You Gotta Check Out These Cool Photos!

Good mid-morning to ya!

Our addition is coming along really well.  So excited, especially now that we see progress!  

The cement will be poured today.... Yay!!  :)

It's so nice to see progress!  There will no longer be a "wind tunnel" between our house and the garage.

The wind whipping through this area was quite harsh, especially on a cold winter's day or a rainy day... basically every day it was wild weather walking through here. 

 

Thought I'd add a few photos of our grandson, the "wheelie-boy!"  

I thought he would be tired after soccer practice.  Not long after arriving, he was digging

out Andrew's bike and doing one wheelie after another.

Check out the concentration on this boy's face! 

He wanted me to take pictures, but then told me, "I have to concentrate."

I told him, "You concentrate and I'll take the pictures."    :)   

And I just HAD to add a few photos of the Veteran's Dedication that was held 

recently in our area.

We had eight boys from our Boy Scout Troop marching in the Parade and attending the

Veteran's Dedication that was held after the Parade.

My hubby at the Veteran's Dedication. 

These are sharp-looking dudes (and one lady) who hold re-enactments each year,
and today they were participating in the Veteran's Dedication.

Hope you enjoyed the photos!  :)

Now lets mosey on to my post for today.

Let's Scrap has a "Book About Me" Challenge.  I thought it was time to

scrap about myself and put these layouts in a special album.

This is my first layout for this Challenge #12, entitled "Siblings."  Hopefully there will

be many more about me pages to add to my album.

The sketch I used is from Let's Scrap (12-9-09) http://letsscrap.ning.com/

I only used the left side of the sketch.

And here's my layout.

Love this photo of my sister and I, laughing (as usual) and eating Brushetta.  

Oh my word, that stuff is SO GOOD!  My sis makes it and I always tell her

she NEVER makes enough!

This photo was taken during our two-week visit a few years ago.

Supplies used:

Paper: DCWV

Wire Ribbon

Ribbons

Gold wire (I removed from the ribbon)

Font: Cricut Stamped

Cricut

Flower

Rosette: Hand Made

Envelope: Hot Off the Press Mini File Folder

Sharpie Marker (for journaling)

Ink: A la mode Pink

Button

Circle Punch

Here's a close up of the wire ribbon, which no longer has wire on it.  I cut off the

wire from each side of the ribbon, then used that wire to gather the ribbon in

various spots.   

This is a better view of how the ribbon looked once gathered.

I added this envelope with the journaling tucked inside.  I love this gold and

pearl button! 

A better view of the wire that I cut off of the ribbon. 

And another use of the ribbon.  Once the wire was cut off, I ran my fingernail along

the edges to "rough" them up a bit. 

 Here's a great photo of the flower.  I started off using a random yellow flower then added 

the flower I made.  For this flower, I kept the wire along one side and cut off the outer

wire.  I just "gathered" the wired part towards the center while manipulating the

it to get it just right.  I didn't like how the center looked, so I looped the wire I cut off

and bunched it together, poking the ends through the center and adhering it while keeping the loops

raised above and creating some dimension to the flower.  I really love how this turned out.

So fun and easy!

While the envelope already had a notch in it, my strip of journaling did not, so I

used my circle punch and made a notch.  I also inked the envelope edges.

I tri-folded the paper for my journaling.  The edges were also inked.  

Another view of the ribbons and gold wire along the bottom portion of my layout.

Have a wonderful day!

Libby  :)

Experimenting With Chalk

Hello!

Hope you all had a wonderful day.

We have more SNOW!  The weather decided to hand us a snowstorm on Easter Sunday!  

FYI:  Wearing heels in the snow is not a cool thing.  I was slipping and sliding everywhere!  

Thank goodness today it's already melting!

Hope everyone had great Easter.  

We had a quiet day at our house.  Our son is in Germany and our daughter is in Hawaii.  Still getting used to "empty nest syndrome."

Here's my layout for today.

I really wanted to add "something" to the yellow space and found my stencils!  Below is a close up.  

Finally settling on the design I wanted to use, I began chalking.  This was fun!  The hardest was trying to keep the stencil from moving.  I could've taped it down, but that would've been too easy!  :)

Love this flower!  Had some ribbon hanging around that wasn't being used, to I got out my needle and thread and gathered it along one edge, sewed it together along the ends and Voila! 

The center of the flower was pink, which didn't match anything on my layout, so I covered it with a button, then added an adhesive pearl to cover the holes in the button.

Supplies used:

Paper:  DCWV, White cardstock:  ColorBok

Ribbon flower, Purple ribbon, Button, Adhesive Pearl, Chalk, Stencil, 

Watercolor Pencil, Sanding block, Sizzix leaf die cut

Thanks for looking!
Polly  :)

A beautiful Saturday in our neck of the woods!

Happy Saturday to you all!  

Here's a card that I've been working on.  Hope you like it.  These cards were time consuming so I only made two of them.  Not sure if I would use this card design again.....

The layout for today...

Kind of looks like "Spring," right?  Enjoy!

Have a wonderful day!
Polly  :)