snap!

baby, it's cold outside. second morning in a row. temperature is 16 degrees. ice is beautifully laden among the trees. while a very beautiful sight to wake to, it is causing our brillant fall to go away pre-maturely.


flowers have officially gone to seed.


the leaves are so beautiful frosted. only God could have bestowed this beauty.

the scene in our backyard this morning. everything looks so perfect.

oh! and did i tell you about my 180 last night on the icy streets. THAT was fun! needless to say, we are staying in today until it thaws. suppose to be back in the 40's by noon. we shall hope.

what's been going on this week in studio::

i am officially un-officially following along with THAW over at willow traders. using their prompts for the challenge is giving me some motivation to work through some projects.

these layouts here are of my son at 2. now you have to realize, when i first started scrapping back in the dark ages we had NO money, and i had NO style. and that is how my pages looked. my son (now 14) recently commented to me that my style now is a little different then when i first put his book together. he said it in a nice way, mind you, but i knew what he meant. so i have been systematically re-doing pages of his book. and although i am facing a few challenges by doing this, there have been several benefits to it, and so i continue the project.

1. the new pages are now going in american craft d-ring 12x12 albums

2. the book has a cohesive feel to it that i am really liking. relying on my ever favorite kraft cardstcok (and in my humble opinion stampin up has the best kraft out there), each page is backed with kraft, and i am sticking to a few colors for pop.

3. the pages are also cohesive as there is a certain sketch style i am maintaining with each page. keeping it very simple. the focus is on the photos+story.

4. as i am doing these, i realized i only scrapped for HIM during these days, and do not really have a 'family' album for the same time frame. it's making me a little frantic, and not sure how to go about that. while going through these pages, i am culling several that i don't think would be that important to him, and they are put away for another day. and may very well end up in a 'family' book.

thanks for listening to me go on this morning. hope you have a wonderful fall sunday where you are!