I Love This About You

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Credits: You Make Me Smile – Sugarplum Paperie & Mari Koegelenberg Font – This is My Life Calm – Darcy Baldwin & The Heavy Hitter – Heather Joyce I created this page for the May Pinterest Portfolio Challenge using challenge #3 “PageMaps.com is one of my favorite sites for sketches. Chose a sketch on this page as a starting point for your own layout. 2pts” Here is the page map I used for inspiration: I don’t often use page maps, {Read More}

AWANA Awards

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One of the best things that we have done for our children is to put them in the AWANA program at the churches that we have been a part of. EA and MC started with Cubbies when we moved to Virginia from Germany. Will also started as a 2 year old Puggle then. Through AWANA they have memorized many scripture verses and have been nurtured spiritually. When we were preparing for our move to Texas, one of the first things {Read More}

Project Life 2013 Week 19

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Left Side Right Side Side by Side View Credits: Project Life Templates – Becky Higgins; Up In the Air – Sugarplum Paperie & Wishing Well Creations; Bits & Bytes 2013 4 x 6 Weekly Title Cards – Nettio Designs I kept things super simple this week. I also went with a kraft background paper instead of a patterned paper…it’s just looking a bit more realistic to me. Some highlights from the week were visiting the Scholastic Warehouse sale and buying {Read More}

Spring Hoop Home Decor

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I have really been craving some craft time, so I signed up to participate in this month’s Silhouette Challenge. But, of course, as the weekend approached I had absolutely no idea exactly what I wanted to craft…yikes! Then I saw this hybrid challenge at Sweet Shoppe Designs’ May Pinterest Portfolio Challenge. Immediately, I knew that this would be my inspiration for this month’s challenge!!! For an extra challenge, I decided to use fabric instead of paper for my Spring Hoop. This {Read More}

Scrapbook Saturday

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Watching the Band Credits: Saxy and We Know It – Charlize Creations [ link ] Life Stories (alpha) – Krista Cronin Barrow & Zoe Pearn Bigger the Better templates vol. 2 – Amy Martin This is an oldie! The photo was taken in Trier, Germany. We were walking down the street market there (which we loved!) and saw a band playing. The girls, who were only four then, loved watching this German band play! This Girl of Mine Credits: Gridtastic {Read More}

Friday Freewrite: Goodbye

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Credits: I Remember You – Charlize Creations Goodbyes can often be sad statements to make, especially when we’re leaving the ones that we love. As a military family we have to say goodbye a lot…more often that we would like, really. We have to say goodbye to family over and over again. It never gets easy. We have to say goodbye to friends that we have grown close to and friends who we are just getting to know. We have {Read More}

Blessings All Mine #870-885 and One Thousand Gifts Giveaway

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I am so thankful for Ann Voskamp’s book One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Life Fully Right Where You Are. During reading it, I was challenged to see the gifts, the blessings, of each day. You can read more about Ann here, get more details on One Thousand Gifts, and visit her blog – A Holy Experience. Not long after reading this beautiful, poetically written and challenging book, I began counting my gifts and this has made such a difference {Read More}

Project Life 2013 Week 18

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Left Side Right Side Side by Side view I had so much fun putting this week’s layout together!! As you can see, I had a ton of photos, so I used a different template that I normally do on the left side. I used Design C instead of my usual Design A. I love the page full of 4 x 6 photos!! I also used Bits and Bytes 4×6 2013 title cards from Nettio Design. I LOVE how this title {Read More}

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