The Tat and Skydive

I am not a big fan of tatoos, smalls ones are ok. My son & dil have small ones in places that won't sag :). T friend turned 18 last week and to celebrate went skydiving and got a tattoo! Luckily, T can't do either for 2 more years! As far as getting a tat, I think when they come at her with the needles she will change her mind! Skydiving may happen, and that will be ok. She is taking aviation in school and will be flying her first plane next week!

Pumpkin Patch

We really don't have a pumpkin patch here, nor do we have a lot of fall colors, so this is the nearest thing we have. A local church brings in a truckload of pumpkins and T and her friend were "forced" to go there today to take pictures! There were a little embarrassed being the oldest "kids" there but cooperated for a few minutes!

Invisibly Spooky Album Give Away

I made this cute little acrylic mini album for SBF and since I have at least a million mini albums, we decided to share. We will give this away Nov.1 after the Invisibly Spooky Album class. It has Rusty Pickle paper and Wonderful We R Memory Keepers rubons! I hope that the lucky winner will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it!!

Road Trip

My friend and I took another road trip this weekend...we stopped in Killeen at I Scrapbook (after a slight delay, which we won't go into here, lets just say we weren't paying attention to the GPS)fun, fun store!! Next stop was Waxahachie, late but we got there. Met my dil for a quick lunch and shopped at the Crafty Scrapper for a few hours (yes hours). Then on to Arlington! We cropped at Recollections Friday night until midnight and then took a beautiful album class from 10-5 Sat. We stayed to crop again Saturday night until midnight and during the course of the day did some serious shopping!! Janet actually glued things down and went through several rolls of adhesive (I keep trying to get her to get the ATG), so I had to take a picutre of the adhesive event!! The picture of our back seat is just what we couldn't get into our suitcases!! A super fun shopping and scrapping weekend!!

License Plate mini album

I just had to make this for T's new car! I made it out of an old Texas license plate, perfect for the first car pictures!
Leaving tomorrow for a scrapbooking road trip to Arlington to take a class at Recollections. Janet and I will do some side trips to lss in Killeen and Waxahachie and meet my dil for lunch!! Gonna be fun!!

Acrylic Album Class

I taught the On A Clear Day acrylic album class last night at SBF! What fun and these ladies made some beautiful albums!!

Some Bling

T stopped at Target on our way to church Sunday night and did a little bling shopping in the $1 bin....
This lovely wants to go to Brazill spring break for a mission trip. It is a lot of hard work and committment but she can do it!

HOTS retreat!

A fun weekend in Temple at the HOTS retreat!! Janet and I left early Friday morning and stopped at Waco. We love my GPS!! Spent time at Crop, Paper, Scissors, making some fun purchases and then had lunch at Jason's Deli! Checked in to the Hilton in Temple and headed for the retreat!! We were so lucky to have Kathy and Liz at our table...never a dull moment!! Janet worked on her Christmas explosion box, Liz cranked out vacation layouts, Kathy did adorable layouts of her cute boys and I worked on my circle album!! Sunday Liz, Kathy, and I entered some of our work in the contest for best layouts and mini albums! Kathy won honorable mention,Liz won first place for mixed media, and I won first place in mini albums! We had a lot of fun but very little sleep this weekend!!

12 x 12 chipboard album

I decided I had to try my hand at a 12x12 chipboard album! Painted with acrylics, lots of transparancies,bling, and different page chipboard inserts, made this a fun album! Thanks Dot for the fun stamps, Linda for the Staz on refill, and Janet for all the beautiful bling!!

I Finally Had the MoJo

to scrap some layouts! My mojo seems to have gone on hiatus since July but hopefully a little has come back! These are a few I did last week and the circles are the front and inside cover for a mini album for a special person on her birthday!
My friend Janet and I are going to a HOTS retreat next weekend...this should be a blast, then the next weekend we are off on another adventure! We are shopping our way to Dallas and then taking a class at Recollections and going to their crop Friday night! Can't wait for these to fun adventures and meeting new sb friends!

One Excited

16 year old! T never reads my blog but for some reason she read the post about getting her drivers license. She had a sneaking suspicion that something was going on when we met at my LSS. We had parked her new car, complete with painted windows and a bow, in the parking lot and when T and dh came up we sent her out to the car with a set of keys...she found the car and you can tell by the picture she was a little excited!! After we went to eat she was off to show her friends her new car. I do believe she thought about sleeping in the car last night!

A License

to drive! T has been waiting since July 12 for the "real" drivers license!! Yesterday was the day! She rushed home from school (probably the fastest she has come home after school EVER) and we mad a mad dash to the drivers license bureau! Ten minutes later, fingerprinted, mug shot taken,$5, we walked out officially a licensed driver! She finally gets to drive without us old folks in the car!! This morning she was up way early, dressed and out of the house by 7:30. Off she drove in the Avalanche....independence at last! There is a sequel she knows nothing about to follow Friday!

Lot of Work

My scrapbook room was out of control! It had taken over two closets, 6 rolling carts and any other space I could stick my goodies! I spent the last week cleaning and purging! What a job!! My dh installed wire shelving from floor to ceiling in one closet while I emptied closets! The result went from a big huge mess to an organized closed and only one rolling cart!! I am having a huge scrapbook garage sale in the next few weeks and rid the guest bedroom of stacks and stacks of sb goodies!!

Port A Acrylic Album

A Super Fun Album I will be teaching in Sept. Love all the beach colors and fun Bling!!

