SnowScrap x2???

SNOW PICTURE SCRAP-A-THON!!  or at least that's what it feels like.  Scrapping drought is over for the moment and I have LO x2 to upload - WOOHOO

The first comes in under Lynn's  Madcap challenge @SNC with the use of twine *bowing graciously*

 and also included me actually digging out the QK squeeze and making vellum snowflakes! *gasp/faint/thud* i know.

 The second was done based on Diana's Sketch challenge @SNC for January - with an alternative "April Twist" if you will.  (of course)

 Love the rubons. and the Stickles.  OH.MY. and brads?   finally stash moving!

Until next time my minions...muhahahhahahaha

13 Intentions

I got to thinking last night (gasp, I know) after I uploaded my journaling challenge. 
so this morning I decided that journaling challenge #2 would be my ATC challenge.    Women are so fickle.    Apparently, my scrapping motivations and mojo have all left me at the same time.  I look at my stuff...supplies all over...and just wait.  and wait.   and wait some more.

but THIS - this was just a LIST.  I could do this, right?

I sprayed mist, blotted, sprayed more mist with masking, slapped about some washi tape and some acrylic paint...and applied my list ;)    Simple, and a starting point.   I don't know what the deal has been with my scrap-inability lately, but it's GOT TO STOP, er, start?

I leave you with this for this morning and hopefully I'll be able to do more (???)

January Challenge 2013 - BOOM

CHALLENGE TIME!!!    Two choices were given for the Journaling challenge this month:

1.  Scrap your cards.   This is from the Ali Edwards project of years gone by -- using a square punch and making art from your cards (grid style for me is always fun fun fun).   Front decor from the cards as well as the SIGNATURES.   When the people are no longer with us, the handwriting brings forth the feelings *insert contented sigh*.   HOWEVER, April didn't get many cards because she didn't send out her new address to family  for whatever reason. I've got ideas for the ones I did get, BUT -

I did scrap the Thank You card that I made and had the kids sign and write a note on the back to all of the relatives that remembered all four of them this year.   (and the journaling is a bit more on the touchy-feely side for me and I totally made myself okay with that because, well, I was feeling it afterall and isnt that what the scrapping thing captures??)

2.   Last year I did a listing of "12" for 2012.    This year, the challenge would be 13INTENTIONS for 2013 (I have always liked the thought of intentions rather than resolutions).  and I actually may write my 13 Intentions on my ATC for the ATC card challenge (BECAUSE I HAVENT DONE IT YET).

HERE is the Thank You card LO for "&God bless us every one"

And this year's end-of-the-year photo project...

Is kind of a bomb, really.   BUT it was a fun one.  And the grandparents that are receiving said photo bomb-tastic items will be excited anyway.  You know it's true.

The boys didn't want to go back outside and complete anything that they started.   They had a HUGE base (actually younger chicken boy did it with help from the girls prior to their extravaganza).  So the boys were supposed to finish theirs for photos, and didn't want to.

 So - instead, I had to opt for the kids all together for photos...which kind of went something like ...

 A little bit of this (bad photographer yelling at elder chicken...who looks funeral bound)...

 and a little bit of that...

 ...and a bit more of the other

 ...and chaotic scene ensues

...and I threw some vintage at it and called it a friggin' mess and was over it all.

Ooookay...so printing, fixing colors a bit (hateful camera and photographer irritated, great combo) and sending copies of flippin' chaos to the grandparents.  They'll LOVE this I'm sure (good thing there were school photos already included in their envelopes, eh?).  

Snow Hits The Fan...

Okay.  All four of the chickens were in the same place starting the day after Christmas.   I can almost not express how happy this makes me, to have them all together with us.  I'm not going to expand on that thought right now, well, because I'm trying to share snow pictures and not cry all over myself prematurely with the thoughts of having to take my eldest chicken back (ack...warning...warning...warning...red alert...subject change...)

ANYWAY --- these two girl chickens made a delightful snowman by themselves (it was stressed "without the help of those boys, we did it alone").    They had all gone out at the same time earlier in the day, but left a snowman bottom unfinished - the girls wanted all four of them to finish a snowman and get their photos taken.  Well, part of it happened, though not in the originally intended way.    The boys didn't want to go outside.   The eldest girl chicken was very irritated at this - so the two girls stomped and clucked outside to make the bestest ever.   They managed and conquered :)

Making it happen....  A couple of bad asses...really.  

 AWWWWWWW...

 I'm tellin' . 

 Goofy comes out...

And YES I'll be updating tomorrow when the boys realize what they missed out on and go back outside (after being tormented by the girls, I'm sure). 

and - I have to add - my heart is full this week. Bursting. 

A Monday of Manic Proportions?

:)    Sketch challenge from Diana over @SNC --- I of course had to change it to something other than what it was posted.  (12x12 turned into 6x12).  A photo that was originally printed as 5x7 by someone other than myself.  There was so much "extra" in the photo...basically I just wanted to capture us being "us".  Not glamorous or anything, just a down-time kind of regular-ish day.  

And Manic?? not really that much mania going on, as far as scrapping.  Lots of mania as far as OMG kid homework, projects, extra credit issues, and the girl who put a pencil in her ear  LOL

December ATC and Journaling Challenges you say?

Don't mind if I do...late...but here they be nonetheless...

ATC Challenge:   Christmas "tag".
I think that the mail theme behind this month's ATC is to make something (Christmas/Holiday) related that you won't be keeping... Logan's tag for his gift bag. I figure I can use this for his Bday gift as well, if I don't make another set for the other kids (gotta be fair you know).

And
JOURNALING Challenge:   Random Christmas Tradition
I do at least one of these pages every year.  Last year I already scrapped the PJs -- because my kids and my sister's kids got to be matching and it was a cute pic set so I HAD TO scrap it right then instead of letting it wait (seriously).   Anyway -- this was a trip down a tortured bit of memory lane for me, December 2007.  I had two jobs with the second being at a photography studio.   Literally thousands of pics were taken by me that whole year.  And ... I got my own kids pics taken by me AT HOME on December 24th!!!  Seriously???  Though I have to admit, the 2008 year was a ton busier (and I'm done thinking about it....now.  LOL)

and what does this year have in store for me I wonder?  Never can tell ;)

Thanks for stopping by!