I started this layout yesterday and finished it up about 15 minutes ago.  It’s simple, but I think it gets the job done.  I’m pleased with it anyway, so that’s all the really matters right? 

The paper is from My Minds Eye.  It is a print from their Wild Asparagus line and I just picked it up the other day.  I had noticed that I was getting a lot of pink papers in my stash, so this purchase was an effort at getting something a little more masculine.

Besides the layout of the photos on the page I love the title.  I’m an awful stamper, I don’t like doing it, and I’m always afraid I’m going to mess it up.  So it was a real challenge for me to step outside of my “box” and use the stamps here.  The results were well worth the discomfort, lol.  I must admit that it did take a me a few tries to get it perfect, but I’m so glad I did it!

This afternoon I will be packing up my treasures and heading to Scrap Palace of Romeo.  I’m excited to get to go, and my Mom is going too.  I will be nice to see her do some scrapping that isn’t work related.  I had planned to pull paper and cardstock to match up with selected photos last night.  Then, as usual, something happened to shoot down my plans.  Just past dinner we had a big storm come though here and we lost power.  It didn’t come back on until after 9:30pm.  Well it is a little tricky to match photos to paper and such with no lights.  So that means I’ll be doing it today.  I’d like to stop at the book store today and see if I can find some new scrap magazines to read.  We leave Monday morning for Great Wolf Lodge, and being I don’t come back till Sunday afternoon, I need to get pre-vacation stuff done.  Thus the magazines for my 5 hour ride in the car.  I also told Ethan I would take him to the library today if he wanted to go, and if I could fit it in.  So I’m going to do my best to cram it all in.

I finally got around to taking our portable DVD player system back to Best Buy.  We have one of the Dual ones that mount on the headrests.  Well it broke shortly after we got it.  The plug was bad I think and we had to jiggle it all the time, until one day that didn’t even work.  Well it occurred to me that I didn’t want to be in the car for 5 hours with all three kids and no source of entertainment, so I took it back.  It was under warranty and they just gave us credit towards a new set.  I hooked it up and gave it a quick test on Wednesday, so we should be good to go.  Thank goodness for modern technology.  Of course it helps that my kids don’t watch tv much, so that when they see it they are completely mesmerized.   lol

I should get going now if I ever want to get all the things on my list done.  Have a great Friday!!

~j