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Some pictures to inspire you this holiday season...

I'm teaching classes this winter at Rubber Soul in Poulsbo.

This is what my life is like these days

Sabrina made this silly video for you...

Father's Day Mini-books (Part 2)

This is the second album I made for Father's Day. This one was for my father who joined us for the 4th of July celebration we had at the cabin. It was a great weekend and fun to play cards and be silly like when we were on vacation as kids. The cousins were all together and it gave me a chance to be grateful for my family and the chances we have to get together to just be.

Album 2: You Make Me Smile mini-book
This album was made using a kit I received at the Technique Tuesday Bliss weekend (which was awesome!). It was very quick to put together - just glued on the paper and rounded corners. Cropped the photos and placed them on with some quick journaling. It was fun and I'm happy with how it turned out. For the journaling, I asked my kids what they liked best about Grandpa and just created a simple list to go with some photos I had around. Took me a little over an hour to pull together.

Father's Day Mini-books (Part 1)

For Father's Day this year I made mini-books for my husband, father, and father in-law that turned out super cute.

Album 1: Shrimping with Dad and Grandpa
Mother's Day weekend was one of only a few days you can shrimp on Hood Canal and we had fun taking the kids out for their first time. Carter (5) decided he wanted to try to kayak by himself this weekend too, so it ended up being a lot of firsts for us! I was glad that I got to document it for our family and knew that my father in-law would like to look at the pictures over and over again.

I couldn't find a decent chipboard album last minute at the craft stores I visited so I had to improvise. I bought wood rectangles that were super light and adhered the pictures directly to the wood. After trimming the pictures with an exacto knife, I used sand paper to even up the edges and give them a little white border. Then I took some white ink and stamped directly onto the photos - but the ink took forever to dry. I used my hot gun and it still didn't dry. The stamps are all Ali Edward's from Technique Tuesday. A friend gave me a tip to just put some paper towel over to soak up anything that was still sticky and that seemed to work. I think they turned out awesome!

Part 2 coming soon!

Make something cool: Pup tent

Ran across this great idea today on the interwebz. Who doesn't want a pup tent? So cute!

Another version to try too - this one starts with a sheet and looks easy:

Summer drinks: Watermelon slushee

We are having fun experimenting with summer drinks at our house. We've master the orange julius, iced almond coffee, and chai tea blended drinks. Yummm... Today we invented a watermelon slushee and it was delicious! Great mocktail for using up watermelon that has gone a little mushy.

Watermelon Slushee

4 cups seedless watermelon cubed
4 T sugar
juice of one lime (optional)
8 ice cubes

Put it in the blender and let it go. The longer you blend it the smoother it will be.

Enjoy!

Make something cool: ruffled shrug

I just saw this adorable shrug on one of the blogs that I follow. It is made out of a t-shirt that was stained and looks simple enough to attempt. What a great way to repurpose clothes! I'm raiding my daughters dresser as we speak...