Eleanor

I'm tryin' to finish her first year scrapbook by the time she turns 1... But I'll leave some room at the end for the actual birthday pics. So far I have an parade of random pages...  so I'm now going back to fill in the holes... (I keep thinking about my un-born, un-conceived second child Henry and how I'm probably not gonna do this for him...  but hey, I'll think about and really really really feel guilty...  often...)

In any manner....   I guess it goes for any kind of art... sometimes you get so drunk on it.
I have this photo of Daryl and Eleanor, and even though it's a little fuzzy...  it's just so sweet. And when I was making this page, It just plainly made me feel fuzzy.
So I decided to make it the opener.  It's not her first picture taken... but she's still pretty new...

So... anyway...when it's for me, I tend to get a little messier.  This page has lot of extra's...                                       First of all, that Somerset magazine...  I ALWAYS find interesting pictures in there. As well as all the other stuff... but I've used pages from that magazine in my art from time to time.

 big ol' bunch of flowers...

why not?

And I found this great "ribbon" at AC moore.  Though it looks more like curtains...                                The birdie is cut out of somerset with the micro scissors... and those foam stickies make it stand up a bit...

Ok well...  Roo is doin' a bongo solo right now, so I'll be back later...   I may be pulling an all- night scrap off with myself...  

For GG... with ♥

Been meaning to make a few pages for Grandma for a couple months now and finally got a chance to.

My lovely cousin was up from Florida last month, so we all got together with our kiddies at Grandma's house. And of course, it was a good opportunity to get some pictures of Grandma with six of her grandchildren. (she has way more than six, but I stopped counting after my brain exploded) 

Occasionally, I'll bust out my sewing machine when I scrapbook.  I really... don't know how to use it all together. I never made anything that could be worn, or hung, or sat on...  but a short straight line I can handle.  And I love what it does for a page! I wish the tension on my machine would stop getting all screwy... coz it gets all jammed up... and I'm running out of ideas on how to fix it other than just asking someone who knows how to sew....

And if you don't have a sewing machine, hand stitches are adorable on a page!

I started with two pages, and ended up with four. I could've probably made an entire scrapbook with photos from this 4 hour meet up if I wanted. But I'm sure her book could use pages from some other events as well.








And sometimes, a little journaling, or in this case, a note to GG fills a space nicer than jamming another photo.

Ok.  So good night all.  I'm either going to wawa for an Italian Hoagie, or to bed.  ...   ....  I know what I should do... but man I'm hungry...

disappointment

CD skippy.  :(

Dreaming through the long winters

I just recently had a garage sale... and I unearthed boxes and boxes of Cd's while looking for stuff to sell.  I came across this one, and I can't believe I didn't just carry it with my wherever I went.  Because I love it that much.
I remember where I was when I first heard it.  I was in Barnes & Noble. They were playing it throughout the store.  I went up to the register and said, "I have to have this cd, who is it????"And so I bought it and it makes me feel like I just drank a bottle of wine.

The last song, Recessional, might be my favorite song ever.

The whole cd is beautiful...  you just can't go near it.  So a Miller High Life toast to Vienna Teng this evening. THANK YOU! I love you!


On a side note, I had a dream the other night that I went to a Long Winter's concert.  And certain people had special passes to not only meet John Roderick, but to lay on him.  Ha... lay on him while he was on stage.  I don't know how he played with people laying all over him, but somehow the music kept on...
Anyway, I had one of these "special" passes, and when it got to be my turn, somehow something happened and the one of the guys in the band got sick.  Anyhow, it must've been a keyboard player cos next thing I know, they're asking me if I can read these charts... so I say, "SURE!"  So I guess not getting to lay on John was redeemed by getting to be in the band.  I wonder if they kept me around?  ha...  DAMN waking up always gets in the way of AWESOME happenings....  I at least got to hear myself play a couple tunes... wish I remembered which ones....

Beach Baby

I Really Wish my printer WAsn'T out of black ink right now. And I really wish my camera wasn't dead.

  So ...  I may have said this before, but it's hard to get good pics of paper art...  so forgive these bad pics, but I'm sure you get the idea. The roof of my mouth is burned from frozen pizza.  HA, that doesn't make sense...  you're asking me how frozen pizza could burn me...  

YOU KNOW HOW!  Don't EVEN!  

ok, I need to go fix things now.  like... my ice maker... my life... the second drawer of the bathroom vanity...

Customer 2.51

Customer 2.51 is allowing me to post the progress of her scrapbook.  So I am going to do just that in this particular post.

Here are some visuals:

Aren't her kiddies cute!  So this book is going to focus on the wittle girly...  but some brother is allowed here and there...

My favorite thing I recently discovered:  GLUE DOTS ...   make attaching ribbon so much less messy...
And no need to point out, I always overdo brads...  *sigh*  ...  and flowers...  and ...  marshmellows...

Anyway... can I just say that I CAN'T  WAIT TILL HALLOWEEN!

If anyone has any ideas for my daughter's costume, pour em in... coz I have no idea right now...
She'll be almost 14 months by then...

An excuse for more pink stuff!

Can I just tell you how much I love the dimensional elements!  (The big circle thingie)
And I think I might stamp myself a pancake breakfast tomorrow if I'm not careful! So to tie together those two sentences, the circle is colored pink with pencil, then I took the waterbrush and smooshed the color a bit to make it look more water colory...  (yes... I make up words just like everyone else)...  then I stamped over it with some wordy stamp. And TADA! Antiquey style circle thingie!!! Compliments little Norah's cute as ham face nicely!


Ok... I really just can't think of anything to say about these pages so I'm babbling.  But here they are... even for just some ideas for the ladies out there.  Hmmm... I'm sure they exist, but I might point out that I've never scrapbooked with a guy... or had him say "YES! THAT SOUNDS AWESOMELY FUNTASTIC!" when I asked him to come over and scrapbook with me.

And my might turned into an I did.

GOODNIGHT FRIENDS!  ('nother page below)