Garden Helpers

These are pics of my garden helpers, Dillon and Nat :)) I used papers and elements from two adorable new kits from Lou, 'The Potting Shed' and 'Behind The Potting Shed' (by LouCee Creations). This was such fun to play with. I miss our sweet Natty Boy.

La Grande Hermine

We pass this rusty hull of an old sailing ship quite often. It sits in the harbour near the shore about a 15 minute drive from our house. I've always thought it was neat and wondered about it so I looked up its history and decided to scrap it. I remember when it looked like the original wood ship until some vandals set it on fire. I took this photo last summer, on a perfectly calm day, without a ripple on the water, but a big storm was heading our way. It literally was the calm before the storm. I used "Beach Retreat" (by LouCee Creations).

The journaling says,

"A life-size replica of the vessel 'La Grande Hermine' was featured at Expo '67 in Montreal in 1967 where it served as a floating restaurant. It remained in Quebec for at least three decades.

The replica was later moved to Ontario with the intention of renovating it and re-opening it as a restaurant. Unfortunately, the new owner ran out of funds, and the ship sat in Jordan Harbour for years, unused.

In 2003, the ship was destroyed by what police called a suspicious fire, most likely the work of arsonists. The burned-out and rusting hull still sits in the harbour to this day."

Adorable Together

For this page I used a freebie kit from Word Art World by Jennifer (January FB exclusive (Adventure Kit) and wordart from Jennifer's (SWAP 82) freebie.

The journaling says,

"Dillon and Nathaniel, July 2003

Dillon used to hop up onto this chair every day to take a nap. As soon as he got comfy, Nathaniel would jump up and sit right on top of Dillon, and just stay there, looking out the front window.

Dillon never seemed to mind having his fifty pound pal squashing him. Most of the time he didn't even bother to open his eyes, just kept right on napping.

Surfing the Interweb Thingie

We were at my brother's on Saturday night and he was trying to look up something on the internet. John is not web savvy and has never been on Facebook. He was cracking me up as he was trying "to surf", haha.

I used some of my sister Lil's kits to make this. Most of it is from 'Water Fun' (LLL Creations); the background is one of Lil's 'Stitched Papers', and I also used one of her 'Journaling Clip Boards'.

My 1st Digi Scrap Page

I'm writing this on June 16, 2012, looking back nearly 7 months ago.

I bought the digital scrapbooking software program called MyMemories Suite V3 in the first week of November 2011. I bought it because it was on sale for an amazingly low price and I got a discount coupon from my sister Lil (LLL Creations), and both her and MyMemories threw in a bunch of freebies, so it was like getting the program for free. I bought it "just in case" I ever wanted to use it. I didn't even install it until the third week of November, lol.

On November 22, 2011 we had just hung up Christmas lights on our back deck and I was trying out a new little point and shoot camera I had just bought. I wanted to see if the camera COULD take pics of lights at night. My old camera couldn't. The pics turned out reasonably well for night shots (taken with a point & shoot), so I thought, "Hmmm ... maybe I should actually try that new scrapbooking program.

So I finally installed MMS and made my very first digital scrapbooking page that night (November 22, 2011.) Here it is ....


I just used items that came with the program, from a kit called 'Eskimo Snow' and another called 'Holiday Simplicity'. At the time I thought it turned out fabulous and I think I even posted it on the MM FB page. I see now I didn't even have that snow covering all the background in the bottom right corner, haha. I'm not going to fix anything on this page. It is what it was :)

After this, the first few pages I made were all different sizes and shapes. Some landscape, some portrait, some square. I had no idea what I wanted to do and just experimented.

I've made hundreds of pages since that day (when I installed the program "just in case" I ever wanted to use it, lol), and I'll gradually try to add them here on this blog.