Grandbabies

I owe Brooke & Adam pages for their magnetic frame so I finally made one the other day for them and one for us too. The boys are just too cute in those shirts I bought them. In case you can't read what they have printed on them, they say "My Mummy Rocks" and have a mummy on them. I love this black, orange and white stripped paper.

Yesterday, we got a Halloween card in the mail from the twins, Emma and Lily. They also sent us a collage photo.

 Who's foot is that????

They are so darn cute. Dale and Darla are so lucky.
Of course Darla and Brooke are the real lucky ones. They both get to stay home with their children instead of  having to work and sending the babies to daycare. I know I will always cherish the years I stayed home with Adam and Alex.
Emma & Lily, Jack & Bennett, we hope you all have a great Halloween and we can't wait to see pictures of all of you in your costumes.

Catching up

I am trying to catch up with my scrapbook pages but it is slow going. I really need to do pages for my picture frame and Brooke's but just haven't had time. I have been trying to get ready because my peer evaluator comes tomorrow at school, so we will see how that goes.
I have taken some of my previous 8 x 8 pages for my frame and turn them into 12 x 12 pages for my scrapbook. Here are three of them. I am really pleased with the way my silhouette has been cutting things out since I did the update for the software. It is cutting out things it never would have done before the update.

This farmer Jack page is James's favorite.

I really like this one with the green checked paper and the green poke-a-dotted paper.

The silhouette cut out these detailed hearts and the button borders below.

It never would have cut this out before the update. I am really excited about it now.
It was James's 65th birthday Saturday so for a gift we went to the USF homecoming game. Unfortunately they lost with a little help from the refs but we had a great time and got some sun too.
I also got him a coffee maker.

He is really liking it.

We had great seats on the 40 yard line. I asked the guy behind us to take a picture of us and supposedly he did but when I got home and checked the camera, there was no picture of us. Oh well.

 Here is a picture of the card I made for him.

The Tampa skyline was beautiful and I couldn't miss taking a picture of it.

I put the pictures that Brooke and Adam took on their beach vacation on the pages I made at a make and take at the convention in Jacksonville. They were perfect for the pages. Even their clothes and swim suits color coordinated with the papers on the page.

October

This month for card class we made a calendar. We used a small CD box for the stand and we did three months worth of calendars for 2012. Guess what the secretaries are getting this year for Christmas?

 Here is what they look like from the side. I really like them because they are small and won't take up much space on a desk.

 I made a Halloween card for Jack and Bennett that is different from the ones I am sending everyone else. Since they are going to be little monsters for Halloween, I thought this card was appropriate. I mailed it today in their Halloween box.

 Also in the box is a Halloween can for Jack.

I made this door hanger for Jack & Bennett too.

Lynn and I went to St. Pete to Whim So Doodle last Tuesday for their make and take. We made these cute little Halloween bags. We ate at a little Italian restaurant around the corner. I don't remember the name, but it sure was a really nice place to eat. They had some tables outside and the weather was beautiful so we ate outside. It was like being in Paris again.

Jessica, I thought these boxes might be nice for favors for your wedding if we do them in your colors and put the guest's name on them and fill them with those candied almonds.
This is the Halloween card I made for this year. I really like this stamp.

I made Christmas, boy birthday and girl birthday count downs for Frances and put them in the Halloween box I mailed today. Here are what they look like. This is part of your Christmas gift Frances, I am just sending it early so you can use it for Francois's birthday and for Christmas this year. I will do you an Easter one later. I really think these are so neat. I used my Silhouette to cut out the shapes and the numbers. It is really working so much better since I did the upgrade to Silhouette studio.

Boy Birthday

Girl Birthday

Christmas Countdown

Now it is up to you to buy the little trinkets and candy to put in them!

Francois's birthday is next month so I couldn't leave him out. I made this card & envelope  for him.

It is the first time I used this stamp. I pop-dotted the little stars and glittered them.

Cute As A Bug

Lynn and I took a class last weekend at Violette's. Of course, it was one of  the classes by Florence. She is such a great designer. I took this class so I could put some pictures of Bennett in it since I already did a small album of Jack. The pages in this one are so pretty. Here are a few of them. I can't wait to put pictures on them. This is the cover.

I really love the papers in this album.