Scrapbook Expo 2010 (Part 2: Pictures & Prizes)

On Sunday, I posted the layouts that I accomplished at the Scrapbook Expo over the weekend!  I wanted to conclude that post with some photos that we took along with Brandi’s BIG prize she won!

We normally start out pretty clean and organized when we start, but quickly our table turns to this….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
No we can’t find anything, we spend a lot of time sorting through the stuff looking for one itty-bitty brad or sticker or even pair of scissors!  It’s bad…really bad!  Oh well, it shows we had fun!

 Brandi was the BIG BIG BIG, pre-convention winner and won a Hobby Hideaway Mini Armoire.  No lie this costs $1,100!!  Not only does it cost a ton, but it ways about that much too!  O.M.G that thing was a ton.  It took Brandi, Zak & Myself to get it up the three flights of stairs to her house.  We even had to leave it on the second floor for several hours to take a break.  Zak said it was THE HEAVIEST thing he has ever moved in his life!  It’s pretty awesome though, Brandi is one lucky girl!

 

As you can see it is H.U.G.E.  It just barely fit in the back of my Grandma’s SUV.  We loaded it long before we packed up our stuff from the crop….needless to say it was a miracle that we fit all our stuff back in.  Seriously, Brandi & I were at the point of trying to decide what to throw away, because it wouldn’t fit!  It was quite comical, especially because it was almost midnight at the time!

After finally, getting everything into the car, we made a midnight trip to Denny’s.  You can see it in our eyes how tired we are!  It was bedtime, we were exhausted, and very hungry!  I scarfed down a BLT (minus the T and mayo, yep without) and a sprite…yum!

                  

What a fun weekend!  It’s sad it’s over, but we’ll definitely be back next year!!  Plus, in just a few months will be the Creating Keepsakes Convention!  I cannot wait!  Hopefully I’ll get to scrap again before then (November), but who knows, life is so busy you never know!

Scrapbook Expo 2010 (Part 1: The Layouts)

We went, we scrapped, we shopping and we didn’t sleep!  But BOY OH BOY did we have a lot of fun!!  No lie, we arrived at the event at 7:30am, and started scraping at about 7:45am.  Scrapped non-stop (except for a 1 hour class and 1 hour of shopping) until 11:30pm!  I’m so tired, but wanted to post these layouts tonight before I get to busy and forget!!

I branched out, and started an acrylic (working on plastic) family album, that will be attached with ribbon and ring fasteners.  It’s going to be about 10 pages long I believe, but only got through the first 3!  Only the cover page has a photo on it, I wasn’t prepared.  The second and third pages (my “mom’s”) is done, minus the photos.  But I have now know what size photo to print….just need to find the time to find some!  This is supposed to by my parents’ Christmas present, but I couldn’t wait and showed it to them anyway.  (Anyone who knows me, knows I can’t keep a secret!).  Luckily for me, they both have short memories and will forget probably by tomorrow – ha-ha! 

First 3 pages of my Acrylic Family Album
1st Page: Cover
2nd & 3rd Pages: Dedicated to my mom

Brandi & I also took a class from Boxers Scrapbooks, on Unlocking the Magic of Disney.  They helped us start an adorable chipboard album.  The album is the shape of Mickey, I’ll again, add ribbon and two ring fasteners.  We didn’t get much accomplished in class, but got TONS of fun supplies and a great kit to finish!  I got through the cover page and the first two pages of the book, once again minus photos, and it’s so stinking cute!! 

Mickey/Disneyland Chipboard Album Cover
From the Unlock the Magic of Disney Class by Boxer Scrapbooks

First 2 pages of my Chipboard Mickey/Disneyland Album
The left page’s photo mat, is actually “accordion” style, and you pull on the ribbon and 10 more photos appear!
From the Unlock the Magic of Disney Class by Boxer Scrapbooks

There of course was a few layouts, that I did for Jaime.  All specifically of Emmalee, because she has so few layouts while Madison has at least two albums just of her first year alone!

Emmalee’s 3 Month Photos
March 2009

Emmalee’s 9 Month Photos
June 2009
Based on a Sketch by Becky Fleck’s Page Maps

 My Binky
Emmalee at 1 month, February 2009

We'll I’m absolutely exhausted!  We scrapped all day yesterday, and even took a midnight trip to Denny’s after!  We were so hungry, once the crop was over.  We  didn’t really take much of a break to eat, except for little snacks here and there!  By midnight, we were ravenous!  And yes, I’m a dork and took a picture of the Denny’s clock to show us there after midnight!

I have more to post about, including Brandi’s BIG prize she won and some photos that we took throughout the weekend at the convention!  Later this week I’ll try to get it up and posted, but in the meantime it’s bedtime!!  Hope you all had a great weekend to!  I’m bummed mine is over already.  Why do weekends go by so fast, when the weeks go by so slowly?  Doesn’t make sense…or….seam fair!

