Scrappin Fundraiser

Hey all you scrappers- listen up....
My friend Dottie is organizing a scrapbooking fundraising event at St.Paul's Lutheran Church in Aberdeen on December 1st for a 14 year old who has been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. She is doing an AMAZING job- You need to check out her blog at www.croppin4acause.blogspot.com because the donations she has received for this event are incredible!! She has donations from Ali Edwards (yes, THE Ali Edwards from Creating Keepsakes) but that's only the beginning, there's also Donna Downey, Tim Holtz and many more!! There will be a silent auction with a lot of the donated items- I know all you die-hard scrappers will not want to miss this- you better hold your spot ASAP and it's only $20 and the food she has gotten donated from local businesses is way awesome. All the information you need is on the blog or you can get in touch with me. This is going to be an FANTASTICALLY FUN TIME and all for a GOOD CAUSE!!!

I'm baaack! I haven't stopped bloggin, it's just been busy. I love this picture of Allie's field hockey team praying before their game- it reminds me that there still is prayer in public schools!! This was their last regular season game- they start regional tournaments next week. This was the senior game where they do a ceremony for the senior players- I'm going to miss this!
Scott moved home a couple weeks ago and is now getting ready to move to Exton, PA to attend Volkswagon Academy for 4 months and then they will employ him when he is finished- HOPEFULLY, near home, but we don't know. This was homecoming weekend for Allie and she had the time of her life. Her very good friend, Bethany was homecoming queen. I had to laugh when Allie was telling us that they got home to Bethany's house after homecoming and were locked out and Bethany had to crawl through the doggy door- too funny! Allie also did a presentation about her mission trip to the WELCA (women of the Evang. Lutheran Church of America) ladies at our church on Saturday. She did such a good job that the pastor asked her to do it in front of the whole church on December 2nd, so come see it if you can. Also, some of you received my e-mail, but for those of you who didn't, my friend Dottie is organizing a scrapbooking fundraiser for her son's (Kyle) friend (Brandy Foehrkohb) who was just diagnnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma. Please check out her blog at: croppin4acause.blogspot.com and try to attend or make a donation.

Scrappers Block??

I discovered a great new site for scrappers block- it's www.pagemaps.com Not sure what to do and need some scrapping inspiration- check it out- it's great!

Scott has Graduated!

This is Scott and his roommate, Tyler at graduation and in front of their house when they packed up to leave Blairsville for the last time! Congrats guys! Scott is still undecided as to whether to take a job with CarMax or attend Volkswagon Academy up near Philadelphia. We drove up this morning to visit the Volkswagon Academy and right now, he is definitely leaning toward that! Good luck to both of you!!!

Scrapbooking Fiesta!!!

Don't forget - tomorrow is the Scrapbooking Fiesta at St. Paul's from noon-8pm. A great time to get some work done on your most current project and enjoy food, friends and FUN! I spent the evening scrapbooking at Storytellers last evening. The "Shop-Hopping Around the Bay" started yesterday. They had a lot of people coming in who had visited a lot of the stores yesterday! It was so much fun talking to all of them and hearing all about their home stores and all the stores they had visited. I didn't get much scrapping done- more talking than anything! Oh well, isn't that what life is REALLY about!! I'm off to church to set up for the FIESTA and to decorate my Sunday school classroom and then on to Allie's field hockey game- they are 3 and 0 - GO LADY COBRAS!!! Enjoy your day!

This is Hoopoe!

Ok - for all of you who have heard me talk about my pet lizard-Hoopoe ~ here's his (or her, we're not sure) picture! He was in a real posing mood!

First Home Game ~ EVER!

Harford Tech Varsity Field Hockey team had their 1st home game ~ EVER! They finally have their own field after 3 winning seasons! They won their game in a 8-0 shut-out - Go Lady Cobras! Allie is #4!

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Marathon scrappin Day!

We made our scrappin field trip into a scrappin marathon! We started at 9am with a coffee stop followed by a visit to a scrapbook store, then lunch at Chili's, then another scrapbook store where we met up with another scrappin buddy and then we came to my house to create new things with our findings! I bought my first 6 x12" album. I'm excited to put the 6x12" layouts I've been working on into it! We scrapped 'til almost midnight. I love scrappin with other people, I ALWAYS learn something new. Deb turned me on to UN-DO, that stuff is AMAZING!! Denny enjoyed my trip also because he was able to fish all day! Poor Allie had to work! Sorry you couldn't make it Stacy, maybe next time!

Visit to York!

I am so bummed... I finally got up to York, PA today to visit my dear friend Dawn with my camera in hand , of course. Well, her son Mitchell was more than willing to pose for me, sooo... I took a picture and it comes up ~ "No Memory Card" ~ I left it in the computer at home ~ ARRRRGGH! We had so much fun, she has this great farmers market about 10 minutes from her house, where I got these beautiful flowers! I went nuts with all the fresh meats and veggies and especially the homemade salads and breads ~ yum, yum! I can't believe it's been 2 months since I've seen them when I used to see them everyday. I miss them soooo much!! I've got a great scrappin' field trip scheduled tomorrow with 5 or 6 friends - Yippee, can't wait! I'm just a scrappin' fool!

Acrylic album

This is the new acrylic album I designed. I can't wait to teach it ~ this one is kind of tricky to make since all the pages are see-thru. I will be putting it on the calendar at Storytellers very soon!

Skewer album class!!

