Live, Love, Scrapbook

Well hello again

2009-02-17T23:26:00.002-06:00

I finally scrapbooked again. I haven't had a lot of free time due to working, spending time with Dustin, and my project 365. I haven't even really felt like scrapbooking, but I made myself sit down and scrap tonight for One Little Word. The word was Fun. These pictures are from Halloween. I had to work that night, so I dressed up as a zombie, and half way through the night, I got a random idea to put a balloon in my shirt and be a pregnant zombie. It was fun, but no one believed I was really pregnant. ha.

Day 19

2009-01-19T12:27:00.002-06:00

Today's word is instruct. This is the instruction manual to my camera. I've been looking at it a lot lately, trying to learn how to take better pictures. I was never able to take a clear picture without the flash before, so I guess it's working. I also didn't realize my camera could do that thing where it blurs the background. lol. I'm so glad Stephanie Howell mentioned how she used AV most of the time, because I never would've messed with it otherwise.

Scrapjacking Kristina Contes

2009-01-18T18:48:00.002-06:00

I really like the simple elegance of her space, so I tried to mimic that on my page. I wanted to use red in the corner instead of cardstock, but I didn't have any. I kinda like the way it turned out anyway.
I don't know why this looks like I used a film camera, but this was our sunset tonight. It was so pretty that I had to take a picture.

I'm trying to learn how to use my camera without the flash and I took a couple of pictures earlier that turned out really good on the AV setting, but I still need a lot of practice.

Day 18

2009-01-18T14:34:00.002-06:00

Today was show off Sunday, but I'm stuck at home with lots of ugly dead stuff outside and nothing pretty to take pictures of, so I just took a daily photo. I took a picture of the mailbox for our apartment building. I have a slight obsession with checking the mail, and Dustin makes fun of me whenever he sees me going to check it. I really like getting mail. I did it at my mom's house, too, even though the mail was never for me. I wish I got more good mail instead of bills.

17

2009-01-17T10:15:00.003-06:00

Self portrait Saturday. I like this idea because I don't take too many pictures of myself and no one else ever has a camera. You can definitely tell I'm tired in this one.

Day 16

2009-01-16T10:51:00.005-06:00

Square. Scrabble's one of my favorite games, but no one likes to play with me anymore because I usually win. Ha.

Day 15

2009-01-15T10:27:00.004-06:00

The word today at HSMSHS is Jolly. This is my jolly space. It's a picture frame with my family in FL. My mom, my brothers, my doggies, and my nieces and nephews. I wish my dad was in the picture with my mom and brothers, but I need to get another picture of him and find somewhere to put him.

Day 14

2009-01-14T20:25:00.004-06:00

I was planning on cutting and dying my hair, but after much deliberation, I decided not to. So today, I was trying different hairstyles so I could change things up a bit. I thought this one looked funny.

365

2009-01-11T15:34:00.002-06:00

Well, I'm a little late on this, but I decided to start doing Project 365. I want to take the time to take a photo everyday for the entire year. I think it's a good way to look back and see what you were doing. So here's my picture for today.

This is the puzzle I'm currently working on. It's a photomosaic and it's kinda hard, so I've been working on it off and on since Christmas. lol.

Chit Chat

2008-12-21T14:23:00.004-06:00

Did this layout for Color Combo Challenge #101. I also used some inspiration from Virgina Tillery's layout over at Scrapjacked.

Scrapping the music

2008-12-15T17:23:00.001-06:00

I did this layout for Challenge #66 at Scrapping the Music. I wish I could've done a Christmas layout, but I didn't have any Christmas pictures to scrap, so I improvised. I like the way it turned out.

I'm not a card maker

2008-12-08T01:28:00.002-06:00

But I got inspired by Scrap your crap to make some Chirstmas cards for my family in FL. I used old Christmas paper from my stash, don't know what brands, and tried to make them each a little different. I guess I need to start sending them out now.

Color Combo Challenge #99

2008-12-02T16:12:00.002-06:00

I finally scrapbooked again! I did this layout for Color Combo Challenge #99. I didn't have many choices when it came to paper, so I just used plain white as my background and used the colors in the challenge as my accent colors. The "1" caught the flash, so if you can't see it, it's the squash color. I'm pretty happy with it.

