beautiful a

it's honestly been a looong week. Alexander's starting to adjust to school, but we had a few small bumps along the road and I'm sure there are still some adjustments to be made. He is such a sweet kid and it's been a lot to suddenly begin school in the mornings after 4 years of staying home with mom for the most part.

This week it was all about the letter A at his school....
today he gets to share his bag of A stuff... about 3 things that begin with A...

so, he took, an almond.
an arrow (big red chipboard one i had)
and an alien...

fun! also, each kid took an apple to school with them and they're having a apple tasting.. complete with caramel dip, fluffy marshmallow dip to try! sound like a good time!~
Right now Audrey is on the floor of the living room with a blanket on the floor. She is having a little picnic for Mickey, Pooh and Piglet. Looks lke they're having tea, juice, grapes and imaginary cookies~! too sweet.

The kids and I have been reading thru the little children's daily Bible Meme gave us... today was about the walls of Jericho falling and how God saved Rahab and her family because she trusted in God. Good stuff~

AND it's gorgeous outside today! highs of 81-82 degrees today! woohoo!

I do have one layout to share with you... I've honestly been pretty focused on the kids, new school, etc. So, I finally got a layout finished last night...

Beautiful A
I made the a with my Cricut. CI kraft paper, Scenic Route Sonoma papers and chipboard, Making Memories ribbon, Kaiser Krafts hot pink pearls. tfl!

ya, it's my birthday today!

I am a whopping...34!!!! eeeek! Brian took the day off work and is letting me just hang out here at the house this morning! He took Alexander to school and is off shopping with Audrey! So, I'm blogging, checking out my favorite online scrapbook galleries and sipping vanilla coffee from Boca Java!

I finished up one layout this morning.
(click on the photo for a closer look.)

Little Red riding hood.
Scribble Scrabble, Cosmo Cricket, Hambly and KI patterned papers. Scribble Scrabble tag. KI memories buttons. Hambly bird sticker. Crate Paper letter stickers tfl!

Repeat.

Putting them back...

Bat boo card as seen in Sept-Oct. Paper Crafts magazine...



First day of school card as seen in September's Cards magazine...



and from the Fall issue of Paper Creations magazine..






October Scrapbook trends layout- Read.


October cards issue- Sunny Thank you card.



tfl!, Charity

Simple Simon

I just finished up with these projects using the new Simple Simon collection from Piggy Tales... still working on my layout with this line which I'll share another time!

Be sure to check out the Piggy Tales blog for a look at other inspiration and ideas!

Here's my school set:








A little info on the pencil bouquet..
The pencil bouquet was so fun to make. I used rubons on some of the pencils and wrapped others with patterned paper. I also tied some chipboard elements around a few of the pencils. The bouquet is made from a styrofoam cone I bought at the craft store. I used scotch mounting tape around the cone then wrapped the cone with patterned papers. Stick in your pencils. Wrap strips of patterned papers around a pencil to twirl and add at the bottom of your cone where the pencils have been inserted. tfl!