I’m linking up today with Mama Manuscripts' Stitching, Sketching and Scrapping Sunday!

The time has come….

and I am soooooo ready and excited!  Bet you can’t guess what Brandi and I are off to do tomorrow??!!

Guesses?? 

We'll if you guessed scrapbooking then you are RIGHT!  We’ve been planning this weekend gateway for months.  I’m talking we signed-up in January!!  We both our so busy, that we don’t have time for much scrapbooking!  So we both jumped at the chance to go to the Scrapbooking Expo at the Puyallup Fair Grounds!  We’re participating in an all-day crop on Saturday from 8am-11:30pm!  I’m soooo excited!

The last time I scrapbooked, I believe was the end of January!!  So it has been a long time coming!  Check-out some of my past layouts HERE!  Love, love, love scrapbooking, wish I had more free time to devote to it!  Oh well, I’m going to make the most out of the weekend!

Are you going to be at the Scrapbooking Expo in Puyallup this weekend?  Leave a comment if you are and maybe we could meet up, say hi and share our layouts!

With that being said, I will see you all on Sunday!!  (Unless, I find something blog worthy to post about tomorrow, who knows!)…I guess stay tuned to my blog to find out :)

Day 3 ~ Oy Vey, What A Day

Today started out not to bad, it was a no school day for the kids, so we all ‘slept in’.  We watched some Price is Right and then got ready for the day.  Jaime & the girls came back over to play with Tyler & Haylee.  It all started out so innocent enough….

Brett, Haylee, Tyler & Madison went to play outside since it was a beautiful day outside.  All things were going well, kids were playing happily until I hear a strange noise and screaming followed by Haylee running to the door with her finger bleeding.  Apparently she smashed it in the gate, and cut it up really bad.  Jaime and I got her finger cleaned up and realized it was pretty swollen and Haylee was in a lot of pain.  So I decided to take her into the doctor to make sure it wasn’t broken.  Luckily it wasn’t, just pretty cut-up and swollen.  They cleaned the wound and then re-bandaged it.  I’m suppose to keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t get infected. 

After getting home, Madison, Haylee, Emmalee and I all played in the hot tub.  Emma LOVED the water, and I kept sitting her on this seat and she’d immediately belly flop into the water!  Apparently she felt she could and would swim!!  Haylee and Maddie had fun splashing around and dumping water on each other! 

About 4:30, I got ready to go pick Brett & Tyler up from the Lamb’s house, got in the van and it wouldn’t start.  Completely dead!!  Jaime drives me to my house so I can borrow a car to at least pick up the boys.  Nobody’s home…no cars in the driveway.  No big deal, Jaime says I can use her car and she’ll swap cars on her way home.  She asks me to help her carry her things into the house.  Sure no big deal. 

Except that the front door is locked so I, go through the garage…LOCKED!  We are locked out of my house, I have like 15 minutes before I have to pick up Brett & Tyler, no car, no keys, nothing!  Luckily Grandma had a spare set and let us in.  Right as I’m walking to get in Jaime’s car, Dad shows up.  So I was able to just take his car to pick up the boys and go home.  Of course, I couldn’t find the Lamb’s house, had to circle the neighborhood a couple times, until I realize it’s the house that had a car parked in front of it blocking the house numbers.  Pick up the boys and head home.

Get home, call AAA and they say someone will be there in an hour.  Hang up call the pizza place, they say delivery in 35 minutes.  Perfect!  Like pizza place said they were here on time, except they forgot the pop.  So the lady promises to go pick up and bring it back.  Shut the door and throw the pizza down just as the doorbell rings again this time AAA to jump start the car.

The mechanic/toe-truck guy, quickly gets the car to start and runs a full-diagnostic on the van.  Bad news…battery probably won’t last.  So he tells me to leave the van running for an hour get it to get the most out of the charge.  I was certain I would forget about the van and a) leave it running all night until I ran out of gas or b) the car would be stolen…that’s just the luck I have been having today.  But luckily I remembered to turn the car off. 

It’s now 7:22pm, it’s almost bedtime, we’re watching Mall Cop the kids claim it’s the funniest movie ever.  I have to admit I wanted to see it while it was in the theater, but surprisingly it’s NOT that funny…kinda stupid – LOL – Oh well, I guess that makes it funny :-)  Oh….the kids just informed me “those guys [have guns] are bad guys and are trying to take over the mall”….gotta love little kids :-)

Here are the two layouts I did yesterday:

So Pretty
Emmalee found this magic mirror at Kim’s house and LOVED looking at herself in the mirror!

