Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 277

It's my second reveal for Scrapbook Challenges. Here is this week's sketch:

I had fun with my pics.... all about Aaron building some puzzles, so I turned my photos into puzzle pieces too.... love how it turned out.

To see the rest of the design team's layouts, check out this week's forum post.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 195

Today is sadly my last day of leave for this holiday season.  It's been a lovely relaxing time with lots of scrapping, visiting with friends and family or just vegging in front of the tellie.  Tomorrow it's back to the grindstone!!!

Being a Monday, it's time again for a Nuts About Sketches reveal and this week there is a gorgeous double page sketch.

For my layout I choose to do a birthday party that Aaron went to in October last year.  It was a paintball party for a girl in his class.  Guns and that sort of thing is totally not my thing and we tend to steer clear, but as this was one of the few parties Aaron got invited to, I thought "why not"!  BUT I did stay to supervise.... is that being controlling or overprotective?

 

The kids did have a ton of fun but is was horribly hot and dehydration was narrowly avoided.

Now don't forget to look at the blog to see the other design team members' great layouts.

Also, if you are keen, there is a new design team search up... check out the awesome sketch here.... but hurry, deadline is 31 January 2012.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 276

My new term with Scrapbook Challenges has started and here is the first sketch that I had to design for:

Being short notice I had to quickly find something to make it work.... what better than a layout about scrapping!

This layout is about a charity scrap day that Theresa and I went to that was given by Michelle van Wyk.  It was Michelle's last class in South Africa before leaving for Australia.  I used some of the papers that were left over from our page we made that day as well as one of the flowers we were taught.  My actual page I ended up giving to a good friend as she had the perfect pics for it.

Check out the forum for pages made by the rest of the team.

Books I read in 2011

I decided at the beginning of 2011 to make a list of all the books I read in a month to see how much I actually read during the year... and so here is the final list:

JANUARY
1. Rain Song - Alice Wisler
2. The Hidden Flame - Davis Bunn
3. The Splitting Storm - Rene Gutteridge

FEBRUARY
4. When Crickets Cry - Charles Martin
5. Home Another Way - Christa Parrish
6. Everybody's Suspect in Georgia - Cecil Murphy

MARCH
7. Wrapped in Rain - Charles Martin
8. The Nightwatchman - Mark Mynheir
9. Almost Forever - Deborah Raney
10. Jillian Dare - Melanie M Jeschke
11. Pearl Moon - Katherine Stone
12. California Capers - Dana Mentink

APRIL
13. The living end - Lisa Samson
14. Watch over me - Christa Parrish
15. Hatteras Girl - Alice Wisler
16. Jordan's Wish - Karen Kingsbury
17. Mayhem in Maryland - Dana Mentink

MAY
18. Code Triage - Candace Calvert
19. Nosy in Nebraska - Mary Connealy
20. The Overlook - Michael Connelly
21. The Prince - Francine Rivers

JUNE
22. Breach of Promise - James Scott Bell
23. Leaving - Karen Kingsbury
24. How Sweet It Is - Alice Wisler

JULY
25. Damascas Way - Davis Bunn
26. Nightshade - Ronie Kendig
27. Inside Story - Susan Page Davis
28. The Oak Leaves - Maureen Lang

AUGUST
29. Between Sundays - Karen Kingsbury
30. Bathsheba - Jill Eilleen Smith

SEPTEMBER
31. The Unfinished Gift - Dan Walsh
32. Beloved Conterfeit - Kathleen Y'Barbo
33. Digitalis - Ronie Kendig

OCTOBER
34. The Amish Midwife - Mindy Starns Clark
35. Tender Vow - Sharlene MacLaren
36. A Promise to Remember - Kathryn Cushman

NOVEMBER
37. Sunset - Karen Kingsbury
38. Solemly Swear - Nancy Moser
39. Maid to Match - Deanne Gist
40. My Sister Dilly - Maureen Lang

DECEMBER
41. Beneath a Southern Sky - Deborah Raney
42. The Accused - Craig Parshall

Some months I seem to read more than others.... guess it depends very much on how much I have going on or how quick a read the book it.  I must say that I can highly recommend virtually all these books - lots of mysteries, a few love stories and plenty of uplifting notes in each one.

Now to see how many I can get through in 2012.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 194

It's January and it's Monday... so a new sketch is up at Nuts About Sketches.

My layout is all about a dartboard that Aaron got from Wimpy as his kiddies meal toy... we had a competition to see who could score the highest!

Head over to the blog to see what the other design team members did too.

New Design Team for 2012

I got picked.... yippeee!!!

So why don't you join in the fun at www.scrapbookchallenges.com - it looks like a great place to be!

Happy 2012

I saw in the New Year!!!! My friend Judi and I did a "all night" scrap .... from about 4pm yesterday afternoon until after 1am this morning.  It was a night of lots of laughs and plenty of gorgeous layouts.  I managed to do two doubles and three singles and she did one double and two singles.  There was plenty of big bang fireworks going off in our area too, so no way was I going to get any sleep anyway!  Though my two guys did sleep through it all.

Google are even on the Happy New Year bandwagon today... check out today's welcome screen:

I have other exciting news for the start of this year too, but you might have to wait until tomorrow to read it.  It's going to be a fun scrappy year this year I'm sure.

Looking forward to the New Year

It's the last day of 2011.... it's been a very up and down year but I think for me it's actually been more up than down.... yes stressful with Grade 4 and all, but in general not toooo bad.  I do think though that I'm glad to see this year pass.... here's hoping and praying that 2012 will be a much more positive year.

So with that, here is today's Google for you from me....

I plan to do an all-night scrap tonight with my best friend.... okay maybe not "all" night... but at least till past the midnight hour.  Hope whatever you plan for tonight to see the clock change will be just what you need.

God bless you all mightily in 2012.  Happy New Year.

Just a few more

Here are a few more layouts that I've done...

This one I did way back when at The Scrapping Studio but somehow forgot to show it

Another one from The Scrapping Studio.... it's been sitting around for months just waiting for journalling... bad me!

And lastly for now.... a kit that I purchased for a charity scrap.

Now I have a few more layouts planned to do so best I start tackling them.

Catching up on Scrapkits

I've subscribed to Scrapkits this past year as I'm sure you've gathered before.  Every now and then I manage to get photos to go with the kits and then scrap a whole bunch at a time... at other times I just like the page so do it and hope to get photos eventually for it.  Well now I've managed to do just that and I have completed some pages.... so here they are to show off.

These first three kits are made with all the kit goodies and worked wonderfully with my photos.

Now the rest of these kits I adapted using my own stash of papers to make them work with my photos and themes.  I still think they all turned out marvellously.

To make this one work with my papers, I even swopped the left and right pages around.

So there is no excuse to say that predesigned kits and layouts don't work.... you can adapt them to suit your needs!