Christmas Will Be Here Soon!

Good morning and happy Monday.  I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend and are fully rested for the week and month ahead.  

My daughter and I have a Black Friday tradition where we go out on Thanksgiving evening and hit the "few" stores that start Black Friday early, return home to unload the car and get a few hours rest.  At about 4:00 am, we get up and head back out and shop 'til we drop.

Unfortunately, it seems that all of the stores started Black Friday early this year.  So we went out and did all of our shopping in one fell swoop, getting home at 4:00 am!

Here are a couple of photos of us in full shopping mode!

And here are a couple of Christmas layouts that I've done this past week.

I have a whole batch of Christmas layouts that will be going on sale through this blog later this morning.  We're also having our own version of Cyber Monday that will actually continue all week!  We'll be sending out an e-mail later this morning announcing when the kits have been posted.  If you're not on our regular e-mail mailing list but would like to be, send an e-mail to beatrizguzman58@yahoo.com and we'll add your name.

Have a wonderful and blessed day!

Crazy Blessed

Good morning and happy thanksgiving eve!  Tomorrow is the day where we give thanks for everything in our lives.  In that respect I know that I am "Crazy Blessed".  And here is a layout that I made with just that title/1

Thanks for visiting my blog today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day and a Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Tuesday!

Good morning! are you excited about Thanksgiving? About Black Friday? Oh yes.... one of my favorite crazy days of the year!!!! As you know, FAMILY is one of my favorite subjects to Scrap. Here's a layout I made recently for one of my customers. I love the brick paper, it gives the snese of a cozy fireplace behind the picture.

Hope you are ready for the holiday seaon because it is here already! I am!!!!! Have a great and blessed day!

Pretty in Pink

Good morning and happy Monday!  Welcome to another week  of scrapbooking.

A very good customer of mine's favorite color is pink and she had decided that her Christmas will be pink this year.  She asked me to make her a few pink Christmas layouts.  Here they are!

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day!

Little Chef

Good morning and happy Friday!  Welcome to the end of another week.  Do you have any plans for the weekend?  Me, I'm going to stick around town and go to a card making class on Saturday.  No big plans to head out of town, but ... you never know what may come up.

Here is a recent layout and kit of mine titled "Little Chef".  It's a great layout for photos from those wonderful baking parties with your kids or your grandkids.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day and a safe and restful weekend!

Two New Kits

Good morning and happy Thursday.  Here are a couple of new kits that I'm offering for sale on this blog.

The first one is titled "Awesome Peanuts".  Who doesn't adore these characters and their new movie?

And here is one I call "I Locw My Grandma".  I was inspired by this grandmother with her two grandchildren because it reminded me so much of my own with the glasses and her hair in a bun.

And here I am with my four all at once.  From left to right are Carolina, Andrew, Landon & Madison.

Thanks once again for visiting my blog.  Have a wonderful and blessed day!

Pet Layouts

Good morning and happy hump day!  Hope that your week has been great so far.

Here are a couple of pet layout kits that I am offering.  Who doesn't love their amazing pet?  This first one is for all of you cat lovers out there.  It's titled "Meow".

And let's not forget man's best friend.  This one is titled "My Doggie Life".

Both of these kits are for sale for $20 each plus shipping.  Click on the KITS tab at the top of this blog to see these and other kits that I have for sale.

Thanks for visiting today!  Have a wonderful and blessed day.

A Grandmother's Love

Good morning and happy Tuesday!  Here is a new layout and kit that I am offering.  I titled it "A Grandmother's Love".

I look after two of my grandchildren every day so I've come to understand how special the love a grandmother has for her grandchildren is.

I've added this kit to the kits tab on this blog site.  You can send me an e-mail (beatrizguzman58@yahoo.com) if you're interested in this or any other of my kits.

Have a wonderful and blessed day!

The Flying Unicorn

Good morning and happy Monday!  I hope that all of you had a great weekend and are ready for a new week.

On Saturday I met up with friends from Georgia and Northwest Florida in Tallahassee at a newly opened scrapbook store, The Flying Unicorn.  Alda, the ower, was very accommodating and a gracious hostess.  Her store is very special in that it offers unique papers from Europe and other places that are not easily found here.  Here we are in front of the store.

Here is Peggy working on her project ...

... and here I am working on mine while Alexandra "photobombs"!

Here is one of my layouts that I made at the Flying Unicorn.  The papers are from Prima.

The title of my layout is Party Time, Lady Like (is that even possible?)

Thanks for coming to see my blog today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day!

Snoopy and Friends

Good morning and happy Friday.  Well, it looks like we've made it through another week.  How wonderful!

Here's a new layout that I just finished.  I was inspired by the new Peanuts movie which has just come out.  We've not been to see it yet, but I'm sure that we will before too long.

