Blur

So I haven't blogged in ages if you haven't noticed! My fall has been a BLUR of activity but it's been GOOD. Scrapping these two layouts for SMU for Dec. was SO fun. I really do LOVE scrappin! I really hope to do more in 08 and find a balance between everything!

Well, SMU ladies...these layouts are techniquey! The first one uses BLURRY photos. You have a couple right? We'll paint, corner round, tear, fold, dry stamp, mix stamping and stickers for journaling and heat emboss plus use felt flowers and paper flowers with brads AND staple GREEN tuile on as well as paint the back of ghost clocks (a whole pack is your free gift!). The journalling on this layout says
CHILDHOOD CAN BE A BLUR...ENJOY

On the BELIEVE layout we'll use one of those cool Crafter
Workshop doodling stencils as a stencil with a dry brush dabber technique and we'll put some of that on the actual photo. The file folder divider is actually an antique that I'm sharing with you, it came from my husband's grandfather. He was a grocery store manager years and YEARS ago. We will also heat emboss and regular stamp. That trim is GORGEOUS velvet from Creative Imaginations. Yummy yummy stuff! An y questions let me know, k?

Bit blue

This really belongs on Whimages the blog but I've been neglecting this one so I wanted to post this tonight. This little (not so....actually almost 10 lbs) boy wrapped in blue was so SWEET today...only a few days old.

OMGAWSH!

Hey check this OUT!!!

www.whimages.com

HEY!

If you read my other blog, you may know that I'm building a website for the photography thingy that I'm kicking off. It's been keeping me so busy but I'll let you know as soon as it's truly launched. And because NO blog post is complete without a photo...here's one I snapped of Gracie today! I think she's my new muse...I could drown in those eyes! :D

pawsitively delightful!

This poor boy got stung by a bee yesterday on his eyebrow...he ended up looking like Sugar Ray Leonard! A Anti-histamine later and he was resting comfortably! My poor man, but he DOES love his naps!

Lil' beauty

Take time to smell the dandelions!

This is how we roll...

Lazy Sunday mornings at our house...it's a couch pile up!

Peyton still has a heart with wings painted on her face and of course, Macy has to get in on the coziness 'cause cozy is her middle name!

I ALMOST love Fall as much as spring. I WOULD if Winter wasn't next! Today my sister and I and the kids went to a Fall Fest. I asked permision for Cole to get his pic taken in this old pickup in a farmers field but the sun ended up too strong so I didn't get what I wanted but he still loved it!

There is not much better than festival food....pit beef, funnel cakes, and lemons with mint sticks YUMMMM!

Doodly-fun

So I guess I have to toot my own horn if only because my kids think this is super cool! I don't submit because there really isn't time in my day and I really hate to have to write those really long supply lists. Plus, I scrap for them -----> and for me!
But when I saw this call I figured it be easy to submit too 'cause I mainly used Jenni Bowlin stuff. And here you go....it was on my front porch yesterday. Apparently it will be available at Michaels and I believe my lss, Scrap-Masters is going to get it in too. It's a super cute book with tons of GREAT ideas, and it's happy, colorful and FUN!

JUMP.

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall"
-ray bradbury

I feel this is particularly appropos right now :D

A doggone blast!

LOOOOOOK at this cutie! Some of you may know that I've been taking some photo's as a little side thingy. I totally have fallen HARD for photography. I have SO much to learn but it's already been so FUN!. One of the FABULOUS ladies that I've become friends with from my SMU classes has a delightful trio of Malteses (how do you plural that....is it like Hippos or Hippi, shrimp or shrimp). This weekend Laura and Brian were brave enough to dog sit Brian's sisters 2 Malts (LOL). AND I was crazy enough to try to snap some pics! Some turned out so doggone CUTE! Look at this face!

too cool to smile

I think he's too cool to smile now...oh well!

And so it begins...

Early last week Peyton came home from school and told me that a little boy in her friend Annie's class called her name. When she glanced over, he said, "You are PRETTY!" like he was confirming it to himself. She was desperate to know if a. Was it okay for him to say she was pretty and b. Was she pretty? So I let her know that yes it was fine for him to say she was pretty and yes of course, I thought she was pretty. A couple days went by and she came home one day and said that Brett (same little boy) told her again she was pretty. She was VERY quick to tell me that he was just being a nice friend and friends say nice things to one another. I whole-heartedly agree, FRIENDS should say nice things to each other!
Today she came home and said Brett, "blew me a kiss" when she got off the bus. She decided that "wasn't a very FRIEND thing to do!"

