Elsie's book...

I have found Elsie's book to be one of the best sources of scrapbooking inspiration EVER! I brought it to work with me this weekend to look at when I had a chance, but it was like TORTURE, cause I couldn't look at it for more than about five minutes without feeling like I needed to scrap something! So...I came home from work those days feeling a need to create, and create I did! But...I won't show them all to you, but a couple of cutie ones... probably of the babies, I even used one of the free Elsie fonts for the big star thing on the Alex layout! So much fun! And I did another Hayley one today, inspired by the cover of the ME book...which happen to be the pub ad challenge for this week... but I'll have to show you that tomorrow. Enjoy!

More Beautiful Baby...

There's a totally cute one of Joanne and Hayley, aw!
In other news, for those of you who do not yet know, Jason got the job! It will be a few weeks until he starts, but we're really excited about this!
Have a great day!
Love, Joy.

My Very First Niece!

So excited to have a niece, can't wait to buy her a cute little PINK outfit! :) Joanne sent more pictures today, can't wait to scrap them! Love you all, Joy!

Too much, Way too much, and Ugly.

That's about it.



Heh....just kidding ...HMITM patterns, stripes, polka dots, and floral. HMITM iron chef, at least 25 manu- facturer's products on there...I count 31! And...my ugly page...at first I thought it was ugly, then it started to grow on me, and then I looked with fresh eyes, and think it's uglier than EVER! (but i love it anyway!)

Scenic Route.

I just love these scenic route patterned papers that I finally got at the Janesville scrap store last Friday, I may have to stock up next time I go! Two more challenge pages! Heh, seems like all I do anymore is challenges, but I find them very inspirational!
Thanks for looking, guys, I totally love hearing from you that read my blog..and look at it! I love you! Love, Joy.

Scrap Day.

I had to work a half day today but came home and got quite a bit of scrapping done, yay! I did a Magen page and the one about my first scrap class, and worked on my honeymoon album, which I am almost finished with, yay!! All I have left in there is my St. Louis pages and my Illinois stuff, that will be great to have finished, and then I will totally (maybe) be getting to work on my wedding album...it's just so big, he he he, I don't even know if my scrap desk is big enough for it!! :) Ah well, we shall see! Have a great week, everyone!
Love, Joy.

Ribbon, buttons, and embroidery, oh my!

I finished my Elsie Page, did an Alex page, and here is my HMITM for this week...
I feel so productive when I've been scrapping, you know? Now the next step is to clean up my scrapping area...since I haven't done it since my trip to Missouri, a lot of stuff is still packed, and lots of stuff is still in bags, I totally need to get my patterned papers organized again!!
I love you all, and thanks for looking at my stuff!
Joy.

Superman Returns Tomorrow!

I'm too too excited! We've been waiting so so long, cause we want to see it in IMAX with the 3D, and I have tomorrow off and get paid tomorrow, so we're going! I've been working on some totally fun and time consuming stuff this week, so it may not look like I've been too productive, but when you do three hours of embroidery on ONE page...you can't get EVERYTHING done! I totally can't wait to get my "Meeting Elsie" page all done to show you! I'm working on an Alex page tonight, it's way cute, using the Oh Baby Boy! stuff which I LOVE!!
Joanne-the teacandles TOTALLY roast the marshmallows, it just takes a while!
Magen-I would love it if you told Princess Ruth about my blog, I love LOTS of people to read and look at my stuff!!
I love you all, and thanks for reading!
Love, Joy.

Fun "date" last night!

My hubby and I roasted marshmallows over teacandles last night while watching a superman thing, and it was really fun. The funny part, and the cause of the shocked-looking pictures, is that we both broke up our chocolate the same way to put on our graham crackers...and then we looked at eachother like that simultaneously, it was SO funny!

I love free things!

I did a page for the first challenge on the ME blog, and I won, and they sent me their book!! I was so so excited cause I had wanted to buy this book anyway..cause it has Elsie in it, and I just LOVE her stuff! It was very nice to come home from my trip yesterday to find this, it made me very happy!

I went on a little trip!

I went down to Springfield, MO this weekend to take some classes from the fabulous Elsie Flannigan!! She is my favorite scrapbooker in the whole world, and I adore her stuff, and it was so much fun to get to meet her and learn from her, find out a little more about her process, and to get to know her a little. I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed myself! Poor Jason I'm sure was bored all day, he's the most wonderful husband in the world and was kind enough to go down with me so that I wouldn't have to go all alone and do all the driving, he's AMAZING! So, here are some pictures of projects that we did...The hometown book, the favorite family photos book, the me layout and the button love layout, SO much fun! None of them are finished yet, but finishing them will be so much fun!! So, that is my project for this week, is to finish all of these!! I hope I can do it!

For Magen~

Sorry I didn't get these posted before I left, Dear, I got a little busy! I don't think I had put these two up yet, so here you are! You're SO cute!
love, Joy.

Super inspired.

So...I've been feeling REALLY inspired in my scrapbooking lately, so I actually have quite a few pages that I've done in the past couple of days that I would like to share..so I'm not going to say much, I'm just going to show my pages...by the way...one of my favorites is "the LOVE list" which was done for a combination of this weeks dare (a list) and the "how much is too much" challenge...to use 50 stickers...I used 113!! I was really excited about that...it folds out, totally fun!