New Moon Celebration Cards

A large group of us Twilight Moms are doing a card swap in celebration of the NEW MOON movie coming to theaters this month. Here's the cards I sent out to my fellow TwiMoms.

Scrapbooking Texas!

We lived in Texas for a short time, only 10 months. While we were there we were blessed to be able to do a lot - White Sands, NM and the Grand Canyon to start. When we left Texas we did what I like to call a "PCS Vacation" For you non-military folks, PCS is short for Permanent Change of Station (as in duty station). It's a time when emotions are crazy - sad for leaving friends and loved ones behind, excited for getting a change of scenery, new friends and adventures....but it's also stressful so if we can take advantage of the time as we travel we do so.

Our first stop after leaving El Paso, TX was San Antonio, Texas (I think I could live there!) We did the River Walk, The Alamo and we took advantage of the Heroes Salute program that Anheuser-Busch is currently offering. After San Antonio, we headed to Memphis TN having dinner at Hard Rock Cafe on Beale St. and going to Graceland of course!

So I finally have about 80% of this trip scrapbooked ~ I'm so excited! I thought I had more pictures on the computer than I do. I'll post more of my layouts soon.
Here's some of the layouts....

Altered Book - update #3

I think this is update #3....
For those of you reading this that have no idea what I'm talking about - check out my previous posts:
ALTERED BOOKS
ALTERED BOOK UPDATE and ANOTHER ALTERED BOOK UPDATE (I know, I'm not very original when it comes to titling my blogs!)

Our Twilight Moms Altered Book round robin should have been completed by now with our TWILIGHT book but due to "life" and a few other happenings, we're running a bit behind. I have 3 more books to work in after I receive them and then I'll finally have my book returned to me! I'm so excited to finally see it and see all the creative, artistic work that's been completed in it!

So here's my past few spreads that I've done in others books.

It's Too Green


La Push Beach


Enough For Forever

Quilted Pineapple Wall Hanging

So, it's not quilted yet but at least it's pieced together! I had a week of no kids in the house so I had plenty of time to myself.

I picked up this pattern, Pineapple Welcome part of a series called Hanging on a Star, and the fabric at a small quilt shop in Rochester, IL. My mom took me there when I was home visiting back in May. The pattern calls for appliquéing the word "welcome" on the checkerboard but I think I'm going to skip that. I like it the way it is.

I've got a CRICUT!!!!

Now maybe I'll be a little more motivated to work on my albums! I've been needing some motivation! I'll have to save pennies now for some new font cartridges - guess what will be on the top of my birthday and Christmas lists this year???

Scrapbooking - Where Do I Start Again?

I'm a seasoned scrapbooker so it's not where do I start as in I'm new to this but it's more like I've not touched my scrapbooks in so long I have no idea where to start. We've moved the last 2 summers and that has seriously put a cramp into my scrapbooking time. I did manage a crop over a year ago now back in January 2008 when I spent a couple weeks with my mom. I got 70 pages completed that weekend (go me!) But since then...I'm lucky if I've done 50 pages. I attended a crop last month at my local scrapbook store, Beach Scrapbooks. But did I get there this month? Nope. *sigh*

I needed to figure out where to start. I have albums 1/2 done, 3/4 done, completed but needs journaling - scrapbookers understand where I'm coming from.

Today I literally sat down and went through my albums and came up with a list. I'm hoping this will motivate me and now that the man is working some really late hours, I plan to use that time to get some pages done here and there....

I have my completely finished albums, my almost there - ya know the ones that are pretty much done but not quite done - need journaling or a few photos printed up to finish a layout or two...., then I have the albums in progress. These are the ones I'm trying to actively work on (but I've not done a very good job) and then there's the not even started list - yes I have a not even started list... daunting huh?
So, here's where I'm at:

Completed Albums:
Big Island Vacation (2002)
Wedding Album (1987)
Portrait Album (all family and kid portraits;finished until I have something to add)
Nascar (until the man hits another race)
#1 Travel (France, Germany and Japan vacations)
#2 Travel (2004 DC, New York City, Virginia vacation)
20th Anniversary 8x8 album
Cub Scout Album (8.5 x11 album)
Outrigger Canoe Club Album (8x8 gift to my oldest son)
#1 Navy Album (bootcamp to RTC Great Lakes years)
#1 USS Olympia Album
#1 RTC, Great Lakes years (1997-1999)
#1 Hawaii (2001)
#2 Hawaii (2002)
Christmas Card/Letter Album (added to each year with letters and cards)

Almost there:
#1 Boy Scout Album
#2 Boy Scout Album
(need to add Eagle Scout projects and Eagle Scout Court of Honor to both boys albums)
#2 USS Olympia Album (gotta get this done....)
#2 RTC GL Years (2000-2001)
Groton Years (1993-97) just a few pages left in this one
#3 Hawaii (2003)
#4 Hawaii (2004)

In Progress:
HAWAII ABC album (8x8)
My Childhood (8.5x11)
Glory Album (this is another Navy Album it holds Sr. Enlisted Academy, Sgt Major Academy and NSTPC...it'll also hold my husbands current command - this should be the last Navy album other than a retirement album....)

Not even started:
#5+ Hawaii years (2005, 2006, 2007)
Texas (2007-2008)
Virginia (2008-present)
Tyler's baby album (um, he's 18 now)
Corey's baby album (gonna be 17 in July)
Alyssa's baby album (turns 15 on Tuesday)

Antler Baskets - completed!

Here are the 2 antler baskets from the Guilders Weave in January that I finally finished. Yesterday was a nice enough day to be able to go out and give them a stain.

First Antler Basket
For having ZERO experience in weaving a ribbed basket, I don't think I did too bad. I'd really like to take a ribbed class now. It would help me greatly. There are several mistakes on this basket but the best thing about deer antler baskets is that they hide the mistakes very, very well.

This has a maple stain on it. I really like the richness of a maple stain. The pictures really don't do it justice, but it's all I've got!





Random Antler
I can see me weaving a lot more of these. They are more a decorative basket than a useful basket. This has a nice oak stain on it. With the lighter colored antler, the oak shows up nicely.