SCY: These Kids

Oh, how I love them! Please stop by S:CY for a look at the other interpretations of this sketch!

SCY: Mothers Tea

Ali has a new sketch up at Sketches: Creatively Yours!

I made this layout based on a tea at my son's school last spring. It was a lovely morning!

Journaling:

You worked so hard for a month on writing stories, drawing pictures, and reading poetry to get ready for the Mother's Tea in Mrs. Carlton's 3rd grade language arts. The morning was amazing! I am so lucky to be your mom!

SCY: Mother Nature

I didn't drop off the face of the Earth, but I think my scrapping mojo did. I'm hopeful that this will kick-start it though...

I'm back on the DT at Sketches: Creatively Yours!

I'm so excited to be back with Ali. Her work is amazing, just as her personality.

Please visit to see what the other designers did when you have time!

Here is my most recent layout:

Journaling:
You slept through it all, but at 1:51pm on August 23, we had an earthquake. B was on the computer playing on the American Girl website, and Z and I were playing Brain Quest. I initially thought it was a truck or motorcycle next door or a train out back, until Z asked what that noise was. I never before imagined an earthquake as being loud, but it definitely had a dull roar to it. After I few seconds, I said, “I think it’s an earthquake,” and B screamed. I didn’t think until afterwards that we should have headed to the downstairs bathroom, but we huddled together in the living room until it passed. It probably lasted 30-40 seconds, but I was grateful once I could tell it was subsiding. Daddy was at work and went outside after the plants and shelves started shaking. I can’t imagine living somewhere that this occurs often. Ridiculously, I once said that I wished I could be in a small earthquake just to know what it felt like… I hope that’s the only one that ever finds me. While it wasn’t terrifying, it definitely disturbed the big kids because there were lots of questions for the rest of the day about how earthquakes happen. Just days after the earthquake, Hurricane Irene went through, and we lost power for almost 2 full days… played LOTS of games on Saturday, lit candles, and made shadow puppets.

LYM: Transporation 4

Another from the 2012 edition of Log Your Memory...



We changed it up this time by taking trains for the entire vacation… no cars, no planes. Knowing that traffic is terrible between here and New York City, we dreaded driving. The mandatory bathroom and meal breaks plus slow-moving highways, tolls, parking, and gas expenses forced us to think outside the box. Amtrak gave the kids more leg room, the ability to walk around, and a café car. Our total round-trip Amtrak expenses for the trip were just over $400… for all of us (and my mom) together… only slightly more than if we drove.
With the exception of the boat to the Statue of Liberty, it was all trains- light-rail, subway, or commuter train. Though it might have been easier at certain points to take a cab, we stayed on the train-plan, and it worked beautifully. The kids were pros at standing on the subways before we left and even knew which trains to look for when we needed to transfer. If only we could ditch our car at home and take a train everywhere!

Supplies:
Scrapdango August 2011 Sugar kit (manufacturers: Authentique, Teresa Collins), Little Yellow Bicycle, Heidi Grace, Jenni Bowlin, Bazzill: http://www.scrapdango.com

Farewell

Sadly, my husband's grandfather passed away over the summer. This layout is about our kids and their second cousins bonding even more, as they participated in his funeral and got through this experience together.

Cincinnati Redux

Completed the layouts for the kids albums on our Cincinnati trip over the summer!

I used an old Scrapdango kit (the closing sale is still on! Please check it out.).

Namesake

My husband is the 5th in a line of men with his name. It's caused a bit of a hassle with credit report and bills (even banks!). When I was pregnant with our son, he decided not to pass that hardship onto the baby, though he did want to give him the name as his MIDDLE name. This is a 4-generation layout about that name...

 

I used the Studio Calico Sunday Sketch for this one.

NC Cousins

Over the summer, we had the pleasure of seeing the family of one of my cousins for the first time in probably 11 years. I am so glad that my kids could finally meet his. They bonded instantly.

 

 

 

I created this for the Big Idea Festival as a "happy" layout.

March

Switching it up a little for March with a double-pager.

April can be found here. I believe there are still some kits available at Scrapdango.

My place is by your side

I thought it was a good day to reflect on everything these amazing people mean to me.

I used an old Donna Downey canvas kit for this page.

February

Here was February...

January

I switched from doing Project Life this year to doing month-at-a-glance layouts.

Obviously, I'm totally keeping up with it.

Here's a look at our January...

 

 

I love this Pink Paislee line!

Afternoon with Daddy

We try to go on dates with one child at a time at least once during the summer. This page is about my son's day with daddy last year.

I used all old product. Love the idea of trying to use it all up before buying a lot more, but I'm starting to worry that I'll never buy new stuff again. LOL.

Roanoke

I went to college at Virginia Tech and went up to the Roanoke Star several times with friends.

My youngest sister lived in Roanoke until very recently, and, last year, my husband and I took the kids to the star.

Love when things come full circle!

Scrapdango July reveal

This month's Sugar kit screams Summer (and, oddly, three of my four layouts were from winter! LOL.).

I love hexagons, so I turned my double-layout into a hexagon party!

The sheet of Webster's Pages tags begged to be featured on a page, too:

On this next layout, I wanted to show how well the papers blended, so I punched ton of hearts and arranged them into large flowers.

And, this intertwined swirly line sheet made me think of stained-glass windows, which reminded me of the theater where I took my DD to see the Lion King. I used my exacto knife to carve out parts of it and placed different patterns behind each. Once that was set up, I spread crackle glaze over top to give it a fun stained glass look. I love how it turned out!

I also made two cards, and the end result reminded me of why I don't make too many cards... :( I am just NOT a card designer but am incredibly jealous of those that are! :)

Hop on over to the store on July 5th to pick up your kit!

April Fools

Three versions of our April Fools day using Graphic 45's circus line...

Godmother Aunt

In the spirit of spring cleaning, I'm using up my scraps...

Check back tomorrow for another scrap layout!

Scrapdango June Reveal

This month has another amazing Sugar kit!

I finally created my son's First Eucharist layout (a year later!):

My medium DD on the first day of school this year:

Our trip to Natural Bridge last summer:

I also scrapped-up a set of mirrors that we have hanging in our home.

The only major thing that I added here were the Sassafras chipboard pieces and the bling. Be sure to stop into the store and pick up this kit starting May 5th!

A Capital Day revisited

Two more layouts on one of our D.C. daytrips from last year.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas