Monday, October 28, 2013

AYM/1

Here are this month's layouts along with the photo scavenger hunt layouts. The AYM topic this month was to scrapbook "11 Green Things."
 Jan't scavenger hunt page.
 Jan's second photo hunt page.
 Jeanne's "11 Green Things" page.
 Jeanne's journaling.
 Susan's page.
 Karolyn's page.
 My page.
 Susan's scavenger hunt page.
 My scavenger hunt page.
 Karolyn's hunt page.
 Erin's "Green" page.
Carla's page about her grandson, Joe Green.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

A Few Layouts

When I had the pictures printed, they didn't come out right---half were cut off. I re-sized and printed them at home to correct the problem. What do to do with the "boo boos?"
 I used them to cut the title. I outlined the letters in blue to make them stand out from the white.
I made a couple of squares with washi tape to fill in the blank squares.
"Is She Ten" was taken from one of my blog post.
 I used the sewing machine to add accents to the butterfly and title letters.
I also added a little stitching next to the buttons.
 I taught the St. Louis girls this technique in July. I taught Pam and Karolyn last week at the farm.
It was Karolyn's idea to add the stitching between the letters.
 "Christmas Cooking."
 I don't use stickers much in my scrapbooking. But, when I do, I like to stack them up and use them as a journaling spot.
 I also added stitching along the edge. I stacked several embellishments for added interest.
 "Holiday Happy Hour"
 "Another Competition"
 I made two of this layout as it's going in to the girls albums.
I added a little hand stitching for added interest.

More tomorrow.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Photo Scavenger Hunt Layouts

 It just blows me away that so many people have "old" photos that they are able to use for this project. A perfect way to use photos that are one of a kind. I just wish I had some myself. Apparently, my parents did not take too many photos. I don't think they owned a camera until the 1960's.
 The following layouts belong to Jan. I'm glad she included the journaling so I could share it here.




 Eclectic Memories is Carla M.'s layout for this month's scavenger hunt.  Journaling is:


Traveling with our friends we captured the amazing sunset while in the Bahamas.  Alesia, Byron and Bob were held captive at Atlantis.
Our trout on the girl is from our fishing trip with the grandkids in July 2013.  The McGuire boys were awesome and caught so many fish.  We are still enjoying them.

Living in Chicago was quite an interesting experience.  The picture of the city was taken from our condo on the 45th floor of McClurg Court and Illinois Street.  On a cloudy, foggy day, the view was amazing.  You can see the Aon Building not he left and the "Sears Tower: further back on the right.

The Weber Christmas Tree when I was a girl.  We chose a live tree so we could plant it.  Unfortunately it was struck by lighten and produced two leaders.  The tree still stands on the Weber farm.
Susan's layout. She had some great old pictures.
 Karolyn brought some things for "show and tell." She has her mother's bride book, some newspaper clippings about the event, an old check and best of all---the booklet that came with her first bra!! What!!! Who keeps that stuff? Now I so wish I had!! Such cool stuff every month!
 Karolyn's layout---she took the title from the tv show and used the font "George" on her Cricut. I'm copying that idea for sure!!
Here's my layout for the month.

This month's challenge is to find:
1. A hay bale.
2. A country store.
3. A football game.
4. A sign with the work "new" on ti.
5. Nature in your backyard.





Friday, October 4, 2013

AYM/2

 My layout: "cooler Queen" and "Relaxing bath."
My second layout for our "abc" album is "Sisters weekend" and "walking Tickets." Yes, Debbie, Sally and I got three tickets EACH for walking illegally on Belle Meade Blvd.---1. Walking on the wrong side of the road; 2. Walking three abreast; 3. Failing to yield (little did we know that when walking, you are supposed to stop at each driveway and look to make sure no one is backing out). Crazy. We took it to court and it was thrown out---although we were guilty of all offenses. Everyone else there was for a traffic violation. They all busted out laughing when we were called up for "walking illegally."
 Linda's layout "Mason" and "Napping."
Another of Linda's layouts, "Ordinary Moments" and "Pond Place."
 My layout for "W" and "X."
 My "U" is "Unbridled Enthusiasm." That's how I felt about the arrival of Prince George. I like to scrapbook current events too. My "V" page is "Vintage." I made some little log cabin quilt squares with the different patterns.
 Linda did a quilt layout. She included a fold out.


Thursday, October 3, 2013

AYM/1-By the Numbers

For the month of September, the challenge was to tell 3 stories from school.
This is Carla's layout.
This is Janet's layout and her journaling:
 My school career began in 1960; I was enrolled at St Jerome’s Catholic school. I was lucky, there were no nuns teaching kindergarten, (NO Num Fear!). My teacher was Mrs. Macken and she was great. She was the one that made sure all of us learned how to read and write our names, telephone number and address. That is my 1stMemory, which occurs to me  every time that I hear that today children have to know those things just to enter kindergarten now. Mrs. Macken also had a memory of an elephant, it didn’t matter if you saw her 5-10-20 years later, she knew who you were and could still call you by name, which always amazed me. {Picture d– Friend, Tommy Hein, Me and Mrs. Macken in the classroom that was in the first St Jerome’s building built, the first church,. Later the school & new church was built. And shown is my sister & brother in our front yard where you can see the new school building in the back ground, 1955.]


