One Light Burning

The journaling pretty much says it all. This is a book I started to keep my thoughts while Robert is deployed.

The brownies are awesome!!

Wow, I'm so happy that these brownies in a jar turned out great!! I opened one this morning and it slid right out of the jar and I cut it up into slices and had a little piece and was it delicious and moist!!!
Alex had a little piece and then took an entire slice and shoved the whole thing in his mouth!! I'm thrilled....and I can't wait to pack up the other 2 and send them off in a package today. Wish I could see Robert's face when he opened that box.More about this tomorrow but I'm really thrilled that.............................................
In September I'm going to be attending the Scrapbook Expo!!

Some new pictures of my scrap space

So I've had a few requests to see my scrap space and since the last time I took pictures some things have changed in here so I guess it was time to update with new pictures. First of all this is my desk where I email my friends, blog and post on the messages boards. I watch TV in here too, when I watch...which is usually only when American Idol and Dancing With the Stars are on...I don't really watch much tv at all.

The entrance to my room is to the right of my desk and just across the hall is Alex's bedroom so when he's going to sleep he can talk to me across the hall and it makes him feel safe if I'm in here. He usually will tell me, "Mom, go in your scrapbooking room please and stay there!" hahaha! :)

This is my cutting table where I have my paper trimmer, my Cricut, my Sizzix with 2 alphas (so far) and my Xyron PCS. I got the dust covers for those on Ebay, I love my Marines cover on my cricut! :) On my bulletin board I keep random stuff and pages that I like to look at. I have my first ever layout on there, it makes me laugh when I see how simple my first attempts were.


My other table where I sit and prepare and work on my layouts.You can see both of my tables from this angle. I love my lamp, it gives me a great amount of light for when I am scrapping and with my eyes, I need it!!!

The craziness that is my pegboard, I dump everything on there!!

My closet with all of my stickers and other supplies.

More storage, my punches, my scraps, my cardstock.

Here I keep pictures, albums and other things.

More layouts

Just thought I'd pop in and post a few more layouts from last weekend's crop. Here is a layout of me enjoying the animals and of course the strawberries at the festival....so delicious and with the chocolate you can't beat it!!
This is a 2 pager that I did from all the pics of Jesse and Alex that day. I bought this paper piecing kit and I really enjoyed putting it all together, especially the photo that I chose to put behind the barn door! HAHAHAHA!!!

A couple more for today

This is one I did of my favorite recipe to remember my pop. I like the way it turned out and it is going in my "Book of Me". This here is just a funny one I did from a photo I captured of Jesse and Alex at the farm in June. Jesse is so funny!!

New Music Tuesday!!

So today is new music tuesday and I picked up the new Constantine CD...finally!! That guy took forever to put out a record but I really like it and I've been enjoying it since I got it this afternoon. He was one of my favorites on American Idol and I went to the tour twice that year.

We had a Code Adam at work today and in the 4 years I've been working at the library that is the first time I was there when it happened but they found the little girl within 15 seconds of calling the code...thankfully!!

Here is another layout I did over the weekend at the crop.

Haven't blogged in a week!!

Wow, I can't believe I haven't blogged in a week!! It's been a busy and productive week especially in the scrapbooking dept. I took a 2 hour class at Scrapbook Delight and did a 2 pager for holiday photos! I love it, so cute. On saturday I went to a 16 hour crop in New Jersey and I packed 21 layouts in my box. By 8:00 I pretty much finished everything I had brought with me so I decided I might as well pack up and drive the 90 minutes home. I will remember to pack more stuff for the next time, that's for sure!! The food was great and I had a fantastic time scrapping with my friend Sandi, as always. We are going to a weekend crop next month and I can't wait for that!! 2 nights away from home with nothing to do but relax and scrapbook!! WHOO!! For now here is one of the layouts I completed on saturday, I'll post more during the week.