Sketchy Thursdays 6.9 Yesterday

It's amazing what a new stack of paper and the Backstreet Boys will do for creativity. Also an awesome sketch from Sketchy Thursdays.

Another Punta Cana LO. We went to the Italian place one night and the entertainment was playing @ each table. When they got to ours they asked if we had any requests. Zeke asked for the Beatles. They played "Yesterday" and we all sang along. A memorable moment for sure.

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend so far.

Sketchy Thusdays 6.2 - Speedo Wednesday

This week I played along with Sketchy Thursdays.

I used this sketch for another Punta Cana LO.

 I had almost forgotten about Speedo Wednesday until I came across this picture. Maybe I was repressing it! Love you Zeke!! Anyway the story goes that @ Zeke and Crystal's wedding trip, Zeke treated everyone to his speedo and ever since then on trips he breaks it out. He did not disappoint. Even Jenny's Dad joined in on the fun.
I had finally gotten into a groove with my trip pictures again, when.....I ran out of adhesive. Guess I know what's on my list to get on the weekend.
Hope everyone enjoys theirs!

I should have cut the grass....

I should have cut the grass when the rain stopped and before it started up again but instead I played along with Ella and scrapbooked this page for my Punta Cana album.

Hopefully it doesn't rain tomorrow so I can cut the grass or it will have to wait for the weekend.

Let's Capture these Sketches - 80- Bryce

Yesterday I worked on this sketch from http://letscapturethesesketches.blogspot.com/


Here is my take with the groom's nephew as the focus I love the green hat! I printed one black and white and one colour copy of the main photo. I cut out the hat and used foam to pop it up.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend so far. Mine has been busy!

Sketchy Thursdays 5.12 Kiss

This week Sketchy Thursdays shared a double page LO.


I changed it up a bit and only used the right side of the sketch.

I really liked how it turned out. I'm still working on my Punta Cana album. It's been slow but over the last few days, between cutting the front lawn then the back, I've managed to get a few more LO's done. I really want to get it done before I start on anything else.

Sketchy Thursdays 4.28 - relaxation

Hi everyone, hope your weekend was a good one. This weekend I played with Sketchy Thursdays. Still working away on those Punta Cana pics.

I spent the morning before wedding getting a many. Something I only do on vacation since nail polish is frowned upon @ work and would never last anyway. I was so relaxed I almost feel asleep in the chair. A great way to start off a perfect day.

Sketcy Thursday 4.7

Hi all, yesterday I played with Sketchy Thursdays. I love their sketches. They also know how to show the love too and always comment on every one's blog who has played that week.
Here is the sketch



Here is my take.

These pictures are from my Punta Cana trip. I love them b/c Jenny had taken them with my camera, without me even knowing about it. I just found them on my camera a couple days later. It appears as if I might have to take a break from my Punta Cana album. What started as a very tight paid period as actually turned out not be, I've picked up 3 extra shifts. So that means I have to put aside my Punta Cana album and finish up a project I'm working on for the baby shower next weekend. I promise to share but Jess (HI JESS!) and her mom (HI KATHLEEN!) sometimes read my blog and I want to keep it a surprise. I also have to finish up favours and wrap prizes. The menu can't be done until the day before, so I really need to get the crafting and then the cleaning done defore then. So there you have it, I might be able to slip a trip LO in all the business. I hope so b/c now that I've started it, I'd just like to get it done so I can show people!
Anyway thanks for stopping by and I hope you guys have a great weekend. It looks like beautiful spring weather coming in the forecast. Maybe I'll get to wear a dress to church! :)

Got my groove back.

Finally, I've got my scrapbooking groove back. I'm not sure what my problem was but I was not getting inspired enough to start on my Punta Cana album. I've been busy planning a baby shower for my new niece and that might have been using up all my creativity and energy. I've never had a party @ my house before and I want it to be good. On the other hand it is a family shower, I really don't have to impress them. There is only so much you can do weeks ahead of time and I've pretty much done it, so after a nice visit with Dan, Jess and Alexis this weekend I sat down and started my trip album.
I used two sketches to get me going this week.
The first is by Sketchy Thursday,

I flipped the sketch, picked the purple of my bathing suit and the blue of the water as my colours. I used the resort arm band to ground things. I'm really happy with this LO. It also tells the story about how happy I am that I reconnected with Jenn and was able to go on this trip and meet Crystal and Matt. Both of whom I hope will be good friends someday.

