The Comeback

So a couple weeks ago I said I had some good news. Well, *I* thought it was good news at least. Took me awhile to post because I was waiting on some supplies to finish my class. FINALLY got my act together. So the news? I am coming out of scrapbooking retirement to teach a class at NH Scrapbook Cabin! I am so very excited. The Cabin rocks! I’ll be light on the chit chat and get right into the pictures. The class is for BOTH books shown in this post.

The first book will discuss techniques to cover chipboard in creating a cloth covered ribbon bound book. Unfortunately the fabric shown in this picture is not available for the class, but you have your choice of three fabrics when you sign up. You are also welcome to bring your own.

The second book is also a cloth covering (your choice of three) to dress up the new Zutter Bind it all Covers. These covers are terrific, easy to use, and hide the metal coils when you want a more finished look.

Both books have an enormous number of pages. Cost for both books and instruction is $39. Class size is limited to 8. Please contact the Cabin at www.nhscrapbookcabin.com or 603-769-3333.

I hope to see some old friends and some new faces! It’s been awhile! CAN’T WAIT!!!

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California Part 3: My favorite!

I think the best day we had in California on our previous visit was to Cabrillo National Monument. Last visit we completely missed low tide. This visit, we planned around the nicest day and to hit it up at low tide. We were not disappointed. Heavy on the pictures in this post because this was my favorite day and some of my favorite pictures ever.

My boys!

I am happy to post two pictures taken by other members of the family.

Oliver has become very very good with the camera. I really want to get him his own SLR.

Oliver told Peter to take a picture of he and I — WAHOOO! I don’t even have to be the one to order other people around with the camera.

Beautiful day!

I don’t know what this is, but it’s one of my favorite pictures of the day.

There was so much to see in the tidepools. I’m going to limit myself to these couple (plus that odd thing above!) Sadly, we did not find any seastars, but I lost Oliver to the pull of sand art. He couldn’t be bothered to look in the tidepools too long when there was a long flat perfect beach to do some drawings on.

The rock and sand formations there were really amazing. This was Oliver’s favorite spot. He liked how the rock formed a little bowl.

We watched the surfers on and off during the day. They were pretty far away. Sadly, this surfer guy about to bite it is my favorite picture of them…

The sunset was amazing, and the moon was even more beautiful. I love how you can see the texture at the bottom of the moon.

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Legoland! And Christmas! California Part Two

This guy totally rocked….er, rolled.

Oliver is not big on change. In fact, there are still rides we have never tried at Legoland. Two because there’s the possibility of having water squirted on you. He finally gave in and tried them this year. He loved them! He didn’t get wet at all….because his mother is ENORMOUS and apparently shadowed out all the water spray. I was soaked. The good part of this was that the camera stayed with Sweet Peter on dry land, and miracles of miracles, he used it!

Legoland continues to expand and we found the new slide in adventure land. I’m not sure who designed this “ride”, but apparently they have a sick sense of humor. Giant plastic slide. Nylon-ish bags. Have any of you seen the GIGANTIC Van De Graaff generator at the Museum of Science? That’s got NOTHING on this thing. My rear-end was sparkled the entire way down. It was painful. The poor guy on the end got down to the bottom and had a spark jump from the wall a foot and a half over to his elbow. I think it smoked afterwards. YIKES! Oliver did go down the slide again so that he could experience it with Peter. Peter swears that jeans were more protective against the sparkles than my cords were. All the same, 2 for Oliver and one for each of us was enough. It was one of the few rides at Legoland that didn’t have much of a line. Go figure. It did produce really cute pictures of my family. I’m not biased or anything.

The previous picture is one of my favorites, as is the next. I cannot get enough pictures of the amount of fun my child has at Legoland…

Christmas was totally wonderful. My Aunt’s friend Charlotte (who’s just like family!) was able to join us this year for Christmas. The day was absolutely perfect. We opened presents, played with Legos all day, had a wonderful dinner together and dreamed of sugarplums the entire week. Okay, not sugarplums. Satsuma Tangerines. A million times better.

Sweet Dreams….of tangerines!

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