Almost October?

Almost October? Really? August and September have been a bit of a blur for me. ENOUGH rain already!! We had a rep from FEMA at our house yesterday and I am hoping we are eligible for something. Actually at this point I wish it would just STOP RAINING long enough for my basement to fully dry. I have never ever seen anything like this in my area.
I realized today while posting my Let's Scrap page for the week (using a 5th grade photo) that I never posted Kelsey's first day of MIDDLE SCHOOL!! How is it that endless rain and a wet basement have put me so far behind.... OH and I'm not even going to be posting it today. Why? Endless rain and a wet basement are not enough. Laptop died and for the moment most of my photo's are "trapped" in it. Hubby is working on it for me so I should get them soon. In the meantime I did get a new laptop for my birthday!
OK enough of my whining already. Check out this weeks sketch at Let's Scrap! I love big photo's so I just adored this sketch. Add some Amy Tangerine from my Scrapbook Circle Kit and I am good to go. I also had an exciting email in my inbox over at Scrapbook.com

Check it out!

Good Evening,

I am hosting a fun little challenge called "Gallery Walk". Each day, I post a gallery of a creative artist, and the participants leave love all over their work.

I am delighted to tell you that our featured gallery today is You! Thank you so much for posting your beautiful work. I love your beautiful style, and I hope you enjoy all the well-deserved love that is about to be heaped all over your gallery!

Sincerely,
Michelle


Awesome to be getting so much gallery love! 

Rocket Age With A New Sketch

Good Morning~So I am a day late with the Let's Scrap WEDNESDAY sketch. Sorry about that. It's been a crazy busy week. My daughter swam in the Junior Olympics last week and I'm still recovering! Sadly I don't have photos but I do have some videos to get posted. Next stop? Eastern Zone Championships at Penn State. I am beyond proud of this girl!

Who knew that this free spirited water loving girl would be swimming 

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OK. Back to scrapping! I'm also excited because I made the Let's Scrap Design Team for a second term! Here's this weeks sketch which was the sketch used for the call.

I used the left side of the sketch only and an adorable photo of  my nephews. The Rocket Age papers from October Afternoon came from a Scrapbook Circle Kit.

Go Jump In A Lake

These are some of my favorite Lake George photo's. Although Kelsey loves the water I thought for sure she would be afraid to jump off the dock. She certainly proved me wrong.
I used the left side of this week's sketch from Let's Scrap and some goodies from this month's Scrapbook Circle Kit, Garden Party.  Do you think Pink Paislee will mind that I re-worked this paper? It just needed a few extra swimmers.  lol

A Cherry On Top Becky Fleck Sketch Challenge

Here is my take on the A Cherry On Top Becky Fleck Sketch Challenge. You can check the challenge out at the PageMaps Blog.

I've decided I am going to do an album of my daughters school photo's. It was my plan to start with her pre school photo and then do 2 pages of each grade thereafter. Since she get's pictures done twice a year once in the fall and then again in the spring I will have two pages of each grade. Shockingly I didn't quite stick with the plan and started with Grade 3. I had these papers out on the table when I started going through the photo's and really wanted to use this photo with them....I'm sure it doesn't matter since I am terrible about getting my pages put right into albums!

 

I used more of my Scrapbook Circle Kit, Hello Sunshine on this page. I think this might be my most used kit of 2011. Love it!

Happy Weekend!

Let's Scrap Wednesday Sketch And A Mess?

This weeks sketch had alot of white space and although I like white space, I don't often apply it! Today is no exception since I used black and grey paper in my "white" space. Who knew I was such a rebel! LOL Either way I had fun working with the sketch. I happily showed my hubby. He looks at it. Makes a face and says "what is that mess"!!?? Just as I was ready to go for his throat? I realize he was talking about the photo. teehee. He thought it was just a picture of our messy table! I guess you have to be a scrapper to see the beauty in that "mess"! To create my "mess" I used some yummy Echo Park papers from my Scrapbook Circle Kit.

Here is the sketch 5-11-11~Give it a try. I would love to see what you come up with. When you add your page to the Let's Scrap Gallery make sure you tag your it  5-11-11

                                                Happy Hump Day!