May Class--Wall Hanging Layout

I love teaching scrapbook classes and I'm always looking to share innovative and FUN ideas. In that spirit I came up with this layout which I'll be teaching in May. It's a single-page layout with room for three photos. It's designed to be a wall hanging, but can just as easily be slipped into the page protector of your favorite album. You can find full details and descriptions on the Scrapper's edge website here.

Easter

Had a low-key and relaxing day, so different from the excitement and anticipation I remember feeling as a kid. Lunch at Grannies was with great company and not lacking in moments of poking fun at parts of the meal, ahem, desert. A drive out to Willow Creek + meal #2 = me ready for bed asap! Before we left, Dorothy saw to it that I left with a gorgeous bouquet of Spring's offerings which immediately found themselves plunked into various vases and jars, cheering up a little spot in the kitchen.

empty outcha draws!

How cute is this?!

I am SOOO lovin' it!! You can find more here:

SemperNova: rescued & restyled home decor

knock knock...who's there?

Flowers!!!

Flowers who??


Flowers by the front door!


What a lovely treat it's been to have these little guys (as pitiful as some may look) throughout the winter, waiting to greet any and all who find themselves at my front door.

in the air

It gently rolls in on the midnight air....that familiar scent, so soft, so almost not even there. So I breathe it in, again, deep. Yep, it's there. Don't know how they do it, they almost don't even exist...the scent I'm talking about is that garden scent. My little plants are waking from their slumber, ever so slowly, but surely!

my container garden all grouped together for the winter

One by one, I snapped pictures of the first of the little sleepy-heads that appeared...

feverfew

cuphea

diascia

???
ya, I have NO idea here

viola
(sorbet antique shades)

violets labradorica

lamiastrum 'herman's pride'
yellow archangel

plumosa asparagus fern

pony tail fern

english daisy bellis

hydrangea macrophylla

lithodora 'grace ward'

vinca minor 'illumination'

lamium 'shell pink'

helichrysum 'limelight'

blue fescue
(after a haircut I gave him
(I'm sure he's a him)
last month-can you tell how much he's grown??)

lavender

baby blanket
groundcover rose

baby carnival miniature rose

huechera

alyssum
wonderland purple

athyrium
painted fern

delphinium???
pretty sure it's not, but that's how I've written it in my garden journal.
i might have moved it and forgot to make note, guess I'll just have to wait and see!

pink champagne marguerite

Every day I spy some new growth and I don't even know when it happens, but it's really cool to see. It's really my favorite part of this whole gardening thing, to see what comes back, little surprises every day.

just can't get enough...

...of this paper from Papaya! This time I got the vintage tangerine. Isn't it just yummy?

I decided to cut it to fit this brown tray that sits on a side table in the living room. The whole time this tray has been sitting there, it's bothered me just how much it contributes to the brownness of the room. There's room for four matted photos, but even that wouldn't have done much to brighten up the space. And you'd never be able to more than bits of the photos anyway, I mean, it's a tray, you put stuff on it for heaven's sake!

I LOVE the final result! Now I just need to get around to spray painting that wire lantern...

...hmm, what color shall I choose?

quick furniture project

One project down, one to go...well, at least of the two things on my CURRENT to do list!

I have a cabinet in my living room that houses some of my very special things, but you couldn't see these very special things as they faded into a background of brownness--brown couch, brown cabinet, brown things in cabinet, brown mask on the wall, brown tray on side table, brown wall with more brown things hanging on it adjacent to all that I've just mentioned. I think you get the picture. Well, I'm SLOWLY working on the brownness issue, this project being the first step.

Using this MOST adorable owl collage wrapping paper from Papaya! that I picked up at my local art center, I covered the back "wall" of the cabinet.

To hang the paper, I just used regular scrapbooking adhesive like..

...this

I forgot to take a "before" picture, so you probably won't be as impressed as you should, but I think you get the idea...

...now my luminary from Zihuatanejo and Coqui figurine from Puerto Rico will shine as they should...

...basket from Jamaica, clay beads from Africa, vase I painted in Ixtapa, and shell box from Hawaii won't be lost down at the bottom.
If you are really looking at these pictures--Yes, my Anthro catalog is so special to me that it gets a place in my "very special things" cabinet! Um, not really, but that shelf is just the right size for the basket of my most recently purchased magazines and catalogs that are too much fun to just throw away. Also in a photo up above, "tres hermanas", a luminary I made in my ceramics class in Puerto Rico and behind it sits a framed picture of my sisters and I.