ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL??

With Super Bowl Sunday right around the corner, I thought I'd get us all in the mood (BTW, my hubby has been scouring cookbooks and recipe blogs since mid-January trying to find the PERFECT Super Bowl recipes for our party - I think we're getting close!)  I'll have to share it all with you next week.

Okay, so I digress (see, that's what Football themed stuff does).  Today is one of those Wonderful days of the week where we get out or Oldies and when everyone realizes, "HEY, I love that image, thought I had that image, but when looking for that image and guess what, it's not in my collection!!"

So, that's what I'm doing today with this Oldie But Goodie Bugaboo Brat

Image - Bugaboo Stamps "Bugaboo Brat Sports - Football Boy"

Papers - Bazzill & Football textured paper

Coloring - Copics

Tools - EK Sucucess Punch

Extra STUFF - Plastic 'string' for football laces, Doodling, Dimensionals, Stazon Jet Black Ink & Miscellaneous Thanks Stamp

Hugs & Happy Super Bowl Dayz!

This has been entered into the following challenges - 

Digistamps 4 Joy - 2W, SIO  - #35 for boys   (2nd wk)

Divas by Design - 2E - #20 anything goes

Fab 'n' Funky - 1E, C10 - use a digi

Celebrate the Occasion - 1E - #48 Thank You! (Must use a punch)

Clear It Out! - 2W -Use Old Supplies - TBA Week1

Crafty Sentiments 1E, SIO -  Punches &/Or Dies

Die Cuttin' Divas - must include a Die-cut -#50 Anything Goes

Partytime Tuesdays - 3E (2E anything goes wk) - PTT #53 Anything Goes

First Layout in WAY TOO LONG!!

Boy oh boy, it's been some time since I've actually done a layout.  QUITE different from making cards I tell ya!

With my dad's BBQ Celebration of Life in July, of course, I wanted to get together a scrapbook album of some of our fond moments with my dad.

This was one!

Growing up our family was a U of M rooting family.  My grandfather worked for the U of M, in College I worked for the U of M Athletic Department.  And Funny, My hubby was a HUGE U of M fan too.

In our adult life, we continue to bleed Maize and Blue.  :)

Last February, when my dad was in the hospital the first of many times, a few of the U of M athletes came around the Veterans Hospital and took the time to talk with them.  Of course, being a scrapbooker, my camera is ALWAYS with me.  So, this is how we came to get this photo of my two favorite men - My dad and My Hubby with Zoltan Mesko (now a Punter for the NE Pats) and Patrick Omameh - Offensive Rt. Guard.

It took me nearly the entire day to get this done, but I'm pleased with how it turned out. 

I've gotten Three pages done so far for the album - I never realized just how hard it was going to be to do these. 

Photo - Dad & Glen w/U of M Football Players - Feb 2010

Papers - Miscellaneous from my stash - Tryin' to USE what I've got in that Stash!!

ESPECIALLY LOVE the U of M Block M paper

Extra STUFF - Big Brads I heat embossed with colored embossing power to match the layout (they were BROWN to begin with - look pretty cool, huh?

Alpha stickers

Digi Tags with Block M on them, MS Border Punch, Die Cut football from Football textured paper

Thanks so much for stoppin by and takin' a view of what's goin' on in my little creative world today!

The sunshine is FINALLY here (at least for a day or two), so as you can imagine, we're getting as much stuff done as we can at the farm the last few days.

Stay tuned for a few photos of our progress tomorrow (the rain is back tomorrow).  Garden Tillin & Plantin' and tree house tearin' down.  It's gonna smell like a locker room in our house this weekend (and probably at mom's too with all the Icy Hot we're using for sore muscles.  LOL

Hugs & Happy Days!

Who doesn't Love a HOEDOWN?!

Well, you have time that you can join the Hoedown at Hambo Stamps - they have a FABULOUS challenge goin' on right now!

Dance your way on over to the Hambo Challenge blog and get your freebie image.  Play along with the theme and the next week, you get another freebie to continue playing along with the new challenge.

Kind of a fun challenge, huh?

So, this week - the theme if FOOTBALL - pretty good timing, don't you think?

