Home Cooking......January 4!

After a very busy weekend I just didn't want to go anywhere. I slept in until 11am, made homemade spaghetti sauce in my crockpot and stayed in my jammies for most of the day.

The kids and I took down the Christmas tree and put our house back together. Other than a quick trip over to the store, I didn't even go outside.

I love days like that. I didn't even watch one hockey game. It was a nice break. I am ready for next weekend. We have 5 games in 3 days again. Bring it on!

Hockey Is My Life....January 3

Jason had 5 games in 3 days this weekend. On top of that we had a Ranger game on Friday night and I took Amanda to St. Clements to see her boyfriend play a game on Saturday afternoon. This photo is of Jason catching up on all the text messages he missed when he was on the ice. The inside of Albert McCormick arena seems like my second home. The hockey will continue to be very busy through January and February.



To top it all off, when we arrived home at 9:30pm we watched the Canada vs Russia game which finished with an overtime period and a shoot out! Canada won and we will play for the gold medal on Monday night.

Hockey really is my life.....but I wouldn't have it any other way!

Up Late.....January 2

I didn't go into the store today until about 3:30 because we were running a crop and I would be working the late shift.

It started at noon and went until the last scrapbooker dropped. I arrived home at about 2am and then I headed to bed around 2:30. I snapped this picture of my bedside clock. The shot is sort of blurry.....I felt the same way!

Project 365

I have decided to do something new this year. It is called project 365. The project is quite simple....you just take one picture every day for a year. This picture, in a sense, should tell a story about that particular day. The point of project 365 is to capture an aspect of your everyday life, everyday. It could be a photo of laundry if you did a bunch of laundry that day, a photo of the doctors office if you had an appointment that day....nothing is off limits. This project is not necessarily supposed to depict all the picture perfect moments of your day, but rather what the story of the day entailed.

I may post more than one photo each day, I may not post for a few days and then post a couple at a time. I am going to keep it flexible. I love this idea and I am going to try to stay dedicated for the whole year.

Here goes.......

January 1st!


I spent most of my day at my scrapbook desk. I was busy finishing up little projects that I had started. I was in and out of this room for most of the day. It was great because I usually don't get very much time to just sit and play.




Later in the evening when I was watching TV I pulled out the scarf that I have been working on for Amanda. It was actually her project, but she said it would look better if I did it. So on Christmas eve we ripped out all the rows that she had done and we started over. I am just about finished.

Sketch Challenge

Sketches make scrapbooking a little easier sometimes. I stumbled across this one and really liked the layout. I was also inspired to take photos of my tree and the ornaments. On the Two Scrapbook Friends blog we put out a challenge and the deadline was yesterday.

This was the sketch:


This was my take on it! I love how it turned out. I did it yesterday, finishing at about 4pm. Yes, I know......I left it until the last possible minute. I have said it before, I think I work best under pressure. Most of the products are from My Little Yellow Bicycle. I used the decorative pattern papers as the backdrop of my layout and embellished with the ornament paper and bling. The title is from the Joys of the Season Cricut cartridge and the tree is from the Christmas Solutions Cricut cartridge. I really love the tree.

Here is my detail shot of the tree. I shadowed it with a darker green cardstock and added the bling as the ornaments.

These ornaments I cut out from the pattern paper. They are already foiled so I didn't have to do much to make them look pretty.

I added a touch of bling to the title to tie it into the page.