Thor’s Hammer

is the jack-o-lantern my DSIL carved for my DGS this year. He does a wonderful job!

All products are Katie Pertiet at Designer Digitals!  Thanks for looking!

A Super Hero Birthday

Bobby celebrated his seventh birthday with a Super Hero Theme. His dad made his cake as a large 7 then added the super hero emblems.

Inspired by a sketch by Debbie Sanders. Thanks for looking!

The Way It Was

 
Journaling reads:
In 1964 Bob purchased 90 acres of property in Lewisville. 
The propery had several old buildings still on it. An old log house, a shed and
a barn.  All were built between 1850 and 1900. They were built down in a
valley , dismantled and each piece numbered and brought up to the
top of the hills and rebuilt . If you look inside the barn you can see the
original large logs that were used for the foundation and supporting
structures. Bob kept the structures as long as he could. The barn
eventually feel down and had to be removed. He sold the property
recently and the new owner took down the log house.
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An Old Log House

This log house was on the property when Bob bought his property in 1964. So rustic, and small animals had taken up residence there!

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Looks Like Broccoli!

While on our way to PA to visit relatives this summer I mentioned how many trees were on the mountain sides and Bobby replied “Looks like Broccoli!”  I thought about that comparison and he is right!

I recolored most of the elements on the lower half of this layout, using different tools in PSE. Thanks for looking!

Captured

This is old barn off the side of the road in PA. I just am drawn to old barns.  I guess it is the weathered look of them and their characteristics as they age.

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Catch of the Day

Maggie caught four fish when we went fishing! Here’s just one of them!

Thanks for looking! All products are from Designer Digitals.

Be You

A collage of different expressions I caught on Bobby’s face! Love that sweet face!

I used a hexagon shape from the graphics products in PSE11. I then made an outline of the hexagon and deleted the original shape.  I duplicated  it four times more and filled the hexagon shape with color to make them into clipping masks.   I clipped my photos to the masks, and then made a white outline stroke around each one and  moved them close together.  All products from Designer Digitals.

So Very Thankful

Finally getting last week’s lesson for the class I am taking with Maggie.

Maggie is thankful for her dog, her family, her paints, and whoever made sweets! My journaling to her says:

I am thankful for your creative spirit. You have always loved coloring drawing, finger painting...anything where you could create a picture. I have many pictures of your chalk art. You even left me a message on the driveway that you had stopped while I was away.

I am thankful for your imaginative spirit also.  You can be a princess one minute and a super hero the next.  You always make little objects  into whatever you want them to be. You always love  it when I make up a story for you at bedtime when you spend the night.

I am thankful for you. You are my first grandchild, and I waited a long time for you to arrive. I am thankful for your pretty smile,
your unconditional love, the way you always run to meet me, even though you saw me the day before. I am thankful for getting to cook
and bake. with you. You truly are a gift.

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One Fine Day

What do you do when you have outdoor activities and the weather is absolutely perfect? You know warm, sunny and a cool breeze. You scrap a picture of it!!!!


Hope you have a perfect day! Thanks for looking!

Patience

Waiting for a fish to bite takes a lot of patience! 

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Fall Hiking Spree

This is the 50th year the local MetroParks here has done the Fall Hiking Spree! Bob & I are participating this year. You need to hike eight of the selected trails to earn  your hiking staff and shield. We began our journey this week by hiking the Oxbow Trail  in the Cascade Valley Park. You have to finish all eight that you choose to do by November 30.

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Two More Layouts

I have done for challenges. The first one was for the mask appeal challenge, and the second was for the 2 scrappers challenge and was to be about Fall sporting events.

and the Cleveland Indians made the playoffs! The photo I used is from the internet.

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Instant Moments

is what you get when you want to photograph a rainbow! I caught this one the other night just at sunset. Strange thing was he had not rained since the night before. There must have been moisture in the atmosphere to be able to make this beauty!

All products are by Katie Pertiet.  Thanks so much for looking and have a wonderful day!

Two more layouts

for the class Maggie & I are taking! The first one is about her now and what she thinks she will be doing in twenty years.  The second is a self portrait/snapshot of her now.

 

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Friends

Today they are having a chalk chat over at Designer Digitals and I was inspired to finally try a chalkboard layout. This was inspired by a page by Amy Mallory. You can find it here. Here’s mine:

All products are from Designer Digitals which is having there quarterly sale with everything in the store at 30% off.