Color Combo Challenge #95

2008-11-04T17:29:00.004-06:00

I had to go through my photo albums to find a picture for this color combo, but I'm glad I got to scrap this one. That's my nephew, Brandom, with dirt all over his face and a lizard hanging from his ear. He screams and runs away from lizards now, but he's getting a little braver, so I made the page about that.

I also had this monster walking around the apartment today. His name is Koda and he doesn't come out of his cage much, so we thought he might like to walk around. He didn't really enjoy it and tried to go under the couch.

I'm Yours

2008-10-31T00:02:00.006-05:00

I hated the song "I'm yours" by Jason Mraz when I first heard it, but now I find myself singing it randomly. The lyrics are sweet, so when Scrapping the Music used it for a challenge, I knew it was time to scrap. I also used the colors from challenge #94 at Color Combos Galore. If you can't read it, it says "This is our fate...I'm yours." The pics are from Jan 2007 and August 2007. I'm so mad I didn't take a picture of us on his birthday a few days ago because we don't have any recent pics :( And I looked really pretty, too. Darn.

And I don't know what the heck is going on with my picture, but if you click on it, you can see the whole thing.

Looking forward to Halloween

2008-10-15T10:35:00.002-05:00

Made this layout for Challenge 23 at Scrap Mojo. The witch costume was my favorite costume and I made the heart out of brads. And since Halloween is my favorite thing about fall, this is also my layout for Challenge #31 at The Design Experiment.

First layout of October

2008-10-11T11:07:00.002-05:00

Finally got some mojo and did this layout for Color Combo Challenge #92. Used a lot of white space again. I don't know what's up with me and white space lately.

But we moved out of Dustin's parents' house a few weeks ago. It's been kind of hectic trying to get everything moved at the last second. The move was a total spur of the moment thing because of certain circumstances. We still have a couple of things to get, like a very heavy couch and a closet full of boxes and books.

I took this picture of one of our frogs the other day. I still haven't named him, but he's really cool. He's nocturnal and does not like the light, so if we turn on the light, he goes to sleep. haha.

Anyway....thought I'd update. I haven't really been in the mood to scrapbook at all, because I'm working more and walking to work now, so I'm just wore out all the time. But these challenges help :)

Color Combo Challenge #90

2008-09-23T22:28:00.002-05:00

I wasn't so sure about this color combo, but it actually worked out perfect for these pictures. I didn't add the grey anywhere else because the photos had so much already, and the letters are more blue in real life.

I got my hair highlighted today. Took 3 and half hours because I have so much hair...haha. I'll post a pic eventually. Probably tomorrow. Unfortunately, no one at work even noticed because you can't really tell that much of a difference when my hair is up. It's definitely blonder and NOT RED when it's down, which is awesome. I went in there wanting brown on bottom and blonde on top but somehow the bottom is more blonde. I'll just have to get partial highlights on the top next time to even it up. I really like it though.

Color combo challenge #89

2008-09-18T13:58:00.002-05:00

This one isn't my favorite, but it's okay. I did it for Color combo challenge #89. The colors were perfect for the photos.

I'm proud of this one!

2008-09-08T16:15:00.002-05:00

Four challenges on one page! And I like the outcome! Haha.

First, the colors are, of course, from Color Combo Challenge #88. The B&W photo, 3 stamps, and butterfly are for the Dreamgirls Challenge #11. I used the Pencil Lines' sketch #101. And lastly, the page is about how I wish I had the ability to be confident, which is for catalyst 26 at Creative Therapy. :)

Other non-scrapbooking news is that I tried to dye my hair blonde and it turned a reddish brown somehow. It's not horrible, but I'm not keeping it. Today or tomorrow, my mother in law is going to buy some more dye so we can fix it.

I also jumped on the bandwagon and started reading the Twilight series. My MIL gave the book to me thinking I might like to read it, and I really enjoyed it. I read 3 hours before work then started again at 12 when I got home and I ended up staying up until NINE in the morning because I wanted to finish it. I only got 2 hours of sleep then one more when I took a nap later. But I started reading the 2nd book, which Dustin bought for me, and I'm about 130 pages in. It started making me sad though because I was already in a sad mood, so I stopped reading, but I'll probably start up again today.

