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!