Brittons 4th Birthday

Hello blog land. It has been a while since my last post and boy has my life been a whirl wind.

My eldest daughter had a mild stroke about 3 weeks ago and it took 3 trips to the ER and an MRI for the doctors to finally find it because she didn't present classic stroke symptoms. She is doing well but what a scare for a healthy 28 year old.

My husbands oldest daughter has also been in the hospital and very close to death a couple of times. To make a long story short she had surgery at the end of January and unknown to everyone they surgeon completely cut the tube from her kidney to her bladder and fortunately for our daughter the urine that was leaking out formed a cyst. After a week at home and getting very I'll she went back into the hospital but it took another week and a half for the doctors to discover what happened. After 2 more surgeries and3 more weeks in the hospital she is finally home today!

Hopefully our life is returning to normal now and I can blog more regularly. The photos below are a scrapbook layout that I made for my youngest grand-daughter, Britton. She is 4 years old Her birthday was a blast and as you can see from the photos everyone enjoyed themselves.

I scrap lifted this layout from Lauren at Lauren's Creative. She is one of my favorite bloggers/designers. I didn't have the cake that she used but I like the one that I used. I also used Perfect Pearls on the balloons to dress them up since I was at a scrapbook retreat and did not have my cuttlebug.

I hope you enjoy. It's nice to be back! I've missed my blog friends.

WHICH WITCH IS WHICH

I bought this layout kit from Lott's to Scrap About  for $6.99 and I just love this website for quick and easy layouts. 

My grand-daughter is going to be a witch for Halloween this year and she is going to love this layout.  I'm sorry the photo isn't the greatest.  I took it with my cell phone and the lighting was not the best in the world.

Check out http://www.lottstoscrapabout.com/ and see what you think.



Halloween T-shirts

This is a halloween t-shirt that a friend of mine at work admired but didn't want to spend $30 + shipping to only wear a couple of times.  I was able to find the design and converted it in inkscape to a SCAL file and cut the design out of heat transfer vinyl and ironed it on for her.  I made a 2nd one for another pregnant girl at work too.  I hope they like it.  I really enjoyed making these and they were very easy to do.  It took me longer to convert the file than it did to actually, cut out, weed and iron on.

I know the photo is not the best.  I took it with my phone and it was a little crooked, but I think you can get the gist.

HOW TO CURL YOUR HAIR WITH NO HEAT

I found this youtube video thanks to Greenbean on the Cricut message board.  I used this technique on my grand-daughters hair last night and again tonight.  She loves it.  My oldest daughter tried it herself and she too loved it. 

If you have a child with long hair, this is a wonderfual way to curl hair with no appliances and no pain.  It doesn't hurt them when they sleep and it is actually very attractive once you have completed the technique and best of all, it only takes a few minutes.

This is the back before picture.

This is the front before picture

This is the after photo.

Watch the video and let me know what you think!  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYxS1ohz4Ao&feature=mh_lolz&list=FLxF5MQxbIde0

NEW TEMPLATE

I have been looking for a template to update my blog and I think I finally found one I like.

I am not a designer at all so I have to rely on the wonderful talented folks on the web to do it for me.

I'm going to try this out one for a while and see how it works out.

Hope you enjoy the changes.

SPLASH

You all know how much I enjoy Monique Griffith's layouts. This is one of her kits that I ordered. I just love it. The kit had a lot of tiny pieces but over all, it was so much fun to cut, & put together. I love the papers that she chooses and wish I only had half of her talent.

I used a lot of stickles and I didn't realize you need to have professional tutoring to use them well. I learned a lot but I know I still need a lot yet to learn.

The cuts for this layout are from Life's a Beach.

CHERISHED

This is a layout I worked on at my last retreat. I havne't put a title yet or photos, but plan to do complete that at my next crop. I am also going to put photos of my 6 grand-daughters in the photos. I loved the paper and it has beautiful lines of stitches on the pages.

I cut the yellow journal tag out using the Live Simply cartridge. I purchased the beautiful flowers from Michaels a while back. They are from the Recollections brand. I wish I had bought more. They really enhance the page. The butterfly embellishments were also Recollections from Michaels.