Military pages - Canadian Field Hospital

I have had several requests for military pages and I noticed late last night as I checked out the origin of the hits to my site, that there are a fair amount of people who came to my site by using "military layout" as their search terms. There is also a lot of "Hawaii layout" searches too, but I haven't posted a whole lot of Mark's album from his tour of duty to Pakistan with the Canadian D.A.R.T. team during the earthquake of Nov 2005. So I have scanned more of those pages and will post them over the next little while. They are no great scrapbooking feat - no fab techniques, but what I really enjoy about this album, besides the really beautiful and meaningful pictures that Mark took, is his journalling. The pictures too, tell a real story of service, caring and sacrifice on the behalf of our military personal.

Do click on the pages to get the detailed words. The pictures on this page above I downloaded from the Canadian Military site - Mark, as a communications guy, was not able to get into the hospital for pictures.

You know our finest really did some amazing work for these poor people who were truly suffering. Say a pray for our military guys today off on the other side of the world risking their lives, trying to do their small part to instill peace and normality into peoples lives.

For more military pages previously posted please click here.

.....and I hope to post some pictures of our vacation soon.

Drunken Pig Stew

Drunken Pig Stew is what David had for lunch at this large English pub (photo on the rt side of the page). This was part of a one day trip over to England from Delft, Netherlands when he was over there for business in 2000. The trip also involved a short stop in Paris - but it was at night and well, let's just say I am the photographer in the family although his skills are improving tremendously. He now knows a flash picture of the Eiffel tower from 2 miles back at night does not work. hehe. What a guy. He took some nice pictures of this old church though.

Journalling reads...It was a short flight over the Channel to Humberside airport in the north of England and then on to Lincoln , a small city. We managed a little drive-by sightseeing to see the Lincoln castle and Lincoln Cathedral. It is quite impressive architecture, but the highlight of the day was a noon hour stop at a genuine English pub called the Pyewipe Inn for a cold ale and the ‘drunken pig stew’. That, was a tasty experience. We left the country shortly after and departed for Paris to see our France sales office. Dinner that night was at a fantastic restaurant on the Champs-Elysees.

I think I should get him to do all my journalling. :)

Blessings!

Julie

Happy Birthday to me!!

Yup! It's my birthday today. I am 51 and I can say that because I feel like I am 41! :) (Most days anyways) I am a child of the King - so I have no complaints!

Didn't do anything too special today - church this morning and than an all afternoon church meeting and here I am indulging in some computer time this evening. I also finished the ironing and cut Harolds hair today - so it was productive! And I love productive days! It's part of being a type A I guess.

But I have to say the best part of the day was seeing the look on David's face (after dropping a million hints) when I said to him just after lunch that "umm today is my birthday dear"

He TOTALLY forgot and felt so bad. Poor guy. Then on our way to the meeting we stopped in at Tims for a quick decaf and I told the nice guy at the till - "It's my birthday and so I am going to have a Boston cream!!" He said "hey Happy Birthday!" and I said "thanks! Your the first one today to wish me a happy birthday!" He looked at David and I got to see that completely embarrassed and ohhhh soooo sorry look again. LOL

If you're reading this dear, I can say all this because you treat me like it is my birthday every day of the year (well, almost), so REALLY, it's okay!! However I do reserve the right to use this against you in any way I like. (wink wink) Anyways March 16, my day! :) Remember that dear because if you forget next year things may be different...wait a min as I recall my 50th....never mind.

Now to some altered projects. I was dashing through Walmart last week with the plan to be in and out of there in 8 min flat and eyed these really creative picture frames - grabbed two. They looked like this before I did a little painting.

I inked and shimmer sprayed the matting (to match my office/scrapbook/computer/create room) and then inserted some fun photos that I changed to B&W. On the laugh picture frame I altered the photos in Photoshop to give them a bit of a posterized look. They were "soft" photos and needed something funky done to them!

Now I just have to decide where to hang them!

Blessings to you all!

Julie

Autistic basketball player

Very encouraging story! This is the kind of news I like to listen to.

