House Cleaning

I finally got around to that house cleaning --- easier to do when you threaten, oh I mean enlist, the help of your three children! I still have mounds of laundry to fold but at least counters have been cleaned off and toys picked up. I have yet to peek into the kids rooms....I am figuring they took the piles from downstairs and now have new piles in their rooms! LOL. I know as a kid that is how I cleaned!! :)

With the house picked up, I am headed off to scrap a bit more. It has certainly been a productive crafty weekend!

Interested in Scrapping?

My Scraps and More is hosting a month long "Lift It" challenge. Each day, Monday thru Friday with some extra bonuses on some weekends, a new layout will be posted to 'lift'. Prizes are being awarded and you have until the end of the month to complete as many "lifts" as you can. Five challenges have already been posted and I have completed three layouts. I don't envision that I will do all 20+ but I am certainly off to go a good start!

Check out what I've done this far....

This first challenge was all about paper layering and clusters. I don't layer much in general but I was able to put that 6x6 MME pad to good use here!


The second challenge was based on a Julie Bonner layout. I adore here clean lines and use of tags. I didn't follow her layout exactly but I took those two concepts to heart with this one.


Lastly, a challenge based on Kelly Goree's layout from CHA featuring the new PB&J line. Unusually bright for me...but I am digging the slant...


I hope you'll come play along......

Grand Plans

I had grand plans of getting the house in order this weekend....kitchen counters cleared, toys scattered around house picked up, pantry organized, etc. It started out well, I was up early Saturday and mopped the floors. But then it all fell apart. I was sucked into the book I was reading and wasn't heard from for the rest of the day. You certainly can't beat a good book!! Besides, the housework has waited this long, what's another week?! LOL.

Today we are off to the girls' last basketball game, N's last regular season game, and then H's last gymnastics meet of the season. I think that means I should have a couple of free weekends before baseball season kicks into gear! Maybe the housework will be done then?!

I also had hoped to do some scrapping but again, that dang book got in the way....A Discovery of Witches if you must know. It is a new series that is a mix of Twilight and Anne Rice with the potential of a little Harry Potter. I enjoyed this first book...the next one won't be out until June.

In between chapters, I did find the time to take pixs of the layouts that I made during the week --- this first one is based on the February sketch over at My Scraps and More. As you can see, it is a fairly simple layout...I went with H's gymnastics colors of pink, black, and white. She has already asked if she can hang the layout in her room :). I don't love the look of the handwriting -- I much prefer typed fonts but this will do.



I also whipped this one together -- unusual color scheme for me but it was a chance to put some of those Cosmo papers and Studio Calico stamps to use! I liked this layout better in my head than I did when I put it all together but it will do.

Fantastic

What a fantastic day ---

Breakfast at the Pop Shop: Breakfast Parfait (vanilla yogurt, granola, cranberries, strawberries, topped with whipped cream) that was almost as good as a dessert!

Reading: The Leopard

I have read a couple of Nesbo's books and have enjoyed every one of them. Great quick and suspenseful books!

Basketball games:


Scrapping: using up some of my Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe Collection

Now off to watch The Zookeeper with my girls...boys are at baseball.