Back to Basics...

I started this blog for scrapbooking, so I better post some scrapbooking "stuff". This blog was not intended to be a running commentary of my life - that just happened along the way...

First, a little something I made for M & A's babysitter. I've had these big clothespins for - oh, I don't know, 4 years... The other day, my friend Melanie asked me - have you ever decorated one of those honkin' big clothespins? (I've heard her say "honkin'" more than once, so I'm sure that's what she said...) Which pretty much reminded me that I owned them and they may have dry rotted. But I dug them out and they still work, so I pulled out scrap paper and made this. And I am not the kind of person who pulls fantastic things together out of scraps - I hate scraps! But this time it worked out. I think I just might make some more - hopefully Scrapbook and Co has some more - don't try to beat me to them!

I finally got to scrapbook last weekend and I totally got to hang out with the "cool chicks". I stayed until 4:30 in the morning! Didn't get a hell of a lot done, but I had fun - and I laughed so hard I cried - now tHAT's a good time! What I did manage to do was tear into one of my Girl's Loft kits. Apparently I was collecting them instead of using them. I had looked at the first, still had the second one if the box and third one had just arrived. So I used the third on this Children's Museum layout. The kit was school related and since I was dying to use it, I decided to take a learning approach to everything we saw at the museum. Here's how it turned out...

It was so cool to play with brand new things coordinated just for me (and the four zillion other people buying the kits - but I pretend they are just for me). If you want to learn more about the kits - see the link on the side of my blog.

Lastly, my poor All About Me students have been waiting to see the August layout. First let me warn you that do not have the large pink sheet on the right side. I didn't have the correct sheet, so I improvised, but your kits do have the correct amount of pink paper - so don't fret.

Here is the left page of the layout with a close up of the peacock (which is not on the sample from Basic Grey - but how could I resisit using that cuteness?) Oh and pretend you don't see the pencil tracing of the circle for the brad placement - that's one of those finishing touches that I haven't finished...

The theme of this layout is "The Real Me" - hmmmmm - do they know me? because that could be difficult to describe. How many words do I get?? Most importantly, I'm a work in progress. So I knew I was safe with that title. As for the rest - I'm workin' on it...

Here's the right page with some detail shots:

That's it for now. I went back to the doctor on Tuesday, so now I'm on a regular antibiotic (so long z-pack...), a steroid and a decongestant - do you know what that equals? - WIDE awake and cold sweats - ahhh now that's good stuff. Hopefully you are having a laughable week just like me!

take care, heather