This week started our second challenge for the BOM (Book of Me). If you are playing along with me, the theme is "Oh to be...." and you can fill in the blank with whatever appeals to you. It might be something you wish you could have done, somewhere you wish you could be, or a time period that you look back on with happiness. I chose to use a photo of myself at 3. I have such happy memories of my childhood and can remember when this photo was taken. My mom's friend had kept me for the day and totally played dress up with me, which I loved! Lots of old hats and pearls. You can click on the photo to read the journaling close up. What will you pick for your page? Please post a link to your blog so we can follow along with your BOM, too! Is there a time in your life you'd like to journal about for your children?

Heritage Layout of my Grandma

Here's the latest LO I've done for a wonderful scrapbook store I'm designing for. It's a photo of my grandma and her sisters. She's the cutey on the left. They were all born in East Texas. I love this photo. It's the only one I have of her as a little girl. Her name was Onie. I put a hidden journaling tag to the right of the photo. My grandma and her sisters stayed close their entire life, choosing to live as close as they could to one another, calling each other on the phone almost daily for decades. They all lived into their late 80's or 90's. I think about them so often. They were true Southern Belles. This paper line is by Best Creation, Inc. and it's super glittery. I used Glimmer Mist on the flowers and the background paper in the center. The butterflies are from Creative Imaginations. I love them. What do you think?:

Book of Me Challenge

My friends over at All Moments Remembered have started a great challenge I'm very excited to participate in. It's an album called the Book of Me. Basically, it's a gift created for your children, husband or family that tells them all about you, and what you'd like them to know and keep forever. I have wanted to do this for my children, and I plan on doing one about my husband for them, too. How many times have you wondered something about one of your parents, or grandparents and wished it was recorded somewhere? I'm going to list various ideas for topics that might be scrapped in an upcoming blog post...so stay tuned. If you have ideas, please leave me a comment, too! Hope you like my layout....My oldest son loved it! Oh, if you want to see details close up, just click on the photo and it will zoom for you.

A Smile Lasts Forever

Here is a lo I completed of a photo of my little boy on a trip to a local farm last year. I love the way the sunlight is on his hair, and that adorable little face. Oh, if they would only stay little longer. I posted this on All Momemnts Remembered as a scraplift challenge for my design team assignment. Hope everyone has fun with it. The overlay is from Fancy Pants and the papers are from Graphic 45 and coordinated with his shirt perfectly. Now if I could only match the rest of our family's wardrobe with all my scrapbook papers!

Front Porch Love...Welcome Home!

I just love summer! I love sitting outside on my front porch and having iced tea with family and friends. I've always wanted a covered front porch after leaving home when I got married. A couple of years ago my wonderful husband made that dream come true and we covered our deck. Here are some photos of our yard and porch. I love all the flowers and trees. We've had deer in our yard, squirrels all the time (which is always still exciting to me, especially when three at a time come and run all over the roof playing chase) and even a mountain lion (a little too exciting!) This porch is up pretty high, so it's like being in a secret little tree house!

Notes....what a fun way to keep them!

I'm a big list maker, of all kinds of things. I took a class at the Creating Keepsakes convention in March and saw this as one of the projects. This one I changed up quite a bit, and loved the way it came out. I made this for a very dear friend as a gift.

Great RAK!

Here's a great RAK that is being given away by a fellow blogger. Check it out! Here's the link:

http://lisafalduto.blogspot.com/2009/06/prize-package.html