Just had to share

This is a photo of my cat... she loves heat and when she hears the furnace start up, she runs for the hole under the built in cabinet!

Trying to Make a Message Board

Holy Cow...it's tougher than I thought to make a message board!! I hope all my scrappy friends will just stick it out till we figure it out cause I'd really like a place we can all continue to get together instead of spreading out all over the 'net' where we might lose touch. I really value all the friendships I've made at Pick Of The Patch and hopefully at Dragonfly Scrapbooking we can get something similar together. There is a bit of a message board started but we have run into problems with how the board is set up so I think more research is going to be needed!

I Attended A Crop

Last weekend I was scrapping with some friends in Maple Ridge to raise money to end breast cancer... I didn't get much done while I was there because I was so disorganized (I promise to be better next time!)and had to chat too, of course! I managed to get one layout done - except for some journaling that I am still working towards LOL... and another one was done when I got home... here they are.

I'm not sure what I want to do for journaling so I left a space and will add it later... I hope!!

This is the first time I have used thickers vinyl letter stickers... I really like them but the 'M' just wouldn't stay where it was supposed to go so I took it off... and discovered a really sticky mess of adhesive... ugh... right on the photo! I don't know if it's because they might have been old or not but I do have lots of chipboard so I changed plans and added a star and went with it... and added some die cut ones and a chipboard moon as well... I like how it turned out so it didn't end up in the garbage! Now if I could just take a decent photo!!

Here's a close up. I really like this older Scenic Route paper... it's so colorful and great for kid photos!

A Little Fixing

I had a little problem with this blog... for some reason when I just looked at my last post without signing in, nothing was there! So lucky for me I went to the site where I downloaded my new template from and they gave me the solution... to make a new post thus resetting the cache... or something like that and now I can see my own posts without signing in... oh technology, where would we be without it! LOL

Posting!

Well... I almost had a post finished last night when my internet went down completely! I was uploading some photos and thought maybe it happened because I'd tried to upload too much at once - so after playing around a bit I called Shaw and sure enough, they were doing routine maintenance... you'd think there would be some way they could notify us via email when it's going to be happening. So... here is yesterday's post:

Earlier this month I took part in a photo scavenger hunt and it got me thinking about some of the little things that I love around my kitchen... here they are:

I loved this the first time I saw it... it's not really a paper bag but a clay vase... but doesn't it look like a real bag?!

I love sunflowers, even fake ones!

I made this myself - it's quite big and sits on top of the fridge.

Mr. Sun sits on a dark wall in my kitchen to brighten it up.

I know this might be a strange place for a bird house when there are no birds flying around my house but I just liked it so much that I didn't want it outside!

This just makes me laugh! It sits inside an old china cabinet I painted white.

My favorite chickens made from gourds... I have more but these are the cutest!

I love dried things too...and corn is no exception - that is until you drop it and all these nice little kernals go all over the kitchen!

Plants, pigs, corn and chickens... that's my kitchen decor... maybe it's time for an update but I love being in my kitchen because it feels so cosy.

Ah... memories - this is on the shelf with the plants and piggy... I remember my mother using this to grind meat...she would also use it to grind up the leftover roast beef and made something with it.. I forget what it was now.

This beat up match holder...there's memories there too. It once was in my mother's kitchen but as it got older, made it's way downstairs to my dad's workshop where the old woodstove was... I remember it always hanging on the 2x4 stud full of wooden matches. My brother has the old stove that came originally from my grandfathers house (it heated the whole house) - it's black and covered with nickel... made in the early 1900's it now sits unused in their family room covered with plants.

And... I can't forget this little gem... given to me at my christening 57 or so years ago... when I was a little kid, I thought it was a weird looking rabbit.... but no, it's a weird looking squirrel!! Once in awhile, when we were really lucky, my mum would take this out of her china cabinet and get another cup and saucer for my brother and she'd make us hot chocolate! Funny the memories this brings up!

Updated my old blog

Which I still also use! I love the new look and am going to try it on this one...hopefully I won't mess up too badly. Here's the link http://www.scrapgram.blogspot.com/ what do you think??

I've tried a few and this one really caught my eye...