Image - Hambo

Papers - Miscellaneous papers from my stash

Coloring - Copics

Tools - EK Success Punch & Nesties

Extra STUFF - Bling, Doodling, Computer Generated Sentiment & Raffia

The inside of the cards says "And look CUTE doing it!"

Girls can Do ANYTHING!! :)

Thanks for stoppin' by today! I hope you have a terrific Sunday and enjoy the Commercials, er, I mean Super Bowl.  We sure will - hubby is SO DIGGING the new tv! :) 

Happy Monday!!!

Whew, how is it weekends go SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FFFFFFFAST - even when it's a 3 day weekend??

Friday we spent the day at my folks.  They had their "Lake House" pullin' truck delivered.  Now all we need to have done is the hitch installed and they're good to go where ever the wind takes them!  Or course, there were a ton more veggies we picked - about 5 pounds of beans and about 7 or 8 pounds of roma tomatoes (along with green onions and peppers).  Friday night was a late night - at 12:30 am I was baking a HOMEMADE Carrot Cake for my mom's birthday on Saturday and at 1:30 my hubby was cleaning the 9 pounds of ribs we planned to dine on Saturday evening with friends and family while cheering on the Maize and Blue.
We cheered them on all right - we cheered them on to a BIG win over the whining Irish. What a great game! We got to enjoy my niece and nephew Saturday too! Colin was so fun honking the horn with Uncle Glen when Michigan scored.

My Sweet Sucky-Thumb Niece

This is what we call "EXTREME BABY CLOSE-UP" at our house!!

My dad enjoyed the game, mom is now making super cute little felted pumpkins (I'll be sure to take a photo and show you.....yep, will be makin' some of those soon!).  Mom K got to snuggle with Natalie, Glen got to BBQ with his bro and I got to make twice baked potatoes that were super yummy with the help of Colin.  We had YUMMY viddles, great company.  After everyone left and we made our way through four loads of dishes, we had a few beverages with our neighbors - always a good laughin' time.

Sunday, Amy, Susan and the kiddos and I had a birthday lunch planned. We enjoyed lunch on the patio at Bar Louie (SUPER YUMMY Tuscan Chicken Pasta - mmmmmmmm!) and then played on the oversized food with the kids. It was the perfect way to wrap up a weekend - but it went WAY TOO FAST!!

My ROCKSTAR nephew at lunch on Sunday

A Happy Girl

Spending time with the Raz kiddos and mama was kind of bittersweet - we learned late last week that they are moving to California.  Daddy Raz was offered a terrific job opportunity, so the fam is packin' up and headed to Cali.  Of couse we're very sad to see them moving (especially THAT far away), but heck, it gives us a REASON to FINALLY visit California (hubby and I have never been).  So for now, we're spendin' as much time as we can with the kids and enjoying them here.

So, with all the entertaining, cooking, lunching, applesauce making and veggie pickin', you can understand why I haven't made it to my studio since Thursday......I'm hoping tonight after a little peach cannin' I can get a little scrappy therapy in.  And maybe, just maybe I can share a little somethin' crafty with you tomorrow?!  LOL

P.S.  Can I tell you I made the yummiest homemade applesauce last night - on a whim I picked up "Pink Lady" Apples the other day when I went to the grocery store.  Can you say AMAZING?!  If you've never tried them before - I STRONG recommend it!!  :)

Are you READY for some FOOTBALL?

Yep, this weekend is the Michigan vs. Michigan State College Football game. So, in honor of that, I thought I'd post a layout I designed for the Live Laugh Love & Scrap store in Oxford.

Materials Used - World Win Card Stock in Yellow, Blue & Green (can't remember specific names)

Pigskin textured paper for footballs & text & of course, I can't remember where the printed paper came from.....DOH!

Prisma pencils for the yard lines on the green 'football' field

Cricut - Walk in My Garden (leaf) to make footballs, Base Camp for title & Accent Essentials for the squiggly arrows.

DMC Floss in Cream for Football laces

Quote I found online, computer generated: It reads "The Smell of Pigskin. The Diehard Fans. The Lavish Tailgating. But most importantly, The Need to Tackle Someone! IT MUST BE FOOTBALL SEASON!"

LET'S GO BLUE!!!

Happy Craftin' & Football Rootin!

Min