Finally Friday!!!!!!

What a long week this has been!!!! My mom is in town for 3 weeks (YAY!!!) working at her old branch at the bank "for fun" - she retired 3 years ago and sometimes works part time at her old, old branch in Nova Scotia....she's having a blast seeing old friends and customers again...and while I love having her here, she's been using my car every day and that means that I have to get up EARLY to pick her up at my brother's house...makes for a very tired girl at the end of a week...week #2 is almost over, though, I figure it's the least I can do since she did it for me for 20+ years! ;) ;)

That said, no matter how tired I am...I WILL!!!! scrap tonight!!!! I've had so much mojo lately that it's surprising even me!!! Everything is pulled out from the Mini Card Crop that SSz had a couple weeks ago to start my Christmas cards so it really wouldn't be hard but I have so much new stuff...and more on the way that I've been wanting to play with that I'm okay if I wait a little bit to start them!! ;) I've got an idea brewing in my head for the pumpking carving pictures I took last Thanksgiving at my in-laws place...I figure with some TLC in PSE that I can get some cool photos to print and scrap! **mental note to stop at Staples tonight to buy printer paper...and maybe some ink! ;)

Off to look at some inspiration on blogs and in galleries...I mean get back to work!!!! Have a great weekend everyone!

Rainy Days

Yeah, rainy days are a perfect for hanging in your comphy sweats and scrapping to your hearts content, right??? I so wish I was doing that right now...it's rainy, dark, dreary and I'm at work...so not a good combination! My mojo is flowing and I just want to scrap...hopefully it's still there at 5:00 when I get home...pizza for supper anyone? ;) ;)

Stay dry my fellow ducks!!!

SYTYCS Round #3!!!

So, I made it through to Round #3 of the So You Think You Can Scrap contest at YMBD, I'm so excited!!!! Thanks for the votes for those of you that voted for me!!!! :) The next round is very cool....going to take a lot of thinking to do something different and that stands out from the crowd!!! I have an idea so I'll be starting tonight...even skipping volleyball to scrap...so not like me but that's how excited I am...and my knee is still a bit swollen! ;) Shh...that's the real reason I'm missing but hey, whatever works!!!! :) :)

Picking up photos from yesterday's shoot on the way home tonight, I can't wait to take a gander of them printed and see how they compare to my monitor...and scrap them, of course! ;)

That's it for now...oh, check out the gallery at Scrap Shotz, lots of yummy stuff in there from the online crop this weekend!!!!!!

Enjoy your day!!!

Fall Photo Shoot and Scrapping Weekend!!!!

What's better than scrapping??? Taking photos to scrap, that's what!!!! The kids and I went out today to his Petri Island...the leaves were all over the ground, the beach was pretty much deserted, although, there were a lot of people around the nature trails...very cool spot to take photos if you live in the area!!!

Here are a few of my favs!!

Before the photoshoot today I spent the weekend scrapping...here's one I did a result of the Color Your World Online Crop at SSZ. Scrap Shotz Gives Back again this crop and the proceeds go to the Alziemer's Society, a very near and dear to my heart charity. Every layout created for this challenge, Sandy and Scrap Shotz will donate $5...the more we create the more they get. As of yesterday we were up to 23 entries...that's AMAZING....thank you everyone!!!!!

So You Think You Can Scrap! Round 2

We need your votes!!! Come and help us decide who should move on to Round #3 of YMBD's "So You Think You Can Scrap" Contest! Click HERE to view the submissions and cast your vote!

Color Your World Online Crop

Come join us this evening at Scrap Shotz - 8:00 PM EST when we kick off another fantastic online crop!!! It's going to brighten your world, I promise!!!!!

Here's my Challenge:

Outta This Funk is a cool blog that provides challenges to help you and your mojo get back on good terms...it's fun, funky and different, just like scrappers are!!!!

I chose the Where to you get your Inspiraton Challenge and created a layout with the colors in the photo...check it out!!!!

