October 2nd Happy Name Your Car Day!!!

Today is name your car day...   Kind of silly, Yes?  Well I know that all my cars were shes...   Did they all have a name?  Nope...  But the car I currently drive is our family car and yes she has a name...  Her name is Pearl...  She is beautiful and shiny and sparkly...  Tom and I named her when he first brought her to meet me...  I think she really likes her name...  See she is smiling!!!   Find something to celebrate everyday...  and today if there is nothing else, name your car!!!  Enjoy!!!  Here is a picture of our Pearl...  See that smile!!!  Enjoy!!

Just as a little note my last car was the "green machine"   It was a she car...   Convertible Sebring...  Oh there were some great rides in that car...   Does your car have a name?  If not today is the day to give it a name!!!  

Make It Monday Introducing Izybelle

Here it is Make it Monday and I would like to introduce Izybelle and her first appearance in our family album...                                                    

 The papers used are from Crate Paper Hello Love collection which was a hot buy!!!   The 8X8 pink grid paper came from my stash as did the various flowers and tags...   I cut the yellow flower in half and used half on top and half on bottom of the layout to bring out the yellow in the Izybelle bunting..   The bunting banners have letters on one side and just the color on the other side making them very versatile, were also from my stash and are strung together with pink and yellow embroidery floss and adhered with Zots on just 4 of the banners to give it a little movement...  As a final touch I added bling dots that I purchased at our local $1.29 store...  I matted the 4X6 picture of Izybelle with a cream colored piece that came from a mat stack that I had in my stash...   I love the softness of this layout and how Izybelle truly is the focus on this page...  

A Graduation Album for my niece  

https://youtu.be/WFTwUwqPlTU
This is the latest scrapbook album i made and it is a gift for my neice...  She graduated today from high school...   I made this album in less than one day using items and paper from my stash...   I used my cinch machine to bind it...

It has pages in the front to include memories from her senior year including a page that is about getting her drivers license...   Most of the album is themed for graduation day...  The flowers used are all punched except the gray pointy ones were from Michael bridal section...  I hope you Enjoy!!!

Its Watcha been wearing Wednesday!!!   This week I was channeling my inner Peg Bundy with the Ruby Ribbon cheetah cami in full support...  I added the Ruby Ribbon Ballet Wrap Top in Peony and tied it in the front as a cardigan...  To bottom it off, I am wearing my favorite, the Ruby Ribbon lace panel leggings...   I am still amazed at these leggings...  I have had them since September and I wash them at least once a week and they still look just like the brand new ones hanging on my rack...  No color change...  No pilling...  I love the thicker material and the way they hide everything...  The lace inset down the side is very flattering and on trend... I can wear these leggings tucked in my boots or with a strappy sandal or like today with my close toed short heels...  Accessories today I added a long necklace from paparazzi and my cheetah flower hair clip that was a valentine gift from a special friend...  This is a great and fun look for spring...

This week I also have been wearing my tennis shoes given to me for Christmas by Mike, my brothers caregiver...   They are Curves brand from Avon...   How did he know that I would be joining Curves this year lol...  I was excited to have these to just slip in my bag and wear only at Curves...   They are cute and comfortable and probably get me a better work out hehehehe...   My Ruby Ribbon cami's have been working out really well for my workout...   I feel supported and confident and stylish too...   My leggings with the Intomi technology and skinny band do not move while I am working out...   These leggings are a workout game changer for me...  So I am styled head to toe...  Happy Wednesday almost Thursday!!!  Enjoy this day!! 

If I had my way 

I would be princess for a day

I would put my tiara and necklace on and say

"today is my very own holiday"

I would make the grown ups go away

so I may play princess all day...

Michelle Webster 6 yrs old 2010

I love this poem!!!  Written in 2010 by my then 6 year old grandkiddo Shelly...  She had to write a story using all her spelling words, and this is what she came up with...   What girl wouldn't love to be princess for a day...   I know I would!!!   I love the line, I would make all the grown ups go away so I may play princess all day...  Here I am at 53 and there are days I would love to make all the grown ups and the grown up responsibilities just go away...   There are days that I do just that...   

Its kind of funny that when I think of being a princess my first thought is being outside with the birds and wild animals happily all around...   To be able to just be, with no particular chore that has brought me outside, and to be able to enjoy the sunshine, birds chirping, and wind blowing with not a care is what I think of as a princesses life...   Oh and there would probably be some singing,  and dancing too...  

Then there are the other days where I am Queen...  

   There are things to plan, things to get done, and the life of a queen is not as much fun...  

No time for the birds, and no time to sing,  just keeping up with all that's happening...

Dishes to do,  laundry must get done, no time to waste or to bask in the sun... 

Bills must be paid, mail must be sent, no not today that moneys been spent...

