Landscaping, Garage Sales, and Scrapping

I would really like to commit to blogging more often. I have so many ideas/thoughts (voices?) in my head. I need to get them out! Anyway, I'm so excited that we got the landscaping done around the patio. It looks really good. The mulch dresses it all up. I've spent the week getting ready for this damn garage sale that I told myself I should do. I really, really just want to shove everything back in the basement and pretend it's not there. HHHHMMMM... I know, I know, it won't go away. It really needs to be done. We moved here with way too much junk. It makes the most sense to do the sale when we have the village wide one but really I just don't wanna.

I've been scrapping quite a bit lately. Here are a few of my latest:









I sent the top 3 to my sister to look at from an artistic point of view. She said I do a great job with color. She also said I need to take lass traditional looking pictures and do something with some f function and to try shallow. ???? I have no idea what she is talking about. I know she wants me to experiment with my camera but put it on manual scares the crap out of me. I'm thinking a photo class is in order. We'll see what I can come up with.

Let's see...what else? I set up a new scrap area yesterday. I love it. I even have space for my laptop in case I need inspiration or a break. I've got to find something for storing my 12x12 paper. It's such a pain to organize. I think once I get some $$ I will just break down and buy the cropper hopper thingies that look like magazine holders.

The kids are almost done with school. Ally has her end of the year picnic today. She has been looking forward to it all week. I'm still not sure where the park is. HOpefully we find it okay. Vin and Mike's last day is June 9th. Vin said he was sad yesterday. He will miss Mrs. Bennett. He is such a sweet boy. Mike is looking forward to the end of the year.