The other day I got the mail and left it on the passengers seat for the entire day while running my errands. When I got home and started sorting through it, I found the Christmas edition of Better Homes and Gardens Scrapbooks Etc and tore through it to find my page!
They emailed me a while back, mailed me a check for $100 and here it is! I was even more surprised of the two pages!
Oh what fun this has been!
My cousin's wedding shower was this past weekend and we decided to put together a mini album with the help of all the guests.
I picked up some chalk board signs on etsy and we had each guest write some advice or wisdom for them. I then printed all the pictures and filled a flip photo album that was completed for Stephanie to take home at the end of the party.
Everyone had a blast coming up with their advice.... Here are just a few
my cousin and his adorable wife
my brother in law and sister
this couple was adorable and funny!
my dad's cousin's that we grew up and continue to call Dr. Zhivago
these two who are always adorable
Joel and I
such a fun project and great gift!
This year was my nephews 18th birthday and I wanted to do something special with the money I had planned to give him. After viewing this adorable jar on Laura Vegas's blog I had a plan!
I found the pig (one of his 4H projects) earlier in the year and I picked up the empty jar at Target, my favorite store. And decided the money would do better at decorating the sides than any scrapbook paper I could use to cover it up!
And already I'm thinking of some other upcoming birthdays this will be perfect for!
Lately it seems I've had a tough time just keeping up with my project life, though I am doing much better than I did last year. Somehow the entire month of May got by without me documenting a single thing! Luckily I use twitter to help me remember the dates and what was going on so I can get caught up.
This past weekend I dug out my June Work in Progress kit and decided to make a mini.... go figure, right?
I've had pictures from of Hilton Head Island vacation from 2009 that were begging to be included with these bright summer colors!
and I even got caught up with my Project life!
You can see more pictures of this mini on the Work in Progress blog
While its spring time, a time when I should be cleaning out drawers I am instead filling them!
Taking this 7 gypsies drawer and letting the fun begin!
When I first saw the drawer I loved it, but was turned off by the knob. I know really... but it's true. Then Trish put this kit together and showed it painted and I began to love it and the possibilities again!
When I look around my house I notice the majority of the furniture is either red or black, so painting this black was a no brainer for me!
and so I will fill this drawer with pictures, notes and memorabilia and I will continue to share along the way.
This month I got the kit a little earlier than usual and had a long weekend to play when my husband and son went to Florida shark fishing for a few days.
Here are my projects using the May kit
Some of my favorite pictures of Zach!
Ryan... at the zoo with ice cream melted all over him
Chelsea and Ryan - i'm really into these 4 X 4 pictures right now!
Yep that's me!
a few fun 3 X 3 cards
I did it! I saw an idea on Pinterest and I just had to try it...
They were actually pretty easy to do, although a bit sticky to work with...
the ingredients
putting it together
the nests
So fun and easy to make and I'm so eggcited that I made them!
My sister and I signed up for a class at Archivers called Daily Junque as we counted down the days until the class we found out that not enough people had signed up.
Our options were:
We decided since we already had it planned for the evening we would go ahead and do the self guided class at Archivers. We didn't want it to be one of those projects that you never get to.
turns out to be one of those "blessings in disguise" since we changed things up while working on our own and I'm quite happy with how things turned out.
Its funny how things don't go how we plan sometimes and we are angry or frustrated at the time, but then they turn out to be better than they would of had they gone that way in the first place... well it made sense in my head....lol
I guess what I'm saying is I'm thrilled with how this album turned out even though things didn't turn out like we had planned.
Recently my sister and I stopped into the local Archiver's and I FELL IN LOVE with these tags from 7 gypsies! And right when I saw them I knew I wanted to make a mini.
Already starting to plan my letter for mom's day I had an idea. Why not make a mini book with my thoughts and wishes instead of writing a letter this year? And the idea began to grow...
then when I came home I found another pack of tags that would go perfectly in between
and soon my tag mini for moms day was complete!
For my daughter's 21st birthday I put a blurb book together for her. It includes some of my favorite quotes and favorite pictures, and I'm thrilled with how it turned out!
While over Trish's for a crop we were discussing ideas for mini books. She had a written list of ideas and this one just stuck with me, I thought how perfect for turning 21!
My mother in law is turning 70 this year and I'm already planning one for her! So fun and so addictive!
I shared several pictures of the book on my blog post at Work in Progress
I love to tell the stories life creates, the things that connect us all. Life is about unraveling, a continuous cycle until you find yourself whole. Blessed with a strong marriage of thirty years, finding our way through life with the loss of our son. Privileged to have two loving grown children. A wordsmith of simple stories that loves to get lost in photography. Running keeps me as stress free as possible. Enjoy performing random acts of kindness...
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