My Son...the Robot

Well, it's been far too long since I've been able to post, but hope you will overlook that when you see these hilarious photos. My six year old is completely bonkers for robots, so we spent quite a bit of time working together on this costume for him. I have to say he had quite a lot to say about the details of this design! What fun it is to have a six year old running around the house. Stay tuned for lots of scrapbooking projects in the next couple of weeks. I'm working like a busy beaver these days!

Here it is! This is a milestone, just to get those first photos down on a page! Yeah! The paper is from Creative Imaginations and the flowers are Prima. (of course) The photos were taken at our reception which was in a gorgeous old historical mansion in Galveston called Ashton Villa. We had our reception in the huge ballroom, but they also allowed us to use parts of the house to take photographs in, which was amazing because we could actually use the furniture to sit on, etc. The room in the photo of us sitting used to be the second floor of the mansion, and there is a waterline mark on the huge gilded mirror in that room where the high water from the Gulf was during the 1900 storm, the country's worse natural disaster, much, much worse than Katrina. The islanders came together and did something monumental...and unheard of. It took several years but they built a seawall and also raised the elevation of the island by dredging in silt from Galveston bay, and for years all the sidewalks were basically wooden planks on stilts way up in the air. Most homes were raised up, but mansions like Ashton Villa couldn't be lifted so the bottom stories were filled in with mud and silt. If you look closely when you're standing outside of the home, you can barely see the arched brick window frames of the top story windows behind the flower beds. It was a beautiful home, a perfect day I'll always treasure, and I married my best friend and the man of my dreams. (this is also the scraplift challenge for August) this looks so much better in person. The flowers and the ribbon are all glittery.

Altered Journal

This is the first project for my new venture teaching. I'm so excited to start this and get the class going. After lots of "drilling drama" I finally got it right and this was the end result. The gorgeous papers are from My Mind's Eye and I thought they were such pretty colors. Green has seriously become my favorite color over the years? I inked the black binding with a pretty olive green to alter it. There is a groovy inside pocket that holds a coordinating clip embellished with some pretty fibers, and a place for a pretty pen. What do you think, think the class will 'sell out'? :)

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!