Photo Shoot in Texas!

Here are a few sneak peeks my photographer shared with me.  I decided to have my boys pictures taken as a surprise for my husband's Christmas present.  It's been awhile since I had them taken, so I thought it would make a great gift for J.'s office.

 These pictures were taken by Joanna Holt Photography in Bay City, Texas.  We have some great locations for photoshoots.  Of course this is my home town and I do miss it at times!  Joanna kept posting pics of her photoshoots and I just couldn't resist!   The pictures above I just love on the railroad tracks!

This picture was in front of the old train station.  Color scheme of the building looked awesome with our clothes.

Here is a fun one of our feet- this is the rave these days.  I will definetly add this one to my scrapbook!  The other picture on the side toolbar is of the 3 of us on an old caboose.  LOVE IT!  She will be releasing 15 photos for me to print, so I will post more when I receive them!  If you have the chance for her to take your photo's you won't regret it! So much fun! And who would have thought- my boys cooperated so well! They are officially growing up!

OMG OMG....SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!

CAN I TELL YOU HOW EXCITED I AM RIGHT NOW!!!! YES I'M SCREAMING!!! I HAVE SAT AT THIS LOVELY MAC COMPUTER ALL DAY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ADD TABS...AND I HAVE DONE IT

SO STAY TUNED TO WHAT WILL BE OF THIS BLOG......

OKAY WELL ITS NOT THE SWANKIEST OF BACKGROUNDS, BUT I TOO WILL FIGURE THAT OUT, OR HIRE SOMEONE TO MAKE ME SOMETHING CUTE......

UNTIL THEN CLICK ON THE TABS AND SEE WHAT THEY BRING YOU.....

Beach Bums

This was the paperline  I wanted to use for all those last minute vacations to the beach, for my August calendar class.  But I decided againts it, because not everyone goes to the beach.  If you want to lift this idea please feel free.  Once again, I don't remember the paper line for this one, but I do know that TM is reordering it! I loved handcutting the little bathing suits out.  I don't get to use these colors often being that I have two boys, but I took this opportunity to use these pretty colors because their was a cute little friend in the picture!  I did make my own sand with glossy accents and sand (for Barbados via. my sweet friend Katrina deSilva.) Mix it up good and wipe it on with a popsicle stick.  I used shells that we picked from the beach, gluing them with scrappy glue.

*BTW...I have always been a huge supporter of scrappy glue, but good lord I hate the new bottles...they are even WORSE than the old ones!

2 Cool Dudes!

Here is another quick beach layout.  I try to make one layout for Drew and one for Dax and then the rest are for my family album.  This particular one is for Drew's book, its more big boy looking.  Now that he is approaching 13 I have to tone down the kiddie stuff! Loving the wook papers at TM!  I made my own sand with glossy accent and sand from Barbados.  Really cool and easy to make!  I hope you enjoy!

My Life is Like a 3 Ring Circus!

Come One Come All we had a ball!

This was Dax's first time going to the circus.  He was not excited at all! But once we got there he warmed up to the whole idea, as long as he didn't have to get anywhere near a clown! Funny how some kids are scared of clowns!

 I wanted to paper piece a small circus tent, but of course I never create what I think I am going to create! So I made a huge circus tent.  I really enjoyed making this layout, I held on to this paper line for almost 2 years! I believe it is Reminisce.  TM still has some of the cut-outs but the paper is long gone, but I'm sure you could find  something close.

This is a design that I copied and altered from my scrappin' friend Andrea.  She is super fun to scrap with, we always have fun together, lots of fun conversations!  She is very clever and searches the web for fun layouts, plus we really have the same scrapping style.  So when we get together she always lets me lift some of her ideas.  I am so busy creating classes that sometimes my ideas are long gone by the time I do my own stuff.  I wish I had a picture of her layout to show you two different layouts with the same sketch! Again this was the same paper line and the cute little popcorn box is from Hobby Lobby.