Hawaii layout.....Google memory

Google Blogger told me the other day that I was using 86% of my allowable capacity for upload. I have been saving my scanned layouts in lesser quality to reduce Mb. So this news that I was almost at capacity meant the possible move to Typepad. But Typepad means money!!!!! I checked out several levels of typepad and the the monthly layout of cash was going to be significant if I wanted a good solid amount of memory on my Blog. Blogger right now gives me 1000 Mb or a GB - and it is almost full. Typepad Basic at $50 USD only gives you 500 Mb - how long will that last me?? Not long. For a decent 1 GB it is $150 USD/year. But that still isn't enough. I have used almost a GB with Blogger in the past year. Now the $150 does give you some other features, but really not that much more different then Blogger. So I decided to see if Blogger will sell me more memory.

Well it seems that every picture that is uploaded to Blogger is stored on Picasa. If you upload a picture and then delete it from your blog - it is still on Picasa (and using up memory). So the first thing I did is start deleting all the photos that I was no longer using on my blog. I accidentally deleted my header too - oops! Do be careful when you do this. I had quite the time finding it again on my computer - actually I didn't find it but found a version of it that I had to edit and re upload. So I am wondering if deleting from Picasa also deleted from your computer - this would be crazy but I need to test it out before I do anymore deletions. So getting rid of stuff I never used freed up several MB of memory on Google.

At the bottom of your Picasa page you have an option to increase your storage. Get this - 50 GB for $20 USD/year. So WHY switch to typepad???? If I am missing something here typepad users?? Please let me know. It seems to me that Google Blogger is WAY less expensive and gives me WAY more memory storage.

And on to more pleasant subjects. Worked two days at JSI this week and besides buying a bunch of stuff, got another Hawaii page done. :) And used the new pebbles that came in too, and the new flowers and some of those brass letters on the sale table. Oh and those very classy travel stickers. Got to love this job!! Okay I did work while I was there and helped a lot of customers. :)

Have a great day!

Julie

12 min page

Seriously this took me 12 min. A new Deja Views exclusive line called Little Yellow Bicycle arrived at the store on Thursday - boy stuff - yeah, I agree, enough of all those pretty pinks!!! This stuff is for the guys! It is fun and tough! So here are a couple of my boys curling last winter. One piece of paper, a package of very cool stickers, my adhesive and sanding block and there you have it! yup! 12 minutes and I like it!! I'm going back for more.

The Netherlands

Just finished another quick layout for our 2000 album. I know, I said I was finished with 2000, but then came across these pictures of David's business trip to Delft and Amsterdam in The Netherlands. David did all the journalling about the places he visited, his favorite restaurant and his favorite dish, eel. Click on the pages to enlarge them and you can read what he wrote. I was so glad to get him involved in the scrapbooking process and I think he actually enjoyed it. I will not likely get him to use an embellishment or glue stick, but he did do the journalling and sometimes that is the more difficult part. :)\
Blessings!
Julie

Charlie bit my finger - again !

This is just too funny. What a sweet little guy. Charlie too!

Bzoo layout with the new Thickers

This layout Bzoo is from the "take-out" line. Lots of photos to use of Allison and my trip to Victoria to visit G&G in Feb 2001.

I found Allison's home school journal and scanned a few entries that captures this event - this is unique journalling. :) I am so happy that I made the kids keep journals. I know it was a chore back when, but they are getting to the age when they will discover them and be so glad they kept them. It sure helps me remember events from years ago - and the dates and names of people. Note to young Mom's - as soon as they can write - have them keep a journal - great way to have them remember special and even day to day things and it really developed their writing and communication skills. It helps them to be able to communicate feelings and thoughts.

Valentines Layout

I showed Ralna these two dark, cluttered pictures with every colour under the sun in them and said "What do I do with these?!" It took her about 6 sec to walk over to the shelf and pull this new Dream Street Paper "Birdie Bit" paper off the shelf. All the colours were there! Fun paper. Then the new American Craft felt "details" embellishments were just unpacked from the box - perfect...and the new thickers white "Jewelry Box" font...oh this page was coming together before my eyes. Picked up the Heidi Swapp chip board letters in these new fun colours and I was ready to put it together. I have now completed four pages from the 2001 stash of photos - I will post the other two this evening.

Journalling reads... Allison and I arrived home from Victoria to a surprise on Feb 14th, 2001. Dad had made supper, decorated the kitchen and had Valentines gifts for his two sweet girls. Chocolates, flowers, balloons - What a guy!

Not great photos but precious memories will now go in the family album. And THAT is why we scrapbook!

Okay - running out the door to work - see you at JSI this afternoon - remember Shaw will be there to find out all about scrapbooking!

Blessings!

Julie