Thomas has been home this week. He's on holidays. Apparently after years of working at Toyota you get a gazilion weeks holidays a year. Me....not so lucky! So I am stuck at work while hubby is at home relaxing (or not).

Yesterday I came home to a festive looking home! Thomas or should I call him "Clarke" (National Lampoons Christmas Vacation), lit up the neighbourhood with a beautifully (but bright) decorated house! Even my neighbour made comment that she was going to have to try to out do Thom's decorations. lol! His efforts are very appreciated! The kids were thrilled when we pulled up to the house and saw how pretty it looks!

Today he cleaned the house and got everything on the homefront done so tonight I did some scrapping and relaxed! I even enjoyed a glass of wine while scrapping!

I was also SO excited tonight to see that the classifieds website I made has more ads on it! People are using it and that makes me feel very pleased!! Thanks for posting your crafts for sale! I hope they sell!!

Well...Fringe is on shortly so I'm signing off for the evening to watch that and perhaps have another glass of wine with my hubby!

Did some layouts

...And I'm not overly satisifed with them. I guess I'm a little rusty since I haven't scrapped in a few months.

I did this one for the BASB challenge. I think I ripped this one apart at least a half a dozen times. It wasn't and still isn't working for me at all. I've come to the conclusion that I can't get it right on this one. I'm blaming it on the paper because I'm not used to working with prints like that. I usually use bright and funky prints.

And on to the next...it's a WIP and can you say simple?! lol! I only worked on it for 20 minutes so far. I need to get back on those message boards and get some ideas to finish this one up! If you have any suggestions please feel free to share.

So I have got some scrapping done! It always takes a few layouts for me to get back in the swing of things. So I will keep on plugging away at those pics I got and see how I evolve!

I think I also need some suggestions on good scrapbooking sites. I used to be very active on them when I owned my store but it's been a few years and I don't frequent them so much anymore. If you have any suggestions on great sites (and online stores) please, please, please feel free to post it for me so I can check it out!

The weekend!

Still not feeling very good. I can barely swallow my throat hurts so damn much!

Thomas and I have a quiet weekend ahead. The kids are gone to their "other" parents this weekend so we are going to go through Christmas decorations and take it easy.

I still have some scrapping I want to do later today. I want to do that challenge at BASB and get some of my new pics scrapped! I also thought I would start my Christmas cards.

I'll share whatever I come up with later! Have a good weekend everyone!

Blech!

Just in time for the weekend I am coming down with whatever my kiddies had!! Blech! I took some Neo Citron this evening and I hope this dry, scratchy feeling in my throat goes away!

I have some scrapping to do this weekend!

A few more layouts I had on my computer

I got a sneak peek!

A few weeks ago my family and I had our first official family pictures done together since Thomas and I married and we became an official family.

A co-worker of mine has a very talented daughter (Lauren) that takes the most incredible photographs and tonight I got a sneak peek at the pics that she took of us!! She is coming by my work tomorrow to drop them off and I cannot wait to see the rest!

She was so nice and it was such a casual fun photo shoot! The kids thought she was great and she actually got my daughter to smile "showing teeth" which is HUGE for Hayley!

If you live in the Kitchener/Waterloo Area I HIGHLY recommend you look her up for those family Christmas photos!!!

You can find Lauren at With Love Photography and here is a sneak peak of some of the pics I got to see tonight!

Going Digital

I was sitting around with some friends last night and I told them about my new site. The topic lead to scrapbooking. Somehow with owning a scrap-storefront in the past I get labelled as the "scrapbooking guru" (hardly) amongst friends.

One of my friends asked me about digital scrapbooking. I don't know alot about it. I prefer to get my hands dirty with glue and ink and do scrapbooking the traditional way. But I know there are definitely some advantages to digi-scrapbooking. Just think of all the money I would save!

It peaked my curiousity and I felt the need to research more into it to see if I could send her some information.I ran across this site:

It looks like a great deal and very simple to use. They have a free trial which includes credits towards purchasing some of their digital elements.I may have to try it myself now! I'll update you on this!