Dan and I just got back from a week in Paris and it was amazing. We saw so much and took so many pictures that I can't wait to scrapbook it. From the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre Dame, the Seine River Cruise and every other old building and street it was amazing. The main reason for going was that my Host Sister Julia was getting married in Versailles. I was an exchange student in 1997 to Germany and she meet a great guy in France Nicolas. They got married in Versailles on August 27th at the City HAll (fabulous building). Then we drove out to the French Countryside and had an amazing reception. It was a long flight and a great week but it will be memories that last a lifetime.

Sorry I have been so silent this past month. We have been finishing our deck and I have been trying to get spend the last few days of summer with the boys. I am back at work starting last week and today is my first day teaching. It is kind of werid being back and having a new set of kids with teaching the same things. I keep seeing my students from last year and missing them. It is easy when you already have a relationship with student to teach them. However most of my students I have had an older sibling so I know the family..sometimes that is good and sometimes not.

I am going to be really busy this week packing for Paris. My husband and I are leaving next Saturday and I am so excited. I can't wait to see my Host Sister Julia get married in Versailles. Well go to go teach..
talk to you soon.. hopefully.

So at my crop this past weekend we made this cute little stationary purse.. I used the Amore Too paper pack (because it is really not my fav, but I won a pack so I need to use it). It turned out cute. I added some little accordian sides to keep things inside. It has pockets on front and back. Now I want to figure out how to make this more economical and only used 1 peice of cardstock. My upline Roxie was the one that made the direction for us to do this. Thanks

Well Caleb' turned 5 this July and we had his party at Whittle's Train Stop. We had such a good time and I wanted to put pages in all the books about it. So this is Josh's layout. I used scraps to make this layout and it is from Cherish or Imagine.. I can't remember and I am too lazy to go look right this minute.

As every scrapbooker knows: YOU NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY! We cherish everything even small peices of paper. The problem with that though is that you end up with a pretty big pile and you got to challenge yourself to using them. SO you if you have a pile in your scrappin area...go play!!

Here is Caleb's page using those 6x6 squares. There are actually 6 whole or peiced pages on this spread can you find them all?

My favorite part is the way that the bottom pages flow in to eachother.

My goal while scrapbooking my 4th of July pages was to use these old 6x6 scrapbook squares that CTMH used to do as a customer collection like 2 years ago.. and I still had them. So I challenged myself to use them on my layouts and here is the family layout that is going in my book. The verticle picture of my oldest behind the pipe is a flip flap and there are more pics of him learning to be a pyro.

So I have always wanted to do this layout in the Cherish book but could never really figure out a layout to do it with. Well I did it!!! And I LOVE IT!! Now I only wish I would have done these pages for my family album and not the boys albums, but oh well..they better love it when they get these albums. These are more pics from Keokuk where my famous twin sister lives.. (she famous because I talk about her a lot and I am working on making her famous).



There will be a lot of posts coming I scrapbooked on Saturday and I have a lot to share...but I am spreading them out because I don't want you to stop visiting. till next time