Such A Drag

Good morning friends!

I hope you all had a fabulously safe & food-filled Thanksgiving.

We stuffed ourselves silly for 4 days and I will now spend the next 2 weeks trying to diet/exercise it all off so that my Christmas dress fits.

Totally worth it!

I also managed to get the Christmas decorations up and even did a little scrapping (you know between episodes of stuffing my face).

This layout is actually from a night out with friends more than 4 years ago, but I love the way it came out.

Supplies: Cardstock:DCWV, PP & Alphas: Colorbok, Bling: Unknown

I love how fun this layout came out.

So, did you do any scrapping over your long weekend?

I would love to see what you created!

Once Upon A Time Again

Good morning bloggers.  

Are you all ready for Thanksgiving?

No, me neither.

Oh well.  I'm guessing we will somehow find a way to stuff ourselves silly anyway.

I wanted to share a few more of the older layouts from my Steve-O album today.

You can see the first post of these HERE.

I apologize for the less-than-stellar photography on these pages.  

I'm working on improving it.

These ones are not event-specific, but more just general, time spent together.

I wish I could give you specifics about the products used, but these were made a few years ago & I just don't remember.

I have to say, flipping through these pages left a big ole lump in my throat.  

I'm so glad that we have them & will always be able to look back at the early parts of our relationship.

(To say nothing of-- Look how THIN I was!

I'm gonna look that way again soon.)

I hope they have been helpful to you!

Once Upon A Time

Happy Monday Bloggers.

I hope you all had a lovely, productive weekend.

I have some older pages that I wanted to share with you today.

One of the PEAS had a request for some suggestions on making a "Couple" album this weekend, so I decided to post some pages from my Steve-O album.

When Steve & I first started dating in July of '07, I didn't take a lot of pictures in the beginning.

I didn't want to be "the crazy girl that took pictures on the first date" and really, in the first few weeks, who knows if it will turn into anything, right?

So, I went back later & took photos of some of the places that we went on our first few dates.

I only did this for July-December of 2007.  

Starting in 2008, he is just part of my regular yearly album.

(I apologize now for the awful quality of the photos.  

My only excuse is that I was still in shock that my Cowboys actually won a game.

I made most of these pages 3 years ago or so, so I'm guessing at some of the supplies too.  Sorry.)

This is the opening page of our album.

 

Supplies: PP:DCWV, Gold Vellum: Paper Studio, Other: Stickles, home printer

The first page is not shown, because it is nothing but a big pocket. 

We met on Match.com, so I printed out our profiles & our first few emails to put in the pocket.

This is from our first date.

A friend took the photo of me right before I left to meet him.

The photo of him is downloaded from his Match.com profile.

 Supplies: PP: Paper Studio -- I think, Emblie: Colorbok, Other: Ribbon, Buttons

We went bowling on our second date, so I took a pic of the bowling alley.

The journaling is hidden behind the photo.

Supplies: PP:DCWV, Bowling Stickers: Jolees

Our Third date, I took him to Culvers for dinner& then to the mall to play Lunar Mini Golf.

Supplies: Cardstock:DCWV, PP:Unknown, Flowers: Wrights, Alpha Stickers: DCWV, Punch: Unknown, Large Tag Die: Sizzix, Other: Stickles, large brad

Since neither of us was living alone at that time, we spent a lot of time wandering the neighborhood talking, so I wanted to add a page about that too.

All of the photos are benches in the neighborhood where we sat for hours, getting to know each other.

 Supplies: Storytellers Club, Cardstock: DCWV, Alpha Stickers: Making Memories, Cricut Cartridge: Doodletype-I think, Other: Stickles, Buttons

Just a couple of weeks after we met, I had a birthday.

My friend Sarah made me a nice dinner & invited him.

Because it was my birthday, it was a good excuse for her to take lots of pictures of us together.

(Which worked out good, as my Mom really wanted to see pictures of the hunky Marine I was dating.)

 Supplies: Cardstock: DCWV, Page Kit: Colorbok

After dinner, he took me to my very first Texas Rangers game.

Supplies: PP: Unknown, Cardstock: DCWV, Alpha Stickers: Making Memories, Stickers: Jolees, Cricut Cartridge: Opposites Attract, Stamp: Fiskars-I think

My journaling is tucked behind the photo.  

The "Champs" stamp serves as the pull tab for the journaling card.

I love to look back at these pages.  

Every time I do, they make me smile.

Tomorrow, I'll show you a few more from this album.

Till then, I hope you have a fabulous day.