New Week

 The temperatures seem to have normalized and melted the snow away!  

We enjoyed a nice Easter weekend despite the snow. And also celebrated Coopers’s 9th birthday!  My, how time flies!

Card I made Cooper for his birthday!

Easter Weekend

 After spending 3 months in Arizona we have been back home in Montana. Thought we would have beaten the snow and cold. But oh, no!   This past week has been unusually cold and snowy for April and we have set record lows. 

Me in AZ

Lots of creating going on. This one used lots of Vicki Boutin product and fussy cutting all those sun glasses to adhere.

This layout put my Silhouette to use. New product from Echo Park. I seem to be in a fussy cutting mood these days. Pop up the title on some foam.

Another layout using my Silhouette and a Paige Evans cut file. Using Simple Stories Home and Hearth collection. Worked perfect for this layout.

Also making lots of hot cross buns these days.

September is here!

 Well here we are in September!  I don’t know where the time goes. Not sure how I did everything when I was working too!  

Back in the routine of picking Cooper up every day after school. Harlee will now be remote learning for the next week with increasing cases in the High School. 

Sketches and Scrapbooking

 I like to use a good sketch when scrapping and documenting my photos. 

There are some good sites to use.

Page Maps by Becky Fleck has always been a favorite.

In the recent months I have been following Allison Davis at Scrapbook Generation. www.scrapbookgeneration

Currently taking her one page scrapbook class. 

The above layout is my interpretation of her first sketch. Can’t upload sketch as it is a paid for class.

iSBD

 Today has been international scrapbook day.  I have been crafting with my on line friends at https://www.acherryontop.com/.  Fun weekend full of games and friendship.  Since there is currently nothing local.

Family Picture

 This is the photo we got back at Thanksgiving .  Taken with our grandkids for our Christmas card.

Using papers from a  DCWV paper pad.  Title was cut on my Silhouette.  And a bunch of fussy cutting.

A Little Sketch Challenge

 Every week A Cherry on Top offers a sketch challenge and I try to participate.

 Using Carta Bella product, Flower Garden that I recently won.

And here is the sketch.

Belated Birthday!

 We celebrated a birthday over the weekend. Mr C turned 8.  His family brought him over to open his gift bag.  Then, he and his friend, went outside for a bit to play with his new stuff.  Think they were a hit.  

As they were leaving it was pouring rain, the temperatures were dropping and soon it had turned to snow.  They say almost 3 inches of precipitation.  We desperately need it.  

A birthday layout from celebrating Mr N’s birthday last summer.  

Using Simple Stories Birthday Blast collection.

Going Back in Time.

Today I have a layout from when Harlee and Nic were little gaffers.  Probably 2010 or 2011.  Will have to check this.  They were at our house playing out in the rain.

Umbrella cut file is from https://www.peartreecutfiles.co.uk/

BG paper is Echo Park.

To back the umbrella is dug into my scraps using papers from MME, Prima, Pink Fresh Studio, Bo Bunny,  Vicki Boutin, and Cocoa Vanilla.

I stamped spring using Kerri Bradford Denali stamps.

And the chipboard and ephemera is from Simple Stories Vintage Bontanicals.

A few splatters using white paint and Vicki Boutin dry powder paint pigments.

Trouble Makers

 Kirsten lives an interesting life at her house! Never a dull moment over there.  

This week she swears Chevelle fed the 2 dogs her new Scentsy Bar.!!  Chevelle has been fascinated with the smelly bars since last weekend when she was sniffing them all.

Using collections from American Crafts (Jen Hatfield )

Using Tags

 I was having difficulty trying to figure out what to do with this photo. I looked at several sketches and nothing was doing it for me.  Then I decided to use tags to support the photo.

I used Cocoa Vanilla Legendary Collection. And Tim Holtz tag die to cut the tags.  

And I like the end result.

I am still Creating

 Still finding time to scrapbook.  Even though I took my sewing machine with me south to Arizona and actually used it.  I truly missed scrapping and making cards.  Next season I will premake kits to take with.  

