Today....

was rainy and gloomy all morning and then the sun popped out! Thank goodness!

I have a funny story to share.....This evening when Noah was unloading the dishwasher (yes, he does that at 5 1/2) he held up the apple/potato peeler and said, "Where does this skinner go?" I cracked up laughing....skinner....makes sense, it does skin potatoes and things now doesn't it?!

My 200th Page This Year!

Here it is.....My goal for the year was 200 pages. I made it and it's only September! I used Base Camp for the title and George and Accent Essentials for the flowers. This picture was taken on Easter this year.

Flooding!

It's amazing how the effects of Hurricane Ike can reach a 1000 miles away! This is a picture of our front yard. Well, our "side" yard really.

We took this picture out the window of the car this morning as we were going to church. All that water goes under our driveway. It's just a different angle of the same water from the top picture.

Noah's First Day

So, yeah, I know it's been a few weeks since the first day of school but I've been busy. Life has been been one busy moment after another!! Anyway, this is Noah on the first day of kindergarten. He is loving it. He is beginning to read simple books (and I mean simple, like "I see the _____.") and is learning all about the 5 B's. Be kind, safe, cooperative, respectful and responsible. He will let you know when you aren't following them, too!! So you better mind your B's around Noah! LOL!

Easter Egg Hunt Page

I made this page for Chloe's book. It didn't take too long (well, aside from getting the kids in the bath). I didn't use my Cricut on this page. The letters are Heidi Swapp chipboard.

I did a page today!

This page is a 2nd page to a LO I created Thursday. I did it in response to DailyScrapper's challenge. (See her blog here http://abusyplace.blogspot.com/ ) She got me motivated today. I used Mini Monograms for the scallop and Storybook for the flowery flourish in the corner. The butterfly was made using the Cuttlebug. Oh, I used Stickles on the center of the scallopy flower.

Look Cari!

Guess what came in the mail today....yep, you guessed it. The kids were so excited to get their packages. Thank you so much. You are a fantastic friend. We love you and miss you and Chris and the kids. Tell the kids hi and give them hugs and kisses for us.

Just Because Card

Here is a card I created thanks to the Daily Scrapper and her blog. The challenge was to make a card using black and white, ribbon and of course my Cricut. I used TBBM to make the tag and Storybook to cut the big black frame with flowers. It is using Frame and shift "L". The "just because" is a rub on from Stampin' Up! I added a little bling in the top corner and inked the edges with the Charcoal chalk ink pad. It's a very simple card but I really like it!

Gully Washer

After a bit of stress today, I decided I needed to head up to the scrap room and create something. Here is a super quick page I created from 1999 when I went to Six Flags Houston. I used Doodletype for the title and Home Accents for the swirly using my good ol' Cricut Expression.

A Day at the Zoo

I went yesterday to the zoo with my good friend, Cheri and her son. We had a good time...once Noah rode the train. He wasn't agreeable about doing anything until we rode the train.

Latest Layouts!

Supplies: Paper MME and cardstock from Bazzill, Edge punch from Fiskars, Journal stamp and swirl from Autumn Leaves, and Title was cut from Jasmine cartridge.

Supplies: Swirl cut from Graphically Speaking cartridge, Journal stamp from Autumn Leaves, circle cut from George cartridge, and the title is made from Basic Grey stickers. Paper is MME and cardstock is Bazzill.

Supplies: The title is cut from Graphically Speaking, journal stamp and swirls (stamped on the circles) from Autumn Leaves and the circles are cut from George. Paper is MME and cardstock is Bazzill.

Supplies: The title is cut from Graphically Speaking. The paper is MME and cardstock is Bazzill. The journal stamp is Autumn Leaves.

I used the new Graphically Speaking cartridge for "Play" and scalloped circle, Home Accents for the swirls, and Storybook cartridge for the title. Paper is from MME.

I used a Quikutz die to make the scallop out of felt. The circle stamps are from Sandylion and the date stamp is from Autumn Leaves.

