Challenge #11...

Here's my Lo for challenge 11. It's a pic of the garden I planted the day of my dad's funeral. It wasn't complete yet when I took the picture, by this is as far as I got that day.

I can't wait for the snow to melt and the flowers to bloom. I love being out in my garden, just me and my thoughts digging in the dirt, tunes cranked WAY UP and forgeting about the rest of the world for a few hours a week.

I can't believe we are down to the past challenge already! What am I going to do with my free time now? LOL, good thing it's wedding season and I have orders to work on.

Linda

Challenge 10, Road Block!

Well, only one of us had to do this challenge and it was the one who hadn't done the other challenge that only one of us had to do... SO, it was my turn!! The challenge was to use 50 different elements from at least 10 different designers!! It wasn't easy, let me tell you!! But, in the end, I love how my page turned out, it is really kewl, I think...



I don't know if you know this, but on all of my layouts, You can click them and they'll get bigger for you if you want to see more of the details of them!! :D

Huggles all!!
~Sarah~

Challenge 9...

Here's my page for challenge 9 (Altered Art). I love the altered art style. It kind of fits my decorating style, although my family will tell you I don't have really have just one. I have every room in my house decorated in a different style because I like too many to pick just one! I have rooms decorated in retro, vintage, primative, Americana, modern contemporary, country, outdoorsy lodge and I'm about to redo the main bathroom in shabby chic. LOL, it's way cheaper to scrapbook my styles than decorate with them.

Linda

Challenge 9, Altered Art!

Well, I don't know anything about Altered Art so I have no clue if I did what they asked me to do... Don't be surprised if you see me show up with another layout in a couple days that is more "altered", lol... But, I sure like how this one turned out!!



Linda, I have to tell ya, I went to Alaska in the summer time, which is really the only time you can actually go and visit. They sort of batten down the hatches for winter up there, lol... BUT, in the summer, the weather is crisp but not freezing. We wore our jackets but we didn't have any snow fall on us. The glaciers didn't melt but it wasn't very cold. It was really awesome to leave Southern California in the middle of a nice hot summer, and head north for cool temperatures if only for 10 days!! :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

WOW

Those pic's turned out big! I forgot to mention that those crazy bridesmaids are my daughter and her friends. There were 6 of them that got married in 2006 and they all stood up for each other, and got a little more crazy with each wedding. My daughter is the one with the cones, and one the two "hay wrestling" LOL, she's also in the pic on the water wheel. The two of them decided to crawl into this huge water wheel outside of the country club where the reception was being held and see if they could walk like hamsters on a wheel! LOL, they never did get the wheel to move, but my daughter had some nice bruises from where her foot went through the rotted wood on the bottom of it. Those girls are a crazy bunch. I have a ton of pic's from the various weddings and bridal parties, but some of them would probably get me banned. Let's just say that when a bus load of girls on their way home from a bachelorette party at 2:00am have to take a potty break and nothing is open... any field or convience store parking lot will do. I think I'll just keep those pic's for blackmail purposes.The picture on the bottom is all of them (including my other 2 daughters) at my daughters shower. I guess married life agrees with them, about half of them either have or going to pop out babies this year.

Sarah, your vacation to Alaska looks like it was a great time. I hear that it is beautiful there. But being from Wisconsin I have no desire right now to visit anywhere that it is colder than here. We got 3 more inches of the white stuff today, and they are predicting more next week! I can't wait for it all to melt and the sun to come out for more than one day at a time.

See you after challenge #9, Linda

Challenge 8...

Yeah! I got to make a neat page. When I found out we had to scrap a page about our most memorable trip/vacation I knew right away what I would do. I did my page on a trip to the season 4 American Idol finales that my daughter and I won thru a local radio station. I hadn't looked at these pic's in a long time. Some of our pictures are still on my daughters cell phone as we haven't bought the cable to download them yet. :( But we did get some great shots out in the courtyard at Highland Center. It was the first time I had gone on a vacation alone with one of daughters. We had a great time. We got tickets to the last two tapings, and our air fare/hotel stay! Now we're saving up to go back and see all the fun things we missed while the show was taping...

... Linda

Challenge 7... I just can't do messy!

Here's my attempt at a "messy" page. I guess I'm an organizer by nature, or as my youngest daughter tells me... I'm too anal about things being in their place. LOL, I had a hard time with this one, and yes I will be straightening a few things out before I save it for myself.

Linda