Katie’s throwdown

over at Designer Digital last evening was a lot of fun. She gave us ingredients that had to be included on your layout and the layout has to be posted by 9AM this morning.  Here’s mine:

The ingredients were the bg paper, tag, star, arrow and the triangles. Thanks for looking!

Flight 93 National Memorial

We visited the memorial in August and it is quite an experience. They have done a lot since I was there not long after the attack. There was only a shed and chain link fence there then. All this work has been done with private donations-no tax money is used to build the memorial.

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Getting to Know Maggie

Here’s our latest layout for our class Making Memories with Children.

The journaling by Maggie says: “I like my room. My favorite part of my room is my sign. It says Girls Only-no boys aloud It is funny I make my brother follow it”.

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The Real Dawg Pound

When you are a Cleveland Browns fan you are one of the Dawgs. If you attend a game the prize seats are in the Dawg Pound!

My friend Barb & I were ready for some football Sunday when the 2013 season kicked off  along with a few of our four-legged friends!

Hope you have a fun day!

Back to School

The beginning of the school year brings so much excitement to the kids this time of year. Did they get the teacher they wanted? Are there friends all in their class? I registered for a class to take with my grandchildren  called “Making Memories with Children” with Jana Morton and her girls Mia & Ellie over at Creative Passions Classes.  She has made up templates for us to use with inserts of art work and journaling included by the children.   It will make an album about the child by the time we are done in four weeks. Here are my first two layouts. I let Maggie pick some of the colors and items we used on these pages.

Thanks for looking! All products are by Katie Pertiet and Lynn Grieveson at Designer Digitals.

Beginning a Journey

Here’s a page I did documenting the beginning of our journey with our bikes. This is for the Mask Appeal Challenge –Soften Those Edges at Designer Digitals.

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Awesome

This is the view we saw driving in to visit the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, PA.

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Here’s a second posting for today!

I thought I would share the recipe page for Cheeseburger Soup!

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Recipe pages

I have been wanting and needing to go thru all my recipes and re-do them as they are old, faded, smeared etc. So I was jump started by Katie Pertiet’s new Cooked Collection over at Designer Digitals and finally came up with a design I think I like.  I lifted a design from a Pinterest page and made a template which I can use for all my pages  for continuity. I will change colors, and patterns as I go to relate to my recipes.  Here’s the first recipe I made:

Products used are by Katie Pertiet and retired products by Pattie Knox.

There is No One Quite Like You

is a page I did this morning!

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Are We There Yet?

Here we are in our driveway getting ready to leave for Pennsylvania . I had to have some fun with this photo. This is our grandchildren’s first trip with us to PA.  With exception of the background and the road this layout was made with scraps.

I am entering this at 123 Get Scrappy for the new challenge. I used the top row for a hexagon, red, and brads. Thanks for looking!

Sweetest Berry in the Bunch

Maggie could not wait to pick blueberries when we arrived in Pennsylvania!

All products are My Minds Eye. Thanks for looking!

Sunset

I woke up at 5AM this morning so decided to scrap this  photo of the beautiful sunset we saw as we returned to our motel room one evening in Johnstown, Pa.

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Survival Bracelets

While we were in PA Christy taught Maggie how to make survival bracelets. She made the two on her arm.

Products used are by MME, and Echo Park. TFL!

Fun Under the Sun 2013

Here’s Maggie, Bobby & Nick having  fun in the pool At Pat & Donny’s in Johnstown, PA.

Being Silly

I did this for the Saturday Scraplift Challenge at Designer Digitals-all pics in a row! The grands were being silly with Aunt Kellie while waiting for the fireworks to begin!

All products are from DD! Thanks for looking!

Maggie’s Work!!!!

My granddaughter did some scrapping yesterday and I can’t believe how much her scrapping has changed!

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Take Me Out to the Ballgame

The grandchildren got to go to an Akron Aeros game. The Aeros are a AA Minor league team affiliated with the Cleveland Indians! On this special Sunday they got to meet the players and run the bases. Sounds like a fun day to me!

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“and the rockets red glare”

 

My husband got these shots of the fireworks last week.   Thanks for looking!

Great Life

Bob & I got new bikes! So Fun!

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I would like to Thank all

Of the men and women, and their families who have served and fought to earn and preserve our freedoms.

Sincerely, Cindy