It's Race Time

I know I know, it has been forever since I last updated. There is so much to tell everyone. I am hoping to overhaul this blog and get it up to speed with atleast a weekly update. So there are a couple big things that I need to get up here and then I am going to go tinker in the dashboard of this blog.
#1 The Race for the Cure is June 13th and I have started a team this year. Some of the girls at work wanted to get together so here it is. Our team is The Dream Team. If you aren't doing anything on the 13th please join our team (online registration ends on May 22nd) or you could also pledge to our cause.

#2 I have joined the Clear Scraps ladies as they have traveled into a new venture. They are coming out with a month kit (or two) and I was asked to design for it. The first one comes out this month, so be on the look out.

Ok I am off to mess around with this blog.
~J~

Technical Difficulties

Sorry folks, for some reason Blogger has decided to go to a huge format even when I load my pictures as small.
I hope to get this taken care of soon. If you have some suggestions please let me know.
Thanks
J

So what do you do when you have lost some weight and can't fit into your old jeans anymore? Well if you are me, you make a cover for your new mini album, LOL. The seam of my jeans runs down the spine of the book. I used a BoBunny Naked Album as my base.

I used a Pink Paislee Topsider, some Ali Edwards stamps from Technique Tuesday. A Heidi Swapp letter covered in Silver Paint Dabber and some Martha Stewart glitter. My sweet little butterfly is actually a Shrinky Dink. I used a die and ran it through my Big Shot and then Reed had a blast shrinking it. He loves that machine.

My LOVE banner, is created with an acrylic album, LOTS of the new Basic Grey Bittersweet. Letters from Pressed Petals, flowers from Heidi Swapp and Prima, Felt from Fancy Pants, crystals from Prima, Jeweled Brad from Heidi Swapp. Various ribbons and little trinkets from my stash.

I love this cute banner. It will be hanging in my room. I was thinking about adding some clips and hanging my favorite pictures of my guys from it.

Thanks for looking.

Something new

So we have been busy with Secret Santa at work and I wanted to share something I made for my secret santa. She doesn't know I have a blog, so I can share. LOL.

The paper is Doodlebug, the ribbon is by Making Memories, white flower and leaves are Prima and pink flower and gem brad by Heidi Swapp, charm is a Tim Holtz fragment with Doodlebug rub ons

Some new things

Wow, the holidays are here. It seems like just the other day it was Halloween. We had Thanksgiving at our house this year, since most of my family went up to Chicago. So we had Art's mom, sister and her boyfriend over. In honor of the holiday I had fun with some Pink Paislee Vintage Moon and made these cute pumpkins from Carolee's that have been sitting in my scraproom for a while just waiting for the right paper. I am hoping to finish my Grateful BPS class project this weekend too, I just have to add pictures and some last minute touches. It has been a great experience. If you haven't taken any Big Picture Scrapbooking classes you should check them out.

Then on Tuesday, my order from Scrappy Gourmet came with my new Tinsel Town from Pink Paislee. So today I did this adorable little house from Doodlebug. It was a great feeling to just be able to hide out in my room and play.

Now there is talk of going out into the Black Friday chaos, so I guess I better go get ready. Have a great day!!

Projects

As I was posting these, I noticed that they were all Pink Paislee, LOL. I just can't get enough of it.
For this card, I used 2 papers from the Pop Fashion line and the Bazzill In Stitchez.
This half page was done using one of Becky Fleck's half maps. Paper, letter stickers, chipboard & topper and stamps are all Pink Paislee. There are some small Doodlebug rub ons.
I LOVE this Maya Road Halloween Town. I used mostly Pink Paislee, with some Making Memories, Around the Block, Cloud 9, Inkadinkado, Hero Arts and my Cricut.

A while back Linda Albrecht shared her cupcake "recipe" so I had to make one of my own. lol. Pink Paislee, of course, Fancy Pants felt flower, Autumn Leaves button and a Stampendous stamp
I have been working on my soldering since CHA-Summer 2 years ago when Kathy and I met the lovely ladies from Simply Swank. So here are my little bottlecap pendants. I used Pink Paislee papers and rub ons.
I bought this paper mache pumpkin last year after making a foam pumpkin like this one. So once my Pink Paislee Fall papers arrived, I had to make a pumpkin out of them.
This is one of my favorite cards to make for birthdays. It is easy and totally adorable.
So that is it for now. How was that for an update? I will talk to you in a week, unless something fabulous comes up.

OH YEAH!!! I am hostessing my first Scrap Mania at the store, come and crop with me. Also the Recipe for Giving Class starts this weekend, and I will be teaching it on Saturday morning, come join me.

