ASH Trojan Talk!

I'm published!

This season The Town Talk, our local paper, has published a weekly insert for two of our 5A high schools highlighting Friday night football. This is the second publication and the first one that I started shooting for. I absolutely love doing this. I started taking pictures during the 2012 football season when my son Jake was a freshman. I originally posted on a Shutterfly share site, but it wasn't conducive to commenting. Everybody loves comments!  Now, I post to Facebook so that the parents can enjoy and I also post the link on Twitter for the players and fans. The best compliment is when one my pictures is used for a Twitter or Facebook profile pic.  I ♥ the Trojans! 

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Club Scrap NBUS September 2014 Challenge

I made this for a sweet teacher friend and it just happened to qualify for Club Scrap's 9-2014 NBUS Challenge. The sentiment was from CS's 2007 Academy kit and the "Apple a Day" stamp was from 2010 Scholarship. I was searching for inspiration and watched this tutorial by CS's Tricia Morris... 

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Cinema Blog Hop!

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August Break 2014 Day 5

Three.

Funny when you're looking for something how many you see. I saw three's all over the place.  I follow the Rule of Odds and I didn't even know it! But, I liked the look of the even numbered LO. I just couldn't post three pics because I took four. I'm obessive/compulsive like that! 

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August Break 2014 Day 4

Yesterday my aunt posted this on her blog...

This is a picture my uncle drew in 1979 of my grandparent's front yard. So many good memories in that house. I couldn't have asked for better grandparents. Anytime we were visiting them, the focus was on us. When I saw this picture I immediately closed my eyes and I can still see every room in their house. I loved that little house with the hardwood floors and the window unit in the dining room that we LOVED to stand in front of! Memaw cooking in the kitchen, Papaw taking us on adventures around the yard...We always sat down together at the table to eat, my favorite time. I loved the table conversations. My sister and I loved to spend the night with them. First thing in the morning, we would wake up to the smell of coffee and bacon frying. My sister and I would  put on our robes and slippers and sit at the little kitchen table while Memaw made us coffee milk. She and Papaw drank Folger's instant coffee and she would heat up the water in the kettle on the stove. The whistle was what usually woke us up! Those are some happy memories.

Today's photo prompt, orange. I bought this years ago because it reminded me of the whistling kettle at Memaw and Papaw's house.

My whistling kettle.

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August Break 2014 Day 3

Window.

"The Eyes are the window to the soul."-William Shakespeare

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August Break 2014 Day 2

Pattern...

My favorite Betty Boop lingerie bag!

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August Break Challenge 2014 Day 1

+Susannah Conway  is hosting the August Break photo a day challenge on her blog. It's a fun way to practice photography "skilz"!

Photo prompts for August Break 2014. 

Day 1... Lunch

BJ's pizza at 4:00PM on Friday. Missed lunch and went right to dinner. NO I did not eat it all by myself!

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♫Daisy...Daisy...♫

Welcome to my stop on the Oopsie Daisy blog hop!  I made an animated digi card with this month's Oopsie Daisy digital kit. (FYI if you are viewing this on a mobile device, you won't be able to view the animated card-not sure why...)I have done this a few times to send e-cards on Facebook. It's more fun than just a "flat" digi card. Of course the first thing that came to mind when I saw this kit was the song Daisy Bell! 

I found the sheet music cover image from 1892 and blended with the eggshell background. I used one of the frame clusters included in the digi kit and the bee embellishment for flair. For the inside of the card, I used this month's font Skinny Chick  and a daisy embellishment that I blended with the background.

I also made a digi LO using this month's Layout Idea Recipe Card...

The thing I like best about this ALSB method of scrapbooking is that you can rotate things to accommodate your pictures. In this case, I flipped the LO and rotated some of the photo mattes. 

Check out what Karen's project is this month on the Club Scrap Creates blog! Thanks for looking!

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♫Still Dancing on the Ceiling All Night Long♫

Last weekend I went to the Lionel Richie concert with my sis and some friends. I didn't love the concert t-shirts, so I made my own. Check out my blog post from a few weeks ago... I helped my nieces make t-shirts for a trip and we made freezer paper stencils. I used the same technique for my concert t-shirt.

Multiple Cricut font cartridges and used the Gypsy to format. Freezer paper cut with the Cricut.

Tulip Soft Glitter fabric paint in silver.

Ain't we cute?

Group selfie!

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Baby Shower Cards

Well, not the best photos in the world, but they are the only ones I took...with my Iphone. Two of the girls in my office are having "bebes"! We are giving them a shower at work and I made the cards. I used ideas from the bedding they each picked out... 

Club Scrap cardstock, B is for Boy, Animal Antics, and Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut cartridges. 

Phrase from B is for Boy 

Club Scrap cardstock, Mini Monsters Cricut Cartridge, Perfect Pearls mist

Phrase from B is for Boy Cricut Cartridge

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Freezer Paper Stenciled T-shirts

OK, where was this idea when I was growing up?! My nieces came over to play in my craft room and made freezer paper stenciled t-shirts. +Joy Tracey made a great tutorial for this technique. I had the girls watch it before we got started...


