The Color Room

For all of you scrappers out there, you must check out The Color Room. It is a fabulous new site featuring a new color palette and sketch to inspire you to create each week. My good friend Jing-Jing is one of the fabulous designers!

The following is this week's combo:


Isn't that a great combo?!?!?

Of course, I hadn't yet participated in their weekly challenge so without reading the "rules" I created this:



It has both shades of brown, navy blue, and white...the problem? I wasn't supposed to add any other colors and well, as you can see, mine has quite a bit of pink and some periwinkle. Oops. Oh well, so I may not get to participate in their weekly RAK but hey, it is a site to inspire us all to create and it certainly accomplished that!

Vancouver Mini

Thank you to everyone that either called, texted, or commented with Vancouver suggestions! The trip was fabulous! My legs are still aching me as I think we saw every square inch in a matter of two days. We did at least two of the recommended "in a day" tours each of the two days. It was a lot but I didn't want to miss a thing!

With the weather a little cold here, and my son out of sports of the week (which another story in of itself), I was able to sit and make a mini album of my trip. I was able to repurpose the map that came with my tour guide -- it makes for a wonderful album cover as it is a finished paper which won't show fingerprints and doesn't easily rip.

Countdown...1,2,3 days to go

In only 3 days, my sister and I are off to Vancouver. Have you ever been? While it is technically a business trip, I don't have to teach until Saturday so we have two days to see the sites. If you happen to have been there, what are the "must sees"?

Recent Pixs

With the three day weekend having just begun, I was able to not only print out a few pictures, I was also able to scrap them. These pictures were taken Monday evening just before Passover dinner. I love that the babysitter was able to get the kids into some nice clothes for a change; she even had the girls' hair all curled...thanks Samantha!!

I am totally in love with this layout. I always tend to like my layouts when I start with a sketch in hand. This sketch was from Becky Fleck's PageMaps Feb 2010...the papers are all BG as are all of the accents. As you can see, I also took advantage of my new photo printer functionality --- check out that 8"x12" photo!




The journaling reads:
"It is never easy to get a good picture of the three of you together. You are always tickling and pinching each other just as the flash goes off. It is frustrating in the moment b/c I have my heart set on that "perfect" photo but you know what, these candid photos capture so much more of who you really are than that perfect photo ever would! Keep on giggling!!"