So this weekend I spent several hours sorting through pictures from 2011. I had printed them at various times when photo sites had sales. They have just been piling up as I spent most of 2011 making scrapbook gifts.
Well, I am so ready to work on them so I had to sort them and I was a bit overwhelmed when I realized how many events I had to scrap, I scrap by events. I was also excited as I started sorting through some of my new papers for these pictures. I keep a calendar each year with events on it so I know what photos I need to print and scrap. I realized I didn't print pics from my summer trip with the girls and I remembered I wanted to get some odd sizes from scrapbook pictures, you can get 3by3 4by4 5by5 and other cool sizes. However, when I sent to their site yesterday they are now closed down.... Boooooooooo I was so disappointed because the odd sizes are so great for scrapping. So I did some searching on the internet and found another site that I think is going to work.It is called RitzPix http://www.ritzpix.com/  and they have the odd sizes too. They also give you 25 free 4 by 6 when you sign up with them and it is free. So I am getting some pictures from them and will post back on my blog how they turn out.


I am now so ready to Power Crop and get ready to scrap at Cheryl's in a few weeks and then again in Pineville Feb.16- 19. Power Cropping is where I pick my pictures and papers and put them together so I don't have to pack 100 lbs of paper. Picking out the paper is the hardest part for me. My first project is to scrap my 50th birthday from last February when Cheryl and I went to Memory Lane Inn in Tyler, TX. We had the whole house to ourselves and it was a great way to spend my 50th, I was so busy I didn't really have time to think about being half a century old.

It was another great scrapping weekend. Cheryl got a new I Phone and called me over to help her set it up, well I decided to go ahead and bring my scrapping stuff. We had a great day scrapping and then Wayne invited Lee and I over for fried fish on Sunday evening so I left my scrapping stuff at Cheryl's. On Sunday after lunch I headed back over there to watch some football and scrap. I am SO happy because I finished an album for a friend this weekend and some other 2010 Christmas pictures that I forgot to do last weekend. Lee came over around 5:30 with his awesome 
"Paula Dean" coleslaw and we had a great supper. I stayed till about 8 PM then headed home to see the rest of the Giants, 49ers game. I am going to cheer for the Giants in the SuperBowl just like I did the last time they were there.
My scraproom is now a wreck and I will spend some time this week getting it cleaned up again. I am hoping to do some power-cropping this next weekend as I have a scrapbook crop to attend in a few weeks in February and if I don't get some stuff ready I will pack too much.

I had a wonderful 3 day weekend with my scrapping sisters. We stayed at Cheryl's and scrapped the day and nights away in her new, awesome scraproom.(thanks Wayne!) I completed my Christmas 2010 pictures and my Christmas 2011 for a total of 56 pages. YEAH! That is a good feeling. We ate snacks - popcorn- peanuts - chocolate -chips, dip. We had gumbo, pizza from Pizza Hut, green beans, potatoes, sausage and yummy breakfast. Cheryl was the perfect host. We scrapped, laughed and cheered our Saints on, watched some TV and listened to music on Pandora. It was just such a relaxing fun weekend. I love my time with Cheryl & Connie as they always make me feel so blessed. It is off to work tomorrow for 3 and half days that will be busy. But,that is OK because everyday I work is one day closer to retirement and then I can scrap whenever I want. YEAH!!! 


I will post pictures of my Christmas layouts later in the week.

 So today is a sad day as I have lost someone I love dearly. Maw Maw Gertie. She is my x-husband's grandmother and great grandmother to my children D'nea and Brandon. She is and always will be my Maw Maw Gertie whom I have know for over 30 years and could not love her more if we were blood related. I have such fond memories of her. I am hoping to find some photos and make a mini scrapbook about her. She was 96 years old and lived a very productive life. I use to spend summers with her picking and canning vegetables. It was nothing for us to get 20 dozen ears of corn in the morning, cut all the corn off the cobs, cook it and bag it and be done by 3PM. She could work circles around me and she taught me so much about life. I can still see her in the kitchen over the stove cooking something, she never turned anyone away for a meal. She will be missed but her legacy will live on through her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren (17) and her 3 great-great grandchildren and by all the lives she touched. God now as another angel in heaven and I look forward to seeing her again one day with Paw Paw Tommy.
 I LOVE you Maw Maw now and forever.

Here is a picture of her at D'nea's Wedding Reception.

So Yesterday, January 12, 2012 was my husband's 60th birthday. This is really hard for me to believe because he doesn't seem that old to me. He is so young at heart and I love him more and

more with each passing year. He still never ceases to amaze me and he did that exact thing on his birthday by going out and buying a new car. We named her Magic and she is so cute!

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DIsney 2011

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Even though this trip was in November 2011, it was so awesome that I had to share. I went with 3 of my Lady Bug Scrappers to Disney World and we had more fun then I could have ever imagined. Here is just a sampling of the 800 photos we took.

A New Year

I was a really bad blogger in 2011 and hope to change that for 2012. I want to journal more here and share more crafty stuff with my friends. I am hoping to post at least once a week and share some of my crafts here with you. I have 2 other pages where I will post scrapbooking links and scrapbooking events - such as crop retreats.
I scrap with a wonderful bunch of ladies that I call the LadyBug Scrappers, we decided on this name over 7 years ago and it has stuck, plus who doesn't love ladybugs? So now we have ladybug totes, ladybug coffee cups and anything ladybug we can get our hands on. I am hoping to have a new scrap room one day and it will be red,black and white with ladybugs everywhere.
I will also be sharing family stuff here as they are what I scrapbook and the inspiration behind my projects.
Today is my DH birthday and he is so supportive of my hobby, which is a good thing because choosing between him and my scrapping.... well let's just say "Honey I will miss you!"