Few Scrappy Things

I haven't been in the creating mood lately but I had to finish my niece's 3rd birthday invites. Turk wants to have a princess party, but I opted not to use princess paper so I just found some really girly paper and just put a stamped image of a castle on the bottom.

I also redid my baby page in my book of me and this is what I came up with.

I did this layout for the September Color Challenge at Scrapbook.com. We had to use red, aqua, and white as our main colors. I made this about how much I do not like to do the dishes. It has got to be my most hated chore ever! This is a 6x12 layout.

The weather here is getting cooler and that means fall is around the corner. Some trees are starting to turn pretty colors and am loving it!

More D.C. Layouts

Boy have I been slacking on the blogging lately! So sorry for that! Time has gotten away from me and by the time my head hits the pillow at night, I am completely out! My niece's birthday is coming up in October and I made her invites and had to make 30 of them. I have them all completed except for adding the photo and a small little touch. I will post pictures as soon as I get them all the way done. In the meantime, here are some more layouts from my trip to Washington D.C.

When we were walking behind the White House, we saw this lady who was living in this "tent" across the street. Locals say that people bring her food and such and she never leaves. At this time, 2006, she was protesting Former President Bush. She was a little creepy looking I'm not going to lie.

I attempted to take pictures of awesome sights at night, but back then I had just a film camera and they didn't turn out so well. I am so glad that I had friends who took awesome night pictures!

I am loving this layout! Just letting you know! :)

I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day! Fall is coming and I am extremely excited!! Cooler weather has been here in Northwest Iowa for about a week and I am loving it!

She Gets You In The End

Here is another layout I did for my Oh, Scrap! critique group challenge. We had to scrap about our favorite book, but I did my favorite author instead--Jodi Picoult! I love to get lost in her stories. She writes about things that can happen to anyone and I just love that when you get close to the end of the book, and you think you know what is going to happen, she throws you for a loop. I love it!!

I used a sketch for this layout.. It can be found here at Got Sketch?

Can I just say that I am in love with the new company Echo Park. I love the colors and the designs and it was kinda hard for me to cut into this patterned paper for this layout. I guess that is why I usually buy two of every pattern of paper I get.

It's Almost Here..

Oh, how I can't wait for fall. I love the smells, the colors, the cool weather, the crunchy leaves beneath my feet, and the fall decorations.

All photos are from here

Oh how fall cannot get here fast enough!

More D.C. Layouts

Just Plain Cute

Just another layout I did of my niece. This picture was, I think, when she was 5 or 6 months old. I did this for my Oh, Scrap! Critique Group summer challenge. We had to 'lift' ourselves. I don't have the original on this computer, but you can see it here. I usually have a hard time matching Sassafras Lass paper with other manufacturers papers and especially making sure my pictures don't disappear. I must say that I am extremely happy with the way that this layout came out! The papers (Sassafras, Martha Stewart-background, American Crafts-big pink dotted, and Bazzill-orange and teal cardstock) work so well together! I am loving this layout right now!

I hope you all have a marvelous Monday!

Books, Books, and More Books

I made this layout for the August Scraplift the Person Before You challenge over at Scrapbook.com. I lifted CatScrapsHere.

There is just something about having a lot of books on my book shelves that I love. I love to get caught up in an awesome book and forget about life!

More D.C. Layouts

Just posting some more D.C. Layouts.

I love that guy sleeping on the metro behind Lisa.

More to come soon.

I [heart] My Job

I have the best job ever! I work at a daycare I absolutely love being around the kids all day! Here is my latest layout about why I love my awesome job!

This layout is based on a sketch out of a Creating Keepsakes magazine.

Hope all had a terrific Tuesday!

4 Simple Goals...

Elsie over at A Beautiful Mess is doing a 4 Simple Goals Before 2011 challenge. She is challenging anyone who wants to do this to make 4 simple goals that will make your life happier on a daily basis. I know that I need to try to improve my daily life so I am going to be doing this!

My 4 Simple Goals are :

1) Create more. Either it be scrapbooking, drawing, painting, sewing, whatever it is, I need to sit down and just create and let my mind wander for a bit and not worry about all that is stressing me.

2) Exercise atleast 3-4 times a week for 20-30 minutes. I need to get into a healthier exercise routine and I have access to a wonderful wellness center but I don't use it. I need to get over my fear of other people looking at me while on the treadmill.

