Queen of the Crop

Good morning! It is a very sunny day here, & I hope all the kids are good to make this a great day! But they are already acting up & taking toys from one another, so we shall see! Today Shawn reveals her sketch #154 at Nuts About Sketches . As usual, it was an awesome sketch & very fun to work with! Here is my take on it: This is of Audra at about 1 year old. She got into the lazy susan (something Emma had never done), & can you imagine my surprise when I walked around the corner & found this! She was so proud of herself & continued to do it day after day! Thanks for looking today. I hope that you enjoyed my take on Shawn's sketch. Have a fabulous day/week, & hope you stop back soon!

Yay ! Another fabulous sketch from Shawn . Here is my take on her next sketch, #153: These photos are from a trip to the Lehigh Valley Zoo. My sister had the day off, so we decided to pick her up & go to the Zoo. It is a small zoo, that is just one big circle. It is open & never crowded. This was the first time that we had gone where the girls would remember & appreciate the animals. We had the best time this day! Laughing, & running, & watching all the animals. We packed a picnic lunch & had lunch by the penguins, played on the playground & just had a wonderful time! So much so, that we joined the zoo, as members. That year, we went to the Lehigh Valley Zoo 6 more times, & went to the Elmwood Park Zoo (which reciprocates the membership) 4 times. We definitely got our moneys worth!!! I hope you enjoyed my layout, & hope to see you back soon! Have a great week!

The From Here 2 Scrapternity monthly crop is starting today, & I am so looking forward to it. I say this each & every month, but it is an awesome crop! The challenges are fun, the prizes are awesome, & the group of ladies is the best! If you have some time this weekend, join me over there for the fun & games. This month, Pam asked the members of the forum to come up with the challenges, so this will be quite interesting. I can't wait to see what all the ladies have in store for us. The challenge that I am hosting is: Lucky Recipe: Please choose at least 5 of the following items to create your layout! vellum mesh chipboard 3 flowers 2 tags faux stitched bling border punch & here is my example of my challenge, using the supplies from FH2S for March. (Every year a pair of ducks comes to visit us. I wouldn't say they are tame, but they do let us get pretty close. The male always protects the female, & they set up a nest nearby. They swim in our st

Happy Monday! Today was the reveal for Nuts About Sketches sketch #152. & here is my take on the sketch: This is Emma at 13 months. We had her picture taken professionally, & we were so happy with them. She was such a good girl & sat still, & was the perfect subject! See for yourself. Looking at these pictures make me sad because she will be 6 years old next month! Where did the time go??? Thanks for looking & hope to see you back visiting soon!

Hey hey hey!!! Guess what!...Shawn has accepted me back onto the Nuts About Sketches Design Team! I will be continuing on with her until August 2011! As you know, she has amazing sketches that are so versetile, & I am so happy that I am remaining on her team! Yahoo! With that being said, here is my next lo using sketch #151: This lo is of my parents vow renewal. In 2008, they were married for 40 years! They are still very much in love, & stronger than ever. Since they did not have a big wedding the first go around, they wanted to recommit their love to one another by renewing their vows in front of all of their family & friends. They did so on their actual 40th wedding anniversary date! You may have seen some other los that I have done re: this day, & there may be a few more coming up in the weeks to come, but it just makes me happy knowing that they are still in love & going strong. Tony & I are married 10 years this month, so it gives us something to

I recently came across the Sassy Lil' Sketches site, & really enjoy the sketches that they post weekly. There are layout sketches & also card sketches, & they post them weekly for you to complete & then are entered into a monthly prize drawing. Since I enjoyed the sketches so much, I threw my hat into the ring this month & created with a few of the sketches. Wish me luck on the prize drawing! February 7th card sketch : February 7th layout sketch : February 14th layout sketch : February 14th card sketch : I plan on getting to the other sketches of February, but didn't get any scrappy time for them to be eligible for the drawing. But I will definately be using them regardless. Thanks for looking! Have a great day!

It surely is about time, wouldn't you say?! I am truly sorry for the delay in posting my winner. Time totally got away from me, & with the Scraptacular website going down, I kinda forgot. But neither here nor there, I have chosen a winner by random draw, and the winner is: ~gail~mooselovingmamabear Please email me at amgrassi@verizon.net with your address so that I can send you a RAK. Thanks for hopping, & again, so very sorry for the delay! Have a great day.

We are now into March & I wanted to share with you my IT reveals for From Here 2 Scrapternity for February. Linda sent me some wonderful supplies to work with, & I had a ball using them. I honestly thought I had created more with them, but I can't seem to remember what else I did.... Chalk it up to Mommy brain. lol. Anyway, here are my creations. I hope you enjoy them. Created using the Ad Challenge at From Here 2 Scrapternity : Created using the sketch challenge at From Here 2 Scrapternity : Created for a sketch challenge at allyscrapsblog: Created for the Journaling Challenge at From Here 2 Scrapternity : Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you are having a great week & I look forward to seeing you again real soon.