Christmas layouts

The boys decorated sugar cookies for Santa.
Jacob ate almost all of these! But he did leave 3 for Santa.

Used some Love Elsie PP, American Crafts thickers and other misc embellies.



Photos of the boys and Sara (neice) decorating our Gingerbread house. They had a blast decorating with all the candies ( and of course eating a bunch too)

Used a Page Map by Becky Fleck, Scenic Route PP, Tim Holtz Grungeboard (heart), some felt Ric Rak from Walmart and AC felt thickers.

This layout was done using the Dec Kit from Scrappy Girl Designs and sketch from

http://mojoholder.typepad.com/my_weblog/

BESTest Christmas gift

Our new living room furniture was just delivered!
It looks black in the photo.. but it's chocolate brown with tan piping... SO sweet!
We have one more piece that Steve will be picking up next week... it's a cool chair with a funky pattern that should look great!






Here's a photo of the whole living area.














AND here is the piece that Steve surprised me with.
It's a 6 drawer file cabinet... so pretty!

Couple of LOs

Here are a couple layouts and cards using up the
Nov Kit from Scrappy Girl Designs.








Lukas at the park.











Jacob at GG Smith's house on Thanksgiving.







And here are a few cards I've made using the kit.

Holiday stuff

I made these ornaments for our tree this year....

Happy Birthday Michael!!!!!

It was great seeing you this past weekend... The kids had a BLAST!!!

Good Reason

to not have any more children....

This is my 2 year old climbing up on the

counters to get MORE vitamins...

I thought he wanted chocolate... LOL!

I MUST

Start writing down things Lukas says... he has the biggest personality.. in such
a small little body.

Last night we sat down to eat dinner at the table and Lukas wanted some Jelly
on his toast... so I spread some grape jelly on his toast...and he decides to lick it
off rather than eat the toast.. which is really no surprise.. this kid LOVES
sugar! Anyway, he takes a few licks and looks at me and says "yum, tasty Jelly Mama"
It just made me crack up... I'm always trying to get the boys to taste new things and
I use the work tasty all the time... and it was funny to hear him us it.

Beginning to look a "little" like Christmas

This week we started decorating our home for Christmas.
Here are a few shots of what we've done so far.



Here's a shot of a part of my Santa Collection.



This is one of my favorite Santas.





Here's a quick shot of a new tradition we've started this year. These elves belonged to my mom until I requested them last year. I remember having them growing up. Well, a friend (Cami B.) did a layout last year about this tradition she learned of through a website
that sells elves that look just like this, plus a book
that tells a real cute story.
I've not read the story yet but it has something to do with the elves being magical and they will go see Santa every night until Christmas. They will tell Santa about the Children of the home they are visiting. These elves will leave every night and try to hide somewhere new each day.
I must say, Jacob LOVES this! It's the first thing he does when he comes downstairs in the AM.
He searches around until he finds the elves and then he will even tell them "Good Morning!"
We are using these elves like nobodies business! If Jacob gets out of line ... or starts whinning... we just say.. "The elves are watching!" OR "Do I need to go speak to the elves about this behavior?" It is SOOOOOO working .. for now anyway.



And this last shot.. didn't turn out so well.
BUT I think it looks pretty good in real life.
I bought this wreath last week at Target. IT has
little tiny green leaves and red berries all over..
and it's kinda rustic.... I also bought the Stockings
and hangers... I LOVE the stars!

Nov update

For Thanksgiving Steve and I took the boys to the NC mountains.
Here are a few shots ...















































THEN the day before Thanksgiving we drove to central NC (Shelby)
to visit with my Grandmothers and other family members.
We had a nice time.
So... HERE is what I'm THANKFUL FOR!!!

GUEST DESIGN TEAM SPOT for JANUARY!

Scrappy Girl Designs is looking for a GUEST DESIGN TEAM SPOT for JANUARY!

January is a time to laugh and play. Use the word "PLAY" in your layout title. Submit your PLAY layout and enter to win a Guest Design Team Spot for JANUARY! The layout can be 12X12 or 8 1/2 X 11 or a mini album and can be about anything.

Upload your layout to our gallery in the Guest DT area and check in at the message board to let us know you've submitted! Layouts must be in the GDT gallery to be entered into the contest! The Winner will receive JANUARY'S SGD Kit and be featured in our Newsletter and on our home page and design team page!!!

The winner must be able to complete multiple layouts and our mini project from our December kit as well as actively participate on our message board. Contest runs from November 21st - December 20th.

Sweetness

This is a layout I did for a sketch challenge last week and I won! Yippee!

Photos of Lukas on Halloween.

He was a Thomas the Train Engineer.

GUEST DESIGN TEAM SPOT

Scrappy Girl Designs is looking for a GUEST DESIGN TEAM SPOT for DECEMBER!

November is a time to reflect and count our blessings.
Show us what you are THANKFUL for!
Use the word "THANKFUL" in your layout title. Submit your THANKFUL layout and enter to win a Guest Design Team Spot for December! The layout can be 12X12 or 8 1/2 X 11 or a mini album and can be about anything you are THANKFUL for! Upload your layout to our gallery in the Guest DT area and check in at the message board to let us know you've submitted!

Layouts must be in the GDT gallery to be entered into the contest! The Winner will receive December's SGD Kit and be featured in our Newsletter and on our home page and design team page!!! The winner must be able to complete multiple layouts and our mini project from our December kit as well as actively participate on our message board.
Contest runs from November 1st - November 20th.

