saturday antiques

We visited a super huge antique store yesterday…

here are just a few pictures from our trip.

In the alarm clock picture, my son (16 yr.old) is in the background…

I snuck a picture of him when he wasn’t looking.

The last picture is my DH & I. [...]

sunday sketch challenge from SC

Yesterday was a good day! I actually scrapbooked for a while…and I decided to try out the Sunday Sketch from Studio Calico. You can see their sketch below…and then my version… This is my son after getting his temps. I used some random keys for the masking and I think the vintage cards are [...]

…{while I was scrapping}…

While I was scrapping,

some strange things occurred. Amongst my supplies,

some stuffed toys soon appeared. Things were licked, and were sniffed, and were jostled about. Tossed this way & that way, and then soon abandoned….

…all while I was scrapping… [...]

altered board game journal

My sister’s birthday is this week and so is her yearly birthday trip to Lakeside. I had an old “Lakesideopoly” board game, (Lakeside version of Monopoly) and so I thought I would make her a journal for her trip! The sunshine is actually made from a wood self-adhesive embellishment. Most of the papers and [...]

where does time go?

I’m still around.

I started a part-time job a few months ago and am having a hard time finding time for the things I love…like scrapbooking, blogging, exercising, shopping….all of those things that I once took for granted that I would have time for…those things that I never understood when someone would say [...]

little mini

Happy Belated National Scrapbooking Day!

Incase you didn’t know, it was this past Saturday, lol.

I am typically, not a ‘cat person’, but my sister had to put her 20 year old cat, “Mini”, to sleep at the end of last week. She, of course, is going through a sad time right [...]

pancake saturdays

The last 3 weeks, there’s been a new tradition on our home.

Pancake Saturdays.

My husband makes the pancakes. (They are fabulous…thanks honey!!)

I make the coffee.

Even Chewy gets his own cute little mini pancakes.

One certain family member, has yet to crawl out of bed for his….ahhh, [...]

my shopping trip (day 2)

BEST Out-of-Town Birthday Shopping Trip EVER!

That was my day today.

My husband & son took me out of town today.

Not only that, but they took me to all of my favorite scrapbooking stores (Archivers & Michaels), Target, they let me pick lunch,(Chili’s which included FREE birthday dessert for me) [...]