Summer Days

 I must say I have been enjoying those summer days and haven't been doing much scrapping or blogging!!!
 I used one of Echo Parks fabulous paper packs for this layout. The colours are so vibrant and fun (: The buttons and cs are CTMH.
The pics are of my boys and my girlfriend's daughter a few years ago, they have been sitting in my to scrap pile for a while. My fav is the one of Aidan with his legs stuck in the tube, he was so ticked!!
 I am going to enter this in Creative Accents; Seriously Creative Challenge for August- Summer Sunshine. I was lucky enough to be the winner last month and have already went shopping at their store for a fabulous new stamp (:

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Stickin' Around

 Just home for a few days from camp and then we're out for another week. We had a great week out there even though we couldn't have campfires at night. It has been so dry that we are even hoping for rain on our holidays!!!
 My dear sweet Kieran, who is 7 but the size of his 5 year old sister, is picking up on how often people are commenting on how cute he is!!! We were sitting on our deck at camp the other day and this young couple walk by. As they go by the girl (young lady) smiles. Kieran says to me " she thinks I'm cute", I respond, "why do you think that? were you talking to her earlier?". He says "no, she just smiled at me". What a kid!!! already building up that ego!!!!

 These pics are of Kieran last summer. He thought it was really funny to have a snail crawling across his face!! Slime trail and all!

 For this layout I got to break into a brand new pad of paper and stickers I bought from Winners last year. I couldn't resist the cute little animals!! Because the paper was uncut and the stickers unopened, I am going to enter this in Seriously Creative's challenge- Un-Inked, Un-Cut, Un-Opened. I am also going to enter it in Scrap Your Crap's challenge - Floss or Twine. The title was stamped with CTMH's Pennant and Cocktail Alphas. The paper and stickers are DCWV.

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Sweet Girl

Happy Summer everyone!! I am off for the summer so hopefully I'll have a bit more time to catch up on blogging, and reading your blogs, in between spending time with the kids and being at camp. So far I don't have work lined up for September either, it's likely going to be a rough year for all of us teachers in Ontario, so maybe I'll have even more time???
 I am still posting pics of layouts I did at my weekend crop in April!!! I'm hoping I find my mojo again soon, something about summer weather just does me in (: I just finished ordering a few new Kraftin' Kimmie stamps, she has everything on sale right now!!, so hopefully they will get me going again.

 This layout is of Azelyn (the pic is from a couple of years ago). I copied it from the CTMH idea book (p 50). As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to do one just like it. All products are CTMH, the paper is Florentine.

 Off to my cousin's wedding today and taking Aidan out to camp on Sunday. I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!!!

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Relax - Use It or Lose It Challenge #8

This week at Use It or Lose It our challenge is Anything Goes. I made this card for an exchange we were doing in my Hostess Group. I was supposed to do a card for a man's birthday but with Father's Day coming up I left it kind of general so they could use it for Father's Day if they wanted to.
 I used the Relax stamp set (I believe it is retired) and Wings creative basics.

I hope you can join us this week!! and remember to use up your scraps (:

My Handsome Boy

 Man am I slacking or what!!! Work and nice weather have totally taken over my time!!! The countdown till the end of school has begun!!! 16 days!!!! Speaking of school, I ran into one of my students from 3 years ago at Walmart today!! She was that one kid in the class that gave me a reason to plan lessons every night (it was a jackpot class!!). She also gave me a beautiful card, with an even more beautiful note inside at Christmas that year (not to mention a  couple of boxes of chocolates) that I keep handy when things are nuts at work!! When she saw me she said "I can't believe it's you!!! How are you!? I want a hug". What a sweetie, eh!? She is now in her first year of college and doing really well (: It's really neat to see what your past students end up doing.

 This is another layout I did at my weekend crop in April. I have always loved this pic of Aidan at camp. It's so him.
 I used Echo Park's Little Boy collection for this one. Along with some Bo-bunny double dot cs (love that BoBunny dot paper!!) The journalling cards and buttons are CTMH. I bummed the twine from my dear friend Jen (: A big hug and thanks go to my sweet friend Stacey who did the beautiful zig zag stitch for me and then let me play/learn on her sewing machine. I did all of the purposefully messy stitching (:
 I am going to enter this in Seriously Creative's Challenge- Buttons and Twine, and Let's Get Sketchy's sketch challenge.

