lazy summer day

and fathers day. just kinda hanging around the house today. sent the husband and daughter to walmart and me and kaydin are hanging at home. lol having mom and dad and noah, amanda and neil up for supper. and cardinals are kicking butt here in the 4th inning. hope they can keep this up. sure glad i am NOT at this game. can you imagine how hot it has to be??? yuck! not that doesn't sound like a true cardinal fan, does it. lol. but i am. just really haven't gotten in the swing of the game yet this year. i will have to change that!

well, Rona has gotten me back in the scrapping and ebay swing of things! i love ebay, something about having that item shipped right to my door and i don't have to go to hob lob to get it. adn good deals at that! i have bought SEVERAL cart. and various items. including things to go with the cuttlebug, which i don't have the machine. YET. but i will. just haven't found one at the right price yet. lol. may have to check out hob lob this week, they have a 40% off coupon adn hopefully i can use a coupon on it. will have to check that out.

oh, are ya gonna join us at the retreat??? this is such a cool get a way. trust me. and rona is doing all kinds of stuff to celebrate her 4-0 birthday. it is gonna be FUN!!!!! let me know if you wanna come and i'll put ya down.

well better start cooking. kaydin finally went down. yeah! oh and to check ebay again!

What to do

Markie's surgery went good. she is home and being the pain that she is after any procedure, lol. me and poor kaydin have to put up with her. i really want to get in my scraproom and tear it up and put it back together again, but we have markie's graduation party saturday, so i guess i will clean the house. kaydin's a good baby, he'll sit in his bouncy chair watching the fish swim. he loves that thing! he laughed yesterday and markie just loved it. he is all smiles these days. so much fun!

um, hello, remember me?

I can't believe it has been 2 and a half months. wow! alot has happened. let me see if i can remember it all! i'll go backwards!

Sunday I took pictures of my friends grandson and kaydin. Layton is 1 week older than kaydin. but kaydin is bigger! lol

This outfit was Mark's when he was a baby. His father picked it out for him. Mark's father passed away when he was around 4 years old.

this pictures shows just how sweet kaydin is. he is very laid back and so sweet! give him a few months, years.

over memorial day weekend we went camping. This is baby noah. he has grown. alot. and he now loves those hard cookies that grandma bought for him. his mommy doesn't like them, they are messy. who care what mommy likes. and those cheeks. very kissable. very.

the day before we left for camping we bought this new camper. well not new, it's a year older than our other one, but very nice! read on to find out why we had to get a new one.

Storms blew thru our small town on May 8th, one week before graduation. totalled our beloved camper. bent the axel or whatever you call it. the storm is also responsible for our new roof we will be getting. i have to decide what color it's gonna be. what? who cares.

Markie and two of her friends had trash the prom dress fun. and i got to play photographer! Loads of fun!!!! the dress where old prom dresses, not this years.

Prom. markie was on prom court, but didn't get queen. kaydin still thinks she should of gotten queen.

whoops, this should of been futher up. graduation day. YEAH!!! she did it and we are very proud of her. she should be proud of herself too! she worked hard and endured alot this year.

just took this. aren't they cute! and boy does he look like his grandpa mark!

oh, and this should of been at the top too. this is what i did this weekend. had fun. just me fun. no kids, no grandkids, just me, a kid and 5 friends. Rona, Cheryl, Janice, Sarah, Marlene and I all got together, rented shadow rest lodge in cape and scrapped from friday night til sunday morning. of course we slept, but we had a blast when we were up! we also did a card swap and i worked on my cards on friday night. it was so much fun just hanging out, scrappin, playing on facebook (they had wireless internet!) and eating. and eating. did i say eating? some of them were on diets, but they ate anyway, lol! we are planning on doing it again in the future. i will have to post pictures of the place. it was absolutely amazing!

well thanks for catching up with me. it's been awhile. tomorrow markie has surgery to remove her gallbladder. then saturday her graduation party. i will be glad when it's over. lol. party will be fun though and can't wait to see everyone. heck, i may have to have a beer! a beer. as in one. any more and i'd be out like a light!

on a serouis note, i'd like to ask you to keep the families of the oran kids in your prayers. they are living every parents nightmare right now. and my heart breaks for them. every single one. they were just kids being kids.

