Altered Tin Swap

I'm finally getting around to posting the pictures of the Altered Tin I created for a swap this past summer. I had to create two Altered Tins. It took forever for me to come up with a design that I was pleased with. I knew that I didn't just want to alter the tin, but that I wanted to also include a little sussie inside. For those of you who don't know, a sussie is another name for Lagniappe or a little something extra. So I racked my brains in the sweltering humid heat of late June and early July and finally hit upon the idea of a small specialized recipe book inside the tin. So I created 5 small cards to fit inside the tin with recipes of summertime drinks printed on them. I embellished each recipe with drink stickers. The cover of the drink tin needed to represent some far off place and as you can see, I thought of a tropical paradise setting. The palm tree was handmade. The inside cover is a replica of a postcard from paradise. Hope you enjoy looking.

All drinks are non-alcoholic.

Back in the Saddle Again

Well its been a while since I posted. I have been soooo busy with work and other committments that Scrapbooking has been placed on the back burner, not completely forgotten but just sitting back and simmering.



I have worked on several recipe cards lately and am in the process of creating a book of baby's first. I also want to work on a small book for my dad for his birthday that just passed. I turned 72 last week. I can't believe that my wonderful father is 72 or even more shocking is that I will soon be 50, well okay in a few years, but still its there just looming in the not too distant future. But then you know the alternative to getting older is not anything I want to think about.
Will post some pictures soon.

Lafayette Swarm

Today for the first time in about three weeks, it has not rained. I am soooo tired of the rain. The only good thing about the rain is I have been able to scrap. This weekend I even decided to hold a cricut swarm. I had 4 scrapbuddies come to the house on Friday and again on Saturday. We had a wonderful time. I cooked supper for everyone of Friday and then on Saturday night we ran into town to pick up Indian food. I didn't get as many pages as I would have liked done but playing hostess was fun also. Here is a picture of us at the swarm.

I now need to go to the cricuit site and enter our swarm into the monthly drawing for free cricut merchandise.

Below is one of the projects that I as able to complete during the swarm.

I will post more later.