I didn’t have my Silhouette Cameo hooked up yet, so I helped them design their stencils with the Gypsy and we cut them out with the Cricut. The process was actually pretty fast. Once they chose their designs (this took the longest) and plugged everything into the Gypsy, the rest was a piece of cake! I steered them to choose simple designs for our first time. We’ll tackle a little more complicated design the next go ‘round.

Ellie wanted to paint an anchor on hers…

T-shirts from Justice, Tulip Soft Fabric paint in Grape.

Ava had her phrase all picked out, we just had to find the right fonts AND her dolphin!

Tulip Soft fabric paints in Grape and mix of Ebony/Glacier White to make the gray dolphin.

I have to say, they came out pretty good for a first try. I was skeptical that the freezer paper would leak, but I ironed it really well for good measure and it was stuck. They want to come back and make another after we go paint color shopping!

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City of Lights and Some Good Memories!

Chris and I made a leisurely road trip to Natchitoches to pick Jake up from NSU football camp. Of course we had to hit all of our college hot spots! Most of them looked the same, just older. Some a little run down and overgrown, but recognizable. My memories of our one bedroom apartment were a lot more pleasant than what the complex looks like now. Twenty-four years ago rent was $225 a month and utilites were about $80. It was comfortable until Christopher was born! All the baby needs and furniture...we could hardly walk around! I can't believe I washed my new baby's clothes at the dirty washateria. Ignorance is bliss.

Rain Tree Apartments

Jake was born when we lived there the second time around. Christopher was in first grade. Those were sweet memories of my little family.  I had just graduated from LSU Dental Hygiene school.  I drove 80 miles one way to work every day. Chris was in school at NSU finishing his degree after he worked to put me through school. It was hard, but I wouldn't change a thing. Poor as church mice, but we were happy. 

Behan Street, our first home rental! It was yellow with white trim back then.

Woodyard Drive. We moved here the last year we were in Natchitoches. Chris worked at the fish hatchery while he was in school, so we got a sweet deal on rent in the employee housing!

The big tree where Christopher used to play. Our sweet lab Petey is buried in that grove of trees.

We ate lunch at Lasyone's. I always wanted to eat there. Eating out was a luxury we couldn't afford when we lived in Natchitoches. Of course I ordered the meat pie platter! 

I snapped a few pics of downtown Natchitoches before the rain came...

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church where Christopher made his first communion.

Veteran's Memorial, I just thought this was cool tucked away in a courtyard.

We left town just as the bottom fell out. It was a fun quick visit full of happy memories! 

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♫ Put the Lime in the Coconut...♫

Hipstamatic and Wordswag

OK, I put strawberries in the coconut, but that song kept coming to mind while I did it! I'm trying to eat healthier...I bought frozen fruit, coconut milk, coconut manna and experimented. This recipe turned out pretty good! 

Strawberry Colada Smoothie

5 frozen strawberries

1/2 cup vanilla Chobani yogurt

1 tsp coconut manna (warm jar in hot water to soften)

1/2 cup chilled unsweetened coconut milk

Blend in blender til smooth! Serve in your favorite glass. 

My favorite glasses...

Hipstamatic

I have been married for 23 years and these were a wedding gift. I remember picking them out, they are the coolest rocks glasses! I rarely took them out because I didn't want them to get broken. Sigh...life is too short not to enjoy them when I want to! So, here's to good health...cheers! 

A new to me app, Bubble Frame. Fun! I was playing around with it at the ballpark waiting for Jake's game to start...

Check out +Barb's  blog for the "app happy wednesday" linky party!

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Cousin Chatter from the Back Seat

Captured from the Texas visit last weekend...

Club Scrap June 2014 Picnic Digital Kit
LO sketch from the Club Scrap Idea Deck Volume 2 Marquee Formula (King of Diamonds card)

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Dungarees Blog Hop!

Welcome to my stop on the Club Scrap Dungarees Blog Hop! If you started the hop on the Club Scrap Creates Blog, you are in the right place. If not, keep in mind that you can access the whole list of participants from there at any time. I chose digitally simple for this month's project. I used the Dungarees Layout Card to make a two page digital LO:

We celebrated Memorial Day at my parents house. My husband loves all the kids (because he is still a BIG one!). He is usually helping one of them get into trouble! They all started screaming for Chris to jump in the pool when we walked into the gate. Of course he obliged with a giant cannonball and spent the afternoon playing "shark" in the pool. The girls love it that he lets them climb all over him. He has been letting his hair grow and the girls were teasing him about it. They told him he needed to get the hair out of his eyes, so they fixed it for him!

Realistic Embroidery Photoshop Actions by Black Null

Dungarees Digital Kit

My best friend and my valentine... he plays both positions on this team. We started dating 22 years ago, when we were both babies! We've grown up together. We started out "playing house" and built our family. My "balentine" has a raunchy sense of humor, doesn't mind offending people, likes to be the center of attention, loves us with every fiber of his being, is and has the most loyal friends in the world, you either love him or hate him, but he's mine. I am as in love with that big kid as the day I married him. I don't ever want him to change!

Your next stop on the hop is +Karen  at Club Scrap Creates. Thanks for looking!

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