
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Awards Night

Tuesday, April 26, 2011
A Sign of Spring

(Made the layout with Polka Dot Pixel's Grown kit available at 2 Peas in a Bucket.)
Monday, April 18, 2011
Polka Dot Pixels Penmanship Kit and Grungy Grocery Bag Papers



Sunday, April 17, 2011
Jazz Unlimited Competition



That evening, we went to a jazz concert that is part of the Jazz Unlimited Festival and heard the Columbia Basin College Jazz Ensemble and Wayne Bergeron-the guest artist trumpet player-play with the Columbia Basin Jazz Orchestra. His claim to fame is playing trumpet on the soundtrack for the movie, "Cars", as well as a lot of other TV and movie soundtracks. It was a very nice concert.

We spent Saturday morning playing in the park next to our hotel in Richland. It is along the Columbia River and is in a beautiful setting. It also has a great playground area. The teenagers turn into little kids at the playground and kind of made it hard for the real little kids to play there. But they had a lot of fun for the hour and a half that they spent there. There will be more layouts coming of our time in the park so be on the look out for those in the next week or so.
All in all is was a great weekend but I am glad to be back home to some quiet after all the teenage chatter and music.
(The Polka Dot Pixels kit used in these layouts is called the Mercantile kit.)
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The New Polka Dot Pixels Creative Team Member

This week's release is called "Stitch in Time". The first layout features pictures of a vintage fashion show that I went to with our friend, Cindy, last year about this time. It was a really fun evening seeing all the beautiful old dresses, jewelry, hats and purses that each model brought out. And there was musical entertainment by Tony Starlight himself (the owner of the club that the show was at). He sang a lot of old Sinatra tunes and other songs from that era.


Sunday, April 10, 2011
Scrapbooking My Heritage

I really should be cleaning. That being said--I have been doing some more scrapbooking today. I got another kit or two that I have been working on. Some I will share later as they aren't quite ready for prime time but will be in the next week or so. I have been eying one of the kits for a few weeks now. It is a Mercantile kit designed by Polka Dot Pixels and it is absolutely perfect for this picture of my grandfather and great grandfather from 100 years ago. So I decided to redo the original one.
Henry Dodsworth opened a grocery store in the 1880's in Elroy, Wisconsin. I have seen internet posts from Juneau County that state "H.C. Dodsworth-Grocer and Bakery". At some point his brother-in-law, John Britt, must have become a partner in the business because I have also seen an advertisement from 1906 that calls the business--Dodsworth and Britt-Leading Grocers. My grandpa, Lee, followed his father's footsteps and also went into the grocery business running A and P stores in Kenosha and Tomah, Wisconsin.
This photo was given to me about 10 years ago by my father. It stirred all sorts of feelings in me and made me want to look into my family history more. It was a huge undertaking--trying to learn more about my family and then creating both paper and later digital scrapbooks from the pictures I was able to find and the stories that I learned. But I am so proud of what I have accomplished in finding out and only wish that I could learn more real stories about the family instead of dates of birth, death and marriage which is all I could find out about for many of my ancestors. I am so happy to have this wonderful picture that started me on that journey.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Scrapbooking Weekend


Sunday, April 3, 2011
Found Ourselves in Hot Water

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