Leah's Crafty Life: May 2011

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Friday, May 27, 2011

Thursday, May 26, 2011

I got my garden planted over the weekend last week.. so excited thinking about the fresh beans and tomatoes that will be harvested this year. Every greenhouse I went to said we were in fact not late planting yet, especially since "the oldtimers" say not to plant before May 15th. *grins*

I have been wanting to get on here and update the ol' blog the last three days, but before I did so, I wanted to have Katelyn's Adlib solo Trumpet performance edited and ready to show, BUT I have been having technical difficulties. (This Mac is gonna be the end of me if I don't learn everything in a hot minute) I hope to have that up this weekend. Her Band Concert was amazing. We have such good teachers here in the County, I'm so thankful for all her wonderful teachers.

I got my Sassafras Lass goodie box from their sale, omg... such cool stuff in there!! Stuff I didn't even realize they had. Could only imagine the DT goodie boxes those lucky ladies get. *daydreaming*

I bought the May kit from The Scrapping Spot (they have a DT call going on right now) and created a couple of layouts with it. I'm gonna go ahead and share them here, because I've already submitted my application, and they were the first ones to see it. ;)

When I sit down to scrap, my mom is on my mind a lot.. so I'm starting to scrap her and my feelings about not having her here with me.

I just adore the papers from Bella Blvd's Family Dynamix line.

I'm a sucker for cute stick pins. (remind me to show you how I store mine)

Journaling says, "Before I lost you, I would have made fun of our clothes, hairstyles, and glasses. Now when I look at these photos, all I can see is Love."

The glasses and poofy hair are pretty dang funny tho!

And here's Samantha's classroom photo. Some of her classmates crack me up. The Tim Holtz clock arm is pointing to her. In the kit we got Rummikub game pieces. I just covered up the number with a cute flower.

I know the bubbles aren't suppose to be in the glue, but I swear it adds character. I like the look. Maybe I'll drop a drop or two of alcohol ink in while the glue is still wet next time.

I love twine! It's a good thing because it's so hot right now. I used it to accent a lot on this layout. For the loopy flower here, I just made figure eights with the twine, then stuck it to the back of the pop dot on the flower center, then added liquid glue to adhere it down.

We were given a lot of those dew drops, their the perfect small accent. I think the blue flower looks like he's smiling. :)

More twine detail

Kindergarten:

We have three sick ones in the house right now, so I'll keep my hugs and kisses to myself... stinks we couldn't make the free Vally Splash day today. Hope your day is a happy one.

More like this in: 2011, Bella Blvd., layouts, Mom, The Scrapping Spot

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Rain rain go away..

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Monday, May 16, 2011

My summer house

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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Catching up

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Where do I start? Let's see.

Doug and I got our iMac's on March 17th. Since then, it's been a world of learning for me. For the most part, everything has been a breeze to understand. Mac is pretty darn intuitive as far as getting you connected and back to basics.

Then comes the scrapbooker/photographer side of me. iMac and my Epson R1900 are not playing well together. The jerks. Both are big ticket money items and I would expect better from Mac. Evidently, the only real way to get Mac and Epson to play nice together is to go out and buy a calibration kit for the Mac. Then what I see on my screen will be correct, thus my printing will be accurate. If and when I order that, and my prints are not correct, I'm liable to throw one or both big ticket items out the new front door Doug installed.

The new front door is faaaabulous baby! The top half drops down and there is a screen on a roller. So has the glass slides down, so does the screen. I've been enjoying the spring weather leaving the front door open and that lovely nifty not let any bugs in the house screen open. *insert joyful face here*

Doug and I have been on a coffee kick. We've been ordering from Green Mountain Coffee. Our current loves are German Chocolate Cake (mine) and Wild Blueberry (his); Katelyn loves Glazed Chocolate Donut.. and all these are great made as iced coffees too. (yum)

My Scrapbox arrived a few days before the Macs did. There was a hustle n bustle of getting my scrap supplies cleared out of old iris carts, and organizing it in the new scrapbox. I do love that thing. I promise a more in depth review of mine very soon.

Our bedroom furniture came around March 23rd. The day before it was to be delivered, I got a hair up my but and decided to paint the bedroom gray. It's gorgeous! I need to still buy curtains for that room. I either want to accent in red or green... not sure yet, which is why I haven't bought curtains. Oh, and there's one other problem... I really don't know how to buy curtains. LOL The sizes I have are not the sizes on the market. I don't get how I'm suppose to make this work. Can someone fill a clueless girl in please?

That was all March.

The first couple weeks of April was getting use to the Mac, cleaning up from the bedroom and scrap/computer room overhauls and some major cleaning, Easter and the children's Spring break. Then Easter and Mother's Day starts eating away at my brain. I know Samantha had been 'secretly' making me Mother's Day cards, and that made me smile. Then BAM, as soon as I even thought about being happy that I am their mommy, I would think about how my Mom is no longer with us. How I won't be able to make her anything for Mother's Day this year. I couldn't remember what I had made her last year.. that's the thing about Blogs. If you use them regularly, you have a wealth of information at your fingertips if you brain gets a little foggy like mine. I was able to see what I made my mom last year here.

Being without her... well, words can hardly express how much it hurt.. how much it hurts to type this. I've really had a hard time losing her. For some reason, I really thought I would bounce back quicker. Heck, I'm just now (the last two weeks) started regularly cooking again at home like I used to. I think she took a big piece of me with her when she left... I just keep hoping and praying her soul is at peace, and that she's in a better place.

So April was pretty much half work, half pity party.
But I'm back.

I hope I don't stumble too much more this year.
A big thank you to all the ladies inquiring about me. Looking after me from online. It really means a lot that you thought of me during your busy lives as well.
I am trying to find laughter everyday, so it's a HAPPY day.

And May.
New bikes from Easter.