Here's the Journal

Ok, so staying up until 2:30am was not such a great idea....

Hunter had me up at 7am....now I'm so over tired, I can't get to sleep tonight.  My mind is just racing on things that I need to get done!!!  UGH, you can tell the holiday season is here.

Here is my journal for 26 days of Christmas.  It's just the bones right now, the embellies will be added as the month goes on.  I'll share the inner pages soon, and keep you posted as I fill them out to document our holiday season!!!  I'm really happy with this, it is very much out of my comfort zone for scrapbooking.  I'll be documenting something every day and adding it to the album through out the month.  I'm really excited about this!!  I'm going to get the kids involved also....should make it lots of fun!!!

Since this was so much out of my comfort zone, I had to make it a little more me.  I decided to make all the dates for each of the pages the same to give some more consistency through out.   

So tonight we went to the Santa Claus parade.  Get this....it began at 6pm (start of the parade route), we were about mid way through the parade route....and at 6:50 we were heading back to the car.  It was about 30 minutes long (IF THAT), and there may have been 30 entries (and I'm being generous).  I was so disappointed with the parade.  It took us longer to get through the traffic than to actually watch the entire parade.   They didn't even hand out candy canes like they always do every year.  Even the kids commented on the length.  It was the warmest weather I ever remember for the parade, and the shortest parade.  

Thanks for stopping by and listening to my rant about the parade.

Take care

26 Days of Christmas

No it's not a typo....we are having 26 days of Christmas this year. Rob's daughters are with their mom, so we are going to be sending Santa a letter asking for Christmas at our house to be postponed until the 26th.

So tonight I decided to start my 26 days of Christmas journal from the Ali Edwards blog, which I stalk daily!!! I just love her blog, her work....she's FAB!!!!

Since it is 1:30 on Friday night (or early Saturday morning), I'm going to wait to upload my pics of the start of my album. My eyes are burning I am so tired, LOL!!!

On another note, I booked Christmas pictures for the kids....but I'm going out on a limb and going to attempt it for myself. I've been so disappointed with the pics from studios lately, I hoping this will work out. I've got the back drop all ready to go....now to get the kids ready. how do you keep 4 kids clean while trying to get them to all smile and look at the camera at the same time. Am I nuts? Not yet....I'm also going to try and get the dogs in for a shot once I get the kids pics done....ok, now I"m nuts!!!!

Hope you have a great nights sleep

I'm going to be tired tomorrow at 6am when my DS comes in

asking for chocolate milk and waffles.....

followed by the Wii blaring! Oh the joys of parenting.

Thanks for stopping by

white, white, and more white

So here is my space all empty.....Can you imagine all that stuff was crammed in here.  Wait to see it once I put it back together.... It's not as Zen as I was hoping for.

Well the week is almost over, and I'm looking forward to lots of fun on the weekend.  Going to get some R & R (yeah right) with the kids!  And enjoy the Santa Claus parade.  Hope to get some scrapping in and finish up my scrap space so I can share!

Have a great weekend!!!

Well it seemed like a good idea at the time.....

My scraproom, is actually a walk in closet. It houses mainly scrappy stuff, but it also has started to take on clutter that I wanted to hide. (Yes I am a pack rat, and I hate it!!!) So I decided to completely empty my Scrappy room and start over.

So here is all my scrappy stuff piled in the room.

Now I have everything neatly back in the room minus the non scrappy stuff. But I have hit a wall. My space is so neat it makes me want to scrap, so I'm not getting any purging or organizing done. LOL

I also have to share that when I was putting everything back in the room, I gave Rob the job of using the label maker.....Once he got a quick lesson, he was off making me labels and I yelled out what I needed. Thanks for the help!!!!

Now even his cell phone has a label! And yes it says "cell phone" LOL

I feel a little bad, this is the first year I did not attend the Remembrance Day Ceremonies.

Please take time today to reflect on those who have lost their lives fighting for ours.

God Bless

LCOM Blog Hop

This weekend was the blog hop over at Let's Capture Our Memories. Here is my version of the sketch, it's of my favorite paper....that I was saving. (Why do I do that??? )

Well I'm glad I did because it was perfect for a pic of Rob's middle daughter this summer in St. Andrews on our Whale Watching trip.

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to hop on over to the blog hop for some great inspiration!!!!

Busy night scrappin

I have to say, this is probably my favorite layout of Rob and I.

Mainly because it's my favorite picture of us, from our summer on our annual trip to Laconia. It's a complete scraplift from Liz Kartchner. The first time I went on her blog I saw the layout that I lifted this from and fell in love!!!

So tonight I actually did 2 layouts, which is a record for me. This one is of Rob's middle daughter, and I think it needs a little more than just bling on the top left corner....maybe I'll tackle that tomorrow. Originally I had another paper for it, but she came in and didn't like it, lol, so she picked this one.

This summer we went whale watching in St. Andrews and then for a picnic in the park by the dock. The girls were on the bridge and Rob snapped this pic.

I dabbled in a little glitter mist and used my Martha butterfly punch to mask when I glittered. (and my Martha border punch, I'm lovin' the punches!!!!)

Then I added some more butterflies and stitched the swirls.

The lace was a lime green, and just way to bright so I used some ink to darken it down.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll have another layout or two. I guess cleaning out my scrappin' room was a great way to get the scappy mojo going. The procrastination of cleaning is really getting my creative juices going!!! LOL I'm getting a little collection of giveaways too! But my Martha punches won't be going anywhere!!!

Have a great night, I'm heading to bed

(I actually get to sleep in tomorrow, so I'm guessing I'll be up bright and early)

Scrappy Organizing

So I decided to clean out my scraproom....and forgot to take a before picture. Oops!!! But you should see the mound of stuff piled outside my scrappy space. I'm going to take pictures tonight, once the room is totally empty. Even DS commented on all the stuff this morning when he woke up. Rob was shocked at how much stuff is actually in this small closet.

Part of my cleaning process is going to be to purge. I'm going to give away as much as I can to try to simplify my scrapping space and process....Maybe then when I have a clean, organized and decluttered scrap space my mind too will be decluttered and I'll actually get some work done.

Wish me luck tonight....I'm gonna need it.

Have a great day!!