Glenwood Springs Layouts

I have been really sick ever since I got back from Chicago! I am finally getting better, but I'm really behind on a lot of things... like posting layouts, and posting ABOUT my trip to Chicago!! Today I finally finished the last layout of my Glenwood Springs series, so I am now ready to share all of them. :)

Big surprise, I have used Yin's Templates on every single one of these layouts... hehe!! I wanted a nice cohesive look to them since they are all from the same trip.

This trip in September 2009 was only 3 days long, and only a few hours from home... but there were SO MANY photographs that I just really wanted to do all these separate layouts! It was the weekend of my hubby's birthday, and we went to do this really tough hike we had been talking about since we met. He had done it before, but I never had. In the shape we are in, this was really really difficult... but also so rewarding! We love nature and photography so this was incredible for us. Someday when our health is improved I want to do this again to see how much easier it will be. :)

Alright... on to the layouts! I usually post the 2-page view as well as both pages separately, but as that would make for SO MANY PHOTOS in this case, I am only posting the 2-page view. You can click the 2-pager to view it larger, and I will provide links underneath to see the left and right sides individually if you want to :)

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So there we have it!! I did most of these before I got sick but I was waiting to be all done and post them together :) Finally got the last one fnished today. Let me know what you think!!

Next I think I'm going to do some more work on my Greece & Turkey album... the trip was in 2007 and the album is nowhere near done... and I would really like to complete it!

More New Scrapbook Layouts

Still scrapping away over here and I have four more new layouts to share! I did a total of SIXTEEN layouts in the past month, fourteen of them being two-page spreads. WOW. That is an all time record for me and I think it really shows my new dedication to my hobby and to making time for ME! :) All the while I've been posting regularly on my new freebie blog, doing school work, exercising... wow! This is going to be a good year!

Ok now on to my new layouts!

CLICK ANY PICTURE TO SEE IT LARGER!

Mount Evans Drive

Our Trip Along the Highest Road in North America ... Mt Evans Road. The summit is higher than 14,000ft!

CREDITS:
Template #138 by Yin Designs, altered some
Paper, Road, Mountains - On the Road by Holliewood Studios
Grass - Behind the Reeds by Tinette
Alpha - Bon Voyage by Mira Designs
Fonts - Pea XOXO from Karen (title) and Pea Mystie (journaling)


Colorado All-Mustang Show 2009

My husband is really into Mustangs and involved with a club. This is one nice event we went to this year.
CREDITS:

Template #132 by Yin Designs
Main Kit: 6k74 by Flergs
Racing Flags by Lindsay Jane
Alpha - One Love Collab, A Stoffel
Black Font - A Truer Blue

For the Love of IKEA

This IKEA is 10 mins from my old house in Illinois. I visited the store with Sarah when I was in Chicago in August 2009. It took us two days to see everything and we were exhausted! We had a blast taking photos and video all over the store and enjoying cheap delicious food in the cafe! I can't wait til they open an IKEA here in Denver!


CREDITS:
Template #113 by Yin Designs
Everything from One Love Collab for Haiti. 48 Designers.
Papers and some elements recolored.
Logo trademark of IKEA.
Font above IKEA logo - Pass the Chex
Journal font - Pea Amy*Rica


Chicago August 2009

My trip to Chicago in August 2009. Got to eat at all my favorite places, spend time with great friends, and take lots of fun pics!

CREDITS:
Template: 2 Many Photos 1 by Janet Philips
Stitching - Lucky Star, Gina Cabrera (altered)
(no papers or embellishments)

Coffee, Blogging, Scrapping, Oh My!

Reason # 214,873 of why I love my friend Raina ... she loves the computer as much as I do!!! Every time I've thought, surely you must be bored, she says "I've got HEAPS more photos to upload to Facebook!" :) Ahhh Raina, we truly are kindred spirits!

We started off our day on Saturday at Einstein's Bagels because she'd really enjoyed it on her last visit. I played it safe with ordering an old favorite, while Raina shocked me by ordering a green chile bagel with jalapeno salsa cream cheese. Wow! And she loved every minute of it! That's the goal :)

After breakfast I decided to take her to Forza Coffee. She isn't a Starbucks fan so I wanted her to be able to try some other places while here. She liked their coffee a LOT more. We had a great time hanging out there on our laptops!!

(Photo by Raina.)

I love that Raina is a computer nerd just like Ian and me :) Every time I think surely she must be bored she says "I've got heaps of photos to upload and heaps of blogging to do!" Yeeeeeeah!! I got to do blogging at Forza, AND scrapbooking!! yay yay yay

When we got hungry for lunch a few hours later, we headed to Panera Bread to eat lunch and continue with computer time :-D

It was such a fun day and I wish I could just repeat it!! We went to Zoo Lights that night too (photos coming soon!) so it was an awesome day.

The scrapbook layouts I worked on got finished up last night so those are posting next!

Live in Color

Yesterday I did a quick scrapbook page that I'd like to share:

This colorful page is a perfect celebration of Sarah and how colorful, zany, and wonderfully weird she is. What a great friend.
She and I had a long and much needed talk today and I am just so happy to have her.