Crazy Beautiful Life

*Fabulous Autumn*

Hello. I love Fridays.  I love sleeping in on Saturdays (if Brianna lets me..haha).  I can't sleep in too long tomorrow though because I have a MUCH needed hair appointment with my stylist. :)  "Make me beautiful!" I always tell her.  Bless her heart, she tries. :-/

 It feels like it's been a while since I last posted.  I haven't been feeling so great.  You know how you instinctively know when something's not right with your body?  Well, it's hard to explain but I feel strange--something's not right.  I'm in the process of changing doctors and hopefully I'll know what's going on with me soon.  Maybe it's just exhaustion and stress.  I don't know.  How much can you push before your body says, "No More!". 

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Remember the Basic Grey "Indian Summer" I was so gung ho about?  I received it, and sadly, it sat on my desk for nearly 3 weeks before I started it.  When I did begin working on it I was excited until I noticed it was getting really thick.  I knew by the time I finished it, it would be even thicker (and barely close).  So--lost my attention on that and let it sit some more. LOL  I finally finished it (don't want to look at or even work with this line for a LONG time) and it's a pretty fat "mini" if you ask me.  Taking pictures was tough. 

I'm only showing a couple of the pages here.  If you'd like to see all of them, I've created a photo album for it.  You can find it down on the right hand side under "Photo Albums" or simply click here.  Once there, click on the thumbnails and see the larger version.  :)

 

 

 

 

Enjoy your weekend.  :)

 
 

Warm it Up!

Wow!  It's Friday already.  Where does the time go?  I wanted to jump online and post before I head out for a full day of shopping...gotta love those tax free back to school days! :) 

For the Pre-challenge "Warm it Up" being hosted at Candy Shoppe Designs, I created a little Fall Mini Book.  I've been wanting to do this...so thank you Lynnette for the motivation! :)

Every year I look forward to setting up a Fall display outside.  This year, Brianna was eager to help me. Decorating quickly turned into a photo op!  I couldn't resist...she was just too darn cute! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the last page, I made a pocket to hold my journaling card and extra little photos.

 

Special Ingredients:

Mini Ring Album:  Creative Imaginations "Freddy"

Cardstock:  Bazzill

Patterned Papers and Chipboard:  Fancy Pants Designs "All Fall"

Bling Accents:  Heidi Swapp

Flowers:  Prima

Ink:  Colorbox

Pens:  Tombow and Zig

Misc:  Brads, Buttons, Ribbons

You still have time to participate in the "Warm it Up" Pre-challenge!  Creations aren't due until the August 12, so head over there!

 

 

Unfinished Business...Paper bag album

As I was unpacking some of my scrap stuff I found an unfinished paper bag album that I had started working on before moving.  I happily started working on this lil album again and I feel so much better now that it's finally finished.  It's just too cute!  I love all the little flaps and "hidden" slots for extra pages and photos. :) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The slots where there's hidden little "layouts" is my favorite part:

 

Much thanks to Brianna Boo for assisting me in taking the photo to show the slots...hehe

I simply stapled a ribbon to the top of each little page so it's easy peasy to pull right out.

 

 

 

 

 

That's pretty much it!  It was fun to work on --definitely different.  I still wanna try a coffee filter album.  Is that considered "old school" now? lol  Oh well...I'll keep doing whatever makes me happy.  :)  Have a super weekend!