Scrapjacking Toomuchcoffeegirl

2008-09-03T11:09:00.002-05:00

I liked Christina's layout that they jacked over at Scrapjacked but I'm not too fond of my interpretation. It's alright I guess but I wish I would've used paint like she did. I forgot about that when I was making the layout.

Color combo challenge #87

2008-09-02T14:47:00.002-05:00

As the title says, this layout is for challenge #87 at Color Combos Galore. I was trying to incorporate more challenges into this layout but I didn't want it to be cluttered. I like simple layouts, especially for older photos. These pictures are of my grandma that passed away. My aunt sent them to me recently and I knew I wanted to scrap them.

I've got Mojo

2008-08-25T20:54:00.003-05:00

Did this one for Challenge #20 over at Scrap Mojo. The challenge was to use a title from School House Rocks and to use glitter. Then I added the clips to go along with Challenge #30 at Scrap Your Crap. I'm loving challenges. I almost scrapped all the pictures I got printed right away but then I figured I'd save them so I could do the challenges. That was a great idea. Even though this one's simple, I really like it. The title is my favorite part. I might need to add some journalling though so the title doesn't seem so random. I was thinking it as 'ready or not, world, here I come' because my nephew just graduated preschool.

Oh!! That stamp at the bottom...the first little space there says "No.____" and I have no idea what to put there. It's the first time I've used the stamp. Any ideas???

Color combo challenge #86

2008-08-25T16:03:00.002-05:00

Did this one for Color Combo Challenge #86. The background paper looks more yellow in real life. It's not my favorite layout and I wish I would've done what all the designers over there did and used
plain cardstock as the background paper. Oh well. At least I got the pictures scrapped, right?

Color combo challenge #85

2008-08-21T12:27:00.002-05:00

I wanted to use the color combo from last week but I wasn't able to get my pictures printed in time. This week's color combo ended up being even better. I also used the Pencil Lines sketch 98. I really like the way it turned out.

Scrapjacking Bettiescrapbook

2008-08-16T09:15:00.002-05:00

I know my jack is not gonna be like everyone else's because I just don't like to layer THAT much stuff on my layouts, so this is my version. It's more stuff than I usually use, but still has my simple, clean look to it. I like it. :)

This is love

2008-08-09T09:32:00.003-05:00

Did this layout for Creative Therapy's catalyst 21: Your first memory of love. I thought I had loved before Dustin and I got together, but now that I'm in love with him, I know none of that was really love. School girl crushes, infatuation, whatever...it wasn't love. No one has ever treated me like Dustin does or loved me the way he does. It's real, true love.

Two pages

2008-08-05T16:28:00.002-05:00

Did this one using Pencil Lines Sketch #96 and the beads in the corner are for the bead challenge at Scrap your Crap.
This one is for OLW's Word up #32:Be and Color Combo #83 at Color Combos Galore.

Yay for challenges!

More old photos

2008-07-25T21:57:00.002-05:00

I asked my mom if I could take these photos home because I wanted to scrap them. These are my grandparents that ended up getting divorced.

I encorporated the color scheme (kind of) from challenge #81 at Color Combos Galore and I also used over 25 stickers to go with the Stickermania challenge at HMITM.

Yay :)

2008-07-25T20:06:00.003-05:00

Well, we just got back from FL Thursday morning and I finally calmed down enough to get online and blog surf this afternoon. I was almost through the list of blogs I look at daily when I came across this: http://thedesignx.blogspot.com/2008/07/challenge-18-winner.html

I'm so excited and surprised :)

Oh, and I took lots of photos, so whenever I manage to print them, I'll have plenty to scrapbook.

OLW: If

2008-07-18T15:38:00.003-05:00

I combined two challenges for this one too. One Little Word's Word Up #31 was If and The Design Experiment's Challenge #18 was to do a layout about your senior year of high school.

The journalling reads: If I could go back and redo my senior year of high school, I think I would. I would stop worrying so much about losing one friend and focus on the ones I had left. I spend more time making ME happy. Most importantly, I would have more fun. But if everything really does happen for a reason, I wouldn't go back, because I wouldn't want anything to be different right now.

Girls in their summer clothes

2008-07-15T14:06:00.002-05:00

Got another layout done using old photos. I used the Pencil Lines sketch 93 and the title is from the song "Girls in their summer clothes" for Challenge #45 at Scrapping the Music. It's pretty simple, but I kind of like it. I couldn't find any other papers I liked that went with the photos, so I ended up with that one.

