And a few more...

I seem to be on a roll here.
Amazing what happens when you sort through your photos and clean up the scrapbooking supplies.
BBQ

Those BBQ letters are metallic. Didn't handle the scan too well. This is a photo from 2007. His Father's Day present. The best part was that he and Harold worked together for several hours in the garage to put it all together. Unfortunately I missed getting photos of that!

Coffee Mug

A photo from 2009. My fav coffee mug. It broke..... and I miss this mug and am thinking another trip to Hawaii to get a new one is in order.
Don't you agree?

And FINALLY

Priceless
This two page spread has taken TWO years to do. I have laid these photos on probably 15 different papers and not found one I liked. It just sat there until I put them on another piece of paper. But this past Saturday, I just put it together and I am okay with it. What really excites me is that it is FINALLY off the shelf after two years of waiting to be scrapbooked.

Best Gift

had a little time to get in a page this weekend.

Count Your Blessings

And I have plenty of blessings.
Used up stash from about five different companies today trying to get another wedding page done.
Love this family picture. We are getting so big and now with grand baby Tanis, even bigger. Can't wait to have them all together at Christmas.

Parents of the bride and groom. Very proud parents. Very blessed couple. We start and end with family!

New Grandparents

Finally! I found some space on my desk to actually scrapbook. I have been waiting a long time to use this beautiful girly paper and embellishments from Deja Views and Yellow Bicycle.
The photo doesn't look quite so dark IRL.

Brides and Babies. My two Allies.

1. First Allie the bride, our newlywed daughter.
This beautiful paper from Creative Imaginations(Teal Scroll) had Allison's wedding colours in it.


This was a very quick page I got done while Mark hollowed out three watermelons (guess what for) and the rest of the gang watched TV. Check out the watermelon photos on my 365 days blog

Good to have a little glue on my fingers again.

There is a lot of watermelon to eat around here.

1. Allie my daughter-in-love and my son Paul.
We are patiently waiting for THE phone call. Our first grandchild was due on Aug 31st, but when do babies ever come when they are expected?

All baby, our daughter-in-law, Allie, is all baby! Photo take Aug 31/09. Isn't she beautiful?

The June Bug arrived!

For those of you not remotely familiar with scrapbooking, this is not a beetle of great dread who will eat your trees. No, I am referring to the new Basic Grey line of paper that many have been waiting for with great anticipation.

The Basic Grey June Bug arrived today along with a few other goodies.... too bad I have to work tomorrow.

New stuff is always so inspiring!

First let me say though that I think the recession in the US is far greater than I realized because I think BG fired their usual designers and hired someone on the cheap.

I am disappointed with this line. They have had so many incredible, timeless lines in the past but this one ....well I'll just say it doesn't tickle my fancy.

However! I am always up for a challenge and hey I can use red plaid (vintage plaid) along with cabana on a layout with the right pic. And this picture of Mark with the big old red wooden carriage wheel worked.

...and get this, I used eyelets! Remember them? They were so perfect with this. Took me a while to find my eyelet setter, but there they are and you know what? Placing eyelets on the dotted card stock was just too easy to line up perfectly!

Journalling reads....

You sure do take a good picture Mark!

One cool dude!

Handsome, nice guy, talented, kind, a good cook, gentle and a strong brave fire-fighter as well. How come some girl hasn't swooped you up?

I know, I know – you are waiting for the perfect wife... and that is a very good thing. I know she is out there and she will love the Lord like you do. Every day Dad and I pray for you and for your future wife, whomever she might be.

My plan is to attempt some of the more floral June Bug papers as soon as I can. More challenge!!! But I love a challenge.

Have you caught the June Bug yet?

I want to know what you think.

Easter 2002

These dark, out of focus, turquoise pictures from 2002 are starting to get to me. At this point I just want to finish the year off. I only have about 10 more pages to go and 2002 is all recorded and in the album. Thankful that Allison kept a great journal of all the things we did back then - YEAH to home schooling!

However, sometimes it is hard to come up with something I like with these old bad photos.

But it isn't about the photo quality, right? It is about recording the event .... and I think from 2001 until 2005 we had someone around our dining room table very Sunday after church - in fact I am sure we did. That is too much scrapbooking of food and I am going to have to pick and choose what gets into the albums.
This I can live with so in the album it goes.

