New Project

I have doing a different project lately. My reason? Monkeyface is getting her own "big girl bed" so I thought that I would do another one of my many hobbies and make her a quilt. I chose a simple one because I didn't want it to take too long or me to run out of steam before I got it done!! Sometimes I think I suffer from ADD because if something doesn't come together easily and quickly for me, I lose interest and start something else that looks like it might be more fun. The result?? I have a house full of unfinished projects!! Oh, I have lots of finished ones too but I do have quite afew unfinished ones as well. One of my New Year's resolutions, every year, is to finish up some of them!! And I usually do get a couple done before, yes, you guessed it, I lose my focus. Anyway, I digress. Here is the lovely Princess Quilt to go on the Princess's new bed. She has a lovely, freshly painted room with all the things in it that a little princess would need. The other grandma helped out with that too!! She has a little princess deacon's bench with baskets underneath for toys and a princess picture for on the wall!! Her mom bought her princess sheets for her bed too!! She had her first night in her bed on Saturday and apparently did very well. She stayed in bed all night!!




And then I went shopping last week to the LSS and
bought some new MME paper. I know, I know, I am supposed to be
using up my stash but this stuff was sooooo pretty, I couldn't resist! We babysat Monkeyface last week I think it was and Grandpa took her outside to play with her. She was soo cute in her little snowsuit and she just loved being in the snow. Grandpa made alittle hill for her to slide down and she just had so much fun with that! We really should get a toboggan and go onto a real hill with her, I think she would have a blast!! They built some snowmen too and made snow angels but those will be on other layouts!!

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????

More pages from the crop.

This cute little one is Jennifer, my daughter!!!! I am going to get their (my daughters) albums done yet!!! I realize that I am pretty random with the pages but I am finding it hard to think of things to do so I have resorted to checking out the sketch sites to help me. Leica has become a member of the design team at Just Cr8 so I have been on their site quite abit. They have lots of pages in their gallery and they have tutorials and sketches to try, it's a good site. They were at the Crop Sask. on the weekend, a whole group of them doing PR work for their group. They are the ones that talked to Rambling Dave on C95 last week and again on Monday. There is an entire discussion forum on what went on with that!!! Suffice to say, Rambling Dave has admitted that scrapbookers are not just glorifed sticker collectors!! They are apparently Certified Nutbar Hobbyists!!! This page was alittle more work for me. It is a page of my niece's wedding that we attended this past summer. I have a whole bunch of family and wedding photos to do but this one was sent to us as the thankyou card for the wedding gift. So I just turned it into a page before I lost it in the pile!!!

This double page layout was fairly quick. I was browsing a site that Leica had mentioned on her blog called Glitz, and they have a bunch of tutorials on doing quick pages on their website. I looked at a few of them and one was called a 4 cut page. You basically take 2 sheets of patterned paper and do 4 cuts on both of them, arrange the pieces on 2 pieces of cardstock and then add your photos and embellishments. These 2 pages were done in record time for me!!

So, those are all the pages that I got done this weekend. I was hoping to get more done but I had to put in some shopping and socializing time as well!!! And, I did take those 2 classes so that took a few hours out of the day, and then there was eating time as well. Leica's mom, Gwen did a great job with the lunch and all the snacks that were provided. all in all, a great weekend!

OOps, just realized that I didn't crop these photos of the pages, sorry. Also, my posts got mixed up alittle and this one should be after the other one, again ,sorry. But all the pages are here!!!

More Winter, Yuck!

We have had a few days of nice weather and I was hoping spring was here, or at least close but alas, more snow this morning. Oh well, can't really do anything about that, but I am looking forward to the weekend ( and it's only Monday!!) because it is Leica's big cropping weekend here in Saskatoon. I need to get organized for what I will be doing because I can only carry so much with me as I can only walk so far with this cast on my leg!! Hopefully I will find a parking space close to the school!! Anyway, in keeping with my promise to myself I did up 2 more pages using stuff from my stash here at home, I have soooo much it's just a matter of hunting and searching to find coordinating things to use. My photos aren't too old, from the last year but they were ones that are printed out and in the stack!! I am hoping to get a few of the older ones done this week as well as organize what I will be doing at the crop.

I did edit these pics and crop them but I don't know where they went to!! I will have to go and find them and put them in the correct folder. Computers!!!! They have a mind of their own.

new pages, finally

This photo of my oldest daughter and her family was taken in the fall on a cool day. I think this one was toward the end of the shoot so Amanda is looking kind of chilly!! The paper is from a kit from Scrapdango as well as the letters and the felt flowers.

So, I finally got myself going on doing some scrapbooking again. I am finished reading the Twilight series, they are fairly good books. I don't think they are as well written as the Harry Potter series but they are pretty good considering they were written with teenagers in mind!!
I am getting excited about going on our trip now. I have been cleaning and sorting too as I take down the Christmas stuff. It is just too cold to go anywhere unless I absolutely have to, like work!!! I have been making some cards as well, as my little box of extras was getting low.
This photo of amanda and santa is on basic grey Wassail paper and the embelishments are from cloud9 design. I used a sketch challenge from 52 Sketches...52 Weeks site.