New Layout

2008-07-13T12:19:00.003-05:00

No sketches or challenges this time. I just got some pictures from my mom and wanted to scrap the pictures of my niece's 7th birthday. I can't believe how old she's getting. But yeah, I'm really liking this page. I'm not TOO entirely sure of the zebra-like paper behind the main photo but overall I like the page :)

Oh, and you can see the "seven" better in real life.

Scrapjacking Candimandi

2008-07-08T22:32:00.002-05:00

This is the first time I've participated over at Scrapjacked. They jacked Candimandi and I liked the way she used the duct tape on her layout. I couldn't find any duct tape in the house so I used masking tape. Most people went for the more soft, dulled down colors, but I went for bright. I think I like the way it turned out.

Biker Chick

2008-07-01T13:06:00.002-05:00

I'm so proud of this layout. I've been trying to scrap these photos forever and Color Combo Challenge #78 was just the inspiration I needed. These colors worked great. And since I was already doing one challenge, I figured why not try three? So I used the Pencil Lines sketch #91 and I used two different borders to go along with Challenge #21 at Scrap Your Crap. I love the way it came out :)

Random page

2008-06-30T19:48:00.002-05:00

I found these pictures in a box and knew I wanted to scrap them. I love the way the page came out. I wanted to make it look old and vintage, because that's the way her house was. :)

I also wanted to mention something cool that I found. Beverly Todd is about to turn 40 and she's having a 40 days until 40 celebration. It looks like a lot of fun :)

Photography

2008-06-25T15:43:00.002-05:00

I would love to someday be able to take pictures like Rachel Ludwig, Maggie Holmes, or Tara Whitney, but I don't yet have the people skills. I'm very quiet and shy and I don't even really know anyone here in TN yet and we've lived here for 6 months. So while I'm waiting to become an amazing people photographer, I take pictures of things around the house. Because I'm bored. And one day I hope to get a bigger and better camera because this one just doesn't capture things like I want it to.

Two new pages

2008-06-23T19:02:00.004-05:00

I did the Family layout for Color Combo Challenge #77 over at Color Combos Galore and the other was Challenge #20 at Random Chaos (which I'm late for :/ ).
I did the Summer 2006 layout for Sketch 90 at Pencil Lines and for Calalyst Fifteen at Creative Therapy.

Yay for multitasking! haha.

Just a couple of layouts

2008-06-10T13:15:00.003-05:00

These pictures of my mom and niece were so cute that I had to scrap them. These were photos from the birthday party for my two nieces that have birthdays like 2 days apart. I had a lot more pictures, but I didn't want it to look too busy. I kind of like the way it turned out.

Color combo challenge #75

2008-06-09T15:03:00.002-05:00

I really liked the colors for this color combo, but I had a hard time using them together. But this is what I came up with. I also used this for the Scrap mojo challenge #16 where we had to use the phrase 'it's a good thing' and use a stamp. The little pink piece pulls out and has a couple of rules to live by on it.

Color combo challenge #74

2008-06-03T14:23:00.002-05:00

I'm really glad I found the Color Combo blog. It forces me to think outside the box and use colors that I never would have thought to put together. These were more pictures that I had stashed in a photo album and now they're on a scrapbook page that I really like. The only thing I'm not sure about is the button pattern up in the corner. I couldn't decide between doing that and emphasizing the corner of the black paper. *shrug*

Signs of Spring

2008-06-02T13:14:00.003-05:00

Finally got to the scrapbook store and bought the letters I needed to finish this layout. I really like the way it turned out :)

So the day we went to get my ring sized, I tried the ring on again and it fit. I guess my hands were swollen when I had tried it on before. But my hands are swollen a lot since I use them a lot at work. I haven't been wearing it to work to make sure it doesn't get messed up so I put it on today and I had to force it on. It won't be that expensive to size, so I think we might do it anyway.

I think I might have to take a nap today, too.

OLW: Think

2008-05-30T15:40:00.002-05:00

Did this layout today for word up #27 at One Little Word. I word was Think and I actually couldn't think of anything to do, so I used 'Do Not Think'. I think way too much. I overthink EVERYTHING and it causes me to get angry and pick fights over stupid stuff, so I'm reminding myself 'do not think'.

