Oct. 26, 2012

October 26th! My birthday! Friday! A workday [this week!] and Friends With Flair Day over at Unity stamps!

Usually I have Fridays off so I think my weekend will seem short! My week however was kind of fun, work a day - off a day - work a day - off a day...you get the picture! Taylor's schedule has been crazy with 5 hockey commitments, 2 evenings of tutoring and a drum lesson that we ended up cancelling...sometimes you just have to let something go! Keeps us all running without time for any routine! Good for some, but I like a bit...it keeps me organized which I LOVE! Anyhow,we're making it through the week unscathed.

Here are a couple pages I  worked on last weekend and this week. The first one uses Unity Stamp's SWAK kit for September 2012 and will be linked to the Friends With Flair page! I loved this set as soon as the sneak peek came out!

snapshots from Nova Scotia

The second is page was inspired by the fun picture of Taylor. I have been wanting to use it for some time, but was waiting for the right papers and idea to jump in my head. I LOVE how it turned out!

YUP! The boy cleans up well!

October 14, 2012

WINE DOWN for October 2012 is now just a fun memory from last night! As usual lots of laughs were had with Connie, Ron, Sue, Rob, Bill & myself.

Shauna and Norm were missing from the evening, but hopefully had a well deserved, peaceful evening at home. They have been burning the candle at both ends with work, kids and family illness and needed some downtime. Hugs to you both!

So our wine of choice for last night was a Chianti. We all showed up and tucked our bottles into my new designer wine bags! Who knew that black Calvin Klein socks would do the trick so wonderfully! They will be washed and used solely for wine!

New designer wine bags, if Shauna & Norm were with us it would have read
 V-I-N-O

 Before settling in for some essential wine tasting, we pulled out some spectacles and 'staches for a more serious approach to the task ahead! As you can see, we are very profound in our commitment to assess the worthiness of our wines!

Sue & Rob

Connie & Ron

Kim & Bill

So after lots of sniffing, tasting and pondering the wines we drank were revealed. Shown in order of preference below! We had 1-Nipozzano and 2-DaVinci's! Three of us preferred the Nipozzano, two preferred the DaVinci in bag "N" and one preferred the DaVinci in bag "I". We consider it a tie! 

The Reveal

I think we can all agree that Chiantis are not one of our favourite wines. Although easy to drink, they didn't offer up a whole lot of flavour or interest. As Connie put it...they were all "a bit week in the knees"! I think we were all expecting something with a bit more "body" or fullness to it. This is what Wine Downs are all about!

Interestingly enough, this is one of the few times that the most expensive bottle came in on the top! Connie & Ron's Nipozzano was about $21. Both Davincis were about $17.

One important lesson learned was how well red wine comes out of freshly cleaned off white carpet! Somehow during the course of a conversation...MY wine jumped out of my glass all over the floor! Looked like a murder scene...this morning you would never know!

Thanks guys for making a wonderful evening out of my Saturday night!

October 1, 2012

So today another page is turned on my calendar! I can't believe we are into October already, seems like I was just planing our flights to Nova Scotia for the summer and now it's a 6+ week memory! How the heck does that happen!

One great thing about turning the page to October is that Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine has a new Sketchy Challenge posted on their website! Here is the current sketch designed by Sue Sykes:

My take on the sketch is below! I love how these sketches give me a starting point to create a page that is truly my own. I encourage you to play with the sketch! Create exactly as is or put your own twist on it! Play along and share your layout and ideas with like minded people!

patterned paper-Simple Stories / card stock- Canadian Scrapbooker Superstock /  die cuts - Simple Stories /  title - Pepples alpha /  Unity Stamp
Canadian content : Harmony Tiles!