DIY projects, thrifty home decor and easy crafts
My oldest daughter is turning 24 today (happy birthday, Rachel!) and I thought I’d help her celebrate by sharing this girls scrapbooking layout I put together. These are some of my favorite girls: my niece, my great niece and my two daughters. These pictures were taken on Easter, 2006. My niece Jennifer now has two more children and my daughter… Read More
This year I decided to make Christmas cards with the Cricut diecutting machine. I love to make homemade cards but don’t have as much time as I used to. I got a little smarter and used one of my scrapbooking retreats to make a bunch of Christmas cards. Do you think I’ve gotten the cards mailed? Ummm, no. Christmas picture… Read More
Today’s Project Life layout was fun to put together with less photos and more memorabilia and journaling. Both pages share some “out of my comfort zone” moments. The left side layout has a couple of pics from my adventure singing from West Side Story again. What fun to sing with “my” Tony from 28 years earlier. I also included… Read More
Went on a scrapbooking retreat this weekend and got caught up with my Project Life pages! I was about six weeks behind and it took me a while. Note to self: don’t get so far behind! The good thing about it was I had all my memorabilia and pics ready to go. I just had to decide on type of… Read More
Since I’ve spent the last three “Simple as That” posts focusing on my great nieces and nephew, I thought I’d feature my own family today! Here’s my husband enjoying sitting around our fire pit (before it got cold.) My youngest son posing for the camera. My youngest daughter enjoying her cousins. Give a boy a tree…. Love my great nephew Will all… Read More
I am terribly behind in my Project Life memory keeping this year. Although I’m fairly up to date with getting my pictures edited and developed, I have not gotten them in the album. I also have much of the memorabilia together so it’s a matter of choosing the page sizes and orientation, printing off some blog journaling, and I’ll be… Read More
I love to make handmade cards, but somehow in the midst of learning “all things blogging” I haven’t found the time to make any. Recently, though, I dusted off my trusty Cricut and made some cards with to have on hand. The base card (of the patterned ones) was already done (from a set) and I cut the saying out… Read More
This week’s Project Life layout is from September and is all about my youngest son M. As you can tell I don’t use his name on my blog. He is our youngest of three adopted siblings, and we want to allow him some privacy as we did for our older kids when I began my blog journey. The layouts are… Read More
I went scrapbooking at a nearby youth camp recently. This time it was just three of us, old homeschool mom friends. Well, we’re not old and they have graduated all their kids. But you get the idea. I didn’t accomplish a lot but I did want to share this adorable (if I do say so myself) layout I did. It… Read More