What a great scrappy week!!

On Monday, I got a great RAK in the mail from Shanna with some Bo Bunny products in it!

On Tuesday, some more scrappy mail:



1. a RAK from The Design Experiment from when I won their weekly challenge in August. It was full of SEI Poppy papers and embellishments and is very lovely. Also some shaped patterned papers from Creative Imaginations which I just love and some Amercan Crafts thickers!

2. a package from Scrapbooks and Cards Today which contained my layout that they published in their fall issue (Field Trip), two copies of the magazine and some scrappy goodies-- some Making Memories and some cool clear stamps, too.

On Tuesday, I also got an email from Wendy Smedley (of Simple Scrapbooks) requested one of my layouts for publication in their upcoming book: Photo Play!

Yesterday, I got an email from Layle Koncar telling me that I was one of the winners of Scenic Route's monthly contest and that she'd be sending me some of the Garland line as a prize!! You can see my layout on the Scenic Route website by clicking here and following the instructions on the page.

Then, I found out that I also won a RAK at Create My Keepsake for their September Scrappy Formula contest!

Now, if I could only get my scrap space cleaned up so I can scrapbook, it would be the perfect scrappy week. ;)

8 layouts and a project

My Scrap Shoppe had another awesome kit this month. You can check out the October kit here.
At first I was actually a little nervous working with it, because it had quite a few sheets of the Cosmo Cricket "Mr. Campy"" line, and well, we don't go camping.

But, this turned out to be a good thing, as it made me think outside of the box and get creative.

So, here are the layouts I created:


The quote on this one says "I would wander weary miles, would suffer ridicule, my child, to simply see the sunrise of your smile." (I thought the "wander weary miles part fit with the little camper trailers. LOL!)




I created this one on the back of my "lovely on horseback" layout, which I had created by punching 47 3/4" circles out of pp and adhering them to the back of a piece of pp that I'd cut as a circle. Sine the pp I'd chose to punch the holes out of was double sided (love that!), I right away chose a coordinating colour and adhered it to the back (after I'd trimmed it into a circle.) Then I sewed it all together. When I saw how well it matched the MSS October kit, I decided to use it for a layout for a picture that was taken the same day as Sage horseback riding. So, it'll fit into a 12x12 page protector, be seen from both sides and still be in chronological order. :)











I created this layout for one of the Scrap Pink challenges at Create My Keepsake this weekend. Staci's challenge was to create a layout about a skill, hobby or talent you have that not many people know about.

Another challenge at the CMK crop was Dani's photo cube project which was so cute that I was inpsired to print out my pumpkin photos of my kids and make this:











The pages measure approx. 6x6" and I have it displayed on my piano. I'm so pleased with how it turned out!

I still have a few sheets of patterned paper left from the kit and I'm hoping to create a few more layouts with it.

Thanks for looking!

Project 366, week 39

Here are my photos of the day for the past week:


Tuesday, September 23th: I took this one when I picked up the boys at school. He was mad at me about something... I can't remember what...



Wednesday, September 24th: Taken in front of a pumpkin cart in town.



Thursday, September 25th: Taken at our little photo shoot at the park.




Friday, September 26th: Sage got some money from her Uncle Chris & Auntie Cheryl for her birthday and we went shopping at Walmart, where we found this Polly Pocket set on sale!



Saturday, September 27th: I hosted a crop at our local library.



Sunday, September 28th: We went on a hayride at my MIL's farm with some friends and I was really pleased with this photo of Jonah.



Monday, September 29th: Sage and a little friend, entertaining themselves during Jonah's soccer game.



Thanks for looking!

After school photo shoot

After school yesterday, Sage and I biked to pick up the boys. We went to the park where I took these:







And then we took a break to watch a squirrel in a tree. ;)



We started to bike to location #2 when the kids decided to stop here and have me take a picture.




And the we went continued onto destination #2-- the pumpkin cart in front of Tim Horton's -- where I took these.







I love fall photos-- especially with pumpkins!!

Thanks for looking!

Random going-ons...

Just a few random things that I felt like blogging about this evening....

1. Guess who can read?



Jonah came home with these books on Monday and read them to me! At first I thought maybe he was just guessing at the words, but no, he got them all! He's only been in grade one a few weeks and already he can read-- I'm so proud of him!!

2. Sage & I went to volunteer at the Tabor Home this afternoon. They have a birthday party once a month for the residents and our church is in charge of the September one. I offered to make the cards for the birthday "girls" and Sage handed them out, along with some balloons. She is such a gem to take along to things like this-- always such a good girl, I never have to worry about her at all. I'm so thankful for this.



Here she is with my friend, Val. The ladies who organized the party suggested we all wear hats. It was quite fun, especially the oldies songs we sang (Red River Valley, You are My Sunshine and Yellow Rose of Texas-- nice tunes but the words are all a little depressing. Especially a couple of verses of You are My Sunshine-- they sound a little sinister!)

