Stella turns One

It is hard to believe but little Stella is a year old. We celebrated with a party at her house. She wasn't too interested in the cake but did like her presents and was really interested in the Christmas tree. She is walking pretty well and I loved watching her. Here, of course, are a few pictures.

Playing in the leaves

Seth and Stella came to play on Tuesday last week. Stella is beginning to walk and is saying a few things. She says E I E I O and she claps her hands and says "yay!" We played outside in the leaves. Seth thought it was great fun to rake, so I let him. Of course, I took pictures.

The end of an era

I have decided to step down from my Design Team coordinator position at Memorable Seasons. It's been two years now and I have loved every minute. However, I seem to not have as much time to devote to it as the site gets better and bigger and my life gets crazier. Who would have thought this grandma would be busier now than when my kids were still living at home? How in the world did I do it? With that said, here are my last Design team kit projects. Our November 1 reveal was sponsored by Jillibean Soup. They have the most fabulous kraft paper designs and one of my favorite scrapbook supplies, the Jillibean sprouts. Are you ready for some Christmas? If not, I'm sorry but I will get back to Halloween stuff in a day or two.

 Found these at a garage sale down the street. I got 8 of them for $2 thinking I could alter them somehow. Here are the first three projects using them.

I created the next project using a dollar store frame and a flower cut from old dictionary pages and tissue paper misted with Glimmer mist. It is kind of subtle but I rubbed some Tim Holtz antique linen ink around the edges of the snowflake paper.

This is an empty matchbox that I put a miniature candy bar into. It would be a cute stocking stuffer or a cute gift for your co workers.

and of course, I made a layout and some cards.

I will miss the free stuff I got for being DT Coordinator (haha) but I am looking forward to actually scrapping less and using just what I like. See you around, bloggers.

Pictures, I've been taking pictures

On Sunday, October 3, I met my sister and her two adorable girls at the Arboretum and we took some pictures of  the girls. The pumpkins were out. There were lots of pretty flowers and the girls were soo cute.

 Curtis went with me and he was a good sport. He played with the girls and made them laugh. He also carried my a bouquet of pink flowers around that I wanted the girls to pose with. As he stood outside the restroom waiting for all of us girls to come back out holding those flowers, he reports that he was asked the same question several times. "Are you proposing, today?" haha too funny!

When we left there, Curtis and I went to the fair. I didn't take too many pictures, there. It was really really crowded and we didn't stay long. However, here is one of the ferris wheel that I took while we stood in line.

I'll be back over the next few days with more pictures. I have lots of them!

Sorry I've been neglecting you and October DT reveal

Poor blog. I feel so bad for you since I discovered facebook. Even my love of sharing quotes has been satisfied there. Short little posts over there every day is just so much easier than sitting down here and thinking of things to expound on. I will try to do better.

So what have I been doing, you ask? I have been crazy busy. I've been taking lots of pictures, lots and lots of pictures. I love it. I'm still learning something new every day and I love that people like me to take their pictures, too. I promise I will start sharing more of those here.

The fabulous Echo Park Paper Company sponsored the design team at Memorable Seasons this month. They let us play with the Happy Halloween Collection. Cute Stuff! Here is what I did with it.

quote of the day

"When your hobbies get in the way of your work--that's okay; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves, well...."
~ Steve Martin

It is a Friend Raising Drive!

Here at Memorable Seasons, we love our members. It is exciting to see our membership grow. We have a little over 450 members at this moment. We like that we have friends all across the country but we want more friends. Will you help us make more friends? As an incentive for you to ask your friends to become our friends, we are having a contest. Our goal is 500 members. The 500th person to sign up for membership will receive a $20 GC to the store and the person who invited them will get one, too! Doesn’t that sound fun? All you have to do is invite your friends. Post it on Facebook. Post it on your blog. Send out mass emails to all your scrapbooking friends. Tell them to say hello in the Welcome forum and mention who sent them. Let’s see how fast we can get to 500.