Monday, November 15, 2010

Thankful is a state of mind...

It has been fluville here at our house this week so while I am not thankful for cleaning out "puke bowls", wiping little bums or the avalanche of soiled laundry I am thankful that I am crafty enough to keep us sane!
Give Thanks wooden blocks for the fire place mantel
THANKFUL banner for the kitchen I used Monika of i love it all free printable that can be found in this post thankful :: ideas, projects and free downloads and punched the letters out with a circle punch instead of making a pennant banner
A close up
Gobble Gobble Gobble
Our turkey's...
A close up of the twinkies pine cone & pipe cleaner creations
A close up of Mommy's block and mini painter sticks creation
We've been working on Christmas ornaments for another post too!

December Daily 2010

Just like last year my December Daily is 6 x 8 and goes from November 26th (the day the tree goes up) through December 25th.
Unlike last year I stuck with a "set" instead of a random grab of any and all Christmas papers and embellishments that I had on hand. Just for something different.
This years DD is made up of Scenic Route's Roxbury Collection papers, Cosmo Cricket's Jolly by Golly papers, stickers and chipboard elements and Elle's Studio Christmas Journaling Tags, Holiday Story Tags, Christmas Tiny Tags, Christmas Journaling Circles and Vintage Mix & Match Numbers.
The cover
Nov 26th-all set and ready for a vertical 4 x 6 shot of the tree!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

A glance back at summer...

...through my Summer in the life album, I won't even call it a "mini" this thing is huge!
It is 5 x 7 but I went a little bananas and I have "stuff" (because yes I included every single scrap of our summer in here) sticking out of the top, the bottom and the side! I LOVE it! Honestly our summer was bananas-it was the twins first summer vacation from school and we jammed it packed with so much why should my "mini" be any different!
So here is a look at a few pages-by golly it's not even half of them!

Posing in front of the green screen produced this pic at our trip to the aquarium-season passes came in handy to beat the heat this summer! The hidden tag has journaling about our visit.
Father's Day at First Landing State Park (excuse this horrible pic-the real life pic they are not anywhere near that darkened out!)
Ocean Breeze Water Park the postcard has journaling on the back
I ordered a 4 x 6 collage print from Walgreen's just to include several photo's from our day
Swimming at the Y
Ice cream social at the library-the cones were their name tags-I glued them front to back and punched them in
Chuck E Cheese on July 3rd with pals while waiting for the fireworks-had to include one of many of these "sketches" we got that night
Don't tell my kids I stole a couple of tickets!
Keeping cool by the pool
This has been called our retro Three's Company pic because of the various 1970's shades of pool wear at Water Country USA
Summer wreath pic is "matted" on the packaging from those little button paper clips!
Bringing some "twinkies" cheer to our injured hero "fire fighter girl"
Braden hits the jackpot!
Aquabatics at Water Country USA & Daddy's new work "toy"
Date night
$ Tree had four rolls of BRIGHT sticky tape-I had to scoop them up they were perfect for journaling in this album
This is hard. Our family lost a very young member after a courageous battle with cancer. Three battles with cancer in his three short years. We were unable to head to NY to attend the services so we released a Sponge Bob (Drake's favorite) balloon in honor of him.
Like me my kids haven't met a mall photo booth they don't like! They can spot them miles away! I put in the mall directory because I figure even just a year from now there will be major changes-there is always is.
Our favorite place on earth! Great Wolf Lodge-end of summer trip there to meet up with the boys grandparents-another Walgreen's photo collage
Final date night of the summer-Cinema Cafe...you can enjoy a movie and a drink at the same time!

Monday, November 8, 2010

Fall in photo's...

I've been busily documenting our FALL in the fall mini kit I won of Monika's from i love it all
She has an Etsy shop with all kinds of goodies!
Here are a few shots that I have piled up to include:
Pumpkin picking at Brookdale Farms...
An afternoon at Hunt Club Farm with our pals (I'm the Mommy in the middle)
Connor posing at White's Nursery
Braden posing at White's Nursery
My favorite three on the boys class trip(s) to Hunt Club Farms
Mommy & her boys (in their sei lifestyle My Own Monster tee's) at Hunt Club Farm
I met Connor's classmate-Addison-the girl who has stolen my boys hearts!
Pumpkin picking at Hunt Club
Our pumpkins: the ghost, Frankenstein, a monster & a bat
Sadly 'Frank" didn't survive the Virginia heat wave. We traced an awful smell to a large puddle forming around him and the boys exclaimed he had stinky pee and needed to go!
Treat bags for classmates: play-doh, activity books, pencils, glow sticks and "pumpkin (cheese ball) filled hands
Medal ceremony-final soccer game of the season
"Frank" the 2nd
Luigi & Mario
The monogram "D" I replaced my Halloween rag-a-muffin wreath with on Nov 1st