End of MLB Season! Waah!

The Sox put the Angels down in the first two. . .I was filled with excitement and decided to do these Angel pages to toast the year, just as the game started! So while the last two games were on, instead of say, chewing gum nervously (Lisa) I scrapped between short breaks! I am crazy! The Anaheim Angels did lose, in very tight games. It felt great to scrap and watch! Unforturnately the Angels did not make it happen to move ahead in the playoffs. I look forward to the new team next year! I am optimistic!

Suki and his boy Noah--afternoon catnap.

Look what I found. . .unfinished project! I started these yo-yo's over 8 years ago. . .being that I am into ALL THINGS ROUND, I decided to get back to them & even start more! I also learned how to make little pinwheels yesterday--look out layouts, here I come!

"Can't Get Enough of You Baby!" {Smashmouth}

Scrapping that is!

I attribute this flurry of pages due to a bit of hunkering down and that the two younger boys are off track, I kinda-sorta have time. Noticing the excess of supplies & hope to turn over the old stuff. One reason you will find everything & the kitchen sink on these pages; must put to use all that stuff I excessively collect!

Angels Stadium

Nose bleed view, but I love this!
{wherein, I come across a photo & find that I look just like my mother, not the younger mother, the old mother!}

Angel's Rally with my crew: Fred, Taylor, Jared, Luke, Noah, Jordan & Janet! MIA Lacette.
Jared & Noah above, Noah and Ethan at Angels vs. Rangers.

As I post this, the Angels are coming off of a 0-2 record against the Red Sox. Naturally I am bummed, I did have a great year of watching the Angels this year put in the most wins in the MLB & hit 100 wins. They go to Fenway tomorrow evening for what could be the last 2008 game. Win or lose, the Angels are my home team! I love the guys on this team! What A* Year!

Happy Birthday Audrey & Jeanne!

Vista, California 1973. L-R: Audrey & Jeanne, me. Audrey and I began a new chapter in our lives after graduating from Maui High School, we attended Cerritos Junior College while managing an apartment complex (we were awful managers!). What a great photo. Happy Birthday girls, you both deserve unending blessings!

Delightful Color Wheels, Like Umbrellas

I'm looney over color wheels like viewing tops of umbrellas, they keep twirling in my creative waking hours! Haven't been doing too much scrapping of late but I am always striving to get to the table. MLB playoffs are beginning next week, exciting time for baseball fans!

Worthy to Share!

{At times uploading photos in order doesn't work! These photos are not uploaded by preference but rather my computer ineptness!} Here is an awesome find at a thrift store this weekend. A brand new Roxy summer bag at $2.00; glory, glory.

Recent family celebration: Ethan is now Ten & Frank is Sixteen, cool cousins.
Noah & Suki with the same expression towards one another: Yes??!
Something royal blue. I began a collection of wedding photos in shell frames (nothing really new if you saw my house full of shell frames). Royal blue seaglass is rare & found in tiny pieces where I shell. I wanted to make use of them. . .found that I could enhance my wedding accented color in my wedding. Here I am with my sisters & at the time Sarah was ten, 1991. Avis, Jeanne, me, Vida & Sarah taken in the backyard of Lorin's parents.

She Plays At My House

Katy is here! I like to think of her playtime as: What To Do With Your Collection of Shells, or
How to Amuse Oneself. . .I wish I looked this cute with my shells!

Real Life Scrapping

Memories! They come tumbling back when you sit back & recall youth at it's dorkiest, purest days. Love the sketching & my prisma pencils, sweet sequins.

Love teenage years! A blessing & a curse. (Monk)

Two Friends & A Canvas in Progress

A canvas of self-portraits by friends & family in progress. We all have a good laugh! The idea came from an artist featured in the Mary Engelbright's "Home Companion" magazine a few years ago.
I have a canvas awaiting for self-portraits from friends & family, and it looks great! And here is Noah with his baseball friend Jared.

New Scrap Philosophy

My New Scrap Philosophy: Do not take it too seriously. It's a gift of time to renew & contemplate, and a wonderful playground. At times, I do feel guilty for not doing more, or for being unorganized or not being uniquely artistic, but I need to remind myself, my love for scrapbooking is a FREE ZONE & not a place for self incriminations. Enough said. I get it.

For some reason I want to put buttons on every layout! I cannot possibly use all the buttons I have collected & all of a sudden I can't get my hands on enough of them! I found this wonderful layout by Mou Sohou in which she used a stamp, I have a need to scrapjack her use of a stamp. I love stamps & I'm always looking for ways to incorporate them in layouts. Lately as I view favorite scrap sites, I am blown away by the creative work that is exploding everywhere--such inspired talent everywhere!

I love this photo. Misty light. I remember feeling so blessed to be spending time with loved ones again & finally being on Maui once again. I do not take these trips for granted, ever.
Teeny photos, great to work with! Just playing with all kinds of odds & ends. The clear epoxy rounds have been sitting in my drawer for about five years. . .

Living A Dream

Like putting together a puzzle! And, oh happy buttons!

Thoughts on blogging my scrap pages. Disclosure: If you think my life is rosy. Well, it is. But I live the prickly, stressful, endearing life of a stay-at-home Mom.

This layout makes me crack up.

*Grace

And Diane brought this to prayer group yesterday: The will of God will not take you where the grace of God will not protect you.

Anja Wade has begun to incorporate these outlined words on her layouts. The way she uses homemade everyday tools, ie. a pen!, appeals to my artist's soul. I decided I'd like to practice doodling.

I have intended to use hula girls in some manner for years. I came across during blogging a site named http://hulagirl.com/blog/ and it has inspired me to create loosely myself in capri pants/everyday wear with a hula skirt! It makes me laugh!
I keep up the doodling when I am viewing Angel's baseball or waiting in school pickup lines.
When I was a young girl I hung up my share of laundry on lines, and my mother had twins, we then totaled six kids. Can you imagine the sheer volume of clothes & diapers needing to be hung every single day? Nothing like the fresh breath of wind dried clothes on a laundry line!

Currently am: nursing summer colds, reading Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, rooting for the best team in the MLB--Go Angels, and a little doodling & scrapbooking. Being inspired by many favorite artist's work on their blogs & finding new artists! There was a time when I could never get enough of nonfiction autobiographical writings, and now with the Internet, everyone has a blog! I am also hanging out with my many girlfriends, & enjoying a short baseball break before winter league begins. Settling down to a new 2008-09 school year for Luke & Noah. Just minding my busyness!