Nuts About Sketches...

I'm so happy to announce a new "gig" with Nuts About Sketches! Shawn makes scrapping easy with her fun sketches and she has a great mix of one and two-pagers. I am honored to be a part of her design team and have my first layout to show you today! Here's my layout:



Now you have to go over to Nuts About Sketches to see the sketch (week 177) and all the other wonderful layouts that the team did with this sketch! Shawn reveals a new sketch each week, so be sure to bookmark her blog (or become a fan or FB follower) so you won't miss any!

Almost "Back to School"

Sunday are the kids' Open Houses. Next Tuesday is the "Welcome Back Breakfast" at the elementary school. Since I'm in charge of PTA's Staff Appreciation, I'm working on the table decorations for the breakfast, as well as a little something for Tessa to give her 2nd grade teacher and English teacher (she attends Spanish immersion school, so will start taking English this year). Here's what I've done so far:

I hot glued the crayons around a $1 tin (and another one that is larger and will hold the napkins). The "supply centerpiece" is mostly held together by glue dots and rubber bands (so it can be disassembled and most of the supplies used later.)

For these little "survival kits" I found the free printable labels online at Bee in our Bonnet's blog and the little storage boxes in the clearance section at Staples.

I also plan to put bundle some pens, expo markers and pencils for all Tessa's "specials" (Music, Art, Computer, Library, etc.) and use these cute labels from Itsy Bitsy Paper by Lindy.
Now, if only the kids supplies would label themselves, we would be ready!

Summer's flying...

Summer has been quite busy here so far... a few hightlights:

Soccer Camp for T

VBS for all of us

Basketball Camp for S

Swim Fanatics Camp for T (and an afternoon trail hike)

A 4th of July visit to "the cousins" in Hendersonville

Grandma comes from Mississippi

Day trip to the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte

Dress shopping & a Bridesmaid's Tea at the O'Henry for T (junior attendent)

T's first sleepover party

S hanging out @ Isaac's

Soccer Camp for S (indoor, thankfully, since temps are ~99 this week!)

and still to come, dog-sitting for a week and a half (a nice test for T to see if she likes having a dog as much as she thinks she will), Art Camp for T, Basketball Camp for T (with S volunteering), some playgroups, trip to NatSciCtr, maybe the NC Zoo... and who knows what else August will hold!

Haven't been scrapping much but I posted one recent layout (from this July 4). Hope your summer is going great!

Saying good bye...

It's the last day of school and my kids are saying good bye to their teachers and friends for the summer. I'm always sad to see the school year end when they've had a wonderful teacher (or teachers), and both have been blessed with some incredible teachers this year. I am hoping my son will snap i-photos with some of his today (middle school = 7 teachers). My daughter is pictured here with her 1st grade teachers, Senora Alen and Senora Geniac. They had a terrific class this year, learned so much and had a lot of fun, too! She is also saying good bye to one of her favorite "specials" Senorita Castillo, who we think is returning to her home country of Chile in July. I am so thankful for all the amazing teachers she's had so far at Jones Elementary (Spanish Immersion Magnet).

I'm also saying good bye to my design term at The Scrapping Spot. For the last 10 months I had the honor to create with Jill and Cathy's wonderful kits and I had a blast! Their June kit is perfect for your summer fun photos and memories. I'll show you the projects I made using it:

Today I say "good bye" to some peace & quiet and "hello" to summer, hopefully not one spent with a "referee whistle" in my mouth, but one filled with fun activities and enjoyable memories for our whole family... we'll see, wink!

Project 12 March... using TSS May Kit

I love the whole concept of "Project 12" and am so grateful to Davinie for her inspiration and for the wonderful Pagemaps sketches! I also love using new kits from The Scrapping Spot for my layouts! This one is the May kit (on sale May 1... another blog post with more layouts later.)

The Scrapping Spot's April Kit - no April Fool's joke!

I had so much fun designing with The Scrapping Spot's April kit, on sale now in the store.

I thought I'd share my projects with you today.

This kit is a fun way to welcome spring; I highly recommend it!

Project 12 - Feb. Captured

Wow, it's snowing a bit here in NC on March 28 - you can be sure I took a photo of that this morning!

I'm enjoying the "Project 12" monthly summary layouts. You can find all the details here at Davinie Fiero's blog: Project 12. I used the sketch this month and The Scrapping Spot's April kit with Bo Bunny's Ad Lib line.

I can't wait to do a March layout, but there's still a few things to enjoy this month, especially for Seth, who will be turning 12 in a few days!