Here's my layout:

Think Much...nope not much!

Hope to see you all there!!!!!

Twilight Is Coming

Get Your Mojo On

Check this out...Mojo Girls - used to challenge and stretch us in our creative endeavors.

I can sure use a place like this!!!!! :)

A Few Gray Rock Pictures

Here are a few pics of the scenery around the courses we played in September. Enjoy!

More to come!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

What are you thankful for?

Here are just a few of the things I am thankful for:

• My wonderful Husband.
• Our Health.
• The Health and Love of my parents, brother and his family.
• The Health and Love of My Husband's family.
• A Home to call our Own.
• A Creative Outlet.
• The energy and ability to play sports and stay in shape.
• Food in the Fridge - most days! ;)

No matter which road your life takes you on, there is always something to be Thankful for...no matter what you "have" or "don't have"...be Thankful and tell everyone important in your life that you Love them, every single chance you get!!!!!!

So You Think You Can Scrap - Round 2!!!!

Yep, I made it through the "sign up" round!!! Now that the first round is over, I can share the layout I submitted. We had to pick our favorite of all time layout and submit it, I chose this one of Tyler and the large size photo really catches my eye each time I look at it so I hoped that it would catch the eyes of the voters, too! :)

The Good Stuff (About U)

We got our new assignments on Monday and would you believe, me, the biggest procrastinator in the world, actually sat down on Monday night and started and finished a layout?? Well, I did...:) :) This contest round is scrap your flavourite flavour of ice cream!!! That was a no brainer for me!!! See if you can figure out which one is mine when it comes time to vote...if you know me, you'll know my fav. kind! ;)

I'm also busy working on my Scrap Shotz Alumni challenges for the Online crop next weekend...it's themed Color Your World so you can just imagine the fun we're all having thinking up challenges! The 2 I'm putting up are probably my "best" challenges ever, I love them so stay tuned, to see if you like them, too!!!!

'til then.....

World Card Making Day - Oct 4, 2008

All over the scrap world this weekend were online crops, friend crops, store crops, blog challenges and sketch challenges for World Card Making Day. Most people gage this as a "the" weekend to start making their Holiday Cards and while I'm no card maker I guess I started mine this weekend, too!! I'm up to 4 now....46 or so more to go! ;)

There was a mini crop at Scrap Shotz with lots of awesome challenges posted by the Creative Team and so far I've managed to do quite a few of them. DH was away golfing and talking about fishing yesterday so I had the whole day/evening to myself to scrap to my little hearts content...so I did!!!!

Here are the cards I completed accompanied by the link to the challenge at Scrap Shotz, I hope you'll check it out, too!

Kathy's Interactive Card Challenge
- as seen in the current issue of Canadian Scrapbooker

Virginia's Origami Christmas Tree Card

Carolyn's "A Christmas Carol" Card Challenge

Jen's Corner Pocket Card w/ Bookmark

Want to see something even yummier??? Check out the new Holiday Card Kits that where revealed this weekend during the crop....I think I mentioned YUM, right??!!!! There are 3 to choose from - or get all three, the price can't be beat!!!!

I'm heading back to my scrap table now...might create another card or two, or maybe I'll even do an actual layout!!!!! If you'd like to play along, here's a link to a Quick List of all the challenges, hope to see you there!!!

Don't forget to vote for your favorite layout at Your Memories By Design's So You Think You Can Scrap Contest - voting continues until midnight tonight, Oct 6th. See the link in the post following this one.

So You Think You Can Scrap??????

We need your votes!!! Come and help us decide who should move on to Round #2 of YMBD's "So You Think You Can Scrap" Contest! Click HERE to view the submissions and cast your vote!

CRAZY, just Crazy!!!!

