Summer almost over?

Wow can you believe it? Next weekend is Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer. Its the last weekend of August. Then school starts that week. My oldest granddaughter will be starting kindergarten and my youngest daughter will be going into her senior year of high school. Oh how time goes by so quickly. Thats why its so important to take pictures. So you can capture moments and I just love digital camera's. It allows me to take picture after picture and I am sure to get at least one good one. lol. I am so glad that my granddaughter starts on the 2nd and my daughter on the 3rd. Since my daughter started school I have always taken her on the first day but I also wanted to be there when my granddaughter started on her first day. Now I can do both. So I have 2 new layouts to show. I know that the disney one is very busy but I just wanted to get all the characters she saw (well I didn't get them all). My favorite in this picture is grumpy. I was so lucky my daughter got that shot. The kit I used is Giving Love by Ashalee Wall.


Blocks

Disney


Well thats all folks! lol

Our first college visit

On Friday Kelly and I went to our first college information session at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology). I really was very impressed and truthfully I would love it if she could make it into this college. It seems like it is everything she is looking for and boy the price is right. But it is really hard to get into. They said they get around 16,000 applications but only take about 1500. The day we went to visit, there was standing room only in the information session and there were people from china and canada there too. So we have more schools to look at and maybe we will be able to find another that fits so well. After the information session we made a day of it in the city. We didn't get out of the information session until around 2 or so and then we took the subway up to radio city music hall. We had lunch around there and then we walked to rockerfeller center. Right around rockerfeller center they had a nitendo world store which we went into just for the fun of it. We didn't get the bus going home until about 7 or so and didn't get home until 8 oclock that night. Boy I have to tell you, my back and knees were hurting for 2 days. My back is just now starting to feel better. Well, anyway I did some more scrapping as I had some pictures of my oldest granddaughters 3rd birthday to scrap to almost complete the book I am making of her baby years. The kit I used for these 2 layoouts is Birthday Girl Mega Kit by Skrapper Digitals of Stone Accents Studio. This book is almost finished, I have 97 pages. I am making 100. So three more layouts to do and then on to my next project...

What's Next

OK, Kelly has finished her drivers ed and she passed. I just have to go Thursday and get her certificate. Then we will be able to schedule her road test. She won't be 17 until the end of September but I hear that the waiting list for road test are really long. Anyway we have been looking at colleges online and hopefully we can get a few visits in before the summer is over. But there is so much going on between her art classes twice a week and her job. Plus we have an appointment to have her senior pictures taken. In between all this, I have a few layouts to show. For these two layouts, I used Sweet-Made's Clean Cut Collection (the collection starts at bottom of the page). I just love all of those beautiful mattes, especially the heart and lace border ones.


Elmo
Take out

New Layouts

For the following layouts I used a combination of "Butterfly Garden" and a "Commercial Use Grab Bag" both by Ellen Massey of Stone Accents Studio. For the layout titled "Grandpa", I only used the Butterfly Garden Kit, and there are 2 layouts that are the same with a different picture in it. The first one I made I used a picture of Emma, but I had used that picture before in a different layout so I changed it an put a picture or should I say cut out of Danielle. I really like the first one I made better but since I had used it before I made the second one.


Family Ties

Grandpa

Butterfly

Butterflies

Learners Permit

On Tuesday Kelly took her written test for her learners permit and she passed. Its just so hard to believe, where has the time gone? She will be turning 17 within the next two months. Anyway, after leaving the DMV with learning permit in hand we went to the bank and opened a high school account for her. We got the papers she will need for direct deposit and they said she would get a debit card within 2 weeks. Well, I can't tell you how excited she is, that she is going to get a debit card. Later on that evening I said to her, "hey Kell you got your learners permit" and she said yes and a debit card! So I can't tell what she is more excited about...lol. So, do you believe that summer is half over already. It's almost August. Just one month and its back to school. Other than that, same ole, same ole, nothing exciting going on here, but I do have two more layouts to show. The kit I used for these layouts is My Summer Wedding by Sweet-Made. It really is a beautiful kit and can be used to to make any kind of layout. I am really please with the one titled pretty in pink. See for yourself...

Pretty In Pink

Girly girl

Thats it for today, talk to you soon.

Lots of Layouts to show.

I can't believe that I have 10 layouts to show. This is the part of being on a creative team that I don't like. That is, uploading my layouts. As I said in a previous post, I am just lazy. I just love getting all these beautiful kits. Some of them may have a specific theme but because most of them have so many different papers and elements you can use the kit any way you want. So as usual, nothing exciting going on. Mostly just the usual drama with having a 16 almost 17 year old daughter. I just hate being a nag with her. Always pushing her, looking over her shoulder and nagging, nagging, nagging. I tell you, its no fun being a mother of a teenager. I know that I have been pretty lucky with her. She is a good kid. The biggest problem is that she is soooo lazy. Oh you must be saying the nut doesn't fall far from the tree. lol. Oh I admitt, I am lazy but I make sure I do the things I have to do. Then I do the things I want to do. So other than that, we celebrated my oldest granddaughters 5th birthday. She is the one I have making this book about. I can't believe that she is 5 already. She will be starting Kindergarten this fall. I am going to try to be there on her first day so I can get some pictures. lol. I have more pictures of her then her parents do. OK, time for show and tell.

Carolyn's party

Credits: Sweet On You, a collaboration kit by Ashalee Wall & Sweet-Made and can be found at the Ashalee and Sweet Boutique.

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Credits: Sweet On You, a collaboration kit by Ashalee Wall & Sweet-Made and can be found at the Ashalee and Sweet Boutique.

Grandma's Goodies

Credits: Lorien by Mamrotka and can be found at the Stone Accents Studio Boutique.

I Love Aunt Kelly

Credits: Lorien by Manrotka and can be found at the Stone Accents Studio Boutique.

Pretty Blue Eyes

Credits: Days Gone By, by Toy Box Designs and can be found at the Stone Accents Studio Boutique.

Princess
Credits: Days Gone By, by Toy Box Designs and can be found at the Stone Accents Studio Boutique.

I'll do it myself
Credits: Empower by Ashalee Wall and can be found at the Ashalee and Sweet Boutique.

Its a girl thing
Credits: Empower by Ashalee Wall and can be found at the Ashalee and Sweet Boutique.

Jamsey's 3rd Bday party
Credits: July 2008 SAS-y Monthly Kit Water World by The SAS-y Designer Team and can be found at the Stone Accents Studio Boutique.

The Birthday Kiss
Credits: July 2008 SAS-y Monthly Kit Water World by The SAS-y Designer Team and can be found at the Stone Accents Studio Boutique.

I would also like to mention that two of the kits shown above, Lorien and Days Gone By are free with any purchase of $10.00.

Ooops 2 More

I should of put these 2 with the last post but I messed up. Anyway, some more layouts of my oldest granddaughter. The pictures were taken right before Christmas. The kit I used was The Jean Ann Mega Kit by Skrapper Digitals and can be found in the Stone Accents Studio boutique.