True Colors

I took this photo with my digital camera from my front porch. I really didn't expect it to turn out at all much less scrap worthy. The transparencies don't look near this obvious IRL but I'm still thinking I might replace them with rubons if I can find the right style and size letters.

Grace loves to play restaurant so I made her a name badge and got her a sales book to take orders. She gives us a new name every night depending what I fix for dinner and makes announcements to our customers. One night we were "Gravy's". She cracks me up.

I scrapped THREE layouts today

Wowza, I got on a roll and couldn't get off. LOL! Here are today's pages.

Some of the pictures from Olivia's visit with us last summer. Sketch was inspired by a layout in last year's Scrapbooks Etc. Made in Minutes.



















Olivia LOVES to paint. She calls herself an artist not a painter. Here she is creating some of her masterpieces last summer.



















Grace wearing grampa's fishing hat (it says Grandpa's Bait Shop) before one of their fishing trips last fall.

Oh My Gosh - I Caught One!

Gracie's first fish on her own purple fishing pole. She had a blast fishing till she actually landed one. When the fish flopped she flew outta there so fast I almost didn't get her in the picture!

I scrapped my Wishblade!

Ironicly, I didn't even use the Wishblade on this layout! LOL.

Dream Come True -

Journaling reads:
Never in a million years did I think I’d ever be the proud owner of one of these little gems when they first came on the market a couple of years ago for $500-600. No way was that big a purchase ever going to be within my scrapping budget. And it still isn’t.

When Shop at Home TV went out of business they had a liquidation sale on their website. As some items sold out they’d add more here and there over a period of several days. I checked the website periodically thinking I might get lucky and pick up a few punches or stamps and giving no thought at all to snagging a die cutting machine as I was not even in the market for one. I’m perfectly happy with my QuicKutz Black Squeeze and growing collection of alphabet die sets.

One day, however, someone posted on the message board that SAH had listed the Wishblade in their liquidation inventory. I hopped over there without a second thought, put one in my shopping cart, supplied my credit card info and clicked submit. I nearly broke out in a cold sweat when I realized I had just purchased a Wishblade….and for $240!! It was a dream come true.

Oh my gosh, I have a Wishblade!!!!

Seattle Waterfront

I've been meaning to scrap these photos since the first day I started scrapping over 4 years ago. As you can see, the colors are beginning to fade. Though they weren't the best of pics to begin with, even then I knew I needed panoramic photos of this view. (The photos across the top of the two pages line up to form one long image.) I used the retro squares paper to mimic the highs and lows of the skyline. This was the view in July 1991. Click on the pics to see larger images.

Journaling reads:
When the kids were still kids we used to drive the 30 minutes or so from home to Bremerton, leave the car for the day, and take the ferry to the Seattle waterfront at least a few times every summer. The route over was always so serine and I love the view of the waterfront from the ferry as we pulled up to dock in Seattle.

We’d have lunch of Ivar’s famous clam chowder at Ivar’s Fish Bar on the water and browse all the shops. Our favorites were the import market and the Olde Curiosity Shoppe. And sometimes we’d walk up the hundreds of stairs (ok, it seemed like hundreds) to The Public Market at Pike Place. Watching the guys toss fish was always fun, the aromas from the tea and coffee shops were always intriguing, and the sights and sounds were captivating. The kids loved the brass pig and the costumed characters outside the café luring in customers, but I think I miss riding the ferry most of all.