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Our Lunch

Can you tell what we had for lunch!!!??? Just had to post these pics! Trenton really enjoyed his spaghetti!!! He went straight into the tub after this!!! That is kinda of obvious, eh?!

Update….

I got this great sign from my friend Jenn for my birthday and I FINALLY put it up today!!! It looks great! Thanks Jenn!!! And I’m using it to hang SOME of my ribbon {That doesn’t even compare to what I have!!! I can be a little bit of a ribbon addict!}

THIS IS WHY….

…I need my own scrapbook room!!! Look what my wonderful, darling, adorable son did tonight…I turned my back for TWO seconds…..and he found my navy blue ink pad!!!! It was ALL OVER his hands and face…..he went straight into the tub……it came off a lot easier than I thought it would!!!!!!!

What an expression, eh?!?!?!? [...]

My first time…

I went to my first Go Scrapping day crop on Saturday…..it was my birthday present from Jason and Trenton…thanks guys! I love you! It was so much fun! {My friend Jenn was in on the planning too!!! Thanks girlie!}

I was all packed and ready to go on Friday night!!! Here’s my “stash” all packed up!! [...]

Generators

If you use these cool things on your layouts…they are generators….there’s a newspaper…you create your own newspaper for your layout or card….there’s a concert ticket, cassette tape, magazine, catalogue card, and a church sign one! Here’s all the links!!!
Newspaperhttp://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp
Catalogue Cardhttp://www.blyberg.net/card-generator/
Concert Tickethttp://www.says-it.com/concertticket/
Cassette Tapehttp://www.says-it.com/cassette/index.php
Church Signshttp://www.churchsigngenerator.com/
Generators in general {scroll through the lists!}http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/11/09/online-generators/
Give ‘em a try!!!

In A Scrap Creations

I’ve been TAGGED!

I’ve been tagged by Holly and I need to come up a list of 10 songs that are my current favourites. I actually just did a layout on this last week so here goes…you’ll probably remember a lot of these!!!
Truly Madly Deeply (Savage Garden)If You’re Not the One (Daniel Bedingfield) ~ our wedding song…first danceIt’s [...]

Taste of Country Candles

I just wanted to share with you all about my sister-in-law’s and her friend’s new candle business, “Taste of Country Candles” that I am happy to be a part of. Janice and her friend Jodi are incorporating my cards, and altered items to their gift baskets. I’m so excited to be involved with two great [...]

And my birthday keeps going!!!

I got ANOTHER birthday present today! It was a good mail day today! I’m a part of a birthday swap and I got my big package today!!! I was so excited! I was expecting it this week! I got some really great stuff! Bohemia, MM, rub-ons, lots of brads and eyelets, ribbons, chipboard and some [...]

Boys Will Be Boys

I had to post this layout I did the other night at a crop….it shows how mischieveous my son really is!!! Yes, that’s my underwear around his neck!!! Don’t worry…they are clean! :0D I used a sketch for this layout; it was a challenge on www.scrapbookersclubhouse.com …and the puffy rick rack is from www.savvynsassy.com …the [...]

Steps Toward A Cure

My fellow scrapbooker Holly has decided to take on quite a challenge and participate in the Walk to End Breast Cancer September 7-9th, 2007…and is looking to reach her $2000 goal! Her mother had breast cancer in Holly’s earlier years so this cause is very close to her family. Her mother is in full remission [...]

Thank you Jenn!

My birthday gifts just keep coming!!! :0D My friend Jenn stopped by tonight to drop off my pressie!!! This is what I got!!!
I got a beautiful handmade card, a mini album by Chatterbox, my “imagine” sign, and some “cooking/recipe” inspired stickers and file folders. Thanks so much Jenn! I love it! I’m deciding where to [...]

PIF….updated

This is kinda…well, it proves that PIFs work…I was putting my coat on this morning {the one I wore to the grocery store yesterday…see previous blog!}…well, I put my hand in the pocket looking for my keys and what did I pull out but a quarter!!! I couldn’t believe it! It made me smile [...]

PIF….We’ve all heard of it

PIF….Pay It Forward…we’ve all heard of this at least once in our lifetime…I’m sure the majority of us have even seen the movie with Haley Joel Osmond in the starring role…I just want to share a couple little stories with you from my weekend…
I was working yesterday and was taking care of a customer with [...]

It’s my birthday and I’ll play if I want to!!

Hello everyone! It’s my birthday today….well, it’s almost over but I thought I’d post about my day! I had a great birthday…even though I have been celebrating since Friday!!! I already posted about my other gifts but I had to post about today’s wonderful pressies!! From Jason and Trenton, I got a ticket to the [...]

Thank you to Claudia and Michele

I forgot to post this! Thanks Claudia and Michele for my first birthday card this year! It’s great Claudia {of course she made it!!!} I love it!! Thanks!

I LOVE MY FAMILY!!!

I love my family! They know me SO well!!! It’s my birthday on Tuesday but we celebrated early because my dad left on a missions trip early this morning…and this is what I got!!!!

There’s paper, embellishments, page protectors, adhesive, stickers, and an added goodie, Tim Horton’s gift certificates!
And also in the bag from my [...]

Scraplift Challenge

I was in a challenge on the Go Scrapping website (http://www.goscrapping.ca/) and I had to choose a layout from fellow scrapbooker Erica (she was my partner)…and scraplift her idea. Here is her’s:
And here is mine:

I’m slowly getting my little brother’s wedding done layout by layout!!! I love this pic of them! And the journalling is [...]

I have the CUTEST kid!!!!!!!

I just have to say we have the cutest kid in the world!!!
He is so hard to get mad at! He makes us laugh at every turn!! Here’s the proof!!!