It's All About The Journey

Happy May..................

.....And Happy Scrap-booking Day. Hi Ladies, I know that many of you who come to visit my blog have absolutely no interest in my scrap or digital pages. Those of you who do, I hope that you will enjoy looking at what I have made. As for a card, I hope to have a new one posted by Sunday night.

Here is the most recent page that I made for Project 12. This is the page that I made for April.

 
Here is what the page looks like in full 8x8.

Here it is in a larger size so that if you want to see the photos better and read the journaling then you can. Not sure how much of the page will be cut off. I used the MDS program by Stampin UP!

Next is a page that I made for a challenge I participated in at Soul Scrappers. 

 
 Again, this is how the page looks in the8x8 size. I made this page for my children's books.

 
Here it is in a larger size so that you can read what I put on the page. If you would like to. :)  I love that my children will know more about me and know that I am more then a Mom, a wife and a Mimi. All of the books that I have been working on are almost finished.

Those of you who do scrapbook do you have any plans for Scrap-booking day?

Personal Ramblings

It is hard for me to believe that it is May all ready.  My goodness I can not not keep up with each day. I have so many things to do and not enough time to do them all. Some days I feel quite overwhelmed and then disappointed that the things that I need to get done are getting put on the back burner. I know that I am not alone and that many of you can relate.

As for our weather it has been strange just as it has been in many of the states. This week we have gone from 40 degrees and tomorrow we will be in the 80's. Wowzer! Wayne and I will be going to our 6 year old grandsons baseball game. It is his first one so I am quite excited to see him play. Of course I will be bringing my camera and hope to get a few good shots of him and of our day.

I hope that all of you have a great weekend. Stay safe and smile. :)

 

 

Enjoy The Journey

Hi ladies. It has been a week since I last posted anything on my blog. I won't make excuses. The fact is I've been very busy doing every day stuff! Paper crafting was not on my list of things to do until today.  I have had a wonderful week and if you would like to know more of what I have been up to then please read my Personal Ramblings.

The card that I made was for the weekly PPA challenge. This week it was the KISS (keep it simple sweetie) challenge.  Since I love making very simple cards this one is my favorite challenge.:)

Here is my card.

All  of the products that I used are from Stampin'UP! from  The stamp set that I used is a brand new set called Enjoy the Journey. It took me no more then 10 minutes to make this card.  So there you have it! A very quick, simple and easy card to make.

Personal Ramblings

As I stated above I have been very busy this week. I had lots of places to go and people to see. I also had lots of things that I needed to get done in my home. I have been so far behind on all of my daily chores.  I have been walking just about every day that the weather has been nice. That was most of this week. I did have to skip a day due to my knees going off track. Ouch! I hate when that happens. They are all good for now. :) On Thursday my daughter brought my granddaughter Darcy over. She is 12 years old and such a sweetie. She washed and polished all of my kitchen cabinets. How sweet was that??? On Friday I took her shopping at the mall near to where I live and we bought her a few things at Aeropostale. She will be 13 in December so of course it is important to her that she has "cool clothes". :) She loves the hoody sweatshirts just like do.  I wonder if that makes me a little cool. It was such fun watching her choose the things that she wanted. Oh to be young again.  After that I had to stop by and look at some of the new things at Kay jewelers. No, I did not buy any thing but I love window shopping almost as much as I do buying.  I was sad that Darcy had to go home on Saturday. The next time she comes up she and I will be scrapbooking  and making cards together. She seems to be my only granddaughter so far who has an interest in paper crafting :)

Here are 2 photos that I have to share with you. I took lots more but have not had time to edit the size. So here are 2 of Darcy and I at the mall.

Darcy hates having her picture taken which is why she is not looking at me. I took it while she was walking past me.

I had Darcy take my photo at the jewelery counter. :)

 
  Don't ya just love how the lighting in these stores make the diamonds sparkle more then they do in "real" light.

Well, I'm off to watch Celebrity Apprentice and the Tudors with Wayne. We do not watch TV together very often but it has become a tradition for us to watch something on Sunday nights. Thank you for stopping by. I hope to be blogging more then once a week. 

I hope that all of you have a fantastic week. Stay safe and smile. :)  

Things I Love...

Hi Ladies. It has been just a little over a week since I've last posted anything. But I don't like to post any thing unless I have something that I think might interest at least a few of you. And I have also been very busy too. :)

I have a card to share with you. I made it by using this weeks PPA Sketch challenge. The stamp set that I used for this challenge has been sitting around my room collecting dust. I thought it would be perfect for this challenge and so I finally used it.

Here is my card.

Here is what I used.

 All of the products that I used are from Stampin"UP!I used the stamp set called Things I love. The card-stock I used is, Whisper White, Orchard Opulence and Rich Razzleberry. The dp paper I used is from Cottage wall. The inks that I used are Old Olive, Chocolate Chip and Rich Razzleberry . I made each of the squares pop up for some dimension and my final touch was adding the razzleberry grosgrain ribbon.  Another simple card. :)

We had a wonderful stretch of beautiful weather. Every day I went for my walk  I have taken some photos but have not had a chance to edit them so that I can upload them to my blog and share them with you. I will soon. We started having rain Friday morning along with some snow and sleet. Very strange weather for mid April. Today we had rain all day and I believe more rain is expected tomorrow. At least the trees and plants are blooming. :) It is so good to see.

I have been very busy trying to get all of my photos organized and put away into new plastic storage boxes. Each box holds 1200 photos. I have filled up 3 of boxes so far and I've just started ny 4th box. Here is a photo of my work in progress.

 

I still have 6 more boxes to go through and put into the new photo safe boxes. I have a feeling that I will have to buy at least 2 more of these storage boxes by the time I'm finished.  I had been putting this project off  for a few years and decided it was time to just do it!  I tend to procrastinate when a project  is going to be a good size one. Can any of you relate to this? If  so I would love to know what you have been putting off organizing.

Well, I am off to do a few things and then call it a night. I will return when I have more to share with you. Thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog. I 'm sure you have lots to do today. I hope that all of you have a wonderful week. Remember to stay safe and Smile. :)