blast from the past!!

been totally wrapped up in projects around the house for the last couple of weeks, managed to get my floors sanded, stained and varnished, painted my living room, one wall a couple of times and painted the kitchen. My DH made me a swing for Mothers Day so we painted and stained my new swing : ) I totally luv it...thanks Hon : )

then I painted the kitchen cupboards and started a TROMPE L’OEIL- lol sounds so professional (it is a fake raised panel technique) you can see the instructions here http://www.debbietravis.com/ideas/how-to-gallery/video/6 - I luv Debbie Travis she rocks : )

the cupboards have been put on hold for a bit, as the paint I decided to use is new and is not giving the desired results ....heavy sigh!! darn paint!! I have been painting so much the last few weeks...I need a bit of a break anyway ; )

in between all this fun painting staining and sanding..ahhhh!! I was looking at my old photo albums and decided to take a little walk in the past, pulled out some pregger photos of me and the first pix of the kids made some copies and played around alittle...

Me and Tristan

Dylan and Ripley

I'm not finished yet still need to complete Taylor and Dougs pages....but pretty happy with the results so far thinking I may insert them in the middle of my 2011 book and do a title page for them kind of a book inside a book. I still have to go back and write down all the deets of the big day....I think they will get a kick out of knowing what their big day was like : ) I do not journal on my pages...for me this is a new process...but I think this may get me working in that direction a little more often....fingers crossed anyway : )

thanks for stopping by back to chat soon : )

Happy Scrapping