Wicked Good Time

Wicked came to town recently and my hubby bought tickets for us to go!  I was so excited.  I whipped out my new cell phone with the retro camera apps and took a couple of photos of us in the lobby waiting to go in and then one of the curtain before the show started.

It was a great show!  The set was amazing.  There were these gears all over the place and they even moved and did stuff.  The dragon lit up and blew out smoke at the opening of the show.  Clocks were kind of important too so I found some of these elements to use to scrap this event.  This is my first ever vintage look layout.  It was kind of fun :)

We made it to three of the Broadway shows this year.  I hope to make more next year.  Beauty and the Beast is coming :)  My Fair Lady too.

Wedding Invitation Marathon Palooza!

Saturday we spent 12 hours working on wedding invitations!  Oiy, my back was killing me!  We busted out a lot of work though and will only need one more, shorter session.  We are getting there!

Here is a peek at what we worked on

We are making about 120 of these.  This is the top 2/3.  The bottom 1/3 will be an area with a pocket for the RSVP and other info.  It is embossed with the little flowers that are on the thank you card.

We made 90 of these babies.  That is 630 pearls that I glued down!  Crazy!

Mother's Day

I had a great Mother's Day!  It was pretty laid back and low key, but sometimes those are the best kinds.

To start the day off, my son spoke at church and gave his testimony to the whole congregation.  He was well spoken, funny and had good insight.  I hope he was able to help people out there.  The children passed out roses to all the moms.  It is so cute to see them.  They look hard for their moms, but all moms get flowers.  Even the girlfriend of B's best friend got one (not a mom, but a girl, so she gets one, right?)  A cute little boy gave it to her.

We got home and the family took me to lunch at a fantastic Mexican restaurant.  My step-mom joined us too and I had yummy fajitas and there are enough for lunch again tomorrow!

The rest of the afternoon was just laid back and relaxing.  I finished a layout, updated the blog, at dinner prepared for me and soaked in the bath.  I couldn't ask for a better day, really!  My kids are the best!

Happy Mother's Day!

A very happy Mother's Day to all of you!  I think this was one of my favorite Mother's Days.  My kids are so funny!  The picture with my son behind the leaves always makes me smile!

I am excited to see what today will bring.  My son is speaking at church; I am so proud of him!  Can't wait to hear what he has to say.

New Phone

The Challenge:
Use design aspects from Alice in Wonderland

I finally got a new phone!  A smart phone :D  There are so many cool camera apps out there.  I was playing around with one (Vintage Photo) and taking photos of some of the Spring flowers in the yard.  I thought the photos had a sort of Alice look.  I included butterflies and cool ragged looking flowers to complete the look.  I made this layout when I had a really bad cold, probably on my worst day.  It just wasn't working for me and I didn't like it.  I am not sure I would have liked anything that day.  I decided to add the pearls, and I think they made the layout!  It was as good as it was going to get.  Now that I am feeling better, I like it a whole lot more :) I will be using my various camera apps a lot in the future!

Wedding Prep

Let the Royal Wedding prep begin!  No, not those Royals.... Kayla and Kyle!  The dress has been purchased (sadly, I can not show the dress since a certain someone is trying very hard to take a peek!), the cake design picked out, the initial flower meeting took place and the invitations are in high gear.  I did a little layout of the cake taste test.  There certainly are some perks to being the bride and groom to be :)  There was some good cake in this box!

Meet the Mooneys

The Challenge:
Use a monogram in a layout

We had some family photos taken earlier this year.  They were the perfect ones to use for a monogram challenge!  The Mooneys, being The Mooneys took some, well, rather interesting photos as well as some very nice ones.  Sometimes, you see the "real" people when you look at the goofy or outtake photos.  I hope you are able to gain a little insight into what we are really like as a family.

I loved how these butterflies turned out!  They are made with a navy, stamped image on silver paper and then punched out.