Friday Gratitude Post

Here is last Friday's post. You have no idea how many times I have tried to get a picture of a rainbow!  Either I didn't have my camera, or I had to go and get it and by the time I got back it had faded. This was perfect and another check on my "bucket list".  Sorry about the late post as I was going out of town and didn't get a chance to get it up. 

     

And...here is this weeks post! I had a wonderful time and all of the ladies were so kind and generous at this crop. Especially the store's owner, Jo  She is so full of enthusiasm and has a wonderful nack for teaching.  I picked up many new techniques that I can't wait to try again on my own. Did I mention that I just love making new friends? Thanks Tami for a great weekend and it was sooo....good to see you again!



Title Page Number 4!

Title Page #4!!  The title page for the Corkery Family Album.  I thought that this was going to be my last album title page...but the idea of scrapbooking my descendants is still calling me.  So... just when I think that I have enough albums, it seems like I need one more.  I am using the Ancestry.com albums that K & Co. is making.  They are a beautiful brown leather look. Embossed of course...make it even richer looking if that is possible. So, I just happened to find some more cool paper at The Paper Loft and of course it just happened to be heritage...Oh darn!!  That order button was pressed before I even know what happened! As soon as it comes in I will share it with you. Can't wait! Until then.....

Gratitude Friday on Saturday!

 ***Each Friday's post is part of my 2010 gratitude project, an effort to be more aware of and grateful for the blessings in my life.

3 Heritage Title Pages Done!

The Fettkether Family Heritage Album (Greg's side)

The Hare Family Heritage Album (My side)

                The King Family Heritage Album (My side)

I have been working really hard this past week to complete these

three Heritage Album title pages.  I still have the Corkery title page

left to do.  Rest assured that it is in the works!  I will still have

something to work on at Heritage Club on Wednesday night.

I have been adding some paper quilling to some of these and I

think that I am hooked.  Oh no,  a new addiction! 

I knew thatit would be nearly impossible to complete 4 pages

that night, so I worked to get at least 3 of them done. I wanted to

 have a permanant place to put my layouts as I made them so

 that they would stay nice.  Hope you enjoy these.  Any

 questions...feel free to leave a comment or email me!

A Milestone!

Obviously it's Sunday and I am finding sometime to get caught up on some of the posts that I have been wanting to do.  I just looked at the visitor counter today and it's over 100 visitors with my first official follower!  Yay!! I was beginning to think that I was just talking to myself, but eviedently some of you are joining me!  Thanks!! I love company!

Gratitude Friday

Each Friday's post will be part of my 2010 gratitude project, an effort to be more aware of and grateful for the blessings in my life. Okay, I know, it's not officially Friday, but this would have been Friday's post if I could have figured out how to run my Photoshop Elements 8 in time!  It's also an effort to keep up and learn more on the "Digi" part of scrap booking.  I wish I would have started this in January but I will just go from September 2010 to September 2011.  I want to print each of these out in a 4x6 format and put them in a mini album.   Still working on my Inventory album.  It is coming along nicely.  Too bad I have to work.....I could just stay in this little scrapbooking room all day! I am also posting a picture of another thing checked off of my list for this week. With the help of one my daughters...Melissa...my word art if finally up! (Her idea to put it on the door of course...she is so wonderfully creative) It is a  rub-on that I have had for over two years! Good thing I procrastinated on putting it up or it would have ended up in my sewing room!

Door to my Scrap Booking Room
I know the snowman is a little premature but he didn't have another home!

Stay Tuned Project of the Week

7 Gypsies Book Distressed Book Covers

This week my project will be to put together an Inventory Book. Some of the ideas that I would like to include in my "little brown book" are:

• A wish list
• Punch inventory
• Adirondak ink inventory
• Perfect Pearls inventory
• Tattered Angels ink inventory
• Tim Holtz stamp inventory
• My embossing folder inventory
• Possibly my Sizzix Die Inventory

  The list goes on and on but you get the idea.  The coordinating picture is a set of distressed book covers by 7 Gypsies.  Of course one needs to add their own touch. Maybe this way I won't end up buying the same thing twice because I love it so much!  LOL Do you ever do that?  I didn't think so... So stay tuned....I'll see what I can come up with....

It's Almost Done!!!

Mom!! What did you do to my room?  LOL...My oldest son Mason went off to college at this time last year.  Over the summer he moved out of the dorms and into an apartment in Iowa Falls.  He needed a bed and I offered to buy him one for his apartment if he would leave his here so that he would have a place to "lay his little head" when he came for a visit.  No!! nothing would do but "his bed".  He took nearly everything out of his room.  I had left this room untouched from May to August "just in case  lol..."  I couldn't stand it anymore so I cleaned it up. The wheels started to turn. I asked him again if he planned on coming back home to stay at any point and he assured me that he would not and that if he did he would sleep on the pull out couch.!!

