No More Rain

I like rainy Sundays as much as the next person but this has got to stop.  It poured on Easter Sunday and this past Sunday it poured again.  It's April and we got over 2 inches of rain.  That just doesn't happen in April were I live most years.  We are so over saturated with rain I don't think my yard is ever going to dry out.

But I will say this, at 5 pm Sunday afternoon hubby was outside BBQing (Thank God for a covered patio) and called for me to come out there.  When I got out there this is what I saw.

And that made our rainy Sunday perfect!!

I am hoping that was our last Sunday like that but I am thinking Mother Nature has other ideas cause they are already talking more rain this weekend.  I am beginning to feel like we live in Washington instead of California.

How's your weather been?  Normal for this time of year?  Let me know I am not alone :)

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C

Easter Treats!!

I love holidays - always have always will but as my kids have gotten older and are now grown up I always have that internal struggle of "should I or shouldn't I" of doing Easter baskets and Christmas stockings. And in the end the part of me that loves the holidays wins and I end up doing them. But it seems always at the last minute. And this Easter was no different.

The day before Easter I decided that yes my kids still need Easter baskets even if they are grown adults. So off I went to Target hoping there was still some good stuff left in the stores.

Once I got home I had to decide what I was going to put everything in. Last year I did chocolate bunnies for everyone with just one basket full of candy - but I didn't like that.

So I got out my Tags, Bags, Boxes and More Cricut cartridge and cut out 6 of the nut cups as big as I could make them. Next I found some Easter patterned paper, a lacy punch, my cuttlebug and embossing folders and came up with these. They held just enough goodies for everyone and looked a little more grown up on the table.





Here are some close up of them:

I think they came out rather cute for a last minute idea. And everyone was happy to get them along with their chocolate bunnies. And it was so nice that I had all the supplies I needed right here in my scrap room. That's one of the pluses to having a lot of stuff :)
However, I have decided that no more last minute holiday projects. I like doing Easter baskets and stockings at Christmas and I am not going to fight it anymore. So I've already started on what I want to do at Christmas this year.
I hope that all of you had a fun Easter and also got a chocolate bunny or Easter basket.
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C

Scrapbook Expo

This is probably my most favorite part of March!! Getting to spend a weekend with my sister and niece. They live in another state and we don't get to see each near enough. I really miss having my sister around.

They came down and spent the weekend with us to go to Scrapbook Expo with Kendall and I. We had a great time and picked up lots of deals. Although I was kinda surprised to see so many Dollar booths this year at the expo. But I guess with the economy the way it is, dollar items sell better. I didn't buy as much as I usually do but I had a hard time justifying spending money when I already have a room full of stuff to use. I am bummed because I guess I totally missed some great deals in the SEI booth. When I went by there the line was sooooo long and I had already been trapped in one booth. Oh well there is always another Expo.

One of the things that I love doing at the Expos is taking classes. We don't really have any where close by to take classes and I love learning new techniques. And one of my all time favorite companies is Boxer Scrapbook Productions http://www.boxerscrapbooks.com/, so I signed up for their "Princess Puppy and people too." class. Because I have a princess (Maggie May) that needs an album about her.

The great thing about Boxer's classes is the class kit that you get for a small class fee. It's always an awesome kit with lots of extras for other projects.




For some reason Kendall and I weren't as prepared for this class as we should have been so we didn't get much done but their kits always have great colored instructions to take home. So I need to finish that up and get Maggie's pictures in it. I might have to order another kit and make an album of Wyatt too.

It was sad to have my sister and niece leave on Sunday but I so enjoyed having them here for a little while.

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C

John Reed Crop Day

Every year Kendall and I attend a crop for a local school. And I must say that the ladies that put it on make it better and better every year. And I love support our local events.

This is what my car looked like cause I waited until the last minute to get things together which basically meant I had to take my whole scrap room with me.

Kendall and I met that morning at Starbucks for coffee and breakfast, which is always yummy! And then headed over to the crop.

Now I am the type of scrapper that loves to have lots of room to spread out on and with this crop we got 6 ft of table space....HEAVEN!!!

Plus look at all the goodies that were waiting for us at our spaces.

After several trips to the car and chatting with a couple of friends that meet us there it was time to get some scrapping done. I am still working on our Disney trip from 2 years ago and am really hoping to have it finished this year but who knows...:)

Here are the layouts that I did get done for it at the crop.

Don't you just love the stars on the Star Wars layout. I found those in the party aisle at Target for $1.99 and they were just what I needed for that page.

I think my favorite one is the Haunted Mansion, everything just worked for that page.

And this is the layout that I did for my hubby cause he really does support me in my hobby.

Did I mention that they always have a wonderful raffle at this crop and this year was not exception. I ended up winning a basket full of goodies.

All in all it was a wonderful day filled with time spent with Kendall, scrapping and friends.

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C

Time to Catch Up!!

Wow, what a busy time the past month has been. I have been to a Scrapbook crop, a scrapbook convention, totally remodeled my living room and hosted Easter at our house.

To say that I am ready for break is an understatement. :) But I promise to catch you up with all of the things that I've done in the past month and post pictures.

But first I have to share something really yummy! Do you like coconut? If you do you will love these. The only place that I have been able to find them is our 7-11 store and at $1.05 a package they are a rare treat.

Keep checking back this week for all the things I've been up to in the month of March!!

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C

Cleaning and Purging

Well I think that I am finally done.....cleaning and purging anyway. I have been slowly but surely going through things since I redid my room and getting rid of stuff that has just been hanging around. It took me a while to get over the guilt of getting rid of stuff that I used hard earned money to buy. But once I got past that it felt really good to get rid of stuff. Now mind you even with everything that I got rid of I could still open my own mini scrapbook store with whats left. :)

And the really nice part is this coming Saturday is an annual crop that I go to with Kendall and they have a table for people to leave things they aren't using anymore and find new goodies that someone else is done with. So here is what I leaving on the table this weekend.

Even after getting rid of 2 inches of patterened paper I still have a huge drawer stuffed full of it. I only kept the stuff I love...:)

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C

It's Finally Done!

Have you every had one of those projects that just sits around on your desk that you just can't complete no matter what??? Well I've had one of those project sitting here for about 6 months. It started out as one thing - a really cute picture frame album that I wanted to finish before I found a new job last year. It was suppose to go on my desk and instead of a bunch of different pictures of the family, they would all be together in a mini album on an acrylic frame ( I know hard to picture). I saw it over in the 2Peas gallery. Well that didn't work out so well, my picture frame kept falling over. Then I got a new job and I have no room on my desk for any pictures whats so ever (bummer). And yet the this project sat there unfinished, taking up space on my scrap table, looking like this.....

I didn't have the heart to just give up and trash it all, so I decided I would just make it into a mini family album for my new scraproom. And then I had problem after problem trying to get this thing done. When I started this project I was using my laptop to edit the pictures with Picture It (which I love) and then I moved rooms and started using the desktop which has Vista (which I am not so fond of) and no picture editing software. So I had to transfer the last few pictures that I needed to the laptop, hook my photo printer up to it and get the pictures. Then when it was all done I had to figure out how to bind it. I went through several different ways, binder rings, huge brads, ribbon and so on before I look down and there was my little dust covered bind it all. Worked like a charm.

So now that you've heard the whole story of my little mini album let me share some pictures of. I made the covers to match my scraproom and I planning on getting a stand for it and having it out.

So what started out to be a simple frame for my desk turned in to a cute mini family album for my scraproom. I love it.

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C