So, again it has taken me forever to catch up on my blog. This time it was because of another hectic dance weekend and a vist from family. We just had our final dance recital for the year. Yeah a long awaited break. I will miss all the moms ands teachers, but not all the running. Also Raye's grandparent flew from Ont. to come watch the recital. They said the whole show was exceptional and well worht the trip. So of course scrap booking has fallen to the way side for a couple of weeks:(. however i hope to jump back in with both feet in the next few days. that and my garden are my next two priorities. hope every one else is well, and late regardes to Michelle hope everything is starting to look up for you, and my prayers are with you.

Jennifer

This set of pics is showing off a 6 X 12 that I did. I have never done a 6 X 12 and did not think I would like it. It is a nice easy project to do. I also had to show off my handy work using the Copic markers. these markers anre the cats behind as far as I am concerned. Worth every penny! I was happy to sit and scrapbook today, it has been the first break i have had in nearly a month. Nothing but Dance Dance Dance!! I love seeing how happy Dance makes raye, but not the early mornings.

I had bought a new stamp the other day but was really to busy to try it out right away. So I tossed it onto my Desk and sorta forgot about it. Shortly afterward I was sorting thru photos to use with some of the page kits I recieved for IT. I came across some photos I had taken at a Build-A-Bear Party for Raye's best friend. The colors in the photos were a perfect fit for one of the page kits. I had been dying to scrap these photos for a while so the layout came together pretty easy. Except I kept coming up with a "blank" space on the page. Just as I was about to give up,, I spotted my new stamp. I felt the dragon on the stamp matched the Hippo Raye made at Build-A-Bear, so I started to stamp and color and voila! It all came together and my new stamp was a perfect fit .

opps I think we killed her!

One of the 8 rinks we built

Raye helping out

Ok so I have not posted in a while, but I do have a good reason. ( it is also my reason for not calling friends or family). Abbout 4 months ago 4 of us were asked to put toghether a pond hockey tourny. So we said yes. Hmmmmmmm, hindsight says "not so smart". We had to build 8 rinks (140 X 80) on the lake. this consited of 8 men 2 children and myself. After sevral cups of tim's and a cold afternoon we got it done. We planed built and put together a tourny that brought 18 teams to Alix to play on the lake for the day. We estimated having over 1500 hundred people on the ice at any given time. Everyone enjoyed the dat and we are still recieving many thanks and praise for a job well done. We have also recieved many emails to say " thanks we enjoyed the day and hope to do it again". So now I plan to get back to Scrapbooking, and hopefully posting on time.