Tennessee

A brief trip to Tennessee in pictures, lol. I still have to get Wanda's, these are just my digital images. I also have a bunch in 35mm (YES, I still use 35mm, I LOVE my 35mm)

This picture was taken at Kellogg's Southern Restaurant. We stopped here for lunch, in true Southern style, they had fried green tomatoes, gator tails and frog legs on the menu. Reed played Hot Wheels as we waited.

Reed and dad goofing off in the backseat.

The beautiful view from the balcony of the condo we were staying at in Sevierville, Tennessee.

On Monday, we went to Ripley's Believe it or Not Aquarium in Gatlinburg. The shark tunnel was the big hit. I wanted to go back thru again, it was so neat to be near these fabulous animals.

Once we pulled ourselves out of the shark area, we came upon where you could touch Horseshoe Crabs. Reed was leary at first, but once he finally touched it and realized that dad was right it did feel kind of like a turtle shell and it wouldn't pinch him like the crabs in our tank, we couldn't get him out of it.

We then drove through Smokey Mountain National Park, or atleast a small part of it. There was a small log cabin and this barn, that were part of the scenic stops along the motor trail. Another scenic stop, I wish there would have been more of these on the trail we were on. There were a lot of hiking trails, but no one was interested in that, lol.Tuesday, we went to a stables and petting zoo. Wanda and I rode the trails on Squirrel and LJ, while Reed and Art went down to the petting zoo and saw camels, zebras, kangaroos, deer, elk, goats, etc.

While we were killing time to head over to the Dixie Stampede, we stopped at this souvenir shop. Yes that is their entrance. It was called Jaws, I know, shocking.

The Dixie Stampede, where soda is served in a boot, while you are waiting to get into the arena. Reed loved everything but the food, LOL. Luckily I had brought some snacks with me in anticipation.

Wednesday Morning, brought us into Pigeon Forge. The boys decided to hop on the go-karts. Reed had a nonstop smile across his face. So did Art. It was great! We met up with Wanda at Happy Day's Diner for lunch. I loved the tables.
As we were getting burnt out on tourist attractions, we decided to hit the Jurassic Boat Ride since Reed was wanting to see dinosaurs. I don't think this was what he was wanting. It was ok, he was scared and attached to me. The robotics were fabulous.
We did other things, like swimming and mini golf at the condos. Ate at some interesting places, but had a lot of fun together. It was nice to get away for a while.

Ok, the project photos are loaded, so they are up next.

Only 10 more days

UNTIL HALLOWEEN!!!!


I can't believe it. Since we got back from Tennessee (pictures to come, transfering them from the laptop now) Halloween has thrown up all over my house, LOL. I have atleast 5 large tubs of All Hallow's Eve goodies and they are strung all over my house waiting for their turn in line to get put up. I LOVE Halloween.

So I had promised to post some projects, I will make sure that they are up today. Right before my interviews at Archivers, I had some great scrappy mojo going on. I was completing projects in record time, it was so refreshing. I still need to take a couple pictures of others.

This is one of the houses that I found in the Michael's Halloween bins. I thought it had some potential. Add some Pink Paislee Paper and stamps, a Martha Stewart border punch and a Sizzix die and you get this fabulous little house.

This is the cover of our vacation album. It was an SEI album in a box set, but I am not a total SEI type person, so I added some Magistical Memories chipboard, Ranger paint dabber, Bo Bunny chipboard and you spice up the front cover a bit. This is the inside page. I covered the inside of my chipboard from the cover, used an Ali Edwards stamp, some Pink Paislee letters, Bazzill chipboard flowers. I'll show you more of the book as I get it finished, I am currently waiting for a shipment of pictures from Shutterfly. I did do some digital pages for this book that I will post later. I am going to go upload more pictures to Photobucket, so that I can get them on here. Be back soon!!

Coupon

I have a coupon for 1/2 off a scrap mania at Archivers. It is good until Oct. 31st. If you want it let me know!!!

Did I Say Wednesday??

LOL. Here is what has been going on this week

*Started training for my new job

*Took my Geography Exam, YAY!!

*Sat at the Social Security Office for 2 hours to get a new card

*Enjoying the cool Fall weather around here

*Impatiently waiting to hear word on the grant I applied for. Found out today that we didn't get it. :(

*I just downloaded the new David Cook single

*Got new clothes for my new job

And I got these funny pumpkin photos in my email box, that I thought I would share. Getting ready for our first family vacation EVER! We are heading the Tennessee in a couple weeks and I CAN'T WAIT!!!