Anniversary Present - A Little Peek

I'm so excited to be registered for Scrapfest Oshawa! Scrapbooking is so much more fun when it's coupled with socializing, chatting and eating (maybe drinking too!) :-} At last year's Scrafest Oshawa, I took this class and was so thrilled with what I created.


Here's a peek at the album I made for our anniversary last year with the pages I stenciled and misted. It's one of my favourite projects ever. More to follow soon, so stay tuned!

A Few More Overdue Layouts

If I'm ever going to get caught up with the layouts I want to post, I'm going to have to get cracking! Here is the layout I mentioned in this post.  The photos here are older photos back when Evan was still playing soccer.

If I wait until I have the journaling complete for many of my layouts, I'll never get them up.  So here is a page I created from a Basic Grey page kit by Kelly Goree, which I showed a peek of here.  This is one of the first pages I created about Merlin.  Basic Grey page kits are sure an easy way to get layouts completed at crops when there is a ton of chatting going on while scrapping!




I posted about this layout here. I had a lot of fun creating this page about the trip Stephen and I took to the Bahamas, just the two of us.  I will get around to journaling on this layout one of these days. 

You can see more about our vacation to the Bahamas here.

Fun at Scrapfest Oshawa!

It's taken me a few weeks but I've finally found a moment to post about how much fun Scrapfest Oshawa was! Even though I had to work Friday and didn't arrive until after dinner, we still made the most of the entire weekend. Here's a peek at our crop table - notice its proximity to the food! :-}

It was my first time at the Oshawa event, which is smaller than the Kitchener Scrapfest in the spring that I've been going to for years, but it wasn't small on fun! A few tables behind us and to the left was Scrapalicious gals' Mary, Clare and Suzanne's table. We managed to visit quite a bit!

It feels like ages since I've had a chance to see Virginia, and it was nice to spend a few minutes chatting while she was at the Scrapbook & Cards Today booth. Virginia also taught two classes during the weekend making her time quite limited so I'm glad we had a chance to catch up.

One of our first (and recurrent, it turned out!) stops was the make & take table at The Workshop. Their Christmas ornaments were beautiful, and will make fantastic teachers' gifts. Can't wait to give them out.

I took Christy Riopel's misting class and had a fantastic time. Christy is always a blast, and this class was so well put together. We all finished our mini-albums and each looked uniquely amazing. I can't post a pic of mine here as I plan to give it to my hubby as a gift, so photos of it will come later.

It was so fantastic to see Amanda who came all the way from Saskatoon to laugh and scrap with us for the weekend. Her brilliant take on the Trick or Treat theme for the layout contest took first prize. It was a stunning layout, with brilliant journaling a la typical Amanda fashion!

It was wonderful to finally stay at the gorgeous Chez Jen Bed and Breakfast! :-} Now I know why everyone comments on how beautiful Jen's home is! Thanks, Jen! We had a wonderful brunch the next morning, and - lucky us - Kelly Panacci dropped in to dine with us. So much fun!

I think the best part of the trip (for me anyway) was our meal at Lone Star, where our waitress Ellie May was very entertaining (ask Sue about her charming squeezable pen!), the drinks were incredible and my food (unlike some of the others) was delectable! This is a classic photo of us toasting the weekend.

There's nothing like great friends to make a scrappy weekend complete. Cheers to this awesome group, until we meet up to scrap again: Leanne, her sister Kim, my cousin Sharon, Sue, Amanda, Jen and everyone else who made the weekend so fantastic!


Oh, and ask anyone at the table about our great "Peking Lo". It's a timeless classic! :-}

T is for Technology!

When you combine a new Macbook Pro, a (somewhat) new look and feel to blogger, a (similarly somewhat) new look and feel to photobucket and the crazy schedule of three kids and a business, what do you get?  Nothing, that's what!  Nothing on my blog, that is, for more than two months!  Man, that's quite the hiatus for me - a longer break than I've ever taken from blogging. 

All of the technology changes have made a quick post less than quick, so even posting something short and sweet has been a bit daunting

But it's been a good hiatus for our family - a bit hectic, but filled with sunshine, swimming, recitals, visits with cousins, as well as great report cards and piano exam marks!

Sadly, it's been filled with very little scrapbooking.  In my last post I mentioned skypebooking with Leanne over the NSD weekend.  Here is a little peek at one of the layouts I created that night.  It is from an awesome Kelly Goree class kit I purchased at Scrapfest, and it still needs journaling, but it's a cute tribute to our lovable pup, Merlin.

I've also started the Scrapping Nook's 100 Photos of Summer challenge once again this year.  I had so much fun doing it last year so I hope I can capture as many of the images this time around.  Stay tuned and I will add a few of those shots here.

Also upcoming for me and the kids - we're attending a drum corps show later this week.  Can't wait!  It will be a first for the kids, and I'm sure they'll love it, particularly now that Evan is taking drum lessons - yes, you read that correctly!  More on that to follow too, hopefully in less than two months! :-} 

In the interim, thanks for checking in here after such a long time, and I hope you're having a spectacular summer! 

Happy National Scrapbook Day!

In honour of National Scrapbook Day, I thought it was time I got caught up and posted a blog post! It's been a few weeks since Scrapfest, which was a total blast, and I can't believe that I just posting about it now!

We had a great group of ladies at our table, starting with Leanne and her neighbour Nancy, my cousin Sharon, as well as part of the old gang from Scrapalicious - Lancia, Virginia, Suzanne and Clare, and between classes, Jennifer and Sue joined us here and there too.

Sue was taking photos most of the show at the Canadian Scrapbooker booth, so we stopped by in a bunch of different groups and has our photos taken.  Here I am with Leanne, Sharon and Nancy.




 Here's the Scrapalicious gang that was at our table, along with a few of the other ladies at the table next to us.  It was so much fun being together and reminiscing about our favourite LSS!

Leanne and I took a beeswax mixed media canvas class with Christy Riopel and had so much fun playing with wax.  Every finished canvas in the class looked different. Mine is pictured at left. Leanne's looked completely fantastic too.

Every Scrapfest has a theme, and this year's layout contest had to have a tropical vacation theme.  I entered this page into the contest.  I was lucky enough to place second overall in the People's Choice award, but also won the best photo of the crop, as selected by the Canadian Scrapbooker judges.  The photo here is from our recent cruise on the Allure of the Seas, and depicts Stephen and the kids heading back to the ship after a day at port.

I started one more layout during the crop which still needs journaling so I will only post a peek of it now. This page is from our Bahamas trip in the fall.








I've been so busy lately that I haven't had time to blog at all, and while I've been away both blogger and photobucket (which is where I store my online photos) made major changes to their interfaces. I'm completely lost in trying to create a blog post - so I'm trusting that this one will be formatted something like my former posts! If it looks wacky, and the photos and matching text don't line up at all, now you'll know why!

Yesterday for National Scrapbook Day I skypebooked with Leanne and managed to get two layouts almost finished - everything but the journaling. Hopefully I'll get those finalized soon and can get them posted here. I hope you had a fantastic National Scrapbook Day weekend!