I wonder how she'll remember this little story about Brett when she's 25? Thank GOD I scrap! :D

Recently, a friend asked me if I was happy that my sister, Brandy had moved closer. She moved from N.C. to DE a little over a month ago and it only takes about 36 minutes now to get together. I told my friend it was like everyday was my birthday! I know I'm a little goofy but really, I can't tell you what it means to be able to see her so often and watch her beautiful children GROW!

My neice, Grace is at such a fun stage and is learning new words everyday. She's following in the footsteps of our family and becoming an animal freak. She can spend an hour opening and closing my cell phone to look at the different pictures of Chester and Macy, although if she accidentaly pushes a button and they disappear, you'll clearly and distinctly hear her whisper, "crap!" LOL Don't look at me, she got that from MOMMY!

AND, there is nothing quite as sweet as a BIG lollipop!

It's official!

Are these NOT just the most COOL business cards you've ever seen? I am in totall LOVE with them! They are just too cute if I do say so myself! LOL I've got a busy weekend coming up with 2 different photo shoots! Pretty cool huh? I'm so excited!

Tears...

This morning, Peyton looked outside at the bleak and drizzled filled morning and teared up. "Why are you crying, honey?" I wondered. "It's raining and I won't be able to go to school!" She was ecstatic when she found out that YES, indeed you DO get to go to school in the rain! Who knew?!

Here is the other October SMU. In the next day or so I'll be emailing you SMU girls the homework sheet for my Sept. classes! I sure hope you can make it there, I've missed all of you!

I've had a lot of excitement with the http://www.whimages.blogspot.com site and I can't wait to get snapping more pictures!

SMU for October

Hey ladies! I thought you may like to see the other layout for October's Scrap-Masters University. We'll be using the super cool 6 x 6 photo (it's your free gift!) and you'll learn to make this FAB Rebecca Sower (ish) rose embellishment from vintage book paper and also Elsie Flanigan's ledger paper. These flowers are a BLAST to make, you will LOVE it! Isn't my neice Grace just the CUTEST! ...could eat her up!

Speaking of cute stuff, you HAVE to check out cuteoverload.com and see the Dobie going down the slide into a pool, over and over again! It's to die for! LOVE that!

I was going to tell y'all about the delish crockpot orange chicken I was makin' tonight but when I opened the package of chicken...not so delish smelling! URGH!

yummmmm

My sister, being the best sister I have, took my girls home to DE to spend the night. Cole had a b-day party to attend so he was fine with it. This morning, I reluctantly put down a book I HAD to get yesterday (more on that in a minute) and made the short drive (36 min. as opposed to the 6 hours to N.C. before~!) to get them out of her hair. While there we decided to check out a CUPCAKE bakery in Newark called Sweet n Sassy Cupcakes http://www.sweetnsassycupcakes.com/ . YUMMMY and such a fun store! Brandy and I were both dying for this black and white brocade 2 tier stand....it was DELIGHTFUL!

Okay, about the hard to put down read. Some girls on http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/ , mainly this girl Kerry Lynn http://k8tykat.typepad.com/ , were talking about a vampire book that was just SO romantic. And heck, I'm all about the romance, well not really but I like to read romance! LOL So the book is ABSOLUTELY freakin GREAT! REally, I can't put the dern thing down and it's not like I don't have anything else I should be doing. AND it's a trilogy, I LOVE that, the husband does not! :D It's a young adult book but SOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo good! It's called Twilight and it's by Stephanie Meyer. CHECK it out. So I mainly have the demise of my house to blame on Kerry Lynn so check out her awesome scrap-goodness here...http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/profile_55.html and show her some love!

Whimages

Just to bore you some more, I started another blog...www.whimages.blogspot.com. I take so many photographs that I don't necessarily want to bore you with on here since Whimsyworks is about my life and scrappin'! Anyway if you are interested, check it out!

Today there was this...

"I gotta go my own way."

My heart hurts but I'm so proud of all of them!

Coincidence of something more....

"I've gotta go my own way. I've gotta move on" Peyton was belting that song out all morning. I thought she made it up herself but she explained it was from High School Musical 2. As if this morning wasn't hard enough, then the little stinker starts singing a song like she's 19 and going off to college or something!
Luckily, Callie and Cole were a little easier. They were so excited and did get. I hope their day goes as smooth as this morning!