A Dozen Assorted Odds and Ends

Just a few things going around here now:

1. Just purchased our tickets for our trip to San Diego and Disneyland scheduled for early summer.

2. Hubby and I spent the last 2 days painting our yellow living and dining room a taupe gray with a super dark wall in the back.
3. My Baby Aydan is registered for kindgarten...gasp.

4. Both kids are signed up for baseball.
Above: Kendall in her t-ball outfit last year.

Below: Her practice today for coach pitch...she hit the ball! And yes, still in our winter coats here.

5. DWTS has started, yay! Jeff and Jordan are gone from Amazing Race, boo! And American Idol is pretty bad this year :(
6. I am now a semi-redhead.
Sorry for super close up...had to take a self portrait here and I have a fixed lens. Yikes!

7. Crop Chocolate sent me a kit to make a project for their site. I haven't seen it up yet, but it will probably be there soon. I love their store! Used a ton of Slice cards here too.8. Maui is in her second level puppy course...I don't know who passed her through the first one. lol!
9. I am signed up for Karen Russell's photography audit class that starts in June! I CANNOT wait!

10. My HS classmates on facebook are planning our 25th reunion (do I sound old???)!!

(At my 10th reunion with my classmates, who were also in my church youth group. We spent a lot of time together in HS)

11. Had to take the little guy to the ER a couple of weeks ago. 14 out of 18 kids in his class got the rotovirus at the same time. He couldn't even keep down a sip of water...poor guy :( He is always full of energy so its hard to see him so quiet and somber.12. And last, I saw my very sign of spring this evening in my in-laws backyard. They were these gorgeous little blue wild flowers. So cute. And this pic was taken with my cell phone at dusk so pardon the quality.

Hopefully I'll get some scrapping done tonight or tomorrow...been a crazy week around here!

Jillibean Sketch and a Mini Album

Jillibean soup posted a real cute sketch on their blog and the winner gets some of their goodies! You can see the blog entry HERE. Below is the sketch:

Its perfect for 1 or 2, 4x6's. I decided to replace the left pic with a journaling sheet.
This is just me being totally sarcastic about how difficult it is to have a 5 month old puppy. Maui loves to dig and the ground has been wet for a long time, well you get the picture. Not fun!

Used my typewriter again for the journaling. I don't think I can stop using it!

I have a pretty long scrapbooking "to do" list in my scraproom. One thing I've been wanting to do is keep track of all my colors...inks, markers, paints, embossing powders, glitters, etc. Sometimes when I'm scrapbook shopping I see something I like but not even sure if I have that item or color. I knew that I wanted a small album that I could keep in my purse but I seriously had no idea what kind of design I wanted to make. I was rumaging through my library catalog and came across my tri-fold journaling cards from my 365 project last year. I only used a few but I saved them just in case. I trimmed the edge that is opposite of the tab and put the folded edge through my Zutter binding machine. I just got it a couple of months ago and haven't used it yet. I was able to fit 12 of those cards in there and I've already started putting my color samples in it.

To make the color samples I used my Crop O Dile and punched a line of holes through some stencil paper. Then I put the stencil paper on the journaling card and painted right through it. I also did the same for my ink pads. To make those I used a blender pen to pick up the ink. I tried sticking to the Roy G Biv route in labeling but I know that's impossible as I add colors in the future.
To make the cover I decided to find colorful letters so I chose some Alphabet soup letters from KI. I knew that I needed a cover that could handle the death trap that is my purse too. That's how I decided to use the KI sheet paper and I backed it with my favorite colored turquiose cardstock from Stampin Up.

I'm so glad that I finally started that project. And I can't leave without a few pics of my 5 month old monster.

Supplies:

Free to a Nice Home

Cardstock: Bazzill (pinks) and Archivers (black)

Patterned Paper, Journaling Sheet, Brads: Making Memories

Puffy Letters: American Crafts

Embellishments: Ki Memories

Glitter Pen: Sakura

Photo Software: Picasa (to make the black border around photo)

My Colors Album

Cardstock: Stampin Up

Sheer Paper and Acrylic Letters: KI Memories

Binding System: Zutter

Mini Alphas: Making Memories

Journaling Cards: Creating Keepsake