Earnhardt went for his haircut on Friday, this was only his second haircut. I kept his coat long but just had the tips of his ears, around his eyes and his feet trimmed. Isn't he just the cutest!! He is getting all ready for our trip to Florida.
Before After
I even put a pony tail in his hair...I know he is a boy, but I couldn't resist!!!
The more and more I learn the features of my camera, the more and more I find myself taking pictures of lots of different things than what I normally would take pictures of. I was playing with the macro settings again this past week and was taking pictures of the bee's & ants up close on the flowers and the hummingbirds at the feeders. Just wanted to share my pictures with you. I thought I captured some really neat pictures. These pictures were taken just with my point and shoot digital Olympus camera.
hummingbirds in the evening and the morning
I got the bee flying away from the flower you can just see his wings fluttering, I thought this was a really neat picture.
Here are a few sneak peaks of the Spring Album for the May class "kits"
For all the ladies who have purchased this class kit, the kits will be ready by this Friday, June 13th. I will email you to let you know when and where to pick up your kits.
I did end up having TWO.....EXTRA kits for sale for the May Spring album class kit. They will be available on a first come first serve basis, if you are interested in purchasing one please contact me via email.
**UPDATE...the two extra kits have been sold. Thank you to everyone who signed up for this class kit.
The album is a little different from my original idea. It is not in the shape of a butterfly although it has lots of butterfly's thorough out the album, including a rather large chipboard butterfly on the cover.
The album is a full 8 1/2" x 11". This is the first time I have done an album this large for class.
The pictures below are cropped bits & pieces of just a few pages. On the Let the Sunshine In, I did some cool coloring word art effects in Photoshop elements and printed it right on the bazzill cardstock. It looks really cool.
I have just been making digital layouts like crazy...I finally figured out the steps for my Photoshop Elements software. So now I am just really loving digital scrapbooking!!! Here are my latest creations
This was my surprise that my mom made for me, thought I would share this with you incase you wanted to do the same thing.
She took a the 4 pack glass bottles of Starbucks frappuccino that you buy at Wal-Mart and altered them. What a cute idea.
I did a little Internet researched after my rare moth sighting yesterday and found this page that shows that there is such a thing as a "pink moth" and is shows pictures of all the different kinds of pink moths. Just thought you might like to see. I think my picture that I took is much better than the one they show....LOL
Well the strangest ~ but most beautiful thing appeared just moments ago..... I went outside to let Earnhardt out to go potty and right outside my front door on the front porch I have two potted plants and as I stepped out my door I looked down and saw a moth........but it was the most beautiful moth I have ever laid my eyes on. I have never seen such a moth this color in my life....I had to run grab my camera and snap these pictures I put my camera on Macro and got very close up. I couldn't believe my eyes. I had to touch him and hold him, he was so soft and fuzzy!!!
Has anyone ever seen a moth like this before????
Well the end of the School year is approaching fast (only 10 full days plus 2 half days, not counting today). Madison had her Field Day last week on Thursday. The weather could not have been more perfect. There was even a light breeze at times, but it was very sunny. First Grade events only lasted until 12:15 then we got to leave the School as soon as Madison's events were over. That was a nice start to a 4 day weekend.
Hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day. We didn't have much planned at all just doing things around the house and outside in the yard taking advantage of the beautiful weather.
I had to share this digital page layout I just created from Madison's Field Day pictures.
If you wish to see all of the pictures that I took of Madison's Field Day
click here to view my Shutterfly photo album.
We took a lot of pictures this visit with mom here, with so much going on...
I am so glad we managed to get a few snapped of the four of us together.
That doesn't come around very often with her living so far away.
As originally planned I was going to have the May Class kits ready by the end of May. I was not able to work on the kits any this month when my mom was here visiting. Plus, it is taking more card stock than I had planned for so I need to order more. So it will be more like the 2nd week in June before the kits will be ready. Sorry for the delay. I will post an update on my blog and send out an email to those who ordered the kit once they are ready. Thank you for your patience.
I don't even know where to begin, it's been so long since I posted on my blog and so much has already happened in the month of May. But I will try to cover most of my events with you all tracking back by date.
Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers out there...it's our special day!
I was a little sad this year on Mother's Day, my mom just left yesterday to go back home to Florida. I will miss her tremendously. Hopefully it won't be too much longer until I see her again, we are planning to go down to visit her in the Summer. I spent my Mother's Day with my two girls and Marty, we went out to an early dinner at Lonestar Steakhouse with my Mother-In-Law and Sister-In-Law.
I did manage to make a simple, but sweet digital layout, using some of the pictures from the Strawberry Patch.
While Mom was here we managed to pick up a few birthday scrapbooking supplies on our shopping trips and finished a entire album with pictures and binding within a few days. We worked on it off and on between picking up the kids from bus stop, cleaning house, cooking dinner, etc....
Enjoy!!! :)
I have always wanted to go to the Strawberry Patch and pick fresh strawberries, but never have gotten around to it. We have tried to plan this trip several years in a row and finally we made it when Mom came to visit. What a beautiful day it was, nice sunny day ~ not too hot, just the perfect temperature. Did I mention these were the biggest, ripest, juiciest strawberries I have ever eaten in my life. It makes you never want to buy them from the grocery store again.
We got some awesome pictures in the Patch. Way too many to post. I will post a few on my blog and you can check out my Kodak gallery to view all others. We went crazy with picture taking but well worth it!!
click here to view all Strawberry Patch pictures on Kodak Gallery
I put my camera on Macro setting for this picture
I loved how it turned out!!
