Happy Halloween and Some cards

We have been invited to a couple of birthdays in the next month and both are for little girls that are turning 2 and 3 respectively. So I thought with the snow today I would stay home, warm and cozy and make a couple of cards. I thought while I was at it, I would make a get well card to have on hand as they usually are needed whenever I am not able to sit and think about what to make.

The birthday I made this one for is going to be Teddy Bear's picnic theme.

And I don't think there is a theme for the 2 yr old's party so thought a clown would be good. Maybe I will come up with another one that is better before the party but for now, this one will be it. This is another attempt at using up some stash!

Beautiful sunrise this morning

I was sitting and drinking my coffee and reading my book and I happened to look up and out my kitchen window and saw these gorgeous colours. I grabbed my camera and ran outside, stopping only for a moment to set my shutter speed alittle slower. Kind of nervous about doing that because I still am not secure shooting in anything other than P mode. But I am happy with the way these turned out.

I took a couple from different spots in the backyard. I think these are some of the best ones.

By the time my dh got out to the kitchen, all the colors had gone, so I was glad I had proof of why I was outside in my housecoat and slippers!!

Keeping up, sort of !!

I am trying to keep up with my personal goals of doing a layout every day this month, use only my stash and get my old photos scrapped. I have been doing fairly well with all those goals even though I haven't posted all my pages here, I am getting some done. I haven't necessarily been doing layouts that are fancy and full of new techniques but I have been getting the photos on paper with some memories documented with them, even if it is only a date and people's names. This is one that I did of my dd when she turned 2, she just turned 32!! So, needless to say, I am a bit behind!! When I look at these photos, I can see all the things I did wrong while snapping the picture, but then I think, at least I have a picture of the event! I mean, just look at that ugly ironing board propped against the wall, it could have been moved and maybe my eye wouldn't immediately wander over there! I realize that I have learned alot about photography in the last couple of years and I do know that I can learn alot more!
I am hoping that the weather forecasters are correct and we are going to have some nice weather soon. I am tired of the snow, we need some sunshine at least!

Some scrapbook pages

I have a goal for October, and it is to do 1 layout everyday. I didn't make this goal until just the other day so it wasn't the 1st day of oct. that I started. So far I have managed to do this. And my other goal is to only use my stash, nothing new. So we will see how I do.

I decided that I would really try and mix up my older photos with some of the newer ones, that are of course of my dgd, monkeyface!

so I dug out photos from the 90's. These ones are of Harvest Days in Les's hometown. The fields were "stooked" just like in the early 1900's and an old threshing machine was brought in to show people how harvesting was done in "the olden days" It was a great demonstration and it showed how it really took a team effort to get the harvesting done then. They started out with horses pulling the hayrack but I think the loud noise of the old tractor running the threshing machine scared them , so they converted to a tractor pulling the hayrack. Or maybe they were just running out of time, I can't remember. But I thought this was a great memory to have in the scrapbooks. I am going to try and find some photos of actual threshing in my mother's old albums. If I do, I will add a page of them to this set.

I am trying out the method of grouping my embellishments in 1 area like I have seen on alot of the scrapbook blogs and sites. I am not sure I have the knack for this but I will keep trying and see how I like it. I still prefer simple and minimalistic but I have to use up some stash so will try to add alittle more than I usually do and see how it goes.

On the weather topic, it is still snowing here and I don't like it one bit. It is way too early. And with the wind, it feels like winter, not fall. We had a long cold spring and now an early winter, it just isn't fair!!! But we all know the answer to that one, don't we????

Say it isn't SNOW!!!

Arghhhh, Look at what it is doing this afternoon in our neck of the woods! This can't be, it's only the 8th of October, we just got finished with snow, didn't we??? Where was summer??? Where was Fall??? What happened to global warming??

I can't take it anymore!!!

I am really hoping that this is going to go away and we will have some nice weather until Christmas. Maybe if I rub the little lamp, a genie will pop out and grant me a wish, just one, that's all. I am so not ready for this.