The good news it the wedding photos arrived last night and oh my, oh my, oh my.... Melina did a FANTASTIC job and every minute outside of sleep and work is going to be spent on having fun with these. (and getting the 2002 album done so it is out of the way).

People, I am out of commission for anything other than scrapbooking, work, sleep and the gym for the next two months!

I will try to post some picks in the next 24 hrs.

I have to get them into Adobe Lightroom, organized and ready for blogging (sized).

But here is one for you today!

Another 2002 page

I decided that the weekend was not going to pass me by without getting at least one page done. And so, besides getting a whole bunch of laundry finished, 26 items ironed, guests for lunch after church this am (do Sammy and Allison count as guests?), a new banner made (you like?), I did get a page done.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a 12x12 scanner that didn't cut the bottoms off my pages?

The Basic Grey Wisteria has the perfect colors for this page and besides - time to use up the old stock in preparation for the arrival of the new Basic Grey - June Bug!!

US together

Got a page done a few weeks back from the family shoot with Melina. I kind of like it. I just have to find some time to get a few more pages done and finish off the year 2002 before those wedding photos arrive.

Haven't done any scrapbooking since this page ...but the whole second floor of the house is painted, carpets washed and new blinds installed.

Will it really be July next week????

Wild Alligator

I finally got my alligator photos on a page. I took these in South Carolina last fall. Last evening I just happened across the perfect paper while organizing the scrap book room and the page fell together. Wow - got two pages done yesterday...It feels like I haven't done a scrap book page in over a month what with wedding stuff and all.

Journalling reads....

I did not want to leave South Carolina without a photo of an alligator and the bigger and meaner the better. But after 6 days - no alligator. Then as we crossed the foot bridge at Middleton Plantation and I spotted him just yards away - a big 7 ft alligator. 

I quickly changed to my zoom lens and started clicking away. He didn't move...so I moved in closer.... and closer until David gave me the stern "that's far enough!!". Got him!

I read the journalling to David and he said "I still have nightmares about an alligator chasing after you!" ... "No, wait, that's ME chasing you hahaha" 

funny guy!

Penny Lane

I finished another page Sunday evening. It works well to scrapbook while you are waiting for the dryer to finish and get those permanent Press shirts out fast.

It is always fun to use new paper and I am liking the new My Mind's Eye Penny Lane line. It is also a bonus to be using photos from the past year!! The flowers are from K and Company and Bazzill. Remember when metal was the rage?? Well I came across some in the stash and so I am restarting the fad again. Dig out those metal embellishments ladies!!

David and I like to take the bicycles out for a ride on Saturday mornings. I take my camera knapsack and stop often for photos - David is very patient with me. I think he just appreciates the opportunity to catch his breath. hehe

So here we are along the river paths - just one picture of me because I am the one with the camera.

the journaling reads...

David and I enjoy our Saturday morning dates. Usually it is a walk up to Intermission House for a coffee and biscuit. But when the roads are clear of ice and snow, we get our bikes out and go for a ride. On this summer morning we headed north on Central Ave and then headed down to the paths along the Saskatchewan River. The hour out on our bikes is a good enough work out for us and always involves a stop at Rob’s Intermission House for a coffee before heading back home and into our day.

Penny Lane from My Mind's Eye

I managed to squeeze in one more layout and this time I used current photos and the new Penny Lane line from my Mind's Eye. Love the girly colours in this line and so much fun to do.

Allison got a nice bouquet of Gerber daisies from her fiance.

My scan cut off the bottom a tad.

Christopher Lake 2002

Haha! I used the new Basic Grey Marrakech line today...well a little bit of it. How much patterned paper can you use when you have 12 pictures to fit on two pages!!

At any rate I have our 2002 church Bible camp up at Christopher Lake now in the family scrap book and I managed to get all the names I needed to remember thanks to some old archived church notices. If I remember correctly (and how could I forget) it was exceedingly hot, even for our Arizona visitors! And the mattresses at this camp were rock hard! Which added up to four sleepless nights. But other than that, we had a fun time of fellowship together over the four days.

Blessings!
Julie

So Pretty

Hey! I got a page done.

I was cleaning up the clutter in my office/den/scrapbooking room and I picked up this picture and had an idea after looking at some other pages. And it fell together in about 15 minutes.

