Scrap Booking and Running

I thought it would be fun to share my running layouts. The reason I try to keep a good record of my races is because I picture myself  20 years from now sitting with my grand kids and my kids looking through these books. I picture them saying wow grandma you ran 50 miles. I don't know if they would really believe me if I didn't have proof. 

I have been doing this for about 12 years so it is really cool to look back and see what I wrote and what I was wearing who was with me and my times. These are the  layouts I did for the Hodges 50 miler. 

I love that its all here in one place because when you finish a race the way you feel needs to be recorded soon after because your usually on top of the world feeling great so its a very positive thing for me.

These are 8 by 10 pages. They are fun and easy to work with because there smaller than a 12 by 12. There you go scrap booking and running do go together.

Scrapbooking bits

I have been working on getting my favorite instagram pictures in a cute album. For this project I chose an 8 by 10 scenic route album to help me keep it simple. I had my pictures developed like cute polaroids..and now its all up to me to get them in an album.

Most of the paper I used is from the Amy Tangerine line.

I have to tell you that what I love about taking pictures with my IPhone is that I seem to capture sweet moments like this one.. My phone is quieter than the radio so when I take a picture half the time they don't know because the radio is almost always on.

I dont know how much Christopher would like this layout.

I can hear him saying mom.. but I love it.. Hope you found some time to be crafty...

My Road Trip Smash Book is finished

Here it is.. I am really proud of myself . I finished a whole album.
Have a great day..

Smash Book fun !!

Smashing on a Tuesday... Here are a couple of pages from my Smash book. These are fun and colorful May pages.. I am doing my Birthday pages today.. As soon as they are done I will share them with you all...  I do miss scrapping all these fun memories in a 12 by 12 album...  I loved scrap booking back when I didn't have to work... It was so much fun and after working on these pages I started thinking that the size of the album does not matter. The really cool thing about these smash books is that the expectations you set for yourself are really not there... You just get some cute stuff on a page and go... I hope you have a nice day and well I am off to run...

Paper Crafting Love

I am Loving the idea of starting a scrapbook this year. Its always so much harder for me to just start. I do what I think most of us do I start looking at other people pages and then I doubt myself but I decided that I'm no longer comparing myself because honestly nothing good comes of it. I decided to use what supplies I had right in front of me. Since I just moved I have 90% of my supplies in boxes but I was still able to make a basket of cute stuff to get me started. This is my first page of 2012.
Its simple and I have to say the size is kinda of odd but like I said I had two albums in front of me and so I just picked one. 

So here is my method..
I am going to do at least one page a week .
This is my introduction page.

I did a simple page for my kids . Stating what I feel I have learned front them in 2011. My lesson was this instead of trying to make them something there not I feel I was able to recognize what makes them special and love them for it. I find myself being more aware of there little personalities and what they love doing. This year I determined to document what I see in them and journal about it and make some cute pages too...
Happy Wednesday
xoxo
G