I'm so proud of Zach and his team! They stayed on track and had someone on the track for the whole event.
Zach set his personal goal to walk for 24 hours. Unfortunately, he became too exhausted after walking 51.25 miles over the course of 21.5 hours and I had to pull him off the track. He will be trying to walk the 24 hours again next year.
While I was chaperoning through the night I did this layout. I started working on it at about midnight and finished it at about 10 a.m., meaning I got to the journaling and doodled at about 28 hours of awakeness. I'm the sort of person that really needs a full 9 hours of sleep to function properly so I was quite delerious. I didn't work on for the straight 10 hours but did so off and on. I used PL Sketch 188 and the title is from this weeks Scrapping the Music. I also followed the criteria for a couple of challenges over at scrapbook.com. It's a summary of the past year with my family.
The Relay started just about 1.5 hours ago and I can't wait to get there! Zach and I baked about 200 cookies last night and decorated them with purple ribbons. He's really excited this year and is going to be trying to do the 24-hour walk. I will be heading over after work to cheer him and his team, The Fireflies, on. Wish him luck in walking for 24 non-stop hours!
Here he is last year after 2 hours of sleep and 19 hours of walking! Good thing Gwen is so light or he'd have toppled over!
This day is not going well for me. It's as though I left my brain in bed, snoozing away on this chilly spring day. I forgot that I paid rent on the first... like I have on the first of every month since 1998. I sent an email to Gray asking if he remembered why I withdrew such a large sum of money from my account on 06-01. When I realized it was rent, I emailed him to let him know I figured it out. Except that instead of entering his email... I entered my own. A few minutes later I got an email from me...omg. and it's not even 11, yet.
Plugging away at Gray's Nan's album he asked me to make her. I've only done a handful of mini-albums and still struggle with the tiny size. I might start over. I've only attached a few photos and am just really not at all happy with it so far. I think if I go with a more square size I will be more in my comfort zone and happy with it. While I think it's great to experiment in my creations, I have a deadline that I will not meet at my current rate... too much second-guessing everything I do and redo... a few times.
Work is a bit ugh, too. I just can't get into the groove... and I'm not being very efficient....which is why I find myself posting this message just before 11 on a Wednesday... a time I should be doing something work-related.
15 days til vacation! Yay! And friends will be staying at our house to take care of the fur-babies. Yay!
I was so worried about having to put them in a kennel. With Miss K out of school and the Mr. and Mrs. working just up the road from me they'll be hanging with Nakor and Persanna. And it's a good short-term summer job for Miss K. I mean, who wouldn't love a job playing with extra-fuzzy bundles of cuddly joy?!
I've wanted to scrap this photo of Zach for quite some time. I just love how happy he looks! He's a really happy kid, even at 15, but trying to capture that bliss in photos can be very difficult. His smile hasn't changed in the past 10 years.. it's still ear to ear, full on every time he smiles. He's not one of those kids who try to downplay their smile... when he's happy the world knows it.
This second layout is of Gray, Zach and Gwen at the white house on Mt. Holyoke. It's from a couple summers ago and I love that it's a photo of the three of them together. I really enjoyed making this layout. The circle was made with paint and a scrap cardstock circle I had laying around. I used a toothbrush to add the paint and just kept dipping in 4 different colors of paint and let it take shape. I like how soft the edges became because the paint was so wet. I then used two speckled flower stamps, stormy sky distress ink and silver glittery embossing powder to frame a space for the photo. I found the cut strips of orange/pink paper left on my table from a previous layout (Traditions) and thought they worked well with the paint. I had a few nearly finished off packs of rub-ons so used those up. I ran a few stitches on the page to hold down the photo and matting papers and then felt it was all too center-heavy. So I started to give it a thin edge of the dark blue paint I had left from making the center. My toothbrush slipped a few times and it became a thicker line :o) All in all I had fun making the layout and am really happy with the results.
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