Scraps Of Time

new grandson, jury duty and our sweet zoe.

my, my it's been a while. we've been busy around here! the most exciting news is we have a new grandson! sweet eligh...

                        

and big brother owen is very anxious for him to get bigger, so they can play super hero's.

i also had jury duty (the last time being 2 years ago) yuck! right during the week of eligh's due date wouldn't you know!  

and two weeks before, someone took  the cover to our underground crawl space off and a rat decided to get his head stuck in our furnace fan and die, ohmygosh what horror! geesh! a gawd awful smell for 2 days before we could get help and find out where the critter was, awk.  he had found one of the vents lose and crawled up to our furnace! thank goodness the furnace is enclosed so he couldn't get into the house. needless to say we had a major overhaul of our system and got a new furnace too. way nice! we have had excellent weather in the 70's and 80's so when it took 2 weeks to finally install our new furnace it was okay by us.

the same two weeks we were dealing with a most unpleasant issue with our zoey dog (15) and when we took her in for a check found out she needed antibiotics, my gosh poor girl, she has only had to visit a vet once before (besides shots), but she took it in stride and is much better for it. she has been such a dear protector and friend to our girls and wonderful companion to us, it's hard to see her age and imagine our life without her.

                      

by the time eligh arrived, we were over the messes and yuckiness and able to have owen stay with us during the birth and hospital stay. eligh arrived a bit early but is healthy, strong and eating like a trooper. 

it will be good to have august free, hopefully the weather will hold and we will be able to take a bicycle (electric)  trip or two. and i will get inspired to start creating  journals once more!

thanks for taking a peek have a great weekend! -rebecca

snow!?

                      

yesterday morning - what a surprise to wake up to. it was only our second snowfall of the season, our first being on december 19. it's been a very cold but dry season and of course, around here things change fast - by noon the sun was out and it was very drippy,today we have sun with some snow still on the ground and snow people still standing sentry. happy spring!

birthday celebration at the zoo

we went to the zoo on saturday and had a great day for meagens 22 birthday! jess wasn't able to enjoy it with us because she had to go to her college orientation- why does everything always happen at once? geesh! but we all came back home and had a little cake, which, unfortunately was a disaster- the cake that is- i don't know what happened to it but somehow i goofed up. simple instructions, really couldn't get any easier, but... something went wrong and it turned out weird. it was very moist and flat. it was nearly impossible to frost and decorate so we just did the best we could. then, we forgot to take pictures until i had already cut the cake, which just globbed onto the spatula and made a mess, my gosh, well we had fun anyway, lol! can't believe she is 22!

 

 

     

i will be back with a new fathers day album in a bit...

busy busy busy, geesh!

so, a few things have been going on here- always all at once, i have not been idle. lol. i've been working on several special orders including an altered book and a request for an altered book submission to a local college gallery.  in the middle of it all, last week, after just 7 days of sending off the application, which of course, in itself was a major distraction, jess received a letter of acceptance to the college she really wanted to get into. yeah! we all had to venture down the freeway at 6:00 pm, to seattle, and walk the campus. thank gosh it was a beautiful night! it's a beautiful campus too-

seattle pacific university est. 1891.

 

the school of education building from all angles (except the back) lol-

along with her letter of acceptance were 2 scholarships for the university- a direct  transfer degree scholarship and a huge transfer honors scholar award for her grades. i mention this because jess is an unrelenting, focused student that never tells anyone about her achievements. after graduating less than a year ago from high school, she is entering spu in the fall, armed with her associates in arts and sciences  degree with high honors, as a junior, where she will be working on her double major in elementary and special education. i told you she is relentless. hey jess, i just noticed the "european quarter" oohlala that sounds good. maybe now you can relax just a bit, and enjoy some campus life! i love you jess, you've done darn good!

anyway, we had to travel back down to spu a couple of days later, this time to visit the bookstore and purchase the appropriate gear, geesh! yes, i got a spu "mom" decal for my bug window... we also stopped at nscc and and dropped off my contributions to the "book arts" exhibition at the art gallery. since i didn't have an altered book sitting around home and no time to create one,  i took a storybook journal, brenda anderson, the curator of exhibitions, really liked the little rosies so i took those also-

 

brenda did a very nice display- center front under glass-nice! steve just had to get in the picture when i turned down his offer to take one of me. 

now, on with more special orders. i will be posting pictures tomorrow, of the altered book i have finished if you would like to take a peek back. thanks everyone, enjoy your evening! -rebecca

new notables

                          

been busy binding  all those vintage book covers, bingo boxes and other goodies into useful notebook notables, and making room in my cupboard so all my other stuff can fit. sound familiar? geesh, still not done, it's never ending, lol! i love my zutter binding machine! i am in the process of posting these little sketch/notebooks into my etsy shop, under "journals, kits and notebooks" then... on with christmas...

i found some random pictures that i sized but haven't posted so i thought i would share these too, starting with last summer.

 

i bought a bunch of these little shaped chipboard albums at michaels because they had a great sale- i think they were 2 for a $1.00, anyway,they were so much fun to add pictures to.

  

of course, we didn't miss our annual state fair visit. it's always fun to see the harvests, color, gadgets and toys, horses, cows, sheep, smell the food and naturally eat the food, it always tasts better at the fair.

                       

i took these one morning in september. when i came outside with a cup of coffee, steve had this little stack of wood piled, ready for our fireplace- true sign of fall, and our little visitors were getting more aggressive with their nut collecting.

and last week, at megs special olympics "bowl-a-rama" she took third place with a bronze. the last is a picture of her coaches(minus jess) getting in the spirit, i love these guys- totally dedicated( the 2 ladies are special ed teachers) fun, encouraging, supportive,  and real advocates of their athletes!

time to go post the notables, thanks for visiting, enjoy your weekend! -rebecca