Happy Fall!

As you may have noticed I changed my blog appearance a little, I have done this in light of the season. We had our first snow last week! OK, so it was a dusting, but it covered the ground either way! Although I have been enjoying our 65-75 degree weather lately, I am anxious for some REAL snow to fall. If you had asked me 3 years ago what my feeling was about wintertime I would have probably said I really dislike it. I have to chalk this up to the many years of brutal weather in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. Don't get me wrong, I love the Gorge and I really miss the green and the scenery, but I have to say that I don't really miss all of the rain that comes with that. Corbett is my hometown and it always will be, but I am becoming very fond of Bend's weather.

I held a class last Saturday for accordian envelope albums. It is made with legal size envelopes from the local office supply store.I did this one for "K" as a little gift to let her know we enjoy having her around.

The tags come out and you can adhere a photo or journal on them. I haven't included photos on this one yet.

Last Sunday we went to the Pumpkin Patch in Terrebonne, we had so much fun. They have a huge pirate ship made out of hay bales and of course a conr maze. We ate kettle corn and carmel apples, we even had homemade rootbeer. It was great!


Mom and I are off to Seattle this weekend for the CK convention,check it out at creatingkeepsakes.com. I can't wait, we get to see some of the women I really look up to in the scrapbook world. Yes, I am a groupie and proud of it!!

This is Lisa Bearnson, she is the founder of Creating Keepsakes Magazine, I am so impressed with her story. She started this multi million $ business from her home 10 years ago.

I gotta go, we are in the middle of the Indiana Jones trilogy, the boys have never seen any of them. It is fun to watch them see it for the first time. Have a great weekend, everyone! For those of you in Corbett, look us up next weekend, Marc and the boys will be in town. (hint, hint, C.R.!!! 541-948-3382)

Scrapbook projects

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What a handsome guy!! I can't believe he is a senior this year!!! Where did the time go? He will be 18 in November!!! This is the altered clipboard I made for my last class.
Anyhow, as usual our life this past week was crazy, busy! Between picture day at school, field trips and my new subbing job at the school I feel like I am constantly going, going, going. I finally got my sub # so I can sub part time for any other EAs that may need some time off or call in sick. It is a nice few extra hours and I love being at the school anyhow.
I have been very busy making cards and explosion boxes for Mary's vendor fair. I am very excited to see how people respond to them. I also got an idea from mom who got the idea from someone else who got the idea from someone else..... to make gift card holders. They are really cute. Now I just have to find or make envelopes to go with them.

They open up and you put a gift card in and give it to someone as a gift!

I also have been working on some new cards.

CK Seattle is coming up in a couple of weeks. For those of you who don't scrapbook, this is a convention put on by Creating Keepsakes Magazine. All of the who's who in scrapbooking will be there. So far Mom and I have met Ali, Lisa, Stacy, Tracy White and Sandi Genovese. It's great fun, usually we volunteer in classes, to get a lot of freebies and meet some really cool people. I can't wait to take a little "ME" time. I really need a break from all of my projects and work!

I hope everyone is doing well!

P.S. This is why I scrapbook. The boys are finally getting to the age where they will actually pull out a scrapbook and look through it. I love watching their eyes light up when they remember a special event and talk about all of the fun we had.

This night Beau pulled out the Disneyland album and they had a blast showing "K" all of the fun places we went. She has never been out of Bend so, it was really neat for her to get to see some of the places we saw and it was cool to hear Beau talk about everything he could remember. This is why I scrapbook!!!

Scrapping classes have started!!!

I had my first class of the season on Saturday. It went very well. We made altered recipe books. My original sample was made with pinks and blues, but I made my own personal one with dark reds. Instead of making it a recipe book I decided to make it more of a notebook for scrapping ideas and classs notes. I think it turned out well.

My next class is this Saturday, we are making altered clipboards. I will post a picture later.
Debie at Scrap A Doodle is going out of town this weekend so, I am helping out in the store tonight, tomorrow and Saturday. I should be pretty busy, but just in case I have a couple of projects planned to work on.





We went to the Fall Festival last weekend. The kids bobbed for apples and painted pumpkins. It was a beautiful day! Marc enjoyed the music so much he actually fell asleep! He wasn't really happy that I caught this shot, but I couldn't resist.



We had a great time!




As you may have noticed, I have rearranged things on my blog. I am hoping this will make it easier to read. Only my current post will show on the main screen. To see any previous posts go to the archives at the right and pick a date.

Happy Fall to everyone!!!

Is it winter already?

Good morning, everyone!!

The weather is cold and frosty outside this morning. They were calling for snow last night but that didn't happen, I have to admit I was hoping I would wake up to at least a light dusting of the cold stuff! It is definitely time to pull out the winter sweaters and turtlenecks. I really love this time of year, before it is REALLY cold, while the leaves are falling and we sit by the fire pit at night.

Last weekend was fun, Marc and I were able to go to the Kenny Rogers concert at the Les Schwab Amphitheater. Suzie got us free VIP passes from work, thanks Suzie and Palmer Homes. We got to sit under the tent and enjoy the free beer, wine and food. It was a really great time.

Sunday, all of the kids and us went shooting for fun. Tucker got a new rifle, so Marc worked on sighting that in and we shot some skeet. I actually hit one!!! I was so impressed with myself, I haven't shot a shotgun in years. It was really cold and windy, so we cut it short and came home to roast marshmallows outside.

I start classes this Saturday, the first one is chipboard techniques. I will post pics of the girls and their projects next week.

Donna volunteers for the Assistance League in Bend, they help clothe and supply needy kids for school, she asked me if I would be willing to donate something for their auction. I was trying to think of something cute and different, the picture is at right. It is a gift certificate inside a Criss Cross Card.

I hope everyone has a great week. Talk to ya soon!!!