Back again.....

What ?
Two posts in one day !
Just wanted to post a few photo's from this morning,I think it's pretty for the first 10 minutes.......


I think I might have made the resolution a little too small or can just blame blogger for the cr*ppy image.
I'm happy to report it seems to be melting.Although I have to admit it did make me feel the need to get rid of the leaves from my header :)

Whoops !

Well I had good intentions of posting last Friday but I'm not sure what happened,the day seemed to whizz by,errands and school meetings...kind of summed up the whole of last week actually.
Anyway,start of a new week and this boy.........


was very exited to finally need his winter coat and see this view this morning..........


Me,not so much.
Yes,yes,it had to come eventually but I'd quite like it to disappear and return in time for Christmas!
I was getting used to the unseasonably mild weather we were having.

I'll leave with this layout I should have posted Friday.
I normally photograph double pages together but I was feeling lazy and didn't,so excuse the dodgy merge !!!(It should click bigger)


I made this one a couple of weeks ago,hadn't made a double page for a while.

OK,I'm going to try and post everyday this week.....try :)

Upcoming weekend.....

......is going to be,nice and easy,just the way it should be !
No plans other than dinner with some friends,that should be fun since it's been way too long.

So it's Friday and I need to post a layout.
This is another from the scrap weekend.
I'm not one for added 'cute' to my pages.
But,Julie had these adorable bug Jolee's stickers that I never would have bought,mainly because I never even think to go and look at them.......


It couldn't have been more perfect for the page and nor could that BG paper that I had only just bought.
Everything Ol names,he just adds a 'e' sound to it as in 'Froggy' 'Batty' and 'Snakey' to name a few !!
So the caterpillar was 'Cattie' and the friend he found later for Cattie was called 'Pillie' so that's what this page is about,that and the fact he's so desperate for a pet he spent the day tending to caterpillars !

Have a good weekend :)

Layout

Thursday afternoon already...........

I finished this one the other day but only just got around to photographing it.
It's for the challenge this week at the American Crafts blog.

I only had paper from that line but I did use 3 pieces of it........


American Crafts Supplies:
Paper....Junior Line.......'We're number 1 !' 'Boom !' 'Radical !'
Thickers...................Rootbeer Float
Rub-ons....................Lauren
Sticker....................Remarks Journaling Book 2

Other supplies: Cardstock....Bazzill

Back tomorrow with another layout.

Easy weekend ahead

Yep,nothing really planned for this weekend.
The only 2 things that must get done are clearing the last of the leaves and getting my car into the garage,which always involves some clever maneuvering of 'stuff' ! !

On our way home last week we took a detour to Merrickville,what a lovely little town it is too.Turns out it was quite a detour,good job my husband loves me !! I'd found a store that sold barn stars,large ones....I've been on the hunt for a while.
So now this is attached to my house.........


and I love it :)

Since it's Friday and I'm trying to get back into posting a layout on Fridays here's a page from the crop the other weekend.......


I could have easily thrown this page away a number of times during it's creation.I was completely stuck on using that quote because it was so fitting for Ad and the star paper.
In fact if I had been home it would have been put on the 'to be finished....never pile' !!
Good job I wasn't as it turned out to be one of my favourites.

Time for a layout !

I created this one for the American Crafts blog challenge this week.
Create a fall layout using 2 or more AC products.
Which meant I got to use my all time favourite Autumn stripe paper .......


American Crafts Supplies:
Paper.......Merrymint 'Fudge' and The Goods 'Pumpkin Pie'
Thickers....Daydream
Rub-ons.....Hildi
Felt Flowers
Red and Yellow Brads in flowers

other Supplies:
cardstock...Bazzill,Photo Corners...Scenic Route,Brads...Heidi Swapp,Making memories and Unknown.

Oh and if it looks familiar it's because it's a lift of this one I made way back in January :)

Monday

I like Mondays like this one.
It's 11.30 and I've already done 2 loads of washing,3rd load is waiting to go in the dryer.
Tidied away all the stuff we took with us this weekend.
Made 3 of the 6 phone calls I need to make this week (after having to deal with severely lacking customer service people,I cut it short at 3,I could take no more !!).
Filled 10 huge leaf bags,which was actually enjoyable because it is beautiful out there today,lovely and warm.

So I think it's time to make a batch of cookies,have lunch while catching up on some some blog reading and maybe a little scrapping.

