tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76965224862627480472024-03-05T03:06:39.179-06:00ManyPreciousBlessingsSuzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050290115206545011noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696522486262748047.post-45008055674073648712012-09-08T09:04:00.000-05:002012-09-08T10:22:20.201-05:00Bright Lights Conference<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently, my oldest daughter and I attended a Bright Lights Conference. Many or our friends and cousins attended along with us. We had 11 guests staying in our home! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the group or young girls and moms/aunts at the conference - missing Martha and
Eunice in the group photo! </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The girls with Sarah Mally, the main speaker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let your little light shine!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sarah Mally's "chalk talk" picture. This was amazing to watch her draw and then to see the reveal under the black light! It looked better when the house lights were off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the group leaders singing "I've been changed".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a great time, and learned a lot! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Topics included:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• How to be Strong for the Lord in Your Youth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• How to Turn Your Heart to Your Parents</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• How to Be a Bright Light in the World</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Avoiding Wrong Influences</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Seeking the Lord with All of Your Heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• How to Boldly Share the Gospel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Developing a Disciplined Walk with God </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I highly recommend it for all girls ages 8 and up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More info <a href="http://www.tomorrowsforefathers.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=54" target="_blank">here</a> if you would like to learn more about it.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696522486262748047.post-28236277796800549312011-04-27T09:34:00.002-05:002011-04-27T09:38:16.238-05:00Bookcase Re-do<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found this bookcase at a garage sale. It was the perfect little size for my daughter's bedroom that I'm currently remodeling. However, it needed an uplift. Yes, that is brown duct tape covering a hole in the back.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then when she noticed that I was serious, she said, "Can you put a Hawkeye on it?" So this mirror is for her apartment (which is full of Hawkeye garb!). Enjoy it Ruthie!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696522486262748047.post-55333445001777765002011-04-01T16:35:00.000-05:002011-04-01T16:35:25.315-05:00<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My 7-year-old is helping me redecorate her room. Here is a preview of some of the items for her new room! </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She chose the papers and designs, and I helped her cut them out and apply them to the letters and switch/outlet plates. She thinks using Mod Podge is fun! We had a blast doing this! I'll post more about her room re-do later!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696522486262748047.post-49008481979068096742011-03-29T20:44:00.004-05:002011-03-30T07:46:28.355-05:00Dress-Up Time<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My older daughter took this photo of her little sister one afternoon while they were having a fashion show. I loved this photo, but there was a rather distracting pile of coats and junk in the background. Sometimes it's hard to get a perfect photo around my house! There's always something cluttering up the background - dishes, toys, remodeling stuff, TRASH. </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">o I practiced using the selection tools in Photoshop to extract her from the background and then I placed her in fairytale land. Now this is a more pleasing backdrop don't ya think? When I showed her this layout, she said "I like the pink castle!"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've seen many layouts with a little cluster of embellishments (or a photo) off to the side or corner all by themselves, and I've never understood it. If anyone knows the design concept behind it, please let me know. So this is the first time I've tried it. I'm out of my comfort zone...this is fun!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">Template: <a href="http://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/sweetshoppe/product.php?productid=21181&cat=0&page=15">Scrap Your Heart Out 2</a> by Janet Phillips (page 14)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">Papers, Elements: <a href="http://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/sweetshoppe/product.php?productid=21465&cat=0&page=7">Little Know It</a> All by Eva Kipler</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">"dirt" alpha (recolored): <a href="http://store.scrapgirls.com/product/18840/Gleeful-Collection-Biggie">Gleeful</a> by Amanda McGee</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">Font: Once Upon a Font by Darcy Baldwin</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696522486262748047.post-83225544816514614442011-03-06T15:05:00.006-06:002011-04-27T09:40:39.370-05:00Here again!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok, so I haven't posted in like, FOREVER. But I had some problems in the computer department for about 6 months. First my desktop died beyond repair, and I was using my laptop. Then my laptop died too, and I lost a couple months worth of photos because I did not have my back-up system properly working on the laptop. Sheesh! The kite layout in the last post is one of the things I lost! Oh well, at least it got posted in web-quality form on the internet! But I don't have the high-resolution file anymore for printing. So last December, I purchased a desktop once again with enough power to have fun with my digital scrapbooking again.! blah blah blah...