Pre-Informal October LOAD Blog Hop

Prepping for a LOAD

Messy, messy, messy. . .

(I like the little action figure.  There was a whole battle scene set up here.)

This is my mess.  I thought I would try to blame the kiddos, but I knew that you would know better.  This is how my desk looks after I have been in a really deep scrap groove.

Now this is totally my kiddos.  They were making posters for school and were digging through my letter stickers. 

The kiddos desk area.  Oh, the shame.  Oh, what a mess.  

{sigh} that's better - the way I like it. . . 

A clean work space.  My scrap desk is also my computer desk.  Multi-functional. 

Where my 2 younger kiddos hang out.  Now you can see the surface of the table!  Wowzer, that was a mess.

My cardstock, punches, stamps and misc tools live here.  My paper cutter lives on this rolling cart.  When I am scrapping I roll it up to my right side.  When I am not scrapping I can roll it to this corner.  This is a small room, when the cart is on my right side it is hard to get out the door. 

My inks and other supplies.  All my patterned paper is store in this box and I have it sorted by style - polka dots, stripes, boy, girl, floral, etc.

This is how I do my  menu for the week.  Each day is on a sticky note which are all pasted to the front of the fridge.  I even schedule when the kiddos buy lunch. 

I hope you all enjoy this blog hop.  From here you can head on over to Pam's page by clicking on this link:      http://dailypamage.blogspot.com

Blog Hop Hostesses: 

Lisa:                        http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com

Katherine:            http://www.csmoferret.blogspot.com

Pam:                          http://dailypamage.blogspot.com

Katrina:            http://k84mansramblings.blogspot.com

Christie:            http://mrsingie.com

Lisa:                         http://lisamzepponi.blogspot.com

Fun-tabulous Mad Hatter Birthday Celebration!

My daughter's 11th birthday celebration.  

Teacher Gifts

In an attempt to make something special and meaningful I decided to make mini albums of the students to give to the teachers.  

For my son's 3rd grade class I made this. 

 The album has a title page which has the school year listed and a note of thanks.  The subsequent pages are all the same format.  Pictures of the kiddos with a little note of thanks from them to their teacher.  I used my Cricut and cut these speech bubbles for each of the kiddos to write their note on.  Each page follows the same format with the same embellishments.  The papers are all coordinated so it is cohesive without being boring.  I snuck onto campus one day and with parents permission took individual pictures of the kiddos.

This is the album I made for the grade 5 teacher.

Again, I followed the same format that I used on the other album.  Super simple an really quick to put together. 

The last pages in each album are a collage of photos from the entire year; assemblies, class projects, and events that the students participated in.  On the last page of the album I gathered each class and had them jump for joy, a nice action shot. 

Thanks for dropping by. 

T. 

Mespila

I love to participate in scrapbooking challenges.  Last month I participated in theThe Crop Circle Monthly Challenge which is the Paperclipping Community.  I have to tell you that I really enjoy these monthly challenges and I'll tell you why - you get great feed back. If you want to see what I mean go check out this blog post at Paperclipping. 

And, just FYI - The Crop Circle is a free community.  Come try out the challenges.  It's fun! 

Tambur

LOAD Update

Day 16 of LOAD - Wow!  That has come up quick.  So far I have managed to do a page a day.  I am so amazed at that.  I think of the times when I have had 'scrappers' block, you know the desire, but not the follow through.  Doing LOAD no block, no excuses and no stopping me.  All the credit I must give to the lovely Lain Ehmann - her daily prompts are fantastic, no denying that, but I think that she has built such a great community of scrappers and that is where I feel plugged in. Between her ScrapHappy group and her LOAD group I find such inspiration and camaraderie that I can't wait to jump on Flickr each day to see what's new.

Anyway - day 16 and I have done 16 LO.   Here are a few of my favorites so far.

Hope you enjoy.

T.

(sorry about the smudge from my camera lens  - oops!)

My oldest and his best bud.  Love this LO of him.  I like the large circle that anchors my focal picture.  By the way, I ended up cropping this page down 1/2 and mounted the whole LO on a piece of chocolate  card stock.  It just looked better, to me. 

  

My munchkins - changing my old screensaver from 2008 to the new 2011 for my iPhone. I love seeing how the kiddos have changed in 3 short years.  But mostly I love that they still hang on each other. It makes me smile. 

My dad celebrating his birthday.  That's how I want to celebrate mine - doubt that will ever happen as my birthday is in November. 

Ode to Kettlecorn......I mean what's not to love. 

My daughter and I spent the day together.  The boys were camping so we went out on the town. 

Mother's Day and Week 1 of May LOAD

For mom.

On holiday in Greece. 

Baby girl at age 6.

My friends that I miss.

Wishing all Momma's a very happy Mother's Day. 

T. 

May LOAD

I am doing another round of Layout A Day or LOAD.  Just thought I would share my first 2 LO for the month..... So far I am staying on target ;> )

Day 1

Day 2