Sedona, AZ

on the Pink Jeep tour!!

At the Painted Desert

At the Grand Canyon

June 2, 2011

Well, it is so hard to believe that this time last month I was in the great state of Arizona! Wow! It is so different from NC. I loved the Grand Canyon!!! It was breath-taking!! Pictures are beautiful, but nothing like seeing it's beauty with your own eyes!!

While out there we also went to the Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert! Absolutely beautiful there too. We also visited Sedona. Such a beautiful place too! I highly recommend if you go there, take the Pink Jeep Tour!! We went "off roading" and it was wonderful!!

While in the Phoenix area I went to the Museum of International Music. This was wonderful too. If you are a music person or a history person...great trip. I wore these earphones and when you would get in front of a particular area, you would hear and see this area of the world and their music. I "traveled" around the world and enjoyed their music!

Back in NC and trying to get caught up. I took soooooo many pictures it will take forever to get them all scrapbooked....but I will definitely have fun trying!!

April 4, 2011

WOW, I can't believe that it is already April!! My daughters are going to be 25 this month! Where does the time go?? (I know everyone says that, but it is true) I had a great weekend at Myrtle Beach on March 23-27th! Courtney and I just kept scrapping the whole time....except to eat and sleep! I was really excited about what I got accomplished. I got 64 pages done for the whole crop. I was sooooo pleased. Since I have been back home, I have had a lot of work to make up, so I haven't been able to post this before now. Hopefully I will get some pictures up soon of some of my pages! Take care and remember to cherish each and every moment with those you love before time slips away!

Hooligans Halloween 2010

These are the Hooligan Level 1 and Level 2 and Level 2 My Stickease from Close To My Heart. I love these colors. I know I am not a very good photographer, but you have to do the best with the camera you have. These are pictures of my daughter, Courtney with her three dogs, Jasper, Toby and Miles, and my girl, Abby the Irish Setter. We had fun that afternoon, and they were fun to crop too!

March 22, 2011

Well, this month is really flying by...they seem to do that don't they? Tomorrow one of my daughters and I are going to be cropping from Wednesday until Sunday afternoon at the beach. I really hate packing for these kinds of crops, I feel like I take "everything", which I don't...if you saw all that I had you would know that I didn't pack it all! I want to "slim down" and take on the necessary items. But they are ALL necessary, you never know what creative juices are going to start flowing and what you will need! Am I right girls? Must have the stamps, ink pads, stickles, embossing powder, heater, watercolored pencils, Copics, .... let's see... have I forgotten anything? Well, I know if I did...it is waiting for me in the hall by the downstairs door! Please tell me I am not the only one who suffers like this! (Our Pastor was talking 2 weeks ago about remember the Lord's Supper and he referred to all of us that are photographers and scrappers, that we capture these moments to remember and then crop them....he said that our group that meets at the Church once a month, that he always asks me if Cliff and I are having any trouble, because it looks like I have taken everything and moving out!! I was soooooo embarrassed. ) But ladies you know that you have to have it wilth you because when you are away, you sure can't run home to get what you need! Maybe when you are across town, but not when you are three hours away!! Anyway, that last crop was on my birthday and I got to spend it doing what I love. I got 38 pages done!! All but a few embellishments that I didn't have, and some journaling that I like to do when I am alone with my thoughts! I was pretty excited!

All this to say....I hope I can finish up all of 2010 pictures and work on 2009! Uh, yes...I am very far behind....I done some, but want to compile them into books together, instead of this and that particular event!. So far 2010 is in 3 albums, and could go to 4! Wish me luck! I will get back to you with some pictures and a post after I start! Ya'll have a good evening! So glad Spring is here!

I love this Close To My Heart Stamp!! It makes my heart soar! Just wanted to share with you!

March 8th, 2011

Taxes are done and filed! Yea!!!!! Now I can concentrate on the "fun things"! I have tried to scrapbook a couple of evenings during the week. I have been successful. Will give you my totals to date later....left that info at home. I have been scrapbooking some really hard things for me...pictures of my dear mother. Her birthday would have been on Monday the 14th. I was her early birthday present, as mine is Saturday the 12th. This will be the first time my mother will not be able to call and wish me a happy birthday. Going to be hard, please keep me in your prayers....The pictures are wonderful, but very bittersweet as these fun times will never be again.
I am having a crop on Friday the 11th and Saturday the 12th at my church, Central Carolina Community Church. Hope we have a good turnout. I will let you know more later.

All, have a good day!

Cathy

February 7th, 2011

This past weekend we had a Crop at C4. I got 13 pages done...whooohooo. Congratulations to Judy Ward who won the drawing for the Mystery Hostess for the Gathering. Way to go Judy. Whooooo will it be next month?? I have made a deal with myself that I can not scrap anymore until I get all of our tax stuff together to take over to the CPA. I am not one of these people that can just take a "box" of stuff over for them to sort through. I have to organize it! Later...

Off to a good start!

This past January 7th through the 9th I went to a weekend scrapbook crop. I was able to finish 29 pages. I did other things, like fixing up some other pages, but from start to finish, I did 29 pages! Last night I did another 4 pages. I am trying hard to get at least 200 scrapbook pages done this year. I will not be able to scrap anymore until I have all of our tax information together. (I do hate having to get this all together, but I have no choice!) So the incentive to hurry up or else I don't get to do anything "fun" is out there.

Another goal that I have this year is to start a Scrapbooking Club. I hope that I can find some interested people to join me. More about that later....