Happy Halloween, my spooks, and a few layouts

Happy Haunting everyone!

Here are my little spooks for the night:

Lukas really isn't scary at all, but Jacob is a little scary I guess! (well, at least Lukas is a frightened)

On another subject, here is another layout using the Oct Kit from

Scrappy Girl Designs! WE are looking for a Dec Guest designer

if you are interested.. come by and check out the challenge!

HERE

7 Facts

I have been tagged by Lureen:

**Link to your tagger and post the rules**
**Share 7 facts about yourself - random/weird**
* *Tag 7 people; link to them.* *
**Leave comments on their blogs, so they know they've been tagged.**

7 Facts about me:
1. I grew up in the Carolina's
2. I enjoy riding my son's scooter.
3. I love reading my email before anyone else in the house wakes up.
4. I just started eating Red Bell Peppers -- and man, they are YUMMY!
5. I drink at least 2 cups of coffee every morning.
6. I'm a horrible cook.
7. I love going out to eat Sushi.

I'm tagging....
HOLLY my Chi O Sister
AMBER
HOLLY H
SHANA
KIM
JENN K
CHERYL

Scrappy Girl Oct layouts, cards and altered Frame.

Hi ALL, I just started working with the October Kit from Scrappy Girl Designs and this is what I've come up with so far. I still have TONS of paper left to work with... I think my favorite thing in the kit so far would be the American Crafts Aqua Thickers. BUT there is also a little acrylic Mini album I have yet to touch.

My Scrappy weekend results

This one is Jacob being silly ...12x6 (my new favorite size)
Challenge: title layout with the name of the Papers you use. These papers are
named "Celebrate Boy" by MME.

Quick shot of our Jack-o-lantern from last year.
The challenge here was to use black CS, White pen, 1 Piece of PP, small ribbon,
1 brad and a stamp.












This is me as a little girl (maybe 3 or 4) in my grandmother's
backyard... that I know for sure!
Challenge: used a given sketch, Flowers, chipboard and one non-alpha
sticker.




Super quick and simple layout.
Jacob and Lukas trick-or-treating last year in St Pete.
Challenge: use a Paperpiece created by me.



This is one of my favorites from the weekend.
Card using Scrappy Girl Designs Oct Kit! LOVE LOVE LOVE this paper.
It's funny, we get 2 different paper lines in our kit and I was really looking forward
to the American crafts line, but WOW this one blew me away! IT is sooooooooooo
beautiful in real life! It's by Imaginice and this line is called Out on a Whim. You'll be seeing some more of this paper for SURE!
Challenge: create a Fall Card and stamp your image and raise with pop-dot.








These are my 3 Sweet Boys (well at least in these photos they
look sweet, right?)
Challenge:Use 3 PP, 3 flowers, 1 heart, doodles, inking and at least 20 buttons.










Photos from our Annual Halloween Party hosted by the Cartwrights!
Challenge: create a layout using any 5 of the following...
Ribbon, At least 3 Pattern Papers, Buttons, Brads, Bookplate, Paint, Paper Tearing, Rhinestones, Flowers, Fiber, Punched Shape, At least 3 Stickers






Silly little Halloween Card
Challenge: Create a card and use glitter.
I bought his cute little glitter kit by K&company.
IT's like rub-ons that you sprinkle glitter on.
IT came with Lots of Halloween words and little pictures. Super easy to use!
Seems like my ghost needs a mouth??
LOL!

Scrappy Girl Designs Oct kit -- is AWESOME!!!

Come on over and check it out.

http://www.scrappygirldesigns.com/

This Months kit is featuring American Crafts Metropolitan and
Imaginice Out on a Whim products.
This kit includes 13 pieces of Patterned paper, 8 pieces of Bazzill cardstock,
ribbon, brads, chipboard, American Crafts Vinyl Thickers and
AN ACRYLIC ALBUM!
HOW COOL IS THAT!

THE boy is playing soccer!

Well, he is running up and down the field but he has NO idea
how to play soccer. YET!!! He'll learn!
Couple pictures, enjoy!

This is the work up before the game.
They were standing in line to kick the
soccer ball in the goal and Jacob was jumping
up and down with excitement! IT was
so cute. (No one else was that excited. LOL!)








Quick shot during the game.













Here's their coach telling them which way
to kick the ball. The one little boy with the blonde hair was the one kid who actually knew how to play soccer. He also, would NOT give up!
Jacob is on the far right... following the herd.








QUick shot after the game.

ANother quick shot after the game.

(BTW, he was drinking Gatorade

that's why his mouth looks blue)

Spook-Crop-ular

Will be held at Scrappy Girl Designs from Oct 12-14.
http://www.scrappygirldesigns.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=2594

We'll have games and challenges all weekend, and prizes to boot!

Come on out and join us for a Spooky GOOD TIME!

Hope to see you there!

Melissa

Dream Streets -- FROM SCRAPPY GIRL DESIGNS

Hi,

It's been a while since I've posted anything.
We'll I just got my first kit from Scrappy Girl Designs and it ROCKS!
There are 2 kits in one. September's kit included items from Dream Street and 3 Bugs in a Rug.

I've started with the Dream Street items and this is what I've come up with so far.

This is little mini album I made using the Dream Street pre-punched chipboard and PPs.

Jacob turned 5 on Sunday and these photos were taken that day.

This is a quick layout of my MOM with a BeeHive Hair do!












AND this is Meredith... She is the sister to one of Jacob's friends. They were our neighbors when we lived in St Petersburg.