How quickly does the house get away from you?

This card was one I created from a Challenge Sketch from Splitcoaststampers. The Sketch was from a few weeks ago, I am a little behind. This card uses the Priceless Stamp Set.


So, my kids are on vacation this week and I am trying so hard to keep up with my house but everytime I turn around it seems to have gotten away from me. I put one room back together and then BOOM another room seems to have tornado Madeleine, Dylan and Jackson whirling through it. It's Thursday, almost through the vacation week!


I have a great blog that I read that I want to share http://thepioneerwoman.com. She has a companion site called The Pioneer Woman Cooks that you can get to from her main site. She has great recipes and funny stories about how she went from High Heels to Tractor Wheels - The story of how she met and married the Marlboro Man. She takes wonderful pictures too. They are just amazing. She has great inspiration out on the pioneer of her kids, the Marlboro Man, the horses and other animals and the amazing landscape.


Off to chase the tornados and try to keep the house contained!

Scrap and Spa

Well after much travel on Friday, LaGaurdia was a nightmare, I finally made it to O'Hare and found my sister waiting in baggage claim. She had been waiting for me for 8 hours due to all my delays! I had listened to my ipod most of the day and Kristi read her book and watched her movie on her portable DVD. We got our luggage and humor back and headed to get the rental car to begin the 1 1/2 ride to Scrap and Spa. We arrived late. It was very confusing what time we actually arrived because I left NY time, arrived Chicago time and then drove back into Eastern Time in Michigan where S & S is. We unloaded our stuff so we would be ready to get down to business and start scrapping the next morning and headed to bed. Saturday we scrapped our hearts out. Kristi, my sisiter worked on her Disney Album and I worked on my beach pictures. We managed to have packed fairly well and accomplished a lot. She finished all that she had brought and I only had a few craft keepers left with planned pages. It was really a nice time catching up with my sister and sharing a hobby I love. Scrap and Spa is sort of like an upscale camp for scrappers. The rooms are small, but we spent little time in them, you can walk around in no make up and bed head, as you can tell from my picture. Diane the hostess is very sweet and wonderful. The food is really really good, Diane serves you wonderful homemade goodies and food and the Scrap House has so many tools to add nice touches to your pages. I posted all my pages for you to see! I sprained my wrist Tuesday Night so I was the One-Armed Scrapbooker all weekend. I took Tylenol and Advil in intervels to stave off the pain and was able to power through. All in all a great trip.

The One Armed Scrapbooker

These are all the layouts I completed on my sister weekend scrap at Scrap and Spa. I worked mostly with my left hand and did what I could with my right. I was able to do quite a bit more than I expected. Eyelets and such were sort of off limits, but I think I did really well with what I was able to handle. My favorite part of the tools that they had available besides the Cricut was the printer that let you put a 12x12 piece of paper through. It was nice to put journaling, quotes and titles right onto the layouts.


These layouts are all the beach pictures from our 2007 Surfside Beach Vacation. I limited what I was working on so I could get a handle on the supplies I would need to take all the way to Chicago.

Mike's Valentine

I got the kit of the month from Lisa Bearnson's website. Each month they have a kit and January's was this one called "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told". I put it together for Mike's Valentine. Of course, I put it together and planned on filling in the details with my own handwriting and before I could write it all out I sprained my right wrist and I am right handed! I told Mike I would finish it when my wrist heals but I did show him what I had finished.
It comes in this nice tin.






This is the tin open with the scrapbook inside.






This is the cover it says "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told"
and it has a picture of Mike and I leaving the church on our wedding day.





This is the first page and the little quote says "Our story is not a fairy tale, it's real life"





This is where I will put my first impressions about meeting Mike.





This page is for the story of how we met. Which was through a mutal friend.





This is supposed to be for your dating life.







Both these pictures were ironically taken at weddings. The top one was taken at my sister's wedding and the bottom was taken when we were headed to a friends wedding.





This is our engagement picture that appeared in the newspaper.





This picture was taken at the engagement photo shoot but as you see my hair just looks MUCH to big!















This photo is from the shower Mike's family had for us.





These pictures are from the shower my family had for me and our rehersal dinner.












We headed to Disney after we said I Do.









These are some of those undated randam picture I found of us before kids.





This wasn't our first home together but it was the first house we bought in Chicago.





I love this picture of Mike and I, it was taken New Year's Eve two years ago.





Why we would do it all again!

What are we doing for Club in February?

This card shows off the One of a Kind Stamp Set, Boho Blossoms Punch, Boho Backgrounds Stamp Set and Berry Bliss Paper.





This card shows off the fading image technique as the new star punch plus the faux tile technique in the background that you make with your scoring blade.





This is a quick a cute spring basket that you can create with a tag that shows off the scallop punch and the sell-a-bration set So Many Scallops.