DT reveal at Scrapping Turtle

Here is the rest of my reveal for Scrapping Turtle. Hannah sent me the Fancy Pants Dancing Girl line to play with. Fun line, lots of doodles and funky patterns. Here are the layouts I came up with:
With a line called Dancing Girl, how could I resist completing a layout with one of my girls dancing? These are some pictures from last year I took of Laura. That girl does love dress up and dancing!! I made this layout with all those 'extra' tags you get on a sheet. Fancy Pants has wonderful journalling tags but I do find there are more than I often need. So, for this layout I decided to use those tags up in a non traditional way.

Summer wishes

It is getting so cool here. We had a few nice days last week but it has definitely returned to some seasonaly weather today. So, I thought I would share some new layouts I created.

These are all pictures taken of Laura when we were visiting mom and dad in Belleville this summer. Shorts, t-shirts and swimming - oh how I missed those days (we just didn't get enough of it this year).




Laura has always been a big writer/ reader. She's still so young but she loves workbooks of ever kind, even during the summer. I wanted to capture this quirky trait of hers.

Well...

We are starting a rocking crop weekend tomorrow at the Scrapping Turtle! Make sure you stop by for some fun challenges and of course, great prizes!

See you there!

Thought I'd share

some of the recent layouts I've completed.

These were pictures we took when we went up to Hiawatha Falls in early October. It was such a beautiful day we took full advantage and went hiking on the trails.

Of course, we had to take in the playground too.

Winning pink!

This is my winning layout for the "pink" challenge. This challenge was completed in support of Breast Cancer month (October). Here is the layout I did:

Skating videos

Thought I'd share a video of Laura skating too. This was at her first lesson. I still can't believe how determined she is!

and here's one of Jenna. Nothing ever phases this girl

Skating lessons started

Well, as many of you know we tried Laura in skating lessons 2 years ago (she was almost 4 at the time) and it did not work out. Unbelievable understatement! She cried, screamed and clung to me like something I couldn't believe. This year we thought about it again and I would have to say I was quite apprehensive of the idea but when living in Northern Ontario, it is an important thing to know how to do.

So, we talked to her and she decided she would like to give it a try. (I'm not sure if it is her maturing, the fact that Jenna was also joining, that her friends at school talk about skating or if she was just sick of hearing us talk about it.) Monday was their first class. We decided to go with a much smaller CANskate program. This one is at one of the pads at the John Rhodes centre rather than the large ice pad at the Essar Centre. There were about 1/10 of the kids there, the noise level was lower, there were adult teachers as well as young instructors, and more instructors per group. Needless to say, it worked! She loved her first day and has indicated she cannot wait to go back.

Here are some pictures of their first lessons. Jenna first, using her support. You can see she's getting quite comfortable with standing on the skates though, even letting go.

And Laura, I still can't believe this is the same girl!

Reveal day!

Well, really its sneak peak to my November reveal at The Scrapping Turtle. I was given the beautiful Dancing Girl line by Fancy Pants. Here's my first layout:

The rest of my reveal will be posted on the 15th. Don't forget to take a look at the turtle for the reveals of the other DT members.

Halloween pictures

Thought I would share some pictures of the girls last night. It rained here, poured actually (I went out as a drowned rat). The girls didn't seem to mind however. They were so excited, all day! The one real problem I see with a Saturday Halloween. Of course, in our house, the last weekend in October is also inventory day for dad so he wasn't home to help during the day or even in the evening. A few days before while I was talking to him about it, Laura overheard us and declared this would be "the worst Halloween ever!". Of course, she thought we would forego trick or treating so I could be home to hand out candy. She was relieved to find out this wasn't the case and I compromised by leaving a bowl of candy on the front porch for the children coming to our house while I took them around the neighbourhood. Jenna was a bear (thanks to grandma's sewing skills) and Laura is a Marisposa butterfly. You can see how excited they are in these pictures. (Jenna's head isn't on yet though cause it was just too hot in the house.)

can you say ham?????