July 4

The last one that I was able to get finished for the Scrapdango blog hop, using 4th of July pics from last year...

Memories of Cleveland Stadium

Here's another one for the Scrapdango blog hop, for my husband's album.

Polkadot Door Inspiration Challenge

I won the Inspiration Challenge at Polkadot Door for this one that I posted last week....



Tell them I sent you for a visit, and be sure to look for their June challenge!

Goddaughter

I've been creating layouts for the Scrapdango blog hop this week.

Here's the first, using pictures from my goddaughter's baptism 9 years ago (how did that pass so quickly?!?!).



I used more of Crate's Restoration line and a touch of The Girl's Paperie here.

Surly Model part 2

I don't love this layout.

At all.

Somehow, every time I play with paint, it just doesn't go as I planned.

Sigh.



I'm not an artsy girl, but please give me props for trying.

You might remember this post where I showed off pics I took of my medium DD by a brick wall. I wanted to do the same for my DS, and this is what came out. Poor guy... I'm acutally embarrased to put it in his album.

I loved the Becky Fleck sketch that I used for it, but I just can't pull of the grungy look!

Journaling Junkie: Big News Story

This fortnight's challenge at Journaling Junkie is to document a big news story that you have lived through. I chose a layout from a few years ago (like you couldn't tell that by looking at it... LOL!) about September 11, as I was a direct witness to it...



I do need to go back and do an actual layout on the day itself with more detail, as there are other things that I'm now remembering and didn't include here.

Journaling:
This trip was originally planned for September of 2001, but then the terrorist attacks of September 11 changed the baseball game that we had tickets to.

On September 11, I was working in Arlington, VA and saw the smoke from the Pentagon attack after watching the Trade Center attacks in New York on TV. Joey watched as fire and rescue vehicles made their way to the city. I spent the afternoon watching military airplanes fly cover over the city from our apartment balcony. I had to tell my dad what happened because he had been golfing that morning. I cried for a couple of years every time footage of that day was shown on TV. I really thought we were going to die that day. I think most of the country must have thought so, too, because people were so much nicer for a year or so afterwards.

More room plaques

I made two more bedroom door plaques. My youngest sister is pregnant with her 2nd child, and I wanted to make him one out of Sassafras goodies, but she won't share the name yet, and, of course, I don't have a picture to place on it, so I also made one for her oldest son so that you can tell what the end result will be. The picture on this is actually MY son because that was what I had handy, but you get the gist.



This was based off of a Sassafras sketch.