Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Layout Share

How are you preparing for the upcoming holidays?  

Frantically in this house.  We will have 3 glorious days in which to enjoy a house full of laughter, cheer, food and conversation.  Not at all the quiet that we have so gotten used to now that all of our little chickadees have flown the nest.  

Our guest list has settled to about 30 people, big & small, and the logistics of that can sometimes be tricky but I think we've got it figured out and everyone should have their own little piece of the house that they can retreat to when it gets a little too loud or busy.  The real trick is to make sure that everyone is fed and exhausted:)  We've got plenty of activities scheduled (thanks DC for always having so much to do!) to keep boredom far away from this place.  

The menu is another story.  It came together quickly but I am a little worried that I was too ambitious and that I will not be able to pull it off.  The real key is going to be having most of it prepared ahead of time.  If I can have everything ready to go by Friday 12/22, it will be fun for me as well as everyone else.  If not, well, I'll be a busy girl lol.  Still happy though.  Still very, very happy with all my peeps around me:)  Giving me lots of photos for my pages next year HA!  Speaking of pages, I've got a few to share.  8 to be exact.  

I haven't forgotten about or dropped my budgeting thoughts or projects, I've just won't be talking about them today:)  With 8 pages to share there is not time for that lol.  Although thinking about budgeting did make me wonder about how much each of my pages costs, in real dollars, to make.  Do I really want to know that though?  Hmmmmm.....

This page will be getting the photos redone for goodness sake!  I still haven't figured out how to get Paintshop to print my photos decently if I edit them.  Gaaaaahhhhhh.  My nephew is so cute too.  Anywho.  This page is a favorite.  The blues with the bright oranges and green are perfect......



I purchased a class from Jen Schow and this is one of the pages that I completed for it.  The papers and colors just make me want to scream with joy!  The class is "Zap Your Scraps" and it is delightful.  I didn't use any scraps if that tells you how versatile her classes are.....


Hello September 2017 Hip Kit.  You were so fun and pretty lol.  This cute photo of my nieces and nephews at Disney worked well with all the things on this page.  Love how it came out..... 


This is me trying something different.  A long skinny photo.  My jury is still out on whether this type page is a keeper or not.  Although the photo of my peeps all lined up on this teeny, tiny sidewalk in Italy walking towards the Coliseum is a fave.......


Another Italy picture.  This layout I like much, much better!  Loving the 1/2 circles and the squares together.  And that photo.......


The sketch for this one was by Kristine Davidson on Creative Scrappers.  It was amazing and so fun to create with.  I literally kept 90% of the elements as is because she hit this sketch out of the park!  Loved it!!!!.......


This page is a little different.  These 2.  Oh my.  Sometimes they just do not get along.  My oldest and my youngest babies.  But here they are just being so sweet.  Q just jumped right off of the bridge onto the sand as boys do and my girl took it a little slower.  He turned around and reached his hand up to catch his sister and my husband snapped a photo of it as she was reaching her hand out to let him.  I had to scrapbook it even if the photo was a little strange looking and sweet hugs did not seem to fit at first glance......


On the other hand, these 2 get along most of the time and can usually be found close to each other love/hating:)



I know.  A lot of pages but I appreciate you stopping by to take a look at them.  

Happy Hump Day!!!

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