scrapbooking and photos

Have put sewing on the backburner for now. A

very good friend has asked me to do a scrapbook

for her mother. And as I love scrapping I

said yep, be glad to!

She has send boxes of supplies to me and

occassional odds and ends. An album,

lots of refill pages, embellishments galore,

gorgeous papers....oh its been like Christmas!

And I get to play with it all and when I'm done,

send it away!

She picked an absolute yummy album

by K and Company. They have such beautiful

scrapping items. Hard to not buy it all!

No thats not her pic in it, its just the one

included for the sale. Pretty isn't it!

*the album, not the picture* And

I get to fill it with lots of wonderful old family

photos. Alot which I get to touch up and repair.

And as my friend knows how much I love playing

with damaged photos, she threw a

HUGE challenge at me,

Can You Belive That Picture? The damage, YIKES!

So I said, oh hey, no problem, bit my lip and dove

in. And I think I did pretty good! *its still not

quite finished*
Yeah, not bad huh?

I love family photos. They are family treasures.

I cringe when I see photos that have not been

taken care of, or worse yet stored in those

horrible sticky albums. You know the ones,

you lift the page, and its sticky, so you put your

beloved picture on that page and drop the top

back on it. Then the page proceeds to discolor

and do terrible things to that picture.

So this is what I am spending my time doing.

Touching up, resizing, reprinting, scanning

and having fun!

In a few days I will start putting the pics

to paper and adding all the fun

embellishements! I can't wait!

The Cute Book

I finally got my latest book order in the

mail. I'm so happy it arrived, cuz like

it says, its just toooo cute!

I found a few pics on line I could share, This shows the patterns

and directions. Complete and easy. They are all for felt which

makes it all pretty easy.

This picture cracked me up, one of the figures sewing up another one!

Here is that whole page which describes the book.

Isn't it just the cutest ever? I will have to see if I

can find more pictures to share. They are adorable.

And have great names,one is called 'Liar',

another Pinkie, Bad Guy, White Sheep Black

sheep. It goes on.

Wish I wasn't in the middle of a huge project so

I could get started sewing some up. I picture

making a little drawstring bag and filling it up

with these little guys for miss o, my grandaughter.

She LOVES the little goodies like these. Perfect!

The Great Gazo

I'm sure you all remember a few months ago

when I was jumping up and down with the

purchase of my new car! Well I have stopped

jumping up and down, but still LOVE it!

And I'm finally getting used to the size.

Its just so small! I'm used to driving a

mini van with a long nose, so for weeks

when I would park, I would be nowhere

near being all the way pulled in! ha!

I am still loving the color, alien green. Yes

its what it says on the paper work. Don't

you love it! Well, Bob was washing it for

me over the weekend, and when he was

finished he comes in and says, 'The Gazoo

is all clean and ready to go now'. Huh?

And then I remember! The Flintstones! The

alien called 'The Great Gazoo'!!

So I guess thats the official name of my little car.

Now, we really dont name our cars. Well, we

did call one car I had 'the mom car' if that counts.

Bob has ordered me a small sticker to put in the

corner of the back window, which I think is

pretty cute. And as soon as it gets here

I will take a picture!

Tomorrow some pics of a

Cute Little Book that I just got!

I am thankful I'm feeling so much better

I am thankful for cool summer evenings

I am thankful for diet caffeine free coke

I am thankful for Kathy trusting me with

her family history

I am thankful for all my sewing books

I am thankful my daughter is a loving

strong wife and mother

I am thankful all my ink was in stock

I am thankful Dawber finally got a haircut

I am thankful for you!

busy busy busy

I've been a terrible blogger lately. I have not even

done my fav's and lov's when I do blog! And that

was one thing that I was always going to do.

Shame on me.

Things around here are as busy as ever. My

son finally made it here from So. Calif 2 weeks

after his wife and the little guy. And of course

he brought another car full of stuff with him

so we are about at the crammed to the rafters

level now! Our garage is crazy...hard to get

to my sewing stuff now and that makes me

not too happy.

So guess what I am having the guys do this

weekend? Give up...ha, clean out the garage

so I can get to my sewing stuff and stay in a

good mood. Its like withdrawels or something.

I need fabric piled around me, thread and trims

within reach, patterns handy to browse through.

Just my little addiction I guess!

A bit of good news. For almost two years I

have been suffering horrible, dibilitating

nausea. It would strike so fast. Last for

days. And the docs did not know why.

I was scoped. Poked. Prodded and

questioned. Nothing. But I figured it out.

It was an oh my god moment. I have

been having a reaction to my muscle

relaxer I take nearly daily. Its amazing,

I have not taken it in over a week and

I feel sooo good. I had forgotten what

its like to be able to eat and not have

nausea accompany all meals. Its

amazing and I am so grateful its

finally been figured out!

I am thankful for my prayers being answered

I am thankful for my friends trust

I am thankful we are able to help our kids

when they need us.

I love Bob's cucumbers fresh off the vine

I love making salsa with sunshine warm tomatoes

I love 'repairing' vintage photos

I love quesedillas

I love cherry coke

I love you

some a this and some a that

Finally finshed something for myself!

And I LOVE it! Just a big tote bag,

but its perfect in my eyes.

And I managed to get the flower

centered on at least one side! yay!

Isn't it cute!

Nice and roomy and didn't

droop and hang when I filled it up

with all the things I find important

to haul around! That was a big

big plus in my book!

When I had the straps all pinned

and ready to be sewed I realized

the way they were you could not see

the flower! So I swapped them from

being back to front straps to

front to front and back to back

straps. It worked. I'm happy.

The flower is in full view.

I had a docs. appt. this morning.

It was my paint management doc.

Great doc, always listens to what I

have to say, ready always with a

positive word or thought and

keeps me comfortable in my

everyday life.

We have a few trips in the works and

I am so happy. Texas in Sept. to play

with grandbabies, Reno in Oct.

to go eat ribs at a cookoff,

Vegas in August to celebrate

middle daughters birthday! All

fun stuff and I cant wait.

I also have a genealogical scrapbook

in the works for a good friend.

Have lots to do on that as I am

just getting started. But as I love

genealogy and I love scrapping,

I am not worried about getting

it done. Its great, two of my

favorite things all in one!

Cool Beans!