This album is soooo much fun to make. I will be teaching this on Thursady, September 27th from 6 to 8pm at Storytellers scrapbooking in Belcamp. Come join us- any level scrapper or even non-scrappers can make this album!!

Scott is graduating!

Four more weeks and Scott will graduate and be back home - Yea! He has a job offer with CarMax which looks quite promising, but wants to explore all options. We're proud of you Scott!

Scott and Allie

I was looking through our vacation pictures and saw this picture of our kids- it's rare to get a picture of them together lately~ with Scott away at school, so I just had to share!

Check out this site!

Hey everyone, please check out this site: www.calendarblessings.com ~ Denny's cousin, Linda started this very unique calendar business. Linda started making calendars as gifts for her relatives when her children were born (they are now about 17 and 20). Each month had a picture of her children with a theme to match the month- they were adorable. Well... now she makes the calendars for everyone and you just add your own pictures. They make a great diary of your childrens life for less money than you could ever scrap it yourself. Plus, you have a document of everything you did that year. It's GREAT for people who don't scrap, but even if you do and can never seem to keep up with your kids life -or anyone for that matter, at least you will have it documented on a calendar. Her website is now up and running and she has put a lot of time and effort into it, please check it out!

New photo printing site.

I found this great new site for printing photos: http://www.scrapbookpictures.com/ ~~ they have EVERY size you can think of and VERY reasonable prices. 4 x 6's are only $.12 and the quality is great! You can also add all kinds of borders or printing on the photos and...they will have them delivered to your door in no time. I can't wait to try the 4" x 12" size - that's my latest thing- photo strips- like this layout! This layout is from my niece's wedding - love that Bazzill paper- so fun!

cute quick birthday gift

Allie came home between field hockey practices today and says she needs a birthday gift for a party at 6 as she's walking out the door at 3pm. I ran across the street to Storytellers and picked up some of this great custom Harford Tech paper and covered a tissue box and filled it with one dollar bills that I taped together. Sssshhhh ~ don't tell anyone I punched holes in the top dollar bill to add pom-poms. Allie loved it! By the way, Storytellers has ALL the local high schools, even the new Patterson Mill High School. They also have matching embellishments. I was able to whip this together in about 15 minutes. Storytellers is in the process of setting up my gallery as I am busy working on new projects to fill it up. I'll let you know when.

Still in vacation mode!!

I am totally loving this vacation thing! Today I had lunch with some friends, caught up on some laundry and vegged. I actually cooked dinner for Allie and myself, one of her favs-black bean quesadillas!
Denny is still in West Virginia- enjoying the outdoors! I had to bring Allie back on Tuesday to start her last year of field hockey practice , which means lots of stinky laundry again. I know it sounds strange, but I think I will miss it next year.
My first class at Storytellers (the skewer book) is going to be Thursday, Sept 27th from 6-8pm.

Summer Tubing !! What Fun!!

This was so much fun- it is new to Canaan Valley and actually there are only 5 in the United States. They do not have a lift as of yet, so we definitely got our exercise walking up that hill for 2 hours. The teenagers were the first to poop out. It's $10 for a 2 hour session ~ most people don't last more than 45 minutes, so after the first hour we pretty much had the place to ourselves . The run was about the length of a football field. What a BLAST!!

Almost Heaven, West Virginia

You can say anything you want about West Virginia, but this is a REAL vacation! I have been to Europe and the Caribbean, but this is by far my favorite. Sometimes we forget what's in our own backyard! We just keep going back here again and again because it is just soooo relaxing! I REALLY did not want to leave!

Scrap Instructor gone wild!!!

Hey everyone, I will soon be teaching at Storytellers Scrapbooking in Belcamp. I am sooooo excited about this opportunity, because I am an independent instructor, free to teach whatever I can dream up with whatever materials I can get my hands on- Woooo-hooo! One of my first classes is going to be a version of this album, which is held together by skewers - IT IS A LOT OF FUN to make one of these! (Sorry about the pictures being sideways. I'm not great with the computer, but I'm learning!) As soon as I can get some projects to them they will be setting up a gallery for me on their website. Check out their website at: http://www.storytellerscraps.com/ - it is a very clean and easy to navigate website! Please be on the lookout for my gallery and classes. I look forward to seeing everyone!

It's my birthday!

My friend Becky gave this to me this morning for my birthday- isn't it the coolest gift -EVER? I love, love love it! and if that wasn't enough, she filled it with scrapbook stuff !! This just made my day - it will go PERFECT in my scrapbook room!! Thanks again Becky, you know me so well!

Can't wait to leave for vacation on Friday to one of my favorite places, as most of you know... Canaan Valley, West Virginia. I can't wait to take lots of great pictures. Both of the kids are going and some of their friends plus both of Denny's sisters and their family. Should be a BLAST! I can't wait to just R-E-L-A-X and do anything I want or nothing at all. I'm looking forward to horseback riding with Allie again. We leave Fri, but unfortunately have to be back on Tues evening because Allie starts field hockey practice on Wed at 8am- YUK! Denny and I drove her and some of her team members to camp yesterday- almost 500 miles round trip- whew! Too much for one day- that girl has had a busy summer. I am looking forward to just enjoying my family and having nothing else to think about- wooo-hooo!

Allie is home from Africa

Allie is home with 1700 pictures (I've trained her well!) I won't bore you with all of them, but they really are fantastic ~ Take a look!