Hmmm, been busy at work!! Bet you all know what that is like!!! We are now computerized and i LOVE it!!! it is going to make life sooo much simpler!!!! That is, it will once all the bugs are worked out and I get so I know what I am doing!!! LOL!!

Looking forward to the weekend and a chance to take some more pictures!!! Took a few action shots last weekend!! I have some willing volunteers!!! I need more practice though!! My volunteers work for little pay!! Just a chance to get to click the camera so any picture you see with me in it is taken by a 2,4,6 or 9 year old!!!!!!

Natalie's Technique Class

I have really been enjoying this class and just have not had the time to do as much as I wanted to as she is posting but I am going to try it all before I am done!! She just posted the instructions for making an album from scratch!!! I can't wait to do that!! I have done a couple of l/o's using some of her techniques and ideas!! It is different from what I usually do but I like it!!

My next project will be a 12x12 album!! I can only hope that it will turn out like the picture of it I have in my head!!

Photos with the kids at Northern Pond

The kids wanted to go to the beach with me but we went to Northern Pond instead.It has a bit of a beach at the back end of it. Really it is the seawall that holds back the sea from flooding the fresh water pond and also the road! There is plenty of beachy things to do there and the kids availed themselves of the rocks and sand and water!! While they were busy I was busy clicking away with my camera. I used my tripod for the first time. It will take a bit of getting used to but I am determined to learn and get better. Practice is the key i have been told and there is nothing I like better than to snap away!!!

We stayed until it was getting quite shady and then headed for the volley ball court to drop Anna and Aidan off with their Mom. I headed home to upload the pictures to see what I got! I took approx. 260 pics and had a few that I was happy with and a few more that were keepers even if they weren't the best! If I only kept the best I would never have any to scrapbook with and that just would not do!!! LOL!

My No name Kitty!

This poor baby still has no name!

She is a little sweety, some days I call her Timon, sometimes, she is Alice and my DH calls her Smudge! She loves laying around in the sun and will just flop over if she walks through a patch of sunlight!!! Her grandmother is half Simese and she looks alot like her! But her markings are really odd. She is cream colored with Vanilla stripes on her legs and a grey tail and grey smudge on her face!! Did I mention she has blue eyes and a little pink tounge!!!!

Hmmm, I am going to love taking this Photography class taught by KAthy Thompson Lafoley!! I have already learned that I know nothing so I am a clean slate to start teaching/writing on!!! LOl!! For the first lesson I have taken 400 pics and not a spectacular one in the lot, not even a really good one!!! I am expecting that to change as we move along!!!
The weather here has been great! Warm, sunny and just lovely! Our falls are always so much better than our summers!!
I am taking another class taught by Natalie !!! I just love her scrap pages!!! She is great at a lot of different techniques!!! She will be teaching us some of them. If you want to get in on her class hurry over to http://www.creative-scrappers.com/ and sign up. We will be learning to make albums from scratch as well as some other great techniques!!! It starts the 20th so you still have time! Here is Natalie's blog where you can see her work. www.mosquitoqueen.blogspot.com

A Big thanks to a special friend

This blog would not be possible without Kristine!!! I owe her a huge thank you and someday I will get to say it in person but for now this will have to do!! thank you so much Kristine!!!!! I really appreciate it and you and I am so excited about this blogging thing!!!

This thing called Blogging ....

I am not so good at posting everyday!! Can't imagine that day to day life activity is very interesting to all of you who are doing the same things!!! Well except for scrapping!!! that we all seem to get excited about pretty much every day!!!! Somedays i don't do anything about it but I am always surfing and reading when not actually scrapping!!!

I have been busy trying to get my daughter's wedding album l/o's completed!!! Not nearing completion yet!!! Wonder how many albums will be full by the time I feel 'finished'!! Lol!! But jeepers!!!! All the pictures are so pretty that I feel I need to scrap lots of them!!! Here is another if you are interested in looking!!

I wanted to try my hand at making my own crocheted flowers and I loved this sketch by Kristine Davidson! The scalloped border is crocheted too!!! What do you think??? Too much?