Where have the last 2 weeks gone? Well, I'll tell ya, there wasn't a lot of scrapping going on but I did get some absolutely gorgeous photos this past weekend at Grey Rocks, Mount Tremblant, Quebec!!! We spent 3 pretty darn nice Fall days on three different golf courses...I can barely move today - 2 days later - but man it was worth it!!!! The company was awesome and the massage we had on Sat. morning was heaven!!!! Good food, great friends and a golf course, or three, what more could you want?? :) I'm working on the photos a bit each night to resize, for uploading, etc. so watch for them in the next couple days...and best thing - all the new Fall pp's are just perfect for them so I can see some scrapping in the near future!!!!!

On a sadder note, today marks the first day that I can't call myself a Design Team member at Scrap Shotz...I'm going to miss it in a big way, especially the team environment - but I'm also looking forward to scrapping for me, with product that I buy and never seem to find time to use and spreading my wings to see just where I'll fly next in this wonderful world of scrapbooking! One project I have on the go is So You Think You Can Scrap at YMBD, check it out, there's a couple more days to enter and the talent is amazing!!!!

Check out the talent with the new October DT Kit at Scrap Shotz here it's more than worth it!!!!! YUM!!! A very warm welcome to the new Design Team members, Cari, Amber and Laura!!!! See, there was no need to be nervous! ;) ;)

'Til later.....

Another Week

Not much happened on the scrapping front this past weekend but Paul and I purged though clothes in our closets and drawers on Sun and man it feels good to lighten the load!!!! Our room is sparkly clean now and we're in negotiations to knock out a wall and build a walk in closet out of the 2nd bedroom...it's really tiny and would give just enough "more" space in our room for a king size bed and a kick butt closet...the more we talk about it the more I like it! Stay tuned for that little project...right after the basement/scrap area/work out room!!!

Softball playoffs start this week so I'll be busy for sure...going to miss volleyball on Thursday, what will I do? ;)

On the scrapping side of life, I'm working on my last DT project for Scrap Shotz and hope to reveal it sometime in the next week or two...before the end of the month if everything goes well! It's the Piggy Tales Draw Bridge album...it's such a cool project, and so fun to work with!!!!

Check out the DT work from September's Kit on the new Scrap Shotz Blog and see the new logo at the same time, it looks GREAT!!!

Till next time!!!

Weekend Rain!!!!

This sounds bad but I'm very much looking forward to the fact that the forcast is calling for RAIN all weekend!!!!! ;) It's been a busy end of week and the plan is to sleep in tomorrow, snuggle into my sweats with a pot of coffee and scrap all day!!!! Wish me luck! ;)

Holy Scrapping Weekend!!!!

It's been so long since I've had the "urge" to scrap, the mojo to actually scrap and the time to sit down and DO IT!!!!! This weekend, I changed all that...I got some great new Pink Paislee pp and the KT2 Kit by American Crafts from Scrap Shotz and knew I had to use them both...NOW!!!! So I did!

Here are the results of my madness - both were inspired by layouts at 2Peas, love that gallery, and I thank the talented members there for giving me my mojo back!!!!!!

I've been singing "It's a Love Thing" since I put the title on last night!!! ;)

This one was done for Nonie's Altered Photo challenge at Scrap Shotz...love how the photo turned out!!

A Dry Summer

Well, aside from all the rain we had here in Eastern Ontario....still managed to be away from my scrap room for the majority of it, though...last night I decided it was time to scrap for ME....Me, Me, Me...so I did! It's a blatant lift of one of Nonie's DT layouts from the Sept Kit, but hey, it worked for me and I loved it!!! :)

For your viewing pleasure...I'm scrapping and working on the new header for the blog today so stay tuned for more fun stuff from me in the next little while...I'll tell ya what I've been doing all summer! :) :)

A Real Update!!!

Okay, here's the deal...with my duties at Scrap Shotz coming to an end, I promise myself that I will have time...(read make time) to scrap and update my blog. Look for a new blog in or around the first of October...Sept is still pretty busy! ;)

Bad Blogger Alert

Update and new look coming soon...I promise!!!