Hawaii

Kind of a busy page, but tropical. Here is the gang enjoying our very full day at the Polynesian Cultural Center. This is a very fun, informative and full day ending with a very professional show for the grand finale after a nice meal. We had a good time.

The paper I used is Creative Imaginations which I stamped with the new Bo Bunny Aloha stamps - hibiscus with aqua Staz on ink and other colours in cats eye ink 0 if gave it different depths in the colours. Then I added some Prima flowers - several that are sprayed with glimmer mist. Me and my Big Ideas rub-ons for the title and Cloud 9 Design stamps (travel) "What a Day" Some pebbles on the flowers and a piece of ribbon - and there you have it. I kind of like the tropical effect.

Have a great Saturday everyone!

Blessings!

Julie

Make Mine Decaf

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Allison

I had fun making this layout. I just put the photos together and matted them. Then I pulled out some Prima flowers and some Deja View and heidi grace rub-obs and started having fun with them. Some bling to finish it off. I love the cleaness of it. I have added a black border in Photoshop so you can see where the edges of the layout are on the white background - but they aren't actually there.

Not sure where Allison was off to in this June 2001 picture - but we had done her hair all up. Probably her piano recital.

Twin Brothers

This is a photo of my husband with his twin brother taken in 1982. Yeah I know - some of you were barely born that long ago. Don't they look so young? And cute? And so skinny? One of them is a Chartered Accountant and the other is a Doctor and the Chartered Accountant is a father! They are 27 in this photo. A couple of smart guys - and really nice too! I think I got a catch! Actually I know I did. I've had him for 28 years! He's gained a little weight. Still very smart though...knows exactly what to do to keep me happy!!

I used the Basic Grey line here and a chipboard "brother" from Pressed Petals. The family tag is (I think) from Dream Street Papers. Metal letters and embellishments are from the 'stash' i.e. got them so long ago I can't remember.

Roses

Harold surprised me with a dozen of these beauties today. He came into the office/den/scrapbook room and said, with a big grin, "Happy Mother's Day!" I am going to take that to mean that every day is Mother's day. I feel blessed. The bouquet is sitting beside me here as I type. Yes indeed I am blessed.

This is the same son who was willing to go for a bike ride with me the other day. Check out my post "Today" on "Make Mine Decaf" for more on our bike ride. That is my new blog (see top left corner of this page for info). Am I crazy??

This is where I plan to take a less scrapbook slant and more of a "what is going on in my life" and a "Hey what do you think of this" and a "wow check out this link" approach to blogging. More chatting and less scrapbook layouts. More theology, more thoughts...still working on all my links and getting comfortable moving around in Wordpress - but hey check it out and leave me a comment - it is brand new!

I have imported some of my scrapbooking post from this blog so you will see some familiar stuff. Put me on your Google reader - I promise to blog regularly.

Don't forget to check out this mornings post of my most recent page of Allison - Sweet. see below.

I was supposed to work today - actually got over to Sask City Hosp for a course early this am and found out the instructor was ill - so I got to go home. No, I don't get paid. I was actually relieved. I have been sick since Sunday - on antibiotics and you know - trying to work and do a million things - like cook a big roast beef dinner Sat and entertain, clean, laundry and get a few pages done (okay that is not work) and then cook a big turkey dinner Monday night (Mark was home for five days and he appreciates my cooking :) ) But I am done wore out -so laying really low today in hopes that I will feel better tomorrow.

I can hear lawn mowers out side - hooray - summer is here. Maybe I can talk my sweetheart into a walk. Speaking of my sweetheart - I have a page I did last Sunday of David with his twin brother when they were 27 yrs old. It will post tomorrow - so check it out - good lookin' guy!

That's all folks!

Sweet

Using the We R memory Keepers 'White Out' collection again. Some amanda blu chipboard butterflies and flowers - very sweet, Prima flowers, a Lil Davis Designs rub-on (SWEET), Basic Grey buttons (don't they make the nicest buttons?) and my gel pen.

