dead end cemetery

ah…yes.  more halloween bash 2006 pages! This is bright idea #5 – color pop!  Can ya tell I’m loving Studio Calico’s February 2013 class, Bright Ideas?    For this one, I used Classic Calico Vol 3 items, Front …

Pirates of the RINEY*TOWN

Um…yep…Halloween Bash 2006 and the theme was PIRATES!    I made some decorations that year…two of which became my all time favorite Hallween decorations.  My scarecrow pirate…a.k.a. Capt’n Jack…sadly…passed away this past Halloween.  He now lives in the landfill.  …

U R the Cat’s MEOW

This is a layout featuring the cat applique stained glass quilt Mom made and entered into the Lincoln Days quilt show!  A gorgeous quilt.  Not sure the layout does it justice! I used one of Sally’s fab sketches, SBSC293.  …

Aqua Sparkles

I feel like a 12 x 12 double page layout!  😀  I’m loving these colors…the aqua blue and the olive green.  They are very refreshing in this heat wave.  We’re supposed to have heat indices of up to …

Aquatic Animals

There were some really interesting individual exhibits of aquatic animals at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies.  Here’s a page with a few of them: Since DS plays Playstation while I scrap, I always share my completed page with …

Life in the Coral Reef…

…is beautiful.  What vibrant colors!  It was very interesting watching live coral…move…float…it’s like when you dip your hair in the swimming pool and it floats… OK.  The hair is still attached to your head.  Nothing spoils a good mood like …

Schooling Fish

School?!?  What school?!?  It’s Fall Break.  We took a trip to Gatlinburg TN to visit Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies.  We’re on break…fish are still in school. ROFL!  tee hee The top photo is a postcard.  I stamped …

Our day at the aquarium…

…wouldn’t not have been complete without a ride through the shark / ray tunnel!  Awesome…fantabuluous!  Wonderful!  This has to be the neatest thing.  Like walking into a fish tank.  The sharks…”regular sharks” and “saw nose sharks”…stingrays…beautiful…swimming above us.  The …

It’s been a very long time…

…since I’ve made a scrapbook page!  Boy, it feels good to be back!  😀  And on my 40th birthday, too! We just returned from a trip to Pigeon Forge / Gatlinburg TN.  This trip was my 40th birthday …

Grandma’s Favorite Color

…is purple. Mine is green! I love the new Zinna Collection from The Little Yellow Bicycle. Diane selected this collection to be featured in the Summer 2009 SCS Stampin’ Flybabies Craft Kit! I liked it so well, I …