Patriotism Challenge

A dollar late and a penny short...isn't that how the saying goes???!

Well you saw my Thursday Tutorial on Friday so I thought I'd show you the challenge I'm hosting as well over at Scrapbook Challenges this week featuring some 'Traditions' that each of us might have in our own Countries...my example was of our tradition to support our local Hockey team...through dressing up in team colours and jerseys...

Now part of the challenge is to use the word 'Tradition' somewhere on your page...

 I just love cutting stars from my stash of felt...gotta love a Sizzix!

Patriotism by definition is a devotion to one’s country...in this challenge I’ved asked everyone to show me this through the ‘traditions’ this may mean to each of you. I wanted this challenge to be a little outside the box so to speak and hopefully you might find something to scrapbook yourself with this theme!

Have a great weekend!!!

Oh My Word!!!

Well, I don't know what to say other than I have been silly crazy busy!!! It's been 20 days since my last post!!! I can't remember the last time I went this long without posting...sheesh :)

Hockey Tournaments, Rugby Championship games, Track & Field meets, Mother's Day, Dance Competitions, 16th Birthday, Convocation and Prom...that's what I've been doing...finishing off my Monthly Hostess Club Workshops for this session, creating layouts for two different classes I'm teaching for BC Scrapbooking Crop for Kids in October and preparing for my CTMH Convention in Dallas, Texas! Oh and creating for my DT responsibilities over at Let's Scrap!

Last week's sketch looks something like this:

and my version of it went a little like this :

Great new large alphabet stamp set from CTMH...love the whimsical feel from this one :)

Now I have to show off a couple of photos of what's been happening in my world as well...

My eldest daughter finished with High School and heading to University! Boy am I feeling old :(

But does she ever look like a beauty queen in these photos of her in her Prom dress...so proud :)

My middle daughter celebrated her 16th Birthday and we went to get her 'learners' driving permit...

My son making the final kick of the Fraser Valley Grade 8 Rugby Championship Game...we won!!! Yeah!!!!

and some Hockey thrown in there as well for good measure :)

Oh and I almost forgot about his Track and Field meet...

the Triple Jump, which he placed Third in...another proud Momma moment :)

and the 500M race...

and I forgot we celebrated Mother's Day as well which was fun as we went out for dinner to our favourite dinner spot...

and last but not least, my daughter turning 16 and her sweet boyfriend hosting a surprise birthday party for her last night :)

So seeing as I've been so super crazy busy with regular life stuff and some extra special events over that past two plus weeks...I have plenty of fun photos to now play with for my scrapbook pages...thanks for stopping by today and I hope your week is great!

just walk away...

That's all I'm sayin'...sometimes when things just don't feel or look right we keep on playin' and this time I told myself to just walk away...

Found these really old pictures of my son playing Hockey with his little buddy. They were having a 'play date' and spent all their time in the garage, taking turns in the net...only broke for lunch if my memory serves me!

Now in putting glue to paper this time around, I just kept on adding things and sometimes I have to force myself to just 'stop!'

So while this doesn't feel 100% for me, I will walk away because I've journalled and embellished and these boys do look super cute just playing together and in the end that's what this crazy thing called scrapbooking is all about...the memories :)

Thanks for coming by and I hope you have a chance to just put some glue to paper today too!