This is also for Challenge 15 at ScrapMojo. It was inspired by my new pretty shirt I got at Charlotte Russe for 5 dollars. The shirt has lace just like the tulle(?) I used.

PL #86

2008-05-26T13:11:00.002-05:00

Another Pencil Lines sketch already. It's not my favorite layout, but it's okay I guess. I don't really like the background paper but I couldn't find anything else that matched. *shrug*

Pencil Lines Sketch #85

2008-05-25T14:31:00.002-05:00

Just finished the Pencil Lines sketch #85. I was just going to use the main photo, but I really don't like doing one picture layouts, so I went with the sketch. I really like how it turned out.

I'm engaged :)

2008-05-25T11:36:00.002-05:00

Dustin proposed to me yesterday right beside Glenn Castle while we were at the renaissance fair. The ring is beautiful and I am so incredibly happy.

I finished this layout last night as well with some of the pictures my mom sent me. She refuses to learn how to use the digital camera we left her so is instead using my old film camera. lol. She hates technology. But she gave me those purple thickers for my birthday, as well as two other kinds of thickers. I looove thickers.

Color combo

2008-05-20T17:07:00.003-05:00

I made this layout for Color Combo Challenge #72 over at the Color Combo Blog. I probably didn't get the colors right but I like the way it turned out. I had these pictures sitting in a photo album and I've been trying to scrapbook for my nieces and nephews, so I figured this would be a good page to make. I didn't journal though, because I thought the pictures spoke for themselves..they were just enjoying time in the pool.

I'm thinking one day I'm gonna make two albums for my nieces and nephews, one for each set of kids (my two brothers have three kids each). I love the layouts and I want them to have them, but at the same time, I want to keep them, so I think I'm gonna make copies and give them the original pages. Or maybe I'll just scan them all and keep a digital scrapbook or something. I don't know.

Anyway, if I can find more pictures to scrap, I'll probably be posting another page tomorrow. :)

Oh look, another layout

2008-05-20T01:53:00.002-05:00

I made this one for a challenge at Creative Therapy. I also used the Pencil Lines sketch #83.

My grandma died in 1996 I think and even though I've made a layout about her and my grandpa, I never made a layout just for her. She was a really good grandma to me and my cousins and I miss her so so much. I never got to say goodbye to her because she got sick from cancer very suddenly and my parents didn't want me to remember her in the hospital with all the tubes and machines. Even though I'm glad I remember her being happy and healthy, I still regret not getting to say goodbye. It makes me want to cry just thinking about it.

On a happier note, Saturday was mine and Dustin's two year anniversary. We didn't get to do anything because of work, but I made him a card and I told him not to get me anything because we didn't have the money. So he gave me a diamond bracelet that his grandma had passed down to his mother. :) Even though it's awesome, it makes me want to go get him something even though I know I can't afford to.

But I thought I'd post a recent picture of us, just because I don't think I have yet. I accidentally cut off his head, but it was the best one out of like 7 and he was getting tired of posing. lol.

Mother Layout

2008-05-11T16:49:00.002-05:00

I made this for The Design Experiment but I just finished it today. I had wanted to type the journaling for this but I can't afford to buy ink right now. I'm not really sure if I like it...I really wish I had something else, like some say it with crystals or something to put in the corner instead of the year she graduated. Oh well. That's life when you're broke.

National Scrapbooking Day

2008-05-03T15:07:00.003-05:00

I'm not feeling so hot today, but I got my pictures printed last night and I knew I had to scrap today. I finished four pages, but I was low on white stickers, so one of them isn't completely finished. The title is missing two letters, so I'll post that one when I buy new letters.

Here are the other three.

I really like the Lil Sis one and I promise the colors look better in person. The Frogs one came out pretty cool. I like using paint..it's fun :)I don't really like the Let It Snow one but I didn't want to leave out any pictures, so I did what I could.

Tired

2008-04-30T11:12:00.002-05:00

I was told a guy was coming today to fix the air conditioning so I woke up at 7:30 this morning. I slept like crap last night but I didn't want him to come at like 10 and me be in my pajamas so I decided to get up when Dustin was getting ready for work. I'm sooo tired.

