Met Buster Prettybird --->

I was just quietly scrapping and keeping to myself Saturday afternoon when my hubby comes through the door and tells me to close my eyes. Not really sure what to expect, I complied a bit reluctantly. When I opened my eyes I saw my new best-friend, Buster Prettybird. Apparently my sweet, sweet husband wanted to make sure I was surprised for my birthday (which is not for another 12 days). I love my hubby so - and Buster too, of course =)


Matthew 6:
25-27
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

Knowledge is POWER!

I had a lot of fun creating this layout Sunday afternoon. I even tried using a few new techniques/medias =) First, I used a small piece of a box as the background to my large photo and second, I used an image from my clipart file (the pointer finger/hand). I really feel good about the way the whole page came together.

Layout features my son, Ethan, participating in his very first Reading Olympics.
~ Knowledge Is Power ~


A few close up photos showing the different medias I used.





Happy Creating!

Blog Giveaway WINNERS!!

Who's in the mood for Spring?
More important,
WHO'S IN THE MOOD FOR FREE EMBELLISHMENTS?
Well, I've put together a Spring Embellishment kit that might just suit both moods. All you need to do is post a link to this blog on your blog, facebook, message board (only where allowed) or online community. Then come back and post a comment here providing a link to your post. That's it! If you post to several locations, provide a link to each and you will get credit/entered for each. If we get more than 25 posts, I will add another Spring kit (exactly the same).

Deadline to add a comment is Tuesday, March 17th @ 12:00 pm EST. Drawing will be held on Wednesday, March 18th.

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Wow! The response to my Springtime Blog Giveaway was fabulous. We had over 25 responses so I'm going to give away 2 embellishment kits!

By using the Random Number Generator I was able to pick 2 winners - they are:
SILVIA and STACY MILFORD

Lady please forward me your physical address to lisawd@comcast.net and I'll get your goodies right out.
Thanks SO MUCH to everyone who participated. Stay tuned to my blog I'll be having giveaways about every two weeks now =)

Spring is Here

Springtime brings about many wonderful visuals; beautiful flowers, kite flying, long walks, birds singing, warm days/cool nights - ahhhh. Well, not in the Wood household, you mention the word "spring" and my mind goes in a completely different direction. I see mud covered baseball pants, smell the fresh leather of a pitchers/outfielders glove and I hear the unforgettable crack of the aluminum bats. To me that's spring - has been for the last 12 years! This was the inspiration for my "Spring is Here" layout.

This layout is was created using the #11 sketch from
52 Sketches 52 Weeks.
::sidenote:: I'm not a really big "circle" fan so I simply took the sketch and modified it a bit. I used a rectangle background instead of a circle and added more masculine elements.

Several close-up photos:

I Made The Team!

I couldn't be more excited right now than if I'd won a million dollars! Well, maybe. Anyhow, I'm ecstatic! I just received word from 52 Sketches 52 Weeks that I've been chosen to be a part of their very first Design Team! WaHoo! Thanks Julie =)

And the blinkie makes it all official!

~ Spring Blog GIVEAWAY ~

Who's in the mood for Spring?
More important,
WHO'S IN THE MOOD FOR FREE EMBELLISHMENTS?
Well, I've put together a Spring Embellishment kit that might just suit both moods. All you need to do is post a link to this blog on your blog, facebook, message board (only where allowed) or online community. Then come back and post a comment here providing a link to your post. That's it! If you post to several locations, provide a link to each and you will get credit/entered for each. If we get more than 25 posts, I will add another Spring kit (exactly the same).

Deadline to add a comment is Tuesday, March 17th @ 12:00 pm EST. Drawing will be held on Wednesday, March 18th.

So QUICK go spread the word ----->

Obsession #2

Our family has a little "tradition" we started about a year ago - two Fridays a month we'll go out to dinner and then to Barnes and Noble to look at books or play with the trains, just something different. Well, that's where the obsession thing rears it's ugly head. At this moment in time I have 4 books in my "planning to read" pile, one book on back order and another I've just begun reading, yet look what I did! If only there were a (DEAR day) Stop, Drop Everything and Read day in my life like they have in the elementary schools. Oh well, summers coming hopefully I'll be able to move some of these selections to my "books I've read" shelf.

Read on!

Hubby's Birthday

It's amazing how many layouts I do of my boys or even the pets, but rarely do I find myself doing one of my hubby. Well this week I changed all that =) Using the #10 Sketch from 52 Sketches 52 Weeks, I made this layout of my dear hubby celebrating his 57th birthday.

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Some close up shots...



Layout made using pattern papers found in my March Kraft Girls kit.


Here is a look @ the #10 Sketch from
52 Sketches 52 Weeks...
I modify the sketch just a bit to accommodate only having two photos instead of four.

Keep Creating =)

Friends

My Ethan is such an animal lover. Often times I struggle to get a photo of just him =)
Well, this layout I did features Ethan and one of his bestfriends -Ginger- sharing some love.


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Happy Creating!

My Sweet Escape

I love to create layouts featuring pieces of me and where life finds me right now. This just happens to be one of those fun layouts. I used the amazing sketch #9 from
52 Sketches 52 Weeks.
Julie is always giving us great stuff to work with over there!

~ My Sweet Escape ~

Here are a few close-up shots showing some of the detail work -->





Here is Sketch #9 from 52 Sketches 52 Weeks

Happy Creating =)

It Finally Happened...

SNOW FELL IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA!
And lots of it, about 8 to 10 inches of it =) It's been about 5 years since our last significant snowfall and we have been so overdue.

The kids have just been beside themselves with joy! We've sleided, had snowball fights, been to a late night bonfire and spent so much time together we're now ready to kill each other. Thank you God for this late winter storm it's been such a blessing to our hearts.