A Summer of Scraps

A summer arty project. The rule was to only use scrap paper and then add to that. Any die cuts had to be already cut or cut from scrap paper. Any supplies had to be already owned. I went with a color theme, each page some color or colors of summer. Here's what I got, and I call it the scraps of summer.

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So I worked this afternoon at the lake for 5 hours, got done just as the rain arrived. It is suppose to rain for the next 2 days, but that's ok, I going SHOPPING tomorrow. Hope to find some back to school clothes or maybe a cooking pan I want or maybe a dust ruffle for my bed or maybe...whatever I find. Tonight I am finishing off some more of picture from our NC trip last month so I can start scrapping them on Tuesday....when I'm home in the rain.

Thanks for visiting and hope you liked my blog post.

airshow

Yesterday wasn't the brightest blye sky, but it was a nice day for an airshow- The Thunderbirds and others appeard at Pease in Portsmouth, NH, and even though we didn't go to the airshow, we took our boat out on Great Bay which is right behind the runway and we watched some of the planes. Us and about 400 other boats. Wow. We anchored and relaxed and it was quite the experience-the whole thing, not just the planes but being on our boat and being with lots of other boats. I have been to airshows at runways before and I have seen the Blue Angels performing before-today we didn't have the Navy team but the Airforce Thunderbirds. Was something different.

Anyhow, not having much luck uploading photos right now, so will post some more later. Here you can see some planes flying right over the sun.
Back with more photos from the airshow.

I think they let off the smoke for those of us down in Great Bay.

This is how we must have looked, you can see boats watching the planes-these might be the Airforce Thunderbirds.

This is hard to see I guess now that it's bigger but you can see the white boats in a line coming out of Great Bay into Little Bay after the airshow. We were only going back t the marina but lots of folks went all the way out to the river and down to Portsmouth and beyond. See the Piscataqua River goes out to the see but behind it is Little Bay in which a couple of other rivers run into and then beyond (inland) from Little Bay is Great Bay in which several more rivers run into. Gives the Piscataqua the 5th worst current in the world.

On the map, you can see Great Bay and the Piscataqua River and Little Bay is the small stretch right between the words Portsmouth and Durham.

Peanuts Galore

A while back I added to my Snoopy stamps and bought a couple of other character stamps from Peanuts. This is my favorite comic strip and favorite characters...though I'll be honest and say I'm NOT in any shape fanatic about them. I don't have other things around my house except that my daughter loves Snoopy and she had a stuffed Snoopy collection (gets 1 every year in her Christmas stocking). And as for the stamps, I don't have tons of them, maybe about 10 now that I bought a few others. Is 10 enough for a collection?

These cards are made especially for my daughter-the Snoopy lover- that I'll send off to her when she goes back to college in a couple of weeks. I tried to give them some theme so I could send them when she's frustrated or feeling over- whelmed....

This is my favorite...along with Snoopy I used some older Technique Tuesday stamps and a splash stamp I had.

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So yesterday was a productive and gorgeous summer day- beautiful blue skies and not too hot. I started off by walking, then bringing Katie breakfast up to her job at the boat ramp at the lake- saw the eagle flying over the fish hatchery on my way out. Then went and picked some more blueberries, vaccuumed my dirty house, scrapbooked, read on the screen porch, did laundry and cleaned out the hot tub which was also pretty icky. LOVE busy days when you accomplish what you want and have fun and see something cool like the eagle and am creative and productive scrapping-did a bunch of pages in my Grand Canyon book.

My kind of day!

Hope yours was great too and that today is also just a fantastic for both you and me!

More ART!!!!!!!

LOVE these London sets from Artistic Outpost! I made this card earlier this summer. I started by embossing with the Sizzix/Tim Holtz clock plate and then lightly rubbed some light blue ink on the page. Then I stamped and cut out the bell tower, the handsome gentleman and the flag...I made the flag by coloring the stamp with watercolor markers. Then I die cut the banner with a Sizzix/Tim Holtz die cut and stamped the words. I added the postmark and also the little blue dots on the corners.

So yesterday was a fantastic day!!! Started off after my walk with a text from my friend Vicky and I dashed off to go kayaking...first time this summer and I LOVE to kayak.It was gorgeous out on the lake and fanatstic to visit and chat with Vicky and just as fantastic to go kayaking on a gorgeous morning. Very spontaneous which I love too. Then Katie and I went to see The HELP at the movie theatre, which was really good and very close to the book. Have you read the book? I read it last summer for book club and it was a really good book.

