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Pumpkin Carving......(out of season layout alert)

My dear friend Amy is challenging me to scrap! She must know I need to do a layout once in a while to keep my sanity! I have so many wonderful kits by so many talented designers that I'm dying to use and I always get so caught up in what kit to use and what pictures to use with the kit.............and since I'm a self proclaimed template junkie........I also find myself trying to figure out which template I want to use... Finally after a little prodding from Amy I have completed a layout!! I sure I hope I get the 2nd page done today! I really do like 2 pagers! Oh, I feel a little strange about posting out of season layouts........but considering I'm way behind in scrapping and I felt inspired to scrap some Halloween photos in July; what the heck!

This layout was created with Spookable by Dani Mogstad and the template is by Eva Kipler.


You can pick up Dani's Kit at the Sweet Shoppe!

I've been going through old layouts from when I used to scrap 8x10 and giving them face lifts and making them 12x12. I really have a LONG way to go but one of these days I'll get there!

Template 26 by Jill and Jack Scraps
Kits: Bath Time Fun by Verena Karolyi and Splish Splash by Rhonna Farrer

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more Here Fishy Fishy

Credits: Here Fishy Fishy by Melissa Bennett

Here Fishy Fishy

I have wanted this kit by Melissa Bennett since it was first released. Finally today after finding a coupon in the DST insider I trotted on over to Melissa's store and got this kit!! Love it.

Here are my first two layouts!

Labor of love

Last summer my husband brought home hundreds of tulips that his work had dug up and thrown out after their spring bloom. We layed them all out in in our basement to let the foliage dry out so we could cut them back and store them for fall. Then we had an unsightly amount of rain come about and my basement filled a bit with water so we had to move the tulips to the garage and start the drying process all over. Finally in late summer we were able to remove all the foliage and store the bulbs for the fall. After giving away large amounts of bulbs we planted probably about 200 tulip bulbs in our front and back yards. This spring we the most beautiful blooms. I can't wait to see them again next year! I don't have much scrap mojo right now..almost creative block but when I saw this 2 pager QP set by Verena I knew i had to have it for these pics! Check out her entire kit Sprightly Spring!

Fibers!

Found this little quiz on Beckie's blog.. Thought I'd give it a go ... but I'm not sure I believe the outcome.... at least not these days!

You are Fibers!
Fun and crazy at times. You are a warm fuzzy kind of person. You run around getting things done but still find time for fun! You have so many diverse interests that it is often hard to pin you down to any one thing. People love your friendly attitude and carefree ways. You often brighten other people's days. But Fibers Beware - Sometimes people don't take you seriously because of your happy-go-lucky ways. Sometimes you find yourself feeling left out from decision making that could directly affect you. Even though you like to be happy and cheerful, make sure others know that you can also be serious and in tune with reality.

KC's new American Idol

Listen to his single!

No mojo

I can't get back in the scrapping groove so I used a QP by Cinzia Loosemore from her Urban Grunge Set at the Digichick!

The David Showdown...TONIGHT

Don't know about the rest of you but I'm certainly looking forward to the David showdown tonight! I know the show has gotten a bit boring this season but it hasn't kept me from watching or supporting our hometown boy! I'll be glued to the screen and rooting for David Cook. (gotta love David Archuleta's cuteness)...but David Cook is representing Kansas City!! He's also from my husbands hometown and the town where I did my student teaching! Too bad he wasn't one of my students! For a listen to a couple of David Cooks songs from this season scroll down to my play list. My two favorites are on there! I LOVE what he did with Mariah Carey's song!


Also rooting for Kristi and Mark on DWTS!

Kids Fishing Tournament

Today we took the boys to the kids fishing tournament. It's an annual thing they do with their Pa Pa. We caught a total of 4 small fish which we released after the awards ceremony. Here are a few pics!
Heading to the Lake..

Logan's catch

Landon's Catch

Logan wins the "Funniest Fish" Trophy

Landon won the "Ugliest Fish" Trophy

Jackson won the "Skinniest Fish" Trophy

Finally he embraces the uggliest fish award!

snappy of the fam!

