On the Scrapbooking Front...

I signed up to be a Liftateer on Fiskateers and have been loving it. Since it requires a lift each week I knew that I would get 52 pages done this year at least. Plus I try to do the sketch and colour challenges each month so that adds a further 24 pages. WOW!! That is 76 pages per year. I may have some decent looking albums in a years time. Actually, my son's album is starting to take shape but is still pretty random. I need to fill in the blanks here and there to finish it off.
Here are some of the pages I have done for his book:

I got a lot of pages done during the Fiskateers Lift Off Challenge. It was great fun and really got me motivated. Now I just need something to motivate me with housework, laundry and cooking. Maybe I need to be able to post my clean house, supper on the table and clean laundry in the drawers!

I finished up a second page to make a 2 page spread out of some pics of my youngest children's summer theatre work.

A fun page to do with a copy of Today's Parent magazine specially printed with my sweet granddaughters on the cover.

Jasmine as a baby.

My son, Aaron

My little china doll, Jillian.

Sweet, adorable Kayla.

Grumpy Girls who would not smile for a picture.

I had these prints floating around from a portrait package from 7 years ago. We have one framed and in the living room but these were extras that never we didn't need to give away, etc. I decided to do a page featuring them and get them out where they could be enjoyed more.

Time to quit blogging now, no more surfing or scrapbooking. I have to do some housework. Happy Halloween everyone. Stay safe tonight.

Happy Halloween

Here we are at the end of the month already. The days are cool and very crisp and there was a dusting of snow yesterday morning.  Our granddaughters are excited about Halloween, their grandparents not so much. Still it is fun to have a special day to break up the routine a bit. My main complaint about Halloween is the costumes that gross me out. I am an adult and can take it but I wonder about some of our tiny, tender hearts who haven't seen this sort of thing and may be frightened. I think the gross and gory could be kept for adult parties where wee ones won't encounter it. That said, my son created a Zombie movie and it is available for viewing on http://www.pinkbike.com/video/225690/. This is not for children and it is gory. It was created for young guys who like biking primarily. However, if you like a little zombie action you will likely enjoy it too. We will not let our tiny ones view it and when Aaron sent me the link he warned me and told me what the special effects were made from and how they did it.  Still even as an adult I was a little bothered by it. So please take care to protect your children this Halloween. Keep them safe on the streets and safe from disturbing images as much as possible. Help them to understand that some things are just costumes and tell them how they are made. Most of all help them have a Happy, Safe Halloween.

P.S. I remember when my second daughter was young and she had fallen asleep on my lap and I was watching TV, she woke up and there was a woman on a tv show wearing a facial mud mask and my poor little one just started screaming. Months later she came in the bathroom and I was wearing a mud mask and she shrieked again.
 The other night someone posted a video clip on Facebook where you are supposed to watch for the ghost in the picture and turn your sound up so you can hear the cameraman whispering. Then while you are watching and listening intently this ghoulish face POPS into the screen and screams. I screamed and screamed I was so startled. My poor cat was not amused as she went flying from the room. My husband came running to see if I was okay and to see what the cat had done to me. That was all the Hallween thrills I needed.

The heat is on...

We broke down this week and fired up the furnace.  Jack came home from work and I was sitting wrapped up in a blanket so he decided the time had come.  This week we have been helping our daughter and son-in-law move the woman whose house they bought out. It was a foreclosure and she didn't seem to be able to get it together to move herself so their friends and family got together and did it over two evenings. That was definitely much kinder than calling the police in to begin evicting her through the legal system. It also was much faster. The house needs a lot of cleaning up and repairs. When they are completed Caroline and Paul will be renting it out. It will be a busy time while they do siding, windows, doors and yard clean up outside.  The inside needs the kitchen and bathroom done plus some drywall, electrical and lots of cleaning.