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Halloween Layouts
Friday, October 31, 2008

Here are some Halloweeny layouts I've previously done.

Carving last year's pumpkin. Kiddo as a black cat last year
At age three she was a ballerina for a
party put on by the local library.
Though a ballerina at the party, for trick-or-treating she went as an adorable ladybug!

She's just way too pretty to be taken seriously as a witch! LOL This was in 2001.


2006- DD went as a good witch, using a princess gown and an Ariel wig from Halloweens past. My son was "too cool" and too old to bother with dressing up. But he tagged along with us. LOL



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Newest Scrapbook pages
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Here are some of the recent scrapbook pages I've made.









All titles (and Lincoln silhouette) except for "Camp McCormick" were cut on the Cricut using either Design Studio or Sure-Cuts-a-Lot (SCAL) software.

It sure is LOVELY having a scrapbooking space again. In this new house DH and I share an "office" so he can be working on the computer at one side of the room and I can be working at the computer, lesson planning, or scrapbooking (sometimes all three at once!LOL) and hang out/chit chat together. Love it! I still have a bit more to do as far as organizing the office but when I'm done I'll share pictures. Nothing fancy at all, but it works for me!



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Recent Scrapbook Pages
Friday, February 1, 2008

Most pages are clickable for an enlargement.


LAKE ECOLOGY FIELD TRIP (last Spring)
Full Page Spread



Left Page


Right page




PET STORE FIELD TRIP (last September)


Full Page Spread


Left page


Right page



Some old photos from 1977
Full page spread
(It's kind of hard to tell, but the odd colors used in this layout
actually coordinate with the 70's off-colored photographs. LOL)


Left page


Right page



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New Scrapbook pages
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Here is the other set of soccer pages I spoke about last week. Sorry to have been slow in posting these. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

(Team photo blurred for privacy)
I used archival spray on the newspaper clip (base newspaper)





And here are pages I made late this week/this weekend...

(Spider web/spider blocks were from some swap YEARS ago!)

(Tag also from swap)





Well DD and I are off to see Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium this afternoon on base! Off we go!!!



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SOCCER - Cricut and Scrapbooking
Saturday, January 5, 2008

I've been playing around with the Cricut Design Software (loving it!) and came up with these two soccer files to use on  scrapbook pages for my daughter.

You can download the free .cut file here :
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(SOCCER title on page 2, and the soccer ball on page 1-- GEORGE FONT)

And here's the other file: http://www.mediafire.com/?1cxzodslxvz
(the "license plate" looking journaling block on page 1-- TEAR DROP & BASE CAMP FONTS)

Here are the scrapbook pages I made last night and this morning with the Cricut files. Click image to enlarge.

Page 1-- players' names blurred & team photo glared for privacy of others.


Page 2

Page 3 (season scoring & notes down the right side edge)



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Cricut Freebies
Wednesday, January 2, 2008

One of my Christmas presents was a CRICUT! I am so thrilled.


If you own one of these too, or plan to in the future, I suggest heading over to Creating Keepsakes for their CRICUT FREEBIES article and downloading the free .cut files. I don't subscribe to their magazine but do visit their website from time to time. Glad I did today!



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Some scrapbook pages
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

I've had a few requests from visitors and friends to upload some of my scrapbook layouts. So here are a few of the pages I worked on this fall. (Yes, some are even from our former lives in Hawaii!!  And no, I'm still not done scrapping those, either!LOL)

**Hat tip to SHARI for the diecut flowers!


I've got a big ol' basket full of pictures I've had printed just waiting to get scrapped. Lots of time to do so with Winter here. I love having my scrapbooking area in our homeschooling room... makes it easy for me to muli-task!



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