Feb 21st Retreat Pages

The pages for the Feb 21st retreat are down a few post. But my friend Nancy also took pictures of them and sent them to me. She's nice like that!!! I will try and explain some of the things I did that may not be noticable, especially in a picture!

Simply Stated line from Dream Street.

page one. first off, be very careful how you cut your paper. since it is double sided, it can be tricky. The first thing you should do is cut the piece of paper called 'floral phrases' (flowers on one side and four 6x6 blocks of different looking white paper on back). save the one with flowers on it so you can cut 3 of the flowers out. (i know you love me for this). The other side of this sheet you can cut in half, making it 3x12 and this goes in middle of bboth of the pages, just the oppisite side with the flowers. The second thing you should do is cut the paper 'grapevine gossip' in half. cut the funky piece out, like you see in the layout. (i don't know what to call it!!!) the other half cut 6 1x12 pieces for the bottom of your page. i distressed these by inking and cruching, then laying back out. you have a 3.5x10.5 piece of black paper. cut 3 3.5x3.5 photo mats out of it. This should give you 3 photo mats, plus on i cut for you. you have a 12x1 piece of black paper, cut it in half. layer this on top of the flower paper in the middle of the layout. cut out remember this and i used pop dots to raise this. layer everything the way it looks. i added jewels to mine. (of course i did!) the metal frame--i took my chalk ink and swiped it with just to bring out the flowers. cool effect! i am also gonna add a 5x7 picture without a mat. tie ribbon around the metal frame and around remember this paper. and thats it!

Green layout.

Fresh line from Dream Street. Love these papers!

Bliss is your the base of your layout. to get the paper the way it is on my layout, you have to cut your paper very carefully!!! lol

cut the following pieces:

Carefree--cut off 1.5 inches so you have a 10.5x12 piece and a 1.5x12 piece. Now cut off a 1.5 inches of the length so you have a 10.5 by 10.5. cut this piece in half so you have two 5 1/4 x 10.5 pieces. lay aside. cut the 1.5x12 piece in half so you have two 3/4 x 12 pieces. lay all these pieces aside together. It could get confusing if they aren't together.

Renew-- A. cut this piece in half. lay one half asied. the other half cut 3/4 inch off the the bottom so it is 11 1/4 x 6. cut this in half so you have two 11 1/4 x 6 pieces.

B. now take the other 6x12 sheet and and cut off 2 inches length ways so you have a 2x12 sheet and a 4x12 sheet. set the 2x12 sheet aside. cut the 4x12 sheet in half lenght ways so you have two 2x12 pieces. keep all these pieces together too.

Invigorate-- (this ones easy!)cut off 2.5 inches so you have a 9.5x12 sheet of paper. cut this in half so you have two 6 x 9.5 pieces. lay one sheet aside. now cut the other 6x9.5 in half so you have two 3x9.5 sheets of paper. keep all these together too. (you knew i was gonna say that!)

now layer all the pieces as shown on the layout. DON'T ADHERE YET. I took my distresser (you know the heidi swapp pink round thing or the square making memories thing, or a razor blade or scissors edge, just don't cut yourself!) and distressed three edges of each piece of the papers in the middle of the page. and then rolled them alittle, cause i like that. you don't have to do this step. it takes a long time, but it looks soooooo cool. then just layer all paper and adhere. Now the girls in the class didn't like this next step, and you don't have to do it either. just use some paper flowers. but i made the flowers. just cut out by hand some and slapped them down. then i cut out some circles and distressed the edges and rolled them and layered different sizes together. and the remember this sheet is the remember this from the simply stated line cut out with a piece of carefree slapped in the middle of a square off of the simply stated line.

and your done.

I sure hope this made sense. please email if it didn't. it is kind of confusing. like me. or not. plus i'm tired. i had baby duty last night. and it was only the second time i had night duty. but i am kinda old for this. lol

again thanks for buying our kits. and if you know of anyone who would like one, let me know, we have a few left.

teresa collins pages!

Thanks to my Friend, Nancy, here are some pictures of the two pages i did with the left over product from the teresa collins mini book we did on March 7th. I still need to finish my book, it is sooo cool. and i need to make another one for kaydin's hospital arrival. and speaking of Kaydin, he is the sweetest baby, lots of work, but sweet!!

I hope you all enjoyed the class and have your books done. if not, get to it! lol

If you have any questions about these pages, let me know.

this layout i used a 12x12 piece of black cardstock and just layered the paper on. very easy.

