All Aboard!

Woo-hoo!  my first blog train!  This should be fun.  I made a quick page for the blog train at Stuff to Scrap.  I've never done this before, so hopefully, this works out!  I love the kit colors and the minis that everyone came up with are adorable.  I can't wait until tomorrow so I can pick them up myself. 

Here's a preview of my quickpage:

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Here's the links to the other stops:

Stuff To Scrap and Beautiful Earth Scrapping
AmyDane Designs
Scrappin Serenity
Adriana's Cafe
Inkin & Thinkin
Sweet Maple
A Fish Design
Queen Bee Scraps
Growing Pains Scrapped
Leaving a Legacy
scraphannah
Saphira's Scraps
Pizazz Pixels
scrapN2Nspire
Amy's Designs
Memories by Digital Design
FamilyScrapper  <----------------   YOU ARE HERE!
Let Me Scrapbook!
The Scrappy Kat
Nanascraps
Timeless Memories by Hailstorm Creations
Note-able Scraps
The Digi Scrapping Mama
Jensen Motley Crew Designs
Princess Scraps
Scraps N Pieces
Queen Wild Scraps

Grandma

Just finished a great template challenge over at The Studio.  The template is by Marie H and the kit is All Together Now by Ambowife.  I love girlie stuff--I guess I'm just a romantic at heart.  Anyway, this
is a picture of my grandmother at age 10 with her younger sister.  In between them on the chair are two toys.  If you enlarge the picture enough, you can see that they are a stuffed dog and a stuffed cat.  The cat looks like it could have been homemade, while the dog looks more like a mass produced toy.  I only met my dad's Aunt Charlotte once when she was over 80 years old.  She died just a couple of years later.  My grandmother has been gone since 1954, so I don't really remember her.  I just have impressions of a loving, well-padded woman, and some very vague impressions of  her home and a chair that must have been a favorite because I think of it whenever I think of her.

Smart Mouth Brothers

I found some pictures the other day of my family that were taken more than 30 years ago!  How can it possibly have been so long!?  I remember that day distinctly.  One of my brothers was preparing to go on a mission for our church and needed to have a picture taken to send in to the church headquarters.  The whole family dressed up and went over to the home of a family friend who had offered to take the pictures.  It was the fall of 1976 and her maple tree was in glorious color, so we decided to take the picturs in front of it. 

Another of my younger brothers was (and still is) a smart-aleck.  He always had something to say about everything.  He was cracking jokes the whole time, when out of the blue someone zinged him, and for once he had absolutely nothing to say!  How in the world did that happen?

Anyhow, as luck would have it, just as I found these pictures, scrapN2Nspire, the designer I CT for, came out with a great autumn-themed kit that turned out to be perfect for these pictures.  The first layout is of my mouthy brother, while the second is my youngest brother, who was only 5 at the time. 

the journaling reads:  Kenny was born with a smirk on his mouth.  He always had a smart remark to make about everything.  These pictures were taken in the fall of 1976, when Kenny was about 15.  Kenny was cracking wise about everything.  Then he made a smart remark about something, only this time someone managed to zing him back with a remark that he had no comback for!  I've always cherished this look of surprise on his face as he searched for something to say.  We love you Kenny!  You always keep us entertained.

And here's the kit preview.  I'm not sure if its in the store yet, but you should be able to find it soon at
Digisisters.com.

I've been playing around with signatures again.  Here's my latest; I believe I will use it as my signature in my emails.  The elements are from several different kits; including:  Lace from emka, Sewing Lovers from Carri Lopez; Ribbon Roses, from Cindy Doerksen; Embroidery Me Fancy (alpha) from Scrap Girls, and wispy vines from Digiscrapations.

Great new kit!

I found a fun challenge over at GottaPixel today.  The challenge was to design a signature or "siggie" as they call it from a given template.  I did it using a new kit from scrapN2Nspire, available over at DigiSisters.  Here's a preview of the kit:

And here's my siggie for the challenge.

You can find the kit at the DigiSisters store here.   The "scrabble" tiles are not part of the kit; they were a freebie at computerscrapbook.com

Fun Challenge!

I've really got to scoot or I'll be late for a work.  But I found a fun challenge that I had to post here.  Its a recipe card challenge.  They provide the kit (the first month you participate the kit costs you $1.50.  Every month after that, the kit is free as long as you participated the month before!), you provide the recipe.  At the end of the month, everyone who participated gets print files of everyone's entries.  Instant Cookbook!  This month's theme is fruit recipes and has the cutest kit.  I'm going to start participating right now.  The link to the site.  As I said, I've got to scoot!  More later. 

What're them camera things for again?

I am the world’s most unusual scrapper, I’m afraid.  I don’t even OWN a camera.  I scrap the family pictures to go with the genealogy I’m working on.  I do scrap pictures of my daughter and family, but they are all old pictures.  My camera broke a few years ago and I haven’t taken the time to replace it.  The last pictures I remember taking were of our cat when we first got him about six or seven years ago.   Of course, you know what this means.  I’m running out of pictures to scrap.  I’m going through all of the old negatives and slides my parents and grandparents took and kept looking for good pictures to scrap.  I have a pretty good photo scanner and I just scan them into my computer.  Now, however, I’ve got all of these old pictures, but some of them are not worth taking the time to clean up.  A lot are out of focus or too small or uninteresting.  But I’m trying to rescue as many as I can.  Soon, I’m going to be reduced to begging my family for pictures. Or else, I’m going to have to break down and buy a new camera.