Splurged

First of all, a disclaimer for my dh .... it is all Jing-Jing's fault!! She showed me some new Martha Stewart punches today and I just had to go check them out for myself. I meant to only get the one but 4 more jumped into my cart. What was I to do?!?!?



Then, as I was heading over to the register, I passed the $1 aisle. One can't help to at least glance through the offerings....SCORE!!! I found these awesome mugs (and matching rub-ons!! clearly they had the scrapper in mind!!)...





Seriously, for $1 a piece how could I not get them?!?! My favorite is the Write your Own Story mug but each are awesome!!

The random little bird cage in the punch picture...not sure what I am going to do with that yet but again, $1, how could I resist?!?!

How About Them Apples?

Layout #2 from my manic weekend scrap session -- again, I used the awesome November 3 Scrappy Boys kit. The only addition that I made was the tiny green alpha from Basic Grey and the 100% authentic rub-on from October Afternoon. Oh, and the piece of brown cardstock which I am sure you can grab in their store!



The journaling reads: We always have such a great time apple picking! It has become a family tradition...unfortunately, this year, Noah and dad were not able to join us b/c of baseball. Oh well, didn't stop us from finding some of the BIGGEST apples ever grown on this side of the Mississippi!! October 2010

Scrapping Maniac!!

Home just over 24 hours and I have been a scrapping fool with 5 layouts complete! I love having new pictures to work with....they keep me inspired with fresh ideas. Not only do I have all of our vacation pictures to work with, I have the fabulous new kit from 3 Scrappy Boys. It is filled with Studio Calico Elementary papers, Maya Road chipboard, and so much more. As you can see from my layout below, you certainly don't need school pictures to put these papers to good use!!



The only thing not in the 3 Scrappy Boys kit was the map from Epcot (and the itty bitty JB rubons)! I punched out a couple of bits from the Epcot map to liven up the colors of the layout and to use as layering accents. I also recreated a couple of the country flags (Italy and Morocco -- since they were the easiest LOL) using SC mists and a star stamp I had on hand.

I'm Back....

Did you even realize I was gone? I don't tend to post in advance that I will be away....seems that I shouldn't post on the web when my house will be empty, what do you think?

We spent this past week down in supposedly sunny Orlando visiting with our mouse friends. It rained a few days but luckily not until later in the day so it didn't have a huge impact on our trip. We didn't get to parts of Magic Kingdom that I woul have liked to have gone but maybe next time! We tried to wait out the storm but after an hour or so we gave up and headed back to the house. All in all, it was a FABULOUS trip. As much as I really don't care for amusement parks --- the lines, the crowds, etc. -- I love taking the kids to Disney!



We spent a lot of time riding the rides -- turns out my kids are BIG fans of the rollercoasters so it was voted that Space Mountain and the Everest Expedition were the most favorite rides -- although Soarin' was a hit as was the Test Track in Epcot. Outside of the rides, we participated in a few shows....here are Noah and Hannah dancing with the African bongo group. Not to worry, Michael and I weren't left out (at least not in the big picture -- we were drawn into the Ziti Sister's show in Italy).


We met up with a ton of our friends. The oldest two really didn't care one way or the other about the characters but Sarah (previously scared to death of characters) couldn't wait to meet them all!!


The last two days were spent touring the world in Epcot! I haven't been to Epcot since I was kid and thinking my kids were too young, I had avoided it the last couple of trips. However, this time, I figured we would spend a day....we ended up spending TWO days there! With it being the Food & Wine festival there right now, we literally ate our way around the world. We tried so so so many different things. It was fabulous! We would get a plate and everyone would take two bites, finish it off, and we were on to the next plate!! YUM!

Here the kids are in Morocco --


...in Italy ---


...in China (had to snap this particular shot for Jing-Jing aka "Panda")


...and Sarah (yep that is her under there somewhere) in Mexico



Noah also celebrated his 9th b-day at Rainforest Cafe with a huge Volcano!!! Happy B-day!!!!

873 pictures to go .... I'll save those for another time, LOL.