This one is the damask 12x12 paper and i took a piece of black cardstock and put it smack dab in the middle of the paper. The black cardstock is 12x9. layer the black cardstock in middle of patterned paper leaving 1 1/2 inches off the top and bottom. and then just layer the rest. easy, since we've already cut everything up!

So I hope you enjoyed the class and we are working on the next retreat, just have to come up with a date!!!!

Introducing

Kaydin Allen Sharrock, 9lbs 6oz 21 inches long. just in case you couldn't see it in the picture. he is a absolutely cutie!!! and so sweet and good natured, just like his mommy. I have forgotten just how much work they are, but boy is it fun.

Markie did good, she ended up having a c-section, but that was for the best.

our house has changed alot since wednesday and i sure don't have any free time anymore! lol Markie is getting back in the swing of things, but it is slow.

i'm looking forward to seeing all my scrapping buddies tomorrow!!!

well off to feed kaydin then put him to sleep. Markie takes the am feeding, i take the late night and early morning. it's working out quite well!

My Book

Ok, here is my take on the Teresa Collins book we will be making on March 7th. If you haven't signed up yet, please hurry because we are almost full! Drop me a note here, or send me a email!

Well, here goes. some of the pictures are kinda blurry, sorry about that, but you will still get the idea.

All pictures were made on the kodak picture maker thingy at walmart. I made the mini pictures, and some of them are from the a 4x6 that has nine pictures on it, some from the 4x6 that has 4, and some with 2 to a 4x6. I also made a couple 4x6 pictures too. i hope that made some sense. lol

Front of book. Picture is 1 1/4 by 2.


first and second page. first page Picture is 4 by 3 and the envelope opens up and show another 4x3 picture under flap. second page pictures are 2 x 2 3/4. second page is a file folder and opens up.

first page opened up.

inside of file folder, which is pages 3 and 4. any moment now i am gonna loose track of which page i am on. it's no biggie really! i'm gonna journal on the left side, the pictures on the right are 2 x 2 1/2.

pages 5 and 6. pictures on page 5 are 2 x 2 1/2. Page 6 opens up and pictures are 2 x 1 1/2.

page 6 opened up. Cool, huh!

pages 7 and 8. picture on page 7 is 2 1/2 x 2. there will be more pictures on this page, gotta get them printed off. page 8 pictures 2 x 2 1/4 and 2x2.

page 8 and 9. hummmm. what am i gonna do here?

page 10 and 11. page 10 I may journal. page 11 picture is a cut down 4x6.

page 12 and 13. hmmmm.

page 14 adn 15.

page 16 and 17

page 16 opened up. coooooool!

page 17 opened up

page 18 and 19.

Now for some reason, i think i'm missing a page or two. but not completely sure. but you got the jest of this mini book. isn't it the cutest!!! It's got the neatest tucks and slots that you can stuff stuff in. Ok, so go scour your pictures and find just the right ones, go to walmart and print you off some mini pictures!!! Don't blame me when you get addictted to these little sweetie's!!

remember, shoot me a email or leave me a comment if you have any questions. If you want to sign up, hurry, hurry, hurry!!!

Today's The Day!

For the retreat! Hope to see ya there!!!

Oh yeah! the RAK's, well since only a few replied, everyone gets something!!!!! Debbi, Brooke, Barb and Tammy! I'll get Barb's and Brooke's in the mail, girls please email me your addies. Tammy and Debbi, i will see you today!

And a BIG congrats to Brooke and her family on adding a beautiful baby girl to their family! Lily Hope. I love the name Lily, it was my grandmother's name! and it is the third Lily in the last couple months i know of! How cool!

Check This Out!

Here's the project we will be doing on March 7th. We'll have more details about that retreat soon. But check out this site and the video on the right!

http://www.abc4.com/content/about_4/gtu/featured_on/story/Teresa-Collins-Designs/UrIqswUIUkKfc3zp8RWz6w.cspx

The Other 2 Page Layout!

Ok, so here is the other layout. I'm not sure if it is done yet or not. It's in the 'set it aside and come back to it later and see if it needs something else' stage. I'll know later! lol but I wanted you to see this pretty paper. I think I said it before, but I really like this dreamstreet paper. looking at here on the internet, i think it needs something else. but i don't know what. hhhhmmmmm.

