10 Random Things...

Just a few updates around here...
1. My husband left for Afghanistan.
2. Two weeks left of school.
3. I scrapped 2 pages so far this week. I can show you one. ;)
4. The weather has been a nice sunny 85-90  degrees but will get back up into the hundreds before too long.
5. I have been sewing vests for cub scouts. I have the vests done, but need to put on the patches.
6. I want to blog more often. Even if it's just a random photo.
7. We are looking forward to some trips this summer. If my car can handle it. ;)
8. I got a book about Lightroom 3 from the library yesterday. None of our libraries have anything about Lightroom 4 yet.
9. Austin is Star Wars sticker crazy. He bought a sticker book at the book fair and won't slow down and enjoy it.
10. I have had 2 cups of coffee this morning and may need a third. ;)

Enjoy your day!

(Austin texting with is Daddy after he left on his deployment.)

1950s Themed Cookies

A few weeks ago I made a basket of cookies as a door prize for a Volunteer Appreciation Event we held on base. It took me 3 days straight to bake and ice these cookies.

The event was 1950s themed.  Think poodle skirts, greased back hair, and record albums.  If you don't know what a record album is- back away slowly!

It was several months ago, not long after we voted for our theme for the event, when I saw this digital scrapbooking kit by Jady Day Studio for the first time. It was PERFECT! 

I bought the kit, and used it for inspiration when making my cookies.

Here they are.....

Poodle skirts.

Leather jackets, and one for a Pink Lady.

 Record albums.

 Roller Skates.

 Grease Lightening sports cars.

 Tubes of hair grease.

 Ice Cream Sundaes.

 Coke bottles with straws.

 The whole shebang.

 Now I have to admit that the only thing I know about the 1950s was from Back to the Future and from Grease, but I think they turned out rather cute. :)  Several of the ladies who helped set up really liked them and asked for the recipe.

The older gentleman who won the door prize didn't look too thrilled- but I like to think that most men don't understand the creativity and work that goes into something like this.

Don't tell me otherwise.
Please. ;)


If you'd like to learn how to make cookies like I do, please feel free to visit my Cookie Week posts.
Day 1: Make the dough
Day 2: Cut and bake the cookies
Day 3: Glaze icing
Day 4: Royal Icing

See you soon!

Camping weekend

We spent the weekend camping with cub scouts and boy scouts. We had a fabulous time!  Here are a few pictures:

WITL- the Beginnings

Hi friends! I have so much to tell you about! I want to show you the cookies I made last week. I want to, well, finish up a scrapbook layout that I started and show you that, too.

But right now I just wanted to say I'm doing a Week in the Life! I'm super excited about it, too, because the last time I finished this project was in Alaska, where we had a small snowman on our front porch. Well, that's not going to happen this week!  It's 99 degrees here in the Las Vegas valley!  With Art getting ready to deploy, I think now is a perfect time to do a Week In Our Life. 

I also intend on dragging my family out to take family photos this week. I keep putting it off and it annoys me. I feel like I have to ask a favor to get everyone to participate, and I hate asking favors. Even of my family.

Anyway, I'm just checking in. I'll talk to you more later!

(These are one day's WITL layouts from 2008.)

Happy Anniversary!!

I just noticed that today is my blog's anniversary!  I started it in 2007.  Holy  moly, it's been 5 years??!!  WOW!

I thought it would be fun to share some of my blog headers through the years- well, the ones I can still find!! ;)

May 2008

May 2008

October 2008

Christmas 2008

Winter 2008-2009

March 2009

June 2009

July 2010

And the current header:

Well, that was fun!!  Here's to another 5 years!

Remember

Ever since I moved- well, months before we put the house up for sale, my scrapbooks have been boxed up.  When we moved into this house, after a long waiting period, I opened a few boxes of scrapbooks- just the kids' books and our Places, Things, People, and Us albums, really, and put them in my bedroom closet.  It's the only place I had room for them.  So for well over a year, no one but me has seen those albums. 
 Last week I brought out half of those albums and gave them a prominent place in the living room. Ever since then, they have been well loved and enjoyed.  My boys have pulled them out numerous times, laughed, told me stories I had written in there, and remembered things they had forgotten.
  And guess what?  My mojo has come back.  I've been scrapping again! :)
It's amazing how that happens!

Supplies: Shades of Blue kit by Cilenia Curtis at Digitals. 

Fonts: Hoefler Text and Nicky Script (custom font by Darcie Baldwin)

Take the time to enjoy your scrapbooks!

Color Confidence class- color schemes

Today my friend Cilenia's class started at Renee Pearson's site!  I'm so excited for her! The class is called Building Color Confidence and week 1's lessons are great!

I watched all 4 lessons for the week today. Lesson for has us making color swatch cards using our own inspiration. I started to do a card or two to post in the gallery there, but once I started I couldn't stop!  I kept finding more photos in my collection that I wanted to play with! I ended up with 7 color schemes.

This one is my favorite color scheme.  I took this picture when I still lived in Alaska. I LOVE those blues and greens. :)

During the lesson I started thinking about how much I love bright, happy colors, but how my house has white walls (it's a rental), beige carpet, and wood furniture, either mid tone or dark woods. That's it.  No color except in the laundry room with the red washer & dryer, and in the master bath with the red, brown, and beige shower curtain.  Some of these color schemes would be awesome abstract paintings or pillows (or both!!) in my house!!

So I found this picture from the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas from this past Christmas. I got a great Christmas color scheme out of it.

And I also got a very pretty blue color scheme from the same photo.  Whoever chose the wall paint at the Bellagio did well!! ;)

I think there is still time to join in on the fun!  Come join us!


**All photos on these color schemes are taken by me, Nicky Hurt**