Rock It!!

Grandma Roxanne's Birthday Celebration was just like her; calm and cool with little eccentric pops of glorious fun! Her gift from us was a framed version of this collage inspired by a Becky H. layout in July CK. I lowered the saturation on all the photos to give them a cohesive feel without going completely B&W. I love how simple it is (keeping in mind the recipient is anything BUT simple I tried to stay away from a complete grid work, lets just say it was serious work! :0) She loved it and we had fun reminiscing over the decades these family pics represent.

Happy Birthday Grandma Rocket!

Tastefull? Not Us!

Russ wants to add a little humor to the new website and thought it would be great fun to dress me up like a gaudy fairy at the children's photo place Kiddie Kandids. Although the pic is totally off the reasonable charts for style and respectability it is admittedly growing on me, a little something for the scrapbook. Which is what I had planned to do before sharing this highlight of my life, but who am I kidding? I haven't scrapped in 6 weeks! Since I did NOT want to add this to the pile of relics of my childhood and future discussions of 'the good 'ol days' i am sharing it now. Lucky U!!

More baby scanning fun

I am having so much fun loading up these pics from my baby days! Mom is looking so beautiful! The little background details are so great, I love how they are making me think about the things I want to make sure are in the girls albums.

scantastic

goodbye old friend, HP6110! well, move over at least cause there's a new scanner in town! After dreaming and drooling over the super ICE Epson scanners for the last year, I have one at last! Everything I scanned with the 5 year old 6110 needed so much photo editing I only made scans when I was forced into it! Now that I'm rockin with my ICEie 4490 I'm shouting from the rooftops checking if anyone needs something scanned. ;o)

It is oh-so-sweet! And just in time to get my 1976-2006 fave non-digi pics loaded and printed for the Evolutions album class I am taking at CKU in just a few days! The pic of me and my mommy below is in a permanent frame i don't want to ruin, so I am glad I like how all the 30 year old (gulp) scratches on the plexi glass give it an old leather look!

4th Report and a question

We had a really great BBQ on the 4th Dad (yep! that's him playing tickle monster under the girls) & Roxanne brought Danny and Trish, Richard from work and the neighbors stopped by Josh brought his now ex-girlfriend Sara! It was a mad house with all the munchkins running around sugared up and ready for the fireworks. And the show was absolutely amazing! Being at the park right under the fireworks is just so thrilling! I have never been a huge fan of fireworks but the show they put on at Veterans Memorial is spectacular! Even those who were not happy to walk down to the park forgot about complaining and got busy enjoying! Happy Day!!

How cool is this shot? I saw the technique somewhere, I think maybe on CK.I am off to bed now, but I need ideas for what to do if no one participated in my challenge. Well, I might just dream up the answer tonight or maybe you have one?