Akron Zoo...

The recipe challenge going on right now at Simply Scrapping (link is to the right) focuses on zoo animals! Seemed like a perfect excuse for me to work on our Akron Zoo pictures from Livy's birthday!

Recipe is:
You must use everything in the recipe. You can use more of one item, but NOT less.
1. Use an animal you will find at the zoo. Must be an outside animal either a photograph, on the paper, or embellishment.
2. 3 buttons, 2 hearts, and 1 tag
3. 2 different Alphabets-One must be from chipboard
4. 1 Square & 1 Circle
5, Color Black
6. Stitching either rub or real
7. Minimum 2 styles of papers

Deadline is June 11, so get scrapping!


There's also a great prize involved, go check it out!

Hiker Chicks

We spend a lot of time at the county parks. They just opened a new trail over at Buckeye Woods and we had a great time exploring it, I think we now know every inch of that trail...all the flowers and critters. Well, maybe not, that's the great thing about nature...it is always surprising you!

Entrepreneur Fair

My girls hate math in all its forms it seems (can't imagine where they get that! lol) so when the homeschool support group I was a part of this year offered an Entrepreneur Night for the kids I jumped on it!

The girls made up little business plans, approached daddy with it to be a backer to help them buy supplies and they set up their little booth and sold their wares. In the end, both made about $15 profit (which quickly went to buying new webkinz). And the best part, they didn't realize they were doing math by making change and figuring profit margins.

It was a fun night!


Papers are from The Scrap Queen Jillibean Soup kit from May.

High Flying Fun

We got on a kite flying kick this spring. The girls loved it and what a great opportunity to get some science lessons in!

Unfortunately, even though there weren't many trees around, it seems that kites have a propensity to find them! But, it also meant I got to get a few great shots of my DH climbing up into a tree to detangle the lines!

Basic Grey Lime Rickey papers (Scrap Queen kit) for the layout and my own thickers from my hoard (LOVE thickers!)

We (heart) Mom

Or so my dds say. We had a great time on Mother's Day at Wellington Reservation on the paddleboats. The girls weren't a big help paddling so I got a great workout, but it was nice to be out in the middle of the lake, away from all the craziness of everyday life.

And we got some really cute photo shots. It is such a beautiful park. I am so lucky to live in an area that is gorgeous and have counties that take steps to preserve it. And offer fun opportunities to take advantage of it as well.

Papers are from CTMH's Tickled Pink promotion from May. They were exactly the feel I was wanted to evoke on my page...girly!

And challenge was a sketch from ScrapNMoms

I scream 4 ice cream

My daughters are ice cream freaks! Which is great for them, but it isn't so fun for mommy who cannot have ice cream. They do however have an aunt and cousin who are all about it as well.

So, when Aunt Mindy mentioned ice cream after we went to the Akron Zoo for Livy's birthday they were more than happy to oblige. We hadn't been to Elm Farm Dairy here in Medina yet and they had just opened for the season, so we went to check it out.

The Chocolate Mud received big smiles (and muddy smiles) all around, with the exception of Trin who opted for Lemon Dream or something to that effect.

I love how fun Basic Grey's Lime Rickey collection is, it went perfect for my sunny day ice cream photos. It was from the kit at The Scrap Queen last month.

Battle!

Ah yes, the big fun thing at our house! My family are Star Wars fiends....and DH is the biggest enabler of buying toys for the girls (Trin only collects female jedi...she's such a girl power chickeepoo! Go Trin!). Anyway, Stan has been collecting toys as long as I have known him.

Trin was in looking at his collection not long ago and asked "Daddy? Why don't you play with your toys? I would play with you." Kinda tugged at the cockles of his heart and all and thus Battle was born. I'm not sure they accomplish much more than lining up all their respective figures and ships (and there are A LOT) but they spend lots of time together doing this and THAT warms the cockles of my heart seeing them laugh and be silly.

Challenge was from awhile back at If the SHoe Fits, it was black and white only on a page (or something like, like I said, it's been AWHILE). Papers are scraps of CTMH Silhouette collection (I think my all time favourite!)

Walk - SNM Sketch Challenge

One of my favourite new finds are the American Crafts 6x12 page protectors. Sarah just got them in last month at The Scrap Queen. I love being able to add mini pages throughout my album and these so fit the bill!

Coincidentally, Emily posted a great 6x12 sketch as one of our challenges on ScrapNMoms, so I had an awesome excuse to get my butt in gear and use them!



Just a few shots of the sights when we were out walking on Mother's Day at Wellington reservation.

You R Simply Wonderful

I LOVE this die cut paper! I'm not sure of who makes it, but it is from Simply Scrapping as are most of the elements of the page, except the fringe. I have been on such a trim kick lately, I have been finding lots of great trim at garage sales and I made a trip to Zinck's in Berlin (where awesome trim is .25 a yard!!!!) and have really accumulated some fun stuff!

This piece was white, but that is my favourite colour lately. Why? Because white ribbon, trim, etc is awesome to play with glimmer mist! I sprayed this piece with black gold (which is one of my favouritest colours!)

Happy Belated Friends Day!

Yesterday was Best Friends Day and we had a card challenge on Simply Scrapping to make one for your friend.

Here is what I came up with


It is made with my scraps from the Piggytales paper in the Summer Fun kit from The ScrapQueen this month. The gnome is an SU stamp and I coloured him with my copics and then highlighted his beard with a sparkle pen, that doesn't photograph well, but IRL makes him really pop.