Baby's First

Not that I have a need for a baby page, but I kinda want to keep this for myself. I really like how the page turned out.

The DSP is old SU paper I have had for quite a while. The cardstock is Bashful Blue, Barely Banana, and Certainly Celery. Ink is SU's grey.

Where is my Mojo? If found please return.....

Well I really have no excuse. I lost my Mojo and haven't been in my studio for months. Life has just caught up with me. Work was stressful...lost my job, got my job back, got transfered to a new school, lost my job, got my job back.....it just has seemed never ending. I had no energy or desire to work in my studio. Even looking at other people's blogs, splitcoaststampers, and walking around scrapbooking stores couldn't get me motivated. Dare I even say that I have fallen behind on sending birthday cards....I even *gasp* send store bought cards to relatives this year.

It took a friends baby shower to get me back into the studio. One of our colleagues just had a baby boy, and standard practice at school is to create 12x12 baby pages for her baby book. Me, who dislikes scrapbooking pages, and prefers cards and gifts, just spent 2 hours in the studio creating this page, cause I had to. And I really enjoyed it. Hopefully this means I have found my mojo again.

Since it is so late I don't have any light for taking pictures. I really hope to upload tomorrow!!!!

Here to hoping to find my mojo again!

Life is good at the Lake

Sorry the blog has been so quite. Can you believe that it is almost the end of August? I have been really busy getting my two classrooms ready and meeting with other teachers to plan our french program. Also my uncle and his family came through for the weekend, and now we are headed off for a weekend of camping. The weather has been so crappy this summer, but it looks as if this weekend Mr. Sun is suppose to come out and visit for a change. Since it is suppose to be sunny we are bringing out cat with us. Yes a cat camping. PC loves camping. We have a zipline set up for her so she can walk around on a leash, and she also uses a dinning tent, where she lies in her carry case watching the birds, squirrels, and what not. People always give us funny looks, but she loves it.



We are headed to Blue Lake Provincial Park. It has a wonderful lake where we normally go windsurfing; however this weekend we have decided not to bother with loading it up in the truck. Here is a scrapbooking page of my DH out windsurfing a couple of years ago at the park.

Here is us at the Park a couple of years ago.

Our annual Scrapbooking Convention here is town is coming up the end of September. The theme for this years Page-Layout Contest is "Life is good at the lake". Now we live on Lake of the Woods, which is Northwestern Ontario's Muskoka. Our Lake spans all the way down to Minnesota and is home to hundreds of island with thousands of "cottages" aka Mansions. If you live here you have to love fishing, boating, swimming, anything water related. Anyways, as a result, I am sure everyone is going to have a good entry this year. I haven't entered before, but since we love the lake and doing things I thought I would try this year. So camera is charged and multiple pictures will be taken this weekend. Wish me luck that I actually capture some good shots.

Italy Scrapbook- A Work In Progress

Spent the day working on my Italy scrap book. Spent $50 printing my pictures off at Shopper's Drug Mart today. 141 4x6's and 6 8x10's. I am not scrap booking ALL the pictures...that would be insane. I purchased some 12x12 Making Memory inserts that have 6 4x6 inserts per page. (so a total of 12 to one sheet). I am using some of the 4x6 spaces to add little titles and journaling. I can't believe how many hours I have been working on it, and I am only half way finished....no wonder I have a headache.

This is a map of Rome that I cut up. I have circled all the places we went during our 9 hour walking tour the first day in Rome.

The Colosseum: I want just simple pages, nothing too overwhelming.

St. Paul's Basilica

A look at my 4x6 pages

And another.

As I said a work in progress...

Workshop Pages

Well I finally added some pictures to the pages I made at the workshop. Now remember, I love making cards, and rarely scrapbook as I don't have many pictures or reasons to take pictures. So I looked through what I did have and came up with the following.


Paper Bag Princess- This page was really girly to me, and I wasn't really sure how I could use the page. I don't have any children, wont any time soon, and wasn't sure just how to use it. But as I was looking though my pictures I came upon my cat. We treat her like our child, and she is quite spoiled. She gets whatever she wants and all the attention she wants. She is quite the little Diva...aka Princess. Now she loves bags of any kind. She especially loves the new 'green' shopping bags. She was always getting into them when we would come home from shopping that we ended up giving her one to use as a toy. She loves it. Anyways, if she happens to discover a new bag she always investigates, charges at it and dives right in. Except this day she didn't realize the bag was quite so small. I was busy putting together a game for school and she decided to dive into a small lunch paper bag, except she ended up getting her head stuck. Even though she gets into mischief she is still our little princess...so hence the paper bag princess. (As for ingredients...all were provided minus the chipboard, so I am unaware of product names)

Picnic: This page isn't quite finished. It is supposed to have stitching around the edges but I never got a chance to do it. (As for ingredients...all were provided minus the chipboard, so I am unaware of product names)

Find your Passion: Since I don't have many pictures I asked a friend to take of picture of me actually doing this page. The quote is very fitting. I was never very creative as a child, nor involved in a hobby. I was always busy with sports, but never felt passion towards anything. Now, after finding scrapin', I am in absolute love. I enjoy what I do, never feel obligated to work on it, and it helps me relax. (As for ingredients...all were provided, so I am unaware of product names)

Today was a colleagues birthday at work and I passed around this card for everyone to sign. The sentiment inside read "You can have your cake and eat it too" which was printed on vellum, mounted on hot pink paper, and two opposite corners had paper flowers with rhinestones in the center for some added bling. Even thought it doesn't look like it the paper lining for the cupcake is paper pierced using the same paper as the background.

Ingredients:

Stamps: Birthday Stamp (Wallmart)

Ink: SU Pretty in Pink; SU Bashful Blue; SU Summer Sun; black

Paper: All scraps

Accessories: Vellum sentiment; pop dots; paper flowers; rhinestones