At The Car Wash

Ever wonder what's on a 10 year old kid's bucket list? Well, one day a couple of months ago, Kevin tells me, "Mom, do you know what I REALLY want to do one day?" I had no idea. Go to a favorite band's live concert performance? Vacation in Walt Disney World? Ride some fantastical roller coaster? "What, Kevin?" I ask. "I want to go through a car wash!" he answers. WHAT?! A car wash?! How has he not experienced this? It boggles my mind...both that he has never been through an automated car wash...and that it stands out for him as something not to be missed. LOL! So, a few days later we hop into Julie's dirty car and go. I had to take pictures of this momentous occasion and memorialize them on a scrapbook page:

Not Again!

Another online scrapbook supply store is closing its doors. :(

What to do...what to do? How do I proceed with another DT position eliminated? Without a product to promote or technique to teach, I don't know where to begin! OK...hmmm...maybe with those hundreds of unscrapped photos? Heh-heh-heh.

Without direction, it's sometimes hard to decided what or how to scrap a photo. But these new papers from The Girls' Paperie were enough to fuel my creativity and I finally scrapped these photos from Brendan's high school graduation...May of last year. Mixing things up is my favorite way to scrap, so I was happy to find a use for some of my really old stash in the process. Those ancient letters from Making Memories began my love for chipboard. :D



If there could be a bright side to a store's closing, it would be that Serendipity Scrapbooks is now offering great discounts on remaining merchandise. Check it out HERE.

Oil in the Gulf

A widget for viewing in real time the disaster at the bottom of the gulf:

Retro TV

"Knock it off!" Wally would say to a bothersome little brother whose favorite expression was "Swell!"

Can you guess the show?

Yep...Leave It To Beaver, a favorite of mine from "back in the day".

The weekend of May 21-23, travel back in time with the Serendipity Scrapbooks DT as we host our next cyber crop. There will be games and challenges inspired by our favorite retro TV shows and commercials. Two pre-crop challenges are already posted. Hop on over to The Serendipity Show and check them out!

May Kit Layouts

It was such a pleasure to work with Serendipity's May "I Deserve It All" scrapbooking kit. The colors of the Crate Paper and My Mind's Eye papers are so versatile and there are embellishments galore. My favorite is the plethora of chipboard, but a close second is the really cool silk-like flower trim...in my favorite color!

Treme

Treme-a New Orleans neighborhood; an HBO TV series; pronounced with 2 syllables, accent on the second "e", which sounds like a long "a". First "e" is short. Got it?!

Always a little skeptical about TV shows and movies that attempt to depict New Orleans, I was REALLY wary of this one, set in the early post Katrina landscape. But then I watched the 2 hour premiere. Not bad. The accents don't have me cringing...too much. Now that they've gotten a Jazz Funeral out of the way, an episode about voo-doo will complete the ridiculous stereotype, and they can get on with the good drama. Hahaha. Maybe it will be a good series. Time will tell.

Monkey Business

We took advantage of the nice weather during Kevin's week off after Easter and visited the zoo...twice! Our first visit included a trek past Monkey Hill, through the Cajun exhibit and on to Jaguar Jungle, and concluded with lunch and ice cold drinks at the cafe. On our second day, we arrived just in time for the elephant show! We also got a rare treat of seeing the gorillas active after receiving a few treats from their keepers.





But the cutest thing ever was getting to see Menari, the baby orangutan!



Here's her dad, Berani, the escape artist who no longer gets to play with t-shirts in the exhibit. LOL!



These two monkeys were pretty cute too.