One of my 2013 resolutions is to blog more...see how well that is going? It seems like my days just fly by! I'll see if I can work on this more...

January 3 - Girl Scout Cookie Rally - mmmm! Cookies!

January 5 - Scrapday at WE church. I was able to complete three layouts, because....I'm a slow scrapper.

 

Kaila - using a Scrap Orchard sketch

 

Nick - using a Pagemaps sketch

 

Nick - using a Pagedrafts sketch

 

Blake - using a Nuts About Sketches sketch, layout done in 2012.

 

 

 

January 18 - My 39th birthday. Do I feel 39??? Me, no...my joints...ummm...YES! I was pleasantly surprised to receive an invitation for breakfast from my dear friend, Julie Librizzi. I'm always up to go OUT for breakfast :)  We ended up chatting for 4 hours...4!!! That's my kind of start to the day. Let's be honest...no one wants to have to cook or do work on their birthday. I was able to go out to breakfast, not do any work at all and two of my children spent the night at friends' houses. Nick was doing his pep band thing at a basketball game. Charlie didn't get home until around 8:00, but brought me some Coney Island food. We had opted out of the 1 1/2 hour wait at Red Lobster and saved that excersion for another day. I was happily in bed by 9:30 (I get up for the day by 4:00 a.m.). It was a delightful day.

 

January 20 - Charlie, Blake, Kaila and I took time out of our busy schedules to go bowling. We had a good time. To top is off, we had a coupon! Boo-yah!

I have to show you the video of Blake "sneaking" up on the pins. He cracks me up!

January 22 - softball sign-ups!!! Yeah! Kaila is probably a little more excited than me, but I'm happy she actually wants to play. I signed up to be an assistant coach, because as well all know...I have control issues and I want to make sure that the girls are treated correctly and fairly.

January 22 - Kaila's first time at gymnastics with Gracie and Carlee. She's been wanting to go forever. She had a blast!

January 24 - I've been threatening for ages to dump ice water on Nick as he spends 25-30 minutes SLEEPING in the tub each morning. Well, it just so happens that I had ice water that I had used to cool down Charlie's boiled eggs for egg salad at 5:00 a.m. It was getting late and since I already had the ice water ready....  Insert screaming here! This is what happens when child is sleeping and suddenly gets awakened/startled/shocked by ice water...he kicks the faucet with his foot.

He may still sleep in the shower...but not quite as soundly.


That catches you all up on what's been going on here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Shawn

As usual, I don't have a lot of time or energy for a huge update. So, I'm just going to update you with some recent layouts.

I used a Sketchabilities sketch for this one.

I used a Pagemaps sketch for this one.

I used a Helen Croft sketch for this one.

I used a Nuts About Sketches sketch for this one.

I used a Nuts About Sketches sketch for this one.

Thanks for stopping by!

Shawn

Here's a quick update revealing layouts I've done recently, as well as Blake with his new bow.

I used a Pagemaps sketch for this one, along with one of The Scrapping Spot's amazing kits.

This is Blake the nite he got his brand new bow from Acorn Achery.

Here's another couple layouts using a Pagemaps sketches.

These next two layouts were made using sketches from my other blog - Nuts About Sketches.

                         

Thanks for popping in. I hope to do a more extensive update later.

Shawn

I am so excited to share some of my most recent layouts with you.

This first sketch I drew with inspiration from a layout created by Candace at The Scrapping Spot while playing the latest round of Layout Tag. I then created the layout using this sketch and The Scrapping Spot's February Kit. The photo on this layout was taken with my cell phone.

If you happen to use this sketch, can you link you layout in the comment section? I always love to see what you all create.

Second - here is a layout I created using another TSS kit and one of the sketches at Nuts About Sketches.

Now we have a layout I created for March Pagemaps for Becky Fleck using that same February kit from The Scrapping Spot.

Here's another layout that I created using one of Pagemaps' sketches.

Thanks for popping in!

Shawn

So much to share :)

Pagemaps September 2010 - I completed this layout for Becky Fleck and her blog.

Although I still have Week #4 to do, I wanted to complete these two challenges, because I didn't have to take and print photos for these ones.

52 Week Challenge - Week #5 - the challenge was to complete a layout in an hour. I did this in 54 minutes. Yes...54...just shy of 60. I know it doesn't look that complicated, but it was start to finish. I'm fairly surprised that I did it in under an hour.

I also doubled this challenge for a challenge at Willow Traders - August THAW #13. This layout is based on the sketch posted there.

I used an old The Scrapping Spot kit for this one.

52 Week Challenge - Week #6 - the challenge was to use something to stamp other than an actual stamp. I used cardboard, the bottom of a stickles bottle and the bottom of a Heidi Swapp paint bottle.

I doubled this challenge for a challenge at The Scrapping Spot - September SYS. I also used an old kit from TSS for this as well :) We had to use paint on a layout.

My last news, which I'm EXTREMELY excited about, is that I was selected to be a Design Team Member for The Paper Variety challenge blog. Our first challenge will be posted on September 15th. There will be prizes, People! So make sure you checkout the blog in the next week or so for more details :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Shawn