Sunday night I returned from four days of Scrapping in the Pines up in the mountains in Prescott, Arizona. It’s lovely up there because it’s 20 degrees cooler than the Valley of the Sun. PLUS, it’s no kids, no cooking, no cleaning…. just relaxing, scrapbooking, chatting, movie watching, munching and belly laughing. Lots of belly laughing went on.
Twenty-one pages were completed in my album, which is pretty good, but nowhere near the 65+ pages like the days of old when we scrapbooked in Prescott. Thank God we’ve relaxed a bit. OK, A LOT. Here are a few peaks into my family scrapbook. Sorry the pictures are not totally clear. I’m too tired to take them out of the page protectors. :o)
This page of Larisa is the first time I’ve used pressed-foam raised shapes that you cover with paper (the flowered ring) and paint the sides. The effect is cool with the three-dimensional frame. There is also bling on the flowers at the top that don’t show that well.
I simply love pictures of boys being boys. I still need to do my journaling on the striped paper on the right, but I love the color combination on this page. Titles I’m considering: “Hoopla” “Just hangin’ Around” or “White Men CAN Jump.” I’m open to voting.
You’ve possibly seen this photo on my blog with the story behind the grin… So cute! My boy! A friend brought up her Cricket machine, which is totally awesome! It cuts out the letters I used here for the title. You basically put your paper in, tell it what to cut out and whammo! It’s done. Pretty slick, if you ask me.
Two weeks ago I was talking to two women from our church and I mentioned Anne of Green Gables. Neither one knew Anne with an E. I was amazed. Shocked. Dismayed. I thought everyone knew Anne with an E. So this past weekend, while scrapping, we watched all THREE LOOOONG Anne of Green Gables movies. It was truly a delight for our souls. (However, I still think Lucy Maud Montgomery would be flipping over in her grave if she saw the third movie in the series! It’s missing the verbiage, scenery, flavor and sentimentality of the first two which she indeed wrote.)
There you have it. I need to go take a nap now.
OH! The scissors-through-the-chicken bag will be up Monday morning on www.bagsforzaza.blogspot.com. Bid on a bag and help bring our daughter home from Colombia!
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My Sister's Jar 
September 9, 2008 at 4:30 am |
Beautiful. When Larisa does not need the dress anymore and you begin to get the urge to use it for Zaza’s bag, cut a piece of fabric from it and place it somewhere nice on the page. Just an idea.
I live White Men Can Jump.
September 10, 2008 at 3:39 am |
What about “In your face!” I stared at the side-ways letters for the longest time trying to figure out what “sna” stood for and wondering why the a was upside-down. Doh. I think I’ll stick with sewing.