Mad Alice & Head Crab

Greg and Michelle made their costumes to wear to a "Cards Against Humanity" board game with friends.  2012

Michelle designed and sewed her costume.  Greg's made his fake employee ID for the "Black Mesa Research Center"-where an alien invasion started in the Game Half Life (where the hat is from).  The head crabs take over bodies and control them.  

It's keeps me young following my kids!

Scooby

I am so glad our older kids still dress up for Halloween.  Chris and his college friends actually dressed in different costumes to attend 2 parties.  For the Scooby Do rendition, they researched the costumes and then went to the thrift stores to find what they needed.  Chris dressed as Fred, the "leader and determined detective".

I am a hybrid scrapper and for this one, you can see why digital frames are so much fun and can make a layout.  

I'm thinking I should now call our children "young adults".  Chris was a first time voter this year, voting in the early election on Thursday.

2012

Hybrid Tutorial: Adding Digital Frames

It was the eighth time the family had gathered at the nephews' pub in Keyser, WV. What a fun family tradition this is. Since the name of the pub is "Clancy's," the song title, "Here's to you Clancy," was fitting!

I made this layout to display pictures of my family members who attended. I was able to capture 16 photos of family members on my layout by placing those images in digital film negatives. My finished layout has photos of over 20 family members on one page! 

To create the digital film negatives, determine the width of the negative you want and size.  

Determine the photo size. An easy way to do this is to crop the inside of one of the frames, then click on image size. 

Crop each photo that same size. Paste it behind the negative.

Crop and repeat. Print the negatives and hand cut around each. The slide image on my layout is also a digital frame. The journaling block is a digital image on which I typed my journaling. I adhered the negatives, journaling block, slide and title alphas to my paper, added a border and a few studs.

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Happy Friday!

Lady

Early pictures of my Mother, hair styled and fashionably dressed.  Even at Kennywood Park in 1950, she donned her pearls.  Other photos from Terry's wedding, 1970.

Mom today.  At 87, she still gets her hair styled and dresses up.  (She'd put her arm in Dad's pancake batter that morning. . . thus the spots on her top).  No makeup......she's still a lovely lady!  2012

Love of My Life

When I showed Bob I'd used this picture of us as my laptop wallpaper he said "that's the love of my life".  Pictures taken last weekend at the Morgantown City Reservoir.  October 2012

Bob set the self timer on his camera to take the picture

The fibers and paper were a gift from Rita Barakat.  Rita sent me a huge (heavy) box of papers and goodies.  She's a terrific scrapper and mixed media artist whose work can be viewed on her blog, Let's Embellish.  Thank you my Texas friend!
 

Up the Hill

We're having an Indian Summer here in West Virginia and it is pretty everywhere you go.  Bob and I have ventured to most of the scenic spots in the area.  Monday after I got home from work, I ventured up the hill behind our house.  On top you can see the Coliseum, Sabraton and Grafton Road.  It was gorgeous.  I normally like to have a people photo on my layout, but since I went solo, I decided the cow would have to do.

I printed my journaling directly on the background paper:  "Climb the pole line, cut through a path in the woods, go over a couple fences. . . very pretty here!"

October 2012
 

Never Too Spoiled

The pretty leaf earrings I'm wearing were purchased at a Philadelphia store called "Never Too Spoiled".  These words were on a store display:  "When you buy something made by a person, there is something special and you do feel it.  The consciousness with which a thing is made is often more important than the thing itself".

I used Gabrielle Pollacco's resist stamp technique around my border.  Photo by Bob taken yesterday at Morgantown's City Reservoir.  

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Here is photo of the display in the Philadelphia Store "Never Too Spoiled".  It is a beautiful store. . . even the dressing areas are pretty and unique.