Good Afternoon

So I won't be posting Movie Monday for the 3rd week, I just can't get it together. So I've decided if I've done a movie themed LO, I post on Mondays. I can't dedicate that time yet. My Friday posts of flashback LO's is easier to post because it is old LO's that are being posted. I failed on being update on, but I will continue to create the movie album. It's too fun to totally not do. So from time to time I post.

I have less then 2 weeks to my weekender in Traverse City, Michigan! YES! I can't wait, so for the next few days I'll be getting every sorted and packed so its smooth sailin' as I get out the door and away for 3 days. Yay me! Is anyone else going on weekender anytime soon?

I'm out I am going to look for a new car this afternoon. Not brand new of course, my car went kaputs on me and well, I need something like now. Just looking for a 4 door dependable, non-Chrysler car, under $8000.

I'm out, peace!

Frame Work

Well, well I'm back had to take a tiny break. My boy returning to school had me out of all sorts. Busy days.....that's for sure. I've missed 2 Movie Mondays as well. I apologize to myself because I wanted some set days so that I could be more up to date w/ my scrapping. There I went and blew it only a few weeks into it.

So I found this very boring frame at a local store, it had no price but I decided to purchase it anyways, and when I got to the checkout it was only $3. Nice price!
I didn't like the white matte so I removed it.


My plan when I saw it at the store was to take it home and jazz it up a bit. That's exactly what I did. I took some red cardstock and and circle punch and added them to the black matte.

From there I took some very inexpensive embellishments w/ a bit of red bling to add to it. Flowers and swirls can't go wrong w/ that at all. Got the bling from a dollar store. This particular dollar store the best stuff for scrapbooking, its unbelieveable actually.

And the finished product hangs on a very bare wall in my living room. I put 3 photographs of me, the man and the boy. Different times in our 5 years of being a family. Black and white photos really make it more perfect.

A side note about this crafty frame that I did, the man was so very impressed and even said we should check out people's color scheme's in their houses and give to them as gifts. Too funny, well actually I could. I will think about it :O) I just love when the man puts his input about crafts.

Also, I think its time to clean my chair, yikes didn't realize it was so yucky...probably because I don't sit there. Saturday cleaning I know what I'll be doing.

Talk to ya later and hope you all keep posting your crafts. I love looking at what others are doing. Have a great day!

FF and bit more this morning.....

Hello World, just sitting here wastin' time until I leave for work. I only had to work yesterday and today and its killin' me. I really wish that I could go part time or even be a SAHM. So I've been all sorts of mixed up this week being off work and gettin' my son back to school on Tuesday. He went into 1st grade. So I thought for my Flashback Friday LO, I would post the above photo of his first day of Pre-school. I really heart this LO. He was so cute and as with most kids, its tough for the mom to let go, and even dad in this case.....the boy was fine! However when we picked him up he was near tears. Time really does go by fast, it seems like I just scrapped this album and now I'm getting ready to start another one for elementary years. Anyways, about the layout, red and yellows are one of my favorite color combos. Just love it! Hey I never did post Movie Monday, I had a movie picked out but again I was out of sorts this week. The movie was going to be "Back to School" not a movie that I'm a fan of, but wanted to go w/ the theme of the week. I thought how can scrap this and not have my photos printed yet. Well now I'm sitting here thinking, I could have created it w/out pics and posted pictureless. Duh! I will remember that for next time.
Just below are 2 photo's of my boy this week:

Here he is gettin' ready to drive to his new school (that I love) my big shot going into 1st grade on Tuesday!
And here he is gettin' on the bus this chilly Friday morning, and he was so nervous first time riding a bus, he wouldn't even look at me for a pic. He was unsure, but last night he couldn't sleep because he was so excited to finally get to ride the bus. He'll be fine I'm sure. See ya after work Mister Man.

No movie for you....

So I won't be posting Movie Monday today. I thought I would get too, but I'm too entirely tired. I only got 2.5 hours of sleep last night and no nap this afternoon. Boo Hoo! I just can't do it, I thought that I would be able too, but its very clear it won't be happening. Maybe tomorrow or Wednesday while my boy is at school. Tomorrow is his first day at his new school. Should be good! Hope all goes good this year, the last was a bit rough.

I need sleep, must go to bed.....just remembered I bought new pillows today, oh yea the bed is calling. Good Night!

MM is late

Well its not quite Monday, and I didn't get to post my LO yesterday. So I thought better late then never. One of my all time favorite movies is Now & Then (1995) You should check it out, Demi Moore narrates this fun movie about 4 girls growing up and all that they go through, I believe in '72. It's just a cute movie! Here's a bonus with this post, I put it with a challenge this week over at Design Dollies. Write at'cha later!

Monday already?

