half way through the week

the weekend is all most here more soccer and baseball. today i was going around my house taking picture of some the the hand-made work i have done over the years. I do needlework and stain glass window. which i need to do somemore of when the weather gets warm out it's to cold still outside to cut glass. I still need two window in my master bedroom to go on each side of the middle window i have already finish. here is a few samples of my work.

3 completed

I finshed three layout this weekend
two are from last week sporting events and one form the past it was fun .The socccer and baseball pictures i blow up the pictures with a copy copier in black and white images, on the soccer i stamped hitter with the new creative cafe foam stamps in the soccer i color the uniforms
with color pencils . In all three i played around
with overlays it was a lot of fun. I all so used my
silhoutte for the letters in the all stars.
trying to play catch-up so eveytime i do a
new layout I step back in time to do the past.

weekend off

dont have to work this week end so excited plan on scrapping between sporting events my children have , can't wait. justin going camping instead of the soccer tournment that was cancelled and Tori has one soccer game and matt has a track meet tonite, and court still at school she will not be home until the weekend of the 8th for a horse show in wayne, il. got to go time to run

what a great weekend

my son Justin hit a home run, pitch a no hitter in one inning and no run in the next inning.and my daughter Tori had a great soccer game, here team gave up only one goalto a team that has usually beat other teams by a lot more .

Matt won the 800 meter at the mchenry county meet fri nite,place three in the 300 hurdles just miss his school record by .55 seconds. and his relay 4x 800 came in three place.

Great New pictures to scrap. Can't wait

the end of a long day. looking
forward to a great day tomorrow , I don't have to work so I am going to a
scrapbook shop. hopeful i will find some real need new item to come home to
scrap and make cards with. then its off to Justin's baseball practice and than to my oldest son, Matt's track meet so see him do the hurdle event. Hope to get some great pictures of him the picture above is from the state meet from last May. He is the three person in the green track uniform. Well it's time to go the bed

my creations

april 16

this is a picture of a frisbee that my kids made using a fast spinning turn table and some paint

another school morning ,motivating my two small child to get ready for school i think this is the hardest part of my day no one wants to get moving even my self some morning ,like to today but i think i am going to scrap most of the day. i dont have to be anywhere at any special time ( NO WORK NO SPORTS AND ONLY ONE HOUR OF CLASS TONITE) There already asking what for dinner and can you make this for dinner, can i have a friend over after school ,but we haven't even got to school yet. everyday in the life of a mom Got a love it and I do.

here is a few of my layouts that i create over the last year

april 15 my first blog

i never thought i would create a blog but, here goes

i love to scrapbook, needlework and stain glass windows. i am a mother of four great children,two girls andtwo boys, they age from 9 to 21 . My oldest is at the university of ill. and my next child is off to university of ill. chicago, my third child is off to middle school and my baby is in three grade.