My passions are scrapbooking, digital scrapbooking and photography. This is where I share them.



Wednesday, December 3, 2008

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!







Christmas is only about 3 weeks away so I started my decorating and baking this week. I have some of my shopping finished too. I still have a long way to go. I also have some projects to make for gifts that I can't talk about yet. We plan on getting our tree this Saturday. We have been getting a live cut tree for several years now. We tried one with the root ball but they are too heavy and after we planted it it died anyway. Tomorrow is another baking day so I'm signing off.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Thanksgiving

Well, we have another Thanksgiving under our belt (a notch bigger I might add) as a result of not one but TWO delicious Thanksgiving dinners. We went to PA to spend the holiday with our parents and siblings families and had a nice time. Plenty of turkey and pumpkin pie and lots of card playing with my mom and dad. We have a lot to be thankful for that's for sure. We ended our visit with a movie...Madagascar 2. We came home Saturday night and today I have been doing mountains of laundry and a little decorating for Christmas. I have no pictures to share because I forgot to take my camera...can you believe it?

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

I Did It Again!



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I worked on learning another technique today. I learned how to use brushes as a mask. This is really cool! I can't wait to learn more. This is a photo of my family that I took myself (with the timer). This time next year Zach will be off to college or the academy so I figured that I had better get some shots of the family together.
patterned paper is Jessica Sprague Naturally Free & Home Away From Home
hearts &"love" are Corina Nielson Wordart ??

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Another Digi Layout

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So I was playing with Photoshop again today and came up with this layout of most of my family...my older sister is MIA. I tried to learn how to "tear" paper and as you can see I didn't accomplish that. I was also unsuccessful in learning how to put text in a circle...oh well I'll keep trying. I did "load" some brushes and used one to make the poloroid. That was fun. I had to stamp it on a white backround first then put the pic on it, then move the whole thing to the red backround paper. I find this really interesting and will keep plugging away.

All of the paper & elements are from Shabby Princess-Dinner Party

Monday, November 17, 2008

Playing with Digital


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I have been learning about digital scrapbooking from some magazine articles. I made this layout today and I had a lot of fun. Although I really enjoy digital I don't have any plans yet to hang up my paper cutter yet.
pattern paper & embellishments are from computerscrapobook.com-J Baechtold-Fall Frolic
flower is from scraprebellion.blogspot.com-Fall is here
word art-all I have on this is wordart for SS

Friday, November 14, 2008

Today's Thoughts

The holidays are coming fast and the weather is about to get colder and snow this weekend. Zach is a senior this year so the school year seems to be flying by too. He is trying to get accepted to the US Naval Academy and is also applying to some "backup" schools so that along with all his school activities keep him really busy. I will miss him a lot when he goes off to the academy or college next year and have been thinking about that a lot lately. Kelsey just finished up her 6th year of playing soccer and will start Upward basketball in a few weeks. This time of year is usually a fun time of year for me but with the economy the way that it is I'm not sure it will be as fun this year. I am kind of nervous about starting my Christmas shopping just yet but I will soon. I had fun today playing with this blog and Photoshop. The more I play with it the more I learn.

My Scrapbook Pages

Some of my favorite animal pictures.