I couldn't help it!!!

Well when you see the pic below.... please understand this outfit has been hanging in the closet for at least a month... I know it's very Halloweenish.... it is October after all. It was cooler than usual this morning so I just couldn't help it!!!! Here's my goolish gal!!! I just hope it doesn't get up to 90 today!!!

The "Scrap-a-thon"

Last weekend was our big scrap weekend. Below is what I created for the different challenges. The voting is still taking place, I'll post what wins if anything.

This is from the swap challenge, we had to use something we've received in a swap, I used the altered puzzle pieces.


This layout is the "Paint chip" layout. Although for me the real challenge was the wild paper, I'm trying to step outside and try different things..... it was a true challenge but I'm happy with it, I think....




This is the color challenge, can you guess what color I represented? I absolutely love this layout, it's too bad I can't show you this paper, the background leaves are all a shimery foil type print, it's beautiful!!


This is the button challenge, I had to use a minimum of 15 buttons, I used 19!! :) oh a side note to my private button supplier.... I'm almost completely out of the ones you sent previously (hint hint) :)

For this one I hand cut the tree trunk, covered it with fiber and hand wound the craft string around it, I am really happy with the way it turned out.



Here is the negative space challenge, it IS a challenge to leave empty space. My two matching bed heads!!!

My Best Gal!!!!

We had a wonderful time at the park the other day. Here is My Best Gal!!!! The many faces of Mikayla. I had a hard time choosing so here are a bunch :)

September 28, 2005

Our lives changed forever. My Mom was called home to be with God. Three years ago... I can't believe it. Time marches on.

I will never forget the events of that day. A very incredible and awesome thing happened just minutes before she passed, my sister wanted another private minute with her so my dad, Michael and I stepped outside the room and shut the door. We were about three to four feet away from the door and about 30 seconds later the door opened all by itself wide enough for someone to walk through and then it shut again. We truly believe with all out hearts that God himself walked into the room to get her and take her home. There is no way that the door could do that by itself but by the hand of God.

We still find great comfort in the fact that she no longer is in pain or sick or struggling just for breath. We miss her greatly and Mikayla will never know other than stories what an incredible and courageous woman, mother and friend my mom was.

She knew the time was coming and was trying to prepare all of us, we just didn’t want to believe it, she’d been through some very close calls over the last few years we thought this was going to be another one that she would pull out of but God had other plans for her. I'm sure it took more courage for her to face death like she did by talking to us and trying to prepare us than any of us know. So now she is and always will be our very special guardian angel.

Some words to describe her:

Courageous
Gentle
Funny
Quiet
Amazing
Loved
Soft
Tender hearted
Strong
Amazing

Understanding
Role model
A true lady

More pictures of our marina

Oh gosh, I'm just horrified at what happened to our beloved area, the whole landscape is so totally different and broken. It will be awhile before we will take the boat out just because of all the debris in the water and we're nervous about what we can't see beneath the water line. We draw almost 6 feet below the water line so that's a lot of space to damage the boat. Can you imagine, she survives the hurricane but gets broken going for a ride. So we'll wait awhile.

Here are some more picutures. I can only imagine what Galveston and the rest of the coast look like. It's so sad and now all the plant life is dying because of the harsh saltwater :(

Here is the entrance, we are thankful that they have guards at all the different marina entrances to keep the sight seers at bay, we have to show identification and marina documents before we're granted access.




Most of the boats in the background of this picture have also sunk to the bottom.


This used to be connected to another building (and it's not supposed to be in the road)


Ouch, no hope for repair on this one.



and here she is!! Michael did a great job securing her!!!

WOW!!!

My bubbles scrapbook layout won the challenge! I'm so honored that people would actually vote for my layout!!! WOO HOO, I'm so excited!!!!

New Scrappy Technique

I worked on this page for a challenge that I'm participating on. I had duplicates of these pictures so I took the picture and ripped it and put it on top of the same picture but popped it up for effect/dimension. It looks really neat.