Saturday Night Live takes the cake!! LOL. I guess this means that scrapping is BIG. Check out the SNL skit about The Secret World of Scrapbooking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_duMORCX0EU

I wanted to share my Scenic Route Journal that I did for a Manufacturer's Challenge on the Pub Calls Blog. I thought it turned out soo cute. I even changed the papers inside of it to cardstock to coordinate. I love it.

Hey everyone, I took another one of Tammy's fab classes and wanted to share my altered clock. It will work with all the other BG Oh Baby altered stuff in my scrap/office. Art has finally spoke up and said he would have liked brighter colors instead of the pastels. lol.

Also, yesterday was our wedding anniversary, and he made me his first scrapbook page.:) The ABC's of Me. I guess I'll keep him, lol.
~J~
ETA~Updated my picture with the hands on the clock. Had to go get a new set

I don't know what it is about Basic Grey's Oh Baby Line, but I have sure taken a liking to it. Everything I have done in the last couple days, starting with the magnet board has been this paper. I guess is just kind of works with a house full of men, LOL.
Anyways, I wanted to share the picture frame that I made for my grandpa for Father's Day and a notebook I altered to match my BG fetish. LOL.
Thanks for looking
~J~

The week is almost over!! I have been pretty busy . Looks like I will take over the morning Director spot at work. School is a bit chaotic, needless to say I won't do Summer classes anymore. And between all that and Reed and Art, I have snuck off for some me time and got a couple projects done. The picture frame I did for my boss. The magnet board Art made and I covered it in Basic Grey, Oh Baby! Series. (I even did the Making Memories containers in it, lol) The epoxy words and Magnetic 2 Ring Clip are Provo Craft. I think they turned out marvelous. I will be adding things as I find the "perfect" embellishments for it.

Well was home with a lil one with an ear infection today, so I got a couple things done. I wanted to share my stamp collection. My uncle build this for me many moons ago, when I collected miniatures. Of course, being the packrat that I am, I still had it. It dawned on me the other day that it would be perfect for my stamps. Thanks for looking!
~J~

As we were leaving yesterday for a race in Charleston, Art grabbed the mail. And in it was my acceptance for my scholarship!!!!! It will pay 80% of school, books, etc! What a wonderful program. So now I am definately on track with getting my associates in Early Childhood. No more putting it off.
Just wanted to share, now back to bed, lol. We didn't get home until 2:30 this morning.
Have a great day!
~J~

Got a heck of a bargain today!!!! Got this whole box of ribbon and that brand new roll of wire for $2.00! Can't beat that. But had to share my find.

Happy June Everyone! Now that I am done with Food Sanitation Classes (they were enough to make me not eat anymore!) I got down to business. I took an altered letter class that my friend Tammy taught. And just loved the class. (I made the K in class) So I decided to make another one for my "dad". I hope he likes it, now I just have to finish the scrapbook from his 60th birthday party.

I can't believe that it has been over two weeks since my last post. Time flies. I have been to a couple classes. (I'll have to post later) Work has moved to the summer schedule, so my schedule is consistent right now. I have some new Sassafras Lass stamps. They are really cool.
Busy trying to get things put together for my yard sale. I actually purged my scrap room for it.
I get to teach the school age children at work how to scrap. That should be pretty neat. I think I am going to do a tag book with them.
I'll add pics later.
Thanks for looking!
~J~

I've been RAKed AGAIN!!! Woohoo. A wonderful Pea named, ejmom, had an extra copy of The Big Picture by Stacy Julian. If you guessed her birthday you got the book. I guessed right! Soooooo, I'm definately starting the week off right. Thanks Nicol!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone and Happy Mother's Day! I thought I would post up a mini book that I did for my grandmother. She just loved it, but she loves anything with Reed in it, lol.

GOT PICKLE????
I do now!! Woohoo. A great big thanks to the awesome Rusty Pickle DT. I got this great circus set in my mail.

