POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for September 2017

Happy September! Thanks for setting up the new thread, nylene. Looking forward to seeing your grad pages.

We are back home. Dh is still pretty tired, but we don't plan to be doing anything over the next few days. He enjoyed a long nap in his recliner after we arrived home, has had supper, and is now surfing his favorite news, sports, and drama TV channels.

I admit I had a nap too this afternoon.

Oh no!  Hope it was just overwork from therapy and you will feel better after a couple of days of rest.

nylene, thanks for the thread.

grammadee, so glad you are both home safely and that things went ok.

scrapincin, Good for you for making sure you get there, even if you have to take it easier. I hope all of this hard work pays off.

We are home after a very long drive. Luckily I had dd pick out a book for Audible. It took us all the way through Wisconsin and the U.P. I had to switch out the rental car with my minivan at the airport and we got home about 1:30 in the morning. Don had already been home and picked up the dogs. So we were greeted with lots of jumping and licking. I let the chickens out this morning to find them so much bigger in 2 weeks. The 2 turkeys are now bigger than the chickens. And the little bantam rooster has gotten even worse with his Napoleon complex. He kept attacking my boots.

Don's been great today. He made breakfast and will be making dinner as well. I guess I'll keep him.

See ya later.

Wishing all the best with all those chores, ladies.....and welcome home lisadv and family.

    Dh did help me scan and fix all my old big bend (1973) pics and it was a 2 day chore, but we finished and got them ordered , most 5x7, so I am looking forward to "rescrapping" them.
In the meantime I have a few gc pics to mess with.
     I did a new centerpiece for dining table and it's time to do my "scrapbook table " maybe with a fall theme. The tray has copies of old pics from my grandparents families that I inherited. My dd decopaged it for me. The buttons were my mom's. The scarf was also made by some unknown ancestor by way of mom.
 
When I get the beach pics off the scrapbook table, I will have some more pics to scrap for 7 of the gc.

      I like the challenge of doing something new without spending any money or very little. Have no ideas yet.

And no fall trip planned...we usually do a week somewhere not too far away every fall and we had talked about the Texas coast...but that won't be happening now!

Happy September to everyone! This is one of my favorite times of the year! I love the colors , the temperatures, the leaves, the smells of apples and cinnamon! Believe it or not I was in my scrap room last night working on my layout that has been sitting back there for more then a week. I am having trouble giving it a title but may have figured that out this morning searching for information. I am watching a baseball game then will be going in to work on it and hopefully finish it. I do not have that muscle pain anymore either. I even made zuchinni muffins this morning.

elayne I have to agree with grammadee you do have a knack for decorating which is a struggle for me.

i hope all of you are enjoying your holiday weekend and I will be back later!

@elaynef, I love your tray and whole heritage centerpiece. How wonderful to have those photos displayed!

scrapincin, I'm so glad that you made some time for crafting, and that you had the energy to make muffins as I will take it as a sign that you are feeling better. I hope that feeling continues and just gets stronger.

nylene, are you back at school? Have the vacationing leads for the substance abuse meetings returned so that you just have your own meeting or do you still have more than that? Don was tired too, but he made the long drive from MN the weekend previously so he could work and had a whole day without us to veg out while I drove back. But the 2 weeks did take it's toll. We had plans to get some thing completed this weekend, and not over the top plans either, and very few of the plans came to fruition.

kellyr21, were you able to continue your art classes? or will it not work out time wise? What about guitar? I love how you are always continuing to learn new things!!

grammadee, I wish that your cleaning could impact my house too. I need to go to the basement and organize the canned goods and the canning jars too. I only have one shelf of canning jars until this year. I have bought several other boxes of jars and then Don came home 2.5 weeks ago with a garage sale find of the equivalent of 6 boxes of jars for like $3. I haven't even cleaned them yet. They're still outside.

I'm plugging very slowly away at my to do list. Today, I had some computer work to do and ended up with 2 digital layouts completed as well. So obviously, I should have been doing something a bit more "housely" productive, but it'll be there all week and I needed the play. I'm so missing my papers though. But school starts this week. DS starts his online high school this week and that will take some time to set up. They don't have his classes on the system they use for "doing" the work yet. Of course, they were closed today, and we had planned to do it last Wednesday and Thursday, but ended up being gone. I'll start DD with a couple of subjects tomorrow, but Thursday will be her first full day. I think she still needs a slower ramping up. OK, I need a slower ramping up, especially since I'll need to spend the next 2 days really concentrating on the housework. Stinky housework!