In addition to being tired, I was reminded that yogurt does not mix with my stomach in the morning. So I'm just feeling pretty crappy all together.

But Dustin has Thursday and Friday off so I'll get to spend the next two days with him, so that's good. With him working a 55 hour work week, I don't get to see much of him these days and it's making me depressed. I don't have any other friends or family here, so without him, I'm extremely lonely.

Another upside is that I should be able to get my pictures printed in a few days so I'll have something to scrap. :)

Word Up #25: Grow

2008-04-26T13:45:00.004-05:00

This is the layout I did for One Little Word. I also based it off of sketch #80 from Pencil Lines. I didn't mean for it to be another monochromatic layout, but oh well. I think I like it. I'm trying not to use so much plain cardstock and the only patterned paper I had that worked with the pictures was polka dotted. Everyone's going to think I'm obsessed, which I kind of am, but whatever. I wanted to scrapbook and I used what I had. *shrug*

There's a storm coming

2008-04-25T13:46:00.002-05:00

The air conditioner froze, so it's as hot as a sauna in our bedroom. I brought my laptop so that I could sit outside and type some more of the story I'm working on and I just now realized that the sky is very dark. The wind feels good, but I don't want to get wet. I guess I'll probably be going inside in a little while.

I was watching the movie Reservation Road earlier since our Direct TV went out. I realized very quickly that it was going to be a sad movie. One line that really got me was after the little boy had died, his sister was asked to play the piano in a recital and she looked up at her mom and asked, "Can you hear music in Heaven?" I was just like AWW and the tears started coming. I'm such a sap for sad movies.

I don't know if I mentioned this or not, but my boyfriend and I are living with his parents and his 15 year old sister right now until we can save up some money to get our own place...didn't realize how hard that was going to be. But anyway, I'm the only one without a job now, except for his sister, so I decided to clean the house yesterday. It wasn't very dirty except for the bathroom, but it looked really good once I was done. Today, it doesn't look like I even did anything. I'm not cleaning again today. I'm relaxing and waiting for Dustin to get home from work.

Pencil Lines Sketch #81

2008-04-21T14:29:00.002-05:00

Jane Eubank provided the sketch over at Pencil Lines and I decided I'd give it a try. It's nothing special and it was hard for me to mix the different patterns, but I think it turned out pretty cute. I had these pictures stuck in a photo album and thought they deserved to be scrapped.

It sucks that Dustin started working and I haven't. He's taking his security class right now and I'm stuck at home with nothing to do. I don't have my license and he has the car anyway, so it's not like I can go anywhere. I can vaccuum...I guess I'll do that when I get offline. I just wish that the economy wasn't so crappy right now so someone would hire me! I'm a very good worker with a college degree...I deserve a job. Most of the jobs are in Nashville though and with the gas prices the way they are, I can't afford to have a job over 30 minutes away.

Oh well. At least we can start eating something other than ramen noodles now that Dustin has a job. lol.

Yay, I scrapped!

2008-04-19T13:50:00.004-05:00

This layout is for a Scrapcation challenge. The challenge was to use monochromatic colors that reflected the mood of the photos. I picked yellow because my nieces and nephews were having a really fun time.

I also let my hair airdry this morning and I felt like I had hippie hair, so I took a picture. My hair's getting sooo long but I need to trim it because my ends are splitting. :/

And lastly, I wanted to show you what I walked in on yesterday.

See anything? No?

This is Fozzie, one of my poison dart frogs. We also have two blue and one green, and the two blue ones have been climbing all the way up the glass and trying to get out of the tank. Well I guess Fozzie decided to try it too because he on his tippy toes on this leaf trying to reach the top before I took the picture. They're so much fun to watch.

I'm having scrapbooking withdrawls

2008-04-17T15:14:00.002-05:00

Usually when I print my pictures, I scrapbook them right away. I tried looking through my photo albums to find pictures to use but all of them are random pictures that don't go together and I don't really like scrapbooking just one picture. So until I can print my new photos, I can't do any scrapbooking :(

I also can't afford to buy any new supplies, so the only paper I have is plain cardstock and a couple of old pieces of patterned paper. I'm out of glue, too. lol. I used my mother-in-law's glue last time I scrapped and I don't like her glue. I use an elmers glue stick because if I mess up, I want to be able to pick up the picture or embellishment and move it without seeing the spot where I glued it. On the Best Friends layout I did, I thought the pictures were up to high and they wouldn't move when I tried to move them because of her glue. Whoops.