So where did my weekend go? It's Monday already and I haven't a clue how it came along so fast. I didn't even create a Movie Monday LO. I still have time after work, I already have the movie picked out. After dinner I will rise to my very own challenge.

My weekend was what I would call a perfect weekend. Did some of my favorite things (except scrapbooking, what the...?), tried some new stuff too. Last year at some point I said that I would like to try and do new things, and not be afraid or embarassed by what I may look like.

So in April I went to Key West and did parasailing. Weeeeeee! That was awesome, I am not into anything adventure. I was so proud of myself for doing this, and some may say really, you think that's adventureous? Yes, my family doesn't do stuff like that or anything really. So yes it was BIG time for me.

Anyways, on Saturday I went w/ a friend of mine to try out yoga. I always felt like I'd look weird doing it. Loved it! I'm so glad that I did it and that I liked it. It is a non-profit organization so you donate what you'd like each visit. So not only am I going to be working my way to a better fit me, I am helping create peace in this world. The place was very earthy and the studio that we were in was w/out lights; the only hint of light we saw was through the bamboo window treatments. Very relaxing and look forward to next weekend so that I can go again. So another something to try scratched off my list!!!!

I was lazy most of the weekend. My sister's son came to spend the night on Saturday and the boys had a blast. I watched Back to the Future all weekend long. They had each movie on each evening. Love those movies. I took my son to see Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore. Cute, my son was so well behaved all weekend, I thought I would treat him to that. Plus, I wanted to have some popcorn. The work week is a long week until my next weigh in at WW. Love going and I and looking forward to some good results this Thursday. I did 10 minute thighs & buns this morning too. What's 10 minutes? Right on it worked me good. I can take the time to that each morning. Whatever helps me get healthy. Well I've written enough its all starting to blend together.

I will post later my MM LO. Have a great day!

Movie Monday

Whew! I made it.....I almost didn't make a movie LO. I did manage after dinner, cleaning, and then going grocery shopping to create this page. I love the colors! So yea its posted during the last hour of Monday but I still did it. Alot of the reason I wanted to do MM was too keep up on scrapbooking and be able to use old photos that have been boxed up. A sweet face like that shouldn't be left in a box.

Well it's off to lala land, have a great week everyone!

Flashback Fridays (FF)

Oh this has to be one of the ugliest pages I've ever done. This LO was done I'd guess about 6 years ago. When I was first starting out. Hello Creative Memories! This is so boring and I love me some CM, mostly the albums and papers. Glad that I've learned a few great things since these days. Sad isn't it! Oh well that is why I like FF it allows me to look back and giggle at what I used to do as a scrapbooker.

Another sad thing, other then my 2 sisters in the photos, I don't get to see these other people at all. Lost touch or I get to do lunch or talk on fb once in a great while. As ugly as this LO is I am happy to have the moments w/ these friends scrapped. Great memories!

Well I do have a busy weekend ahead and wanted to make sure FF was posted and I probably won't get to post again until MM.

Have a super great day!

Movie Mondays (MM)

So here it is the 2nd Movie Monday (MM) for me to post. This week I chose the movie "The Great Outdoors". Where John Candy and Dan Akryod made being outdoors a funny mishap, one right after another. I don't see it that way when we go. Usually I'm just miserable, this time though it was just my little family of 3. I love when its just us. We camp the way we like w/out others telling us what to do or someone not helping out.

This particular trip we did rustic at a campground called Ruby. Last minute trip for the 4the of July weekend. Just about a 1 1/2 hours north of us near Port Huron. It was great it was the perfect spot. The site we had was called the "The Crossing" very secluded and away from the regular campers that are practically on top of each other. I think this is our new favorite spot. Even though we had no electricity or water, it was nice because there were still bathrooms and showers available at the front of the camp.

Did you miss last weeks post where I launched MM? Well I am creating a scrapbook album and every page will have a movie title. Got the idea from a page challenge that had to have a movie title.

Next weeks movie will be a John Travolta movie, can you guess, leave a comment what you think it will be.

I created a card over the week too for my good friends Liz & Kyle they are getting married in October and I used their wedding colors. I really like this card, and thought about making more of the same card, just different color schemes for other upcoming weddings.

Don't forget to vote on this months LoveLeigh Poll on the sidebar at the top!

Flashback Fridays

Welcome to Flashback Fridays!

On Fridays I will be posting some of my scrap layouts from back in the day, even posting things prior to blogging, which started in January of this year. I started scrapbooking about 6-7 years ago. It started at a Creative Memories Get Together. Things have changed and I laugh at some of the pages that I've done, and some I like. I tend to be simple, but sometimes I get a little wild at times. I do like this page and all of its simplicity, mostly my son's smile is the perfect embellishment. Maybe you were thinking back in the day 15 years or more ago, mostly its a day to share my changes throughout the years of scrapping. Just something fun to do on my blog, or at least I think its fun....lol !

