Monday, Monday!

Well, it's just another Monday again, but that is a good thing. It means another chance at having a great week, another day to love my family, another chance to do things that please the Lord (or at least TRY to do things that please Him!). This past week I have really been scrapping a lot for me. I have done several paper pages and finished up a digital page. I have a few more in the works (digital) but they are no where near being done...mostly just in my head right now. But don't you find that you do most of your work there first? At least I do. I like to let things simmer a bit at times. So, I thought I would share the layouts that I have done recently...several of them are for challenges on Lifetime Moments. I thought I would give their Scraptoberfest a go this time around, especially since they said digital pages could count for any challenge that could be done digitally. Figured that would help me get my pages for my album done ;)

This picture is one that Aundy Flynn took several years ago and I have finally scrapped it, and the card that I made from its scraps.

Pictures taken at Strawberry Park, of course, using Cosmo Cricket and lots of stuff from my stash.

And my digi page...I like how it turned out. I used the sketch assigned for Day 3 at LM.

All my layouts are linked to my gallery at ASF where I posted any necessary credits.

I have also been doing Jules' Life Deck Challenges...here are my first set of ATC's for that. They were cards for today, tomorrow and yesterday.

The next assignment (Life Deck) is style...I am pretty sure I am lacking in that area...not sure what I am going to do there...still letting that one simmer.

Digi Page for today

Well I am back to doing some digi pages and I guess with a vengeance. Hannah thinks I should go ahead and try to get a book together for the grandparents - good thing they don't read my blog, huh? So I sat down and figured out pages that should be done according to my pictures stored by the month...working from October 2007 until the end of this month (Sept. 08). So here is the first page...it is a picture I did recently in paper also for one of the previous newsletters from ASF.

Here is the paper version:

And here is the digital version:

Both layouts are clickable and are in my ASF gallery with credits.

Happy Birthday to my Hannah!!!!

I cannot believe she is 18 years old today!!!

Here are a few pictures that were taken today with her friends....thought they were cute and had to share!

Tonight we are grilling ribeye steaks - yum! We also made Chocolate PB Squares and Lemon Bars instead of cake and ice cream.

September Club 52

Club 52 met last night...and I thought it would be a perfect way to start trying to blog again. My blogging attempts are like my journal and diary attempts - sporadic at best. One day I do hope to be better.

Anyways, here are the layouts that I did with September's kit...love how they all came together.

Here is a link to the thread where all the product and sketches are posted...September Sneaks and Peaks....and below are my layouts that I created with it. I am absolutely LOVING those Making Memories Tiny Alphas...I think I need more

We have 2 kits left from this month - so let us know if you would like to join!

My DVD Cabinet!

Finally I have taken some pictures of this wonderful cabinet! I am so thrilled with it! We looked for years and years to find something like this and finally had Danny custom build this and I painted it black and added the square pewter knobs. As you can see we may have to have him build us another one for a different wall - eegads, we do have a few DVD's huh?

Front view

Side view (It's not wide and we had to anchor it to the wall like a cabinet.)

All 3 doors 0pen - and yes, it is pretty full and notice none of the old VHS tapes that we are still hanging onto (mostly older children's videos for Christin) are in here, nor are any of the XBox or Wii games, nor any of my workout videos or the DVD's that do not work with the TV Guardian.

This summer we have been going swimming with Kim C and her wonderful children! My children have been having the time of their lives and love playing with them! Yesterday we went to the Rez pool and I actually REMEMBERED to bring my camera and TOOK pictures!!! Here are a few to share with y'all (and yes, Kim I will email the big versions of them to you soon!). I am going to have to remember to take more the next time we go swimming - Christin kept making funny faces and the close ups didn't turn out very well....but I really like the bottom one - good thing he didn't get my camera, huh???

July Club 52

This Friday night Club 52 will meet! It is always a highlight of my month - especially AFTER I have completed my layouts! You can check out the previews and sketches to this months kit here at ASF's Club 52 forum. And here are my layouts for this month's kit. I did try to post this yesterday and Blogger wouldn't let me finish uploading my layouts. Grrrr. I did link my pictures to my ASF gallery if you would like to see a larger image.

On to other things. We have been swimming a lot more this summer. I need to take my camera with me next time we go to the outdoor pool so I can get some good shots to scrap! I have taken some at the indoor pool during swim lessons, so at least I have those.

I am also thinking we need to plan a picnic next week. Not sure where though. We may drive up the Trace a bit or maybe just go to the park over by the Rez. Caleb loves to play in the water there a bit. They are not into playground equipment a whole lot but would rather run around and explore and use their imaginations. Works for me.

I have also been getting my act together with working out again. I find that I absolutely cannot allow myself to walk upstairs and check anything out on the computer before I work out. One thing leads to another and before you know it 30 minutes have passed and it is then already getting too late to workout in a timely manner. So...at 6:30 I am pulling on my workout clothes and popping in the DVD. I bought a new one by Leslie Sansone. I need to check it out to see if I am going to keep it. Collage video is really good for that so I am going to see if they have a write up on it. So far I have been sticking with my Firm workouts, but I do like to vary things up a bit so I don't get bored. The one I purchased at WalMart ($11) is 4 Really Big Miles. It looks like an ok addition (checked it out while I added the links) so I think I will keep it. It will most likely be a good one to do between heavy weight workouts with the Firm.

My Closet

My birthday present this year was to redo our walk in closet in our master bedroom. It is not a large closet, but I knew we could definitely do a better job of storage in this area! All we had was a wrap around shelf at the top with two bars running along the sides for hanging. We found the Closet Maid site and were able to put in the actual dimensions for our closet and design it the best way possible for the least amount of $$.

Before we had about 11 feet of hanging space and about 13 feet of shelving. Now we have 17 feet of hanging space and 33+ feet of shelf space!!! I actually have bare areas in my closet!!! AND we really didn't get rid of a whole lot when we cleaned it out!

Here are a few photos! This first one is the left side of the closet.

This one is looking straight in. (see I told you it wasn't a big one!)

The right side of the closet.

My shoe storage!!!

One thing I did notice while we were doing this is that almost all of my dress clothes are BLACK! I really do like the elegance of black I guess, but I am trying to now make a conscious effort not to purchase too many more black dressy items. The red bracket shows you my dressy clothes (I do have a purple skirt in there :) )