Wanna See a Sneak Peak?

Of the project we're gonna do on March 7th?? You are gonna love this book! It's a Teresa Collins book kit and it is sooooo cool. The kits will arrive at my house on monday and I can't wait to dig into it! We will have one complete on saturday at the 21st retreat. If you participated in the kit club and did the November kit, you know how awesome her kits are. They sell out from the distributors really fast, so i'm excited to get a limited supply of these!!! (I wanted to do her valentine book using crush, but it sold out!) This is also her brand new line from CHA09 winter. If you love her stuff as much as I do, check out her blog, Just click her name over on the right and it will take it right to her blog.













So are you as excited as I am? Well then, how about another RAK? This is totally different from yesterdays, so be sure to comment on both posts, double your chance!!!! again, I will pick randomaly (is that a word?)

As Promised!

Here is one of the 2 page layouts we will do at the retreat on February 21st . This paper was so much fun to work with! and it is much prettier in real life. The 4 black 3.5x3.5 pieces are for photos. the white space is where i'll put a 5x7 picture, unmatted. the frame with the ribbon tied to it is a making memory metal frame. There is still enough paper left over to make another page or 2, so you may get a added bonus page! we'll see! Sorry the pictures are not that good. the printer/scanner is still at the bottom of all the junk in my scrapbook room.

Page 1


Page 2

Orginally we were going to quit taking registrations tomorrow, saturday feb. 14. But details changed and we will continue to take registrations until February 18th. If you do decide to sign up late, email one of us and let us know. We'll let you know about payment arrangements.

Just know that we will have one good time on the 21st of February, so I hope you can join us!

I will be working on the other layout tomorrow or sunday, so keep checking back for that!

Oh, how about at RAK!!! Lets see, what can it be? How about just a random drawing. Yeah thats it. Just leave me a comment, let me know you are out there and I'll draw someone, or the only one, on monday evening. who knows how many more rak's i'll do, so check back!

the winner of the first rak goes to Debbi Middleton, she was the only one to comment, so she wins! lol You will wish you would of left me a comment when you see the car she won! yeah, you should of left me a comment!

Lovin............

this paper I got for the retreat!!! It is sooo cool. DreamStreet papers are the best! stay tuned for a peak at what we'll be doing next saturday. There are still spots available, so shoot me a email, call me, reply here, just get signed up!!! lol

Just some photo's and a RAK!

We've been busy around here lately! Here is the baby's room. It used to be Amanda's room, then the junk room (since we don't have a basement). It was pretty full of junk and alot of scrapbook stuff that needs to find a place in my scrapbook room. But now it looks like this!


He got a new dresser from Grandma Delores





We found this cool rocker glider on sale at Kmart for, get this, 66 bucks and it is really nice! It glides really good, i was worried at first, you know the saying you get what you pay for. but so far it is great!

The bed we borrowed from Amanda (she found 2 she liked) and the all the vintage pooh stuff we got a deal on. I think it looks sooo sweet! oh and that's a bear in the corner that you can hear a heart beat. how cool is that!

And the beautiful changing table our friend the extremely talented Tim Holshouser built. This thing is so pretty an sturdy! Tim really out did himself, and we are tickled to have it! man we have some awesome friends!

The next 2 pictures are the closet. I'm in love with the closet! Mark found this cool organizer thing at a auction for ONE dollar and it is so neat! The baby's clothes fit so good in there. The green and blue tub things she got at her shower from sweet Lynden. We wanted more but couldn't find anymore around here and finally found more in st louis. They are from the dollar tree! aren't they the coolest! oh, and speaking of the dollar tree, we found a really nice one on LeeMay Ferry right off Lynberg. It was really big and very organized. I miss the one in Jackson!!

Now. This. Is. Disqusting. This is my scrapbook room. I really think you could call it the junk room now. :( Well that's what is in there anyway. So I started working on it last night. didn't get very far. but i will. I am in the mood to scrapbook! So how long do you think it will take me to get enough of it done where i can at least work at my desk????

So, I will give a nice RAK to the person who can guess the day i finally get into my room and can stand at my desk and actually find my scrapbooking tools. If there is more than one right answer, i will draw someone out of a hat. Unless there is only a couple, then you'll both get something. I can't tell you what it will be, because i can't get in there to decide what it will be! so. very. sad.