Hello, Blog Readers!

Life is busy, busy in the Moore household these days....but I set aside some time today to blog.  How's everyone doing?

My oldest started SIXTH GRADE (!!!!) a few weeks ago, and my youngest started THIRD.  Time is going so quickly. *sniff  They both are doing GREAT in school so far, so I am very thankful for that.

As I posted previously, I resigned from teaching preschool this year.  Preschool just started, and it's weird seeing everyone's first day of preschool pics on Facebook and realizing that I'm not there...but it's good.  I know I made the right decision, and I am enjoying being able to spend my time doing things that I really want to do.  I'm super swamped with craft projects for customers and projects for myself as well.  Hubby and I recently decided (ok..I decided) to redo our bedroom, and it's been a very slow work-in-progress.  I am LOVING the results, though! I hope to share pics soon.

I'm still scrapbooking every now and then, too.  I've been focusing on older photos and getting them put away into albums.  The best way I've found to do this is through pocket pages!  I have gotten SO MANY photos scrapped this way lately, and it has been a huge time save for me!  I'll share a few of my pocket pages with you:

As you can see, I've got everything from old Christmas photos to our Disney World trip, old baby pics, older sports photos, Chicago trip pics, and more.  Pocket pages are so easy and practical for me!  I just mix them in with my traditional layouts, and I'm getting lots of photos scrapped that way. Can't beat that!

Well...back to housework and craft projects. Drop me a comment and let me know how you're doing! I'd love to hear from you. ;)

DIY Reclaimed Wood Art

Hey y'all!

Long time, no blog! ;)

What's been going on in your world? Mine's been crazy busy.  My sister and I have a Facebook page where we sell our handmade items, and that has been a great extra income (but a LOT of work!) for us both.  I've also been working on redoing our master bedroom, which has been a slow-going process.

I painted the walls "Revere Pewter" by Benjamin Moore after seeing rooms in that color pinned so many times on Pinterest. I LOVE the color...so nice and neutral, but really pretty and clean looking.  We've just bought a few things here and there as we could to revamp our space it make it more "us."  I'm going with a gray/teal/white color scheme, and so far, it's coming together very nicely.  But like I said....SLOW-going process.

What did we ever do before Pinterest? Seriously...love it.  I've pinned so many craft ideas and rooms I like on there, and that's where I'm getting all my inspiration for our bedroom redo.  Today, I finished up and hung an art piece that the hubby and I made. 

Here was my inspiration:

And here's my version:

Mine isn't near as distressed as the inspiration piece because I wanted a cleaner look...but I'm super happy with how it turned out!  My grandpa had some old torn-down fence panels that he gave me to make this with. It looks great hanging on my freshly painted wall! :)

More updates at a later time...laundry is calling! Thanks for stopping by.

October 2013 kit from The Scrap Room

September 2013 kit from The Scrap Room

Happy Friday, everybody! So glad to see this busy week come to an end. Even though we had last Monday off for Labor Day, it still was a LONG week.

I haven't had much scrapbooking time lately with school starting up and all, but here are my September 2013 projects for The Scrap Room monthly kit club:

  

As I mentioned before in my Sneak Peek post, I challenged myself to scrap ONLY pictures I already had printed. These are all older photos from when my boys were much younger, so I'm so glad to get these stories finally documented and into albums. :) 

What are you working on these days? I'd love to hear!

Um.....Hi.

Remember me?  Yeah...haven't blogged in FOREVER....but here I am.

Just quickly sharing my Sneak Peek for The Scrap Room September 2013 kit today.  This month, I did something I've never done before.  I challenged myself to use ONLY photos that I had printed already, mainly older photos.  It feels great getting all those older photos into the albums!  I will share all of my projects after reveal day, but here is my sneak:

Look at my baby boy! *sniff  He's a 2nd grader now....yeah....SECOND GRADER!!  We started school this past week, and everything is going great.  I now have a 2nd grader and a 5th grader.  Time flies so fast!

Anyway, these pictures were taken one day when my little guy and I were outside playing with sidewalk chalk while big bro and dad were shooting water guns.  It was just one of those lazy summer afternoons where we were just enjoying being together outside in our backyard.  I love days like that. :)

I hope you all have had a great summer! I hate to see it come to an end, but I am looking forward to some cooler temps.  These 100°+ Texas heat days sure do start to get old after a while.  Happy Labor Day weekend, everyone!

The Scrap Room - June 2013 kit

Busy, busy, busy around here (baseball 24/7 pretty much!), but here are my June projects using the monthly kit from The Scrap Room:

Thanks for looking!

Just Scrapped 17 photos!!!

Good morning, everyone!

I'm awfully chipper for a Monday morning.  Wanna know why?  NO SCHOOL TODAY!! Woohoo!  Our school is having a "Bad Weather Day," and since we never had to use one of our allotted weather days this winter, we get today off.  We slept in until 8:00 a.m. (I remember when that used to seem so early to me), and now the boys are up watching MLB Network (ugh) and having a bowl of cereal while I work on laundry and catch up on the computer.

I haven't done much scrapping lately, but I did manage to get these 2 pages done from our mini vacation through a drive-through wildlife park a couple of years ago. I used scraps and leftovers of kits with some divided page protectors and got these done in no time!

The best part? That's a total of 17 photos scrapped and documented!!!! I love using divided page protectors to get a lot of photos scrapped in a nice, uncluttered way.  Pages go together so quickly using this technique.  It's a great way to use up leftover scraps and kits too!

I really love the "Project Life" type of scrapbooking, but I'm not one to document every single day or every single week.  My pictures would be pretty boring and monotonous if I did that.  Instead, I use divided page protectors and "Project Life" types of pages for those occasions where I have way too many photos to scrap on one page.  I just add the divided page protectors in with my regular 12x12" pages...so my albums are a good mix of regular pages and divided pages.  Works great!

Have a great Monday, everyone...I'm going to enjoy the day off with my kiddos, followed by my oldest son's baseball game tonight. :)