Still lots to do to get settled, but things will get back to normal soon. I hope everyone had a great holiday. We were able to spend ours with family which was so wonderful. The boys didn’t realize they had so many cousins. 
New product will be in the store next week - and a surprise…
Here’s my fav photo today:
mom is here and the boys are as goofy as ever…gotta love ‘em!
…finally had a bit of time to create a new kit - Liberty:
And my little Liam - page created with Liberty Kit:
…went on a road trip to teach a hybrid class yesterday - saw old friends and met new friends…listened to music as loud as I could on the way there and on the way back…2 1/2 hours to just think about things and catch the meaning in some of my favorite tunes - February Song by Josh Groban really stuck with me - the song is about friends and where have they gone - seems like when life is so busy sometimes that everything else fades away (really makes me miss my friends that I don’t get to see very often)…my day to day is pretty routine and filled from sun up to sun down and wonderfully so with my two boys and work…the trip was a nice break from routine. We were treated to gyros from Julie’s life partner - fantastic stuff - thank you Burt (sp?)! My technology professor from WSU took the class, too - very cool!! All around good times!!
Love the store - very shabby chic and beautiful:
Karen and myself (photo by the one and only Shawna - you are too much fun, chic):
Have a great week and if you’re stopping by and reading all this - thanks, and remember your friends!!!
~Jackie
one cool site…scrapblog - you can create a blog scrap style - easy to use and they have tons of different papers and elements to use…there’s some LDD stuff there, too and lots of new stuff in store for you - definitely worth checking out!!
I’m finishing up the hybrid book and will post it really soon! 
Have a great weekend…
Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays…we had a nice family weekend. Working on the house and making sure it’s all clean - working on all the life plans for the future…thinking about school and looking forward to summer holiday…all that kind of stuff.
Here’s a few pics from today:
Liam dancing -
Goofy Boys - Liam is posing -
And another - absolutely serious, Liam -
Happy Memorial Day!
Finished a couple of new kits this week - things are slowing down a little…and summer is racing in to our little town!
More to come on the hybrid book, too.
And the inspiration is always the boys:
…worked on the cover today - got out the paint, the sewing machine, acrylic flowers, modge podge, and brads.
Before:
Using acrylic paint…I added paint strokes to the acrylic cover - leaving it streaky so that I could see through to the title page:
Painted acrylic flower to add to the cover:
Glued the flower with mod podge and added it to the cover to make it shine:
Added a contrasting polka dot brad and a flower inside (traced from an acrylic flower onto Fancy Pants paper and highlighted the edges using a black sharpie:
Thought it was a little plain with the flower and since I love to stitch on things - added some stitching:
I may add more to the title page - quote, photo, or journaling - but, that’s it for now - nothing too fancy, but I like it!
Happy Mother’s day to all the mom’s out there - my boys want to have a big party today!
Oh, and I have to add these photos, too - some almost summertime fun - Pure joy of the outside sprinkler:
still working on the hybrid book - got this bag from Karen’s store and saved it by cutting it to the size of my book and stitching it back together - great for storage of memorabilia:
…so I’m working on a project for an upcoming hybrid class and thought I would post some of it here as it goes along…it’s about everyday life and a quote from the movie Titanic comes to mind - making everyday count (something like that, anyway):
Here it is - the beginning - Everyday: 5×7 Hybrid Book
Supplies to start; acrylic sheet, chipboard/cardboard (those paper sheets that sometimes come with paper at the scrapbook store, transparencies, printer, inkpad, digital papers and brushes, scrap papers. Main font used: steelfish.
This is just a quick view of the pile of papers as it sits now - undecorated, and just the beginning.
Themes in book to start:
observe
play
I’m using scraps and ephemera - I’ve ripped a piece of paper from an old book, cut it down to size and attached it to photo in front of this one.
For each photo - there’s a transparency with a word to describe the photo and journaling on the opposite page - this is in the play section. (Note: words need to be flipped to print on inkjet transparencies).
For the computer part of it all - I’ve create a 5×7 document to save everything in and print from - quotes, paper, words.
Digital products used in m y book: Gaia Paper Pack and Defined Brush Set by Michelle (Little Dreamer Designs).
Paper products: Fancy Pants Papers and Journal cards.
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More to come…have a good night.
