A Few Layouts

I have gotten quite a few layouts done now...

Valentines' 2008 (eating cupcakes)

And this one...

Wayne & I on cruise 2003

And another...

Wayne's little sister's (Danielle) birth

And another...

Wayne and I at a High School Homecoming dance! What a blast from the past!

Scrapfest, AGAIN!

We made it... through the drippy weather... to Mandeville today! It's Shontel, Gina, Sydney, and me. We are having a blast. I haven't done much cropping yet, but I'm getting organized, done a little shopping, and eaten lots of junk food. Here's a photo of all my scrapping junk... don't worry WD, it's my collection since I started scrapbooking in 2002!

Latest Board of Designers Project

Given Halloween materials to create a masterpiece for the Scrapbook and Company Board of Designers, I came up with this...
(click on each photo to view up close)

I Be Scrappin'!

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days... I've escaped work and other responsibilities to go to Scrapfest Sept 2007. It's been fun. No huge group this time... just me and Connie working on layouts in Mandeville, LA.

In a room full of sleep-deprived, paper addicted women, you know there's going to be gossip. We met up with a couple of girls we had scrapped with before and started "talking". Conversation moved to the topic of "school". One girl, Amy (married young and mother of 3 boys), says, "I went to college for six years and I got two degrees... the "M-R-S" and "P-R-E-G"!" We cracked up laughing ;-)

First Board of Designers Assignment

Well, you probably are wondering why I haven't posted in a couple of days... my life has been crazy-full! It started Thursday night when I had to do a 300 word essay on the "History of Telecommunications" AND finish my first Board of Designers project for Scrapbook and Co. I also was preparing to do a presentation to the school districts in Region 4 (Lafayette area) on Friday as well. I stayed up until 2:45A.M. Friday morning doing these three tasks. Some of my best work comes out of "last-minute" deadlines (see the photo here of the project I made... it's a door-hanger for Erin's room), but I shouldn't have let things get out control to where I stayed up that late, knowing I had to be up at 5:45A.M. that morning. All is well though... I got all tasks completed successfully and I slept until 11:00 Saturday morning to play catch-up on my sleep. I haven't done that since before having the kids ;-)

"Board of Designers"

I am so pumped! I joined a few of my favorite scrapbook buddies at our local scrapbook store, Scrapbook and Co., last night. We cropped until after 1AM. I was able to knock out quite a few layouts and had a lot of fun at the same time. While there, I admired the layouts by the "Board of Designers" and noticed that they would be changing out the "board" today. If you wanted to serve on the board you would submit a layout for the "try-outs". I ran over there today and dropped one off. By 5PM, the store called to say that I was selected to be on the board! I am thrilled. Basically, the store will give me some of the newest supplies to create a layout or project which will be displayed in the store and posted on the store's website. I'll get the art back after the time of display to keep! I also got a cute t-shirt and a 3 month coupon towards savings on other supplies I can buy.

One of My Favorite Hobbies

I enjoy scrapbooking. I haven't had much time to enjoy it lately, but I am gearing up for a 4 day/3 night convention in Mandeville. It's not until the beginning of September, but pre-planning pages, shopping for paper/embellishments and getting pictures printed is prep work needed in order to make the most of Scrapfest Fall 2007. Click here to see photos of Scrapfest 2005 where I enjoyed the pleasure of winning 2nd place in the page layout contest (entering the contests always help pay for my habit... if I win.) I'll never forget the first scrapbook convention I went to nearly 5 years ago. WD thought I was crazy... he just couldn't believe that me and a couple of girlfriends were going to caravan down to Biloxi, stay at a casino/hotel from Friday morning to Sunday night to, as he called it, "cut and paste". It took some trust on his part to see me go, but when I returned I had a few scrapbook pages done, lots of fun stories and photos (double click photo above to enlarge enough to see part of the convention room) to prove that nearly 400 women had been all together in a huge convention area "cutting and pasting" from 9AM to midnight every day/night we were there!