Beautiful weather and a little family fun are just what the Dr. ordered!!

So cute

Ok, I decided to squeeze in a layout. I disparately want to get back to scrapping. After I blogged earlier I decided to at least do one today! This is my nephew taking a break to go sliding on his first birthday!

The kit is Take me Home available at the Sweet Shoppe. (Lauren Grier, Micheline Martin, and Shawna Clingerman.) Template by Aggie Aviso

Map Yourself

Scroll to the footer and add your pretty faces to my map!!! I have lots of catching up to do in the scrapping world. I have been on and am still on a long break. I've had a black cloud hanging over my head....I feel like Lemony Snickets as I have had a series of unfortunate events lately. As most of you know I've nearly dropped of the face of the earth. My computer crashed in early April. Three weeks later when I finally got a new hard drive, I went to restore things off my EHD and to my disbelief.....yep you guessed it another unfortunate thing! My EHD had not fully backed up all my files. It was so strange b/c I would have papers from a kit but elements missing. Loads of full kits missing...ouch... I lost all the layouts I had completed in 2008, hundreds of pictures that I no longer had on my digital camera, TONS of scrapbooking things...this list continues. Tracking down all my purchases and asking for restoration of links was a booger and I felt terrible. I wish to thank all those who helped me out.. A warm virtual hug and thank you to Verena and Doreen, Andrea Gold, Lauraskathi, Melissa Bennett, The Digichick, Scrapbook-bytes, Retrodiva, Cinzia Loosemore, GDS and everyone else (if I missed you, please know I do truly appreciate you help and thank you). Finally after days of sifting through winkflash where I had most of my 2007 and 08 photos uploaded, I was able to recover several family photos...others lost altogether. I have had to put the rest of my recovery process on the back burner for other unfortunate events. We took part in a special program last June to purchase a vehicle. Now were gearing up for the fight of our life with hundreds of other residents from KS, MO, NE, and OK. We have learned that many of our documents were altered and forged by the dealership and they are also no longer honoring the program. We will most likely join the class action lawsuit. We have to do something b/c this has put us in the worse kind of mess ever. I want to throw up just thinking about it. In the midst of all of this, my Grandfather whose health had been fading for some time, passed away last Friday afternoon. I got the call from my youngest sister; bless her heart. I had not been back home since Christmas so I am regretful to not have seen him one last time. We traveled back home where I spent a good few days with my family. I realized that I had not seen some of my family in 10 years or more. WOW. Life really just happens and before you know it you've lost touch with people. I felt like we all needed name tags. Those were a few really sad days and even still so sad, although I know that my grandpa is resting peacefully now. He no longer has to suffer. I will miss him. Through it all, I do believe this may have been a wakeup call for all of us to not simply go through the motions of life and loose sight of the more important things. I have since started a family blog and hope to add as many family members as I can to contribute in hopes we'll keep up with one another better. We'll see. After a long 3 hour scenic drive home we arrived late Tuesday evening. Still completely exhausted but slowly catching up. I'm gathering that 2008 is not going to be the best year of my life but remain optimistic that 09 will be better...lol...it's only May. I pray to God that the rest of this year will not hold any more unfortunate events for me...at least not large scale ones. I honestly don't know how much more I can take. I am scared to do anything outside of my regular routine b/c I have a feeling something else major is going to hit me like a ton of bricks. We're supposed to go on vacation in July and now I'm even questioning that. I keep telling myself to just breathe. lol Anyway now you all know why I've been and may be MIA for periods of time in the near future. I am really just trying to put the majority of my focus onto other things but hoping to not completely lose touch with the digi world! One of these days I hope to get some layouts made! Ok, I've seriously rambled on for long enough. If you've read through all of this I commend you! LOL. I'll be in touch!
Hugs,
Theresa

The Color Quiz!

Your Actual Problem

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Childhood crushes. LOL

How on earth did my Mother tolerate me pinning up posters of these boys and so many more all over my room. She must have had a good ole laugh. Just a couple childhood heartthrobs! ROTFL