Happy Birthday Stephanie!

Friday, Stephanie turned 18!!  Hard to believe.  I remember when Stephanie was born, I was pregnant with Kayla and Stella was a Godsend to me many times because she became the person I’d call to find things out!  :)  Anyways, i remember how tiny she was and how cute.  Now she’s still cute, but she’s tall and beautiful!  They really do grow so quickly.  Kayla enjoyed spending some time with Stephanie over the weekend to celebrate her birthday.  She had a tremendous time!

I made her this album.  She really liked it.

** I apologize for the colouring on some of these photos…they are slightly skewed due to poor lighting.

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And here is a close of the journaling jotters I made/stamped.
Notice…yet another great way to use the leftover Prima Packaging…and recycle.  Great Tip for Earth Day!  :) 
The rest of the weekend was grand.  Sens lost against the Penguins in the first round of the playoffs.   So disappointing.  They tried hard though.

I finally drove!  I went out to see Dennis this weekend.  I needed to get away and change the scenery.  It was so fun and I have been really feeling good.  In fact, today I walked 45 mins around the neighbourhood and just soaked up the sun and sunshine and listened to the birds.  I am getting so tired of doing nothing and being inactive.  I’m looking forward to getting back into shape.  :)
I actually started a new blog today, to inspire myself and motivate myself back into shape.  It’s all about my walking!!
You can find it here. 

Today, I feel good about me.   Tomorrow will be even better.  :)

 

Halloween Mini Album

***My dryer broke – I think i shall break down and cry now.

I made a Halloween Mini album out of some of those thin foam pieces you can buy at the Dollarama.  I see them all the time.  A package of pre-cut shaped thin foam pieces.  I just happened to stumble on these last year – and they were in the shape of a pumpkin.  I  knew right away I had to have them because eventually I would want to make a mini album for my step-daughter.  So i bought them and they sat on my scrap table for an entire yet.  I think the cats even chewed a bit of foam off the stems of two or three or them. 

I dug out my scraps and leftover kit pieces from the Imaginisce line last year (last year’s LP kit).  I also had some Rusty Pickle patterned paper and a couple of sheets from American Crafts (i think it was).  Also at the Dollarama I bought a couple of sheets of neat looking embellishments.  CHEAP.  Affordable – I like it.  The really neat thing is that the foam was actually thin enough that I could sew a piece of patterned paper to each side and run it through my sewing machine – no clogs, no mess, no fuss!  I love that.

So…the above foam turned into this.  God, I love it when a plan comes together like that.  ;)

 

Flip flop for this flip flop album!

I apologize for the lack in blogging lately – been sooooooooooo busy!  Today is our country’s birthday!!  I’m celebrating by sending Kayla and Jory to spend it with their grandparents downtown, while I rest, clean and scrapbook.  Ahhhhhhh…that’s rite.  It’s been a very stressful and crazy couple of weeks – work is so busy and I’m getting ready to go away to the cottage for a week, beginning next Saturday!  So…we’ve been cleaning and doing laundry.  The laundry never seems to end does it?? 

Using the June Featured kit from Life Preserver’s Scrapbook Club, I made this adorable little Flip Flop Album.  The flip flops were from the Dollarama and some of the foam embellies were from my stash but most of this came from Cosmo Cricket’s Snorkel Line (and of course Bazzil Cardstock).  I’m showing you a few pages that I got completed so far, although I will need to get some more photos printed before I complete it (don’t you hate it when you run out of ink in your printer when you are trying to work on a special project?  Grrrr.

So much happened since i last blogged.

Jory graduated.  My little baby is no longer in grade school.  We had a fun day and he looked so handsome.  I know you saw the pictures on Facebook, but here are a few of my favorite from that day.

 

 

I also got some great photos of Kayla.  She’s looking more and more adorablely beautiful these days.  She’s gonna be 17 at the end of Summer…and I think I'll start keeping a baseball bat at the front door. 

Hope you guys are all having a wonderful day!!  Love you tonnes and tonnes.  xo

June Alternate Kit

The LP June alternate kit was a mixture of Cosmo Cricket and My Mind’s Eye.  What a fun kit to work with, especially making the little mini album I’m about to show you.

I made this using old CD’s and my circle punch.  For this album, I used 8 CD’s – that’s 8 less CD’s going in the landfill – yay Eco ME!!  :)  These are photos my Kayla , when she was little.   Gosh, I’m so in love with this album.

 

I also made a couple of layouts and cards. 

Lots of Little Love

The May Featured Kit at Life Preservers Scrapbook Club was the Love Shack kit from Bo Bunny.  This paper is absolutely gorgeous – so pretty and PINK!!!  I love it.

Of course, LOVE SHACK reminds me of Love…and that is why I dug out this LOVE Album (also from Bo Bunny) that I had sitting on my scrap table for about 14 months.  (ugh…why do I do that?)
I had the B52’s LOVE SHACK song in my head…can you believe I was singing it the whole time I was scrappin this!? 

So, to make a long story short, this was my first EVER Word Album and I think it turned out so awesome.  I’m pretty sure I’ll be giving this to a very special little girl (who I really wish I could see more often – Auntie loves you!!).  Need to get the photos printed in black and white and get that done pronto!!
A very late birthday present.  :(

So you think you can Dance is on…have I ever mentioned I LOVE this show?!!  Gotta run!