The next sketch I used was from Pencil lines

Again I flipped it and used the blue from the water in the pool. I think this album will have a lot of blue in it!

I also want to share my favorite picture from the weekends visit with Lexi. Here is my brother Tim, hanging out at Grandma's, so proud to be an Uncle.

That's all for now. Hopefully I'll get a few more pages down today before I head to Alexis' house on Sunday for a week. Can't wait for cuddles!

Top Ten Punta Cana

Hello all! It's Tuesday so I thought I would play Ten on Tuesday with Kim over @ It's a Crafty Life and use my top ten Punta Cana pics. I've collected many pics from this trip but these are just the ones that I toke that I really liked or loved the story behind them.

But first some background. The groom Darryl and I went to elementary school together until grade 9. We didn't exactly run in the same crowd but got along well enough. He was more popular than me, but then again everyone was. And aside from a period in time when his best friend Ferg called me toad b/c I had freckles (actually he called me toad b/c he liked me, Darryl later told me and he later confirmed), he was always nice to me. Anyway I moved after grade 9 and met Jenn in high school. We didn't really become friends until college when we went to nursing school together for awhile. She was lots of fun to be with. When she left school we kinda lost touch and then when school was over I moved back to the town I grew up in to work. About two or three years ago, I ran into Jenn @ the grocery store. She had followed a boy here and was working as a vet tec in the area. It was nice to see her but I'm terrible at follow thru and didn't give her my number or anything. Then about 6 months later I was @ the Boot having lunch after church with my grandma and a few other ladies when I saw her with Darryl. I wasn't 100% sure it was her, partly b/c she was with Darryl, so I didn't go over to say hello. Determined not to let another potental friend slip away, I looked her up on Facebook and sent her a message..."Hey I think I saw you...blah, blah." She wrote back confirming that I did and that her boyfriend had told her we went to school together. She thought that was amazing! A few weeks later she invited me to Ferg's Buck and Doe and we've been friends ever since. In fact until last summer they lived right down the street from me, they moved b/c Darryl is in the military. I think it's pretty cool that I got to go to their wedding. Here are my top ten pictures from my trip.

This is Jenn, I love this picture of her b/c she toke it herself. I didn't even know that she had until a few days later.

I like this picture b/c of the story behind it. Out front of the hotel there was a pond with flamingos in it. One more while hanging out with Dave and Matt, I said I wanted to take a picture of the flamingos. Dave said "Yeah, I'd like a picture of the penguins too." Penguins?? Well that slip of the tongue carried on for the rest of the trip. Soon our whole group knew about it. And Dave never heard the end of it. :)

Yes the water is actually that blue.

This is the view of the ocean from the wedding site.

I don't claim to be a photographer. When I get it right, it's often by accident. I love this picture of Lisa, the groom's sister-in-law
and matron of honour. I think she looks so beautiful.

Like the movie 27 dresses, the moment when the groom sees the bride is the best moment of all.

The wedding party was uneven so Ferg and Biscuit were each others dates.

 Jenn's Aunt Nancy and I distracted Darryl's nephew with sand castles while pictures were being taken. Love the green of that hat.

 The happy couple, out to dinner a few nights later.

Micheal isn't dead he's alive and living in Punta Cana!! Actually this was the MJ from their Micheal Jackson show. Freaky isn't it? You should have seen him dance!

That's all for now, thanks for stopping by. Ciao amigos!

Home Sweet Home

Hi!!! I'm home from my vacation in Punta Cana. The weather was wonderful. I met some awesome new friends and Darryl and Jenny's wedding was perfect! There will be more photos and some stories to follow I promise, once my computer decides to be co-operative.
Ciao for now.