I am floored

I am finishing packing to go away to CT to see my nieces and nephew for the weekend when I took a break to check my email and there was a message stating I had an award waiting for me from Valita, what an honor! Valita has an awsome blog and she is so creative and EVERYTHING she makes is amazing, I can only wish to be as good as her one day!! I'm so excited, I feel like I won an oscar! LOL! Thank you so much Valita.

I am going to pass this award onto Dawn who is another wonderful creative crafter. She always manages to squeeze time into her busy schedule to create something awsome. She's a big inspiration to me (and I truly mean it Dawn).

I've been tagged again

I have been tagged again this time by Forgetfulone.

Rules:

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

My Facts:

1. While on our Sr. trip to Fl the school and myself were advised by my parents that no way no how was I to go bungee jumping because across the street from where we were staying was bungee jumping. My parents signed a form for the school stating no bungee jumping. Less then 24 hours after being in Fl. I went bungee jumping and loved it. I mailed the pictures home to my parents so they would get over the shock before I got home. I want to bungee jump again.

2. Now that the dr. has me on blood pressure meds I don't get headaches like I used to.

3. I wish my family got along better then what they do. But that's life I guess

4. I live in upstate NY and in the winter I complain about the snow and cold and in the summer I complain about the heat but refuse to move to a happy medium. Instead I just complain about the tempature which I'm never happy about I'm always to cold or to warm and DH and I can never ever be the same body tempature.

5. I made a scrapbooking goal to make 50 pages this year and thanks to working on the album for my SIL I'm just about to that goal and we are only about half way through the year. This is the most I have ever scraped.

6. DH and I are the complete opposite. He is shy, quiet and laid back I am outgoing, big mouth and far from laid back.

7. I could live on spaghetti and pasta ever night. If I had my choice I would also eat out every night of the week and the weekend.

Now to tag 7 people. I have tagged several of you already over the past several weeks. Anyone we reads this and wants to play just leave a comment below so I check out your blog.

It's Summer time

Yesterday DH and I took Buddy (our dog) to the town park they have a creek where people go swimming. In the one section it is pretty deep but it's a great spot to go and cool off and it's great place to take the dog because it's never crowded. When Buddy was a puppy he hated the water we would have to drag him in and he would drag you back to shore (yes while swimming Buddy needs a leash on otherwise he would run away the little stinker). Remind he is a lab and is suppose to love the water. Yesterday we pulled up to the creek and instantly he was ready to get out of the car and he ran right to the creek and in he went. We weren't expecting that all because even last summer Buddy wasn't to into the water scene so yesterday we weren't prepared to go for a swim. Isn't he so handsome??? I have to scrap these pictures but I may wait till the end of summer so I have all his swimming pictures to put into a 2 page layout of my favorites.

Sibling Love

This is another layout for my SIL. I think I am now done with the album, notice I said think LOL! I can't wait to give her the album this weekend. I made 2 of these layouts (one for me one for her). I love this picture but it was a challenge to scrap because there wasn't to many colors to pull from the picture due to the way the sun was shining that day but I pulled it off. I didn't want to go with bright bold colors that would over power the picture. I'm pleased with the end result. All paper is from CTMH and the stamps used on the layout are SU Friendship Blooms (I love this stamp set). I have an extra of this stamp set brand new unmounted if anyone is interested you can email me mickey8888@verizon.net and we can do a trade or buy it out right. The title are cardstock letters that I had since I started scrapbooking years ago.

I love my Swing

This another layout from our first trip to CT for the kids birhtday party. I have one more page to make and all the pictures will be scrapped just in time for our trip to see the kids this weekend. I made 2 of these layouts (one for my album and one for my SIL) The pattern paper is from a paper packet from the dollar store. The title was done on the computer using a Free Kindergarten font, I thought it was perfect for this.

I can't wait to give the album to my SIL. Just the few pages I have given her already she drooled over and showed all her friends.

Cupcake card

I recently stumbled across a new blog called Mel Stampz, she has a truely amazing blog. She is so creative. She recently posted templates to make cupcake cards and cupcake boxes, they are adorable. So today I made the cupcake card but I'm not really feeling it. I'm going to have to think about it and come up with something better but I'm not sure yet just what. The tempaltes to make the boxes and card can be found here.

I had the sprinkle paper from my stash that I thought would be perfect for this but it may be a little to much instead next time I made use glitter or beads.................

Mini Purse

I made my niece Mariah a mini purse to hold the lotion, chapstick, and 3 pair of earrings we bought her. The size of the purse was perfect, everything fit inside. I think this is so adorable I used SU Lovely Letters Alphabet to monogram the purse to give it more of a personal touch. The template can be found here. The pattern paper is from my stash, I have had it forever.

Thanks for looking!