Come December 2024 and January 2026, I will become a great-grandma again. I have two great-grandsons and now there are two great-granddaughters on the way! I made baby albums for the boys, so I had to get busy and create two new albums before the baby shower in November. I completed them a week early, thank goodness! Please enjoy the few pics below of the albums.
I put my Silhouette to work to create babies for the baby albums. Lots of pieces but I think they turned out cute.
I was finally able to attend an Anna Finnabair Dabrowska class. I was determined to attend the classes even though I was recovering from a full hip replacement three weeks prior to the classes. Thankfully my daughter-in-law was staying with me during my recovery and drove me to the classes.
Thank you so much Shannon. I hope you enjoyed the classes also!
Cynthia and I booked a back to back cruise for December 2024 to the Caribbean when we were on the Alaskan cruise. This will be a first for both of us and it was a great price since the cruises are in December.
I had booked over a year ago a mixed media crafting cruise for January 2025 with Belinda Basson that cruises to Panama. Can't wait for that cruise, it will be a blast. The theme is 'My Fair Lady'!
AND now i am booked on a back to back cruise around New Zealand and Australia. The first cruise is a crafting cruise sponsored by Big Mouth Scrappers and Dusty Attic. Then a relaxing cruise around Australia's east coast. We will spend 4 days in Sydnay after the cruise.
Then we will have a HUGE adventure on an 18 day Transpacific repositioning cruise from Sydney to Honolulu!
2025 and 2026 are going to be busy! So much scrapbooking to be done in the next couple years!
I am on the road again or maybe I should say I am flying over the ocean again! Leaving on the 18th for a cruise around Iceland and Scotland with a group of crafty friends sponsored by Big Mouth Scrappers through Cruise n Crop.
Cynthia and I are staying a week longer to go to Holland, the Netherlands and spend extra time in Amsterdam. I haven't even finished my documenting of the Paris trip and I will have a 3 week vacation to document in addition to an Alaska cruise we are going on a week after we get home from Amsterdam. I will have plenty of scrapbooking to do during my recovery after surgery in August...
Stay tuned for lots of pages or ECD albums coming in the future!
Three graduations in May! My Michigan granddaughter, My Tennessee granddaughter and my neighbor's daughter (who takes care of my plants when I am traveling). It was a very busy month after getting home from Europe. I made cards, went to Mega Meet in Michigan and then to graduation #1, back home for the Texas graduation party, then a trip to Tennessee for the last graduation! I'm tired, but what fun I had at all of the events!
April 2024 River Cruise from Paris to Normandy! What a wonderful experience with a crafty group of friends. Cruise n Crop provided a beautiful personally embossed red leather planner. We crafted during the cruise and i am still working on documenting all the activities of the cruise. Once I have that documented i have the extra days we stayed including a trip to Disney in Paris! A few pages below of the first half of my trip.
I finally made it to the Great Lakes Mega Meet. I took a few classes, met up with some old friends, visited my daughter and grandson and had many many laughs with this crazy group of crafty friends.
Two fabulous weeks in Jamaica! I've never seen so many gorgeous shades of blue water.
I decided to use Elizabeth Craft Designs Essential Planner Album, stamps and dies to document this awesome vacation!