A layout of the little one.  Using a https://justnick.myshopify.com/cut file and then backed it.  Also using mostly Vicki Boutin papers from American Crafts.

Happy Easter

 We enjoyed a wonderful Easter weekend with Kirsten and her family!  Her kids are growing up too fast!

Does this Blog Still work??

Seeing if I can add photos to this once again!
 

Leaf Play

It's been great to have a week at home.  The last 3 weeks, I have had more trips away than at home.  One to Lethbridge when my sister visited and 3 trips to Kalispell.

The grandkids have been off school yesterday and today because of teacher meetings.  It was beautiful out yesterday and they came to rake leaves. The big kids do an awesome job.  Not sure about coop, but he likes to play in the leaves.

Canadian Thanksgiving!

I make sure my family celebrates Canadian Thanksgiving! It is one tradition I have kept going since coming to the States! They are pretty pumped about a turkey dinner with all the trimmings! Caitlin now hosts her own Canadian Thanksgiving in Seattle with many of her friends. Last evening enjoyed the company of Kirsten and her family and also friends Robyn and Walter. They have joined our celebration for the last few years.



It was a yummy meal!
It was also my sister's birthday. Hope she had a wonderful celebration! We enjoyed her company the last few days of September.


Last week I spent a few days in Kalispell attending a nursing conference at the Rocky Mountain Childbirth Conference! It was very informative. Here it is only the 10th of Oct and I have spent 5 of those days there and about to head over for one more trip.











The trees and the mountains were looking pretty spectacular on the drive over!

One of the trips was so Kirsten's kids could visit their great grandparents! They had a ball!!!
The drive gets a little ling being 4 hours!







We mad a short stop in Glacier National Park! The Going to the Sun Road remains closed due to wildfire activity!


The fires are pretty much contained, but you can see in the photo below that they are still smoldering!


And I actually got to scrapbook
A page the other day!!!




A traditional page with a pocket page. Paper are from a We R Memory Keeper and Fancy Pants Designs. embellishments mostly from Simple Stories. Chipboard letters are from Basic Grey.


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Hello Fall!

Yesterday I wrote a huge post, pressed save and who knows where it went because it did not show up on my blog!!!

Been having some much needed rain and snow in the higher elevations!

This photo was posted on FB yesterday morning- about 40min to our east in the mountains!

The precipitation and much colder temperatures have aided in getting a handle on the wild fires! We have had over a million acres burn this summer.




Fall has officially arrived.


The trees are starting to change their colours


I spent a week out in Seattle when the air was do bad from the smoke! It was making me sick. Curtis put me on the train in Shelby and I the next morning Cait picked me up in Seattle.


This little minion started preschool while I was away! He told me today, it is awesome! He gets to ride a bus which makes his day!


Mo scrapbook layouts! But I have been making cards




Linking up to the Simon Says Stamps Wed. Challenge where you need to pop it up!!



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September has Arrived!

September 1 has blown in the door!

The big grandkids headed back to school. One in 5th grade and the other in 4th.
The photo Kirsten sent me their first morning back!




Cooper starts preschool this next week!!! He has his "Cars3" backpack and lunchbox all ready to go! Time is flying much too quickly!

Wildfires have again dominated our news! Glacier National Park lost an iconic historical building last night due to wildfire! The Sperry Chalet lodge!




I stole these pictures off the internet to share!



Our state has been burning up for weeks and no one seems to care! The governor finally declared it a state of emergency! I have people I know that have summer cabins in areas near these fires!

And the smoke is bothering me personally! Smoke has been a bug irritant for me for a long time. Just a camp fire sends my allergies over the top! I either wake up with a headache or have one by noon. Curtis is sending me out to the coast to visit Caitlin next week, where the air is clear.

So I have been hibernating in my basement sewing, escaping the smoke! Thank goodness for air conditioning! We need rain desperately and there seems to be none in our forecast.






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