Laura's Blog: May 2008

"Photo Shoot"

12:11 AM | by Laura

Here is my recent page of my nieces Amanda and Melissa. This picture cracks me up because it so catches their true personality. Rachel tells them to look off to their left and Amanda obeys Rachel. Melissa does at first, but then she just has to sneak a peek and that happens to be when Rachel snaps the pic! The whole curiosity thingy! Now I am warning you that I used an old line of Basic Grey paper so there is no sniff of it even being in the store. Sorry. But the color was just perfect for the page. Bling, flowers, buttons, and rub-ons...again my favs. Really like how this one turned out. I started out with an idea from pagemaps.com and changed it a bit.

"Melissa"

8:45 AM | by Laura

What are the odds of finding something that actually exactly matches something in your photo...without going out and purposely matching it up to a specific paper line before taking the picture, like us crazy scrapbookers are wont to do? The funny thing was trying to explain who Heidi Swapp was, why I put a bird on my page and what did a "stupid bird have to do with Melissa's picture anyway"? to my sixteen year old, it was quite the challenge! She just didn't get the whole embellishment thingy. I mean I even pulled out Deb's page of her and Heidi Swapp that she scrapped in LA and showed Jenna who she was, that she was wearing her trademark hounds tooth skirt, and that she is kinda known for the bird embellishment....by then some the wind was taken out of my sails, so to speak and you realize you aren't talking to a true scrapper when you have to explain everything. You know what I mean? We've all been there when we are talking to someone who doesn't speak the language...yup. I just ended up telling her to "never mind the bird has no significance except to decorate" to which the sixteen year old wisdom/sarcasm/tude replied, "Well that's dumb." Thus ended our conversation! And everybody with teenagers say AMEN!

"Capturing the Moment"

8:34 AM | by Laura

This is one of the few pages I finished using the pictures Rachel took from the photoshoot she did of Darla, Lana and myself. For people who really don't like getting their picture taken, we really had alot of fun that day. We laughed and made Rachel work extra hard. The PDQ paper is so easy to use because it is already done for you and when you want a quick and easy page...tada! I think that is why I am liking this line so much because I like using several different patterns of paper on a layout and these are already preprinted for you. Slap a picture on it, add a few embellishments and it's done.

"Spring Stampede"

1:35 PM | by Laura

This is Shannon's supply office...the back of the Budget truck!

Rach still doesn't like dirt roads with trees on both sides...wild boars may have something to do with it! This tent picked up and started blowing away! Fun trying to tie it down again.

So Shannon and the girls spent a couple days "out in the bush" with the cadets doing a weekend of training. It was hot and windy, no wood ticks (I think that was a first in Saskatchewan history) but they had fun. I have a ton of pictures...again because three cameras went out there and all three of them were busy snapping away. Here are a few of them and I can't wait to scrap some of them.

The first night the coyotes were right on the edge of their camp and actually the RSM of the corps decided he wanted to sleep in a hoochie Friday night. Now for those of you who don't know what a hoochie is, it is a tent that is maybe 3,5 feet high, about 5-6 feet long and doorless on both ends. Yup. Can you imagine sleeping a little ways off from the main campsite, hearing the yipping of the coyotes, like right there and looking up out your door into the eyes of a coyote? Yah, I think I would've had a heart attack right on the spot. He had his big knife out and ready because this big coyote kept circling his hoochie. Nothing happened, but I'm sure it took a few years off his life!

Besides eating IMP's, dirt, playing a type of capture the flag game where Rach biffed it but good trying to tag someone, getting sun burned, all is well. Jenna walked up to a kid on the other team and asked him if she could have a drink of water as they kept walking towards the ball they were supposed to capture. She made it quite a ways into enemy territory, when a "wiser" cadet asked this first year what he was doing with the enemy, to which he replied, "Sgt. Peterson needed to go to the bathroom." That wasn't what she told him, but she kept her mouth shut hoping to get closer still, snatch the ball and run. But, they caught on to her scheme and they tagged her when she was within sight of the ball. I howled when she told me this because this is exactly what her dad would do in this situation. Talk about using your head! Lucky for the other side she didn't quite get away with it. Shannon and another Instructor laid in the grass in the early evening while the kids were doing an orienteering course and as they walked by, one of them (I won't mention any names) threw a stick and one of the kids nearly jumped five feet in the air as they rolled on the ground laughing. All in fun. Good clean fun.

So, this ends my blogging for one day. This is what happens when I don't blog forever! You guys get "Bogged Down"! Sorry, I couldn't resist the silly pun. Hope everyone had a good long weekend and we shall see many of you in the store this coming week!!!!

"My Rosie"

1:16 PM | by Laura

I have always been going to do a page titled Rosie or My Rosie, but I never seemed to have the right picture... until now. She is such a sweetie and reminds me of my Rachel in so many ways. She sat and posed for her pictures like a little lady. Her middle name is Rose and I started calling her Rosie several years ago and it kinda just stuck. It has become my pet name for her. In fact, when her mom tries to call her petunia, she emphatically replies, "Mom, my name is not petunia, it is Rosie."

Again I used PDQ paper, stickles, black Prima bling, Prima's new flowers, and leaves(which I absolutely love) and Making Memories chipboard letters, and Heidi Swapp ghost letters. I am trying to use my stash, so some of the newer layouts coming up will have old paper on it. Just a heads up because people come into the store looking for the stuff we use on our pages and we won't have it anymore. :-) Sorry.

"My Little Man"

12:55 PM | by Laura

He was such a goof that day! If you look close, you might actually see the outline for his halo...not! He fooled around, wouldn't sit still, made his many faces, all to get this one angelic picture. Everyone that walked by on the Meewasin couldn't help but smile at his antics and I laughed pretty much the whole time (much to the chagrin of my sister) and Rachel came away just a bit frazzled. He was pretty much your typical boy...with a little ADHD thrown in there! LOL.

I have not had the chance to use any of the PDQ paper line and this seemed to fit quite well. You cannot tell with this photo, but I used the Grungeboard letters, inked and glazed them, Heidi Swapp clear letters, Cricut diecut font and some 7 Gypsies rub ons.