Serene is

what it was floating out there in the ocean! I so enjoyed that trip. Don't forget Thursday is the big Back to School-Yeah! Blog Hop at STM!
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Big Announcement!!!!!

We are having a blog-hop on Scrapping the Moments! On September 1. 2011 with lots of challenges for you to do!  Please come over and join in the fun! Here's a cute badge we made up for it also!

Book of Me!

I am so excited as I decided to start an album about my life story! It is called a Book of Me. I just finished the introductory page and am posting it here.  I hope I continue to work on it as my friend Pat gave me some sites and prompts for direction. I am sure it will be a slow process and some may not be easy. It will have a lot of journaling so that is good as I need practice with that! Some will be viewable some will be gently tucked away in a pocket on the page. Here's the first page!

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A Painted Lady

was what I scrapped today! This is the Ashley Rose at Cape May, NJ. She is a beauty! One of the many victorians in Cape May that we saw when we took the historic tour! Thanks for  Looking!

Back from Vacation!

 I had the best time this past week! Went to the New Jersey Shore and went whale/dolphin watching, visited Cape May and Atlantic City Boardwalk! A great vacation! Met my friend Pat from Vermont there and took my neighbor and friend Barb with me! Drove over 1000 miles round trip! Here are a couple of layouts I did today with pics from my trip!

This is the Cape May Lighthouse

And this is the only whale we saw!

Layout Swap!!!!

Awww yes we did a layout swap over at Scrapping the Moments! Layout swap you ask? We swaped photos and scrapped them, then mailed the originals to the girl who's photo we scrapped! What fun it was. We also sent needed information like a name and age or when the photo was taken! Here is the one I scrapped of Lynn's grandson Owen and his dog Lucy

Then I sent a photo of Maggie at age 3 to Diana and she scrapped this beautiful page

I love it sooooooo much!!!! It is so much better in person, all the detail she puts into a page!

If you think it sounds like we are having fun you should join us!

Learning to swim underwater

is what has been all about in my backyard! Bobby & Maggie both now swim underwater! How much fun is that! Have a fun day and thanks for looking!

Bloom & grow

This is Maggie fingerpainting for the first time! Thanks for looking!

Here's a new one

I scraplifted a layout by Scrappinvt for this layout of Becky in her Junior year of high school-1989-90 school year! Thanks for looking!

New Challenges up at

Scrapping the Moments. This is my sample for the Double Page Sketch challenge. A very Special Day " & a very special gift. Maggie got her haircut and donated a 12 inch ponytail to Locks of Love, who make wigs for children going thru chemotherapy." reads the journaling. Maggire also picked the papers I used for this layout!

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Bloom

Is what I named this layout of Becky's senior photo! This is a shadowbox design I recently learned how to make at Miss Art's Papercrafting School.

I used Prima patterned paper, and American Crafts cardstock, Prima made the green flower which I chalked and I made the pink one! Thanks for looking!

New Challenges

are up at The Moments and I tried the one that I thought would be the most challenging first. We were to get our inspiration from an artist named SHAG who is doing works of art for Disney World. These coasters are where I got my inspiration-

and my layout is

Our Bobby wanted to scrapbook a page so this was his first scrapping layout.

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Some New Layouts and New Challenges

I have done the past couple of days. Maggie at one year in both of these, I scraplifted a layout by a friend named Diana for this layout! Thanks Diana for the inspiration!

This layout I did for my Die Cut Challenge over at The Moments. The new challenges went up today-if you are new there or are interested we post new challenges twice a month!

Here's a link, for some reason my link button is not working. http://www.scrappingthemoments.com/index.php

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Meeting Maggie!

This is the ultrasound of Maggie and the journaling tells of how I felt the day I found out I would be a grandmother for the first time. The journaling reads:

Maggie the first time I saw this photo was the day I learned I would be a grandmother for the first time. I was so excited as I thought I would probably never have grandchildren. I loved you the first moment I saw you. You filled my heart with love. I could not wait to meet you, and get to know your personality. I tried so hard to imagine what you would be like, a boy or a girl. My greatest wish was that you would be a healthy happy baby.

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Fanciful Flowers!

Is the name of the class I am in the midst of taking at the Miss Art's Papercrafting School. I won a month's membership by winning Survivor for amonth over at The Moments. I am so enjoying it and here are two flowers I learned to make on that site today!

A Card and a a layout

were the projects finished today! The card needed to have stamped images which I have, I also dry embossed the edges and then inked them.

This second one was for a Christmas in July so I scrapped the photocard I received from my nephew and his family. I also added handstitching for the ribbons of the ornaments.

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It has been a very Interesting Day

Here! Bobby and Maggie have been scrapping! Maggie has scrapped before but this is Bobby's first attempt. I have to publish their layouts for the world to enjoy!
This first one is Maggie's- It reads "Bobby was cold from the water so I rapt him up with the toul. I was so happy"




This is Bobby's first attempt! I think he did a fabulous job!

Thanks for sharing these with me!

Summer Days are Here Again

Summ I did this layout for the One Little Word challenge-Summer was the word! I made the photo collage from a Kerri Bradford Storyboard in PSE9. Thanks for looking!

Cars!

Maggie & Bobby went to see the new Cars movie, so the next day is a re-enactment of the movie-and lines from the movie on my patio! Thanks for looking!

Here's a new one!

I did this for a color challenge over at The Moments of course!

Love the colors in this! Thanks for looking!