Super Star Summer Series at Creating Pages

Creating Pages is having an 8 week contest that started this week. Each week we are assigned a theme for our layouts. This week it was to use some "Bling".

I have never done this really, so I wasn't too sure how it was going to turn out. But once I got going I had a lot of fun. I really like the way my layout turned out. Click here to see my layout.

I even was inspired to try doodling on it. Thanks to Kimberly who inspired me, she is the queen of doodling. Check out her blog, she has some amazing layouts on it.

Some more camping pictures

Here are a few more from Crater Lake.
I found a flat rock and set the camera on timer to get this one of the two of us. Usually I have pictures of my husband and he gets pictures of me, but seldom do we have one of us together!

This is our trailer and truck at our campsite. Without this I wouldn't enjoy camping near as much. I enjoy not having to sleep on the ground and being able to take a shower in the morning.

The Rogue River, this runs right through the campground. Mike went fishing on Friday night and caught 2 trout for our dinner on Saturday.

On the way home we stopped at a state park closer to home to dump our trailer tanks (thank goodness my hubby takes care of all this). So I got out and wandered away and saw these 2 deer, luckily I had my camera handy and was able to get a quick picture of them. They didn't stick around long.

We had a great camping trip. Ate too much junk food, and hiked till I thought I was going to die from the heat, but it was fun!!! So until next time, I'll just have to enjoy my pictures.

Crater Lake

We had a great time camping. On Saturday we decided to make a quick trip to Crater Lake National Park. Here's a link to the park, if you are ever in Oregon it is a must see!!

This is a panoramic of the whole lake. I took 6 pictures and then stitched them together to get this photo.

Okay I was trying to load more and blogger is being a pain. So I'll add more tommorrow.

Camping Alone?

My husband and I are going camping this weekend for the first time in 17 years by ourselves. Our daughter is going camping with a friend and her family, so we thought why don't we go by ourselves.

I guess this is God's way of preparing us for when she moves out and it is always just the two of us. We started this process last year when she got a job. It was really difficult the first few weeks at dinner time. We have always made a point of eating dinner together, so to have her missing felt like there was a hole in the house. But we got used to that. I'm sure this will be the same way.

Thank goodness that my husband and I truly enjoy each other. I have heard of people not having anything to talk about once there children are grown. We will not have that problem, we always have something to discuss, even if we disagree about the answer. We also both have our own hobbies that we love. Mine of course is scrapbooking and photography, and he loves woodworking and restoring cars.

(On a side note: My daughter growing up is fun to watch, but boy do I worry! We just had a tragic car accident here locally involving three 18 year old boys that had just graduated. The boy who was driving the car was going too fast on a country road and lost control, none of the boys survived. My prayers and sympathy go out to their families. I can't even begin to imagine what they are going through. My daughter always gives me a funny look when I tell her drive safe and the speed limit every time she leaves the house, but I will continue to do this as long as I live. I want her to grow old and have a wonderful life.) Sorry about this depressing subject, but it has been weighing on my mind for the last few days.

My newest find at the Flea Market

Sunday we were at a flea market. I saw this chair at one of the first booths that we went to. I thought it was really cute, but wasn't sure if I really wanted it. So I told my husband that if it was still there when we had seen everything I would buy it. After an hour of wandering around it was still there. Twenty dollars later and I am now the owner of an old artists chair.

I think I will strip the old paint off and repaint it with milk paint. For now it is sitting at the end of the couch. We are going to be using it for a coffee table for the moment.

Medford Cruise 2006

Father's Day Weekend is the annual Medford Cruise and Car Show. This year the weather was gorgeous. The sun shone, but it wasn't scorching hot. Here are some pictures of a few of the cars in the show and some cruise pictures.

Our Mustang Club's cars in the show. Ours is the orange convertible with the hood up.

This is my husband driving our car out of the show.

This is the cutest car. It is a BMW, it only has 3 wheels. Too much fun!!

Cars cruising the streets of Medford.

We gave friends rides during the cruise. This is the daughter and granddaughter of one of our club members. She was enthralled with the people on the sidewalks watching the cars. She really liked the "topless" car! LOL

Father's Day and Family

This is an older layout of my husband, but I thought in honor of Father's Day I would post it again. I really like how this turned out, and the best part was when I showed it to my husband, he just beamed.




This is a picture of my Mom and Dad and both sets of my grandparents. It was taken sometime in the 1950's, not sure of the exact time.

Finally I did it!!!

One of my goals for this summer was to apply for the CMK Design Team. So last night I finally got up the nerve to do it.

Here are the layouts and the altered item I submitted.

I had a hard time deciding what to enter. Not that I think I have a chance! But you will never have a chance if you never try. So try I did. So now it is just a waiting game. I am going to try and forget about it.

I have to Confess...

My husband is the gardner in our family.

All the gorgeous flowers in our yard are my husband's work. I have a black thumb. I can kill a plant almost as fast as I can plant it.

So my contribution to our flowers is helping to pick them out, and taking pictures of them. They are all so pretty, I just can't stop taking pictures. I went out to take a few Sunday and took 33!


This is one of our new roses we planted last year. It is beautiful and has a great smell. It is called Honey Perfume, I think a very fitting name for it.

Flowers

Some of the flowers in my yard this year. This was a fun layout. I wasn't sure about the collage look, but I think it really works. This was for a challenge at From Here 2 Scrapternity, this has become one of my new faves to visit.

SuperMom Layout

This was a challenge on Scrap101. Do a layout about Superheroes. Since I didn't have any pictures to fit the challenge, I went a different route. I decided to do a layout about what sort of super abilities that a SuperMom might have.

Scrappy Goals for the Summer

Below are some scrappy goals I hope to accomplish this summer! I do find that if I write them down, I am more than likely to finish them. So hopefully this will work!

1. Do 20 layouts a month. This will get me closer to my yearly goal of 120 for the year, right now I am at 33 for the year. I am a slow scrapper!
2. Finish organizing my scrap area. I have started this I don't know how many times, I have yet to finish it completely.
3. Sumbit my application for DT at CMK. I have never done this before, so I am not sure about it.
4. Take lots of pictures this summer. This will probably be the easiest goal for me.

I think I will stop at these 4. If I choose too many, I'll just be setting myself up for failure.