Made by Wendy Bellino: October 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

Welcome to my stop on the Club Scrap Homestead blog hop! This month I am *GASP* playing with paper...I haven't been a Club Scrap paper kit member in a looooong time. I couldn't stand it, I broke down and ordered the Club Scrap Lite kit along with my monthly digi kit. BUT, when it was time to get started on my blog hop project I was lost. I watched some of my saved craft videos on youtube.com and found this one...

Quick, easy and CUTE! Last weekend we went to Bayou Chicot for the day (we had a family photo shoot), so I had new pictures to scrap. I wrote a blog post about it last week titled "Spiders and Gators and Boys...Oh My!" and I pulled from that for my journaling.

Title designed in PSE12 and printed on Club Scrap card stock. Font is Essays 1743.

I used papers from my Homestead Lite kit and ribbon and embellishments from my stash. My new coffee table book!

Click here to start at the beginning of the hop on the Club Scrap blog and see what Karen has to share.

Trojan Talk Week 7

Spiders and Gators and Boys...Oh my!

(Any errors, blame the typist! I am NOT an outdoorswoman or a botanist. I do, however, live with 3 men who are outdoorsmen. I should NEVER go in the woods without a guide!)

Yesterday was a glorious early fall day here in Louisiana. I was missing my oldest who lives in Lafayette...

We decided to do something to enjoy the beautiful weather and met half-way at Bayou Chicot state park.

Chris, Jake and I started out on the hiking trail, but the mosquitoes were attacking with a vengeance!

FYI, the Bayou Chicot park map from the check in station sucks!

It was sooooo pretty though...

Elderberry bushes (yes, Jake HAD to taste them!)

A beautiful green spider with and orange design on his belly.

While we waited for Christopher, we spread out on a carpet of moss and discussed life. I wanted to lay down and take a nap, but if I had I would have been done for the day!

When Christopher and Lindsey showed up, we drove to the pier and walked out to check out the lake. Christopher asked Jake to go back to his truck to get some drinks out of the ice chest. He had the brilliant idea to toss his keys to Jake on the narrow pier. We all yelled, "NO!" and the keys arced up and over the side and into Bayou Chicot. Christopher stipped down to his boxers and jumped in. Three dives down in 8 feet of murky water, he came up with them in his hand. In less than 10 minutes he lost his keys in the lake and found them! Jake told him he needed to buy a lottery ticket on the way home!

As the afternoon wore on, we were entertained by a huge spider spinning his web. It spread across the lake from a cypress tree branch to the railing of the pier.

And the GATOR!

I wanted to take some family pics of us (since it is soooo hard to get us all together!) before the sun went down. I brought my tripod and set it up and we had fun!

Jake and Lindsey posing while I got my settings right. RUDE!

I jumped in with a second to spare!

I love these guys!

I wish I could bottle days like this...I love my family.

Trojan Talk Week 6

Trojan Talk Week 5

"Trojan Talk" Homecoming edition! First game Jake missed, this was the night he had his appendix out. This was one CRAZY Friday. Everybody was shook up, including the team. We lost 42-26.

I wasn't able to shoot this game since we were in the ER at game time. Poor Jake, he missed Homecoming the next night too. This article featured my pictures from the week before...

The rest of the pics were shot by one of The Town Talk photographers. She captured some great shots!

Trojan Talk Week 4

Week 4 of the "Trojan Talk"! It's bittersweet posting this since my son Jake (77) had his appendix out the day after this was published and his junior year season is over. BUT, I am still shooting for the rest of the season. This edition featured an article about Jake. So proud of all the Trojans! Trojans Strong!