Musical Scrapping anyone?

A friend of ours made the best game suggestion for the retreat - Musical Scrapping. Everyone puts together a kit with photos and each participant gets 5 SHORT minutes with your layout. I chose some skiing pics from over 5 years ago that I never could get motivated to scrap. I felt bad that I threw in very few embellishments but look how nice it turned out:



I noticed someone else's brads were used b/c I forgot to even include any with my snowflakes!! Thanks Yvette! I think they were hers anyhow...

Blast from the past!

I was moving some photos around just now - a little computer housekeeping if you will and I found a this old pic:




I made this for a swap I was in with people from other countries...there was some criteria you had to meet and one was a handmade embellishment. I took a page protector and cut out the bottle shape, placed the sticker inside and sealed it. I cut the "stopper" from some cork I had and made the label from paper and a monogram sticker. Not too shabby for only 2 years into scrapping if I do say so myself!!!

A few things to share.....

I'm absolutely the worst about posting pics of my creations...even when I'm proud of them...so I thought I'd post a few of my recent cards and favorite layouts from the last few crops I attended.

I've been expanding my stamping knowledge on Lisa's Stampin Angels site by joining her monthly card swap - each month a different requirement and/or technique. Here are my August (wax paper resist using paper I bought at Michael's; TAC stamps & SU Ink) & September (kissing using CBX paper, SU inks & stamps and CTMH Solo and alpha stamps) swap cards:



These pictures were so hard to work on. I at least started scrapping my photos of Mason before we had to put her down but that really didn't make it any easier. Dixon on the other hand got sick and was gone in a flash...right after we bought our house and I was distraught for a long time. I suppose I'm finally done grieving over the both of them and now I just love looking at their sweet faces remembering their wild personalities.

Cute photos of both Mason & Dixon:




Random pictures of Dixon:



These are pictures shortly after I got them...maybe 9 or 10 weeks old. You can barely see Dixon on the right - she's hiding in the plants.



I have a bunch more but it's a lot of work uploading these LO's so you can see more here.

Blog Tag

I've never played before but I saw this one on a blog to which I subscribe and thought I'd play. Granted I don't know many that blog so I may not end up with 5!!

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) - Jodi Toyota

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) Rocky Geneva

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) -D-Wal

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) - Periwinkle Hippo - oh come on!!

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) - Nicole Dallas...it should really be Skye Dallas - if my mom had her way!!

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) - Walda

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink put “The”) The Brown Banana....so not right!!

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)- Jack Jack....that's lovely

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne, favorite candy) Shi Chocolate...what is that???

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ) Diane Keith

Okay well that was enlightening...I'm tagging Lisa G & Lisa S....I'm waiting!!!

So I had a bummer moment this morning....

I had to meet a subcontractor this morning so I took a different route to the bank. I stopped to get a drink on the way and as I pulled out of the drive through there were some donation containers and just to the side someone had left a couch. I noticed it b/c it really bothers me that people put furniture outside in the rain to ruin. I know - maybe it wasn't all that to begin with but for someone who has no couch it's something. A sheet and some throw pillows from the $1 store is better than nothing. Bust out the staple gun, nails - whatever. So if you didn't get it already...drives me bonkers that furniture in decent shape gets left out in the elements to become even more damaged. Getting to the point..there was a man sleeping on the couch. I assume he was sleeping. I felt like I was in a movie. My heart ached to drive on past and even more so that I didn't know what I should do. I know what I could have done...there are tons of things I could have done. His left shoe was off and his foot was bandaged. Not assuming anything about that person I still have my safety to consider. I don't want to put myself in harms way however - when do you make the decision to put aside your own safety on the off chance you could help someone as small as that help might be? I didn't have any cash, I suppose I should have gone through the drive through and bought a meal but what if I startled him. I was in such a daze...I literally felt like I was in a movie scene - you know the kind of scene that is shot as if you are in the car with the actors and you "feel" the movement of the terrain, music was playing in the background. So I'm irritated at myself...for not knowing what to do. I've always felt that the Lord leads you in all situations and there are times when I feel led to help, others I don't....I'm okay with that. The times when I'm unsure are what bother me most. It's raining now and I think about the man and the couch...