Tigger's Circle Journal Page

For the last year, I have been participating in a circle journal project on the ScrapDawgs message board. I had a spell from November till now where I hadn't done anything. This week has been a good one for me scrapping and I finally got this page done for Tigger. Her theme was five random things about yourself. I used the paper from the Paperworks kit and spritzed the flowers with Glimmer mist and highlighted with Smooch. When I look at this page, this is all about me. This is my style, what I am most comfortable with doing. I hope she likes it.

I have one page left to do. The theme on it is where I live and I think I am going to have fun with that too.

Wyatt and the Bunny Town

Wyatt really is delighted with my Bunny Town and Bunny Tree. He was more than happy to pose with them, since he isn't allowed to touch them otherwise.

Another page about Andrea

I made this page using a kit I get from Paperworks. This month was nice and springy which is what I am ready for. I actually did a variation of their page. It just appealed to me, and here it is.

Nel Gerdes

This is my mother Nel Gerdes in 1976. She is holding my nephew Brian McConnell who was about four days old at the time. My mom was an interesting person. She was a war bride from Brisbane, Australia. She married my dad, and packed up all she owned and moved to the other side of the world to a farm in Oklahoma to make a new life. She was smart and funny. I didn't appreciate that when I was younger, we had the prickly mother/daughter relationship one has with a mother than you are very much like. However, after I became an adult, I grew to appreciate what a great mom she was. Ray and I could go to her for advise and she would give us intelligent and considered options. I have tried to model my relationship with my daughter and her husband on what my mom did.

My mom would have been ninety years old today. Unfortunately, she died of a rare form of brain cancer twenty one years ago. It seems like forever, and no time at all. I miss her, there have been so many times I would have liked to ask her what to do. She has done something right, I take the time and think what she would have said and go from there.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Andi's Pages

I am working on getting Andrea's album up to date. I don't want her to suffer from the second child syndrome and not have any pictures of when she was little. The top page is from when she was six months old, Nicole and I put her on the bed and took pictures. I used paper from the Basic Grey Kioshi kit. The bottom page is her first tooth. I used paper from a Nana's Nursery stack I bought when she was born. Once I started looking at photos, I found I wasn't that far behind after all.

Old Friends are good friends.

This lady is Candy Rains Timpanelli. We have known each other since the seventh grade. That is a long time. We haven't seen each other for over twenty years, that is a long time too. However, not too long ago I found Candy's name on Facebook and took the big step of asking her to be a friend. Asking people to be your friend on Facebook is sort of a big step for me. After all, what if they were to say, "Huh? Who is this?" I wouldn't really care but some little part of me would be hurt. This is still high school after all.

Anyway, Candy and I met for breakfast this morning and it was like all meetings of friends. After the first few minutes, it was like we had seen each other just a week ago. That is what friends are. I am hoping we can get together before she leaves to go home again.

A page about my Grandkids

What else? Last Thursday before it snowed again on Friday was a perfect spring day. Ray and I went over to park with the kids. Wyatt drives his jeep and Andrea is his happy passenger. When we got to the park, both kids had a lot of fun climbing the stairs, going down the slides and being pushed in the swings. This page is for Andrea's album. We have a couple of similar pages of Wyatt at the same age in his album. Now that the weather is getting nicer, we are going to be going to the park on a regular basis.