Happy New Year!

May 2014 be a beautiful one!

The last 6 weeks simply disppeared into a big 'poooof' of ....uhm.... 'stuff'? And I haven't done much scrapping at all :(
But I do want to show you one more page in the Yearbook for 2013. This is one of the March pages, the right hand one to the one posted a few posts below ;)

I also want to bring to your attention that M&M Designs is taking a break from designing, so if you like the templates I've been using so far, and will continue to use to complete my year, better grab those quick. At the end of the month Mel's store will be closed. You can find it here - M&M Designs at GottaPixel

I used a template from 'Journal Card Fun - The Bundle' by M&M Designs

and the kit is 'Serendipity' by Gypsy Couture
Got some calendars to work on. Hope to be back soon....

Have a great week!

2014 Calendars

Oh my yes! It is that time of the year again!
I need to get cracking on these. I'm making them at 4x6 size. Easy to print, easy to mail and the recipients can slip them into one of those magnetic photo sleeves for display on the fridge, and when the month is over slip it into a standard photo album.
Fortunately Kimberly Stewart came to my rescue just in time with her calendar brushes this year. You can see them HERE. She has several different styles as well as printable calendars all ready for next year. Take a look at her store HERE

The kit I used is by Marci Parmeley, called "Can't Stop Falling"  I confess it is all the flowers and the punchy colours that got my attention....

And now I've made a start, just need to keep the momentum going!

How many days to Christmas? Let me not even think about it! Yikes!



Template Challenge

...and a free template by Mel from M&M Designs. You can find the info and the template over at Gingerscraps.

Here is my LO for the challenge : I used 'Junk Hound' by Gypsy Couture for the LO.

Snickerdoodle Designs Freebie

I made a freebie for Karen over at Snickerdoodle Designs that she will be giving away with her newsletter this coming weekend. So head on over and sign up for the newsletter to snag this freebie:

I have found the tutorials included in Karen’s newsletter particularly interesting. Do check them out!
You can find Karen’s designs at her Snickerdoodle store as well as at Digital Scrapbooking Studio. She also has Commercial Use items in both stores.

Back Home...and catching up!

Ahhhh it feels good to be home again. No denying that! I still seem to move from disaster are to disaster area as I move from room to room, but every day it looks a bit move civilized. I shall conquer the boxes yet!

It's been so good to catch up with friends we have not seen for 2 years, so naturally we're taking time out of moving in to visit! Yay!

And I've got my work area mostly set up too, so that I can get back to scrapping this week. Before I have more pages to post here, I'd better catch up with the ones already out there in cyber world, such as February 2013 for both pages I used templates from M&M Designs September Blues V6

and the right hand page...

and so far I have one for March done.

I used a template from M&M Designs Journaling card fun the bundle
The other page is almost completed. I was looking for a couple pictures I specifically wanted to use...and then moving happened... ;-)

I'm liking the look Mel's templates are giving the Yearbook so far. Very different from the look my other books have, but I still manage to incorporate lots of pictures and all the journaling I want.

I'm ready to get cracking on more pages. Yeah!
....and I'm also thinking that maybe a wintery look for the blog is in order too.

Yearbook 2013

I did my Yearbook for 2012, but was not happy with the way it turned out. I was going for something different....blah.

This year I started again....and just could not decide what to do. Again I did not like what I saw.
But I really wanted to try something else!

So when M&M Designs posted a guest CT call, I applied...and got accepted! Mel designs templates and multi picture templates...right up my street and right for catching up on these last 2 years worth of  pages!

Here's January 2013.

I used  M&M Designs' Crisp Autumn Templates v6 and Kimberly  Stewart's - Garden Angel Mini

And page 2 for January

I used another template from M&M Designs' Crisp Autumn Templates v6 and Kimberly Stewart's 'Little Snow Angels' Kit.

It is a pity that I had to blur some faces, but that cannot be helped!

 I don't expect to get too much more done until late in October. We're moving...we're moving HOME.

That sounds so good! The last two years in California have been good though. Very good.

'Home' will also mean that I will be able to do more scrapping and freebies again. At least that is my every intention!

 Ahhhhhhhh



She Lived to be a Hundred

My Great Grandma did.

I took this picture of her out of my Mom's photo album in May. I did have to fix a few small things in Photoshop, but on the whole the picture is in very good shape. I think my Great Grandma was 90 when this was taken.
What is really neat, is that there is a relative of mine who is currently writing a series of books on some of my ancestors, all called 'Sophia Charlotte' The first book is already available (I read it on the plane coming home) and more are in various stages of production. I'm looking forward to the second one, which will hopefully be available by the end of the year! Right now the books are only available in Afrikaans. If you know Dutch or Flemish you'll be able to understand it too and the blog 'The Sophia Charlotte Story' is mostly Afrikaans too. One day the books should be available in English too. There is a link to buy the first boek here.
Long story short, the lady in this LO was also a Sophia Charlotte. I wanted to honour her here on my blog. She was quite the woman...and her legacy lives on.

I scrapped the page with items made from my stash of CU and 'customizable' (actions/styles etc) goodies.

One of my favourite designes, Gypsy Couture (Lisa Hankins) is returning to designing. I'm soooo happy about that and look forward to catching up with my Project Life/365/52!
Doing the happy dance. ;)