So my Granddaughter Torrie went to her Pageant this past weekend and of course we took like 200 pictures LOL! I am so excited to do the pages now. My son Todd was her escort he was dressed in a suit for the formal competition. He looked so nice and Torrie was in her formal dress so pretty. The picture below is the 2 of them together and of course more pictures to come. LOL! I am such a proud mom and Grandma of course.  My daughter was beside herself. It gave a break from everyday life and a way to dream. Torrie didn’t win the Pageant but she really had fun and enjoyed the hotel pool LOL! She won a trophy for participating and was so happy to get it she didn’t care if she won. And of course we told her she did a wonderful job. She did everything she was asked to do and didn’t get scared or stumble or freeze so she did awesome.  Her Uncle Todd bought a sash and crown so she knew she did a good job. She was in heaven.  Read more... (306 words, 1 image, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

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Here I am with all my tickets in hopes of winning a prize from one of the drawings. Bummer!! Didn’t win, but like I said my friend Carol did. Congrats Carol. LOL!!

You can see in the back ground there is alot of people and vendors. They said the place was packed and all seats were taken which if you were there you could tell. HAHA!

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The Crop was alot of fun. We enjoyed our time there with each other. I got like nine pages done in my album. Bought a few papers and stickers but had most of what Ineeded to do the pages I wanted to get done. They had drawings for prizes. I didn’t win but my friend Carol did so we profited from the drawing in one way. met alot of people and got some ideas. It was very relaxing so it was well worth the trip to Topeka. Well be posting some pictures from the crop in the next few blogs so enjoy. Lots of people there tho. Packed house.  Read more... (113 words, 2 images, estimated 27 secs reading time)

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Drama drama drama… Got to love those kids and family. LOL! Anyway. I cannot believe we are on our way to fall already. This year has just flown by. I have been crazy busy this week lots of stuff going on. Korine is going to cosmetology school there in Manhattan and Torrie is in headstart. WELL!! The flu is going around at Korine’s school and a virus thing is going around Torrie’s school. Needless to say we have all felt not quiet right this week. Torrie and Korine missed a day at school. BUT Korine had her first test last week and got a 100% on it YEA!!! And she had 2 this week and got a 82% and 85% on them so she is doing great and having fun. I can’t wait til she starts on the cutting hair cuz I will not have to go looking for one or paying for one LOL! So no scrapbooking last weekend we went to my sister for the weekend and really enjoyed the change. Hope everyone had a good Labor Day. Then the week as I said was full. BUT! I did get some pictures of my premade wedding albums posted in a few spots and an ad up for me and my girlfriend to start making them and selling them hope it works out. It’s called D&D’s Scrapbooks. Wish me well. I will have to keep you up on the news with that. Here is a picture of one of the pages from one of the scrapbooks we are selling.

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I Really like how these 2 pages came out also. This is her and her Uncle Bobby. We took this one at the Zoo. The drawing to the right on the other page Uncle Bobby drew for her  when he wrote her letters when he was not around. He draws really good. I am trying to get him started on airbrushing some of his designs. When he gets to going on them I will have to put some on here for you to see. The colors of the pages go really well with the picture. I jazzed the picture up a little on Picasa 3. I love that program. f you don’t have it you need to download it you will get alot of use out of it especially if you are a Scraper. The center of the picture is in color and the surrounding area on the picture is black and white just love it.  Read more... (225 words, 2 images, estimated 54 secs reading time)

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So these pages are really pretty and kindof plain. I made them with alot less on the page than usual with me I am usually a page filler. LOL! But these pictures turned out so good. She let me take some with the black and white setting on the camera and she even had fun posing for me. I love how the pages came and again. The Cricut was busy on these pages too. The flourishes are so pretty. The cartridge was called Home Accent. Love it and of course her name on the Cricut also. LOVE the Cricut.

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So I submitted my granddaughters pic’s on the ScrapbookEtc web site for a contest to be on the cover of the Aug/Sept magazine. I think that would so cool if she won and had her picture on the front of the magazine. I hope everybody votes for her and she wins that would be so fun. I would have to buy alot of magazines LOL! But still FUN! Iwill have to let you know how it goes. Went scrapin Sat /Sun got some really pretty pages done I took pictures I will share tomorrow.

Til next time, Donna

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