Way Behind

I'm a bit behind and I have a few layouts I'd like to share. So, I'm doing them one at a time, because I tend to get lost if I try to put them all in one long blog. LOL

There is a challenge called Scrap With This, Will Ya? going on over at Digital Scrap Garden where we are sharing photos and Ladybug chooses a couple each week and then we pick one and scrap it. It is really fun to scrap with subjects different from the ones you normally scrap.

Charlie was watching when I opened up this cute picture of Madeline. She is the granddaughter of my good scrapping friend, Elaine. He had a bunch of questions and then wanted to know if he could scrap her. I let him. He picked and placed all the elements. I think he did a really good job. We both had a blast.

This was done using the December Daily Petals by Karen Wallace at Digital Scrap Garden.

Bee Mine

Tami Savoie has done it again with soft colors, a little glitter and some fun friends make up my version of a Valentine's kit! Bee Mine is available at Digiscrapaganza. Love the name ... Bee Mine.




This is a 2nd cousins of Charlie's at her wedding and her grandfather.


And here the bridesmaids are making over Charlie. But Charlie was in love with the bride that day.

Best Interest

I found, yet, another look to Horsedreamn Designs' great kit, Macho.
The quote says ... When it's in your best interest, practice obedience.
It fits Jackson just perfect.

You will find the tag template in a challenge at Digital Scrap Garden by NathFunStuff. It is called Deco Mania with Nathalie. Jump over and do the challenge with her. It is fun!

The weekend was a fun one. First it was Charlie's basketball game and then he spent the night with us so his Mom and Dad could go see Rodney Carrington. Now THEY had a blast. And so did we. LOL

Sunday, I went in to the Library with Leslie as she had to put out a display for a group that was meeting in Alamo Hall. The display was some documents that her library archives for this group. After we put the documents on display, we went back in her office, played on the computer (well she worked, I played), when we weren't talking. Then when the meeting was over, we put the stuff up and came on back home. Leslie and I always enjoy our time together.

Basketball

If you have never seen 6 year olds play an organized game of basketball, you don't know what you are missing. This was Charlie's second game. I missed the first one. They are so fun to watch. They are quickly learning that it is "good" to pass the ball to someone else on their team and not hog the ball even if they are not open to make a shot. The funny part is that they haven't completely figured out that they should not block their own teammate. At this level, the refs don't hardly call anything. As long as they don't just tuck the ball under their arm and run with it and are trying to dribble/or just bounce the ball a little there is no traveling called. The game is fast and they do not stop the clock for anything. I'm smiling just thinking about it. Sad to say, the lighting in the buidling was not good enough to get good pictures with my camera. So, I have a couple of bad pictures to share. LOL

Charlie's team won a big 14 - 4.

I was tickled with myself when I found a new way to make something for my layouts. The large ball on the background was created from a square piece of paper in Tami's Nana's Boy. It is available at Digiscrapaganza. I use PSP2X. I selected the whole paper, then applied "Effects / Geormetric effects / Circle". I laugh at myself when I discover something like this and wonder why I never did that before.


Here is the preview of this wonderful kit that Tami made. I can't believe I had not put this on my blog, yet. Shame on me! Tami made this kit for me and Charlie and surprised me with the name which I happen to just LOVE! Nana's Boy! It is the perfect kit for scrapping a young active boy and I love ya' Tami for doing this kit!

As I said before, this is available at Digiscrapaganza.

Mad About You

ScrapShana has this wonderful new kit, Mad About You available at Digiscrapganza. It is beautiful and elegant and will be great for scrapping everyone ... family members, friends and your pets, too. Beautiful deep reds with black and white that make wonderful contrast.


I've done 3 different layouts already using this lovely kit ... Mad About You.

1959 was a very good year. High school senior, graudation, engaged to my best friend, 5 months in business school (away from home and on my own), then married on Christmas Eve and was moved to Connecticut before the end of the year.




Charlie last year on Valentine's Day being silly.

Lunch with Charlie

Leslie and I took Charlie to school together this morning. Then we both got our hair cut and we just messed around together until 11:30 when we went back to Charlie's school and had lunch with him. We got take-out at Bill Miller's (a BBQ/Fried Chicken place) and took an order for Charlie, too. He knew we were coming and was so proud that we were there. It was really fun, but geez, those little chairs are close to the floor. LOL

I have another layout I want to share I did using Outside the Box from Horsedreamn Designs by Traci ... A Year in Review. One picture from each month from 2008. It shows a lot of firsts for Charlie.

Outside The Box

Traci of Horsedreamn Designs has given us another lovely kit to work with. Beautiful colors and the neatest frames. She named it Outside The Box and you will find it at Digital Scrap Garden.

My sheltie, Jack, was out strutting his stuff and it seemed to me he was exhibiting his full name, Jackson Pride in Blue. The "pride" part just seemed to be shining. I love having a sheltie in my house once again.