Anyhow, the big question for today...do I go pick blueberries...which I was going to do yesterday before the kayaking came up or do I go set up my room and get that chore done?  HMMM! I know what I want to pick and I know what I should pick so that my nagging little voice goes away.  I think I can live with the voice and I do have 2 more weeks I can go in and work...that answers that...I THINK!

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ART!!!!!!

YAHOO- I'm back with some of my summer art.

Here's a card I made with one of new favorite sets of clear stamps by Paper Smooches called Surf and Turf. I love this pelican! I've been having a pelican infuation ever since my trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina since we don't have pelicans in New Hampshire.

You can see this pelican I saw there-this is on Ocracoke Island while I was eating a bluefish sandwhich at a restaurant on the docks. The pelican was eyeing a fisherman who had come in with some fish and was cleaning them on a stand just to the left of this photo...but this guy reminds me of the stamp I used in the card. He also reminds me in this weird way of my dog, at least the way the dog watches you when you're doing something in the kitchen with food that he'd like to have.

Anyhow, for the card- I stamped the images on a white paper square, except all the little swimming fish which I stamped on the white square and the blue background card. I then colored in images with Copics. I did brush on some blue ink for the sky. It was a pretty simple to make card but I love how it came out!

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zucchini overload

Spent my morning making zucchini bread from a couple of big zucchini's my brother gave me. Ended up making 3 loafs of plain chocolate chip bread, 2 cake size chocolate chocolate chip and also 5 oversized muffins. That's A LOT of zucchini bread.

Was a great morning to do it since it was dark and wet and cool...spent lots of my day in kitchen and made some yummy American Chop suey for dinner too....haven't had that for quite some time. YUM!



home from Mom's

Spent the day traveling, got up in a GROG...(hate when you wake up at like 3:30 a.m. and when you finally fall to sleep and then wake up you are in a grog)...went down to Massachusetts to visit my mom, saw my brother and my niece too...was a nice visit-not exciting but nice...and did go out to lunch...anyhow...

everyone was happy with the visit...

part of me is looking forward to spending tomorrow making zucchini breads from the major stash of squash my bother gave me...part of me feels like I need to go do something wild sicne I've had some pretty quiet days lately...

gonna rain some more...it started raining tonight...cloudy day...good day to go driving and visiting...and tomorrow if I wake up groggy...I am going to go back to sleep!

The Beach

In the beach mode...it was a warm day and I put on the ac and stayed cool. Nights on the beach are the best. Here's some people crabbing on the beach in Duck, NC from our trip. I wish I was sitting on the beach right now although I had a great day at home and I am sitting with my family which is always the best.

Not a great photo, but we had this full moon and it lit the beach and the water...and moved in and out of the clouds...soooo beautiful.

And some darkened sunlight on the water. And the setting sun on the sound...

It is so beautiful.

So I think I wanted a slow day (hence the beach photos)...and even though I hung home most of the day (after a trip to visit Kate at the lake and a great morning walk)- today flew. Had lots of plans...but didn't seem to get them half done. Didn't even get as much studio time as I wanted....but I could stayed in there all day and I was in there a good chunk of the day. Having so much fun with my SMASH altered book. The day just FLEW by. And since it is August 8th, You know, you get into the last few weeks of vacation and suddenly realize you have all these things to do...or that you wanted to do or think you need to get done....but I am also in summer mode don't care if I do much of anything mode...read a few books, scrap, just have fun. Don't feel I need to do all that much....wish I could stay that way and not have an end to my vacation...guess when I retire.

Anyhow...I'm off to visit my mom tomorrow....trying to be a good daughter this summer- and then the rest of the week is mine. Not that visiting mom is a bad chore, but it is a bit of a trip- 2+ hours each way, and I do feel it is important to see Mom since she is 81...and my mom...and it'll be fun to have something to do tomorrow so I don't totally turn into a summer bum...

ok, this is just going no where. Thanks for visiting...and listening to me unload my simple empty brain.

Rainy Sunday

Kind of nice to have a lazy Sunday morning seeing it is cloudy and damp and did rain  a lot last night. More rain today, and maybe in the next few days too.

So I woke up this morning and realized that I only have 3 weeks left until I go back to work and 3 weeks from today Katie movies back to school. I know...no one has sympathy for me, but still means summer has (as usual) flown by and is still flying.

