Hello Fall!

Well, it's still in the upper 80s/low 90s here in Texas, but Fall is supposedly here! I LOVE Fall photos, and every year at our church's pumpkin patch, I take tons of photos of my boys with the pumpkins and various photo areas we have. I love these photos of my little guy. The second I opened my October kit box from The Scrap Room and saw this gorgeous collection by Simple Stories, I immediately printed out these photos and got to scrapping:

Isn't he a cutie pie?! The cutest little punkin' in the patch, if I do say so myself. ;)

Boo!

Scared ya, didn't I? ;) I made this little Boo! sign for one of my projects this month for The Scrap Room. I took a little decorative piece of wood, used Mod Podge to adhere some patterned paper to it, and inked/distressed the edges. Then, I cut the "Boo!" artwork on my Silhouette and adhered it to the paper. I gave everything a good coat of Mod Podge and then stapled ribbon to the back to create this hanging wooden sign. Easy, peasy!

Speaking of Halloween...my boys still don't know what they want to be yet, so still no costumes. Sigh... Happy Saturday, everyone!

Fall 2-pager

Good morning, everyone! The temperature has cooled down a bit here in Texas, which can only mean one thing...FALL is here!!! :) I love Fall....but I always get major alleriges at the beginning of Fall, like right now. My eyes are puffy, itchy, red, and watery, and my nose is all stuffy. But hey....I can actually go outside without sweating to death, so that's good! Every Fall, we host a Pumpkin Patch at my church as a fundraiser to raise money for missions. We send supplies to churches and an orphanage in Mexico, as well as support other local and worldwide missions. It feels good to give to such worthy causes. I hope to take a missions trip sometime in the future. Anyway, the October kit from The Scrap Room is just bursting with AMAZING Fall colors, and I couldn't wait to dig into the Simple Stories "Harvest Lane" collection that was assigned to me for my 2-pager. I used Pumpkin Patch photos from last year and came up with this:

Happy Fall, everyone!

Scrappy Sunday 9/30/12

Just sharing a page I did recently of my little guy at the beach this past summer. His favorite thing to do was jumping the waves! :)

I love this collection by Fancy Pants! It's their "Wave Searcher" collection...perfect for my beach pics, and more layouts using this collection are coming up. ;) Thanks for taking a look!

October Sneak Peek!

It's "Sneak Peek" time over at The Scrap Room! For my sneak peek, I was assigned the Bella Blvd. "Thankful" collection, which is 1 of the 4 collections included in the October kit:

I always love Bella Blvd. colors and patterns! :)

Baseball

Quick page share. It's almost time for me to go pick up the boys from school, but I thought I'd post my latest baseball page. This year, my youngest son FINALLY got to play on a real "team." He has watched his older brother play on teams for so many years, and he was SOOOO excited to finally get to play on a team of his own.

(paper by Deja Views, stickers by Echo Park) His best buddy was also on his team this year, which made it even more fun. :) Speaking of baseball....we just got back late last night from my oldest son's traveling team tournament all weekend long. We are all still exhausted, and I have a ton of dirty laundry to wash (and somehow need to get baseball field dirt and grass stains out of WHITE pants????)...but it was a fun weekend. Our boys came in 4th place out of 12 teams. These were all big city elite teams, too, making us the only "small town" team there, so I am so proud of our guys for hanging with the big dogs and giving it their all. :) Better throw the laundry into the dryer and head out to pick up boys...thanks for looking!

First Six Weeks Awards

Hello friends!
Just sharing another 2-pager I did for The Scrap Room using the September kit. This kit had me thinking SCHOOL TIME!, so I put together this page about my oldest son when he was in 2nd grade. I've wanted to scrap this page for a long time and include all of his little ribbons/awards that he received. I have some of these ribbons from when I was in grade school, and I know that eventually they turn colors and fade.

So, before I put these on his page, I sprayed them with some Krylon "Make It Last!" acid-free spray...so hopefully it will preserve them for a long time. :)