April Design Team project!

More scrapbook pages to share.

Delaware Air Show

Supplies Used:

Awesome Paper: Totally Cool, Flash Cards

Awesome Expressions Cardstock Stickers
Awesome Fundamental Cardstock Stickers
Awesome 4x6 Transparency Photo Overlay (exclusive to Collection Kit)
Bazzill Cardstock
Brads

Cards.Cards. I LOVE to make cards. This line had some really cool journal cards.

Coming soon!
LYB - "Swoon" wedding layouts and "Saturdays" horse themed layout and a few cards.

This weekend is Prom, first baseball game of the season, and I'm taking pictures for my sister for her in-laws 50th Wedding party. Busy, busy. As always.

Enjoy!

Biloxi, MS and Destin, Fl.....Vacation!

What a great time we had down south. Savanna had a cheer competition in Destin, Florida last weekend so we decided since we hadn't had much of a vacation in the last 2 years we would extend out time down there. We headed out on Easter Sunday toward Biloxi Mississippi. Right after Hurricane Katrina Duane went down to Pascagoula for 10 days for FEMA to help out their building department on damaged homes. He wanted to see how it had changed since then. We drove to Elizabethtown, Kentucky and stayed the night. Got up pretty early Monday morning and headed the rest of the way to the IP Casino Spa Resort in Biloxi. There we relaxed in the roof top pool, did a little gambling and site seeing in Pascagoula. So many beautiful houses were destroyed. Some were rebuilt but there were still plenty of vacant lots to be purchased.

 

Biloxi-we are here!

Beautifully furnished rooms!

Roof top pool.

One of the many mansions along the water in Pascagoula.

 Wednesday morning we checked out and headed to Fort Walton beach where we stayed at the Ramada Plaza Beach Resort. The room was a little dated but the pools and beach were fantastic. Got a little sunburned the first day but the warmth felt so good.  The rest of our group arrived by Friday night where the team practiced at a rented gym.

Ramada Beach Resort room.

Savanna, Me, Duane & Connor @ Boardwalk

Ice cream at the Boardwalk

Pool time in Fort Walton

Dinner out at Bubba Gumps and then back to the pool.  

Allie, Savanna, Kaitlyn

Savanna at Bubba Gumps

Connor

Connor and Duane fished off the pier on Saturday while we were at the competition.

The competition was Saturday and Sunday at the Emerald Coast Convention center. Ohio Senergy kicked butt.

Youth Level 1 - 1st Place and Grand Champions along with 3 other specialty awards

Senior 2 - 1st Place and Best Stunt Series

Senior 5 - 2nd Place (by .4 of a point)

I'm glad to be home. Need to finish up the laundry room renovation and get busy on graduation stuff.

No rest for the me!

My 1st Cord Camera Design Team post

I finally finished my first assignment from the Cord Camera Design Team. I'm a little rusty so please be kind. I have not actually done any scrapbooking since November. We have been working on redoing our laundry room but I'll leave that for another post.

My first assignment consisted of two parts. First I was given the task of finding a Sketch and creating a project based on that sketch. I was to use the Jillibean - Coconut Lime Soup collection. I must say I love it. The colors, embellishments, everything.

So here are my projects.

Page Maps Sketch Aug. 2010...

Next up were the cards.

Page Maps June 2011 

 I turned this one vertical for my project.

 

This last page was done just for fun with the extra papers in the Coconut Lime Soup collection.

My next project involved the Echo Park "This and That - Graceful" Collection. The colors are fantastic. I love flowers and there are lots of them. This is a 2 page layout of some of the pictures I took of Kirstin for her senior invitations. 

The "Red Ryder" page was also using the Graceful line. Such different colors but they coordinate so well. 

And finally a couple cards to finish up the line. 

I used the left over paper from where I cut the circles for the BB gun page to create this card. I love how things just fall into place. 

Hope you like my first set of assignments. Check back next month for more projects from 3 new collections.

One of my favorite past times is shopping at the Goodwill. Here are a few of my favorite items purchased.

Loft skirt $3.29

Oscar skirt $3.29

Kenneth Cole $3.29

No brand name but so soft.

New beginnings.

Well, I did it. I started my blog. I wanted to be able to share my creative endeavors, my crazy life in the country, and my love for all things thrifty. 


My goal is to post at least once a month. I think I'm better at posting photos then actually writing about things so I hope to improve on that. 


I love scrapbooking, home improvement projects and thrifting. I've been selected to participate in the Cord Camera Scrapbook Studio Design Team. So I will have lots of crafty projects to share. We are also currently redoing our laundry room and I hope to share that process with you too. My love for the Goodwill will definitely be a huge part of this blog. I usually share my wonderful finds on my Facebook page but will also share them here. You would be surprised at what great deals are to be found there. 


So stay tuned....