New Challenge at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge Blog and my San Fran Layout

So the other day THE MAN ventured upstairs to chat with me. Best way to get my attention is show up unannounced while I am scrappin in the midst of paper chaos. It does not ensure I am listening, but I am at least not going anywhere.

He laughed a nice good laugh. AT ME. At the moment of his belly laugh I was slicing chunks of red mesh up to use on this page on the floor with my cutter. Like, I was on my floor on my hands and knees cutting. I did a quick check to make sure I didn't have plumber's crack (I am fairly positive this statement will make sense to most, but if it doesn't, those new low cut jeans that I accidentally bought sometimes shows more of my backside than I would like).

He then made a very bold incorrect statement:  OH. I see now why you bought oranges. 

Like he was suggesting that I bought oranges because they came in a red mesh bag that I could cut up for this page.

AS IF.


We scrappers are sometimes totally misunderstood.

I will admit to purchasing some copper colored paper with these photos in mind, but oranges really weren't involved until much later when I decided some mesh would look nice.

So, this page is for the very freshest challenge up at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge:

March is the month where school children have a spring break in Canada. Scrap some memories of a
spring break (or another school break) that you experienced.


I dug back to one of my most favorite memories of a family trip we took. We were in California for at least a week and went to variety of places. In fact, it was really hard to pick which photos to use.

Grabbed an idea from Helen where you make a photo collage in Picasa. She also used a huge circle to frame some photos the other day and I loved that idea. Plus, got extra outta my paper as the middle section is on this other page I did of California.

Here are some close ups of flowers and whatnot. So fun to decorate this page.

Some of these are from Samantha at Eye Candy Magic.

The rather bright orange hand knitted doily behind the blue flower and the blue jean material were part of one flower that Irini sent me, but I wanted to spread the blue around a bit so split it into two. (holy beaners, Irini can hand knit?)

 I would truly love it if you'd play along with this challenge. It doesn't HAVE to be photos from when you were little. In fact, I know someone who has some really amazing photos she took recently of a special trip to the mountains in South Africa....those would work!!! ;-)