July 31st, 2006

And the fun continues...


Here are the details.

Scrapbooker Online’s Progressive August Layout Contest

Contest begins tomorrow...August 1st.

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Thanks to the wonderful contributions and participation in our July contest we have decided to keep the ball rolling at SBO and offer another progressive layout contest for the month of August. But this one has a little twist involved. For anyone who attended our Cyber Crop in June and participated in my challenge you will understand the contest rules below.

The contest will run for 4 weeks. Each, MONDAY by Midnight EST, you will upload the assignment for the week. There will be a designated contest gallery for each week of the contest.

The contest judging will not occur until the end of the month but to be eligible you will need to upload your assignment each week. Due to the fact this is a progressive contest you can not miss a week because each week will build off of the past weeks work.

Each Tuesday at Noon, EST, I will post the assignment. You will have a week to complete it and upload to the gallery.

The final layouts will be judged on the following: Overall craftsmanship, creativity, and interesting use of embellishments, journaling, and how well you followed the directions. The SBO DT will be judging this contest.

This contest is going to take some thought ladies. Each week you will need to use what you have done in the past and build on it. But, you will not know what you are to do next, until the assignment is posted. You also can NOT add anything to your layout that is not in the assignments. Good luck let me know if you have any questions.

The first assignment will be posted this Tuesday, August 1st. The first deadline will be Monday, August 7th at Midnight EST.

Good Luck Ladies

Thanks.

July 28, 2006

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WAT (Wicked Awesome Thursday) was yesterday. And let me tell you I was so impressed with what I saw uploaded to shop's gallery.

This is what happens when you give 6 incredibly talented ladies a challenge. So ladies...Make me a layout with 10 photos on it. Not that hard, right? Well, each and every one of these talented soul just outdid themselves.

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Thank you ladies. It was a wonderful week.

July 26th, 2006

Childhood Memories

Jill is coming to visit this Friday. I have been thinking about when we were kids this week. Boy did we have fun.

I remember playing Kick the Can out in front of Jill's cousin Neils house. We would play for hours. I loved hiding in the big tree in Miss Bertha's yard. She was a crazy old lady and did not like it if we were in her yard, but that tree was awesome.

I also remember playing gymnastics in the middle of the street. We would play the Olympics and the balance beam was the curb of the sidewalk. We always did this in front of Jill's house.

Oh, and there was little duckie daddle!! We would sing the song then stick our heads in buckets of water and see how long we could stay under water. How stupid were we. But boy did we have fun. We all managed to make it. No one drowned. I think there is even a picture of us doing it somewhere. I saw it recently. Problably at my mothers house. Got to check next time I am down there.

Enjoy your day. Only 364 days till I turn 40.

July 25th, 2006

Happy Birthday to ME!!!

OK, so I am posting this a day late. How lame.

July 24th, 2006

NEVER, and I mean NEVER leave a stainless steel shotglass in the garbarge disposal. OK, so it was not left there, but must have fallen in. Guess what UPS is bringing me in 7-10 days?

A new one!!!

Good news...I saved the shotglass. It's my favorite.

Cosmo drinkers unite!!

July 23, 2006

First off I must say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my Grandmother Claire. She is 85 today. The kids just called and sang to her. Very cute.

But, this post is about my mother, especially her sewing room which I went and spent three days in this week. I cleaned it out, and I MEAN, cleaned it out. We purged a total of 8 garbage bags filled with CRAP!!! They were not your normal garbage bags also. They were the huge heavy duty ones. We also came up with 2 large bins of fabric for her to bring to her quilt guild, Proper Bostonian Quilter, they will all find delight in picking through all these goodies. We also put together a bin for Sister Claire, she is the fun NUN that hangs out at the guild meetings also. AND we color coordinated all her fabric, as you can see to the left here.

We trashed old craft supplies, put a bin together for the art teacher at Gail and Grant's school, gave some things away to neighbors, trashed an old table and moved 3 chairs and 4 sewing machines to her basement along with my Grandmothers hope chest and various other things. We went wild, or I went wild. See we had to make room for her new Machine Quilting Machine she bought earlier in the week. It is a long arm sewing machine that sits on a 10 foot frame that allows you to machine quilt any size quilt. She has been wanting one for years and finally took the plunge. YAY MOM!!

So anyway, here are the before and afters. I must send this link to her guild members. The ladies are going to flip over this. Glad you like it MA, enjoy. Now get cracking and make me my quilt!!

July 13, 2006

So retirement is here, as Gregg calls it. I finished up work on the 27th of June at HBS and now I am living the high life. HUH, who am I kidding. Vacation right after that, camping in NH with Kristin and John. We had a blast. So I guess this no work thing has not quite set in yet.

I was given the best farewell gathering anyone could ask for. Denis and his wife Liz even had all my coworkers make me a scrapbook. It was the nicest gift I could have ever asked for. Kind words and fond memories on every page. Gosh I am going to miss them all.

Today was WAT (Wicked Awesome Thrusday at SBO). The DT challenge for this week was to use the July Kit to create a June In Review layout. Well, did I have one hell of a June. I enjoyed creating my layout. I am glad I did it and am happy I have captured some of the memories of my last few days at HBS.

The gallery at HBS has really been rocking. You should come and check it out if you have not. Lots of ideas are running around at SBO and we have a lot of new members. What a kick butt group of talent. I am so blessed to have each of these wonderful women, and a few men in my life.

Enjoy your night everyone. Off to finish reading the Spiderwick Chronicles, Book #1. It is on Gails 3rd grade reading list. We are both reading it. Although the little cutie is in a race with me. She finished first and took book #2 to bed with her tonight.