Saturday, August 20, 2011

Is it hot or what? As I waited in the truck for Alan to drop something off at a friends house today the thermometer in the truck read 111 degree. Now, I know it was not really 111 degrees outside but it must have been close. The temp did drop to 98 once we started moving again. I am ready for Fall this year. I'll welcome the cool weather. I lived in the south all my life but that doesn't mean I like this heat.

Thinking about the heat today I decided to post this beach layout. This is a picture of my mother at Myrtle Beach around 1947. I am guessing she must have been around 20 at the time the picture was taken. She passed away last year from Alzheimer's at 82. Amazing how Alzheimer's can take away so much from a person. Love you Mom.

 

Sunday, August 14, 2011

What a busy weekend scrapbooking. Here are the layouts I made for Sweet Peach with the August kit. I am also working on a mini album that will be revealed on the Sweet Peach blog in a few weeks. I spent the evening on Friday at Archiver's with 10 friends scrapbooking. We had a really good time as always. I have a wonderful group of friends. Saturday I spent the day home alone scrapbooking. Today I spent a big portion of the day again scrapbooking. I am a slow scrapbooker so it took me two entire days to complete and finish three layouts. I don't always spend this much time but I am slow. Take care and hope you enjoy. 






Saturday, August 13, 2011

Happy Spring!

Here is the layout I made for the Sweet Peach Crop Shop blog. I worked all day on this but I think it was so worth the work. I really like how it turned out. My sweet gran daughter on her 3rd birthday flying a kite. Head over to Sweet Peach and check it out. http://www.sweetpeachcropshop.com/blog/ 




Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Elijah Oh baby of mine!

A friend of mine just became a grandmother for the first time. I remember that joy when my precious grand daughter was born so I wanted to make something special for their baby pictures. I spent an entire weekend working on this album and I was so happy with the end results. The patterned paper I used in the album came from the My Minds Eye the Lime Twist collection. I also used a mixture of embellishments from my stash. The pages are denim fabric that I ironed together using an iron on fusing and then sewed around the edges. I bought grommets from the sewing department for the holes and bound it together with binding rings. I now want to make one of these for each of my now grown sons since I never got around to making their baby books. There are so many pockets and tags in this book its fun just to flip through and see all the hidden spots.