Scrap Page # 3-Toby lovin' the snow!

Hello again! It took me a full day but I finally got this picture to upload! It's another scrap page that I did of Toby from last winter when he found a red leaf in the yard, burried under the snow. That dog loves leaves!

Hope everyone has a great Friday and a wonderful weekend! Stay warm and out of the snow, if you can!

Scrap page #2 The Boston trip

Hello out there!

I hope everyone is doing well on this Thursday night. If you are experiencing snow like most of the country right now, I hope you are staying warm and you're not getting too much snow! I think its done snowing right now, but then again, it's Michigan!

So I'm uploading another scrap page that I worked on recently for my scrap project. I have been spending a lot of time working on an album of pictures from a trip to Boston that I took with my friends Amanda and Jenny. We went on this trip waaaaayyyy back in 2005 and I am just now scrapping the pictures. This particular page goes along with our first day in Boston. We walked around and found the Cheers Restaurant and had lunch. It was delicious! We had a blast on this trip, so expect more photos from this trip soon! It seems as if this picture is a little blurry, so I apologize for that. Not sure why its blurry!?

I'm also in the process of uploading another page that I did of Toby (our lab) but it won't upload!! Grrr! So that might have to be blogged another day because my patience is running low. I don't know why a simple picture won't upload! Oh well.

Until then,
M.

Chicago bears mini cupcakes!

I finally got to use my mini cupcake maker!!! I made mini lemon cupcakes with lemon cream frosting. They are actually much oranger in real life than in this picture. I call them my "Chicago Bears Mini Cupcakes" hoping that they could lead Chicago to the Superbowl, but alas, looks like that won't be happening this year. :(

Scrap Page #1-My Toby

Here's the first page I've done for my scrap challenge. Its just a quick layout that I did of Toby.

A Day In The Life of a Scrapbook

Hello there!

Another year has come and gone and now its 2011! Its been a while since I updated this thing, but I have high hopes that I will be updating quite frequently now. About a month ago, while on Christmas vacation, I rented the movie "Jule and Julia." Anyone seen that movie? I loved it because it gave me an idea of something that I would like to do and it has motivated me in a way that I didn't think it would. Watching the "Julie" character as she goes through Julia Child's cookbook made me think of doing a scrap page every day for a year.I guess I found myself connecting to her character and her need to do something challenging while learning about who she is at the same time. Then reality hit and I realized that while it would be an awesome idea, it wasn't very practical. I'm glad that Julie had the chance to work 8 plus hours a day at a crappy job and then come home to a tiny apartment and cook amazing meals that her ever-so-supportive husband would consume with a smile on his face. In reality, there's no way that I would be able to work 8 plus hours teaching 16 year olds and then come home and work on a scrapbook page all while cooking dinner and making lesson plans. Yeah. Not gonna happen. At least not every day for a year.

But what I did realize is that I could make 365 new and different scrapbook pages in the year 2011. They don't have to be done every day. I could work on a couple in one day and then do some more when I have time. Yay! Brilliant idea. Plus, I will start moving through those pictures that I desperately need to scrap AND I will be using more of my scrap supplies, which means I will have a need to buy more! :) It's a Win-Win Situation!

So, today is Thursday, January 20th. I have completed 14 scrap pages as of today. I will be uploading them on here so that you can see what I have done as I make them and go through my "scrapping journey." So I have 14 down and 351 more to go! Wow.
And if there's anyone out there who might be reading this, leave a message or let me know what you think. If you're a scrapper and like/don't like what you see; let me know as well.

Until then, here's the first page I created for my scrap challenge 2011. See you next week!