November Recap

Hello everyone,

It has been a very busy month. To started with, some friends and I joining the #nanojoumo #15minsnanojoumo art journaling challenge. This is journaling at least 15 minutes each day all month. We made it harder by video taping our processes. There is a play list I created on You Tube if you are interested. Just follow the link. Here are some of the photos. 

I also attended the One of a Kind Stamp and Scrap show in Madison. There was a gem and mineral show, bead show and women's conference at the same time. I ran into Wendy Vecchi  demoing at the Stampers Anonymous Booth. 

From there I headed to DeKalb to see my granddaughter's cheer competition. 

Followed by some needed family time. 

Now we ready for a big snow storm. I am spending a few days with my son while he has knee surgery. I hope to be back in the craft room soon. 

The holidays are fast approaching. And so is the snow.

 

the photo above is from my DeKalb drive. Icy roads but the sun was shinning and made the ice-cycles shimmer.I am looking forward to December and all the crafty goodness that my freinds will be sharing. Be sure to tell me when you post. I want eye candy. Have a wonderful day until I see you again my friends. p

Going Mobile

iPhone's are the best. I can now post on the run. New apps are fun. P

Love

Love comes to us in many forms. My sweet grandson, Tenor, loves his big sister, Lyric. Whenever they go somewhere, this is the routine. They are arm and arm. Big sisters do make the best security blankets. Talk about melting Nana's heart.

My grand-daughter had a great birthday

All dolled up and a fun day at 6 Flags. What more would a girl want?

Happy Haunting!

Custumes by granny, smiles by candy!

Fall Fun

As you can see, Cadence is no stranger to charm. I think he may have stolen a few hearts already. Tenor is still a bit shy. He is working up the courage to talk to the animals at the petting zoo at Knight's Pumpkin Farm. We had fun playing in the corn maze and going for a hay rack ride.

Dance Recital Shot-too Cute

She danced her heart out. I was amazed at the changes she made in just one year.

The boys

Tenor found a soft spot to curl up in for a nap. He is just starting to talk and it is too cute. He even has favorite songs. My little Junebug is two next month!














Ethan and me on my last visit...












Our Cadence has now become a big boy. He should start preschool in the fall. Can you tell he is ready to play ball?

Been Scrappin'

I have been under the weather since our return from Florida. I finally felt well enough to head to the basement and get some work done. Here are some Reminisce samples.

Fright Night

It really isn't such a bad night...bit windy, but not many children are out in our neighborhood.

Ballet

More photos of my darling dancer, Lyric.

Another Digital

This was another attempt at digital scrapping. Bet you will never guess in a million years how many layers it took to accomplish this. I was able to cut out the background in the photos. We were out to lunch and the restaurant backgrounds don't do a thing for the photos.

Digital Scrap

I don't know if any of you have tried digital scrapbooking,
but for me it is a real challenge. This is a page I did for a
book I put together for my mother. I really like what you can do, I just wish it all came to me more easily.

Technology is something I really have to work at to understand. My children are my teachers. It just rolls off them like water off a duck's back. When I first enrolled in college, my DH had to convince me, life would be better if I did my papers on a computer. I still don't know if I was convinced when I was crying at 3 a.m. because I spent all day typing an essay that I now could not get the printer to recognize. Well that wouldn't happen today. I would simply email the paper to my prof. if the printer wouldn't cooperate.

Now that I want to use the computer more for fun than work, you would think I would be enjoying this more. Well, let me tell you, graphic programs are Greek to me. I am still feeling like I am back in college, struggling to make things work. I feel I am having to learn a whole new language. Couple that with the DVD recorder I just acquired from Ebay and the tunes the kids hooked me up with for my MP3 and I really don't know where to begin. I dubbed my first movie today after calling the company to find out what paragraph must have been deleted from the owners manual. I think the poor Hispanic chick I talked to thought I had a problem with her accent when really it was my ineptitude keeping us from accomplishing our goal.

I copied tunes from my computer to my MP3 and back again. Whoohoo...Now on to movies. I wish I knew how many GBs it takes to store the movies I want on an SD so I can play them on a PDA. See what I mean about new languages. I remember the first time we went to visit my mother-in-law in our RV. She kept talking about a VCR and I thought she was referring to the tape player we had given her sometime earlier. Come to find out, what she meant all the time was to say RV. She had no idea that stood for recreational vehicle or what VCR meant. We laugh about that to this day.

Spidy

I think Em was having more fun with the new toys than Cadence.

Cadence Dean and Nana

My darling grandson, Cade. Ain't he sweet??? He is into the movie Cars and every conversation is about Tow-Mater and the gang.