End of Summer Days

School started today! T is a Junior and excited about being an upperclassman!! The only thing missing is her car!
This weekend was the last fling before school and soccer season starts and we spent Saturday at Fiesta Texas. T took 3 of her friends and we spend the day in 100 degree heat and mingling with thousands of other fun seekers!They rode the Scream, no way would I get on that ride, but they loved it!! We had a blast but it was so good to get home and cool off!
Sunday T was finally baptized. I say finally because this is something she has been trying to do for months. I was gone May and June. July was spent just getting things settled after I was gone so long. August we had some soccer conflicts, a vacation and 2 weeks ago we arranged for that Sunday to be the day! She went to the back of the church to get ready and a small problem....no water in the tank! This Sunday we tried again and the minister assured us there would be water! A beautiful, powerful and meaningfull moment for the family!

Piercing!!

T has been pestering me for weeks to get her cartilage pierced! I don't really have a problem with her doing it except for the problems it causes in soccer. She can't take it out or change it for 3 months and some refs make you tape and put a band-aid over the piercing. Today we were at the mall and this was the big day!! She picked out her earring,sat in the chair and before she could react it was over!! Now comes the fun part, the cleaning and turning everyday. We will see if this was worth it in a few weeks!!

Something good about Houston

We spent this weekend in Houston at a soccer tournament! Everywhere we drove there were hurricane warnings posted and to keep you gas tank full! We played one game at 8 am in Tomball and just as we were getting ready to play the 2 pm game, the rains came. That game was cancelled so we spent the afternoon shopping! I went to some lss and T went to the Woodlands Mall! We both had fun and found some goodies!! We had another 8am game Sunday and luckily we got to play! We left Tomball and on the way out of town there is a little hole in the wall Mexican food place that we had stopped the last time we played there! The inside seats about 8 and the owners speak very little English but the food is to die for!! Never judge a book by its cover, or the bars on the windows!!

Red Hat Ladies

I taught an Explosion Box private class to these fun two Red Hat Ladies! The box was perfect colors for them in the red and purple! We had a blast learning to make this little box just for them!

Spinning Storage Rack

I love my spinning storage rack! My dh made this for me and I am in heaven. It got all my drawer hidden embellies out so that I can see them and use them, giving me the opportunity to buy more!
He has had so many requests for the rack we are selling them for $45,if purchased locally or $45 plus shipping and handling. You can have your choice of black or white and it comes with 24 clips. Just email me or post to the blog and I will get back to you!

Port A

We spent a few hot days in Port Aransas. Lounging by the pool at the hotel, soaking up the sun, a great way to relax. We went to the beach, fed the seagulls, sat in the sand,and played in the Gulf. We had to hit the tourist shops for all the "necessary" things to bring back! Rich went deep sea fishing for 8 hours and caught the biggest fish of the day!

Summer Visit

The 3 grandkids that just moved closer to us spent last week with us! The rainy season continued the first 3 days of their vist and once again our lights went out for several hours! We cooked hot dogs, warmed up spaghetti and pizza on the grill so we could feed the hungry group! They played a game of Tiddlywinks on the back porch to pass the time of no power! They "hung" around exercising and the youngest helpe me pull the grapes off the stems! The younger 2 got new bikes and the 12 yo (almost 13) got new Nikes to ejnoy while they were here. We tried fishing 2 times, the first time the rains came down in torrents and had to run for cover. The 2nd time the weather held out and they caught some fish!! We all spent time cooling off at the pool and chilled some more at the movies watching Hair Spray! We loved having them and had a great summer visit!

T Actually

Scrapped a layout! I can't believe it! She picked out the paper while we were shopping this week, came home, printed the picture and viola and finshed layout! Love her fun style, hopefully she will scrap some more!

Elsie Ikea Box

This was so much fun to make! T can stuff it full of all of her bling and other treasures!!Thanks Janet for the papers!!

We have water

This has been such a rainy summer for us! The lakes are all closed due to the debris and high water! I doubt the lakes will be open the rest of the summer, the flood gates are open, yet the rain just keeps filling the lake back up! This is a picture of a campground just to give you a peek of the high water! Of course over the last 2 days we have received 2 plus inches and a zillion mosquitoes!

Sweet 16 Acrylic Album

I love these acrylic albums!! So much fun to do and a great way to use the tons of stamps we all have. I will be teaching this fun album at SBF in Aug. or Sept.!

Sweet 16

She finally made it, Sweet 16! We celebrated the day with lunch at Chilis, shopping at the outlet mall, dinner with friends at Joe's Crabshack, and back home for cake and ice cream!Friends spent the night playing games on her new Xbox 360!Happy Birthday!!

Mr. Squirrel

This little fella would climb on the windowsill at my aunts house every morning and look at me through the glass with as much interest as I did watching him eating his pecans. This fun little fella made me smile every morning while I had my coffee and surfed the net! Thanks little buddy!

June Layouts

I actually had time to do a few layouts in June. I will always remember sitting in my aunts sunroom doing these layouts in between hospital time. Her sunporch looked out over her beautiful backyard with huge pecan trees, such a peaceful place with the squirrels scampering around!

Acrylic Album

This is a work in progress. I am making this fun acrylic album for a friend. What a lot of fun to work on!

It is so good to be back home yet sad that my sweet 91 year old aunt passed away July 1. Thanks to all of you for your support, it meant a lot during the last 2 months.

One More Day

Father time sometimes ages people very fast! I went home 2 weeks ago after being with my aunt. A week ago last Tuesday she was feeling bad when I called so I had the sitter call an ambulance. She was readmitted for the third time and I have been here for 10 days and holding. She has the primary, ifectious disease, lung, and kidney doctors all stumped, along with me! Her white count stays around 17000 even with very strong antibotics. She received 2 units of blood which gave her some energy. Now if she would eat that would improve things. They are moving her to a skilled nursing floor tonight and I don't think she will like that...they are going to push her! Maybe one day in the near future life will settle down!