 3 Mon
Emmalee’s 3-month photos!  Madison too!

Tomorrow’s another day :-)

 

Day 2 of Babysitting & some Scrappin'

Completed my second day of watching the Bostron Kids.  They had school today, so I was "free" from about 9am-3pm.  I ended up going to lunch with Jaime at Ixtapa and then we scrapbooked the afternoon away!  I completed 2 layouts (3 pages), so I was proud of myself!  I got them scanned in, but was having problems with the coloring and stitching, so I'll work on that tomorrow, maybe!

Madison had fun playing with Tyler & Haylee once they got home.  They played on the swingset, trampoline and then in the hottub for quite awhile!  Emmalee even got in the hottub for a bit, and she seemed to enjoy it (Jaime may claim differently lol).  They were really cute playing in the hottub.  Madison could touch all the way around, but occassionally would 'panic' and think she was drowning until Jaime I reminded her "STAND UP MADISON", oh yeah!  LOL!  She'd stand up and be just fine!  What a goober!

There's no school tomorrow, so we'll get to 'sleep-in', wonder what time that will be??  Oh well im sure it'll be better then 6:30 am when I was up this morning!  I think the plan either tomorrow or saturday is to go to see a movie.  Madison wants to come back and play again tomorrow, so we'll probably do that too.  Nothing overly exciting planned! 

Scrapbooking Fiend

That would describe me the last 24-hours!  I accomplished 5 layouts for Julia during that time...with 4 kids undertoe!  Pretty impressive if you ask me!  I also did a variety of photos, ages and kids, so it made it even more fun and challenging!

Buddies
Aiden & Connor playing in the kitchen drawers.  I picked these picture because the boys are wearing their Mariners jersey's!

Based on a Tiare Smith Sketch

Happy 1st Birthday
Pretty self-explanatory...interesting fact, this is the FIRST birthday layout to ever be done for Julia's kids!  Also, when Julia purchased the birthday decorations it came with scrapbooking paper...old school ones....but I cut out the title and the airplanes to coordinate with the pictures!

Based on a sketch by Mel (BlessedintheUS on Playground of Memories)

Pumpkins 2007

Aiden, Connor & MacKenzie's Halloween Photos.  This was ONE large photo/display, and I cut the photos apart to make it seperate!

Based on a sketch by Becky Fleck of Page Maps

Adorable Annika

Julia recently pulled out Annika's hospital discharge photos!  I thought it was to cute and wanted to scrapbook it!

Julia's Layouts

Julia also did some scrapbooking, she spent her time looking for the perfect sketches and ideas so she only finished one layout.  She started a two-page layout but hasn't finished it yet!  However, this past week she did do an adorable snow layout that I thought I'd share!  She's so talented!!

Pre-K

Aiden & Connor's school and class photo for 2009-'10 school year.  Yes, I blacked the faces out of the rest of the class and their teacher since I don't have premission to post them.

First Snow

The first snow of the 2009-'10 winter!  It wasn't nearly as much as we had last year, but still fun to play in!

We also did something REALLY fun tonight....but had trouble getting the pictures uploaded so you'll just have to wait until tomorrow to see what it was!!  I'll head back home in the morning in time for church at 1pm.  So I better get to bed because MacKenzie wakes up early and it's already 12:13am on January 24, 2010!

One Year of Mackenzie

I'm up visiting Camano this weekend, and did some scrapping tonight with Julia...well technically Julia looked online for ideas the whole time, while I scrapped!  Earlier in the day I helped her organize all her printed photos into a cool little box she got, and while going through the pictures came across lots of MacKenzie that were left over from her "First Year" photo frame.  Seemed like the perfect layout, I used those pictures to make a layout!

One Year of Mackenzie

The scanning wasn't to great, and I promise in person it's much straighter and all the letters are present :)

Happy Friday!!

Late Bloomer?

Today I went up to Camano with Jaime and the girls to watch Mackenzie & Annika while Julia had an appointment to go to.  After she got home, we picked up the boys from school and met Alec at a local Mexican Restaurant….it never seizes to amaze me what people will say!

There’s this elderly couple sitting behind us (remember we have 1-1 year old, 2-2 year olds, 1-3 year old, 2-5 year olds plus 4 adults) and the wife has been staring at us for awhile.  You could just see her brain working like crazy trying to decide how we were all connected.  She finally gets up the gumption to ask, and it goes something like this….

Lady: So…how are all of you connected?

Julia: These are my 4 kids & husband (pointing to her family)

Jaime: These are my two girls (pointing to her girls)

Me: I’m her cousin (pointing to Jaime) and this is my mom (pointing to Julia) but once she had the little kids, she doesn’t consider me her daughter anymore (sad face)

Lady: Oh…. (to Julia)….so you’re a late bloomer?

Entire Table: (laughter – what the heck does that mean?)

Julia: Well, tomorrow is my birthday!

I love messing with people, if you forgot about when I confused the poor nursing staff at the Post-Op Floor of Overlake Hospital after MacKenzie’s surgery check it out HERE!