Supplies: The title and arrow are cut from Graphically Speaking cartridge, the circle is cut from George, paper is MME, brown and yellow ribbon is Basic Grey, and the yellow paint is MM.

Stamps are from Stampin' UP! and the paper is MME. The title was cut with Mini Monograms, the flowers were cut with George and the flourishes are Autumn Leaves.

This page was completed as part of a challenge group I just joined. The 5 mesh is cut from Graphically Speaking, the swirl is from Fancy Pants (Fresh Mod set) and the flowers are primas.

Had to cover the faces of these 2 who were so anxiously awaiting cake!

Supplies:

Paper-MME

Cartridges-Alpalicious

Threading water punch-Fiskars

Flowers-Prima

Ribbon-Basic Grey

Stamp-Autumn Leaves
Brads-MM

Supplies:

Threading Water Punch-Fiskars

Chipboard photo turns-Basic Grey

Flowers-Prima

Brad-MM

Paper-MME

Glitter-Sugar coating Doodlebug

Supplies: I used flowers by prima, Ribbon by Basic Grey, brads-MM, journal stamp-Autumn Leaves.

"Love 2 Scrap" supplies: Bohemia and MME papers, Bazzill CS. I used Fabulous Finds, Alphalicious, and Storybook cartridges from my Cricut. I also used Heidi Grace rub-ons, Primas,

Brads by MM, and Date Stamps by Autumn Leaves.

Scrapfest with Jan

Well, I'm on the tail end of a 5 day Scrapfest with Jan. I have completed 18 12x12 layouts. Not as many as I wanted to complete but not bad considering we went shopping and exercised every day. I'll publish some pictures later.

Beauty gets BUSTED!

Here is a layout I did at Jan's house. I added the journaling after I took the picture. Chloe got into my fingernail polish in my bathroom while I was sleeping and painted her toes, yes her TOES! She got it on the floor and carpet so I made her clean it up! I used my new Storybook Cricut cartridge on the letters "Beauty" and the pink swirly.

My Princess and Prince

I cut out some crowns from my new Storybook cartridge for the kids to color and I could scrapbook at the same time. They had a great time coloring them and didn't want to take them off for bed!

What a Whopper!

Ed went fishing yesterday (while I played basketball and Noah got hurt). He caught this monster of a bass! He guessed that it weighed near 7 pounds! This is his biggest bass ever...so you know it will have to go in the scrapbook.

Noah's Fall...

at church resulted in an extremely nasty head wound. We heard him crying from across the room and Tim ran across the gym, which made me realized Noah was seriously hurt. All I saw was blood all over his eye socket and running down his face and onto his shirt. Thank goodness his Uncle Tim was there! He squeezed the gash closed and sent me for a wet cloth to wipe him off. We dashed off (which quickly ended our basketball game) and headed to Tim's shop for some closure strips (or something like that). Then we went next door to Grandma's house while Grandma and Uncle Tim doctored him up. He looks pretty good considering the size of that gash. Now my poor boy will have an ugly scar in his forehead. :( But at least he didn't lose an eye!

Precious

I got my new Storybook Cricut cartridge today and I am super excited. So I quickly created this page using it. I cut the "P" at 2" and "recious" at .8". The bottom pick scallop thingy is from hitting shift "I" on blackout.

I also completed this for **Snoflak**'s challenge to follow a sketch and I used pinks.

I'm off....

to a crop today with one of the girls from church....I can't wait!!! I will post some creations when I get back.

Love that pout

Here is a page I copied from the CK magazine August 08 on page 110. This is Noah on Jan. 8, 2008. He was pouting about something....don't remember now what it was.

Pout-Alphalicious cartridge

Heart-George

Turquoise scallop-Plantin welded with DS

Why

I had a little bit of time before going to a BBQ today so I ran up to the scrap room and created this really quickly.

Jan's challenge:

use notebook paper, ledger paper or graph paper

use chipboard letters

use tags

use photos randomly pulled from my stack

I used Heidi Swapp chipboard letters, Fiskars threading water punch (on a piece of scrap paper that had some stamping on it....looks cool!) and the Basic Grey Blush line.