Taylor's Paintings

These are two Christmas gifts that Taylor painted. One is a 16x20 Canvas of a flamingo. The other is a five foot by 2 foot canvas for her grandma of a Japanese style girl.

She is so talented. I am hoping maybe someday I will get one for me too. Hint hint Taylor.

Logan's Halloween Costume

Since I posted Taylor's Halloween costume and not Logan's I thought I better do his too.
He was the Kool Aid man. It was kind of fun to make and he really liked it. The papers are from Cool Summer kit designed by Simply Sweet Designs by Kim

Taylor Halloween

Taylor loved to get her costume ready for halloween. She knitted the hat, after learning to knit. She also dyed the pants to match the correct color.

Logan's Jacket

Logan's Award

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As the winner of the Best offensive player for 2009 the Warriors gave Logan this award and jacket. He is so proud.

Logan's Football Photo

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Originally uploaded by kenzi1

This is Logan's first year of football playing in the Kinsmen Football League. He had a great year and got to be the quarterback for most of the year. He also won the offensive player of the year. Yeah Logan!!

Holidays in Hand Class

I love Jessica Sprague and her amazing classes. Especially the free ones! I have taken up her offer for a new class - Holidays in Hand.

This new class will hopefully put things in perspective for me and make the holiday more of a holiday and less like a shopping trip.

Day one of the class is to refocus on the holiday values.

That is a toughie. What are my values? I have them honest. I just have never written them down anywhere.

My family is the most important thing. I think that my set of values revolve around them.

* I want traditions - more traditions. I just hope that my kids are not too old to start some.

* I value my family. My goal is to make more time for us. Not just my kids and I but my only sister and her family as well as my cousins and aunts and uncles. I want to get to know them.

* Spiritual values - Do I have them? I am not sure. I believe in something. What I don't know. I am sure that there is a God but I don't believe that the God in charge of our world would allow some of the crap going on to occur. I guess my goal is to find God or something. I just know that that would make our family stronger.

* Thanks. I believe that we should be thankful for what we have. We might not have a brand new suv but we have a functional, and working van that serves our needs. There are many out there that do not even have that. We might not have money for fancy trips but we can enjoy a trip to the movies just as much.

My goals are to be a better person. One who can be loved and counted on. One who can be thankful for all that I have. One whose family is close and enjoys each other.

I sure hope this is what I am suppose to be doing.

what the heck

I just noticed now - a few months too late- that the date on the side is not updating. I am going to have to get a new blog design I guess.

Football

Logan is all done football. They had an amazing season. Logan was the quarterback and won the offensive player of the season.

New storyboard of photos from the lake

Cute layout of my nephew

This was made the a challenge at Stuff to Scrap using her In My Boys Pocket kit by Mad Genius Designs

Another Disney Grid

Grid with some Disney Photos

Here is a grid I made using some of the photos we made from people we met along the way

New project - Storyboard

Here is my 2nd last project for my class. It was making a story board. I didn't realize how easy they were to make.

Here is Logan from his track meet - this is just his High Jump photos.

New project

Here I tried my hand at tinting.

new project

burn project

Here is my next project - This is the kids first day of school from 2003!!

Kids photo from San Diego

This is for Project 8 in my Jessica Sprague Class.

I love the way this photo was transformed.

word art by Betthany

Day 6 of my Jessica Sprague class

Today I used a photo of my Mom, Uncles Adam and Bart and My Grampa Peter. This was taken when Mom was about 9 or 10 I think. I used a couple of textures and brushes. The photo is already very worn so this helps disguise those problems.

signatures

So I made a new signature today. Not sure if I like it or not. It is kind of cute.

Textures - Project for the day

Here is my project for today. Textures. This is one of my favorite pics of Taylor. With a little grunge and some other textures. Add a little frame and voila.

Using Clipping Masks

Project day 4 for Jessica Sprague class was learning to use clipping masks. I love using them. They are so easy.

Here is my interpretation.

Jessica Sprague New Free Class Project 3 with bonus

Here is my Project three photo. The project was hand tinting. with the bonus use of the star brush. Don't really like the stars I think.

I tinted his hair and lips.

Jessica Sprague New Free Class Project 2

Here is todays piece. The class was on using brushes. I used a cute pic of Mitzki

Whew

I love all that I have been getting done. Lawns are mowed, front and back. Lawns are watered. Dishes done. Laundry done and folded, two loads another in the washer and one more to fold.

Hope that I will get some more scrapping done today.

If you have not checked out Jessica Sprague's classes go to her site and check them out. I am enjoying them.

Jessica Sprague New Free Class Project 1

Here is my first project for the new Jessica Sprague Class.

Not sure Taylor will like it.

