Pig Love

The sketch challenge at The Story Matters for this month.

My take on the challenge

I knew that as soon as I saw the pig card, I had to scrap some of the pictures of Kristen with her pigs. She loves them so much. Must have something to do with her beloved Great Grandpa. He raised pigs. I remember butchering pigs when I was little and while Kristen doesn't have those memories, she loved Great Grandpa and she loves pigs.

Choosing Gratitude

I have been a member of Faithbased scrapbooking class yahoo group for a few months now, but have mostly been lurking. When the last class started "Choosing Gratitude" I wanted to play along. Each week we would be given a reading assignment along with a scrapbooking layout or more challenge. I finished the first part today (as least I think that I have all assignments completed for the first part). I am loading most of the required layouts for this class. There was also a couple of projects including making 10 Thank you cards. I am not strong at card making but managed to succeed with those also, even though my cat tried to keep me from getting them done. Everytime I sat down to work on them, she wanted my attention and then threw up on about 1/2 of them when they were halfway done. I don't think that she liked them very well.

Look what I won

At the end of January one of my favorite challenge blogs The Story Matters(not that I ever did a challenge, ) had a contest and the prize was a new I-Top. I was so surprised to discover that I had won the challenge. This was an easy challenge, just answer the survey questions about kit clubs. Well yesterday I picked up my fun new toy. I have been busy watching the DVD and checking out Imagininisce website for inspiration. As soon as the punches come in at my favorite LSS (I am too busy to take the time out to cut out the patterns)I will begin playing with my new toy. In the meantime check out The Story Matters and Scrapaganza for their new kit club. Loved the colors of the Feburary kit (of course anything with red and black I would love) and the homemade buttons are to die for.

Father/Daughter Duo

This is the first layout that I have done with Scrapaganza's new kit club, "The Story Matters". I created this layout for two different challenges. The first challenge is on Log Your Memorys site for their Sweet Talking Challenge. A month of journaling challenges with challenge one to be a list of things. The second was for the sketch challenge on "The Story Matters". I have never used a sketch before but found it very easy to do. The picture was taken on Clinton's photo day for the football team.

Join Me for some Sweet Talking

We’re kicking off a month-long challenge at one of my favorite sites today … the Sweet Talk Journaling Challenge at Log Your Memory!

I hope you’ll come on over and check it out today … there will be an entire month of scrapbooking challenges with a focus on “real life” journaling, plus the chance to earn points and prizes along the way! And if you’ve never visited before, you’re in for a treat! We have a wonderful group of friendly, helpful scrapbookers just waiting to say hello and show you around!

Get started by visiting the Log Your Memory Blog HERE and get ready to journal your way to becoming a Log Your Memory Sweet Talker!

And tell them cole19 sent you

Top 5 layouts for 2009

So I was checking out one of my favorite sites (blogs) and was inspired to pick my top layouts from 2009. Now I haven't completed a page since July, but I decided to give it a try. Here are my choices.


This layout is from my 2008 Journal Your Christmas album. I loved this project, but didn't keep up with it for 2009.

Not sure how old Sarah was in this picture but love the colors that were used. I can't take full credit as this was a kit I purchased from Scrapaganza


A picture of the Mixed Choir. This page actually goes with the next layout.

This is a picture of Sarah in her Mixed Choir Uniform. Very few freshman make the mixed choir. They have to be recommended by their middle school director. This is the only year that Sarah will wear that uniform as she auditioned for and made Acappella choir for her Sophomre year.


I love this page that I did, showing how Sarah is both on the football team and a cheerleader. Way to get involved right at the start of her high school career.

This was much harder than I thought it would be to choose 5 layouts. Especially since I haven't completed a page since May.

A new venture

I have been trying to figure out someway to make some extra money. After talking to a few people and showing them a towel that I made for my husband for the football season. I have made up a second one now for the basketball season and to have a picture so that I can show people. I can change the colors for your school colors and also the symbol for the sport depending on what you desire. The ATC stands for my husband's position, and I can substitue either a position, name, or jersey number on the towel. Now to figure out what to charge. The towels cost between 2-3 dollars and then there is the cost of the thread and fabric stiffner. I am thinking of charging around 6.00 for a towel but am open to suggestions. Let me know if you have any ideas. Hoping to get a couple more made up tomorrow or this next week so that I have a few more variations for examples. Please leave me comments and let me know what you think. Thanks