Dedo = Grandpa

Yesterday I asked my sister Lil if she would share a couple of photos of Peter & Hayden together because I wanted to scrap a page of them. She sent me 38 photos, lol. So I'll be making more than one page :)

I used 'Grand Connections' (Marie h Designs); 'Wonder-Fall' (Marie h Designs); 'Fall Frolic' (Marie h Designs) and the mauvey-grey background paper is from 'Looking Back' (The Urban Fairy). I made the title with 'Mister Alpha' (Mad Genius). I re-coloured the films strips (Alb2Rem) from black to brown. The LO is based on one of Barb's page builders, PB5 (Alb2Rem), but I modified it quite a bit. :)

Outdoor Adventure

I won a $5.00 coupon on Albums to Remember Designs FB page. WooHoo. I put it towards Barb's newest kit ... it's so fab. Scanned some old pics (because it's been "awhile" since I last went camping, lol). These are my nephews Eric and Jordan when they were younger, and their dad, my brother John :)

Kit: Outdoor Adventure (Albums to Remember)
I used a layout similar to the WM Squared Template on SO's August 2012 Template Challenge, but added a bunch more "stuff" to it :)

The Digichick is broken :(

There has been a major disaster at The Digichick. Their server died this week. Apparently they pay big bucks to have a dedicated server and backups, but when the site went down the company that they pay as a server found out that even their backup was corrupted! YIKES!!! They were able to save some of the site, but they lost the entire store and possibly all of the galleries. (ACK!). The staff and designers have been working like crazy behind the scenes to get things up and going as soon as possible.

The amount of work involved getting a whole store, going back to 2005, with dozens of designers and their hundreds of kits, and layouts, and zipped files and x-cart, all back into place is ginormous! Ugh. So some of my links to kits that are from TDC will not work until this is all fixed. I feel so bad for the owner Sinead (a lovely Irish lass), and all the designers and staff. What a nightmare this is.

Kit: 'I'm Sick' by Albums to Remember.

Update: TDC was offline for about 10 days, but it's back up and running and better than ever. :)

I Love Ketchup!

My grand-nephew Hayden REALLY loves ketchup. I love this photo of him and his Daddy ... it was taken two weeks ago at "Hutches on the Beach". This is an old diner that I ate at many times when I was a kid, and even more often as a teen ... and it's still going strong today.

Hutch's Restaurant is a classic! Since 1946, the restaurant has built a reputation for its fabulous fish and chips, hamburgers and hotdogs "with the works", milkshakes and its own delicious brand of French fries. The atmosphere inside is made warm and friendly by the classic diner-style booths, old sports pictures on the walls and 1950s music on the jukebox. Hutch's classic combination of great food, fast service and 1950's-style dining makes it one of the area's most popular eateries.

I used a number of elements from a variety of kits, including... 'Mom's Diner' (by Sweet Digi Scraps). Love, love, love this kit. I won a $5.00 coupon from Liz (the designer) and chose this (and I ended up buying another kit while I was there, lol). I'm a huge fan of diners. My first website back in the late 80's was called The Dabble Diner :)

The gorgeous background paper is from 'Cruising' (by Mel Hains). This was another amazing deal ... it was on sale earlier this month for $1.00 and it's super cute. I love that the painted paper reminds me of water, and since the restaurant is on the beach and the colour matched Hayden's shirt, I just had to use it.

The SVG wavy shape is from Barb at Albums to Remember. I filled it with black and white tiled paper because the diner actually has that floor, haha.

I also used a few bits from 'That's My Dad' (by Mye De Leon). It's an absolutely gorgeous kit that is on sale for $1.00. Mye has opened a new store and will be selling exclusively at Digital Design House. She is leaving MyMemories, GottaPixel and Scrapmatters and retiring over 70 products, so I picked up a bunch more of her $1.00 kits (reg. $5.99).

The Nautical cluster by Flower Scraps was a freebie. And finally I extracted the ketchup bottle (because only Heinz will do, lol); made the ketchup hearts and wordart; and added the Hutches logo to the drink cup.