I (heart) school layouts!

School layouts are my  favorite layouts to do! I always love this new beginning for them. I can see their happiness & nervousness about their big day. I always have to get pictures of the new shoes & bags. Im the paparazzi mom who makes them go out early so we can spend 10min taking pictures. Yeah, they will get over it...someday!
I only have 1 school layout done though, a couple more to go, but I am SOOOOO lovin the Simple Stories Elementary Line from Memory Works! I just wish I would've bought more of it because both sides are literally so great I cant choose! I used another awesome sketch from Liz at The Scrappiest! Did I ever mention how much I love her sketch's!

Sorry for the blurriness, I must have made the file size to small.
Thanks for stopping by....I'm off to go study for my real estate classes, my 1st one was last night & my brain is now on overdrive. With that being said I didn't get any sleep...so maybe I will crawl back in bed instead! lol

The Scrappiest #82

Here is a layout I did for The Scrappiest. I REALLY loved this sketch! It was not something  I would've come up with on my own. I don't tend to leave a lot of negative space on my layouts, but I always love the look of it. This would've been a good layout to play with some of my mist but I never thought about it until now! Its a pretty simple layout, but I didn't think I needed to add a lot with that cutie pie!

Well I started my Maggie Holmes Photography class that I won from Peachy Cheap! How exciting right!(I love that place, If you have never been there, go bookmark it!) They had the drawing on their facebook fan page. I am now on week 3 and its awesome. She totally explains everything in a way I understand, & I think I can now start using MANUAL all the time! Woohoo! Now If only I had a audience that wasn't annoyed by my "paparazzi" camera....as my brother calls it.

I also have another exciting learning endeavor. I am going to start Real Estate classes soon. It has been something I have wanted to do for a long time and now the boys are all in school. I'm hoping I can put forth the time to do this...(If they aren't sick all winter, its already starting!). I know it will take a lot of time, and hard work for no pay....lol. It will be a challenge, but I am ready for it. I am so excited to learn something new! Wish me luck!

I know I don't tell you girls enough but thanks for stopping by & leaving comments. I love "seeing" your faces, and I try my best to stop by your blogs. I honestly need to limit the blogs I follow....there's too many & that makes it so hard to keep up, but I love reading everyone's blogs....so anyways THANKS friends!

My Scrap "Room"

I thought I would share my re-vamped scrap area with you girls! I am always changing my area. It is part of our, guess what you could call a den, but its more like a enclosed porch. The room, is long & narrow & has 13 windows! I love this room, but you cant put anything on the walls. I did have a desk but I moved that to the other end & is now used for our computer. The tv was in a big old ugly entertainment center that I wanted to get rid of. I mainly use it to workout, or the kids watch movies out here sometimes. I would like to just get a small flat screen eventually.

So Anyways, my mother-in-law went into the nursing home & when we cleaned up her house I found this most awesome old formica table. (I should've taken a better picture). It has all these black, silver & gold asterisks all over it. I LOVE this table! The leaves on both sides can be raised If I ever have someone else over. I also found this dresser, & I turned my nose up at it. But I kept thinking about it....I knew it had a ton of space & would work great for storing my scrap stuff. Then we got our new van with stow-n-go and I just had totry it out! With the help of my hubby we went and rescued this dresser. It is missing one drawer in this picture because my hubby forgot it...whoops. I took the picture anyways, I needed to start painting before I lost my mojo.

So Anyways, here is the finished results of my Scrap "Room".....There is more. I do also have a old shelf thingy that holds my albums & my cricut on top, but I need to eventually purchase something better to hold my albums because I have too many!

Our house is on the market, so who knows maybe somebody I could have a real room, but I am more than happy with the space I have right now. I think I would really love to have a Scrapbox. I seen one of these in person at a Scrapbook Expo & I really loved it. Does anyone have one of these?

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek!

The Scrappiest #81

Hello Everyone! Here is the latest sketch from Liz at The Scrappiest. She is probably regretting having me on the design team right now! 2 weeks ago I sent her the wrong sketch, now this week I sent her a email with the layout NOT attached. So If you go over and check it out I might not be on there but the other design teams work is awesome!

I feel like my brain is on sensory overload right now! Last week I was trying to clean up my computer because It was running slow and ended up wiping out my vacation pictures. I was not to happy. I didn't even realize I deleted them and I defraged my computer which ruined them. But today, thanks to Recuva.com I was able to retrieve most of them from my camera's memory card. Yeah!

Hope everyone's had a better week than me! Thanks for stopping by!

We have a Winner!

Okay Ladies, sorry I am a couple days late in posting the winner. We had some great labor day fun & a lot of candy to show for it! First off I wanted to share my layout for The Scrappiest Sketch# 80. I loved this line of paper from October Afternoon,  I love the banners....& I loved the sketch!

AND THE WINNER IS: TEENABUGG38 said......

Oh my that is yummy!!!! Congrats on your new site!! Just posted your giveaway on my blog :) Thanks for such a generous giveaway!!!

Please email me your address, Tina!

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