Goodmorning!

It's SNOWING!!!!
WHOOHOO!

On a more quiet note (cat just ran hissing out of the room and hubby looked a little peeved) I just made my picks for the Lay Out of the Week at IvyScraps.... Couldn't just stick with one, because there were so many beautiful pages this week. Last week too, but I messed up and forgot to turn them in... so sorry about that.
Go take a look once the voting-list is up!

Deco-pages is officially "no more", and I miss it already, but.... who knows.....

We went to Pella yesterday, and picked up some Dutch goodies for Thanksgiving weekend..... How I miss being able to go to the store, and pick up things, instead of having to plan for it, and hope the weather will allow it..... Oh well, such is life LOL.

I'm going to do my photoshop lesson today, if it kills me, so I don't get kicked out of class. I really like the lessons, it stretches my brain, and knowledge of PhotoShop, but my hands are not always (read rarely ever)  able to do them. Even typing this blog, takes an hour, because my hands will go dead in the middle, and my fingers keep hitting the wrong buttons, or none at all, so ... it's interesting, to say the least. Just got my umphteenth reminder to do the lesson, or get bumped, so I better do something, able or not. It's a free class at Yahoo-Groups, and I understand that if I don't do my lessons, I keep the space occupied for somebody that can do them, I just wish my hands would understand, and work with me! LOL

Time to take a break, and start "school" after that.....

talk soon, just wanted to share the winter weather update.

Oh Boy!

It's been a rotten week, healthwise and to top a "perfect" week..... I completely forgot that it was our turn to pick the layout of the week nominees, I checked the first 4 days of the week, but not after, because....... no brain! Just when I think I'm getting better, and I remember things, I get proven wrong by something that  really needed to be done and I forgot about....... But I managed to surf a little over the weekend for International Scrapbook Day, picked up a couple of freebies and found a steampunk blogtrain I'm going to have to check out :-)

I did not know this (shockingly) but Mike loves the stuff! So..... since I'm working on his lifebook at Heritage Scrap, I decided, if I follow the blogtrain (Provided I remember where I saw it), I may have enought material to use thoughout the book. Since he also likes Art Deco, I was initially going to go that direction, but I think I'll be able to combine the 2 and make it look good..... It DOES mean, that I'm going to have to redo the pages I've already done, but, since I've not been able to do them on the schedule in the forum, I'm only talking about 3 or 4.... Glad I found it out now, and not when I'm almost done LOL It's ok though, because as I'm doing the pages, I think of tons of things I want to add, but that either require research or worse.... HAVE MIKE TELL ME!  He's a doll, but to get him to talk about family, growing up, thoughts, happenings and feelings, is not an easy task. Just as an indication how much fun that is.... It's easier to build a website with 60 pages from scrap! LOL

I'm going to visit Heritage Scrap now for a chat on what to put together for next week, so I'll let you know.

For now, here's the page I made for todays entry: Siblings

OH, Before I forget. I just found out that 2 of my pages were selected for entry in the Lay Out of the Week challenge over at Ivy Scraps ! COOL HUH!

(I wonder if I can vote for myself??????LOL )

Go take a look, and vote :-)

talk soon,

Hugs

ALMOST FORGOT!!!!

I must be thinking, if I don't post this, the site will stay open, but I know that is not true.

The last News Letter for Deco-Pages.com is posted

The official closing date is late-night on the November 11

you can check it out here

Sorry, don't have much to say.... I'm sad that the site is closing, and glad we had it at the same time....

We'll  meet again.

Hi there!

I couldn't sleep, and my hands didn't hurt too much, and the computer wanted to co-operate, so .......

it was a good night all around, and I'll fall over later :-)

The new Mega kit at Ivy Scraps is out, PLUS they're having a birthday party!

I made some pages last night:

I liked the top of the calender so much, that I never even noticed that it was THIS YEARS......

I'll work on that, and replace it before I print this puppy :-) but for now, I wanted you to see it.

All four lay-outs are made with "thankful"

You can get the kit here: 

Thankful

To check out what the other CT's have done with it, go here  

But give them some time to put their pages in.... some of them require sleep :-)

The kit has 64 papers and 126 elements. I tried to use them all, but I ran out of good thoughts :-)

However, there's some challenges I want to try, so you never know

Thankful

Thankful

I think I'll leave it at that, for now..... Got some cat-wrangling to do.... 

it's been way too quiet, way too long!