Beach Vacation Layout for Kristy

oh double page me! Oh my! Didn't think I had it in me but we had a lovely crafternoon at my house this past Saturday and I had some pretty photos from my friend Kristy and voila! Some pretty layouts!

I cheated a bit and made the one photo that Kristy sent me SUPER LARGE by printing it out on cream colored paper. Check out those little flip floppys up there in the corner on top of my new stamp! Jean made us those!

Isn't her youngest's handwriting adorable? So glad she captured that photo! I love their family photo too! Super cool!

And here is a photo of her Mister acting like a dancing deer on the beach. I know, It's rare we get a photo of this kinda thing in it's natural environment. ;-)

That super delicious title was another Jean creation!

Love crafternoons!

I had all kinds of yummy stuff! Even a Pea Pickin' Cake! More on that later!

Hugs and hope your Tuesday is awesome and somehow cake is involved!

Glamping Layout for Another Freaking Scrappy

My homemade seafood dinner was one of the highlights of our Spring Break trip to the Outerbanks. We shopped at a local sea food market and came home with fresh fish, scallops, and a huge bag of clams. It was a feast!

I thought it was a perfect page to make for the latest challenge up at Another Freaking Scrappy....

Anne is asking you to scrap:  using a tool you have not used before (a particular diecut, punch, rub-on tool, heat gun, stencil, new scissors), or to scrap about your favourite tool or experience with all tools (not necessarily scrapbooking tools). You can use one or all of the prompts.

I choose to pull out a woodie stamp that has not had much use at all but is one of my favorite stamps. I also grabbed some new embossing powder and a heat gun. Of course the embossing pad was nearly dried up as I haven't used it in ages...but I persisted and got that cool image on my page. 

I also pulled out some embellishments that have gotten passed by in my stash, including that cute little green deer hair pin. 

Loving the pretty stuff on this page! The gold mixed in with the polka-dotted burlap bow...kinda fits with Glamping! 

Hope your Monday is fantastic and you get a change to play along with this awesome challenge!

Hugs!

Wild Horses & Black Doilies

When we were in the Outerbanks for Spring Break, one afternoon we were eating lunch at a local place. I decided to ask where the wild horses could be spotted. Everyone knows that OBX has wild horses due to excessive post cards with horses but where to find them!

I figured a local dude would give me the straight scoop. He told us to take the ferry to Ocracoke Island and then served me a most amazing clam chowder.

Makes me hungry just thinking about it.

Anyhow, back to the horses. So, a long hour ride on the ferry, we head into town. On the way in we passed a corral and some cars pulled off the road. We then stop at a local grocery to stock up on drinks for the beach. We figured we were off to spot some horses. I asked the lady at the register where exactly to start. She smiled and said that they had to corral the horses due to tourist hitting them with cars.

At that point THE MAN starts mumbling things under his breath about horses in fences would techincally not be WILD beach running horses and I attempted to silence him with one of those hairy eye ball wife looks. So, after some time on the beach and exploring the town, we stopped on the way back to see the "wild" horses. Except for being a bit furier than most horses, they looked well, like horses.

My favorite part of this layout aside from the furry horse photo is my flower cluster complete with some shells...and black doilies!

Aren't those the bomb?

I almost like them as much as gold ones. Make me happy!

That acylic arrow is pretty cool too. Love how shiny it is!

Anyhow, I hope your Hump Day was awesome!

Little Joe Layout

I've been working with my new Purple Rain Scraptastic Kit and it involves LOTS of purple. Which is typically not my favorite color to work with, but this page makes me really happy!

My Mom wore the perfect shirt for this layout! Love it with a splash of gold lettering too!

The We R Memory Keepers - Hello Darling Collection - Ephemera makes a great border! Complete with some gems, which means for once this page is a bit err....flatter than normal. 

Flat or not, love this layout of my Mom and Little Joe. He is a gaffer (glass blower) and is one of the hidden gems of our Glass town, Corning! 

Hope your Tuesday is fantastic! 

Happy Memorial Day from Pratt Inc.

Hey Pratt. Did you forget what day it is? I think you forgot it was Memorial Day!

THE MAN gave me a look like I was half nuts and said, nooooo I didn't forget.

Yes you did, I said! We are laboring pretty hard so it must be Labor Day!

We went to an air show this weekend, but then came home to spend a day digging in preparation of the new natural gas line that is being installed and moving electric down from the house & telephone poles and running it underground.

That being said, I can't wait to scrapbook the Blue Angels and all the cool photos from our weekend.
One stunt pilot even created that heart in the sky to honor our military! I wish I had been quick enough to catch it more whole! Still, it was really pretty and I'm considering making it a background for a scrapbook page!

Anyhow, hope yours was awesome and slightly less sweaty than mine!

Sweet Love Layout: Art Show at Corning Musuem of Glass

Loved visiting the Corning Museum of Glass the other day for the 2015 Student Art Show. Lexi had a piece chosen and it was one that had been promised to me for various holidays...and finally, I got to see it up close and personal!

She made me  a pewter Westie key chain! Long ago I had a little white dog that I loved quite a bit even though he was ornery. Had to make a page to celebrate her ribbon and my new present! I'll have to get a photo soon of it!

The show was pretty sweet, hence the print & cut cupcakes I made! Love that I can do that now on my Silly!

I'm randomly never big on purple, but I really liked the Purple Rain Kit this month at Scraptastic and the colors in these papers are making me happy!