Allison up at the lake - 12 years old, sigh. Today she is working two jobs to pay for university. They grow up so fast. sigh...again.

Journalling reads...Allison Catherine, my sweet girl. What a lovely 12 year old you are. Coney Island, Aug 2001.

You are Amazing

I love this page. Not complicated, straight forward, so Paul. Deja Vu rub-ons work so well. I love the Dream Street line - All dolled up. A bit of ribbon.

Journalling reads... Paul at sixteen ~ determined to grow up way too fast. Writing your LSAT and acing them, finishing high school, picking up university credits and acing them too. Planning your future with precision, reading copious books from the library on financial investment, serious about life and about God. Not stopping to smell the roses – no time, too much to accomplish. Into the Beatles, guitar, computer languages and programming, reading the King James Version. Not your typical 16 year old. I love it! I love you! You are amazing!

Happy Birthday Mark

Not too happy with this page - certainly no scrapbooking feat, but hey the family night out at Red Lobster has been archived. Mark did actually turn 18 and we have the party pictures here to prove it.

I used the cordination paper and found an assortment of chipboard letters I painted and sprayed with yellow (daffodil) glimmer mist then glossy effects -love that stuff . I put the page away, then pulled it out the next day - still didn't like it, away it went. Pulled it out again - nope something has to change - it is too dark, too drab, there is no life in it and this is a birthday party!!

So off came the cordination paper and on went the new We R MK "White Out" paper. Okay this I can live with.

Oh the trials of scrapbooking!! LOL Can you think of any downside to it? Really - is there one?

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day everyone.

We had a wonderful time of prayer in church today - a time where many reflected on their own mothers and what their years of labour and love meant to them. I was so encouraged to hear so many give thanks for their mothers and was reminded of my own mothers years of raising seven of us. I am reminded of the years she spent in the kitchen feeding us or in the basement with that old wringer washer and then hanging up the clothes to dry. Never had a problem with humidity in our old house. I remember how she would sit up with us at night if we were sick - she was always there - always - and there was seven of us. I never heard a complaint from her or any sign of worry or weariness - even when my sister was so sick and dieing of cancer. What a woman - what an example of strength and fortitude for me.

Motherhood - a wonderful time of selfless work to make our lives so wonderful. May there be no complaints and no regrets - just joy in the work before us.

Happy Mother's Day to all of you out there who have invested so much of yourselves, your time, your sleep, your energy, and especially your love to raise and nurture the next generation and the next generation after that. I know I am what I am a lot because of who my mother was. And I also know my children are who they are in many ways because of who I am. We invest in our children and we invest in our grandchildren and our great grandchildren.

So here's to all you tireless Mom's out there. Enjoy your day! Cause you have to get back at it shortly! LOL But that's okay - we love investing our everything in those we love.

Christmas 1961 - can you pick me out? Can you believe that in 30 years I would have four children of my own and be mothering 24/7? See the post below - there we are raising our own family. Thirty years passes by so quickly!

So Happy Together!

I found this photo of the family from 1992. Oh those were such busy days but such wonderful days. We had so much fun together. I would love to go back and do them all over again, with the wisdom I now have. Ahhh hindsight. I would be such a better Mom... sigh... I would be sooo much more patient with these little ones. They are all so precious...but they have turned out so well...God's grace.

This page is inspired by a page Sharon did in the store with the same line. Sharon often inspires me and amazes me. She can whip a fabulous page together in no time

I used the very fun new line that just came in from We R Memory Keepers - Hoopla. It comes with all sorts of great embellishments, rub-ons and chip board. I also used a few family rub-ons from heidi grace jumbo rub-ons, A Bazzill flower with a brad from Stemma.

This was a fun change from tropical 8X10's. I see Black's has another 8x10 special on this weekend...I am resisting!