A Layout for a challenge

This is for Sneaky. We had choices of stuff we had to do on our LO. I chose to use 6 patterened papers and one solid, all chipboard embellies and ribbon, a 5x7 picture, and lyrics from a song. I used the Steven Curtis Chapman "Miracle of the Moment".

A Layout

I can never think of a title for my blog entries! LOL Anyway, here's a LO I started working on yesterday and finished up today. It was a lift off of 2 Peas. I don't really consider it a "lift" because I never use the same papers and exact embellishments, but I like to copy "placement" of stuff which is what draws me to a LO...not always what was used on it. The colors on this one were really nice too, so I tried to stay with the same reds, blues, yellows...I liked the brightness of it. I'm pretty happy with it except for maybe where I put the "moments", but I didn't have any other letters I wanted to use so it kind of bugs me that it overlaps on my head in the pic! I guess I should have picked out my title letters first and then I could have rearranged something. Oh well!! I'm still pretty happy with it. TFL :)

Just a few recent things

I finally got a good pic of that other BOM page I did and also added another one. The second one was for a challenge on our secret group. We had to use "white space" and add something of a "surprise". I used a pic I had taken for Miguel for Valentine's Day. I took a few, but this was one that I liked the best. My friend Cass edited it for me so that the only thing in color was my pink bra :) BTW, I gave Miguel those pics and he just LOOOOVED them!! :) Very flattering to know my baby still thinks I'm a HOTTIE :) Oh, and I did a LO of Mikey with his "Mr. Bear". I love the way it came out! Hmmm...not much else going on. Maybe I'll get some scrapping done later tonight or tomorrow. Night!

Well, it seems that blogger isn't letting me upload right now for some reason, so I'll have to try later!

Some random stuff....

I haven't updated in a while...oops! Sometimes it feels like I'm just going from one thing to another and never really get a chance to sit down and write here. By the end of the night, if I do get the chance to sit down, I'm just too tired to think and write!

So, I made another Valentine's Day card. This one was for my bestest friend Lori, who lives in Pennsylvania. I mailed it out to her on Saturday, so hopefully she'll get it in time for Valentine's Day.

Oh, I got one of those TALL bookshelves for my scraproom. I had looked a couple of weeks back at Wal Mart and they had the slot for them, but they were all out! I went back this past weekend and there was ONE...YAY! I snagged it up right away! So I moved stuff around in my room yet AGAIN...LOL...but now I was able to get my Cricut and Sizzix on top of a table. I think it looks a whole lot better and a bit spacier. I also got this wrought iron thing that I don't know exactly what it was intended for, but it works PERFECTLY for my ribbons! I also worked on a LO last night for a challenge on our secret scrap group. We had to use nothing but our "old" stash. I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. I usually don't do this type of LO very well, but I liked it. I think I'm going to get a nice frame for it and give it to my mom for Mother's Day. Oh and I did another page in my BOM, but I need to take a better pic of it. Well, that's pretty much it for now!

Some more Valentine cards and another page for my BOM

Here are my last two Valentine cards. These are for the kids. The one with the monkey is for Mikey of course! LOL The page for my BOM was done for a challenge on our secret scrapbook site. We had to do a LO about something we love and not use the traditional Valentine colors. That's all for now :)

At last...some scrapping!!

Gosh, I feel like I haven't done any real scrapping since we last cropped!! Don't know why because I HAVE been doing my BOM pages! Maybe because those are smaller pages....I don't know!! Anyway, but I did a couple of 12x12's and another page for my BOM! The kids went down semi-early and I got some quiet, mommy time...YAY!! Always nice to be in my room when it's just ME! :) :) Anway, it's late...almost midnight and I should get to bed. Lij has early release tomorrow so I need to get my treadmill workout out of the way before he gets home. I don't have much else to do besides that. I need to pack Mikey's bag because he's staying the night at my mom's Saturday so me and Miguel can go out and then have some "alone" time! LOL He won't be back until Miguel gets him on his way home Sunday. On Sunday, I'll do a LITTLE cleaning and then hopefully if Lij is back from his dad's early enough, spend a little "Mikey free" time with him. I know it's hard for him to get time with me when Mikey takes so much out of me so I hope we get to do that. Anyway, here are the LOs and I'm off to bed!!

Some Valentines and a photo shoot

So, I haven't gotten to "scrap" like I wanted to, but I have worked on some Valentine cards! And I'm proud to say that I did NOT lift them! LOL :) I still need about three more to go.

I also did a little photo shoot with the kids yesterday and today. Mikey wasn't really cooperating yesterday, but I got some REALLY good shots of Lij. Today I was able to bribe Mikey and got some great pics of him with "Mr. Bear". I can't wait to scrap those!

Well, both kiddos are asleep. Mikey didn't nap today so he went out pretty much right away. Let's just hope he stays down for the night! Thinking of going to my scraproom for a little "quiet, mommy time". That's if I don't waste too much time sittting here! LOL We'll see!!

Fourth page in my BOM

Here's the fourth page in my BOM. It took me a few days to finally get around to doing this after I had an idea, so I kind of lost my momentum, but I'm still fairly happy with the way it turned out. TFL :)

Another BOM LO

I forgot to post this last night after I got done with it! I have pics printed out to start my fourth page...maybe I'll get to work on it tomorrow. I hope I don't lose my momentum on this project and really get to finish a whole album about ME :)

Some scrappy stuff and some new curtains...

So I have done a little more scrapping: the second page in my BOM and another little shadow box that I put on an easel on a shelf in my scraproom. I also got new curtains in there. Not the pretty toile ones I wanted :( The shipping was NINE bucks on that site!! I got these at Wal Mart...just some simple black ones. I wish I could have found something with a pattern. Maybe if I do later on, I can always switch these into our bedroom. What else? Oh yes...good news on the treadmill front...SIXTEEN minutes of straight running today....came out to 1.4 miles!! YAY! Only KIND OF felt like dying! LOL My legs were hurting a bit. That makes six days of consecutive running....a good sign :) Well, that's about all going on here! More later.....