Last Week of School

Don’t you kind of wish they didn’t cram so many things into the last two weeks of school?  Not only have we had our ongoing schedule - soccer practices, music practices, our general running around - but we have also added additional early morning band practices, band concerts, field days, track and field days….  I’m beat and I’m just driving to them!  But we have 2 1/2 more days of school until summer officially begins.  And I’m so looking forward to not making those school lunches!

I’ve been finishing up the book for Alexa’s teacher this week.  I had to go in and take pictures of all her classmates and a group photo.  They are printed, just need to trim them and glue them down.  And since Talia has 6 teachers I had the brilliant thought to make them some journals….  and I haven’t started.  With school ending Thursday I’m not sure I have enough time or energy!

Needless to say, except for the layouts I made for the May Apron Strings Kit I haven’t been scrapping much.  So I’m sharing another layout made with the Smaller than a Breadbox kit…  Alexa got a rocket for Christmas and we hadn’t been able to build it or set it off because we didn’t have glue.  So when we finally remembered (ahem, Mother’s Day), she set it off a few times.  And had a lot of fun!  I used the Pebbles Family Ties paper line for this layout and used the sketch included with your kit!

Another two weeks of soccer practice and then maybe an end in planned evening activities for awhile.  Two vacation to look forward to this summer!  Just need to get some of that pesky paperwork completed…  Hope you are also preparing for a fun summer!

May Layouts

I meant to post last week!  I did get to work on my layouts for the Apron Strings Smaller than a Breadbox kit last week and actually finished 2 of them!  The 3 I finished this morning.  And I actually made 5 cards out of this kit!  4 of them today.  Thank you notes for the cross country coaches.  1 birthday card made Saturday morning before Alexa’s soccer game for her party immediately afterwards!

Will show you a quick peak…  seeing as how the newsletter isn’t out yet!  I love how the colors work with Alexa’s dress that night!  I used the Graphic 45 Secret Garden line for this layout.  I tend to have a harder time working with their papers but love the femininity of the layout!  Looks as if the right edge got cut off a bit (sorry!) and it’s a bit tilted.  But you get the idea!

I also finished one of my kid’s teacher’s gift for the end of the year!  I saw this on Pinterest and knew I had to do something similar!  Here’s what mine looks like…

I printed it on thick poster board at Walgreens.  It looks pretty nice!  Hope you are enjoying the weather (finally!).  Will have more to post soon!

A Quick Post

I haven’t forgotten!  Today I’m scrapping with the Apron Strings Smaller than a Breadbox kit for May.  I’ll post layouts Monday for sure!  And maybe a sneak later today or tomorrow.  But I wanted to share this photo I took this morning - wish I had had more time to think and play with my camera settings but the girls were almost late to school because I stopped!

You could see a baby in the nest way far behind them.  I really should research eagles - do they have more than one at a time?  It seems as if I’ve seen a third eagle around - do they younger eagles stay with the parents longer than 1 year?  Sounds like something I have should have the kids investigate and write a report on!

Another Snowy Monday

Alright already, I’m tired of the snow!  Let it snow and be cold in January and February but it’s April and I’m tired of being cold!  Another probable day or two of missed soccer practices.  I’m beginning to think we just need to start soccer in mid-April or we could try and trick the weather and start in January!  At least the weather was nice for yesterday’s game!  And I got quite a few nice shots of my daughter who played through with a headache…

But this was my personal favorite of the day.  It was actually on the side of a photo and I didn’t see it until I was going through all the pictures from the day.

Motivation is low so far today.  Hoping I’ll hop right to it after posting.  But then it’s lunch time :)

A couple more from the April Bigger than a Breadbox Apron Strings kit…  From the Lily Bee Pinwheel line I created my framed layout.  I like the green and orange together and thought they went with the gaudy frame my mom had.  I managed to take pictures of everyone in the frame but didn’t get any of Michael and I.  Was losing light fast and I noticed that more and more as I was editing the pictures!

And from the American Crafts Lucky Charm Papers I managed to throw in an Easter layout.  Is it just me or are holidays hard to scrap?  I never seem to have very good pictures although I love the one of Sadie and Michael!

Hope your weather is improving.  From what I hear temperatures are heading up after this storm passes through.  Wish I were scrapping instead of cleaning house!

Back on Track...

Missed my post last week.  It was just one of those weeks!  The supposed huge snow storm which wasn’t.  Still running around every night for practices.  Just busy, busy, busy!

I have a couple of layouts from the April Bigger than a Breadbox Apron Strings Design kit which I showed you (ahem, 2 weeks ago).  Still looking to see what I haven’t shared as well!

The first is from the American Crafts Lucky Charm papers…  These were just a few highlights of our last trip to Red River with Alexa.  With a rare photo of me :).  I’m still thinking of adding something little by the upper butterfly but I’m not sure what so I left it!  The title was pink thickers from my stash that I inked orange.  I would’ve put another piece of ribbon on the other side of the page but my cat seemed to have removed it from my scrap desk and it is no where to be found…

And here’s a layout using the Lily Bee Pinwheel line.  The first page was inspired by a layout I saw on Pinterest - but really you wouldn’t know it to look at the two together!  They look nothing alike.  I’m not even sure you would be able to tell :)

Be sure and get your Apron Strings kit today!  Hope you are enjoying your last bit of time before school gets out.  They are calling for more snow over the next 3 days.  We’ll see!