My Brother ...

Hey Dean, here is a layout I did of you the other day .... love you, Bro!!!

Whew what a weekend and now what a week!

I finished up the crop this weekend - 22 layouts - OMgoodness! Now I'm ready for the week-long Scrapbook University classes at ScrapAttack Scrapbooking this week. They start tonight but you have the entire month to finish them if you can't make it tonight. Fun things will be made and new techniques will be learned. Here are some layouts I made this past weekend...

My trip to Salzburg, Austria ...

My trip back home to Lexington, KY ....

And another new challenge has been posted by me at Vintage Flaire. So check out the various challenges there from the DT- lots of neat vintage and shabby chic layouts, cards, and ideas. Not to mention the free pics you can download and printout from flickr (as a member) to use on your vintage and shabby chic items. On this layout I used sheet music I picked up in a vintage package I purchased on Etsy and then added the front of a card with the two children on it. The picture is me and my older brother from 1959??

Serendipity Scrapbooks Staycation Crop This Weekend

Stay-cation online Crop Friday June 12th-15th Are you one of the many people that found themselves canceling their vacation this year? Maybe you decided on postponing it or scaling it back to a long weekend. Either way, Serendipity has the crop for you. We are celebrating Staying Home with a Stay-cation crop. Our Design Team has come up with clever challenges based on our favorite vacation spots and local treasures that we are celebrating. Just because you can’t go away this time of year doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate a summer Stay-cation. As with all of our crops, we give away an awesome prize package for the Queen of the Crop, not to mention each challenge and game is good for a RAK.
Hope to see you there. Stay-cation forum Starts 9am Pacific/noon EST Friday the 12th

(SAS)sy Scrapbook University Starts Monday

Scrap Attack Scrapbooking presents another round of {SAS}sy Scrapbook University (SSU). SSU is a series dedicated to sharing skills with our message board members. The June 2009 series covers topics all about scrapping! There will be six classes in the June series – one posted every other night beginning on the 15th. Postings will begin at 9:00 pm EST (6:00 PST). If you are unable to make it to the message board at the specified time – you don’t need to worry. Classes (threads) will remain in the forum. Sign-up and check out Kelly's post on what supplies you'll need to bring to class! The first series was about photography and I learned must about my camera so I'm really looking forward to this next set! And here are the classes that will be taught ... 1. {SAS}sy Stamping Techniques (6/15) 2. A {SAS}sy Stationary Set (6/17) 3. Using those {SAS}sy Extras on your Projects (6/19) 4. {SAS}sy Card Kit (6/21) 5. Scrappin' {SAS}sy Style on Canvas (6/23) 6. A {SAS}sy Note Holder (6/25)

The early bird gets to read more blogs ...

There is something to be said about waking up earlier than everyone else. Quiet time and time to sip my java and go blog hopping! I love ready my online friend's blogs and seeing all the things they have created. I also love going shopping Etsy style. I found some cool vintage scrappy things there last week so the packages are starting to come in and I love what I bought. For instance, yesterday I receive an envelope with really ancient children's book covers - great to use on a layout and gives your layout depth. These are genuine too because the envelope smelled a little musty - the smell you would expect from "real" vintage stuff. When I see some of these items, it reminds me of my youth. I don't know about you but I have a hard time remembering when I was really young. I mean, do I really remember or do I remember because my parents told me or my brother. I have one of those brothers that remembers EVERYTHING!!!

Anyway, I pondered the question "do you open the can of biscuits with a knife or do you whack it up against the counter's edge?" I ask because I'm cooking biscuits and when I whacked the container against the counter, of course it didn't open so I had to release it with a poke of the knife. Makes you go "hmmm?" Do ever wonder what other people do that you do?

So anyway, it's Thursday and only two more days until the weekend arrives. I have no plans for the weekend so I don't know why I'm so fired up about it getting here. Funny how we wish for time to go quickly and then when it does, we complain that it goes too fast. And the older you get ... well let's just say wasn't yesterday 1973? LOL Oh what's the line from Steel Magnolias that Dolly Parton says ... time marches by and before long it marches across your face .... or someting like that. You get what I mean. Oh to be young again!!!

Ok so now that I have totally depressed you with the youth thing, grab yourself a cup of java and go blog hopping with your online friends or do some Etsy shopping. That's where I'm headed. Have a great week and talk to you on the boards!

Scrapping Sunday

All the housework is done so I have nothing better to do than scrap away the hours today. Ok, yeah, I'm sure I could be doing something "productive" but it wouldn't be as fun as what I'm doing now. There's nothing like scrapping in a clean house!!! WOO HOO!!!

So Serendipity Scrapbooks is having another crop the 12th and I'm creating some vintage pages for Vintage Flaire. So for SS, I did a pre-crop challenge, a cookbook. The challenge was to use pictures of gardens, farmer's market, etc and then the things you get from there, you make things to eat. Or something like that. Anyway, I put together this scrapbook - quick and dirty - and instead of putting the standard recipes in it, I wrote down how to make some things I make all the time like cubed steak and chicken and rice. I signed the back page to my DS, Jeremy, and I'll send it to him. Either that or into the closet it would go and never to be found again. :-) So here is the cookbook. I'll post the vintage pages later today - still working on them with all the KEWL stuff I found on Etsy and other places.

WOO HOO!!!!

I'm so excited for two reasons!!!

I won at Serendipity Scrapbooks - the grand prize for their May Mayhem month crop. I was really surprised because my scrappy friends there were hustling as much as me and getting things done left and right. Thanks to Kristen for the wonderful prize and for Pink Paislee for sponsoring. And thanks to the marvelous Design Team on Serendipity Scrapbooks for all the work they did for the 31 days in May. What an awesome and very busy crop it was! And just think they are having another crop the weekend of June 12 - I think they are trying to scrap us to death. LOL

My second bit of exciting news is that today is my 31st year with my company. I cannot believe I made it this long. Wow, thirty-one years, am I blessed or what? I look back on the 31 years and think of all the people I have met, worked with, become friends with, watched retire, some have passed on. I think back when I was a newbie fresh out of four years of the Air Force. Who would have thought some 31 years later here I would be. Thanks to my family for all their support and all my friends and peers who have steered me and mentored me. It's not said as often as it should be - Thanks!!!