Serious

Yup! that's our Paul - serious about life since he was born - always in a hurry to grow up, be mature, reading veraciously - and dang it! retaining it all - smarter than his Mom by age 12!
journalling reads.... SERIOUS about life - that's you. And serious about reading...hmmm looks like you are reading Church History. Okay - good book, I agree.

Easy page - pull out those scraps, cut em, sand em, lay em down and add a title. A little bit of the new mesh - cause I just like the stuff!

Any serious kids in your gang?

All Grown up!

I looked at this picture of Mark and saw him all grown up (he is 18 in this photo) but I could still see in his eyes the little boy I loved so much. How did he grow up so fast? Made me sad, and yet I was so pleased with what a fine young man he has grown up to be. Truly he has never given us any grief. A good student and hard worker, always willing to help around the house. A guy who loves to hang out with family eating pizza and watching TV on a Friday night. I feel blessed. So I took a look at some of those old photos of Mark, cropped and converted to b&w and put them on the page. Just to remind me that he once was a little boy of mine. And what a cutie pie he was! (and still is! )

Card stock, BG 'boxer' and sticker letters, heidi swapp chipboard letters and my white gel pen.

Carpe Diem!

I have some words of encouragement I want to share with all you wonderful people out there but since 98.643 % of you who visit this site do not comment ( I know, I know, it's nice to be in the majority) ....well, I do hope this does not offend you. The 2% who do comment ( I love you guys) I am pretty sure can handle this. So I am doing as I was told and passing this on to all the good women in my life - that's YOU!

Warning...this post has a swear word in it.
Move on right now if you are sensitive to these nasty words.

To Powerful Women everywhere...

Live your life

in such a way

that when your feet

hit the floor in the morning,

Satan shudders

and says,

'OH SHIT...

SHE'S AWAKE'

I do hope this post leaves you empowered as a women to get out there and carpe diem!! Right Corinne? Carpe Diem! ladies.

Maranatha!

Julie

Olympic Gymnast

I haven't been watching the Olympics too much, USA and China are kind of walking away with it all, but this video really is incredible. I mean, you have to watch this guy on the uneven bars - absolutely amazing! THIS makes the Olympics worth watching for me!



Let me hear your votes - is this guy good? or what! ouch! And I am going to bet that a lot of you watched it twice - now come on, fess up - did you watch it twice?

Allison's sweet smile

Pretty simple. Two pictures on Dream Street Paper with a block of deja views timeless pp, some Creative Imaginations rub-ons and she's done. Letting the pictures be the focus. This is Allison with our Black Lab Sam during the fall of 2001.

Family Fun

You would think all we do at our house is sit around the table and eat while Mom takes pictures of everyone. You know there are not a lot of pictures of me in 2001! Or any year for that matter. But I suppose enough pictures that they know I was here....taking a lot of pictures.

Who takes the pictures in your house?

Photoshop templates

Came across something really fun and different for those of you who use Photoshop. Scrapbooks Etc has come out with Series 100 and Series 200 in photo collage templates. The 100 Series are a number of easy-to-use photo collages in a square format. The 200 Series are photo collages in a rectangle format (8.5x11”).

They download very quickly and are a great way to use a variety of photos together in one place. The instructions are on the same page as the download. They can be downloaded and printed off - but pretty easy.

Here is my very first attempt using several photos from David's conference in Jasper last June.

And below. the page I made with it.

Kind of fun! I think I will have to try this again. Journalling down the left side reads...

Jasper Park Lodge June 7-11/08

Financial Executives International conference

Long drive – stop at IKEA

It is cccold up here! Hail? Snow?

Out for Sushi at Oka’s -very good!

Incredible scenery – everywhere!

Meetings, meetings, meetings – poor David.

Golf game - $90 sweater – looks good though!

Spouses tours – Maligne Lake, Maligne canyon.

Great photos

Hiking…alone.

"please turn on the heat in our room!”

Lots of people – romantic dinner for 200!

Gondola to Whistler peak to see the clouds.

Very HOT pool!

Happy Birthday Harold

Dream Street papers, BG Chipboard letters "Wilma", Heidi S. chipboard and Creative cafe rub ons, white gel pen.
I think it looks much better in real life - this one didn't scan too well. Page #60 for the year 2001. I was kind of hoping the year would fit into one album- it ain't gonna work!

Feeling Unloved? Read this!

Here is a link to an article written by Jill Carattini on my make mine decaf site. Please read.

Ambrosia

Ambrosia - in ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods, often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumes it.

Yes we are all waiting for the new Basic Grey lines to arrive and my heart is skipping beats in anticipation of the Ambrosia line. It is too beautiful and I just can't wait. All the lines are beautiful - Sultry, Eva, Offbeat...but I think Ambrosia is my favorite. And I think these Wilma letter stickers are a must. I love the Basic Grey sticker letters and use them all the time for titles. I have used the Wilma font chipboard letters in two pages in the past two weeks....can you find them? The words "Happy" and "YOU" both came from the Basic Grey Wilma font chipboard. Aren't they classy? Love em!







Well...my mirror reminds me every morning that I am not immortal (so does my back). I do however feel really good about this line and have no doubt purchasing and using it will confer upon me some momentary joy! I might just FEEL immortal.

Hurry up UPS!!