The life of a queen is full of decisions... and filling the home with needed provisions...

day in and day out, the castle she runs... 

Thank goodness princess charming knows how to have fun...

Prince charming reminds me to stop and to breathe,  to enjoy all the beauty that our castle brings

to take moments in time and spend them outside, Do watch the birds and the squirrels go and hide

Prince charming says I was waiting for you, when i was building this castle for two...

So today I am reminded that I don't have to play, because I get to be a princess everyday...  

So for now  I guess what that means every once in a while i will have to be queen... 

  I do live the life of a princess...  Oh and my Father truly is King!!!  

I put Revive the Sunday Drive on my vision board!!!   So...  We have added an outing with the dogs to our Sunday afternoons when we can...   Both Todo and Dorothy can not wait to go for a ride and then wonder with us wherever Tom has decided to take us...     This particular Sunday it was a new place...   The riverbed near our house...   It was a bit windy but a beautiful day to just stroll...  We found some trees with very unusual ways of stretching out their branches...  Their bark was thick and narly...   While we were there a dust devil blew through right next to us...  It sounded like a train was coming as it swirled the leaves, branches and sand...  
     I did find a couple of rusty treasures to add to my collection including a very large bolt and a piece of rebar...  There were no birds of distraction for Dorothy so she stayed right with us...   It is amazing to see Todo try and keep up with her...   Our Sunday Stroll is a great way to wind down the week and get ready for the next one...  All four of us loved the time together...   Great way to revive the Sunday drive!!!  

Baby boy scrapbook album Animoto Video

Babies, Babies everywhere!!!!

Here at the bottom of todays post is the video of the baby boy albums I made this week, and a little story about the why and how I am making 12 baby books so far this year!!!  3 done so far!!

     We have the arrival of new babies being announced all over the place...  We have new great neices and nephews coming...  Friends are having babies...  and Some of my favorite people are becoming grandparents too!!!   And we will be adding grandkiddo #9 to our could be baseball team when Payge delivers sometime around Aug 1st...
At the beginning of the year I had decided that i would make baby albums for all the babies coming this year...  At this time there are 12 on my list...  Yes, 12...  That includes friends and family having babies as well as a couple of grandparents that i will be making brag books for...
     I started with scrapbooks I already had actually purchased many years ago...  Wanting to use up my stash of paper products I choose a color scheme with 3-4 colors...  I went through the craft supplies  and added other products that would compliment the paper...  I went through my drawers of rubber stamps and pulled out all that would be appropriate and put them in a shallow box...  I had purchased a baby's first month calendar that included  stickers for firsts and months 1 through 12...   The calendar also matched the color scheme...  I had bear stickers that said "sweet baby boy" and a sheet of suns and clouds, also a sheet that said Its a boy and had foot prints, bottle, baby pin on it...  I also purchased some puffy baby stickers that had a stork and stars and a baby duck that all matched the theme...  With all the products out and ready I set my cricket cutting machine up and programmed it with baby theme items that I could use as well...
     I made up a layout of what I wanted to fit in the baby book...  Some of the things I had thought to add was a page that had the name, date, height, weight, place, time....  I found that in the calendar and cut it out and used it as the first page...  I added a page for home sweet home, family, sleeping, and a couple of pages that were generic and will hold more pictures...  then I added a page for each month 1 through 12 and two pages for the first birthday the last page just for general photos...  I also found in the  calendar lists of what baby does and will add them to the 1 - 12 month pages...  I also will be including the extra stickers from the calendar as they have all the first time doing things and the months of the year that can be added to the album later...
     So I started with an album for my best friends son who is having a boy!!!  (update born March 8th congrats)   I used an 8X8 binded album that had 24 white pages already included...  I was able to use my sticker sheets and stash paper as well as some other stickers that I only have one or two sets of...  I purchased a primary color puffy sticker set to add to the book...   This book took a while to make but I was okay with that because it is a special book and I could use the page layout ideas for the other 11 books I will be making in the coming weeks, months...  Im sure we will have a few more added to the list too!!
     I am so glad I made the special album first and it has made a great template for the ones to be made after...  I sat down and made 2 books on Monday...   Start to finish and they are great...  They have a few less embellishments, but they are beautiful and they are ready to go to their new homes...  These two books are also the 8X8 binded format that included white pages...   I covered most pages with colored and patterned paper and stamped a few pages too...   The result is adorable...  It is a small album and should be easy for the family to complete and feel good that they have something to show... one of the families this is their 3rd child and well, we know what kind of baby book #3 gets...  beautiful but probably empty...   I hope you enjoy this video...

And here as promised is the link to the whole album!!  enjoy!!  please comment and share ;)
Baby boy scrapbook album Animoto Video