My first acrylic album!!!

So I started my very first attempt at an acrylic mini album!!!! It's trickier than it looks because you have to make sure that one picture backs on to another the same shape and size - the same with embellishments because they can be seen from both sides and through multiple pages......it's really fun though. I used acetate sheets to cut clouds and then inked them with white ink around the egdges to match the clouds in the skies in the pictures!!!!

I've only done a few pages and they aren't embellished yet but I'm really enjoying this new style of scrapbooking :)

Fall colours.....

Scenes from the porch....

And tomorrow when I take Amber and Rosie for a walk I will take my camera and get some shots of them!

Pictures from home.....

The next few posts will be pictures taken from our home this afernoon.....

The back side!!! :)

So, this is the back of our house at the moment - but this time next year, it will have a walkout basement (basically they dig into the ground and make it so you can walk outside from the basement/ cellar and can have windows etc in the basement.....on the middle level (currently the ground floor, there will be a kitchen and a sunroom stretching the whole length of the HOUSE (ie not the garage as well) and there will be a deck off of the sunroom that is attached to a wrap around porch that will go right alongside the house and link up with our front porch....

The new roof of the kitchen/ sunroom will be cedar shingles like the rest of the house.

And then the year after (or maybe two years after - we may need a break from reno's) we will be building above the garage - the master bedroom, master bath and closet will be built above the garage with a small deck coming off of the bedroom.

I hope that makes sense....it was kind of exciting taking a walk around the back of our house today and envisioning what it will look like when its finished...

We just have to get through all the chaos and mess for 8 months first :(

Our home in the Fall.....

Its funny to think that this time next year our home will look so different - with a wrap around deck and a walkout basement and a new kitchen and sunroom on the back!!!! Its going bto look sooooooo different!

Challenge 1 layout

This is the page I created by scraplifting one of Glendas pages at www.scrappershaven.ca Its a page using pictures taken at Elk Island Park this summer when my Mom was visiting from England.

The rest of Friday and then it's saturday!

So yesterday we had some bad news....Lloyd has to go to Toronto to work :( It should be seen as good news as when he was called into a meeting with two Directors, we were both worried he was being let go.....

To say I'm pissed off is an understatement!!! But then Lloyd isn't too happy either - and at least Jeffs wife Kendra is probably also pissed off as Jeff is going too......this makes me feel a little better lol!

Lloyd leaves on Thursday I think...or was it Wednesday? I can't remember.

Last night I took part in an online crop at scrappers haven.....it was really good fun! Cori and Tess from LP came and joined us too :)

I won the first challenge - we had to scraplift a layout by another scrapbooker on the website. I created a two page layout about my Mom and Abigail at the park - and I won a RAK - so this means I will get something sent to me in the mail - very exciting :)

It was so much fun at this crop - people were chatting and scrapbooking for hours and posting pictures of their work and then we had to take a picture of ourselves at that moment and post the picture on the site :)

We had no food in the house yesterday because we haven't been shopping in ages, so we all got in the car and headed into town - we planned to go to Pizza Hut for dinner but they were closing!!!!! Friday night at 8pm and they were closing!!! Even for take out! So we tried Boston Pizza and the wait for a table was too long, so then we headed to DQ. Had dinner there and then headed home so I could rejoin the crop!

We got home and could smell gas really strong at the end of our road, so we called Atco and they sent someone out straight away....we could see the flashing lights from their truck from our house so we kept checking if they were still working down there - when I went to sleep at 12:30 they were still there but by 2am they were gone. there is no gas smell this morning so I guess they solved the problem!

This morning I helped Lloyd outside - we picked up all the garbage that had blown about from the old barn, we burnt more wood and I helped the children pack away all of the summer toys into the workshop ready for winter. Val and her family came over..Lloyd got to meet them at long last!!! Lloyd helped her husband and Son load up the trailer with the metal roofing sheets. They said hi to Charlie and we all had coffee....we walked around one of the trails up by Marys land....

After lunch Lloyd and I went to Michaels and got some things I needed for making Christmas cards. One of the girls at SH has created some amazing cards using acetate and stamping on them with white ink - so it gave me the idea of doing the same but with snowflakes on them....I think acetate and acrylic is my latest craze - I bought some acrylic sheets on Thursday to make mini albums from - I started my first one this afternoon!

Then we went to Costco to get the groceries (stopping off for coffee on the way of course)

This afternoon I went for a walk around here and took pictures of the Fall colours etc...I will blog those in a bit.

Tonight we are baking some potatoes in the ashes of the fire outside...then I think I will scrapbook for a while and then Lloyd and I are having a Greys Anatomy marathon - we want to get through series 3 so we can watch series 4 when it airs.....last night we saw the episode where Dennys Dad gives the cheque to Izzy.....it was good :) so far I'm enjoying series 3 :)