Friday !

Popping in for a quick post.
It has been wonderful and sunny all week.
What a treat for the first week of March.

I actually scrapped 2 pages this week,although this isn't one of them...

I made this one last weekend.I've been dying to use that tartan paper !

That's it,all I have for today :)

Monday

New week.
New month.

The Olympics are over and I watched way more of it than I thought I would.
I got totally sucked in to all of it except the cross country stuff,that just seems like torture on 2 legs !
As for the Canada V US hockey game yesterday....I had to walk away on a couple of occasions...nail biting.
14 gold medals...Way to go Canada :)

I fully intended to post Friday but we had crazy windy weather and my power was off and on all day.
So another month over for my 365 photo challenge,some of my favourites in my header.
I am slowly getting back into scrapping again.
The roll of January didn't last into February.
I'm feeling stuck in a rut.
Anyway,these are 2 from last weekend I made using my 365 photo's from January,Ad's...

and Ol's...

Used the same sketch just flipped it,I'm so lazy !

Well it's spring break here and we've a few things planned but hopefully I'll have a new page or two to show on Friday.

Mmmmmmmmmm !!

Blogging et moi do not seem to be getting along in 2010.
I apologize,since I do believe some people actually do read it !!!!!
No real reason why.
Life's just plodding along.
Every one's fine and dandy.
I was actually surprised to wake up to a few inches of snow today...fancy that,snow in Quebec,in winter,who'd have thought ;)

No scrapbook pages to share but hopefully next week as I have scrapping on the agenda this weekend.

I do have a few cards to share since February is full of birthdays.....


and these 2...

I actually pulled out the ribbon box....it was rather dusty,sitting up on that top shelf.
And this one...


Which leads me nicely into this,which i think I will try and scrap this weekend...
My photo from Monday,it was a slight cheat being 12 instead of 1 but I don't consider that really cheating !
My 365 photo a day project is still going strong although I am longing for spring for some new inspiration.
I want to try and get a photo each month of my boys,to compare them all at the end of the year...


Ad is my reluctant subject at the moment so I was glad to catch this one when he came home from school this week...although I'm sure he could have pulled that hat down further !

Oh and thank you Moe for your lovely comment :)

It's Fridaaaaaay !

A quick pop in,while I drink my coffee.
I've an Ikea bookcase to build and frames to be filled with photo's...yes,nearly a year later and I am trying to finish up Ad's room.
I was good too yesterday on my Ikea trip..only bought what was on my list,nothing else slipped in the cart...amazing !

Fairly quiet weekend planned here,a few jobs around the house need seeing to.
Ad's off skiing with friends tonight and won't be home until tomorrow.

I made a couple more layouts this week...

Another one starting off using just the BG sticker sheet...ended up adding some other bits though.No journaling since it will be with my other Halloween pages that say it all really,I just liked the pictures !

Excuse the cr*ppy merge here I'm too lazy to do it again !

It should click bigger.I'm catching up with photo's from the summer.I have actually added journaling to this one,along the bottom,I wasn't going to too but after looking at it on the computer decided I should.

OK well I got a batch of photo's from Costco yesterday so hopefully I'll get some more scrapping done this weekend,got to keep that roll going.

Coming soon...hopefully!

Regular blogging!
I just haven't been in the mood to blog.
Nothing worth sharing...just everyday run of the mill stuff.
No scrapping has taken place.
So I'll post the remaining unseen ones from last year.
One I started on NSD last May....

An older one for Ad's album...need to start working on this again.

One from October...


And this one that I started back in October but didn't finish up until December...

Which looks really washed out for some reason.

Hopefully I'll have something new to share next week.

Well it's a cold fresh morning out there and I think,perhaps,just maybe the sun may shine today........at last!

Can we...

...just an an itsy bitsy show of sunshine.
I dislike snow.
I dislike freezing temperatures.
The only thing that gets me through winter is the sun and blue skies.
Neither of which I have seen for days.
It makes me grumpy :)

I am so far enjoying taking my photo a day...despite the lack of sun.

The boys finally went back to school yesterday and I've played catch up on errands/groceries/cleaning ever since.
Nothing much happening this weekend and nothing wrong with that at all.
Most likely some skiing for the boys.
We also heard a friend is in town,who we haven't seen since we left the UK,so that should be fun,catching up.

I haven't scrapped.
I have been backing up photo's though.
Whilst doing that I found some layouts from last year I never posted.
So I'll post a couple of those since I have nothing new to share...


Super simple one.
I'd been wanting to get this story down for a long time.
Title says it all really !
That was Ol's reaction when he finally got the frog back in his possession.
It's a long story.
With a happy ending......thank goodness.
We have not lost the frog since !!

This one has pictures from '08...


It was in the October issue of BHG and was one of my favourites from last year.

OK thats all I have for today.

Hello 2010 !

The last 2 weeks have just flown by.
It's been nice and relaxing with lots of time for just the 4 of us.
The only busy thing we did was drive to Craig and Nic's Christmas morning to spend a few days.....first time we have spent Christmas with any family members for 4 years.
The weather was kind of weird and not the greatest to get out and about in,which is a shame when there is so much to explore.
Michael and Brad got quads for Christmas,so Ad and Ol had a little go on those.
I even had a go,kind of fun,but Nic has the photo evidence of that.

We did see a couple of porcupines up a tree and plenty of tracks of various other wildlife !
We walked out to the swamp,which was being to freeze over,lots of stuff to take pictures of !!
Since then we've taken it easy.
Boys have seen a few friends,been skating and sledging.
New years eve was just the four of us,sushi dinner and movies.