3. Sage and I reorganized her room on Monday to accomodate her new table and chairs and her Little Tykes kitchen. Here are a few pictures.





(sorry they're a little dark!)

And I was trying to figure out how I could take down all of the butterflies from my living/dining area without a cry of outrage from my daughter. And it hit me....

Suggest we put them all on the wall in her room!

And she added some creativity to the equation-- she suggested that they fly in a loop-de-loop!



And I have been scrapbooking a little bit lately, but not as much as I'd like (too much going on!!) I've been working on some layouts with the October kit from My Scrap Shoppe, which I'll share soon.

Project 366, week 38

Here are my photos of the day for the past week:


Tuesday, September 16th: It was picture day at school, and because I'm too cheap to buy portraits for my kids, I made them pose in the backyard before going to school.


Wednesday, September 17th: The picture I took of Sage with her birthday cake before the party guests arrived.


Thursday, September 18th: Enjoying a relatively quiet day at home (I was tired from all the partying the day before! LOL!) Sage is playing with her new Polly Pockets.


Friday, September 19th: Cameron was asked to do a hayride for some neighbours at the farm and we got to go along! I love this shot of Austin. Jonah, Sage & I sat at the front of the hayrack and he was at the back. I called his name, he looked and I snapped. Not perfectly clear (okay, quite blurry!) but I love it!


Saturday, September 20th: Austin making jewellery with Sage. :)


Sunday, September 21st: We went to Stanley Park after church to have a wiener roast with Cam's SIL & her family. Jonah wanted to play on this (not sure what it's called) and wanted me to watch, so I took a bunch of photos. This was my favourite.


Monday, September 22nd: Sage got a new table and chairs for her birthday and wanted them in her room, along with her Little Tikes kitchen. So we spent several hours reorganizing her room and I took some pictures. This one was my favourite-- I love her dress shoes lined up and the toys on the shelves in the background!

So, which one is your favourite?

Sunday's Seven

My wonderfully, talented friend, Heather, shares a Sunday's Seven on her blog-- seven things she's thankful for during the past week. So, I thought I'd borrow her idea and share seven things for which I'm thankful for the past week.

So here goes....

1. That I participated in and finished the 10K Run for the Hills run in Treherne last Sunday. My goal was to run the whole thing (or more acurately, slow jog ;) ), which I did! Yay! And man, it was not easy, as it was all on gravel and there were lots of hills!! But I finished, with a time of 1 hour 23 minutes, which I was quite happy with. We'll see what kind of time I can shave off of it next year. ;)



2. That I get to stay at home with this girl full time. I love being a stay at home mom. And I think Sage appreciates it, too. She's been telling me lately: "Mom, I love you all day long!" Isn't she sweet?



3. That this guy is adjusting well to being in grade one full time. He had one day where, after lunch, he didn't want to go back to school. He said he just wanted to stay at home with Sage and I . And he cried. So heartbreaking. But we prayed and he went and I haven't heard anything else about it. He seems to like his class, his teacher, and three recesses a day! He's making new friends, too, which is awesome. :)

4. For the different pre-school programs our town offers. Sage and I have been attending Stay & Play and last week we registered her for Story time at the library that starts in October.

5. That my mom could come for a visit for Sage's birthday. She took us out for lunch (Sage wanted it to be just the girls, so I picked up McDonald's Happy Meals for the boys and they got to eat at school.)

6. That I got to scrapbook yesterday. I made this layout using the Scrappy Formula for the week at Create My Keepsake:



7. For the beautiful weather we've been having this weekend. We had a wiener roast this afternoon at Stanley Park his Cameron's sister and her family, which was really nice!

Party Time!!

It's Sage's birthday today. My baby girl is four!! I can't believe it... where has the time gone?

We actually had her party on Wednesday, because it was early closing, which worked so much better for her friends who are in school full time.

We went with a butterfly theme. Sage and I worked hard on cutting out a lot of butterflies from my scraps of patterned paper...



and decorated the house with them. Hanging them from the chandeliers...



using wooden skewers to display them in my hurricane lanterns...



and outside to welcome guests at the front door.



We made a butterfly cake.



Here are some shots with Sage and her guests.










(This is Sage's babysitter, Carley, who was so kind to come for cake and ice cream!!)



As part of their treat bags, we gave butterfly wings to each female guest (the young boys got bee wings and the older ones got pirate swords (yeah, at that point, the theme fell apart a little. ;) ))



After the other guests left, then our friend Lauren read one of the books that Sage received as a gift to my kids.



One last shot of the birthday girl in her jammies before bed. (The chipmunk-- a Webkinz :)-- was a gift from Lauren.)




And now it's done.

*Insert sigh of relief here. ;)