Moving again...

I know some of you are not suprised as it seems all I ever do is move. I just talled them up and I have moved 10 times in my adult life...not counting the 2 times I moved very briefly back home for a few months. Each and every time I move I say this is the last time...this is the last time...this is the last time. I sound like a broken record even to myself. This time I mean it! Number 11 is it....We are all set to go and will be closing on our new home in a matter of days. Finally I can say this is the last time and mean it. I am confident that this will be my home for a good long time.

The best part is, we looked at it on a whim one day when we were out looking at a few other houses. We figured we may as well look and we fell in love it has everything we are looking for in a house! Big kitchen, formal dinning, large livign room...TWO bathrooms (a must with four girls in the house) The yard is so beautiful and Mark loves yard work. It even has a little tiny pond in the back off the deck. There is a little park one house away for Maizie. Savannah has a big room, Danielle will have her own space downstairs. The garage is big, Mark even has a studio for his music. Oh and did I mention the fireplace? WOW

Anyway I have will more photos and more details in the future but I wanted to let all of you know I was not MIA for no reason.

A before school adventure

So every year since Danielle was a very little girl and off to her first day in Kindergarten I have taken a first day of school photo, I also take a last day of school photo but that is a different post.

In 2007, yes I am still scrapping that. LOL I mainly scrap in chronological order but if I want to do some current stuff I jump around. So back to 2007. That is when I got married what I was not planning was the school district starting school so early that year~! I was on my Honeymoon which meant I obviously could not take my traditional first day of school photos! Yikes!!! I gave my mom and my girls instructions and begged them to please remember to take first day pics. Well guess what? They remembered! Yay, I think they turned out pretty good too.

Danielle even had her friends drive all the way over to the next town so they can go together like they always do. I thought it was cute that she drug them over so they could be in the photo's too rather than just meeting them at their houses. Haha...she knows exactly what I am looking for in my photos.

I love this paper! This is the Moon Doogie Level 2 paper pack with the My Stickease. I believe, yes it also has the little journal cards too. Those are super cute as they look like little post cards and stamps. Can we say adorable and fun! I also love the crochet ribbon it is so versatile.

You will have to come back for the last day photos as those are in 2008 and well....

Just Twitterpatted!

I am totally in love with the New and Improved "Workshops on the Go" Close to my Heart has made an all inclusive kit that you can purchase for around $30 and make so many projects! Here is what I made so far and I have so much paper left I can make a whole bunch more cute stuff!

Here is the first page of the WOTG

and the second. Istn't this paper so adorable. I really love the colors. I also had a great time making backgound paper. They do a great job with the instructions so that you know exactly where to cut so that you get the most paper out of your kit.

I love how they include all the little details. That is what makes a project go from good to great! Details!

You might be saying yes yes this is so cute how can I get one! You might also be thinking wait where did that stamp come from I have never seen it? That is because there is a exclusive stamp set in each month of the work shops on the go!!!

Alright here it is:

My Acrylix Hello There Stamp Set, My Reflections Twitterpated Level 2 Paper Pack, Designer Ribbon Rounds Chocolate Collection, and a Workshop Guide. This is a $35.85 value but can be yours for $29.95.

The add on kit to make the best out of your kit is:

Dimentional Elements in Color - Organic, Natural Hemp, Basic Brads Assortment. $ 10.70

Serioulsy these are a great value!! The best part if you can't come to my class on September 25 you will still have all of the instructions to do these projects in your home. Ok so back to stamping...

Here are the cards

Ok so how cute is the little hedgehog? Adorable. I also love the way these colors go together. The buttons...super cute and they are printed with fun patterns!

I love how CTMH comes up with all these fun things to do...cutting a button in half adding liquid glass here and there...just adorable!

Boing boing boing...

I hope you are up for a little fun. It is time for the Close to my Heart Autumn/Winter Blog Hop! I did this with the last idea book reveal and had so much fun I thought I would do it again.

If you have come here from Sharesa's blog, you are on the right path! If this is your first stop, you may want to go back to Erin's blog <http://www.tazzygirl2000.blogspot.com/> and start from the beginning!

I decided to focus on Sweet Home this evening and just love the way it turned out. I received this level 1 kit as a gift from my upline and I was so thrilled because this was paper that I didn't think I was going to get but wow I love it! It is gorgeous and it is perfect for homey photos so I decided to scrapbook last thanks giving. We had about 15 people over and I made everything from scratch.

Brined the Turkey over night and didn't cook it in a bag, Sweet Potatoes ... peeled and in the pot, Cranberries....in the pot with brown sugar and a cinnamon stick. You get it. Anyway here are the pages I just smile when I see them. It also makes me want to make the dinner all over again. It was hard work but like the stickease mentions Homemade is love!

The other item I am sharing is just a little card with some of the left overs from my level one kit. I love those as it makes you look like you spent hours on your page when really it took minutes.

This is pattern straight out of the wishes book. I thought it turned our really nice.

Supplies: Level 1 Sweet Home Kit

Ink: Indian Corn Blue, Buttercup

Accessories: Brads, Buttercup cord (on hand)

Other: Wishes book

Hope on over to Jean's blog.

