Pretty Butterfly

I got this [My Acrylic Album] acrylic butterfly album for my birthday. I don't make mini albums that frequently, so I wanted to come up with something else to do with it.

What I did for this project was take the front and back cover and adhere them together to make a full butterfly shape. I painted the back with pink glitter paint and white paint then stamped the flower image on the front. I added some Cosmo Cricket Blackboard and Prima bling. I cut Macy's picture out and used her as the butterfly body with some Loosie Fibers underneath, then added her name.

I had a difficult time getting a pic of this. I just couldn't get focused on her body no matter what I tried! This is my best attempt! I think it turned out cute! I added a ribbon to the top so she can hang it in her room!


We had some snow on Wednesday so the kids had off of school. We went to our friends dad's farm and sledding all afternoon! It was a blast!! I'll share pics of that soon!!

Have a great weekend!!

I think . . .

my scrapping mojo is back thanks to my 3 bestest scrapping buds!!

Tracy, Mimi, Mary and her daughter and I got together on Friday night for a scrapping night. Get this, we all actually scrapbooked! Usually we bring our stuff and just eat and talk and laugh the whole night! Not this time!! We each got about 2 pages done and boy did it feel good!!

I just finished my layouts now and would love to share them but I'm saving them for a Memory Makers issue. I am still going strong with my goal of having at least one layout in each issue for 2009! I just had one picked up last week! Go me!

I will share this one. I did this back in October when I was trying to find my groove (not so successfully, though!). I just love this picture of Macy that I took when we all went to a fall fest. Very simple, just a Radiant Rain spray background!


I go pick up my new laptop tomorrow. A few weeks ago, I was surfing on my old laptop, picked up my coffee mug and the stupid handle busted off!! Yep, coffee all over my laptop, and me but I wasn't concerned about me! So, we all mosied on over to Best Buy and put the extended service plan to work again! They had to send it out for repair. Well, they called last week and heard back that it would cost $2000 to repair, so they were giving me a new one. Jack and I went over and picked one out. I'll be getting an HP this time instead of a Sony Vaio, they were clearancing out the Sony's. The great thing is that the new one will be about double the storage size of the old one, yay! That's one good thing about computers being upgraded all the time! The old one had the max amount of storage on it when I bought it less than 2 years ago and now it's hard to find one of that size!! Can't wait to get it and get everything reloaded!! Getting email contacts organized again is such a pain!

Hope everyone is having a nice week!! We are supposed to get winter weather tonight and tomorrow.

Baby, it's cold outside!!

Sheesh!!! I haven't been able to get warm for the last 2 weeks! It's about 15 here today. I can't imagine living in Alaska and other super cold places!! Pennsylvania is cold enough!! I am ready for spring!! I want to see green again, hear the birds sing, let the kids run off their energy outside and most importantly, go camping!!!

We've had some dustings of snow here, but not enough to make any snowmen. The kids did go out and play in it a few days ago. They used Jack's dump trucks and diggers to tow the snow around. If it's going to be this cold, at least it could snow enough to make it worthwhile!

Not much is going on here. We've been staying indoors playing games, reorganizing and purging! I really need to get in my scraproom and clean up so I can create!! I've been itching to do it for the last week now!! I managed to get one layout done but can't share it just yet.

Here is a layout that is in the Jan/Feb issue of Memory Makers magazine. I did this back in July, right before I decided to go back to work. I had such strong feelings about it and this layout just flowed without any thought! It's like it made itself! Gotta love when that happens!!

This is actually a scan of the magazine page. The file is on my laptop, which interestingly enough, is at Geek Squad again!! I hopped on it last week, picked up my coffee for a sip and the stupid handle busted off and poured coffee all over me, the couch and my laptop!!! Thank goodness for the accidental handling plan I have on it! This is the second usage out of it! Definately paid for itself already!! While dropping the laptop off, we decided to buy a desktop computer for the "family computer". We've been pondering getting one for the kids to use anyway and the time had come!!

So, I'll leave you with this. Stay warm!!

It's a new year!

2008 was great! 2009 should be even better!!

We had a wonderful Christmas! From the looks of it, the kids were extra good this year!!

This is the tree pre-Santa.


and this is right after Santa delivered!


