How cool is this?

I always loved going to listen to my uncle’s band play when I lived in Tulsa!  And I just got an email that they put out a new CD!  So I thought I’d just mention it here since I have no scrappy things to post at the moment!

Here’s a picture and link for you.  I haven’t heard this new one yet but I ordered it and hopefully it’ll be here before our trip!

I am working with my Sussies December kit!  I started making a Christmas Countdown calendar which I can’t wait to show you!

Hope you’ll consider buying the album above :)  If you like this kind of music it’s awesome!!

Fun with Photoshop!

Well, I haven’t been scrapping (but I’m really beginning to want to get back!) but I’ve been playing with photoshop!  I’m taking the PhanutU course and am really learning so much!  I can correct color casts and all sorts fun things now!

Today is the schools Fall Festival.  We’re doing a photo booth and I’m converting the pictures to pencil line drawings in photosketch using a tutorial from Kim Hill.  Here are three pictures I took of the girls yesterday when we were setting up!

Hope you’re having a great day!

Would you like to design for the best Kit Club???

Just a reminder that Sussies is adding 2 new designers.   For more information, check it out here!  Lara is so much fun to design for - and I don’t have to tell you the kits are AWESOME!!

Happy Halloween!!

Hope you are having an awesome day!  After our huge snowstorm, the weather is nice and sunny out!  We still have snow but it’s melting fast!  We were snowed in Thursday.  Can you believe I didn’t even go outside once?  It was cold and blowing and icky out.  The girls had fun though!  I didn’t take any pictures at all!

So it’s a day early but I thought I’d post my November Sussies layouts!  The Sussies gallery wasn’t up earlier today but I’m sure it will be soon and then you can check out what everyone else has done!  These pictures are all from our trip this year to Anderson Farms!

This layout is based on the exclusive Sussies sketch (page 1) - I left the paper off the edge for now but I’ll have to see how bad it is in the album.  It may get chopped!

I used my new Epic Six to cut the letters out on this one!

So I’ve finished up the second week (well, almost!) of my photoshop course.  I have to say I’ve learned alot and played with a lot of pictures.  I’m not comfortable with what to use when necessarily but I’m learning!  I still have my end-of-the week assignments to do for this week which combines what we learned the last two weeks!

I have yet to take pictures of the girls in their costumes.  Michael was going to buy some straw bales so I hope he gets home soon!  I might have to have them re-put their costumes on tomorrow if it gets too late (and dark!).

Happy Halloween! 

Where does the time go?

It seems like it was Saturday just yesterday!  Well, except for the weather.  Saturday was beautiful.  Today it is snowy and icky out.  Well, I guess technically the snow was yesterday but it’s still cold and icky out!

It’s been a whirlwind around here!  Talia’s birthday was Monday so we went out to dinner Sunday.  Where she got sick.  :(  Not a great birthday dinner!  So I rushed through some work stuff because I didn’t know if I was going to be able to go in on Monday.  Luckily she was fine on her birthday so I did get to go to work (yippee).  And then I subbed at school on Tuesday.  And went back to work on Wednesday (OK, I really just went for the massage from my SIL) but then lunch and such and I was gone the rest of the day!  And it was cold and icky out!

So that brings me to today.  And I get to stay home all day except to pick the kids up at school.  So I’m going to shower, get breakfast and clean the kitchen.  Start laundry and then unpack my scrappy goods and work on some pre-crop challenges for Scrapattack Scrapbooking!  Did I mention they are having a crop this weekend?  You should stop by for some fun and games!  Lauri gives out great prizes to the winners!

And now for the rest of my Apron Strings Bigger than a Breadbox reveal!  That I was supposed to finish doing much earlier this week!

I made a few cards (no, I’m not a card person)…  but I really love the Halloween cat!

And then I realized how much paper I still had left.  And I remembered a post someone had made at willowtraders about a paper pumpkin…  so I made one from my memory because as much as I looked, I could not find the post again (so if someone knows, please tell me so I can give the proper credit for the inspiration!).  Thanks!

Isn’t it cute?  I used about 20 strips of paper to make it. 

Have a great day!