So yesterday went to the Wolfeboro Street Fair. It's an old fashion country fete-a big yard sale and a place to help raise cash for the local hospital. They have a lunch tent, a small carnival, I bought some 1950's knitting books and some old Jacques Cousteau ocean animal books (remember him fromt he 1970's and 1960's?) and some text books for school. Not much else, I guess they didn't have as much donated this year. Was fun though, and then went and hung out at my mother-in-laws and went swimming, but the pond is a bit warm now for the heat-would rather it be cooler. Friday I went to my craft store and bought a few new things...including this great scrapbooking quote/title book  called Inspiration Station by Betsy Flot.

Speaking of books, finished reading the 4th book in the Mistress of the Art of Death series by Arianna Franklin, and found out the poor author passed. And this book was left hanging....oh poor me....though at least I am alive so I don't mean to sound so shallow. Now I'm reading  Bill Bryson's a Short History of Nearly Everything- he's a great author.

So anyhow...still need to photograph some art but here's some more summer photos, many from our trip to North Carolina which seems like forever ago. I do have TONS of art to show you too. Please be patient.

The very NORTH of the Outer Banks, beyond Corolla, are the wild horses. We took a jeep adventure trip to check them out. hat was a worthwild thing to do, just to see this part of the Outer Banks.

Here's 2 of the horses we saw with a cattle egret on one's back.

Lighthouses! This is the Cape Hatteras lighthouse viewed through a window of a building on the grounds.

Ocracoke Lighthouse and my lovely hubby.

Bodie Island Lighthouse. You can't go up this one or Ocracoke. There's 1 more lighthouse in Corolla that we saw but didn't stop at. It is plain brick.

The stairs going down the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, since you can climb that one and we did, all 260ish (maybe 257) steps.

And this is the view from the top of the actual point at Cape Hatteras.



More photos from the Outer Banks

Another photo montage for you today....still haven't snapped photos of any of my latest art but have lots of summer photos including these random shots from our fantastic trip to North Carolina and the Outer Banks.

Enjoy!

This is the ceiling of a Mexican restaurant in Raleigh (not exactly the Outer Banks) where we had the BEST ever margaritas...a whole pitcher's worth for the 3 of us!

I was fascinated with pelicans. Not that I've never seen them-during my honeymoon in St. John Virgin Islands I watched them diving and found them fascinating too, but it's been awhile since I saw so many.

 And here they are lined up on some pilings.

 We took a trip over to Ocracoke Island on the ferry for a day. That was cool.

While in Ocracoke, I spied this sign and had to snap a photo. Arggh ye matey.

I'm really back-with photos

Computer arrived yesterday afternoon after a good day filled with chores (walking, visiting Katie at the boat ramp, finally painting my stairwell and blueberry/raspberry picking). I spent the rest of the evening adding things like my photoshop and pictures etc. Still things to get fixed to my liking....but not many.

So today, just a montage of summer photos before I have some studio time.

morning sun and dewying grasses in a  morning walk here in my little town

NC shoreline in Duck from our trip during a morning walk

Beach chairs from our trip, or any beach-ah summer.

Sunset on the sound side of the outer banks...Duck, NC

Beach in the Outer Banks,  NC from our trip at evening sunset

dewey daiseys in my flower garden

Merrymeeting Lake, NH on a beautiful summer morning

sign outside of a local hairdresser-great saying

thanks for stopping in for a visit...I'll be back with art as soon as I get everything loaded onto my machine.

New computer should arrive

I may be back later today with PHOTOS! The new computer is scheduled to arrive. YAHOO!!!! Can't wait to look at my photos.
Sobfar another busy week. Met up with one of my college roomates Monday in Portsmouth and had a blast catching up. Yesterday was pick up the house day, studio time and hair cut day. And today...I can not WAIT for a chance to look at my photos and get off this iPad. Not that I dislike the iPad, and it was great to have it to use, but a real computer again... Pretty sad, isn't all this? And pretty exciting too!
Till I have photos!

August!!!!!

Wow, can't believe it is august first. I go back to work at the end of month. But the day started great---spent the day with one of my college roommates I haven't seen in several years. We poked around Portsmouth and chatted a lot. Had a lot of fun. We have so many things in common which is fun to find out. And yesterday Dave and I went boating, did some fishing and Dave caught something small...not sure what it was and then we cruised up to Dover. Tomorrow I want to hang out at home and maybe clean...that is a BIG maybe.
So tonight I am beat...but it is a good tired...did a lot of walking today...playing tourist in a local place you know is always Fun.