Lasting Memories #272 - He Is So Silly

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope that you are all enjoying your weekend. We have been having such warm, beautiful weather - it's hard to remember that Christmas is less than 2 weeks away! It feels more like spring out there! The weatherman is saying that by the end of the week we will be back to normal highs of mid to upper 40's. That's not too bad, and maybe it will really get me in the mood for Christmas!

There is a new challenge up over at Lasting Memories today. The theme for December has been "Funny Holidays" and today's challenge is celebrating National Ding a Ling Day! Here is a little more about this holiday:

Date When Celebrated : Always December 12Today is  National Ding-a-Ling Day, a very special day to "Ring your Bell".  Nope, we're not talking about the Salvation Army Bell Ringers, standing with their bells and kettles, outside of every store in the country. On National Ding-a-Ling Day, you should brace yourself for bizarre and crazy behavior, from all of the people you encounter today. Even normally conservative people have been known to go a little crazy on this day. Some people say this is a day for wackos, lunatics, and others who are off their rocker. We say, it is simply a day to cut loose, act a little weird. What do you do to celebrate this day? Be ever vigilant to the ding-a-lings that will come out of the woodwork. Ding-a-Lings will be everywhere: on the road, on the street, in stores, and even in your house! We suggest you get into the holiday spirit, and become a ding-a-ling yourself......But, please do so for just one day.  
For the record: Ding-a-Lings and Ding Bats are not quite the same thing.
"National Ding-a-ling Day"

Our challenge to you is to make a layout about funny people, things comedic, anything funny. Or switch it up and scrap about a funny holiday happening (such as elf on the shelf).

Now if we are all honest, there are times when we are all ding a lings, so this shouldn't be too hard of a challenge! And when you have kids, well, there's a good chance that they can act like a ding a ling on a daily basis!

These photos are of my oldest son when he was about 4 or 5. I know - bad scrapbooker not having the date on the back of the photos! I do remember this day, when he decided he needed to clean his ears and then thought it was pretty funny to walk around with the Q-tips stuck in his ear, like a crazy robot! And of course this was back when he liked/wanted me to take pictures of him when he was being silly! He still knows how to put a smile on my face - every single day!

I used this fun sketch from December 4th at ScrapMuch? for my layout:

 

I added in just a little bit of hidden journaling on a tag behind the photos. I also used Simple Stories 24/7 collection - it had the perfect word stickers for this layout!

 

 

Be sure to check out ScrapMuch - they have fabulous sketches every Friday, and you have until the 29th to join in!

 

Head on over to the Lasting Memories blog to see what kind of ding a lings the rest of the design team scrapped about!

 

Don't forget - I am offering up the prize at Lasting Memories this month. All you have to do to enter is to join in on any or all of our challenges this month. You have until the 26th to link up your layouts for a chance to win this super cute paper pack:

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful week!

 

 



 



Lasting Memories #248 - So Happy Together

Good morning, everyone! I hope you all are having a good weekend. My hubby's vacation has officially started - yay! No big plans to go and do anything - just catching up on things around the house. We may fit in a trip to the lake if the weather is nice and warm!

Lasting Memories has a new challenge posted today over on the blog. We are starting a new group of challenges for July and they are going to be some really fun ones! The theme for July is "Together" and this first week's challenge is to scrap the theme.

 

I chose to scrap a layout of my daughter and her little family. I snapped this photo of them when we went to the zoo earlier in the month, and I just love it! The way they are both looking at Ada just melts my heart. They are the happiest when they are all together.

 

I used the Basic Grey Capture line for this layout. Basic Grey is another one of those companies that I am really liking right now, and when I came across this collection at Tuesday Morning for $5.99 I had to get it. I love the papers and the colors in this collection - they are just so pretty!

 

I used the newest sketch from ScrapMuch:





 

I love Laura's sketches and knew when I saw this one that I was going to use it as soon as possible.

 

I am also offering up the prize for July over at Lasting Memories. Play along with any, or all, of our challenges in July and you will have a chance at winning this:

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day!

 

Lasting Memories #243 - While We Wait

Hello everyone! I hope that you are enjoying your long weekend. We are enjoying some lazy days and we are ready to get that last half day of school over with on Tuesday!

There's a new challenge up today over on the Lasting Memories blog. It's the last challenge in this series and it's an Anything Goes with Life Affirmations theme.

I chose to do another gratitude layout. I apologize for my photos being so dark. I tried everything to brighten them up and this was as good as I could get. I've got a close up of the photos and if you click the photos you should be able to see them a little better.

 

Since Ada's Mommy teaches in the same school system as the boys attend, we pick Ada up every morning before school and drop her off every afternoon after school. That means about a 20 minute wait for us in the afternoon.

I have grown to love this time and I am going to treasure it - always! You see, this is when I get to hear all about Matthew's day. I get to hear about the frustrations with a class or with fellow classmates. I get to hear the excitement of an activity coming up or something particularly funny that happened that day. I'm sure if he had a long bus ride home - or even just a car ride home - that some of the excitement/frustration would have worn off and probably be forgotten about. But having 20 minutes in the close quarters of a car, I have learned a lot. I have learned how truly awesome Matthew is  and I can see the young man that he is turning into and it makes my heart happy. I am so grateful to have this time spent with him. Next year he will be driving himself back and forth to school and I just hope we can find some way of continuing this.

Here's the close up of the photos:

He was actually acting goofy for the camera for once, so I had to keep them!

I used Simple Stories Life Documented papers and chipboard stickers on my layout. I thought the days of the week paper was quite fitting since we do this Monday - Friday and that little clock was the perfect accent!

I used the May 15 sketch from ScrapMuch?

 

 

My journaling is a little long and private, so I will stick that down behind the photos.

 

Be sure to stop by Lasting Memories and see the rest of the design teams creations. I look forward to seeing your creations as well.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

 

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