Check back next week for more Movie Mondays (MM) and Flashback Fridays (FF). Hope you have a great day, I will its lookin' like a fabby scrap weekend for me. Well I am off to take a shower and then make a quick breakfast for my new challenge, losing weight. Weight Watchers meeting last night to kickstart it.

Launching Movie Monday

Hey there scrappers and movie lovers, I thought alot this past weekend how to make my blog fun and give me something more to work with. Plus I figure if I have some set scheduled post to blog about then it will help keep me up to date with scrapping.

I did a challenge a couple of weeks ago where you had to create a page using a name of a movie as title on the layout. Cute idea! So while creating my page I thought it would be a neat idea to create a movie album. Each LO will have a movie title, maybe quotes from that movie and such.

I am going to use the Star Wars page that I created for that challenge a couple weeks ago. My son is 5 and somewhat addicted to Star Wars. He is named after George Lucas. lol Lucas not George! His dad is a big fan, Lucas by far exceeds his dad's knowledge. I'm serious.

So here is the launch of Movie Mondays. I think this will a really cool album, I use the staple bound albums and this can practically go on forever. I believe I'm really going to enjoy this project.

I keep thinking of movie names that I can use in the future:
A League of Their Own
Now & Then
Something to Talk About
Father of the Bride

Well you get the picture. Have a great day!

Babbling Brook

Well its just after midnight here in Michigan. I had a busy day, I woke very early got right to it. Left the house to get a small amount of shopping done for my friends bridal shower. Got her gift, easy in and out. Went to a craft store that I'm not to fond of, but thought its been 6 months since my first visit there, let's see if things have improved. I like what their scrapbook selection is, quite huge actually but they are just weird. I'd rather not say the name of the store, they don't deserve any bit of advertising. It's just a strange store, w/ they're non computer ways, they're even closed on Sunday's, good grief. So then I'm off to visit with my mom for awhile and do some stuff for her church. I do all the signage for her church, certificates too occasionally. She asked the other day if I could do calligraphy on a baptisism certificate. Sure, I forgot that I have the skill. I don't do it very often, couldn't even tell you where my ink and nibs are. So I bought one of those quick marker type calligrapher pens. Yea, not so much. So I went off to a very good craft store Joann's, I don't mind being an advertiser for them, because they are wonderful :O) So I got a better set of the markers there and it was better, but still love the old school way of writing w/ dipping the ink. I took calligraphy in high school and my teacher had ran into my mom at the office and she told my mom that it wasn't too often that a student was better at calligraphy then her, the teacher. That made my day when my mom told me that. I haven't done it in years, and liked doing it again. When you don't do something for awhile it usually always comes right back.

Finished that for her, went to the bridal shower, and I was very impressed and very happy for my friends. They have been together 8 years as my man and I have been as well. Maybe our day is coming soon. Only God knows.

After the shower I called my brother and visited him for an hour, had some good talk. The shower at the Masonic Temple just off the road near my brothers house so I thought I'd call, and it was nice he was home alone. We don't see each other often. We shared some business ideas, and he made it seem like it was very possible for me to get started and that it will take time but it can happen. I love encouragement! Who doesn't?

I came home spent some time w/ the boy and putzed around on blogger and fb. For whatever reason there are lots of giveaways today. Love that, you should check out my 3 previous post, they have links to those blog giveaways.

Anyways, I'm feeling quite chatty right now. The boy is asleep, man is out w/ an old roommate and I'm wide awake. So last weekend I had entered a challenge and you had to take a movie prior to '85 and make a layout. That was fun, and I did a LO on Star Wars. It gave me the idea to create an album geared around movie titles. We all have that random photo we don't use or a grouping of photo's your just not sure what to do with. Or I like to have an album for only certain types of themes. ie.\School album, Love album, My family album, friend albums, etc. So I thought you don't know sometimes where to fit those photos. My thought was it would be cool to have an album and take a title and find a photo that matches the title. I have a bunch of empty albums and this theme just seems to be fun.

Another thing I like reading blogs that have creative post and consistancy. Here are some ideas I came up with:

1st/LoveLeigh Polls, this started last month. These will last the whole month and it will be polls on scrapbooking. Check it out at the top of the sidebar.
2nd/Movie Mondays, I will post a new layout w/ a movie name as my title for LO.
3rd/Flashback Fridays, a posting of old LO's will go up. I often look at my scrapbooks and think wow, my style has changed so much. It changes often as I learn new techniques.

I figure thats a good start and a bit of fun! Hopefully I can keep up w/ the postings. Well I've babbled long enough and think that I will lay in bed and watch hopefully something good and entertaining on TV.

After reading this make sure to take the August LoveLeigh Poll. Have a great day, and keep being creative!