Welcome! For a long time I've resisted starting a blog, but finally gave in. After doing Stacy Julian's Twelve class last year (where we produced 144 layouts plus an album of 12 photos I love layouts), and faithfully uploading each one to the Big Picture Classes site, I realized that I still crave sharing my scrapbooking pursuits with other scrappers. And, so, I am very happy to share my most recent layouts :)

Surprise Deliveries was created shortly before Christmas. We have an annual advent calendar of activities that we do, one of which was deliver Christmas treats around town. So, we packaged up 9 containers of goodies and surprised friends all over our town. The kids loved it and the friends were pleasantly surprised :)

  Carpe Diem - the title was inspired by a list of Erma Bombeck quotes I keep at my desk lol. But it holds true for this annual tradition of evaporating water. It's also the essence of what makes us Saskatchewanians - when the weather gets almost unbearably cold, we do crazy fun stuff to cope :)

Happy Days - This was one of those very rare days where the hoarfrost was still clinging onto the trees even once the sun came out. When I got the kids from school, I took them straight out to the town cemetery to try to capture the beauty. My son was a little reluctant to pose for photos at first, and I think that's why I loved this one best. It really captures the two of their personalities! 

 

In His Element is just where my son is at with hockey. While we reluctantly put him into hockey this year, it has been a great season - he's come so far and had a great introduction to the sport by some awesome coaches. We're loving it and looking forward to next season. It's also been a bonding thing for father and son as he learns from his dad about how to do a slap shot or raise the puck or hold the stick. Wonderful.

Santa was Here was a quickie I threw together just to document the stuff the kids got for Christmas this year. It's so hard to keep it all straight. I was also excited to use my new glitter tapes :) 

Take a Leap is about my daughter's return to dance. She had two years away from dance classes as took some convincing from me to start again. It's a non-competitive group which I love as I think dance can be just for fitness and body-awareness but doesn't need to be about scores and judging. She loves her hip-hop and jazz classes, particularly having her bff in one class.

Perfect Fall Day is a layout from the Crop & Create kit I got when I attended in November. I LOVE this layout and how perfect it was for these photos that we took while feeding the chickadees at Beaver Creek in October.

What makes me smile is a total scraplift! I took it from the recent Close To My Heart catalogue and it even uses the same CTMH papers! But, it just worked for these awesome photos I got of our sledding fun this winter. Sure is nice with the big lens :)

Your New Winter Wonderland is again about hockey - which is a huge recurring theme in my scrapbooking this year! This was his first hockey game ever and I used a Scrapbook Studio monthly kit for it. 

The true beauty of our Christmas is a layout I felt compelled to create. I feel that our Christmases seem to be so over-commercialized that the real meaning is often forgotten. So, I found some photos and thought of some things that kept my heart where it should be at Christmas. The quiet little moments.