These are the 2 layouts I finished.
Another Christmas 2009 layout.
d2009C7_Wakey,-Wakey by Lisa Davolt, on Flickr

and Another Double Rainbow Layout. We get so many of them here.
dDoubleRainbowDay2 by Lisa Davolt, on Flickr

And here are my two pages, started yesterday and finished today. I had fun with the spider theme, using my Cricut, some paints and mists, and even figured out how to stamp with an onion bag!

One of my dgs's is obsessed with Spider-Man. He wears Tshirts with the logo often. His other gramma bought him a full costume which he wears all the time unless he can be convinced to leave it at home. He constantly wears one Spider-Man glove, even to preschool. When he saw the face painter at the fair, of COURSE he had to have a Spider-Man face!  I added the date and the name of the fair to the photo after I took the faced painting page pic.

Spiderman crazy by Gramma Dee, on FlickrSpiderman crazy2 by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

Happy Monday and happy September! Boy it got busy for me but a good busy. My dh was on vacation so we went out of town for a few days here in So California about an hours drive south of us. We had a restful time in the hillside community. Even though it was a city there were so many trees and hills. Near the hotel, they had HL, M's and J's all in the same shopping area!!! So I was sold! LOL! They were nice big and spacious. I never made it to J's. After two big craft stores I had seen enough. LOL! Yesterday, we went to this large outdoor mall in the same area. I hadn't been there in many years so I wanted to check it out. After an hour or so being there I realized, this is a teeny bopper and young family hang out. LOL! So many strollers with multiple tots and babies. Next time, I need to go to the mall for the 40 plus crowd.

We have had some very hot and humid weather last week up until yesterday when it got misty and cooler. But today the heat returned. Not sure if we are getting any moisture from Texas. So hopefully all our weather across the country and world will settle down. These hurricanes have been terrible.

Today, I ordered my Christmas card pp from Scrapbook dot com. I got the Simple Stories "Very Merry" pp kit. I really wanted the Echo Park new pp kit but it is still on pre order. Didn't want to wait too long. I have an order already for cards and want to have my supplies soon.

LisaDV- Oh, I am so happy you and your family are all back at home and safe. Also, your dd is a trooper and so glad she got through all those tests. My prayers are still with you. Take care of yourself mommy.
Yes, I did get to start my art classes new session last Friday so I have 4 or 5 more classes today. I am enjoying it. My guitar lessons... I just lost the mojo for it plus the expense of the lessons. I rather use that money for things I needed like clothes. I haven't shopped in a long while and enjoyed using some of the money for that. A girls has got to have cute clothes! LOL!

nylene- Wow, your dd's area was even hotter than ours. We were up to 104 or so and it was muggy. I hope can get back to our regular dry hot soon. LOL!

scrapincin- What great games over the weekend. I hope you are enjoying them and cheering your team along. So glad to see you back at scrappin again. You are getting your mojo back. Your pages look great!

grammadee- How did your baking turn out? As soon as it cools down out here I want to get back to baking too.

Waving hi to you all and I got lots of your work to check out in the gallery. Plus, I have several pictures myself to upload. Take care all!

nylene- I guess this heat is bring out these bugs. Glad you are alright. Two weeks ago I got several huge mosquito bites! I haven't got these in ages and never even saw the little bugger! I was so miserable especially since they were on the back of my thigh and leg. So sitting wasn't comfortable. Ice packs and even my cold water bottle became my best friends. LOL!

grammadee- Are all your veggies in the garden just about done now?

Love seeing your pages, nylene and scrapincin. Left some comments in the Gallery.

How is your finger, nylene? Spiders biting me at night would be terrifying: not sure I could sleep in that room for quite a while!

How are you adjusting to the therapy sessions this week, scrapincin? Dh is slowly recovering. His colour is better, but he is still pretty tired. Last night a bold broke in his recliner, so now he has to replace that before he can settle in for his usual afternoon nap in front of the TV.