During 1st grade I have a combo memory. 2.a) First, mid school year my Mom pulled my sister & me out of Catholic school during the middle of the day. She had a big disagreement with the Parish Priest and decided that we were no longer going to attend Catholic school. The day after that I started going to the public school system and attended Gibson Elementary School. This meant I had a much longer walk home from school. b) To be exact it was a 9 tenths of a mile walk down Cobourg Lands Dr. The kids that lived one street over got to ride the bus. So the second part is really about walking all that way home by myself. I really don’t know how long that walk took but some days it felt like it took over an hour.
     The next stop for my education (1967-1969)  was at Central Junior High (now they are referred to as “Middle Schools”) which included bus service, it was a bit future from our house. That seemed to be when everyone changed so much you weren’t even sure who you were half the time. The next bus ride took me to Riverview Gardens High School (1970-1974), where after the first 2 years no one wanted to ride a bus – but to get out of that you had to have a car and a parking spot, 2 very hard things to get. But the 3rd memory was Friday night football games. It wasn’t about football but more about my group of friends. We always got to the game, at some time and we would stay for a while but what was done before and after the games was 95% pure high school FUN!  {Picture of me Junior year in High School 1972-73)

Carla's layout and journaling:
3 Memories

1) My first day of Kindergarten still remains vivid in my mind.  My Dad took me and many of the other kids were crying.  I wanted to cry too, but Dad said, "you're my big girl and you are not going to cry.  So I did not, but it was really hard.
2) At the beginning of 3rd grade we moved from Millstadt and we had to go t a school in Fults.  My sister and I hated it.  The desk raised up and kep hitting us in the head until we got used to them.
3)  For 8th grade we moved again and I finished 8-12 in Waterloo, IL.  I became a cheerleader and made friends easily.  I was a cheerleader in high school too and because I was so short I always got to be in front.  That is the only time I didn't mind being short.
Pam's layout. 

 Karolyn's layout---and of course, cool memorabilia. She had a story that she wrote and a report card signed by her dad.
 Here's my layout and journaling:

When I think back to my childhood school years, it seems that the negative things are the ones that come to mind. I’m sure it’s because these incidents made a lasting impact on my life. Nuns were just downright mean in my day. But in hindsight, I think their “mean-ness” was a good thing. We learned to respect authority---maybe “respect” isn’t exactly the right word---more like fear. But given how today’s out-of-control kids are, I don’t think that was a bad thing.

St. Aloysius was a really old school. In fact, my grandmother and her siblings went there when they lived on their farm in Spanish Lake. They had all since moved when my parents moved to the “sticks.”

The first time I ever got in trouble at school was in the second grade. I didn’t do anything. My best friend, Reenie had just learned to whistle and was whistling in the hallway. The principal caught her and drug her by the arm to the front of the class. She yelled at her and shook her, but Reenie never cried. When the principal asked the teacher who else might be a whistler, my teacher offered me up since I was Reenie’s friend. As I moved to the front of the class, I just started crying right away. I was always a crier. I learned the lesson of “guilt by association.”  And I learned that crying doesn’t help.

In the 3rd grade, I needed to go to the bathroom really bad. My teacher kept saying “no, you should have gone at recess.” No matter how many times I asked, she kept saying “no.” Finally, she would ignore my frantically waving hand. Soon, it was my row’s turn to go to the bookmobile. I could not help myself---I bent down and peed all over the floor. I have no idea what happened after that. I was sure I’d get in trouble, but I never heard a thing about it. I guess the bookmobile lady wiped it up. What I learned from this incident was to go to the bathroom when you have the opportunity. You just never know where the next one will be.

When I was in the 6th grade, Dick Hoffmeyer passed gas. The whole room was laughing uncontrollably. Sister Richard Maureen came in and asked what happened. He stood up and confessed that he had “cut the cheese.” I had never heard that term before and cracked up. I couldn’t get it under control. Sister put blue striped masking tape over my mouth and made me stand outside in the hallway all afternoon. When school was dismissed, all of the kids filed past me. My teacher had forgotten me. I was more afraid of getting in trouble at home since my sisters and brother would get there before me. I learned that there are consequences for your actions that are far-reaching! Years later, I had the opportunity to meet SRM again. I told her she was the “meanest” teacher I ever had!

Despite these stories, I have to say that I had a great school experience and wouldn’t change a thing!



Jeanne's layout.