First blog post

Today I had my first blog post over on the Memory Works blog. You can check it out here. These are the two layouts I shared using mostly Lily Bee products.

Tyler playing in the snow caves they built on Thanksgiving-2010

Tyler receiving his wolf badge-March '11

2012 TeamWorks Team!!

In October, I signed up as a Memory Works consultant to buy some supplies for our scrapbooking retreat. Shortly after, they put out a call to apply for the 2012 TeamWorks team. I applied, the last day, not thinking much about it, until I saw this post. Yes, my name was misspelled so I was hoping it was still me, but trying not to get my hopes up too much. How many other Caroline/Carolyn Piercy Memory Works consultants could there be? Well I got an email the next day welcoming me to the team. So yes, it is me and I am so excited to be working with Memory Works. They carry many of my favorite manufacturers like: Crate, Cosmo Cricket, Lily Bee, MME, etc. and they have their own line called Simple Stories which is super cute!! Looking forward to the new year and working with some other great ladies!

Scrapbook Retreat

This one was actually from a few months ago, just forgot to post it. It was a scraplift challenge from the Memorable Seasons board.

Tyler as a soldier last Halloween.

The kids on one of their daily walks with Grandpa when he came to visit.

Our family last winter in Spokane.

Haley dressed up for Dr. Seuss Day at school.

Haley's first day of kindergarten!!

Our first time to do the MS Walk as a family. We walked and raised money for Ryan's sister, Liz

Emily as a new big sister to Katie.

The kids flying kites in the springtime.

Emily dressed up for Halloween '10

Haley's first soccer season

Haley dressed up as a witch-Halloween '10

I was able to go on the scrapbook retreat this year. The two gals that have organized it in the past decided not to do one again so I decided to try and organize one myself. 5 of us went up to Leavenworth and stayed and the Sleeping Lady and scrapped and ate lots of yummy food. It was such a needed vacation/break for me and I loved being able to scrapbook after having all of my stuff packed up for soooo long. It felt good to get back into the groove of scrappin' and it's always fun to have girl time too!!

Out with the old, in with the new!

Okay, these bibs are seriously OLD (that yellow one was from Tyler when he was a baby and he's almost 9!) I don't know why I didn't throw these away sooner!

And here are some new ones I just finished. About half are for Katie and the rest are for gifts. These look so much better and can't wait to throw the other ones out! I got the pattern from the Sew Mama Sew blog a few years ago.

National Scrapbook Day

This card was for Telah's challenge to use up any scraps of paper that you had used on any of your LO's you made this weekend. All of these printed papers came from that same sheet of Studio Calico paper. Love the way it turned out!

For Joni's hold it together challenge: use things that hold things together (buttons, stitching, zippers, clips) just like moms hold everything together. I used stitching and a clip on my journaling. Our garden tomatoes (summer of 07). I used the May 8th sketch from Your Scrapbook Stash.

This one was from Kristin's sketch challenge. The kiddos enjoying summer with some popsicles. This one was so easy to put together, it's actually just one sheet of Studio Calico paper, except for the banner!

This one was for Jenny's play challenge: scrap whatever you think of when you hear the word play. These pictures were from the same day at the park. The kids ran up and down the hill so many times, just pure kid fun. This one I used the May 7th sketch from Your Scrapbook Stash.

This one was for Tami's dirty challenge: interpret dirty anyway you want! So I went for Haley's dirty face. We had given the kids fudgesicles. It was sooo hot that they started to melt but they still wanted to eat them and none of us had thought to bring any wipes so they all just played with dirty faces. They made for some great pictures!! I also inked around the edges for some more "dirtiness." I used the May 6th sketch from Your Scrapbook Stash.

So I took advantage of last week's National Scrapbook Day (well, actually the weekend) to get some layouts done. I played along at the crop at Memorable Seasons and used some great sketches from Your Scrapbook Stash. Here's everythhing I got done!

Let's Scrap challenges

This is for my DT challenge this week. It's due tomorrow night if you still want to play along! The challenge is to create 3 different handmade flowers on your LO. I made a flower out of patterned paper circles, rolled flowers, and I sewed some lace together to create a flower. I have been wanting to try the rolled flowers for a long time so this was a push to actually do it!

This one was from Shelly's spring forward challenge which was to scraplift the LO that was uploaded right after your last upload. I used the same sketch, some twine on my picture and the title is similar to hers. I had made some salt dough for the kids. It obviously needed more flour but they didn't want to add more, they liked having sticky hands!

2 Layouts for 1 week

This week's sketch

My take on the sketch-Park Play-Haley at the park kinda (or not) playing! My friend Laurel took these pictures of her.

This is from last week-My Pizza makers-the kids helping me make some pizza for dinner!

Oops!! I just realized that I forgot to post my LO from last week's Let's Scrap sketch. So here's last week's and this week's sketch and LO!