New year..new pages!!

Well the holidays are over and the decorations are finally all put away:)  This past week I was able to complete some layouts for the design team at Scrappy Chic and was happy with how they turned out.  I have another one done but no photo yet....I am still learning how to operate my new computer...the kids are trying to help me out with that though:)

I have decided to do Project Life this year!  I have many ideas on how to organize my supplies and hope to have that completed this week:)

We enjoyed a nice visit at my brother and sister-in-law's home yesterday to celebrate Tamara's birthday. It was nice to see their new basement since renovating it due to a flood.  So happy to have family close by and get to see each other often.

Four for....Scrappy Chic!!!

Was so excited to play with some new goodies yesterday!!!  I love using up older photos too....found some baby pics of my Victoria as well as an old one of Virg and his cousins.  They are not a lot of pictures of hubby when he was younger so I treasure all the ones I have....I was able to photocopy some when we were in Portugal about 6 years ago.  SO glad to have them:)

SO here are the results:

The top one has Virg...can you guess which one is him????   I loved using a piece of Ethan's school art work on the one layout.  Glad to have kept it and display it properly now:)

Well, Hallowe'en is over.....I decided I did want to take a couple of pics of stuff I had up.  I found some silhouettes on a recent trip to Ottawa Street...love them!!

Love this cat...the smile reminds me of the cat from Alice in Wonderland!!

Soon it will be time to think about Christmas....

New stuff!!

Well, after my last post I did indeed go up to my "room" and do some creating and it felt good:)  Here are the results....3 layouts and a mini that I started.  I REALLY love the Authentique paper (as you can tell I even left the labelling of the paper as part of my page:)  It was fun to use the black and whites I had from the first summer I was done working fulltime...seems so long ago.

Love all the little stuff from the Authentique line...know I'll be using this stuff a lot in my projects!!

I had all my pre-op stuff done at the hospital yesterday...took way longer than I thought but glad to be getting closer to being done:)

Loving this sunshine today...enjoy.

It's been a long time.....

It has been an extremely long time since I have blogged here....why...   I think  there are many reasons.  I have had my health to worry about since May and really haven't felt quite right and know that once the whole thing is over with at the end of this month I will feel like now things are not so much "on hold".  This month I have begun to feel like things are really going to  be ok.  I know I am VERY blessed with SO much in my life.....my family and friends, relationships that are true and a real gift..that has been a real source of awareness and gratitude for me.  My relationship with Christ has been like any realtionship...it's ups and downs, happiness, insecurities.  At one point I felt like, OK I know I have a wonderful life...is that about to end?  Am I being punished?

I read today that God doesn't want to punish us and yet when things come up we can sometimes feel that way. It's amazing what challenges and experiences can do to really make you understand who you are and look and see what is really there around you.  There is so much heartache and suffering around the world and I have so much to say "thank you" for even if I don't realize it is worthy of a grateful heart.

Well, enough spilling out my feelings LOL...

Today is a wonderful, sunshiney day and I am going to create!! 

Thank you:)

Oh my goodness!!!

I just realized that today is the LAST day of April??!!  Ok, where did this month go???  Looking toward a busy week next week with a volunteer luncheon at the school, Mega Meet in Michigan, orthodontist appointment for Victoria and Mothers Day on the weekend.

Last night was a creativity night for myself and Keri which we haven't had for ages...so excited to create and got some pages done which make me happy:)  What do you think??  think perhaps I have quite a few pictures of Lily???!!  Wait until I share the ones where she's wearing her raincoat and carrying daffodils from the garden :) 

Also, Virg has started painting my new scraproom/library and am loving the colour!!!  Hoping to get the second coat on tomorrow and then we can begin the fun part of putting the furniture back in and setting it up.  I know more purging is in order LOL

My boy turned 15!!!!

Well, this past week has flown by!!  We were on vacation for almost 10 days in California and it seems to have taken me just as long to recover:)  This past weekend we celebrated Ethan's 15th birthday.  On Saturday evening we went to the Red Wing vs Toronto Maple Leafs game and enjoyed  Mexican town for dinner beforehand.  Yesterday we had a family celebration with a BBQ lunch and blueberry pie (which i had squashed...don't ask!!!) for dessert.  Not a lot of pics to share but like this one with Ethan wearing his bit of green in honour of St PAt's....

It's a little blurry but hey....it's a bday picture, right?

Today's agenda includes getting my scrap on....I have 2 pages done for my design team work and need to finish that stuff up this week.  I'll share one I completed last week, it's a pic from Universal Studios of my "mature" son:)

I wasn't sure how to use the paper at first...but love the end result:)

Off to exercise for a bit before getting to my to do list...LOVE the sunshine and warmer temps are on the way (I hope!!!)

New pages...loving the new stuff!!

Did this layout on Saturday evening for Shimelle's 4x6 photo challenge on two peas and pretty happy with the results!!  Do you like my straw heart???  Used some fun new paper from Echo Park that  I got from Scrappy Chic and love how it all came together.

Our vacation starts soon and got my hair done today and liking how it turned out:)  Now to hopefully get a little sun very soon....