I went to a crop at M’s school. Quite fun. Got two stamp sets too, Made from scratch and Say It Simply. I hope to play with at least one before the weekend’s over. They’re past hostess sets. I’m thinking of doing M’s V-day cards from scratch. Nineteen plus five, kids and teachers.

At the crop I did two pages. I didn’t feel like hauling all my stuff so I did two digi layouts. Actually I think I’m only going to paper scrap at home or if I crop at an LSS. I like being surrounded by products and have the ability to just grab whatever I need. It sounds expensive (dangerous you’d think) but it’s actually cheaper for me because I don’t come home to something I later find out don’t need and my pages turn out the way I want them… and 100% complete.

Here’s my digi page detail. The first I used Annie Manning’s new kit. I really love this kit. So, so cute. I don’t usually layer this much but she made it quite easy and addicting. I had to tell myself to stop before I lost M’s picture in the elements.

The next one is another M page. I can’t get enough of doing an M page! I thought or had the intention of doing a page for the hubby but noooo… the M was more fun. So here it is. I used paper, staples, and buttons from Dani B (she retired from designing), Jovia’s new Not So Serious flowers and I {heart} u and Ephemerals II, Shabby Princess metal and buttons, Annie Manning’s tape measure, ribbon, and whatever that sparkly thing is behind the flowers. If you pay really close attention to the staples, they’re not quite centered. They’re way to the left, more stapling the paper than the picture. Well, I did that on purpose because when I do paper scrapping, I could never staple straight, so why make it perfect in this digi scrap, right? {::SMILES}. Also, as I was finishing this, M and dad came by and she helped me put the final touches. Some items she personally picked are: The horse and that sparkly thing — what is that thing? After the two final touches, she said, “That’s pretty. I love it, mommy.” She’s naturally sweet, I promise. Every sitter dream child to watch!

My house. I almost didn’t have one. We live in the country, on some acreage and our neighbor decided to burn his trash. He put the fire out but not good enough. Hubby smelled smoke, looked out, and saw the neighbor’s back yard in flames (about 300 feet away from us — I’m really bad with this but we’re a good distance). He ran over there, told M to stay in the house, and got the neighbor. Another neighbor saw the fire too and he came over to help. So hubby told me all this over the phone. When I got home, the grass that was just about 30 meters away… hmmm… how many feet is this… 100-ish feet… was burnt. Although not super close it was pretty close to be scary. I’m glad hubby was home AND noticed the fire early (I wouldn’t know what to do if something happened to them). He had plan on taking my car in to the shop — I had a flat tire yesterday — and we might have been homeless if hubby and M went out since our neighbor really thought he put the fire out and was relaxing on his computer when hubby got there — he actually thought hubby was joking. I’m glad it wasn’t meant to be that way and I can still blog in my office with my two dogs breathing next to me. We have no grass on one side of our property but hey, it’ll be nice and green again sometimes this spring.

That’s our weekend story. Besides the incident, all is great and I got pages done. Laters, Miss M wants to play.