michael Salon on Forest Avenue. We got a wonderful stylist, his name was Doug. He knew exactly how to do her hair and it really came out nice. After he was done with her hair, it was time for make-up. We had to wait a little bit, but that was fine as they had coffee and bagels... ummm nice. I am sorry I can't remember the girls name who did her make-up but she did a great job. Kelly looked just beautiful. Then we went to another area and she had her nails done. Now she was perfect, from head to toe. By the time we got out of there it was already after 3. When we got home it was already going on 4 and she was supposed to be at Alex's house at 5. So she quickly got dressed and called Danny to come over to take some pictures. Dan and his Mom came over and I started clicking away. I made Kelly make a grand entrance and Danny had a big smile on his face. Then my Son Danny came with the kids because he wanted to see his little Sister on her big day. After taking pictures in the back yard, front yard and in the house it was time to go. We went to Alex's house where I took a few more pictures, lol. The Limo came at 6 (some more pictures) and off they went. The Prom was held at the Vanderbilt which is right off the boardwalk in South Beach. After Prom, they went to a comedy club and then to a lounge for more music and chillin. The next day she told me all about it and told me she had a wonderful time. So these two layouts I had to make out of some of the pictures I took. The kit I used is My Summer Love by Lynn Griffin. Thanks for stopping by.

Lots of stuff

Right now so much is going on. I am in the process of getting some work done on my house. I had new basement windows put in and some new doors put on my house. Well actually he is not finished yet, only one door is in and he still has to finish off the inside of the windows. I am also having my front and back yard worked on. I had 2 fir trees and an azalea bush in my front, but the tree have gotten too big and the inside of the azalea bush is dead. So I am getting something new for the front. In my back yard I had a pool. I took it down the summer before last so I have to do something where the pool was and also have to fix the deck and take off the part where it extended into the pool. I was also thinking about enclosing my back porch and making it an 3 season room. So like I said, I have lots going on here. Kelly fininally got her shoes for the prom so I think we are set to go for wednesday. In the meantime I have 2 new layouts to show. Just some layouts from her graduation. The kit I used is Faded Sunshine by PiggyScraps . Thanks for looking.

Graduation

Its been a very busy week here. We had graduation mass on thursday, and graduation on friday. But we started off the week with no graduation dress. Well, actually we did have a dress, and it was a very pretty dress but it was a size too small. Oh it fit her but the inside of the dress was clingy and it did not look good on her at all. I have to tell you that it is very hard finding an all white dress, which is what was required by the school. We finally did find one but I was not all that thrilled with it. On thursday I curled her hair and truthfully I liked the way it came out. Friday was a disaster. It rained all day. We went to get her hair done at the beauty parlor, but by the time graduation came around her hair was no more curled then when I did it. The graduation itself was supposed to be outdoors, but because of the rain it was held inside the school. There were 100 in her graduation class and I was really impressed to learn that every single one of them is going to college. I was disappointed that they did not throw their graduation caps in the air when the cermony was over. I really did want to get a picture of that. But when I asked, my daughter told me that the school is too refined to do that. But thank goodness it is all over. Now we just got the prom to get through. That is next wednesday. I had never heard of a prom being held after graduation, but oh well. In my first layout below, the pictures were taken on thursday, the graduation mass, but I liked the way they came out. The kit I used is Just Another Girl Kit by Sweet Made. Thanks for stopping by.

The very wonderful and talented Patchas

Oh you may think I am prejudice, as Patchas is my sister. But honestly she is just so talented. She just makes the prettiest layouts. I don't think I have ever seen one of her layouts that I didn't love. She has recently tried her hand at designing and she has blown me away. It looks as though she has been designing for years. This month she was the guest designer for the free monthly RAKscrap mega kit . Her portion of the kit is on page 2. I think you should check out her blog. If you look at her older post you will see she has a few kits that she has given away and if you haven't gotten them already I believe her links are still active. For my two layouts I used just her portion of the mega kit. I just loved that cluster boarder. Love you Sis, I am so proud of you.