Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving.
My mom and Joshua-

Joshua by his favorite area in the little museum at the hotel we had dinner with my parents and sister.


Jer and his sisters with his dad. It was Tom's birthday and we all pitched in to get him a cool camera.


Our second dinner. Ha ha. Yum.

Crop this Friday!

Don't forget to join us at our BIG Jingle Bell Crop this Friday!! It's on the message Board at www.feelingscrappy.com . There will be TONS of great prizes (see post below). And all you have to do is scrap and play along. You'll have til Sunday night to complete the challenges but there will be way to earn extra tickets and prizes throughout the day on Friday only. If you haven't already registered on teh message board, go do it now and introduce yourself before the big day. I just finished a couple of pages for the challenges I will be posting but I can't share them with you til Friday. :)

A couple of pics

Abby's "thing" these days is to try to pull herself up to sitting. She loves it. More the pulling up than the sitting part (which she can't really do without a LOT of support). She's been practing tummy time, too. Here she is in action-

And I can't leave the boys out. Getting ready to watch Shrek 3 with a big tub of popcorn. YUM!!

My scrap space

Have I ever shared where I scrap with you? I don't think so. Anyway, I work in this corner of my craft room in the basement. The rest of the room has tables set up and lots of toys. I like to spread out and have friends over to scrap as much as I can. Soooo, here's my favorite corner in the house-

Some pics

I haven't taken very many pictures lately...not sure why! Here's a couple from the past few weeks.

Joshua and Jack watching Cars.

Hannah giving Joshua a hug to thank him for her birthday gift.

Jingle Bell Crop- November 30th!

Feeling Scrappy is having a huge online crop on the 30th. We're going to have tons of challenges, games, chatting and PRIZES! Check out the cool prizes we are giving away! First is a full kit from The Storyteller's Club !! This kit is awesome as are the rest of the prizes we are giving away ($200 in prizes!!)

Other great prizes you can win-


I hope you'll join us for lots of fun on the 30th!! If you've never participated in an online crop, don't worry! It's a lot of fun and you can check in an out as you have time. Plus, you'll have a couple of extra days to complete challenges for a chance to win your share of the prizes. www.feelingscrappy.com

New layout- Laugh

Simple page but I just love these fun pictures of Joshua. :) Have a great day!

You have until tonight! (Tuesday!)

Feeling Scrappy’s “Shades of Autumn” Layout Contest!

Check out what you can win!!


Requirements:
Create a 12 x 12 paper layout that uses the shades of autumn as your color palette. The topic of the layout can be anything as long as you use those deep fall hues!
Contest begins on October 17, 2007 and runs until 10:00 pm (cst) on November 13, 2007.
Your entry must not be one already completed for any other sites, contests or challenges. It must be made for this specific contest and not posted on any other sites.
Submit your layout to the contest thread and the Feeling Scrappy Message Board Album under “Monthly Contest” Be sure to include your name and state.
Only one entry may be submitted per person.
US Mailing addresses only please.
The winner will receive making memories brand goodie package from Feeling Scrappy. In addition, the project will be posted on the main website for the month following the contest with the winner’s name & state, as well as announced in our newsletter & blog.

More information can be found on our web site at www.feelingscrappy.com

Altered box

I had this old box from IKEA sitting at the top of a closet full of old stuff. I decided to make better use of it and altered it for Abby's room.
Before-

After- I used acrylic paints, foam stamps, Crate Paper, flowers, brads and ribbon.

New member of the month program!!

I am super excited about something new Feeling Scrappy will be doing. We'll be having a Member of the Month each month. Our first one will be announced on December 1st. All you have to do is be active on the board, share about FS with your friends and participate in the challenges. Suzanne will be posting more about it later today on Feeling Scrappy-check it out! I hope everyone is as excited about this as I am.

Also, don't forget to put November 30th on your calendar for our online crop at FS. If you aren't already a member, go sign up now and get acquianted with the message board so you'll be ready to play and participate by the time the crop is here. (And there's plenty of inspiration and challenges to keep you busy until then. :) )

Just a shot out our front door this morning. This picture really doesn't do the view justice. It was a really pretty sunrise today.

Scrapped this one yesterday for the weekly sketch challenge on Feeling Scrappy. This little girl has the craziest hair. It will NOT do anything but stand straight up! I am wondering how high it will get before it goes down. LOL

Card challenge!

I posted my first card challenge over on Feeling Scrappy! I hope you'll go check it out and play along. I'll have a new challenge every Thursday. This week's challenge is a little different than cards you might have made before. Here's a little peek at the back of it (notice the circles hanging off of the side?)...

...you'll have to go to the message board at www.feelingscrappy.com to see the front of this card, my sketch and my other sample. :)

Do you like to make cards? There are two reasons I love to make cards.
1. It's so much cheaper and more personal than a store bought card.
2. It's a quick way to be creative when I don't have a lot of time.

Still time to enter!!

You still have a little bit of time to enter the current monthly contest at Feeling Scrappy! Here's the scoop-
Feeling Scrappy’s “Shades of Autumn” Layout Contest!

Requirements:
Create a 12 x 12 paper layout that uses the shades of autumn as your color palette. The topic of the layout can be anything as long as you use those deep fall hues!

Contest begins on October 17, 2007 and runs until 10:00 pm (cst) on November 13, 2007.

The winner will receive making memories brand goodie package from Feeling Scrappy. In addition, the project will be posted on the main website for the month following the contest with the winner’s name & state, as well as announced in our newsletter & blog.

**You'll need to join the message board to post your layout in the right places and read the rest of the rules.**
More information can be found on our web site at www.feelingscrappy.com

I hope you'll all enter! What do you have to lose? You get a page done for your scrapbook and you might win some cool prizes!

Reorganizing!

I've been trying to clean out and reorganize my craft/scrap area. i'm finding stuff I forgot I even had! LOL Hopefully I can get this mess cleaned up soon and get back to scrapping. Until then, here's a card I made for a card sketch challenge on Feeling Scrappy (the sketch is originally from Page Maps)-

And on a fun note, I get to start a new challenge every Thursday at FS (www.feelingscrappy.com). It's a card challenge and I've been coming up with some new sketches and fun ideas for it. I hope you'll come and join in my excitement! It starts this Thursday but there are always other great challenges to keep you busy until then.

Happy Halloween!

Here are my babies!


Jer and Joshua's creation-