Did we miss Spring?

Seems like overnight it has warmed up and the trees are green!! This morning was sunny, then it clouded over and now it is trying to be sunny again. We had a little sprinkle of rain yesterday and that will really green things up now, I am thinking!!

There were afew challenges on the Just Cre8 on line crop this weekend that I had time to participate in. The first one was to use bright colors. This layout is alot brighter than I normally would do!! Hot pink isn't a color I use often!!! But it matched amanda's new bike helmut, so I used it!Then we had to do a layout in under 30 mins. That includes picking your paper and embellishments! I had bought this Pink Paisley paper with this photo in mind, so it was fairly easy to whip a simple layout together. The most time I spent was looking for the alphabits to use on it!!The we had to do a layout with no patterned paper!! That one was alittle difficult too. But I think I managed to do a fairly decent layout doing that. It even turned into a 2 pager bacause I just couldn't get all the photos onto one page and have it looking right. I love using circles so I did that and lots of inking of the edges.
We had quite afew social things to do this weekend and I did end up watching Amanda for the kids on Sat. afternoon while they ran around getting some errands done. Things that they could do with her but would be faster and easier if they were on their own. Poor little one is cutting her eye teeth and she is not the happiest camper these days!! She isn't sleeping well and isn't really eating well, and those are 2 things that she usually does very well!! She is being picky and a little more clingy than usual. It looks like she could be getting all 4 of them at once too! That can't be comfortable. Her fingers are in her mouth and she is drooly again, hasn't been like that for some time. I feel for her and her parents, especially at night, they aren't getting alot of sleep. Been there before!!! Hopefully it won't last long, it looked to me like they were close to poking through so maybe this week, sometime. Anyhoo, hope everyone has a good week and if I get any more layouts done I will try to share.

Flip Book

So, I haven't been able to get my mojo going lately. My solution was to surf the net and see what there was to try and stimulate myself. I ran across this mini photo album made like a flip book. I have quite a few kits laying around and thought that maybe that would be a good start as there would be everything that I would need in the kit. This book is on Amy Celona's U Stamp 4 Fun stampin up website with downloadable instructions. It is very easy to do and i was finished the book in a couple of hours. http://ustamp4fun.com/ProjectGallery/flipbk.htm

Everybody Ready to Scrap?

So today is the day, the Happy be scrappy crop begins on line at Just Cre8. I have never done this before so it will be fun to see how it goes. You don't have to be here on line all the time they say, just pop in and out now and then. Stay a long time or just a few minutes, it just doesn't matter! I have things to do today but Sat. and Sun should be good. The laundry is done, the groceries are bought, weather isn't all that great so staying indoors shouldn't be a problem!! So join us if you like, even just to see what goes on during an online crop!

Ever do an on line crop?

http://justcre8.com/blog/ There will be an on line crop this weekend here, come and join us, it will be fun. It starts tomorrow and goes until Sunday evening. There will be challenges and tutorials to do, come join us and create some fun!!

Spring? maybe, maybe not!

I am not sure where all the time goes but it has been quite awhile since I updated this blog! This is what we woke up to yesterday morning here in Saskatoon!!! SNOW, in the middle of May. While this is not unheard of, this year because we had such a long cold winter, it was totally unappreciated! We have had snow in June, but not often. The snow yesterday was gone by noon, except for alittle on the north side of the house that is totally in shade all the time and it did give some much needed moisture to things, but really, I mean it's supposed to be spring.

This lovely chalet is where I stayed last weekend for a crop, it's called the Shekinah Retreat and we were there for the entire weekend, scrapping our little hearts out! The weekend started on Friday and went until Sunday afternoon. I drove up there Friday morning and it was cold, damp and cloudy. I was thinking what a good weekend to be inside. However, the weather improved by Sunday and I was ready to go home by then. I had most of what I wanted to get done, done so was ready to leave. I didn't take any photos of our rooms but they were dormitory style on the lower level and the upper level was where we scrapped and ate our meals.
Here is one view from the deck outside the doors where I was sitting for the weekend.
This is taken from the highest place in the chalet, up by the chapel. This retreat house is run by the Mennonite community north of Saskatoon, by the North Saskatchewan river.

The long brown table in the lower right corner is where they served our meals, which were fabulous by the way, and then we had tables to eat at under where I was standing to take this picture.
I did 2 mini albums, played with my new Tim Holtz inks and stamps and did a couple of pages for my daughters' scrapbooks. I will try and take some photos of what I did and get them uploaded later this week. We are off for the weekend to visit with friends and bug our adult kids while they camp in this crazy weather for their annual camping trip that they do with their friends. The temps are supposed to be fairly nice until monday so they shouldn't need their ski pants to sit by the fire!! LOL