Storyboards for my sister

These are two storyboards that I made. One for each nephew. I found this amazing site called Coffee Shop She is an amazing lady who makes fabulous freebies. I used her new Storyboard called Box in Box. You can get it from her blog.

couple new layouts

Photo collage

Salmon Cakes

These are Taylor's salmon cakes . They looked great and tasted even better. I love when Taylor cooks.

Salmon Cakes

I love my daughter. This is Taylor's most recent book. She loves it. Last night for supper she chose to make Salmon Cakes. They were yummy.

Shock

I can not Believe that Michael Jackson is dead.

That just surprized me. Died of a heart attack. His music and talent will be missed. Whether you liked him or hated him he brought a lot to the music world.

Summer television usually sucks but not this year

I am not sure why but this year television has been fixed - summer tv is actually good - maybe even better than usual.

We've got my new fave show - TRUE BLOOD , The Cleaner, Wipeout, The Listener, So You Think You Can Dance, Harper's Island, The Philanthropist, and I just found out that KINGS is on tonight. YEAH. I thought that it was cancelled.

Stampin Up Sets for Sale

I am clearing out my wood stamps - all Stampin Up. I want to make room for other stuff.

This is a list of the ones I have for Sale - or trade for acrylics.

These are all Mounted but never used:

Loads of Love Loads of Love Accessories

Totally Tabs "S'

Curvy verses Stew Pot Pals

* Party Punch Its a date

Animal Alpha Ephemera

On the Spot Background *Small Script

*Made from Scratch *Say it Simply

*Weather or Not *Flowers of Gratitude

These are all Unmounted - an obviously not used

One Smart Cookie Circle of Friends

* Time worn Trim *Riveting

Notebook Numbers Notebook Alphabet

Wildlife Reserve * Painted Posies

Word by Word Background Be Happy

These are mounted and partially used once or twice only:

Aquaria Trim the tree All about U

Reindeer Print All Year Cheer I Polar Pals

*Send a Celebration Dance Sketches Toucan of my love

Kanji Background Basics *Alphabet Soup

The Ones with * are all Salebration ones.

If you are interested let me know. Email me or comment

I took my first exam

I took my first exam - I am taking a travel course. I got 80%. I would have got 90% but I am an idiot and can't read so I missed a question.

Working on my Project 365 blog

Today is the day that I work on my project 365 blog. I am so far behind - I am just going to do a Jan, Feb, March, and April monthly I think instead of weekly.

We'll see. You can see it here

Zoo photos

Here are some of the photos from the zoo. Logan and I went to the zoo with my sister and her boys.

Here is Mr. Wolf. He was very hot.

Here is Mr.Lion. He is brand spanking new to the zoo this year.

So tired and cold

Where are you summer? It is another cold and dreary day here in Toon Town. Guess it is better than the snow that Calgary is getting.

Sucks to be Taylor visiting her Dad in Calgary this weekend.

Yeah ME!!!

Last night at the scrapbooking night that I went to - for a great cause - I won a T-shirt, a hat, a paper pack, a gorgeous outdoor lantern and the best thing of all - a free photoshoot!!! Yeah me!!!

The Comeback Tour

Here is the same jacket - only now it is 8 years later(she actually got the jacket in 2001)

She still thinks she can rock it!!

I hate when she rummages through old boxes in the basement storage.

Check her pocket - she probably has it full of snacks!!!!

Digimon Jacket - the comeback tour

This is Taylor in 2003 wearing her favorite jacket - a blue digimon coat with a front pocket

Shayna Says NO MORE PICTURES OF ME!!!!

You know your dog has had enough photos when she gives you this look of disgust

Trying to get this shot better

Here is the original:
Here is the best I could do:

Originally this was a photo that my mom had in a frame for the last 30+ years. I have tried to fix it the best I can. It still looks bad. At least you can tell there are people in the picture. One really cute baby too. (that would be me)

Hope my Mom likes it.

Taylor's Panda Hat - on Logan

This is a cute hat that Grama Linda made for Taylor. Logan loves to piss her off and touch her stuff. Unfortunately he also loves to have his photo taken so there is always proof of his bad behavior.

A couple of new layouts

Thanks for this amazing template from Jenn Murphy. Check out her blog. She has some great stuff.

This is a layout I did with her template. Using photos that were mostly taken by my lovely and talented dear daughter Taylor

My First Storyboard

I wanted to do a storyboard. I was not sure how but realized it is just a scrapbook page. In a sense. Here is my first one.

Photography blog

I was going to start a photography blog but I would rather just use this one blog to keep things together.

Montage of Basketball photos

At Logan's bball tourney in Regina I took 783 photos. Many didn't turn out because I didn't know how to use the camera. I am slowly getting the hang of it.

Photos of love taken with the new camera