2Peas Challenge: Complete these sentences...
1. I am the happiest when I'm doing family things.
2. 3 of my most fave things to do are: scrap, race, and photography.
3. I feel sad and alone when my hubby is away.
4. When I do this, scrap a couple pages, I always feel happier/better.
5. I wish I could fix this.My weight (working on it)
6. My fave summer past time is to go to the track.
7. One of my most fave things to wear are jeans and t-shirts.
8. If I could give an obscene amt of money to one worthy cause, that cause would be: Victory Junction Gang Camp. ( Victoryjunction.org )
9. My fave all time movie I have seen is Grease.
10. I admire creativity in other people.

Well our little friends have found a home. :) I contacted the local bird shelter and they gave me the number to a nice lady who takes care of songbirds and mammals that are common. The "babies" are sparrows. The kids at work LOVED them. I wasn't too happy about slicing up worms, lol. But I got some good pics that I will be able to put into LOs this weekend at the crop.
Did you know that if you find some baby birds that have fallen out of their nest, they suggest that if you can't put them back in their nest to take a bowl and poke holes in the bottom, line it with napkins and tuck it into the tree they fell out of. Watch for a couple hours to see if the mother bird comes back to take care of them. If she doesn't you need to seek help. They can live briefly (until you find help, since the little buggers need to be fed every 20 minutes) on dried kitten food, smashed up with warm water. Make it the consitency of watery oatmeal. (2 parts water to 1 part food)
So besides all that, not much is going on. I am in the process of putting together preschool graduation, completing my final project and now I have decided to go back (what do I mean back, I never left) to get my associates degree in Early Childhood. I always put it off, saying to myself that I wouldn't stay in this line of work, but after 18 years, I guess I am here for good. :) I am working on a scholarship as we speak. So that is always good news.
Ok off to get ready for the crop and everything else. Thanks for reading my ramblings.
~J~

Spring has Sprung around here. Or should I say a few feathered friends have sprung out of their nest. Our neighbor was nice enough to pick them up out of our driveway so we didn't hit them, but I guess he forgot that doing that is a big no no. I haven't seen momma bird since then. Everytime we go outside, Reed runs over to them and squats down to stare at them and tell me over and over. "My birds, my baby birds." So we fed them worms when Art got home and put them in a box to keep them in the house and warm tonight. I'm not sure if they will make it through the night, but we will try to help them on their journey.

Woohoo the telephone repairman was just here and my computer is flying now. LOL. Yes, we are still on dial-up. We have no choice, if we wanted DSL or the such we would pretty much need to put a tower on our property. Oh well. Now that I am connecting at 36.6 instead of 4.8, I'm MUCH happier.
Now maybe I can get some stuff up.
The first LO is of Reed's Preschool Class. It is coming time for him to move up to the 3 year old class, so I wanted him to be able to look back and see all his friends.
"Our Lil Artist" As you can tell my the great look of concentration Reed LOVED LOVED LOVED the experience of being able to paint. I took LOTS of pictures as he made a huge mess. But it was a lot of fun for both of us.
I love being able to give him the experiences that not every child might. Being a preschool teacher, I have a lot of resources that some might not. And I hope that it makes our little man all that more well rounded. Mentally, Physically, Artistically, etc.
Well I hope everyone is well and having a great week. (It's almost half over :) )

Ok it might be a long day if I can only add one image at a time, so I picked my absolute favorite layout.

Reed likes to climb on the kitchen table and stare out into the backyard. So I captured the moment.

Thanks for looking.

Morning All! Well I would have had more stuff posted up but we were out of power from 3pm til the wee hours of this morning. The only thing I can think of was the high winds we had and are still having. I am going to try to upload some of the photos I was working on yesterday. This one is the photo I was shocked wasn't taken for the Art Show. It is one of my FAVES! They said that they didn't like the shadow across her side. This is from my final portfolio for Photography Studio. I'll post the rest of the series as I scan them in. There are 20 are so.
I have to go to my boss' husband's (aka my adopted dad's) 60 birthday party and they are wanting me to sing. I'm really not liking that, lol. I haven't sang in years. Ugh. Well I will quit rambling and get some layouts up. TFL!

Almost forgot, for those of you scrappers out there. Don't forget that the crop is next Sunday!!! At T.L.C. in Smithton. Bring your creativity, it will be a lot of fun. I have lots of free stuff.