High School Class reunion

We had our 40th, yes, 40th high school reunion this past May in Lafayette, LA.  It was fantastic to see so many folks from so long ago.  I only lived in Lafayette for the four years of high school, but for some reason I always think of it as home.  Here I am with some of my besties from back in the day.  Love these girls!

Ok, I skipped a day. Here are the rest of my projects.

Photo by Catherine Guidry.

Weekend in the Rayne Forest!

Well, looks like I've taken the summer off!  It really wasn't intentional, just circumstances intervened.  Selling a home long distance and trying to get it worked on by strangers (who turned out to be great) so that it could pass an FHA inspections ate up a lot of my summer.  In fact, I feel like I didn't have much of one at all!  I was lucky enough to be able to go to a four day crop sponsored by Treasured Memories of Lafayette, LA.  I went with two great friends and we had a ball.  This crop is held every year in Rayne, LA, the frog capital of the world.  TM moves their whole store to the site so we can have everything available to us.  They dream up the most fantastic classes for us to take and we learn so much.  I hope to go every year.  This year, the theme was Hollywood and next year it will be tropical/Hawaii.  They call it the crop at the Rayne Forest.  Here are a few photos from the classes.
These were from the fabulous metal class by Connie.

From the Orleans Ornamental Iron Class again by Connie.

                  From the Outdoor Elegance Reverse Canvas Class by Paula.

                          From the Starstruck Class by the Kitz Girlz (Janet and Wendy). 

Still have a bit to add to this one and photos on some of the others.  I'll post the rest tomorrow.

By the way, it is our 36th anniversary today!  Time sure does fly when you are having fun!!  Love you Ralph!

Blog hop

The blog hop that was originally scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled.  We will try again in June.

Lots of photos

If you are anything like me, you are always looking for ways to get lots of photos on a layout without printing them so small you can barely recognize what they are or cropping the daylights out of them! I came across a layout on a blog one day and got the inspiration for this layout. You can see the original at:

http://mymindseye.typepad.com/blog/page/4/

It is by Trisha Ladouceur, a most gifted scrapbooker. Anyway, she shows how to get 2 5x7 and 3 4x6 photos on one page. I took it a step further and got 2 5x7 and 5 4x6 photos on one page! I used my Design Studio and Cricut Expression to cut the postage stamp paper base as well as the border and cutout. I used Creative Memories paper from the Reminesce collections and I believe the buttons are by Bo Bunny. Here is my take on Trisha's layout.

Here is the first of 2 5x7s.  I plan on doing something to make the title pop and I plan to add the date under the photo.  I'm not quite finished fooling with this one yet.

Open out the 5x7 and you will find the second 5x7 and first 4x6.

Flip up the first 4x6 and you see the next two 4x6s.

Flip down the bottom 4x6 and you see the last two 4x6s.

I like the interactive aspect of the page and how I got to keep all my photos intact.  What do you think?

Blog hop coming up!

We're going to be having a little blog hop this weekend about something new.  It is always fun to try new things and new ways to accomplish a goal. Here is a peak of something I tried that is new! Come back for more!

Happy Easter to all! Praise God for He is Risen!!