Happy 1st Birthday Jaydin!

Happy Wednesday! We are half way thru the week YEA!!!!

Today I bring you a special layout of my sweet little cousin Jaydin who today is celebrating her 1st birthday.

This is a picture I had taken at our family reunion in July. It was Jaydin's first trip to our family homestead and as you can tell by the picture she was just excited to be there.

I used the Swirlydoos April "Bella Volo" kit for this layout. I fussy cut out the butterflies that are at the bottom of the page and as much as I admire it when other people do it I am NOT a big fan of it but it just so fit on the page I had to do it LOL!!!

Supplies:
Paper: 12" Gabrielle Stripe, 12" Gabrielle Unwritten, 12" Gabrielle Flight, 12" Gabrielle Cut outs, Enchanted Complements Moonlight Aqua
Zva Creative CRB-04CA-145 embellishment
Dusty Attic Decorative Gate-DA0289
Distress Ink- Wild Honey

Happy Sunday!
I hope everyone is enjoying there weekend and hopefully getting something crafty in. Today I wanted to bring you something I have been wanting to try but was not able to do until last week on my much deserved vacation.

I made stick pins! I am very excited on how they turned out I can't wait to make more.

I would also like to show you a picture that I took on the way coming back home from my annual family reunion.

I just love the trees and the mountain views traveling these roads.

Well, I am off to try and get in some crafting before going to my in-laws to celebrate my brother and sister in-laws birthday.

Happy Sunday!

I hope everyone is having a relaxing Sunday so far today. I went and took some time for myself this morning and went and got a pedicure. Things have been so hectic for me lately between work and getting ready for my husband’s family reunion which was last weekend.

In between everything going on I was able to slip in some time and create this great layout of my husband. This is my take on the amazing sketch provided by Beggahuna for this month’s kit.

I love this picture of him that I took in October 2008 when we were in Jamaica on a mini vacation to celebrate my cousin’s 30th birthday.

I used the Swirlydoos September kit “Mon Amour”. This kit is filled with beautiful papers that give you a Parisian feel. When I saw all of the red in the kit I knew the picture of my husband would work perfect with these papers.

I used my zutter to distress the edges of the circles and then ran distress ink around the edges.

Supplies:
My Mind’s Eye- Lost & Found Union Square “Home Sweet Home” Love Paper
My Mind’s Eye- Lost & Found Union Square “Favorite”Birds of a Feather Paper
My Mind’s Eye- Lost & Found Union Square “Moments” Seamstress Paper
My Mind’s Eye- Union Square Collection “Glittered Die Cut Pieces”
Prima Crystals
Prima- Valentine Vine Collection “Heart and Flower”
Zutter Distrezz it All
Distress Ink-Black Soot




Below are some pictures from the family reunion last weekend that I was able to capture:

Family Reunion

I just got back from my family reunion last Sunday. This was the first reunion we have had in two years due to some damage on our homestead. Even though we were not having a reunion the last two year some family members and I were still going down to relax and enjoy some time away from the city. Our Homestead is located in a small town called Hurt, VA.

Since we still have some repairs that need to be done to the house we didn’t have all of our regular activities at the house this year like we usually do. We only had a little cook-out at the house on Friday and a banquet at a restaurant in the next town on Saturday. We had a small turn out this year but I got to see a cousin who we haven’t seen in years who decided to come from FL.

Here are some pictures of the reunion and the Family Ancestry tables we had.


My little cousins playing in the pool at the hotel:

My little cousins:

My cousin Robin and her daughter Sierra:

Homemade chocolate chip ice cream is the best

Cookout at the homesead on Friday:

My little cousin Monty seeing if he could fit in the back of our rental van:

In a week I leave for a cruise. Nothing like having vacations basically back to back. I am going to try to slip in some scrapbooking in between every thing else I have to get done this week to be ready to leave next Sunday. I am sooo ready to get on the cruise ship and get my massage and just relax. I will also have about 15 family members going with me on this cruise also and after that no more real plans except to not burn up in this heat we have been having this summer. It's supposed to be 102 today.

Happy Wednesday!

Happy Wednesday!!!! The last two weeks have been just crazy. I am preparing for my family reunion which is this weekend and I am also on the committee for my husband’s family reunion and both have needed me to do things on top of trying to finish my family reunion scrapbook to present this year at the reunion. I was able to sneak a few hours away and create this cute layout of my niece Emily. She is just so adorable and I was lucky when we had everyone over for a small 4th of July cookout they were able to come and I was able to get some cute pictures of her and my nephew.



I love reading blogs as you don’t know what neat little things people are going to share that you have just been looking for and that recently happened to me. I was reading one of the blogs I follow (Jeannette Sicilani) and she was talking about these Jo Tote Bags for cameras http://www.jototes.com/. I hate the regular bulky bags for cameras and I have been looking for just a cute bag that you would not know had a camera in it and low and behold it was my lucky day



Products Used:
My Mind's Eye- Quite Contrary "Hello Beautiful" paper
Prima Bling & flowers
MS Butterfly punch

Road Trip

Hope Everyone is having a great Sunday!

Well today is my last day home alone my husband has been out of town since Friday and is on his way back home today from Philadelphia and should be home in the next hour or so.

I decided to finally do this Road Trip layout that I have been trying to do for the last year but each time I bring out the paper and picture to work on it I can never seem to make it work for me but today was the day and I finally did the layout.



This is a picture of my cousin Traon and Joan catching a quick nap as we are driving to our next adventure of day as I call it at our 2009 Non-Family reunion. We didn't officaly have a reunion last year but we went down to just relax and see family members that live in that area.

The papers used are from:
My Little Yellow Bicycle Travler collecion

Well I am going to go work some on my family reunion scrapbook that will be showed at the reunion this year before my husband gets back and I have no more peace and quiet LOL!!!!!