3) Smile more. Plain and simple, I need to lose the scowl and smile!! :) :) :)

4) Budget/manage my money better! This one is huge for me. I would like to move out of my parents house sometime soon so I have to watch my spending habits so I can make this one work!!

Go over to Elsie's blog and join her 4 Simple Goals challenge.

New Computer!!

So so so sorry that I have been away for too long!! My old computer had a virus on it, I got it removed and then I couldn't get on the internet at all. So instead of wasting my time trying to figure out how to fix it, I waited until my little sister got her new MacBook so I could buy her "old" one.

So I have a MacBook. I am kinda excited for it, I'm not going to lie. The only thing is, I have no idea how to really use it. I am just winging it and hoping I don't mess anything up! With that said, I do not have any of my Washington D.C. layouts on this computer as they are all on my old laptop. I have them in an online gallery so maybe I will have to save them on to this computer to upload them.

This is going to take some time getting use to as I had a Dell laptop before. So far so good, but hopefully it won't take me long to figure it out or get use to!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday! It's a nice breezy sunny day and makes me long for fall!

Washington D.C. Part 2

Here are five more layouts of my Washington D.C. album. I hope you enjoy looking at them!

I stitched a pocket on my page for the pictures of our hotel room. I had too many photos that I wanted to scrap of the room so I thought a pocket was my best bet!

It was super nice to have somone who lived in D.C. to take us and show us around the city. Because if it was up to me to get us around the city, we probably would still be there, lost and unable to find our way back!

I hope your Tuesday was a terrific one!

Washington D.C.

As promised, here are the first few layouts of my Washington D.C. album. I think I edited 50+ pictures of layouts (plus all the 2 pagers that I did). So the book is huge. I will show 5 layouts at a time so it's not overwhelming!

These photos that I took of my layouts turned out pretty bad. I didn't have good natural lighting and they came out kinda blurry. I need to learn to take better pictures :)

I went on this trip with my friend from college, Heidi and 2 of her friends from high school. I was so excited when Heidi asked me to go along on this trip and I was super nervous at the same time. I mean, I have never flown on a plane before this trip and I was terrified out of my mind. The plane ride was pretty smooth and I had a ton of fun on this trip. I would really love to go again sometime.

We were sight seeing while waiting to check into our hotel and we walked passed the White House. There were tons of black cars out in front and tons of people watching to see what was going on. Turns out that President Bush (this was back in 2006) was signing some important papers. Kinda cool. Too bad we didn't see him.

More to come soon!

Fl-owl-er Power Wallet

I just had to show you all the new wallet that I purchased today! I am in love with anything to do with owls and I totally love the vintage-y turquoise blue/green color. This is the most perfect wallet EVER!
Got it from Mod Cloth. I think that Mod Cloth is a new favorite site of mine. They have so many adorable houseware stuff. I need it all!

Anyways. I better get back to finishing up my Washington D.C. album. I have just a few more pictures to scrap and then I am finished.

Birdhouse

I know it has been awhile since I've blogged. Bad blogger I am!

Here is an altered birdhouse that I made for my stepmom for her birthday. She has a whole tree dedicated to birdfeeders and a few birdhouses. I got the unfinished wood birdhouse from Hobby Lobby. I know the pictures aren't the greatest. I have to work on better photography skills!

The front of the birdhouse. I painted the edges and undersides a turquoise-y blue color.

The back of the birdhouse. I used We R Memory Keepers paper. I do not remember the name of the line. I will have to get back to you on that!

This is the roof of the birdhouse. I originally had the roof covered in just the yellow paper. I didn't like how it looked so I took my scalloped border punch and made "shingles" for the roof. It looks 100% better with the "shingles."
I also used scalloped strips of paper to cover up the uneven cut lines.

I didn't put anything too fancy on the birdhouse because I knew that my stepmom was going to want to put it outside. It took about 6 or 7 coats of mod podge to fully protect it from the outside elements.

Four Things I Love

Here are four things that I am absolutely loving right now!

Fruity Flavor Pom Poms

Closet Office


Crocheted Button Pins

Vintage Balloon Picture

I hope you all had a wonderful day!!

I need...

this!!! Isn't he adorable??

source