Ok so I know that was a lot to take in so if you need to view the entire list here it is. I hope you had a lovely time show some love if you like :)

Erin Herring http://tazzygirl2000.blogspot.com/

Terrie Dodd http://my-life-in-real-time.blogspot.com/

Jessica http://jessicaspaperpetals.blogspot.com/

Leisa Hubley http://bigredscraps.blogspot.com/

Karen Norman http://gettinscrappywithit.blogspot.com/

Thompson http://picturespatternsandpaper.blogspot.com/

Adeline Brill http://adeline-brill.blogspot.com/

Miranda http://www.scrampinwithmiranda.com/

Montgomery http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com/

Wendy Kessler http://www.myscrapbookingblog.com/

Dawn Heuft http://stamptildawn.blogspot.com/

Carla Ironside http://carlacreates.blogspot.com/

Dawn Ross http://iamahappystamper.blogspot.com/

Julie Banzon http://www.scrapbookiejulie.blogspot.com/

Jody Gustafson http://www.cre8nmemories.blogspot.com/

Helen Onulak http://www.hookedonstamping.com/

Sheila Bennett http://sheila-bennett.blogspot.com/

Haley Dyer http://inkyscrapper.blogspot.com/

Lisa Stenz http://www.lisascreativecorner.blogspot.com/

Jena DeVries http://www.livelovelaughscrapbook.blogspot.com/

Jen Patrick http://www.roxybonds-scrappin.blogspot.com/

Amy Schultz http://amylizschultz.com/

Lori Scott http://scrapinglori.blogspot.com/

Tresa Black http://www.fabulouslyartsy.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Kraynak http://whatchadoin-jennifer.blogspot.com/

Sharesa Larsen http://creedandsharesa.blogspot.com/

Amy Edwards http://paisleysplayhouse.blogspot.com/

Jean McNulty http://stampinmaui.blogspot.com/

Emma Hubert http://paperaddictsanonymous.blogspot.com/

Antoinette Herrin http://www.godblessyourart.blogspot.com/

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So this is one of my favorite photo's a few years ago my daughter was out playing in her fort or at the park and came home with a pet.

I was surprised to see it was a pet frog. I also thought it was funny to watch the look on her face when I told her that me and her Uncle Jamie used to have pet frogs and that we had one that was trained (or so we thought) and that we used to go and collect tons of tad polls and watch them mature into little froggies.

I have found that you cannot really do that in Illinois for some reason but in Southern California it worked out great!!!

Anyway back to the reason we are here. Scrapbook pages!!!

I knew the second I saw this kit that it would be perfect for my froggie photo's so I went ahead and bought it and it sat...

and sat...

and sat...

until this week when I did a quick page all about her pet frog.


Here is the journaling box telling the story of her frog. I also thought the little collect embelishment and the little froggie tag were so cute.

Here is the finished page. It took me all of 13 minutes to put together start to finish.

6 degrees

I hope you enjoy. Last month I had some fun over at Personal Scrapper I did a game/swap that was called six degrees of seperation. I was given a page to case and here is what I came up with.

You Color My World

How many times have we heard that for a scrapbook page title? I imagine quite a few. I have actually never done a page using that title until now.

Earlier this week I had a fun event at my uplines place and she was calling it Chocolate University (more on that later) and she wanted to have a few shoebox swaps.

I love swaps I can't get enough of them so I went ahead and volunteered.

I started out making page elements and I thought I would just call them page candy. My fellow consultant Linda is not a big card maker and the last time we swapped she made a super cute topper. I though oh if I just do some elements then I can show that you can either use them on a card or on a page.

So I set off to do just that. I though this journal box could also be the inside of a card.

I still needed more though and soon I found myself ditching the candy idea, though I do plan to come back to it at a later date. So I ditched the calendar and just decided to do up a whole page!

I had some photo's of my daughter, yes again in 2007, at the end of the school year. I didn't really know what I wanted to do with these pics but I did remember that she was wearting RED. I also knew that the paper I was working with Animal Cookies was full of primary colors.
Yep you see the light bulb over my head nwo don't you. LOL

The photos went perfect with the paper. In the journaling box I talked about how they were painted up until they played all day in the rain.

The kids loved it! As you can see at the end of the day I also mounted the photo and gave it a little side stamping as well. I love the way it turned out! They were drenched and had no more color on their faces or in their hair.

So there is my swap. The stamp set I used is called Priceless Love Word Puzzle I have loved this set since I got it but this was the first time that I actually used it.

Now I am a double page girl pretty much anything I do involves two pages. So here is the companion page that I came up with. Now the swap was only the one page.

I love how this turned out with the jumbo hearts and the top notch die peeking out from under.

I think the journaling on this part is so fun as well.

"Your last week of school - Special"
"Getting to play soccer in the rain on a hot day - Sweet"
"Beating the boys! - Priceless"

I leave you today with a close up of the hearts. These were two whole hearts but I cut them apart so that I could intertwine them.