Week 39 - safetysuit

TGIF!!

It's been a super long week here, so happy it's the weekend!! I fell off the wagon with the SITS Girls blogging challenge but with good reason.  Our sweet Amber was quite sick and I had some long sleepless nights with her.  We took her to the vet yesterday and she is now on the mend thankfully. Hoping for a full night of sleep tonight!!

I made this layout tonight for the 52 Week challenge, I'm amazed that I'm still in this challenge. I may not share my pages each week (lazy blogger that I am sometimes) but I'm still scrapping at least one page each and every week. 

I pulled out this pictures last week and decided to use them tonight.  They aren't the best as they are zoomed in cell pics but it was such a fun night that I wanted to document it for our scrapbook.  We went to Mohegan Sun on Good Friday and as we were strolling around after dinner, we came upon this awesome band.  I'm hoping we can see them again and actually sit in the Wolf Den so we can see them a bit better (the lead singer was so cute! LOL!!)

My layout was created using this week's Classy Sketch.  Papers are by Echo Park and from the Note to Self Collection. Added some tape from Bella Blvd, stickers and brads from my stash.  I like how it turned out!

TFL!

Fall into Blogging - Day 3

If you are here to see my Flutter By Wednesdays post, please scroll down :-)

Today's prompt from SITS is: Share one of your favorite fall memories with us, or something you look forward to each fall.

What I look forward to each fall~

• Wearing hoodies and jeans 

 

 (in Newport on Saturday, the first day of fall, in 70 something degree weather LOL!)

• Eating soups and stews

• Fairs and the yummy food that goes along with them

 

(Fried Dough at the Guilford Fair this past Sunday)

• Thanksgiving - I usually take the whole week off

• Decorating for the season - got all the Disney awesomeness at CVS last week!

• Celebrating the adoption anniversary of our pup Amber  :-) - it will be 2 years on October 30th!

Thanks for stopping by!

Flutter By Wednesdays #207

It's Flutter By Day!

Today's Flutter By Wednesdays challenge is the popular Anything Goes - just remember to include a butterfly or fairy on your project. Link up HERE and check out all the DT Inspiration!

I found a cool sketch at iClassygirl.com and rolled with that and some of the same supplies I used on last week's card - still loving the washi tape! Cardstock is PTI and patterned paper is Authentique Delightful.  Sentiment is from a Scrappy Moms stamp set and the butterfly punch is from Martha Stewart.

Here's the sketch~

I'll be back in a few hours with the SITS Girls Fall into Blogging Day 3 post!

Fall Back into Blogging - Day 2

Good morning!

Today's prompt for the SITS Girls Fall Back into Blogging Challenge is a photo prompt - a picture of what fall looks like in your neck of the woods or a picture that means "fall" to you.

Here are some photos I wanted to share of Kent Falls State Park from last fall.

We go every year and every year we manage to go either too early or too late and miss seeing a lot of color all at once LOL. One of these years we will get the timing right :)  We've been checking the Foliage Network and it's still low color right now. So hopefully we can pick the right day to go this year!

Thanks for visiting!

Bushel and a Peck

I finally spent a little time playing with my Daydream Designs digi stamps & papers tonight.  I was a bit burned out after the 30 days of Christmas cards last month and have really slacked on getting much done this month - I can't believe it's the end of the 24th already!!

I printed the image from the Bushel and a Peck Colorized set, it's great to have some pre-colored images on hand for quick cards! I also printed the two designer papers from the Fall Papers pack.  I used this week's Critter Sketch Challenge for the card layout and incorporated the Pink Elephant's Chevron/Hexagon challenge by using chevron paper.  To add a little sparkle to the card, I used the Gold Spica pen on the leaves.  The edges of the image were inked with Amber Clay chalk ink and in place of the 3 stars in each corner, I added leaf brads from my stash.

Here's the sketch~

TFL!

Fall Back into Blogging Challenge - Day 1

The SITS Girls are challenging their readers to "fall" back into blogging now that summer is sadly over...sigh...

So I thought this would be a fun thing to join in on to get back into the blogging groove myself!  You can check out today's prompt about sharing your best school memory HERE and see who else is participating.

It's been quite awhile since I've been in high school and I don't mind admitting that either LOL!  I really enjoy being an adult in the real world, despite all the not so fun responsibilities.  Even though I was a great student, I can't say that I truly enjoyed school all that much.

I thought I would share a memory about one of my favorite teachers and her impact on my life that's still present in me today.  I LOVE to read!  I always have but in high school as a freshman, I was transitioning from young adult books to more adult reading.  My English teacher, Mrs. Petuch, had a small library in the back of the classroom where she encouraged students to "check out" books.

This is the first "grown up" book that I remember reading~

This started a lifelong love of Danielle Steel for me - I've read almost all of her books. I own every single one of them, however I haven't read the newer ones from the last several years yet.  I am always afraid the next book will be her last and then I won't have anything new to read LOL! Silly I know!!

Thanks for stopping by today! I'll be back tonight with something scrappy to share and tomorrow with a new prompt from the SITS Girls!