Tuesday, June 30, 2009

I had time.............

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I was surprised that I had time to work on a couple of layouts over the weekend. This one is a couple of old school photos.I used some Daisy D's papers and punched
flowers from Rusty Pickle and Creative Imaginations papers and a Scenic Route arrow.

This layout was done with a new paper pack by Prima. I really like how it turned out!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

A few layouts done in May

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I am finally getting around to posting a few layouts I finished in May before our re-do on my scraproom. The first one is a picture of me with my grandson, Levi, which was taken after a day at our county fair (thus the reason for the frazzled hairdo). We were watching an evening performance of John Michael Montgomery and Levi couldn't stay awake.
You can click on any of the pictures to enlarge them so you can see more detail.

The next two layouts are two of my grandsons' school pictures from 2003. Yeah; I'm just a little behind on my photos! lol

Titanic exhibit

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My oldest daughter and two of her three boys took me to see the Titanic Exhibit in Milwaukee on Mother's Day. It was a wonderful exhibit and if you are even a little bit interested in the history of that fateful ship, I encourage you to see the exhibit if it comes to a sight near you. We weren't able to get photos inside the exhibit, but they take a photo of your group before you enter and at the end you are able to chose one of several backgrounds (we selected the grand staircase) and purchase copies. I was able to use it and our "boarding passes" and some photos I found on the internet of items that are in the exhibit to create this three page layout. The papers I used are some VERY old ones I've had for a long time. And I don't even know who they are by because there was no identification on them. But they were perfect for these pages (they look like rusty old metal).
I used two of the boarding passes on the last page so you can see both sides. Each of us received one upon entering and the pass tells the statistics of one of the passengers that was on the ship (age, sex, married or single, adult or child, which class they were traveling in, etcl). At the end of the exhibit you could find your
"passenger" to see if they died that day or were one of the survivors. I also stitched a clear pocket onto the second page to hold the brochure that we received.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Where have I been???

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I know it's been AGES since I've posted anything. I was surprised that some people even NOTICED! Well, I can finally show what I've been doing and why I haven't had
any new art to post.
We are replacing windows in three rooms of our house; including one in my scraproom.
Since I had to move most of my storage out of the room to do that, I decided to do a
complete makeover. I pulled everything out of the room (which you will see was quite a job in itself when you look at how much stuff I have in the room) and paint first. Since the color of most of my storage accessories is a lime green, I decided to go with turquoise for the walls. After painting, we put in a new laminate floor. My hubby and I did this ourselves. We were surprised at how easy and quick it was once we figured out what we were doing. Of course, when the flooring was in all of the old baseboards looked so shabby that we decided to replace those too! And finally we
put in the new window and then I was able to move everything back in. I've put the after pictures right below the before photos.


The black media tower just DIDN'T work any more! It was too wide for the spot for one thing, and everything else is white. I looked all over (internet, office supply stores, home improvement stores) and finally found this white cabinet in another room of the house!




I painted an old spice rack white and attached it to the wall in the closet to hold my paint bottles.








If you look closely, you'll see a framed layout below the large "S" on the wall by my desk. This layout is one that was published.


I hope you've enjoyed touring my new scraproom. I do want to put in track lighting yet, but that will have to wait for now.
Hopefully now I'll be able to start creating some new layouts and cards now and will post more often.