Scapbooking, Etc.

Hello, everyone! I had a great time scrapbooking this weekend, I got 11 pages done! I am currently working on Vivian's, my 8 month old granddaughter, book. I am doing an 11 1/2 x 12 inch album for her so I'm not getting as many photo's to a page as I would like but it does give more focus to the pictures and layout of the page which is what I like for this kind of album.

Karen, the host for the workshop for the summner months, gave us all copies of the pictures from one of our previous scraps where we all scrapped the same pictures. It is great to see how even though we all had the same pictures, each and every layout was different and unique. She had taken pictures of us at a previous scrap all busily scrapping and chatting away then gave us all copies so we could scrap them and see how they would turn out. (If I can get my daughter Erica to show me how to put the pictures on this blog you will be able to see the results we all had). Our groups name is "The Chatty Scrappers", sometimes I think that we chat more than we scrap but we all have fun and that is what it is all about; fun, new ideas, sharing fun new tools and relaxation!!

Good News Of The Highest Importance! My daughter Erin and her little family are getting ready to finally move to their own apartment!! I love my daughter dearly, but there comes a time when, at least in my life, when the children must finally leave the nest. I enjoy my grandchildren and love them dearly also but it will be nice to just be Grandma again. This will all transpire, hopefully, by the end of the month--and I will at long last have a scrapbooking room. I will keep you all posted. I am really excited.

Yesterday, my daughter Erica, did the grocery shopping then came home and mixed up a big batch of Scandinavian meatballs. When she does this it is a family affair. We three gals, me, Erica and Erin all sit down together and roll meatballs until I don't want to see a bowl of raw meat mixture for a long while. It was, however, a great time to visit and bond with my girls and it made the job a lot faster and fun with the end result being a freezer full of meatballs for any occassion (and of course we had some for dinner, um, um good!). There were a lot of ball jokes being tossed around too!

Little Vivian is at the stage where she is pulling herself up on the furniture but learning that she isn't quite steady enough yet to do all she wants -- she had a couple of little mishaps yesterday where she fell on her little nose. These are the trying times --!

Olivea is doing great and having a lot of fun playing with her little sister. It is fun to watch her and Vivian together. I will miss them being at the house all the time but I will get over it as I sit in my new scrapbooking room working away on their albums!!!

Love, Jimie