My Fashionista!!

Karlie has become quite the little fashionista this year, those of you that have known her know that she has done a complete 180 LOL but I think I have created a monster as now she wants it all clothes shoes and accessories! Shes only 10 what will she be like at 16?? I can't imagine!

First Day of School

yesterday was the first day of school, here are some pics of the kids Cory is going onto 2nd grade and and Karlie is going into 5th grade!!!

New Purse

At the beginning of the month I started working on my sisters birthday present and unfortunately it took a back seat when I went into the hospital. So the last few days I have been working on it and FINALLY finished. I will never use this pattern for this purse again there has got to be an easier way to make this! Its very cockeyed so don't look too close, I also added pockets on the sides so that did not help. LOL

Leapin Lizards! Happy Birthday!

First I want to say Happy Birthday to my sister Deanna! love you!! Hope you have a great day!

Well most of you that know me , know that I have been under the weather for the last couple weeks and I am home form the hospital now and hopefully on the way to recovery. So anyway this morning I went out on my deck and found this cute little creature staring back at me, I could not help but take his picture.

Baby girl Mini album

The pictures are a little out of order but you will get the idea! Thanks for looking

I made this mini album for my neighbor who had a baby girl this spring. I found it really hard to scrap mini with out pictures. I used a variety of papers the stamps , flourished are Scrapbook Takeout, the carriage is TAC and the lettering is CTMH, I also used my wishblade to cut out some of the flourished and the title cutie, thanks to the wonderful share files on the wishblade forum! Hope you enjoy!!!!

My first Scrapbook page post!

Ok so I have been in a scrapbooking slump for the last several months. Yesterday I walked into my scraproom sat down and decided to just use what was on my desk, and here is what I came up with. I covered my daughters friend's face because I did not have permission to post her pic, so disregard the pink flower.

The cardstock is Colorbok,with the exception of the blue mat it was a scrap not sure whose though. The black swirls and black flowers , are actually stickers!!! and they are from Kelly Panacci, and the various flowers are Primas I believe,and two of the flowers on brown cardstock I cut out with my sizzix.

Well enjoy I hope this will be the start of my Mojo coming back!

Flowers and wierd umm.. mushrooms?

I have not been feeling so great this week but tonight I went out on the porch and decided to take some pictures, we have black eyed Susan's growing in several places in the yard, which are my favorite, also I noticed these strange looking ummm... mushrooms growing in a flower pot by my front door, its been a wet, humid week so I guess that's why they popped up. LOL
Out in the back yard are Karlie's flowers she had to plant for a science project this past spring and they are really blooming now! She has sun flowers, and morning glories and green beans vining all over the deck. (see those pics below) I hope you enjoy the pics!

Feeding the Birds

So the kids and I just loved watching the birds at my Moms birdfeeders when we were in PA a few weeks ago so we got some feed and put one out side our living room window. It took a couple of days but the birds found it. We have some young cardinals coming in to feed, we have never had cardninals in the yard before so the kids are excited. this picture was taken through the window and a screen, so its not real clear. This is our favorite little one, we call him spike becasue of his faethers, he is the only one that the feathers stick up on his head, you can see his red feathers coming in slowly that is why we think he is a male bird. any way just wanted to share our backyard birdies!

Made 2 more purses

I have been on a sewing kick lately and I made 2 more purses, they both need some finishing touches like insert for the inside bottoms but I was excited by the way they turned out and had to share!! Enjoy!

More pics from my mothers garden

Here are a few morer pics I took in my Mothers garden, and to think it was not even in full bloom yet

Vacation Pictures

We also stopped at a park in the Mountains along the way.

Last week The kids and I went to Pennsylvania to visit my Mom, she is an amazing gardener and I took some pics of her flowers,

Purse Pattern

Hi all ,I have been asked to share the pattern, So here you go, Its McCalls M5443 its a Hillary Duff design. its really cute and comes with several purse patterns. in stead of making the ties, I found some pink ribbon that was an exact match and used it instead. much easier becasue the ties were a pain. Good luck and share with me when you make one would love to see it. I think I am going to make some more!

I made a purse

I had to share the cute purse that I made for my daughter Karlie, she has been wanting me to use this fabric for quite a while to make he something, so here it is! The purse is lined in pink and has a nice stiff interfacing so it holds its shape really well. I might have to try a couple of more! LOL

Backyard friends

Steve is putting some new fencing in the backyard and had two little toad friends find their way into one of his holes. Since Steve does not do "frogs" as he put it I had to come out and retrieve them LOL here are some pics I took, enjoy!

School Awards

Steve and I are really proud of the kids, they started summer vacation this week but before they did they both received awards at school. Cory received a math award and Karlie received 5!! One for A-B honor roll, science perfect attendance, good citizenship and a young author and writers award, (Karlie wants to be a children's author when she grows up) we are really proud of them both!

Karlie's New Bike

Karlie got a new bike for her birthday and just like everything else it had to be pink and black!! Go karlie!!!

Thank you Neith!!

Thank you Neith for making my pictures look so incredible!!! She used the Body & Soul 5/08 Club Scrap Digital Kit amd my ducking photos to create this awesome digi layout! you can view it on her blog at http://neithj.blogspot.com/
Thank you again, you are an amazing artist and I am so honored that you used my photos!

Happy Birthday Karlie!!!

Happy Birthday Karlie, I can hardly believe tha you are 10 years old. You are growing into such a beautiful young lady and Daddy and I are so proud of you!

Photo Exhibit

I am really excited, through the month of June 2 of my photos will be in a photo exhibit at the Cape Cateret Community College Library.

Hail Storm

We have definatly had our share of weather latly tonight a storm blew in after our hottest weekend yet and it started to hail, the kids had never seen it before so they thought it was really cool to see what they described as "ice falling from th sky" LOL I took a couple of pics the kids were out picking it up and Cory kept running in and putting it in the freezer until his "hail collection was complete" Some of the hail was quarter sized, I am sure glad it did not last but a few minutes.