It had been a long time since I had submitted any of my craft projects for publication, but last spring I sent in some layouts for consideration and one was picked up for a magazine.
Here is my page as it is shown in the magazine:
If you want to check out the issue on-line, here is a link to the summer issue (page 67)
So, let's see what else has been going on that I haven't shared yet???
Joe and I took a trip to Myrtle Beach...
It was for a business trip for Joe and I just tagged along. At the end of the trade show, the attendees could choose to go golfing or deep sea fishing and spouses could go too! (read that last part in a sarcastic voice). You will understand why later...
Joe had some luck fishing...he even caught a shark! I did catch a fish early on when we were trolling, but by the time we got to the deep fishing I was, well, busy feeding the fish. At least I wasn't alone, there were two other guys "feeding the fish" too. That was after I took 2 Dramamine and a lady gave me a set of Sea Bands to wear and I still got sick. Well, I can say I have done it now and NEVER have to do it again. LOL!
Luckily, as soon as I stepped off the boat I was fine and ready to eat some lunch!
Then, Hope went to music camp...on Thursday of camp, they have a contest to dress up in orange. The craziest costume for boy/girl wins the title of Orange Prince/Princess!
Out of 400 kids, Hope won the title of Orange Princess. We didn't get a picture of her, but this picture was posted by the camp of her during her showchoir class. She is the one in the middle in the orange wig!
I had dinner with several of my Alpha Delta Pi sisters! It was great catching up and we definitely need to do it more often.
Thanks for the pep talk, from all the other title holders of "the worst mom in the world". LOL!
And finally, we met up with family and friends for some fun at Adventureland last weekend! It was HOT, but the water park was the perfect place to be!
This was Joe and Hope on the sky glider (before he lost his sunglasses off his head). On our way back to the front of the park, we saw where they fell off, but no way to retrieve them. Oh well.
Towards the end of the day Hope was ready to ride some rides, so we took Kenton with us to have some fun!
Hope snuck her way on this ride, since she was a little too tall to ride it, but the lady didn't say anything to her.
And now, let's see a few creative shares (that is what I do with the rest of my time, or at least some of it)...
Father's Day was a few weeks ago...here are a few cards celebrating DAD!
And then, here are the rest of the Disney cruise layouts I finally got around to making several years AFTER our trip. I had to stop collecting papers and embellishments and start using them!
While I had a lot of Disney themed papers and embellishments, I didn't want to use something on a page and then realize that I wanted to use it on another page. So I sketched out each layout and planned what papers and embellishments I wanted to use on each page before I started to actually put them together.
I had planned to actually use a sewing machine to make the stiched background, but I ended up just doing a faux stitching technique. I hand drew the mickey ears and use a poker to make all the holes. Then I moved the template slightly and made the holes again. And repeated for a third one. Then I used a thin tip black marker and connected all the dots to make it look like stitching. No machine required.
AND I definitely had to capture the story below...
I shared this layout a while ago, but it was part of this trip, so though I would include it in this post as well.
The last page was a postcard we received in our room. I thought it was cute of both characters and wanted to include it.
And that my friends is IT for today! If you made it this far, then I wish you a happy 4th of July! Celebrate safe!!!
Darla
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