Happy Birthday Ryan

11 yrs ago my first Grandchild was born.

He has been one of my greatest blessings!

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Love you lots, Grandma B.

Fun in the Sun

Last Saturday, my DIL, Grandkids and I went to The Fox Farms Pumpkin Patch. It was a beautiful day! This is the kids jumping into a pile of straw. They had lots of fun!

For my layout, I used a 12x12 piece of Soft Suede cardstock. Then I layered on a piece of DP that looks like a field of wheat. Under that is a piece of DP of the sky. Up in the corner, I sponged some More Mustard ink on the piece of chipboard from W.O.W. (Words or Whatever), "Fun In The Sun" and added a flower. Behind the words, I added a sun that I made with a 2-1/2" circle punch. Below is some paper ribbons I cut out of More Mustard and Soft Suede cardstock. I punched a couple of small holes in the paper ribbons and tied a bow with some ribbon and jute. Beside the bow is a button (Flair), that was included in the August Scrapbook Kit from Artful Delight.

 

 I used the Sketch at Artful Delight:

 

I would like to Enter the Challenges @

Frosted Designs- Kraft, Chipboard and Flair

Artful Delight- Sketch # 37



Love this

I think I need a new camera. My pictures don't look as good as my layout's do IRL. lol  Anyway, I am still doing scrapbooks for my grandkids, using old family pictures. This is one of me and my late husband, Steve.

I started out with 12x12 cardstock- Bermuda Bay by SU! and sponged some brown and white ink on the cardstock. On the right of the picture, I used a stencil by TCW and some white Molding Paste. Then, I used a white gel pen and added dots all over and a border. On the left side, I punched 6- 1" holes and weaved some Bermuda Bay ribbon through the holes. I then tied 4 bows on the weaved ribbon and glued 2 strips of DP ("season of color" by Webster's pages), along side of the ribbon.

 I like the look of corrugated cardboard, but for the life of me, I couldn't find any in the stash! So, I used a piece of DP that looks like wood and my "crimper". I also made the arrows with that paper and a square punch.  Under that, I added some more pieces of DP by Webster Pages behind my picture.  

I punched the flowers (used the crimper on them), leaves, a tag and then added some cardboard cut outs and a brad that I had. 

I would like to enter my layout @:

My Craft Spot- Pinterest Inspired- (I liked the colors in the picture)

  

Frosted Designs- add texture (stencil and molding paste and crimped paper)



Me and Cali

The first of this month we went to the NE State Fair. My Grandson was so thrilled that he got kissed by a Sea Lion! He was a little scared but he was glad he did it.

I used the Sketch @ Artful Delight

 

 

I turned it a quarter turn as you can see.

 

I used a piece of chipboard that I won from WOW (Words or Whatever). I thought that it looked a lot like the netting in the picture. I colored the chipboard with a black Geleto that I also won! Neat stuff! I used my SU! Bird Punch and tried to make them look like sea gulls.

 

 

Visit Artful Delight and see what others did with this Sketch!

Thanks for stopping!



Reilly Boys

My sister has done years of research on my Mom and Dad's family. I love to read all the stories and look at the pictures! Top/left- Christopher was born in Ireland in about 1808. He became a member of the Armagh Light Infantry. My sister took me with her to Ireland and we went to Armagh. It gave me a chilling feeling to think that I was in the same town where my Great Great Grandfather joined the Militia! My Great Grandfather (top/right) was born in India, my Grandfather (bottom/left) was a Doctor and his brother (bottom/far left) was a Priest! So many interesting people in my family with great stories. I am going to try to keep their stories alive with the help of  my sister Mary's research and some paper and glue.  :)  

Grandparents

This is a layout that I did for my Grand kids' scrapbooks. I barely remember my Grandma Reilly and my Grandpa Reilly died before I was born. I think I would have liked them. My Grandfather was a Doctor in Grand Island, a town near me. My Grandmother was a sharp-dressed lady and that's about all I remember. They had a beautiful house and every year we would travel there for a few days in the summer. We lived in Denver, so it was a pretty good drive. My Dad would usually travel at night. It was cooler and we all (8 of us plus a very large dog!) would sleep on the way there and not fight. "Mom she's looking at me!" You know, that kind of thing. lol Awww...the good 'ole days! 

hamster ball

 

 

My Grandkids were here this weekend. We all went to the "Columbus Days" activities. It was a lot of fun. Kind of a mini State Fair!

With very little encouragment, Ryan took a spin in The Hamster Ball. LOL What fun! I would have liked to try it but I was afraid I wouldn't fit through the entry hole :(

 

Here's a close up of my favorite picture-

 

I wanted to use something that reminded me of the texture of the Ball. The only thing I could come up with was bubble wrap. I found some in my stuff and added a couple circles of it to the the right of the pictures. I punched out some of the circles that are in the background paper and attached them with black brads. I added a ribbon....I know...it's a boy's layout but I sometimes can't help myself :(

I followed the sketch at Sketches in Thyme and would like to enter their Challenge- Sketches in Thyme #120

 



Scrapbookin'

 

I have been Scrapbooking all weekend! UG! This is a layout I did

of my Dad's Career with American Greetings.

1954-1984

Dad is the one in the black suit  :-)

Actually, he is in the middle/back row.

 

This is my Dad in the Military.

Handsome huh?

This is a layout of my Father-in-law. We celebrated Mother's Day

and his birthday at Uncle Buck's in Brewster NE.

My Father-in-law received a flag from his Grandson Bruce, who was stationed in Iraq at that time.

The flag had flown at his Camp in Iraq.
Thanks for stopping! :-)





Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run

If you follow my blog, you might remember me telling you that my oldest sister has spent many hours doing Genealogy Research on our family. In THIS post I told that we were direct descendants of George Soule, who came over on the Mayflower & was one of the signers of the "Mayflower Compact". I have never been real interested in history but when you start talking about my ancestors, it all seems a lot more interesting! :)
Well, it turns out that we also had a relative named Captain Silas Soule (1838-1865). Go HERE if you would like to read more about him.

One of the many things that Silas was involved in, during his short life, was the "Sand Creek Massacre". He refused to order his men to fire upon a village of peaceful Native Americans, who were supposedly there under our protection. (The above picture depicts what flags were flying in the village, the morning of the massacre.)
 He later wrote letters about the Massacre & testified against his Colonel, who had given the order to raid the village. He would pay dearly for this. On April 23, 1865, in Denver, he was assassinated.

On November 26, 2011, my Mother, sister Anni, niece Jen & I attended the final day of the Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run in Denver, CO. Go HERE if you would like to read more about it.

                                                                   (Blessing by Otto Braided Hair)

(Mom & Nick Diaz after blessing.)

       

 (Ceremony on the steps of the Capital, Denver CO.)  

                                                  (Me, Mom, Anni & Jen in front of the Capital Bldg, Denver, Co)

The Mayflower

My oldest sister Mary, has spent many,many hours doing Genealogy research on our family. Her latest find, is that we are direct descendants of one of the Mayflower passengers. How exciting! George Soule, was not only a passenger but also was a signer of the "Mayflower Compact". So, I thought it would be only fitting for us to have little Mayflower Ship placecard/table favor on our Thanksgiving Dinner table.
I used Qbee's Mayflower Ship Template that you can find HERE.

                             My other sister, Ellen, made these to use for her family's Thanksgiving Day Dinner table.
                                                                                 Thanks for stopping!   b.