A few LOs

2008-04-13T16:52:00.002-05:00

I'm bored (once again), so I decided to show off a couple of old layouts.

My niece Brianna.

Christmas 07.

I took this picture of my niece, Christa. Unfortunately, she wasn't very happy at the time so the pic could be a lot better. The photo lifts up and has journalling underneath.

I think this was my favorite page in my baby book (I made my own since I never had one). I just like the antique-y look.

I don't like to leave a lot of empty space, so it was pretty hard trying to come up with ideas for these tiny photos I had.

As you can tell, my scrapbook style is very simple. If I use patterned paper, it's usually polka dotted (obviously), but not always. I'm trying to break away from being so simple and boring, but scrapbooking materials aren't really in my budget right now, so I'm trying to use what I have at home. I've been browsing blogs online and trying scrapbook challenges and I hope to one day be as good as some of the other scrapbookers out there. I'm also trying to improve my photography skills so maybe one day I can take photos that are as amazing as Tara Whitney's or Maggie Holmes' (I LOVE their photos!).

Just playing with my camera

2008-04-12T14:00:00.002-05:00

I keep seeing all these beautiful pictures and none of them were using the flash. I always use the flash because I like when the pictures are crisp and clear and whenever I didn't use the flash before, they looked a little blurry, so I messed around with my camera and got these shots.

I think I did use the flash for this one but she just looked so cute.

I like this one a lot.

I might try to brighten this one but he's so dang white that it'll probably look bad.

This is a low flash, which I think came out good.

20 @ 20

2008-04-11T04:44:00.003-05:00

I can't sleep right now, so I decided to make a list of 20 things about me at the age of 20.

1. It's hard for me to sleep when it's a full moon, or even close to one.
2. I can pick up things with my toes.
3. Right now, our pets include two bearded dragons, a savannah monitor, a nile monitor, a leopard gecko, and four poison dart frogs. His parents, who we are living with, also have two dogs, and I have two dogs and two cats with my parents in FL that I miss terribly.
4. My favorite band is Yellowcard and it has been since high school.
5. I could probably eat sunflower seeds every day for the rest of my life.
6. I want two kids, a boy and a girl, probably in that order.
7. My doctor told me about 2 years ago that I have a connective tissue disease called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (he said it was hard to test for it)
8. I've been with my boyfriend, Dustin, for 2 years in May and it feels like we are already married (in a good way).
9. I used a tanning bed for the first time in my life last month.
10. I get mad when I don't win at games.
11. If I drink enough alcohol to get me buzzed, I get sick to my stomach.
12. My favorite TV shows are: Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, America's Next Top Model, Paradise Hotel 2, House, and CSI. (Yes, I watch a lot of TV)
13. I don't like my body, but I'm pretty lazy when it comes to exercising.
14. I love pepsi, but I'm trying to stop drinking it.
15. I hate to spend money.
16. I wish I could get a magazine in the mail everyday.
17. My favorite food is chicken fingers but I HATE chicken on a bone.
18. I've never tried sushi and I don't think I ever will.
19. I hate the phone unless I'm talking to Dustin or my mom.
20. Currently, I have 4 nieces and 2 nephews and there will probably be more in the future.

So, now I get to decide if I should try and sleep or surf the internet....hmm..

Word up #24: Best

2008-04-09T16:11:00.005-05:00

This is my layout for One Little Word. It's the first time I've ever done a layout for a challenge, and I'm finding it very fun :)

The journalling reads: "Even though Dustin and I are pretty much complete opposites, I think we make a great couple. He's my best friend and I could not ask for a better person to spend the rest of my life with."

Usually my pages are simple and linear, so I was trying to do something different, but it still turned out pretty simple. Oh well though, because I like it.

New Blogger

2008-04-08T16:03:00.003-05:00

I've never had a scrapbook journal, so I figured this would be a good place to start. Unfortunately, I'm pretty broke at the moment so I don't have any pictures to scrapbook, but I will share some older layouts eventually. Hopefully I can meet some interesting people on here. :)