It's a lazy Sunday for the kids and I today. Mike and his brother left early this morning to drive up to Orlando for Wrestle Mania. He was way excited. You know it's one of those childhood dream things. So the kids and I are sitting around the house. I wish it was warmer outside so we could go swimming. It feels like a relaxing day around the pool kind of day. Just a few more months and we should be able to jump in.
The layout above is an old one but I love the picture! The swirly designs around the big picture and the fish on the small picture where made by drawing the design of the back of the picture and then sanding the embossed design from the front. Just something a little different to try.
Here are the prizes I'm offering up at the Memory Book Inspirations Cyber Crop next weekend. I have 2 challenges and one contest I'm going to do. I know the other mods have a bunch of fun challenges AND there is going to be a SALE in the store and FREE merchandise bonuses with orders over $5. I hope you all can join us for at least a few challenges. The fun starts Friday and will run through Sunday.
Here are the links to the cyber crop thread. http://memorybookinspirations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4398
If you join us, give me a wink in your welcome thread!
There is a great giveaway at the Sanctuary Arts at Home blog. Just thought I'd share it with all of y'all. She's giving aways a decoupage book and some cool vintage stuff that would be amazing in scrapbooks.
go check it out! http://sanctuaryarts.blogspot.com/2008/03/spring-fling-giveaway-and-etsy.html
I've been busy this week planning for some company. My mom and her husband are flying down next weekend for a long weekend. It's been about 5 months since we've seen them and both the kids and I are very excited. We are going to stay the whole weekend in Orlando. We are going to eat at the Rain Forest Cafe at Downtown Disney the first night. The second day we are going to take it easy at the villa and then check out Wonder Works that night. Sunday is the busy day! We are going to Hollywood Studios for the entire day. It's the only Disney park that mom and Greg have not been too. I wish the new Toy Story ride would be open but it's not going to open until sometime this summer.
I thought I should upload some past Easter layouts. I'm having a hard time getting with it this year. I'm glad this early Easter thing only happens once in my lifetime. We aren't doing anything special for Good Friday. Mike is at work and I'm being lazy.
Our public school isn't a horrible school but it's not great or even good. Out of a 1-10 scale it was rated a 6. The school we really wanted Braden to attend has a 40 person waiting list. O Crap! We have narrowed it down to 3 charter schools now. Two are rated 10s and one is rated a 8. We went and visited the 8 tonight. It's the school Mike is really wanting. I'm not 100% yet. I want to visit a couple more before I decided for sure.
It's a nice big school (900 students prek-8) and new. This is only it's second year. The size makes me a little nervous. That's a lot of kids in one school. There are 7 kindergarten classes and they keep them seperated from the rest of the school population. They have their own private playground, bathroom, and a private library. So I guess he will be safe. I'm just overly protective. I can admit it.
Win a pack of these at MBI. The rules are simple upload any Easter project (new, old, anything) and your name gets added to the pot. You can enter more than once and if your project features a child you'll get an extra entry. Here's the link to the thread.... http://memorybookinspirations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=4353
We are cropping today over at Memory Book Inspirations!!!! It's still early ( 1pm for me) so we just have a few threads up but more will be added soon! I have a store scavenger hunt starting at 6ish eastern time! The first to follow the clues to the mystery products will get the product!!! It a good one too! It's worth a peek. You could win some free scrap stuff! Below is the link to the crop thread. Stop by and say hi tonight.
http://memorybookinspirations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=4322&hilit=
This layout is for a sketch challenge over at Memory Book Inspiration . (link is over there-->) MBI has a savvy scrappers club that once you join you get to complete challenges for store credit! It's a win win situation! I get some pages done and I get free money to spend on new stuff! How great is that! If you scrap you should totally join!
I'm the mod of the Baby Album thread at Memory Book Inspirations (link is over there--->) we have a new weekly baby layout contest. It's not really a contest. What I do is every Saturday I pick a new layout featuring a child from the MBI gallery to highlight in the thread. I send a little prize to say thank you for letting me highlight your page. So everyone should give it a try. The layout doesn't have to be an orginal for MBI. It has no product restrictions. It just as simple as registering at MBI and the MBI gallery and uploading a few of your favorite layouts. The last few weeks I sent out packages of MAMBI bling. I've also sent out acrylic stamps and Prima flowers as prizes. I would love for all you reading to join in the fun. :)
My silent Disney mission is to have a picture with every Disney character. It is a big dream but that's what Disney is all about Dreams and Magic. Aladin is Mike's favorite Disney movie so this last trip we went to see the characters at Epcot. This is the first time we ventured off the main track through the countries and boy where we surprised. I had no idea that the "coutries" went back so deep. The buildings were beautiful and the shops where full of fun items! Below is a slide show of the pictures of Morocco-Epcot.
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