Happy New Year!

Of course, with the holidays, quite a bit has happened since my last post and I have a lot of pictures to share.

First things first...I can now post those projects I was working on for Christmas gifts. I made an album for my sister's wedding pictures. The entire album can be viewed by clicking here.

I also made a chipboard Family album for Anna, my mother-in-law. Completed project can be viewed here.

And I made a Friend chipboard album for my friend, Karie. Completed project can be viewed here.

The holidays came and went this year with us spending time with friends and family back in Ohio.

It was fun to have all the little ones at the Waganfeald Christmas again.

Del got me a Wii for Christmas. I womped on him in bowling (how could I not with such form??), but we were pretty well matched in golf. The children were perfectly content just watching from the grandstands.

And although I've been extremely sick with a cold, Del scored some Charlotte Bobcat tickets from the Chairman of his company for this past Tuesday night. Yes - we are sitting on the floor! Amazing seats - very cool!

And just because.....

Chalupa tolerating Maggie again.

And a rose from a bouquet Del bought me before Christmas that is still hanging on.

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Year's.

See you tomorrow for Flashback Friday!

Scrapbook Sunday

So I actually did a lot more scrapbooking this weekend than the pictures are going to show.

Here is the one page I can show you. Another "Real World Color" assignment for my class, using green, orange, red, and brown. Journaling: It always amazes us that there are so few people who take advantage of the beautiful state parks North Carolina has to offer. Stone Mountain State Park is one of our favorite places to hike. We try to visit at least once a year. These pictures were taken with a disposable camera that sat undeveloped for almost two years and they are still gorgeous. Imagine what it looked like in real life!

Now the reason I can't show you the other pages I finished this weekend is because they are going to be a Christmas present for someone this year. The most I can show you is a picture of the supplies I used. The rest will have to wait until after Christmas!

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

By the way....Del was impressed with the song I embedded on the blog and has decided he wants to contribute. So each week we will have "Flashback Fridays" featuring a song that Del picks out (I did tell him I have to, at least, like the song!) So stay tuned for next week's song!

(Mini) Scrapbook Sunday

Not much to show as far as scrapbooking this week. I got one layout done. It is about the Christmas Village that is displayed at our church back in Toledo that my Aunt Louise and Uncle Bob worked on every year. Now that they are gone, mom has taken on the tradition and tries to add new items when she can.


Journaling: Of course, it was displayed at church every year, but I never captured it in pictures before last year. Aunt Louise and Uncle Bob started the village many years ago and would add at least one piece each year. They are all made out of yarn and the plastic canvas; most of them are music boxes. I think young and old alike love to see it assembled. And since Aunt Louise and Uncle Bob are no longer with us, the tradition has now been passed to mom.

Since I don't have much as far as scrapbooking is concerned, I figured I would post some other pictures from this week and weekend.

We stayed up too late Saturday night and our children decided they didn't want to wait on us before catching some zzz's...

We bought this toy at the same time as the other one. She likes them both and goes back and forth. If you look closely enough, you can see this one holds treats in the middle. She has to work hard at getting them out. I don't know if she likes it or if it just frustrates her, but this occupies her for quite a while.

I went to the Charlotte Magazine Dream Home tour today with a few girls from work. Beautiful home, but seemed to have a lot of wasted space, in my opinion. That's not to say I wouldn't take this home if someone wanted to give it to me! :o)

A newfound discovery this weekend....if you haven't had these yet - you must try them!!!!

And last but not least, me and the kids just hangin' out. Maggie lays like this quite a bit and Del just can't stand it! Too cute!

Oh!! My brother sent me an emal to tell me he has entered the world of blogging. I now have another blog to read!! It will be great to keep up with his ife and family this way! So, the pressure is on, Jeff - you have to keep it up!!

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Scrapbook Sunday

What a long weekend can do for some major scrapbooking time....

The first is another layout for Heather's book. It didn't turn out as well as I hoped, but I did get to use one of my new Cricut alphabets on it.

The next one I did as another one for my on-line class. This one turned out better than I expected. I've been wanting to scrapbook these pictures for a while. I'm glad I finally got around to them.Isn't she adorable? It is hard to believe these pictures were taken almost a whole year ago. The one on the right is one of my all-time favorites of her.


Del is not too thrilled about this next one. The pictures are almost two years old now, but one that I've been wanting to do for a while now. This was part of the Real World Color in my class. I was to use red, gray, white and lime green. Colors I would never think to put together, but love the result.
I think I bought the cute little stickers for this next one around the same time the pictures were taken earlier this year. I loved how it turned out.

And last, but not least, I had some left over scraps from my layout last week, so I made a few more cards.

Thanks for sharing my creations with me on scrapbook Sunday!

Scrapbook Sunday

Another very productive weekend in terms of scrapbooking. I worked on some pretty old pictures for the first layout...my high school graduation (1986).

Journaling: I don’t remember much about graduation day other than being very glad to be out of high school–didn’t like high school very much. The only thing that made it bearable was my best friend. I feel I owe a lot to Miriam and the Benstein family. Spending so much time with them over the years really opened my eyes to another world and I can honestly say it was because of them I had such a strong desire to further my education, and do whatever it took to make that happen. I think my life is very different because of the Benstein family and I cherish the friendship I still have with Miriam today. Pictures taken June 8, 1986 Journaling, November, 2008

And with the leftover scraps from that page, I made these cards...

Then I did a page with some pictures of Del's parents when they visited in 2006 and we went to the Matthews Alive Festival.

And last but not least, I did a 8 x 8 layout about how Del and I are alike and how we are different. Obviously, this does not touch on ALL the ways we are alike and different, just a few.

I'm having a lot of fun catching up on some well over due scrapbook time.

Scrapbook Sunday

I have quite a few layouts to post today - some I did a while ago for my niece's album that my sister, Tina, asked me to do quite some time ago. Tina - You'll be happy to know I am still working on this - slowly but surely.

This is the opening page for the album. This is one of those pictures that I absolutely love!!!

This is all the Easter pictures they took of them in their new Sunday dresses.

This layout represents the relationship between two sisters in their younger years.

The middle photo on the first page of this layout opens up to reveal three more photos and places for journaling.

I really love how the next one turned out (Tina - these are news ones you haven't seen yet) - it is always hard to put so many photos on one layout. Again, the top left photo of the first page is another one of those that I love, love, love!! The middle pages overlap between the two pages, so you have to use your imagination and pretend the two pages are sitting side by side.

And the last layout I did this weekend..."You"...it seems it should continue to say "up close and personal."

I guess I should mention that the little girl in these pictures is now 26 years old with a child of her own. :o)

And because I had some scraps left over from a previous layout shown in my last week's post, I made some cards, too.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!