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I've been wanting to share a before and after shot of a clock I refinished. I am continually inspired and motivated by a friend at <a href="http://kammyskorner.blogspot.com/">Kammy's Korner</a>. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I forgot to take a before picture, so I dug through my old photos until I found one of the clock on the wall in it's original condition. This was taken in 2007 in my 90's kitchen which badly needed updating! Oh yes, and please disregard the big no-no of putting your baby in a Bumbo seat on an elevated surface. I'm a bad mother...shame on me. Anyway, there's the clock with it's mauve hearts and country green frame. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here's the after shot. My new family room is brown, cream, and dark orange. Now I don't need to buy a new clock! Now how can I recolor that wall quilt? NOT happening!</span><br />
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Photo Cluster: </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/sweetshoppe/product.php?productid=16590&cat=0&page=1">Bent Bunch 16</a> by </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">Penny Springmann<br />
Border: </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/sweetshoppe/product.php?productid=16576&cat=0&page=1">Page Frame Templates</a> by </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">Penny Springmann<br />
Font: CK Typeset</span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696522486262748047.post-47140688443906492172010-06-16T16:33:00.003-05:002010-07-02T11:27:13.179-05:00Older photos, newer scrapbook pagesI just finished these pages, and I thought I would share them. I took WAY too many photos last summer at this picnic. But the kids were so photogenic doing the many funny relay races!<br />
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Kit: <a href="http://store.scrapgirls.com/product/11984/Delightful-Collection">Delightful</a> by Syndee Nuckles </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-small;"> Doodle Art: <a href="http://www.creativememories.com/MainMenu/Our-products-and-services/Digital-Scrapbooking/Digital-Content-Downloads/Digital-Embellishments/Digital-Embellishments-Doodles">Creative Memories</a><br />
Filmstrip Frame: <a href="http://store.scrapgirls.com/product/9941/ScrapSimple-Embellishment-Templates%3A-Lifted-Photos-Biggie--Weathered">Lifted Photos - Weathered</a> by Melissa Renfro <br />
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Here is Libby at her Preschool Graduation. Leah got to walk up with her!<br />
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Here's the birthday girl next to her cake! Libby was all worried that I had gotten Barbie's dress all dirty in the cake and frosting. I assured her that Barbie was covered in Saran Wrap! I thought about just taking Barbie's clothes off, but I couldn't stand the thought of pulling a naked Barbie out of the cake while cutting it up for everyone to eat! That would be immodest!<br />
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The frosting I used was this <a href="http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1830,144183-248200,00.html">recipe</a>: <br />
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<o:p>At the beginning of the week, the new hall site had brick walls, a dirt floor, and a roof over the main auditorium. By the end of the week, we had poured a concrete floor - complete with stairs into the baptismal, installed a soffit along the entrance, and completely wired the whole place with electrical. Unfortunately, power was not hooked up to the building while we were there, but Paul T. reported a week later that power had been hooked up and the lights looked wonderful! </o:p><br />
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<o:p>Getting to know the Christians at Zapopan was a true blessing. We will never forget it. The food was phenomenal! Barb and the other ladies fed us very well! We left part of our hearts down there, so I can imagine we will return one day. :o)</o:p><br />
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<o:p>The existing tin Gospel Hall in Zapopan. David and Carissa entering, Joshua (Gustavo's son is greeting)</o:p><br />
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Gustavo, David, and Mark setting up electrical access to the building<br />
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Paul working on forms for the baptismal stairs, David and Paul wiring the soffit lighting<br />
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Half of the floor complete; Caleb riding with Alto<br />
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Transportation to work; Caleb carrying soffit materials<br />
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Using mixer to pour baptismal stairs<br />
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Jesse and Jon installing the soffit, Mark with the completed panel box<br />
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Paul E. with Gus; lunch at Paul and Barb's<br />
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At Zamora on Wed evening; Alloy and Patti and family<br />
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Alberto and Lucy and their casa<br />
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</div>For those of you who love to use page templates I thought I would share a few that I have created recently in Photoshop. Have fun!<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696522486262748047.post-65352274811292921902009-11-11T10:25:00.006-06:002010-03-30T11:25:29.573-05:00New DesignsI am in the process of making a digital scrapbooking kit centered around a Christmas. My favorite holiday decorations are Poinsettias - especially the pink and white ones. The photos in the layout are from our family Christmas get-together last year (I'm a little behind on scrapping my photos). But with the cooler weather, I have been in the Christmas mood lately. <br />
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