halloween garland- FINALLY

Hey look at this mom... my machine DOES sew fabric! Who knew??  :)

This is the base for the Halloween flower garland. I like it.

Here is the completed garland hanging up on my mantel. I still have left over flowers that I didn't need. I guess I got on a creating frenzy with them. They are so much fun though.

Continuing down the mantel.

Still going...

Getting to the end...

At the end...

I know... a little late but at least it was still in the same year that I posted the pictures!! LOL Thanks for looking. I think this is my last post for today. I've left you plenty to enjoy.

project life weeks 38-43

Here is the last batch of my pages. I know... we don't have that exciting of a life but it's ours. There are many things in this scrapbook that I don't think I would have ever scrapped traditionally but since I only need one quick picture and some journaling... all is preserved for the future.

The best part of Project Life?? You can do it however YOU want to. Love the flexibility of the products. Especially the new ones coming out now and in the future. You do not need to do a picture a day. You can do a layout for a month... or two. Or even a vacation album. Or maybe a few vacations in an album. With the different plastics available, you can set your album up however you choose. There are even these amazing Big Envelope Pages available. Talk about great for souvenirs and other goodies all scrappers collect. 

Sorry for the hard sell on Project Life... but I think it is an amazing way to capture life and all that entails. Enough from me... enjoy the pages.  :) 

project life weeks 31-37

Here are the next group of weeks completed. I am very excited to have this years album done and start working on next years. I am thinking I shall be using the Cobalt kit. Then again, the Clementine kit is very pretty. 

In case you haven't looked before, this year may be the year that you might want to peek. Instead of having to purchase the entire kit (binder, core kit, plastics, dividers, extra papers) for one price, you now have the option of buying just what you want/ need/ can afford. Love this!! Click here to look at prices and options.

The plastics for this coming year are amazing!! I have ordered them and received them. I ordered some for my 2012 Project Life book as well as enough for two school years books. That is when Becky gets them out (hoping for early spring of 2012) It's a start on my journey to organize all that paperwork the kids generate from learning at school.

Anywho... here are a few more weeks of 2011....

project life weeks 25, 26 & 28

I had to print out one picture from each of the following three weeks to finish them up. Finally got around to doing that. Had a bit of help with a great deal from Snapfish... 300 prints for $3. Of course they get you with the shipping fees but it was still a good deal for me to catch up.

I am totally loving doing Project Life this year. When I did it in 2009, I got very far behind both in doing the journaling cards and printing pictures that I was discouraged. This year I am making an effort to keep up with things and it seems to be working well. I have gotten all the pictures printed and journaling done through October 31st. Pretty amazing!!


Gonna post some more weeks to share.

fun in the sun

Yesterday was such a lovely day, a group of us moms decided to take the kiddos to a local park for a picnic and some fun in the sun before the rain and snow begin their falling. We had a good group of kids. My friend Nicole snapped the following two pictures of the kiddos and they are wonderful! So perfect for my Project Life picture. Aren't they just the cutest kids??

We got there around 11:30am and didn't leave until a bit after 2pm! Alex almost fell asleep on the way home but managed to keep going until 8pm. The only reason he was up that late was I had a PTA meeting and daddy had to work late. He didn't make it much past his head hitting the pillow.


Today I get to go hang with the kindergarten kids. Love my Wednesdays (and any other day the teacher asks me to come in) So much fun hanging with the little ones.


Nope... still haven't gotten the Halloween garland pictures off my camera. Hoping to do that later today when I have a minute to myself. Cross your fingers!!

halloween 2011

Here are a few pictures from the towns Halloween Haunt that was last weekend before the snow hit us. It was SO COLD!! We were lucky the kids costumes both had gloves but we couldn't layer too much under their costumes as they were just the right size. After we did the parade, daddy went and got the kids their coats to keep them warm.

Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu before the parade down Main Street. They even closed Main Street down so everyone could walk right in the street. Love my small town.

Here's my kiddos walking down the road. We dyed a pair of daddy's socks and added some shelf gripper stuff to the bottoms and then slipped Kira's shoes inside of them so she would have yellow feet for her costume. Worked out okay, she scuffed her feet a bit so there was a small hole on one foot.

The backs of their costumes. The kid in the red hat would not leave Kira and Alex alone! He kept talking about video games and characters and such. I finally had to tell him we were doing stuff as a family and he should find his. He is in practically EVERY picture of the parade!! At one point he said he would let Alex wear his Super Mario hat if Alex would let him wear his Sonic hat. I had to tell him no.

I did finally take pictures of my garland but haven't removed them from my camera yet. I promise they will be posted soon. Today I spent the day uploading pictures to be printed, copying my pictures onto CD's and deleting them off the computer. I hadn't done it since April! It needed to be done badly. Now I won't lose things if the computer crashes. 


Of course that means I am beat beyond belief and need to get off the computer for a bit. Catch you all on the flip side.

scrapping goodies giveaway!!

Okay... it's not me personally giving stuff away (not that I couldn't unload a few million items from my house) but this is from the Dear Lizzy blog. Let me tell you, if you are not following her blog (and why are you not following her?) then you should! She is an amazing woman, wife and mother. She oozes inspiration with every post. And don't get me started on her better half Collin- he is always good for some laughs (follow him on Facebook, you won't be sorry)


Anywho... to get my name entered into the latest amazing giveaway on Liz's blog, I had to link and post on my blog so here I am posting the link for all of you to get in on this too!! Trust me, you will want your name added.


Thanks for playing along with me. Promise the next post will have something scrappy related. Still need to post my Halloween garland.