Macy got her guitar and microscope she asked for and Jack got his red Dustbuster and Leapster he wanted. They got many other fun things and Santa added greatly to our Wii game collection!! We've been having a blast playing with everything!

I didn't take the time to get a good picture of them together, so this one will have to be it!


We rang in the new year with our good friends Ron, Andrea, Steph and Jen! They came over to our house. We were fully prepared to cut the night short to get the kids to bed, but they lasted all night and didn't go to bed until 1am!

We ate, played Wii, Mad Gab, LCR and a game involving beer caps! The kids were not involved in that last one!

It was really a blast! The kids made a band and had a concert for us right before the ball dropped!






Now we are planning out our monthly camping trips. We are so excited for the season to start and seeing much more of the country this year!!

I hope everyone's new year is off to a great start and continues to be great!

Hi

Wow!! Almost a whole month since I blogged last!

'Tis the season! We've been busy doing all kinds of fun holiday activities!

Here is our Christmas card picture. I just need to get to the post office for stamps and then they'll go out in the mail!


The house has been decorated for 2 weeks, the tree is beautiful and is now surrounded by presents! We decided to put it in the family room this year, instead of the living room, so we could enjoy it more. It didn't feel quite right to not have any trees in the living room, so I went out and bought a set of 3 pine trees for in there! I still need to get some pics off all the decorating. It's so festive though!

It's such a special time of year. I hope everyone takes time to enjoy it and remember the real reason for the season!!

Friends!

A few weeks ago, me and three of my most favorite friends got together for our October birthday celebrations. My friend Mary and I both have October birthdays.

We went to Fancy That Scrapbook store in Hummelstown, PA, had lunch at The Wick and stopped at the Fractured Prune and picked up some of the most delicious donuts on the way home.

We always have such a wonderful time together. We made sure to set our next date already since we are always having a hard time coordinating schedules anymore!

I'd like to share the card I got from them. If only you could do this! It's totally us!


Mary's card had a picture of a lady in a lingerie store. The lady was holding a fancy bra and was saying "do you have this in a 34 LONG"! Ha!

Soooo, Twilight hits the theatres on Friday!! I'm going with a bunch of friends! I'm hoping they will not disown me when I show up with my TEAM JACOB shirt on!! They are all for Edward! I loved him in the first book, but after that, I just couldn't stand how possessive he is! Anyone else on TEAM JACOB? They seem to be rare!

I've finally uploaded the pics from our last camping trip of the season! I just need to go through them and I'll post them in a few days!!

Shockingly, I also have a half completed layout sitting on my desk now! AND, I am actually really liking it! Perhaps I'll have some artwork to share next time!

Have a great rest of the week!!

Halloween 2008

This year we decided that we'd throw our own costumes together instead of spending $100 plus on store bought ones! That was so much nicer!!

Macy decided she wanted to be a witch - perfect! Jack wanted to be a train engineer, then decided a few hours beforehand that he wanted to be a banana! Well, it was too late to rig up some kind of banana costume, so we stuck with the engineer!

Macy had the usual school Halloween parade. There were a ton of witches this year! I went in to help out with her 1st grade party after I dropped Jack off at school. Let me just say that I am SO glad I do not have to do that everyday!! I stayed and ate lunch with Macy. We had the choice of eating in the hall at a special table or eating in the caf with the rest of the kids. She wanted me to sit in the caf. Oh. My. Goodness! Can you say loud??? Wow! I was glad to get out of there!! They have a traffic light in there. It's on green when the noise level is acceptable. They move it to yellow when it gets louder and all the kids put their hands up to hopefully make silence. Well, it got to yellow while I was there and I don't even want to know what red sounds like!! Here she is in the parade.


Here they both are, in separate pictures. Apparently it is just wrong for them to be in a picture together without one trying to beat up the other!



I totally forgot to put on Jack's red bandana! Chris was working until 7pm that night. If he was home, I know it wouldn't have been forgotten!

Here is our jack-o-lantern. We actually had another to carve but we ran out of time! Nothing fancy! We do it the old fashioned way like we did when I was a kid - with a paring knife!


Hope everyone had a fun night!! Thanks for reading!