Here's to you having a great and blessed day and a wonderful and restful weekend.  Look forward to your visit on Monday.

Car Wash

Good morning and happy Thursday!

Today's layout is titled Car Wash.  I was inspired by the groups of young people who hold car washes on the weekends to raise money for their cause.  I guess you could say that it is good, clean fun!

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope that you have a wonderful and blessed day today!

Dreams

Good morning and happy Wednesday!  How is your week going so far?  Have you taken time to scrapbook or other crafty activities?  I certainly hop so.

Here are a couple of more layouts that I made using papers from the BoBunny Boardwalk collection.  Both have the theme of dreams.  I liked the second one so much that I used it as a basis for a new kit that I'm offering.

Thanks for the visit today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day.

Once Upon a Time

Good morning and happy Tuesday.  I hope that you've had a chance to look at all of the new kits that I've just released for sale.  If you haven't seen them, click on the KITS tab above.

Here is one of them titled "Once Upon a Time".

I have some perfect photos to put on this page of my granddaughter.  She is convinced that she is a princess.  We bought her a dress for Trick-or-Treat which she wore several times before the event.  Here she is Trick-or-Treating with her brother, mother and cousins.  They were the cast of Cinderella.  She was the fairy godmother.

And here she is in her Sofia the First dress.  She would wear this every day if she could.  I've tried hiding it in every closet of the house, but she always manages to find it.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day and we'll see you tomorrow.

Are we getting old?????

Happy Monday! Hope you had a great and restful weekend. Mine was very peaceful. I got a chance to scrapbook with a friend on Saturday and then sleep almost all day yesterday listenning to the rain. 
This is one of my latest kits (which sold out in less than an hour!). I found these die cuts about "aging" and I knew I had to use them on a layout. I am "only" 57 but sometimes I feel like 87 getting out of bed!!!!! Who said we are "over the hill" after we turned 40?
Hope you get a good laugh just as I did while I made it.

 I just posted over 25 new Kits here on my Blog. Check them out! Send me an e-mail to tell me if you want any of them. Have a wonderful and blessed day, regardless if it is a Monday!!!!!

First and Last Page

Good morning and happy Friday!  I hope that your week has gone well and that you're looking forward to the weekend.  I know that I am.

Those who follow this blog regularly know that I am most fond of two-page layouts.  However, all scrapbookers know that the first and the last pages of an album have to be single-pagers.

Here are the first and last pages of the album that I was working on during my vacation using the BoBunny Boardwalk Collection.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day and a safe and restful weekend!

Three Beach Layouts

Good morning and happy Thursday.  Here are three layouts that I made from the BoBunny Boardwalk Collection.  I made them while on vacation last week

And while not scrapping about the beach I actually stopped by the beach for a short while.  Here I am with my two babies at sunset.

And here are three of their four babies just a few minutes earlier.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day!

BoBunny Boardwalk

Good morning and happy Wednesday!  I am so happy to be home after our weeklong vacation.  Of course, just because I was away from my studio did not mean that I wasn't scrapping.

I had a chance to work with a new collection of papers from BoBunny called Boardwalk.  Here are three layouts using that collection.

Thanks for coming to my blog site today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day!

My Kind of Animals

Good morning and happy Tuesday.  I hope that you are all doing well.

On the last day of our California vacation we decided to go to the world famous San Diego Zoo.  Elephants, koalas, pandas, zebras, camels, giraffes, hippos...  Ah yes, those are my kind of animals.  I let my son Danny take Andrew to see his precious snakes.  I'd had enough of them yesterday!

Here are Andrew, Carolina and Madison going for a ride on a lion.

Do you remember this old limerick?

There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger. 

I get the impression from the look on Madison's face that she might have heard it before!

Here's the whole group of us in front of the giraffes.  Okay, are you in the mood for a giraffe limerick?

There once was a clever giraffe
Who at racing gave others the laugh
At the wire, it's said
He just stuck out his head
And won by three feet and a half!

And here are a couple of layouts where these photos will go just fine.  Notice that there's not even one snake to be found.  Like I said, these are my kind of animals.

Thanks for visiting the blog today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day!

Snake Charmers

Good morning and happy Monday!  As our California trip is winding down, we got a real treat yesterday in Old Town Temecula when we got to see some snakes.  Here are my two oldest grandcildren, each with a snake.  Andrew has a California King Snake while Madison has a Pacific Gopher Snake.  I can't believe how fearless these two are.  I was having a heart attack.

And here they are trying to get the two snakes to kiss!

I am absolutely certain that I do not have the proper layout to display these photos.  The best I can come up with is this recent jungle layout with one puny little snake at the bottom next to the raccoon.  Looks like I'm going to have to make a new layout that's more "snake-ish" when I get home.  Any takers if I make extras???

Thanks for visiting my blog today.  Have a wonderful and blessed day!