Middle of May

I am happy to say that adding Word Verification for those leaving comments has worked.  No spam comments since then. I was so tired of deleting 30+ spam ones a day...  

Not much crafting going on here. Gardening, getting estimates on some work that needs to be done on our house/making decision is taking up my spare time and energy.  I miss scrapbooking for sure.  For now I'm getting my craft 'thrill' by perusing Pinterest late at night..... sad: I know.

Since I cleaned up one table in my room, on National Scrapbooking Day, Granddaughter is using it on Wednesdays for "Scrapping".  She's finally old enough to be allowed in my room, supervised of course, and is loving it.  I have a bin with smaller containers in it which hold stickers, a Hello Kitty glue stick, paper cut for her to use.  She usually scraps with me for 1/2 an hour then needs to 'move on'.   It's fun and a good start. 

A pic to share:

....So many decisions to make when crafting...she's thinking hard here:

Good day to you all. I hear my gardens calling to me.  

Mother's Day 2013

I have had to add 'word verification' for those leaving comments..(well I think I did it right)...  Lately I've been inundated with spam comments and I'm hoping this will eliminate that (or some of it).  As someone who likes to leave comments I don't like having to do the word verification but now understand why bloggers choose to do it.  Just this morning I had to delete 32 spam comments...yuck.

My daughter had us over to her home for dinner yesterday.  I really appreciate it.  Having cooked dinner on Mother's Day for my mom on mother in-law for 30+ years, it's nice to be treated...  I received a pretty hanging fuchsia plant from her and a fuchsia tree from my son. I've never had a fuchsia tree so need to learn how to winter them over...if possible.

Friday I went to the local nursery to buy bedding plants, taking my Granddaughter with me. I wanted her to pick out flowers for her box I have here...  she wanted all the flowers she saw.  Here is a pic of her watering the flowers in progress.  That cute watering can was made so the water is to come out the beak of the duck.. but she had a hard time doing so last summer so I drilled holes in the front body area down low.. much easier for her.  Like the outfit she picked out for the day?  she does love her tutus.

Have a good day and week all. 

National Scrapbook Day..........

.............was yesterday.  I hope some of you entered challenges, went to crops or just created.  I was on scrapbook.com a lot yesterday. I signed up for four challenges and completed two of them yesterday. The other two have to be done by month end. I had fun..... 

The layout I'm sharing is for two challenges on sb.com. It's a pic I took of our Granddaughter with her new tea set we gave her on her 3rd birthday, at her party...I made all the embellishments using my Cricut. The Tea Pot, Cup, number 3 and the "Tea Time" font were cut using the Ashlyn's Alphabet cartridge. The "tea 4 two" was cut using the Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art cartridge and I welded them together using my Gypsy. This was a fun layout to do. 

One of the challenges on sb.com was to take and share a picture of a "HOT MESS" area of your scrapping area, clean it up and take a picture...share both pics......  My card making/die cutting area was a Hot Mess so I featured it... with before pic and two hours later the after pic. It is so nice to be able to sit down and work there again.  

HOT MESS area...

 two hours later and much better.........

Happy Sunday all and have a nice day.  It's suppose to be 80 deg. today... wow!

It's May

......and where have I been again?  I was very sick for 3.5 weeks of April.  Last Sunday was my turning point and everyday I feel better and more like the old me...

That said I've done very little crafting.  I did a layout last week for a challenge group I belong to. We were to scrap a graduation photo of yourself (high school or college).  I used one taken right after my high school graduation.  Since I'd saved my tassel and scroll we were given on stage I used them. I scanned my diploma and printed it out on photo paper.

The journaling is long and I'll share most of it with you.  Somewhere in my unorganized old photo boxes is my senior picture my mom had. When I find it I will do a companion page to this layout. 

The green card stock with the picture on it lifts up to reveal the journaling I did. This layout goes into the album called "Book of Me" that I'm doing. 

Journaling: "     I graduated from ……. High School in June of 1965.  I wasn’t the best of students: C’s and B’s mostly. My A’s were in Home Economic classes, P.E. and Business classes. There were 500+ in our graduating class and it was impossible to know everyone.

     We had Homerooms with about 30 students in them and those were the kids that were easier to get to know. Homeroom was the first ‘class’ of the day. Attendance was taken, announcements given and a count of those buying hot lunch was taken. Home room only lasted 15 minutes. The three years I sat next to a boy named Wally had me laughing and smiling every day; he was so funny. Sadly he drowned the summer after we graduated. So sad for me.

     In 11th and 12th grade I loved being the Sewing Teacher’s assistant one class a day and I also worked in the main office. I became the Secretary of a Business Club and was on the decorating committee for dances.

     We weren't lucky enough to have school buses and had to use the city bus to get to high school. They were always crowded and many many days there were not enough seats so people had to stand in the aisle. Being subject to motion sickness it was not a pleasant ride at all.

     My sister, mom, dad, Grandma, Uncle and my boyfriend went to my graduation and I was to meet them at my home afterwards for cake.  I rode home with my boyfriend but his car broke down on the way there. He set to fixing his car and after about an hour I found a pay phone and called home to report what had happened and we’d be there as soon as possible. My dad had gone to work so couldn't come get us and Grandma and Uncle had left anyhow… Mom was furious over this event.

     The picture of me and three other girls was taken right after the graduation ceremony. One of the other girl’s father took it and she gave me a copy. I’m the girl on the very left of the picture on this layout and the girl to my left is Jackie and I don’t remember the other two.

    The tassel on this layout is mine from graduation and the scroll was handed to us when we went up to the podium. Inside it says “No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s ugly looks, because on June 10 at 8 p.m. the Class of 1965 Graduates!”

I then went on writing some history of the school to present.  Oh, and I've been married to "that boyfriend" for 46.5 years now.  

I started a huge project: HUGE, HUGE, HUGE PROJECT... I'm transferring most of the items from the closet in my scrapping room to a closet in the spare bedroom...oh my gosh. I'm also doing a serious job of purging... the bags for the Good Will are piling up. When you have been a life time sewer and crafter like I have been a lot of stuff builds up.  Really; this is almost overwhelming... I know I'll be glad when done...  

Happy May....