I apologize for not having posted anything recently, but the 12 hours a day at work is taking it toll...

Here are the cover pages I did for the scrapbook I gave my sister for Christmas...she's been hounding me to do a book for her - that she doesn't know how...

And given that I'm expecting things at work to settle down 'bout the middle of this month, I'm probably going to be signing up for a BlogTrain for March...there will be more Freebies coming!!

New Challenges Answered...

I've got the day off...that's a dangerous thing 'cuz i have a bad habit of sitting and feeding my need for creativity...
And Netta, at Creative Victorian, has posted the next round of challenges...
so here's a few things's I've been doing....

A Tribue to

Josephine and Charles

My Grandparents

For as long as I can remember my family made the trip to Queens, New York, and spent a week or two visiting with Grandma Josie and Grandpa Charlie. And for as long as I can remember, as Grandpa read his paper and commented on events of the day, he and my mom would ... discuss ... the stories of the day - usually very energetically.

And they never did seem to agree on much of anything!

This was done to answer the Heritage Challenge at Creative Victorian Designs Forum.

Once Upon a Time...

A couple of years ago Mom and I were talking and decided that it would be a great for her and dad to spend their 50th Anniversary on a cruise ship with their family. One year and 5 million emails and phone calls later, 15 of us boarded the Carnival Cruise ship Glory. Mom, Dad, my sister and brother, their significant others and children, and my husband and I and our children all managed to find our way every day to the dining room for the 6:30 dinner seating - otherwise we all pretty much went whichever way we wanted.

This was my first cruise - and my husband Dan was very supportive of my having custom outfits made up for formal nights, and buying whole bunch of new clothes for both of us. This is a picture of us from in the Dining room on Formal Night.

The page in all white was done to answer a Hodge Podge Challenge at Creative Victorian, and the page with Dan and I is going in the book next to it!

Netta is getting me to start working on pages with only one picture on them...something I'm not used to doing - and i guess can work better than I thought.

Slide Show of Challenge Pages

this is a Growing Slideshow of some of my recent work.
These pages were done to answer Challenges at DesignsByJ3 and CreativeVictorian (links in the sidebar.)

Parent's 50th Anniversary Scrapbook

This is a Slideshow of a Hybrid Scrapbook I built for my parent's 50th Anniversary last year. The base pages were developed on my PC, and printed, and 'finished' with a wide variety of regular embellishments, including large amounts of Jolees flowers and Anita's Outline Stickers in gold. I built the front cover from scratch. A few of the pieces were purchased during the after Christmas sales - to be used months later when I finally got to building out the book.