I'm not one for making resolutions or any of that kind of thing but I am definitely going to make even more use of my time this year.
Spend it wisely.
I feel towards the end of last year I wasted a lot of time.
All in all I am looking forward to 2010.

Anyway it feels good to get all the Christmas stuff down.
That prompted a grand old tidy up and clear out yesterday that has been continuing today.
That has of course left a huge expanse of wall in my dining room that I have to find a cheap solution for !
The boys are still off school until Thursday.....then I can get back to completing my long overdue sofa covers and cushion making in peace.

I haven't scrapped since before Christmas and not sure there will be time this week either but I am dying to get back into it....so many photo's just waiting.
I also need to sort out my albums.
I will post this 8x8 double page,one of 3 I made for Patti's birthday album...

I do intend to try and continue to post a layout every Friday.

I have also decided to do the 365 photo challenge,I'm posting those on flickr.
To keep it interesting for me I'm going to include a few simillar things each week.
I'm sure there will be photo's I love and photo's I hate but it's all about learning and trying to improve.

2 more sleeps 'til Christmas !!

That's the countdown I get from Ol every morning.
I don't know why every year I am surprised by how fast Christmas actually comes around.
The boys finished school yesterday and very happy they are about that :)
I have everything bought and wrapped and very happy I am about that :)
Oliver still believes in Santa but I have a feeling this may be the last year...his logical brain is ticking away....to be honest I'm surprised he's believed for this long.
Anyway,this is last years Christmas day page,recently finished !!



Our tree hunt wasn't successful this year....

Seems the next few years the tree farm will be low on trees to cut,so that may be the end of that tradition for us.
It was such a dark day.
It started snowing not long after these pictures.
The boys entertained them selves with snowball fights while I said no to a dozen or more tree's.
The someone got bored !!

So they wasted the time making snow angels until the tractor came to take us back.
We ended up driving back here and getting one from our grocery store !!
It's not as big as usual but I'm happy about that...easier to decorate.

My good friend Patti has a special birthday today.
I have pages we made for an album for her but they will have to wait until another post as I need to merge them !!
We went for dinner last night to celebrate.....for once not hampered by a snow storm as so often happens when we plan a get together of any kind.
I can leave you with the card I made for her though...


Back tomorrow with a layout for this weeks AC challenge.

Lots to say...

...but no time to say it :)

Hopefully here Wednesday,complete with a few new pages....because despite everything else I have found a little time to scrap :)

This weekend.

In a list,because it's been a while....

• Movie night (Ol's pick this week) and home made pizza tonight.
• Time for our annual Christmas tree hunt(hoping it's more successful than last year)
• More baking,pork pies,cookies and more.
• The males of the household are cooking me a late birthday dinner Saturday night.
• Some snow shoveling......deck needs clearing :(
• Some scrapping...need to do my page for last week from my photo a day.
• Catch up on more Six Feet Under episodes,love this show and love HBO for re-running it :)

This is the last page from our crop weekend....


It's become a bit of a tradition to do these age photo's on his birthday,this year he did it without me asking.Shame it took me until October to get around to scrapping it !!
Although I am only now doing last years Christmas day pictures...as long as they get done,eventually !

Enjoy the weekend :)

Today..

...is my birthday.
Happy Birthday to me :)
Just like last year,look what Mother Nature brought me...

A snow storm.
Not the best piccies but really I took three steps out my front door and one out my bedroom door....it's horrible out there!
Since I've had two,next year I think I can do with out,thank you very much.
This years is a lot worse than last,which has meant the cancellation of lunch with friends.
Better to be safe than sorry and we can do it some other time.

So what to do instead ?
Bake a pan of brownies,make some coffee and scrapbook :)
This is one of two pages...


I finished up that I started on Monday when I cropped with my pal Carine.
We haven't done that in a while and it was fun.

OK,I'm sure there's some snow that needs shoveling......maybe later :)

The weekends coming....

It will be another quiet one here....love that!
We have a Christmas party to go to but that's it.
Stuart wants to get some baking done.
I need to make some Christmas cards.
Other than that......nothing.

Since it's Friday,here's a layout....


It's an older one,from way back in January !! but I like it.
I never got to post it here as it was requested for publication by BHG,it was in the August/September issue.

Enjoy your weekend :)

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 :)

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.

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 !

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.

It's Friday !

The end of another week.
So whats planned for this weekend?

• Stuart's cooking dinner for me tonight,since it's our Anniversary :) Actually the year we got married Halloween was on the Saturday and as much as I would have thought getting married on Halloween was extremely cool when I was 16.....it didn't have quite the same appeal as an adult !!.......we got married on the Friday instead !
• Have to put the tempo up this weekend,I hate doing this because it's a sign that winters on it's way :(
• I should cut all my plants down in the front garden.
• Carving pumpkins ! I have remembered to bring them in now so they aren't freezing tomorrow.
• Trick or treating...........my turn to stay home and hand out treats this year.
• Scrapping..........can not let my current roll stop just yet !
• Other than that,should be an easy weekend.

Back to the scrapping subject.
This is the first page I made last weekend....


These are last years pictures :)
I really like this page.
It was noted that there was 'a lot' of patterned paper on this page for me! Which is true,I suppose there is.
I actually really like paper.I have quite a lot of it too,as was abundantly clear to me this week when it was spread out on my kitchen floor when I was re-organising.
That is why I'm trying to use it instead of hoarding it.
One of my favourite parts of scrapping is selecting the papers I want to use,even if most of the time I don't use that much.
With that I'm off to pull out some papers for my next page.

Have a good weekend and a safe and fun Halloween :)