Working on the resolutions....

Well I was able to spend a fair amount of time working on my 2008 scrapbook. I also used up some old half done pages and elements that never quite found a home. The first is a birthday party for a darling boy named Ryan, the next is Christmas Eve with my parents the third is "cookie party" with some friends (it's all about the cookies...not) and the 4th is my nephew's birthday. Even though his birthday is in January, and it isn't for the 2008 scrapbook, it still counts for my resoultion because I used up some stuff that I already had started...kind of....

I also made a card and chocolate gift for a friend and a very basic masculine card. So all in all I feel like I got a lot done.....even housework ;)

Another Party Hearty Card

What luck! It's been so cold that school was called off on Friday due to the extreme cold temperatures. I really needed the time because it's the end of the quarter and I have 7th grade mystery stories to grade. What torture! Once that was finished, I rewarded myself with some time in my little room. My nephew's birthday celebration is today, so I needed a card for him. This is what I came up with. The inside (below) has a space on the top for a gift card (the perfect gift for any 20 year old).

After I finished with that, my husband and I decided to ride the snowmobiles up to the local bar for dinner. It snowed all day yesterday, so the back roads were just perfect for riding. As a matter of fact, the roads were so bad we probably could have ridden down D-19 and not hit the cement! Anyway, we had a good time and a good meal. Hopefully the roads are better today since we have to drive about 45 minutes (in good weather) to the celebration.

This weekend also brought the last stamp club meeting :( I will certainly miss that monthly gathering. Lynn, our Stampin Up demo, always has such gorgeous projects for us to create. She is truly quite a talented woman! You can visit her blog and see for yourself at http://lwdesigns.blogspot.com/ Below is a picture of the projects I created.They are a little less embellished than hers, as I did not do as much piercing on the valentine and didn't make my background on the butterfly card as vibrant as hers. But they don't all have to look exactly the same! I'm looking forward to going to her Sale-a-bration/New Catalog Kick Off party on February 1st. Since we will no longer be having our monthly stamp club meetings, I guess that's how I'll get my February fix!

Hopefully I'll have something new to share next weekend!

Productive Weekend

Well, it has been a productive weekend. I was able to not only get the Friday layout done, but also did these 2 very simple pretty much unembellished layouts, as well. If I wasn't as far behind as I am in the 2008 scrapbook, I'd do a lot more embellishing, but at this point I'm looking at quantity rather than quality. I can always go back and add to it when (or if) the inspiration hits me. Sometimes I may see someone else's page months later and realize that what they did would be perfect for a page I had previously done. So, I guess you can call them works in progress. Anyway, I'm happy with them for now (that's because the pictures are finally in the scrapbook instead of still trapped inside my computer). The first was a really fun night at my husband's uncle's birthday party. We went to Genetti's Hole-in-the-Wall in downtown Northville, where they have a great family style dinner and an interactive show afterward. My DH was chosen to play the part of Elvis. It was hilarious! I had no idea Elvis was still alive.....

I also had time to make these two cards. The second one was totally CASE'd from smartblonde_2000 on SCS (except for the DP).

I hope next weekend is just as productive!

Scrappin' Days are Here to Stay (or so it seems)

Finally I have some time to come here and share what I've done this week. Scrapbooking is usually my passion, but lately it seems that I'm "all scrapped out" and yet I'm just beginning. Let me explain: For Christmas/birthday gifts I made a scrapbook of my husband's parents, as children, for him, his brother, his two nephews and his mom. Yep, that's five scrapbooks! It's been a long journey making them and trying to collect the photos. I was scrambling to get them done in time for Christmas, but I managed to do it (yay!). So....... each year it seems that the new year comes in and my own scrapbook is nowhere near complete, no matter what the recent undertaking has been. So lately my annual New Year's resolution has been to get last year's scrapbook completed by Valentine's Day. That means it's back to the scrappin table. Usually I scrap according to the pictures I have, but this time I have so many that I just did a layout and figured I'd add thie pictures later (probably Friday 2/13). Here's what I got done this week.

Ta ta for now....

The Beginning

Well, I have finally succumbed to yet one more thing to suck up my time-this blog! Don't ask me why I did it. Pehaps it was so I don't feel the need to KEEP every one of my creations, perhaps as an outlet for my need to share my thoughts and ideas, or it could even be the beginning of a new way to make money? Whatever the reason, I hope it doesn't become an obsession! Sometimes that happens to me; at first I think I'm just going to dabble a little bit, but then before I know it I'm bordering on obsession. Anyway, here I go!