scrapandbeauty

my niece Ashley.....

My niece Ashley is definitely a character, lol! I love her so much and she's such the little firecracker, don't let that pretty face fool you!

-----------*so cute. She just lost her first tooth.

back to school

It's that time again in my home where Aniyah is back to school and my 2nd grader couldn't be more excited. She's fighting allergies and a cough this week but I'm praying I can nurse her  back to health without seeing the doc. I took these photos of her after school and as usual, she didn't really want to cooperate.

On a different note, I've been cleaning and getting rid of boxes in my garage that were just cluttering my space and I just couldn't take the clutter any longer. Along with cleaning that up, I am working on re-docorating my home and I've been a pinterest queen lately.  I've moved my craft space to now take over the breakfast area . I just felt like I needed to have the natural lighting and a connection to our family area. The challenge with being a renter is that you know you won't always be in the same place forever so that presents very many challenges because you can't be too specific in customizing. The scale of your room may accommodate the pieces you have now but when you move, it may not be so accommodating.

What I'm discovering is to utilize colors and pieces that can transition it time.

The challenge to renting is that you don't know where you are moving to next so it's hard to "customize" windows and treatments and furniture b/c you don't know if the next place will accommodate

san antonio album

When my Paper Moon kit arrived in the mail, I knew that I was not used to scrapping with more "boy" themed papers. I wasn't sure what I was going to do but I thought about our trip to San Antonio and that my nephews will be with us so I decided to use the kit to make an album for them. I already had this 8x8 album that I did nothing with so I will be using it. I'll post the completed album when we return.

JBS projects and photos

I finally got a few projects done with the JBS April Kit and I still have May's Kit to do and several past kits and project kits waiting for my attention.  I hope to get back to scrapping on a regular since my parents are moving to Illinois this week. Aniyah is in transition with them for some of the summer and I already miss her and it's only been a day.  I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. I'm off to watch the first playoff game and finish baking my sweet potatoe pie.

This card needs a bit of journaling but I didn't have a card in mind for anyone so it is blank for now.

 

 

just some photos......

 

  

I snapped these photos on Sunday over Mother's Day. My baby is getting so big. Can't believe in two weeks that school will be out and she will be starting 2nd grade. Where does the time go?

Happy Mothers Day

 

 
 
Once again my hair has gone thru another change! Change is good right? LOL! I absolutley love my La'Bella Couture earrings! I have another pair and they are truly the talk of the night. I have nothing on my face and on my lips is MAC Currant lip pencil and Up the Amp lipstick (which is my fav pink). Love how Aniyah made it into my photo!

Mother's Day was awesome and I'll post some pics on that later this week.  I love Tina's blog and how she does a post on currents, so I'm joining in.

listening: Steve Harvey morning show online at work 
eating: Frosted mini wheats
drinking: hot tea
wearing: crop pants, cardigan and heels
feeling: happy today for some reason
weather: sunny and hot (90 degrees today)
needing: a new camera lens and to save
enjoying: loving on Aniyah
wondering: if I'm gonna pass and take the GMAT

Have a great week loves and I'll be back for some photos and scrapping.  Oh, Happy Birthday to my sis-in-law Nikki. We love you!

happy st. patrick's day

From the moment I saw that cute shadow box Keisha made for the MM blog I just knew I had to have one of my baby for my office. I was trying to think of ways to decorate my area in a chic way with something different and this was just too perfect. I purchased the shadow box in the smaller size but I also bought a larger one and I was somehow thinking of making it again as gifts my mothers for Mother's Day.  We'll see .  I had the paper reverie card and I loved those butterflies so I broke it out and used it today. I definitely need to use it more often and I used MM Je t'adore papers for the butterflies. It is still my most fav collection right now.

I don't know where the "diva" personality in Aniyah comes from but these pics were taken one afternoon after she got home from school. She is such as mess!

home sweet home....for now

We have finally moved! I painted the entryway and living room a cool grey, thanks Keisha and I left the other dark tan color that was in the house in the kitchen area and hall bathroom. I haven't quite decided whether I'm going to leave it that color or paint it but it will remain for now. I'm looking forward to so many new things in 2011. I just feel like this is going to be the new year for change for a fresh/new me. So excited to see what's in store.

 

Welcome 2011...

I just realized that I haven't posted a single thing in December and I didn't want to let the month go by without me doing so. We made it back down south and I've been on the new job working for almost a month now. We are finally moving next week and I will be signing for our place this evening. I have a quite a few new pics to post but I don't have my computer with my programs on it so I'm sneaking while at work and posting! Our Christmas was fabulous! Aniyah said that she got "everything" from Santa! LOL! She scored pretty big this year, as always, even with a birthday coming up. Since we are moving, my wish list for new things in our home has now increased. I really want some new furniture so we will be saving our pennies. All the men in our family love to lounge on the couch so it will definitely have to be a sectional and I've been eyeing this one. There are some pieces that I love from C&B but until we upgrade to a larger home that has both a living room & family room and/or den, we will have to keep something that is functional for all our needs right now. I love Ikea and we finally got this headboard. I love that is contemporary and simple. We will eventually get this dresser but we will keep what we have for now.  Hope everyone had a fab Christmas and Happy New Year!

Break/Moving

Ok so the blog has taken a back seat lately and it will honestly have a break until the new year. WE ARE MOVING, AND MOVING BACK TO THE SOUTH!!!!!! I'm so excited for our family! Work has me super busy and now with having to schedule the move, find a place and transition to a new job won't give me any time to scrap or do projects. In fact, I'll be packing all my things in my scrap room for their new home and I'm going to miss seeing them terribly. The Holiday's are nearing and while I'll be taking pics throughout the entire process I should be fresh and ready to start back scrapping in 2011. I'm sure I'll stop thru to post from time to time but so happy that new things are in store.

sinkland farms pumpkin patch

We went to the pumpkin patch last weekend with Mom and enjoyed our time there. Aniyah picked out a pumpkin and got the chance to ride a pony. I loved the spooky tree.

 

 

few projects & pics of Aniyah

These layouts were done using the JB August kit. I got a little behind in doing these but I created a few layouts with them.

The first layout is of my beautiful mother and I used my new Tattered Angels pumpkin mist over the maya road chipboards.

This layout is really about my hubby but I love this photo of me that my niece took.

This layout was done using the Studio Calico September kit. I used the Fresh Cut ad-on for this layout. This is one of my recent fav pics of Aniyah.