How did it get to be the middle of April??

Ok so I set the goal of a layout per week back in mid-March.  All I have posted is one layout and that was about 4 weeks ago!  Well I have done more scrapbook pages than I have posted but I just haven't had time to put the final touches on them and take pictures.  I hosted a fundraiser crop back on March 24th and got quite a bit done, I just haven't had a chance to share them.  You see it is baseball season and for many that means practices and games, shuttling kids to and fro.  Well for me it means a lot more.  When I tell people that I just don't have time because it is baseball season, and they nod their head like they understand.  I can bet a million dollars they don't understand one bit!  I like to say I am the League Mom not the Team Mom.  I joined the Board of Directors 7 years ago because I felt like the league wasn't being ran right, I am not a person to just sit back and complain, I am going to step up and help make it right.  I don't know if it is ran any better now but I sure work my tail off!  I am the Administrative Vice-President, Travel Ball Administrator, Snack Shack Coordinator, the team mom for two teams as well as on the committee for Opening Day and All-Star tournaments.  So when someone nods their head like they feel my pain because they have two kids they have to drive to games I just chuckle and think they have no idea.......

Did You Doubt Me?

So on Monday I set the goal of completing a layout a week.  I am sure you all shook your head and thought, "Ya, right!" Well guess what!?  I did it this week; and I still have the weekend ahead of me so I might even do two, but I won't get ahead of myself!

It isn't anything fancy, but it is done!  And since that little guy in the pictures is now 12, it is about time that I got it done.
The journaling: "I'm not sure if it was the best idea to let a 4 year old carve pumpkins by himself, but you took your job very seriously and your pumpkin turned out great.  October 2004

Where Have I Been!?!

OK - so I haven't been here in over 2 months! Geez!  I had planned to start the new year off with a blogging bang, but obviously that didn't happen. I have been doing pretty good with some of my other plans for the new year like Moving More and Eating Well, but blogging about not so much.

Right now I am making a lofty goal of completing a scrapbook layout every week.  And I am making this goal right as baseball season starts so it will be extra hard to find time to scrapbook since I pretty much live at the baseball field this time of year.
If you see me posting a layout every week you will know I was successful.  If my blog starts to fill up with pictures of baseball games you will know it isn't working out so well!

I really hope to be here more often!

Quick Check In

Just a quick check in - I found a great new blog: http://www.scrapbookladypages.com/.  She is a digital scrapbooker but has some great ideas for capturing your memories and documenting life.  She is teaching a class at BPS - it is a Monthly Round-Up themed class and I think it is just the approach I am looking for in my Project Life Album for 2012.  I haven't signed up for the class yet but probably will.  I am already doing Ali's One Little Word class, as well as Cathy's Move More, Eat Well.  Those are both year long classes and I haven't started them yet because I have decided that my "new year" isn't going to start until the kids go back to school next week!  Look for a post soon about my One Little Word for 2012 and my journey to Move More and Eat Well!

Final Installment of Craft Day - Glitter Ornaments

With the Christmas rush I forgot to post the 3rd craft from my Craft Day earlier in December.  We also made glitter ornaments, they were super easy and I found them here via Pinterest.  I don't know who was sitting around one day and thought "I wonder what happens if you swirl Mop n' Glo in an ornament and then put in some glitter?" But I do know it makes a very pretty ornament!

These aren't the best pictures but they are as good as it is gonna get this year since they are already packed away in the Christmas bins!

I have been toying with the idea of doing a craft day every month or every other month, Valentine's, Easter/Spring etc.  but in order to get everything crafted in time to display it for the holiday I would have to start thinking about Valentine's Day crafts now.  I always want to decorate my home for each holiday with cute handmade decorations but I always think about them too close to the holiday!  Maybe this is the year I will get my act together and get it done!

Today is the last day of 2011, there were times that I didn't think I would make it here!  I am hoping to post a Christmas re-cap and maybe a little about my hopes/plans/ideas for the new year, but that will have to wait until tomorrow!

Christmas Craft Day - Part 2

Yesterday I mentioned two other crafts we did at Craft Day, one of them was the beadboard candy cane.  Well here it is:

These aren't the best pictures because I can't seem to get the one I want to post to rotate and I gave up.  I got the idea from this blog. I don't know what I am going to do with the candy canes, I was going to hang one on the door but then I went and bought a very mis-shapen wreath at Costco.  Tomorrow if you are lucky I will share the glitter ornaments if Nalani and I get our bows tied on them.

Christmas Craft Day

I had a few friends over this past Sunday for a Christmas Craft Day.  We made 3 different projects.  Today I am going to share the sock snowmen with you.  They were super easy, I got the idea off of Pinterest and it was from this blog.  So simple and cute!  I made a little family of 4 and then I also made 10 more for gifts for teachers, neighbors and friends.

I went with a bright color theme for my snowmen and then used more traditional red & green for the gift ones.

Trevor felt sad for all of the leftover parts of socks so he got crafty also, he made a hobo snowball with the castoffs.

You can't see that the back of the hat (the heel of a sock) is all cut up and he plans to add a burlap sack to the stick!  Next up are the beadboard candy canes and glitter ornaments, it will probably be February before I blog about those!