Happy Thursday!

Bodie Island: Outer Bank Layout

I'm really digging circles these days on my layouts. I think because you can take a sheet of double sided paper and cut it so you can see both patterns...

Add a bunch of paper scraps under some neutral flowers and voila! You have the whole paper line on one page, super pretty!

Give us Pratt's a lighthouse and we'll pose in front of it!

I'm almost done with photos from this trip, which is good. Our summer camping schedule starts next weekend!

Dearest Darling Slater Treat Cup Card for THE CUTTING CAFE

So Godmother Autie Marilyn is expecting her new kitten soon! She posted a photo of the young prince on Facebook just the other day. What a little sweetie pie! I'm so excited for her!

In preparation for her new baby, Lexi and I are sending her this baby rattle card with cat treats and some other goodies. I used some Tim Holtz paper (can you see the king in the background?) because I'm pretty sure this new baby kitten will be spoiled and pampered like a king cat!

The little green sprigs represent catnip and the 3 D rattle top is super easy to add treats to. This is one of many treat cup cutting files over at THE CUTTING CAFE and so much fun.

Can you see how deep this cup is? You can really fit a whole lot of treats in it!

Hope Little Baby Slater Kitty loves them! Oh and the little mouse toy we are sending that squeeks? Good luck with that mail dude! It was making me crazy while I was packaging it!

Happy Tuesday!

Weekend Warrior & pretty things

Argh! Someone stole my sidewalk and I'm trying to pretend the back yard isn't a war zone...so I keep looking at pretty things like these new Jolees burlap flowers and  awesome polka dotted bows....and this hand painted lovely dish I found at the ReStore...

Or these Rhododendron that are blooming so nicely by my gazing ball....the same gazing ball you can see across the piles of dirt and gravel...

And this is our new reality until we get the sidewalk dug out, move the gravel from where the old sidewalk was, get the new natural gas line run, pour new cement, and get grass planted...

The good news is that I can scratch running a jack hammer off my bucket list. Turns out not only can I run one, but I can also drag one around, and my boobs were involved.

You  actually do not need huge arm muscles to run one. In fact, as long as you can push a button, it pretty much hammers the crap out of concrete like a mad bastard. However, it's boring, hot, sweaty, nasty work. And it happens to be the perfect height for the ladies. I'm just saying at some point I looked down and both arms were shaking in time to the boobs jiggling. I felt like I was on one of those infomercials where you shake the fat off your body. I'm all still in one piece though, so I can't say it worked.

There, THE MAN said, you can go to work on Monday and tell the boys you ran an 80lb jack hammer. The one dude I work with won't let his Missus touch the lawn tractor and the other one thought running a jack hammer would be fun. Even I'm not dumb enough to think jackhammering is fun. Nah, I'll skip that conversation and pretend all day that I'm not sore, thank you very much!

Happy Monday! 

Me & Lexi: HAWK 5 K Walk Run Layout

Don't get crazy. I walked most of it! We may have ran when people had cameras about or they were holding traffic for us turtles. However, nobody with a stroller passed us, so I'm calling it a win! And those are skorts I'm wearing thank you very much. The kid already made fun of me, but they are very cool and comfortable. I hate running shorts as they seem to creep to places unknown....

Anyhow, Lexi's art teacher is the bomb and sent me these photos. I'm usually the one taking photos so it was a treat! Well, that and she has some awesome camera too...and that art teacher eye ball that makes everything perfect!

Love the gold accents on this page and the die cuts I made of our numbers. They are super cool!

I really like the Hawk logo I printed for my page! It's all kinds of fierce! And that adorable little pink sticker camera! So cute!

Anyhow, no running this weekend. Just jackhammering concrete. The Great Summer Project of 2015 begins with a bang!

How Charming!

Lexi graduates from YEA! tonight. I really wracked my brain to come up with a cool present for Miss Denise, their fearless leader. She has been amazing and kept all these smart up and coming CEOs on track!

We opted to go with a charm bracelet that matches all the kids in Yea! and their businesses! In fact, one of the girls sells these charm bracelets with hand punched hearts so I am using one I purchased & added some pretty little dangles to represent each kid and their business.

Lexi has the purple charm with a wing to match her logo for her business.

I have this really awesome box I made for THE CUTTING CAFE to put it in! 

Super sparkly for a beautiful teacher! Hope she loves it!

The Great Summer Project of 2015

The last house we put in a new walk way up to the house. This house needs all new walkways too. At least that is what THE MAN says. He's probably right, but it seems like a boat load of work. HOWEVER, a wider sidewalk means we can be even bigger slackers...we don't have to shovel at this house...we just plow them off so they will be the width of the plow blade.

I had to put in my own Dig Safe NY call even! I usually deal with those at work, not at home. Basically you call in your project to make sure any underground utilities are not affected. Since we happen to know for a FACT that the Corning Natural Gas line is actually under the sidewalk, it seemed prudent. They came up and marked it for us.

We even know how deep it is. That is what that huge plant pot is sitting in. A hand dug hole so we could find the gas line. It's not deep at all which is why they are coming back up to install a valve so we can shut the gas off before we jack hammer all the concrete.

I wish them luck digging in all those tree roots...but hopefully this week we'll have our valve.

In the meanwhile I'm enjoying all the new blooms. The lilac is quite lovely. And I've got all my potted plants full so they can just be moved out of the way.

So pretty! Thanks for taking a little peek at my backyard! Wish us luck!