Wish they were all like that...but this time I had an "I don't care if all the patterned paper doesn't go perfectly" attitude - These were the scraps I had, so I was using them. Besides, when you have pink and red in there somewhere - well anything goes after that.

I FINALLY found a use for these Chatterbox chipboard letters!

Pretty soon Allison and I will be full into wedding decoration/reception planning/invitation mode.
If you have any advice on economical but classy/beautiful decorations for church, reception, cake table, guest table....please do share your advice.
Their colors are aqua blue and soft lime green. We were thinking that black table cloths might be cool. We have out guest gifts decided on and they are very pretty and delicate.

Any ideas for centerpieces that look fabulous with only 1-2 flowers in them? Allison is kind of stuck on gerbera daisies

Hard to believe that pretty little girl in this layout is getting married!

Got some pages done

Plugging along on 2002 - I now have 24 pages done from that year and I am only three months into the year.... oh dear this is going to take a while. I find it so hard to cut down. I could have done a single page on every one of these shots of Allison having dress-up time and swimming fun with her girlfriends. But alas, they all got squeezed into a two page spread.


The best part of these memories is that Allison kept her homeschooling journal while we were on this trip and I absolutely love her fun description of all the exciting things she did with her friends. There is no more meaningful journalling than that done at the moment of the event. I scanned her journals from her book and reprinted them on matching blue card stock.

This spread is celebrating my fathers 77th birthday while Allison and I visited Victoria in February of 2002. Dad is about to celebrate his 84th birthday next month!

My Mojo is starting to return

..well at least I did get two pages done from the spring of 2002 when Allison and I took a trip back to Langley to visit our girlfriends. Not sure if that means my mojo is back, but it is starting to return.

The first layout is Allison with her buddies and the second is of two of my very good friends.

For Allison's fun page I used a bunch of stuff from my stash. The girls did a variety of fun activities the weekend we visited. These photos were of their trip to the huge "Colossus" theater in Langley to see Snow Dogs.

This second layout of my friends was put together courtesy of Basic Grey


So easy - everything is from the granola line of Basic Grey.
I mean really - you don't even have to think.

Thanks for looking.

You are the Graduate

I realized last weekend that I have not done a scrapbook page since November 23rd! Do you believe it? Okay I did 34 Christmas cards a week ago, but no pages for over a month and so at this rate it will take me until 2010 to finish scrapbooking the year 2002 and that is moving backwards so I I put life on hold to get a page done!!

Pretty fast actually - paper, stickers - yup I used stickers, and some rub ons. I have kind of lost my mojo, so when I get it back I may add something else to the page.

You are the Graduate - Harold's graduation picture.

Spring 2002

When spring of 2002 arrived, our perennial garden in the front of the house was actually starting to look like it had real potential to be a show stopper. The tulips were first up and were beautiful. The Heliopsis came back double the thickness of the previous year and the snow drops were taking over the garden. That’s what happens when you get a free plant with “invasive” qualities. But no matter, the white blossoms contrasted the colorful tulips beautifully and I can always pull them out if they get out of hand. Things were mighty pretty the first of May, 2002!

Good Dog

I scanned this 4X6 and made it a 5X7. It was such a cute picture of Mark and Sam in 2002. I also needed to deal with some red eye. Love my scanner but my dream scanner would be a 12X12 scanner to speed up the process of scanning and uploading my pages to the blog. Although I am pretty fast with the photo merge in Photoshop! I am also dreaming about a new HP Photosmart printer that will print up to 12X18. Think of the scrapbooking possibilities and the cool journalling...but the ink costs! Whoa!

Anyways.... this paper from Reminisce is called Good Dog. The paper was a perfect match for this photo. We have some pretty fun cat and dog paper in right now. Ralna really brings in some terrific patterned paper to the store and sooo much of it ...I love it all. I also used Creative Cafe paper behind the photo, some Creative Cafe rub-ons and buttons, Basic Gray chip board letters and my white gel pen.

For me?

In 2002 I turned 45. .....it seems so long ago. Allison made me a cake and decorated it. Sweet girl.

I used that new Bazzill paper along with BG ambrosia "winsome" so pretty. Thickers letter for "For me?" which is really hard to see in this scan, but it is there. Some heidi swapp clear extras - the butterfly over the journalling and the "happiness" and the 45 comes from K and Company stash. And of course my trusty white gel pen.