Thanks for asking about the garden, kellyr21. This summer started late and wet and cool, so this is definitely not our best ever crop. Almost everything is off the garden except for fall veggies and most of them are root vegetables, so we have time to harvest them. The corn on the cob is late. We had some yesterday, but it still needs at least a couple of days or maybe a week to ripen. The tomatoes are slowly ripening on the vine, and we pick the ones that have turned red. Watching the forecast and the temperature, so the first time there is a threat of frost we will be picking them all green and bringing them into the basement to ripen there. The pumpkins have just begun to form on the vines--they are about 3 or 4 weeks late this year--so I have very little hope of salvaging them this year, but I have frozen pumpkin I can use for pies and loaves come Thanksgiving.

Today I am organizing my scrapbooking supplies. I pulled a bunch of papers and embellishments that I have not used and am not likely to use (kids' interests have changed, colours are no longer useful for what I am scrapping, they were parts of kits not chosen by me and are not quite a "fit" with what I do). I am packing them all in a box to give to my niece's dd who is a grade two teacher.

Meanwhile, I decided that all my Family supplies need to go into a tub that will be going to a crop in October when I hope to complete the Family Reunion album. After using a bunch of those supplies, they should all fit into the Iris case I have labeled "Family & Home".

That opened up some space in one of my big drawers, so now I can put away some new collections that need a home. Of course the process is taking way longer than I had anticipated, and has generated a huge mess in here, but hopefully one more day of this will restore some order and give me some surface space to scrap again. I now have a deadline for completing my summer album: we plan to go to Calgary at the end of this month, and I want to take the spring and summer albums with me.

Anyway, wishing you all a terrific Thursday!

Hi everyone,

Although I haven't been back to this thread, I have kept up in the gallery this week. I can leave comments there on my phone. I don't really like to leave comments in the forum unless they're short on my phone.


This is so me! I say the same thing when I just do a general weekly cleaning. I'm not going to let them or me lay things on the dining table. Like right now we can't eat on the dining table again, and I just had it cleaned this week. Love those spiderman pages and your dgs is adorable!

scrapincin , wonderful double pager. I love when towns do art like that. The first time I saw it was in Chicago with cows many, many years ago. Since then we've seen it in a few other towns with other symbols. It always makes me smile.

kellyr21 , I'm so glad you made your art class. You can use the skill to make your crafts to sell and then you can use it as a tax deduction too. I'm sorry you aren't working on your guitar right now, but I totally understand budgeting. Sounds like you had a nice holiday even if you had to be at the teeny-bopper mall. lol.

nylene , yikes. Is your finger any better? I would be freaking wondering where I got the bite at. Were you cleaning any dark hard to reach places you couldn't see into? Or yard work? I found a black widow in a boot on the front porch this spring. I threw the boot away! I'm glad you didn't waste time with going to the doctor. Also, I'm loving all of your layouts.

Waving hi to msliz , maribeth , and @elaynef .

I finally made it to the larger town to do grocery shopping. All week the kids were like "can we have x with y and z. I'd be like you can have y but I don't have x or z or some variation thereof. While I was in MN, Don told me that we actually had frost one morning. So this weekend we're working outside - the garden harvesting, checking the bees, finish putting up the storage canopy (just the tent portion needs to go on), etc. I'm still working my way through the household chores, but I'm taking my sweet time doing them. Logan's needed me to install programs and show him how to use them for his classes this week. And being my son, every time he does anything, he's asking me to look it over to see if it's OK, even if it's just a quick contact email.

I'm still working through my to do list slowly and doing digital scrapping when I can. I just uploaded 5 layouts (1 is a double). But I'll share this one here, it is actually from the beginning of August and was part of a scraplift challenge at the Digital Press site. We had 3 teams and the first person from each team started with the same layout to scraplift. Each team member gets a copy of the current person's lift only until all layouts are completed and then revealed. It was really fun to see the reveal and how each person interpreted it. I was the starting person on my team.

dAnimalKing by Lisa Davolt, on Flickr

I'm so behind! I will head over to leave some layouts be shortly. I survived the first week of school. I was pretty exhausted. On the long weekend we had a family wedding on DH's side. They asked us not to take pictures during the ceremony which was disappointing because I was sitting right beside the table where they signed the register. My BIL took a lot of photos so I'm going to get his. This weekend, I'm trying to catch up on household chores. Yesterday we trimmed one of our spruce trees and cut out a bunch of old lilacs. I hope to spend a little time today cleaning my scrap room. Have a wonderful Sunday.