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

more scrapbook pages and a bridge

Yesterday, we had a funeral to attend, our son in law's grandpa passed away so even though we really didn't know the man, we went to support our daughter and her hubby. We do socialize abit with our in-laws as well so it was for them as well. We don't really know Nipawin and on our way to the cemetery, we got lost!!! We lost the cars in the procession because we were behind a tall vehicle and we didn't catch which way they turned at a 4-way stop!! We did stop and ask someone about the cemetery and they sent us to the wrong one!! Anyway, we saw this old bridge across the north sask. river and I thought may as well take some pictures

Finished up a couple of pages that I had started at the last crop day I attended. They are made with the kit from Just Cre8, totally, Just added some inking to the edges of some of the paper and I did the journalling on the computer.

This photo was taken with my point and shoot last spring. I was taking pics of the apple tree, it was the first year that it had bloomed since we planted it. I saw the bee in one of the flowers and put my camera on the macro setting to see what kind of photo I would get. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it turned out.

Getting projects finished!

This is a page with one of our group photos (taken with my camera on the timer function) of our trip to Mexico this past January. I have a whole bunch of photos of that trip that need to make it into an album. I am thinking maybe a mini album though because we go every year and I really don't want anymore 12x12 albums of Puerto Vallarta! The paper and embellies from this layout are from the kit that Just Cre8 puts together on a monthly basis. This is a page that I did with a photo from Jenn's wedding, it is going in the album that I am trying to get finshed that is her album from a baby on. I started these albums a long time ago and decided that I really need to get them up to date. As I have said before, we had a poor camera and not so good photos from the girls' early days but the memories should be preserved so I need to get them down soon in the albums. I, of course, would much rather scrap the new photos but I need to get myself in hand and do up all the older photos!!

And, finally finished up my jean rag quilt this weekend and got it all washed and fluffed up. I am thinking of taking a picture of it for proof! The clipping of the seams almost took as long as the sewing!! And what a mess around my chair when I was finally done!

Now I have a couple of baby quilts that are close to being finished and those are kind of next on the list to get completed.

There is a scrapbooking day planned for saturday for National Scrapbooking day that I need to get organized for as well as an entire weekend event that is out of town. So I really have my work cut out for me for the next little while, as far as scrapbooking is concerned, anyway! I find it so hard to organize for crops outside of my house so I must get on that now so that I can be alittle more efficient at them.

We had both girls here for supper last night with their families so I need to tidy up abit and then straight to the scrap room!!