Oh….when I was up in Camano last, I did one layout for Julia and finally got it scanned and stitched together, so here it is…

Vibrio cholerae

This quarter I had to do another poster like the one I did on RSV.  I tried to talk my prof into letting me do RSV again, since the poster was done, but was told no.  (No I didn’t tell him I’d already done the poster).  So my poster this time as on Vibrio cholerae aka – Cholera. 

This is a horrible pandemic that is extremely prevelent in our world today.  You find it in underdeveloped countries, where water & food contamination is.  This disease infects your instines, and cuases abrupt and severe vomitting and diarrhea for days and weeks.  The loss of all the fluid is what can kill you from this disease.  It’s important to keep the fluid intake up.  Statitstics show that patients with cholera can lose up to 50% of their body weight in just days from lack of fluid!  That number is mind boggling!

We don’t hear about many Cholera cases in the USA anymore, because we have clean water and excellent education on the importance of santitation.  The US will see maybe 5 cases all year of cholera.  So it’s not something to be that frightened of unless you’re traveling to areas where the sanitation and education is poor. 

I couldn’t have done this poster without the help of my side-kick Brandi!  We got all this done in 3 days (yes I’m a huge procrastinator on projects like this), I think it turned out pretty darn well!!  All my lettering was done with Brandi’s CRICKET.  This machine is the most amazing thing ever, and highly recommended for people who do large projects like this, scrapbooking, card making and any paper craft!  I LOVE IT!!

 

Oh I love this CRICKET!  It has come in so handy on many occasions!!

 

CKC 2009

Another year of the Creating Keepsakes Convention is over *tear*.  This year Brandi and I had a great time!!  We decided to make it a girls get away weekend and stay that the Bellevue Hilton where the crops were taking place (convention was at Meydenbauer Center).  We checked in on Friday night before the crop and were informed we had been upgraded to the “Executive Level” floor. 

We had no idea what that meant, so they went on to tell us we got breakfast in the mornings at their “Executive Level” lounge along with 2 appetizers each evening.  The coolest part for us was the fact we needed the room key to get to the “Executive Level”.  So each time we’d enter the elevator to go to our room we’d have to slide our room key in a lock thing and then it would light up the floor we were on!  How cool is that!  Yep, Brandi and I don’t get out much so were excited to feel so important!

Both nights I accomplished 5 layouts (8 pages) and Brandi finished 7 layouts (11 pages).  Apparently Brandi was on a roll the two nights and finished a whole heck of a lot more then I did!  But I’m happy with the ones I did!

I scrapped three layouts for Julia of Brooke and then both Brandi & I did Emmalee layouts to get some of her in their family album!  Currently it’s like 3 full albums of just Madison!  So poor Emmalee could use a few herself!

My Layouts

At the Waterfront
Sketches By Suzy
Brandi, Jaime, Zak, the girls and I one day this summer went down to the Seattle Waterfront and wandered along the pier!

6#11oz, 20” 
Sketches By Suzy
Emmalee’s birth statistics and photos of her being weighed right after she was born!  I cannot believe how little she was!


Bring Home Brooke
Sketches By Suzy
Pictures that I took driving to pick-up Brooke and then pictures of Brooke on our ride back to Seattle with her!


Cheese!
Sketch by Stacy aka Stinkerbelle on Scrap Shanty
Julia and her 4 kids right after we brought Brooke home!

 Girl Hair
Julia doing up two girls’ hair for the first time! (Brooke & MacKenzie)

Brandi’s Layouts

1st Bath
Madison (& Cori) helping give Emmalee her first bath after she was born!

 
Emma & Kitty Cats
Emmalee and her two favorite cats all chilling in her crib!


Emma
This past summer Alex & I were playing with Emma and she was just being cute so we pulled out the camera and got some silly shots of her!

 
Going Home
Pretty self explanatory!  This is Emmalee getting dressed to go home from the hospital plus her hospital photos! 
Side note: I bought the outfit she came home in!  I got her name embroidered on a Pottery Barn outfit!


1st Love
Madison & Xander are best buds!  They got to hang out on Valentine’s Day this year and were so cute!

 
Meeting Emmalee: My New Sister
Madison meeting Emmalee for the first time after she was born!  Madison was (and is) such a proud big sister!
Side Note: Take a look at her shirt :)

 
Friends
Brandi one day had the girls and was getting ready to go out with them.  After she buckled Emma into her carseat, she had her back turned to them for a few moments and when she turned around found Emmalee all tucked in between Madison’s baby and Minnie Mouse all wrapped up in Madison’s blankie!

Okay that’s it….that’s what we accomplished this weekend!!  Tomorrow’s Monday and the start of another week!  Oh…Brandi & I will be going back next year to CKC, if you want more information go to their website.