We went to see Craig and Nic and the boys this weekend,who seem to be settling in nicely out in the woods in Ontario !!
Nic and I ran a ton of errands on Saturday which left the men busy building a school bus shelter and cutting down trees....manly stuff :)
I barely took any photo's,although I took a few when we went for a little walk along the road before breakfast on Sunday.
These 2 are my favourites for different reasons......


I've been wondering if I have a focusing issue with my camera but I think sometimes I just rush a little.
I am aware I'm often trailing behind or trying to capture a child who would rather be doing something else !
I took my time Sunday and most were good.


The sun was in front of us coming back,I'm aware I have the pink sunspot blaring in there but I like it.

The weekends nearly here !

I'm looking forward to it too,should be a fun one.

It's been a good week.
I've been volunteering at the English library at the school(more of a cupboard than a library but it's better than nothing )and it's the only thing I can help out with since my French is useless :)
I got my hair cut/dyed,that felt good because it was waaaaaaaaaay overdue I was going to let my fringe(bangs)grow out since they got so long but I caved at the very last minute and got them short again.
Dealt with one sick son,who seems to be better now.
And I got the house organised some more and found some time to scrap.

Which leads me to this layout.
Which is a complete lift of the one I posted last Friday.
Why ? because I'm lazy and I liked it :)
Plus these picture have been sitting around since February and needed to be scrapped....


The colours are off,I tried my best in PS to correct them,the greens all match irl.

It feels good to be scrapping again,I did so little over the summer.
I just went to tally up what I had actually made,this year so far.To add to my running total,which at the end of May was 42 pages.
In June I made 6,July 1....1 guess July was busy !! August 3,September 2 and October 8,which brings the total to 62 layouts so far.

While I'm talking numbers,I'll leave you with the fact it's only 49 days until Christmas :) and yes I have already started my shopping !

Another.......

Halloween layout for the AC blog challenge.
Well I couldn't do one without the other,could I ?!
This one did look like this in my head :)
The bazzill edge strip is pop dotted.
My favourite colour combo.....


American Craft Supplies:
Paper.......Halloween 'Midnight' Travel 'Itinerary'
Thickers....Subway
Rub-ons.....Minimarks 'Lauren' 'Christmas Book 1'
Foam star

Other Supplies:Cardstock/Edge...Bazzill,Mini Letter Stickers...Carolee Creations,Brad...Dollarama

Be back tomorrow with another layout..non Halloween related

Layout !

Wow,I'm really good about getting photo's printed quickly but I never seem to scrap them until a long time after.
Not this week...I just finished up 2 Halloween 2009 pages with the help of this weeks challenge on the American Crafts blog :)
This one's Ad's and didn't look like this in my head but that often happens.
I had to make the question mark out of a K,the only letter that would work :)
The house is pop dotted and I added all the little star type rub-ons behind it.
I haven't exactoed (I know that's not a word)anything for a while,so it felt good to do that again.......


American Crafts Supplies:
Paper.......Halloween 'Wicked' 'scream' 'haunted'
Thickers....Jewelry Box
Rub-ons.....Minimarks 'Celebration Book 2'

Other supplies:Cardstock/edge...Bazzill,Mini Letter Stickers...Making Memories

Weekend Recap

Well we did everything we set out to do and more so that always feels good.
We spent most of Saturday afternoon carving pumpkins.
Ad made a cyclops,Ol wanted traditional and I got one that was beginning to go off.So I did what I did a couple of years ago faced with the same situation..........stars !!


Luckily it stopped raining in time for the boys to go out trick or treating,the sun tried to come out but since it was late,it gave off a weird light but at least it meant I got some pictures.


I stayed home to hand out treats but we only had 2 sets :(
Most of the kids around here have grown up and we are off the main street,so not a big surprise but we normally get more than 2 visits.
It does means I got left with a bowl full of chocolate,sitting there,looking at me....next year I'm buying peanut butter type candy and then there will be no temptation to scoff it all !!

Adam decided he wanted to be a dead baseball player ??!?! and Ol was a devil.....


I hate that mask,I only bought it to copy for face painting but at the last moment he decided he wanted the mask and not face paint.I didn't argue since we'd already had a back and forth about horns and a tail and I'd won that one :)

I've got a couple of pages on the go,so hopefully back in the next day or two with those.