A Favorite Photo from AZ trip last fall

Last fall we took a long weekend trip to AZ. It's one of our favorite vacation spots. Just far enough to get get away, but not so far away that you are totally worn out by the travel required to get there. This picture was taken on during our trip and it's one of my favorites!! I made a mini album of the trip when we got back, but this is the first full page layout using any of the pictures.

Holiday Layouts

These will probably wind up in my year in review album as one or two of the challenges, but for now I'm just posting them here. We've boxed up the holiday stuff, so the holidays feel over, and I'm ready to move on to scrapbooking other things. So here are the holiday layouts for this year capturing some of my favorite photos from this year.

Favorite Christmas Photos



Photo of Brother w/ Bessie during Visit

Holiday Ornament... (2008)

It's been tradition for probably well over a decade that I make some sort of an ornament for close friends and family. Well for the first year in over a decade I just wasn't ready. I mean Christmas is "my" holiday. I don't really like Halloween, I've been known to completely forget it was Easter, but Christmas?! When we were little it used to mean sharing a bedroom with my brother waiting for Santa, now it means getting to see him and my sister in law for one of their twice a year voyages to this side of the country. This year time just got away from me. There are lots of reasons and I won't bore anyone reading this with them, but needless to say this that didn't get done in time included holiday cards that went out late and ornaments that didn't get made until AFTER Christmas. So officially only one made it out this year. And so it doesn't happen next year I've started on next years ornaments so that disaster doesn't strike 2x in a row.

Directions to the lone ornament that got sent out can be found on the Bead & Button web site design by Diane Schroer.