 SCORE!!!  One scrapbook room.  He said "Mom, you are trying to replace me....lol" to which I replied "No, Mason, I just couldn't stand having you gone so I put my scrap book room in there so that I could be more near you."  He roared...Yeah, right mom!  However, I did assure him that he was always welcome here and that if he ever wanted or needed to move back home that I would move back to my old scrapbook room. (much smaller)  lol

That being said...I love the extra room.  Greg calls it my "woman cave" hehehe...I could fall in up here and never come out!  I did have quite a few of the Jetmax cubes to start out with but each week I would use my Michael's coupon and my Hobby Lobby 40% coupons to invest in another cube until I had enough. (or ran out of space  LOL).  I still have a few things stashed that I need to find homes for and a word art piece that I want to put on the wall. Now I better get to work and use some of this "stuff" and get scrapping.

Heritage 2nd and Third Page

The Heritage Book Plan

After a couple weeks of research, I finally have a plan on how I am going to approach this Heritage Album.  I have talked with a couple of people that are really genealogy savy (Savy..did I make this word up? Can't find it in the dictionary  lol)  and one of their suggestions that really rang a bell for me was to "approach this book as how each person you are scrapping about is related to you." For example:  The first book (I plan on doing 2) will be of my ancestors.  The second book will be of my descendants. (my husband, kids and their kids).  Each book will start with me and the first chapter in the ancestor book will be my parents.  The second will be my siblings, the third my maternal grandparents and the fourth my paternal grandparents and so on.  I plan on using tabs on the first page of each section that will signify how these people are related to me. 

After these first four chapters a little rearranging will be going on so that I can keep who is related to who straight.  So, after my maternal grandparents, I will insert my maternal aunts, maternal uncles, and maternal first and second cousins and so on.  On the other side, I will insert my pages of my paternal aunts, uncles and cousins after my paternal cousins.  Eventually the paternal side being the second "main chapter" will grow out to a book of its own as the maternal side grows. 

So what next you ask?  This is where it got confusing for me.  I knew what I wanted to scrap next, but what do you call them?  I would call them my great grandparents but how would I signify to which side they belonged?  My moms mothers side or my moms fathers side...I was told by my "genealogy guru Micky" that my moms mother's mother would be called my maternal, maternal grandmother and so my moms mother's father would be called my maternal paternal grandfather an so on. 

I did invest in the Family Tree Maker for my computer  a while ago. I was told that by keeping my information on there, the program would help me know what to call this people.  I haven't installed it yet...maybe later today.  I will let you know how it goes. 

So, that's it for today.  That's my plan for the heritage book.  Julie, Mary and Gina....let me know yours!

Get Ready, Get Set, Go!!!!

Okay...I have talked with some of you and have promised to post what I think that I am going to use for my first heritage page. I am finally getting around to do that.


 My first page will just be the title page with this poem I found a while back.  I bought the chipboard tree from Dusty Attic, my ribbon from Plum Crazy Scrapbook store in Ionia, Java Bazzill paper and my poem.  I added a few Prima flowers to bring in the Shabby Chic style that I am currently trying out.  There is no way that I can fit all of this on one page, so I may have to work with it a little. Originally, I had bought a beautiful sky blue paper with a flocked brown tree on it.  I got it in Ionia a while back, but I have been unable to locate it yet....Hmmm.... Have to put some more thought to this.  Anyway, there you have it.  The title page ingredients for my first page in my heritage album.  What are you going to use?

Back To School

September 1999

This weekend while working on organizing my new scrapbooking room,

I took time out to do this layout that was calling my name. I had

found this layout and put it away thinking that sometime it would

be fun to do something like this.  I guess today was the day. 

This was a back to school picture from 1999 of my children Lindsey,

Mason and Michael.  Fun to finally get to go back and scrap just because

 I want to, not because  it was the next thing in line!

Good Bye Book of Me ...Hello Heritage Club

In September it will be time to get back into the routine of things and finally make some time for my favorite hobby of scrapbooking!  The last two years I have focused on what I called the Book of Me Club.  A group of us met the first Wednesday of the month at an appointed house.  The hostess for the night chose a pre-determined the topic for the night. I have many pages done and ones that I would not normally taken the time to scrap about me.  I am loving it but I was to a point that I was ready for a change.

 I now feel comfortable with where I am at with my life story and things about me that I wished to scrap.  Since my maternal grandmother passed away in March of 2010 I have had a growing curiosity about my heritage.  So...I mentioned this to our group.  Four out of six of us were ready to make the switch to Heritage for our monthly club.  I love having company on my journey.

My next dilemma is how am I going to organize this...Start with me, do I add my kids and husband or just go back from me? Hmmmm..... going to have to think about this one. Do I do two books, one for my paternal side and another for my maternal side?  Or do I split one book or try to combine them all?  So many decisions....I will let you know what I decide...lol...till then...