 So this Saturday is mine and Lee's 11th anniversary and we're actually going to get some time for just us. Our moms have agreed to take the kids for a couple of days so that we can either go to camp (and I will get to fish) or go out for dinner and a movie.... It will be a nice little break!!

Have a great weekend!!!

Jenn (:

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Together

 When I was at the Spring Fling weekend crop, many of the girls were doing a workshop on a layout to put in a shadow box. I wasn't willing to give up the time needed to dedicate myself to the project so I didn't sign up, but after seeing some of theirs completed I thought I would give it a whirl. It isn't as fancy as theirs but I am happy with the results (:
 The picture isn't the best but I liked it for this paper. It is of my Dad and Azelyn just cuddling on the couch while they watch TV together.
 The pic is matted on pink velvet paper (thanks to Kathy for cutting it out on her grand calibur for me!!) the patterned paper is Prima, the flowers are mostly Recollections. I used Graphically Speaking to cut out the title, Art Philosophy to cut out the big butterfly and paper doily, and my SU embosslit and MS punch to cut the little butterflies. Bling is Eva and I think the doily is K&C company?? The pretty border at the bottom is Prima I think??

 It looks like my computer is back in business!! I got it back "unfixed" but they actually fixed what I sent it in for (the screen), they just found water damage (oops, darn coffee!!) on the keyboard and motherboard that I couldn't afford to fix ($900 to repair a $500 computer!!!)

 It is camp season though, so I'm not sure how much scrapping I'm going to get in!! Hopefully I'll stay ahead enough to have something to post each week.

 Have a great long weekend everyone!!! We are heading out to camp and I heard on the radio this afternoon that there is already a fire ban!! so I guess our first few nights at camp will be fireless ):

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SpiderMen!!

Wow!!! I didn't realize until yesterday that it has been a month since my last post!!!
 It has been a crazy month!! I started at a new school just after the March Break and while there I was shuffled between two jobs. I was just starting to feel settled in at work when THE COLD (fever, headache, which then turned into a sore throat, followed by a bad, pesky cough!!) hit our house. Then last Friday the invertor went in my new laptop and it had to be sent into the shop!!!
 I have been doing a bit of scrapbooking so I have had some layouts to show you, it was just a matter of getting some pics taken.
 This layout is the companion to the Captain America layout I did of Kieran a while ago. It is the second layout from the Superhero WOTG from CTMH. I changed it up a wee bit but it is pretty close to the original. The pics are of Kieran and his little buddy back at camp a couple of summers ago. His friends mom had painted their faces like Spiderman!! They were so happy and excited!!
 I don't know about you but when I'm scrapbooking and can't remember when the pic is from, I usually look at what the kids are wearing to help me. But this doesn't work so well with Kieran!! He doesn't grow very fast and so he wears the same clothes for a couple of years. For example, the shirt he is wearing in these pics, I just took it out of storage for him to wear again this summer!!!

I had to share the next picture with you!!! After a couple of years with no dishwasher and having to nag my teenager to do the dishes, we finally got a new one!!! I had plans of just going and getting the one that was on sale but nothing can ever be that simple!!! After going between 3 stores we ended up with a more top of the line/expensive one. Lee decided that because we have hard water we needed one that had stainless steel inside, and guess what!!? Only a few dishwashers have that option!! So instead of coming home with it that day like planned we had to wait a few days for it to come in. When it did come in, we got it all unwrapped and ready to go. When we went to put it in the hole that was there from the last one, it was TOO TALL!!! Lee wasn't sure how he was going to trim the bottom of the cupboard because he didn't have the right kind of saw. I jokingly said, " why don't you just go and get the chainsaw?!" (that is what he used to cut some of the floor out of the camper when we were fixing it up so I was teasing him)

Can you say REDNECK!!!? We had all of the windows and doors open to let the smell out. MEN!!!

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