First Day of School

Yesterday marked the first day back to school. It is hard to believe that this is the last year of elementary school for Winston and Middle school for Contessa!



Before dropping Winston off to school, I asked him if I could take a picture of him getting off the school bus. Five years of going to school and I have not gotten a picture of him and the big yellow school bus??!!
I got a quick and booming "NO!" I asked "Please??? Can I use my cell off camera and pretend I am texting?" I did get permission to sneak a photo.

Well the moment came when he hopped off the bus and of course what did I have in my hand? My big camera. I did not want to miss the moment!



I know, Bad Mom!

I LOVE Sketches!

Have I told you how much I love sketches? Well I do! Each month I go to PageMaps and print the latest sketches. This month they are offering a contest using the sketch below.


Below I rotated the sketch to make it work for my photos. And to fit the requirement of being a summer layout.

Winston's last day of school with his teacher, Mrs. Kecmer.

Our "Staycation"

Just think next week at this time we will have butterflies in our tummies as we prepare for the first day of school.

This past Friday we decided to take a little "staycation". At 10am we set out for Tybee Island.

Our first stop was Fort Pulaski. We just love checking out Civil War forts and battlefields.

It is really amazing how men were able to build forts such as this one. After 100 years there are no cracks in the bricks from settling. Amazing.


Our next destination was the light house. 178 steps to the top!

Three days later , my legs are still shaking. Marc and the kids went up the first 50 steps and called it quits. But don't fear, I made the climb to the top to snap a picture.
What a view.

Our next stop was the beach.

What could make this day even better? Seafood at the Crab Shack and strawberry daiquiris!
CHEERS!!!!

Strut Your Scrap

Each month my mail person brings me the most amazing box of Scrapbooking goodies from My Scrapbook Nook. Each box is filled with such great product. I am about to show you 3 layouts that I recently created using the goodies from my kits.

But first here is where I need YOUR help. Simply click HERE and "post a new reply" that you saw me strut my scrap. Then our names will be posted in a drawing. The prizes are a $75 gift certificate for me and a scrapbook kit for you. Don't worry if you don't scrapbook I will create an album for you using the kit.








With all this excitement anyone who comments on this post and over at The ScrapBook Nook will be entered to win a layout designed by me.

Thanks so much for taking a peek at my work and entering us in this fun contest!!!

So what are you waiting for????

I Dare You!

I love page contest, I always have. I guess its just the competitive nature or for bragging rights. I dare you to enter the page contest at The Scrapbook Studio in Pooler, Ga. You have until Friday to submit your entry using 50% of product sold at Scrapbook Studio. I immediately found a page to enter. Cecile already has several pages on display. There is some good competition out there!

While at the LSS on Saturday, Jamie, Kristine and I were talking about the good old days, before Savannah Scrapbooking, when we would enter page contest at Say Cheese. We would fiercely compete against each other. We did not know each other at the time and it's funny that we have become good friends through the years.

For a few giggles I thought I'd post one of my WINNING pages from Say Cheese. The category was punches. You were to use many different shaped punches on your layout. I can't remember how many hours this page took to create, but it was worth it.

Can you imagine making each farm animal with several different punches?

I double dog dare you to share your oldie but goodies!! LOL

Turtle Patrol

Last Thursday, Contessa and I set out for an experience of a lifetime. Helping the volunteers of the Coastal Discovery Museum on Turtle Patrol. We met Jamie and Pat at 5 in the morning. It was still dark as we boarded the gators. We headed north to begin checking on the Loggerhead Turtle Nests.



Once checking on the nests and helping 2 babies find their way to the ocean we headed south along the shoreline.

We came upon crawl tracks from a momma loggerhead turtle.


We found an old nest, probably the first one of the season. there was no survivors of this nest. Only 2 feet away we found the nest laid by the momma who made those massive tracks. we discovered 105 eggs in this nest and moved it safely to the dunes. Nest number 155.

we boarded the gators as the sun was beginning to rise.



In the next nest we helped 24 turtle find their way to the water. Look as this baby swims between my feet.



What a beautiful morning!! I hope we get to do this again sometime soon.

And here are the layouts.



Pattern Paper by fancy pants.





Pattern Paper by Bo Bunny.

June bug Layouts with Basic Gray

A quick show and tell using Basic Grey's Junebug products.









Lastly is a mini accordion album or a display for a shelf to welcome summer. You can either display as is or add small photos of your favorite summer activities.