Photography Stuff and A Quick Card

Well, it has been forever since I posted any photography stuff here, so I thought I'd do a quick post. Since cutting back to only weddings/seniors/bridals I haven't had much to share, but I had a wonderful time doing senior sessions for these two lovely ladies, so I thought post a few. We took these over at the Mercer Botanic Gardens, which despite the drive, is by far my favorite location for shoots of this type.

There are endless possibilities for backdrops, and they change the flowers out regularly so you always have different color choices...I love it there!

Hopefully I'll get to take a few seniors there next year as well!

Last, here is a quick card I did as part of my DT assignment for scrapbooks.com. The papers are all Pink Paisley and the letters are by Jenni Bowlin.

Happy Birthday Card:

Have a great weekend!

New Layouts...and other stuff...

Whew...sorry for the long break between posts, it has been crazy busy here as it always is towards the end of the school year. We have had several projects going on at once and therefore the blog had to take a back seat for a while. Thankfully, that is all past now and we are looking forward to the fun and diversion that Summer vacation will bring! We may start a little bit early with a beach trip on Monday--or we might just hang out around the house and do nothing but relax--either way it will be a nice change from the break neck pace we seemed to have had around here lately!

Anyhow, here are a couple of layouts I did for Scrapbooks.com this month. The first one here is my favorite and I've been holding on to the title/kite concept for just the right photo and papers. I felt the Basic Grey Max and Whiskers line was just what this idea needed and this is the result:

How The Days Seem To Fly:

The tail on the kite is made from some very old Waxy Flax, pinned down with bits of Pink Paisley tape--twisted in the middle to look like they are tied on.

On this one I knew I wanted to get down some journaling about Spencer's lack of Speech development so I saved lots of space for my text amongst these adorable papers by Pink Paisley. And I have to say--I love these photos of my sweet little guy:

He's The Strong Silent Type:

And that is it for today, but I have some cards and an additional layout to post soon!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Battle Reenactment and 2 More Layouts

I hope you all had a great weekend! I know we did! We spent Saturday down at the festival/reenactment of the battle of San Jacinto, where Texas won its independence. It was a fabulously fun day with perfect weather. We spent the morning enjoying all the family friendly activities including shows--the boys thought the flea circus was pretty fun--, kids crafts, the museum, eating giant Turkey legs, and enjoying the petting zoo.

At the craft table the boys were able to make these fun hats and color bandannas so they could look like the Texas Army. They also made bluebonnet pictures with their fingerprints and stamp pads--they turned out very cute!

The petting zoo was also a big hit with the boys, even though the animals were pretty aggressive about getting the food we had for them. Here my mom stares down a Lama that was following her around :)

That afternoon we toured the camps of the Mexican and Texan armies, and settled in for the battle reenactment, which was really fun to watch. The boys were most excited by the cannons--which were loud and smokey!

Afterwards we wandered over to take a look at the Battleship Texas. We skipped the tour, as we were already pretty tired from a big day--but we will have to come back and take the tour sometime soon. It looked like fun!

Overall it was a perfect outing for these 3 boys! We all had a great time, only got a little bit sunburned, and look forward to next year!

And finally, as promised, here are my last 2 layouts for scrapbooks.com this month. This first one is about how Spencer falls asleep in some very random ways. It is always interesting to see what he was in the mist of before he nodded off:

This layout uses mostly Sasafrass Lass papers, Basic Grey and Pink Paisley letters, Queen and Company Brads, and those super cute monsters are by American Crafts. Click here to read the journaling and see a larger image.

And lastly for this month is a layout featuring those pop gun photos from a few posts down.

This layouts uses Pink Paisley papers, Making memories brads, Jillibean Soup and Cosmo Cricket letters, and October Afternoon Tags. Click Here to read the journaling and see a larger image.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Where have I been?

Nowhere in particular, just busy :) I've been working on several assignments for Creative Memories which I can't share at the moment, but had fun doing. I did however, just finish up my assignments for Scrapbooks.com, so I have 2 of those layouts to share today.

The first is about Ty's Second Grade Moosical he performed in last week. He did such a great job--and we were very proud to watch him sing and do the actions to all the songs he had worked so long and hard to master--It was really fun!

And if you can believe it, there are 10 photos on this layout--a first in a very long time for me to have a layout with that many photos! The papers you see in these two layouts are mostly by Pink Paisley from their 365 degrees line. It's a great line for boys!

As you can see I also jumped on the banner bandwagon. I've loved seeing these as a trend for the past few months and this is my take on that trend :) You can also see some Cosmo Cricket chipboard chickens and Cosmo Cricket tiny letters.

The Journaling Reads: You practiced so hard for your second grade musical Ty! You knew all the songs and actions and despite telling us you were a little bit shy about performing you did awesome! We loved watching you sing, wear your chicken hat, and have a great time on stage with your classmates and friends! --April 15th 2010

This next ones uses some of the photos we took in the Bluebonnets last week--however I wanted to focus on my boys and not the flowers on this layout so I converted the photos to Black and White. It is based on a sketch I saw on the Imagenisce blog.

Journaling reads: Despite the nearly three-year age gap between you two, you really are best friends. You love to play together, you look out for each other, and you get so excited to share your day’s adventures with each other the moment you are reunited after school. I love to see the closeness you two share! 4/10/10

There are some Queen and Company Jewels on here as well as some Cosmo Cricket Buttons and the letters are by JillyBean Soup.

Two more layouts to come soon! Thanks for stopping by!