My New Grandbaby

Hello!!

I'm here to share a layout I have done

for a few challenges. 

The first challenge was for 

Scraplift Your Favorites over at SB dot com,

and also for the Girls and Boys challenge also at SB.

The third place I am entering this lo is a brand new

challenge site. I think I am going to like it!!

It's Scrap Your Story. 

I want to try to follow it the best I can for a while.

My problem is having enough photo's to complete

all the challenges I want to do in a month!! 

This is my beautiful, brand new granddaughter.

And this is the lo:

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

I hope you check out the new site,

Scrap Your Story and play along!!

I hope you have a wonderful, love filled week!!

Until next time..................tootles!!

Soap Clouds

Hello!!
This blog entry is different than the 

ones I usually post but, it is super fun!!

I'll start by saying, if you have kids,

you defiantly want to try this!! 

It is so fun and interesting!! 

(also entertaining)

I originally found this while browsing

through Pintrest. It lead me to this blog:

Our Best Bites

Please read it to get the full terms and

such about this project!! There is also

a recipe on there for ways to use

the soap after your down with it!!)
 I have taken the important pieces from 

the blog and am pasting them here:

"We call these “Soap Clouds.” Grab a bar of Ivory soap-yes, only Ivory! It’s cheap, but don’t worry, you can even use it as soap when we’re done here so we’re not being wasteful. Place a piece of waxed paper, parchment, plastic wrap, or paper towel in your microwave.  Start your microwave for a couple of minutes on high power. You don’t need to let it run that whole length of time, but you can just stop it when you need to. I don’t know how it does it- but it starts growing! Sometimes the “clouds” are seriously HUGE, and other times they are sort of wimpy. I’ve noticed generally, the fresher the soap (as in the more recent I have purchased it) the bigger the result. It looks like it should be foamy and wet, but it’s not. You can actually pick up the whole big chunk.  If you smash it, it will break into pieces and you’ll end up with soap dust everywhere, so be careful with little hands who like to smash things :)  It’s the weirdest looking thing. I love how it’s different every time."

This is my response to the experiment:

Oh my word!! THIS IS AWESOME and WAY COOL!!

Vashti and I just did it and it was amazing!! 

Although a whole bar of ivory expanded to much for 

our microwave, (which is large as it's over the stove),

 so we are cutting a bar into 6ths. 

We also added drops of food coloring to it 

before microwaving it!! (while cool, it tends to burn a bit) 

Plus we discovered that after it's done expanding 

you have to let it cook for about 15-20 seconds more 

or it will fall (deflate) when you take it out!! 

When we were finished playing with the soap,

Vashti did research on it to find out how

and why this happens. She found it

very interesting, and gave her some idea's

on other experiments she wants to try.

So as you can see, this could be more than

just fun, it can be educational as well!!

Here are our pictures of the soap we did:

1/6 of a bar of IVORY soap

Too cool, huh?? 

I hope you will give it a go with your kids!!

If you do, please let us know so we can 

check out your results. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Hope you enjoyed this post!!

Until next time...................tootles!!

My Little Family

Hello!! 

I seem to post less and less.

So sorry!! 

I am, however, always creating new lo's!!

Here are a few I've done 

for challenges at SB dot com.

We had family pictures taken back in December:

 Me and my sweetheart, for our 20th Wedding Anniversary:

Each of us with our baby:

Us:

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

I hope that each of you have a wonderful,

love filled week!!

Until next time.................tootles!!

Miss Marilyn

Hello!! This lo is of a very sweet lady that God sent to as an angel 15 years ago. My dd was born 10 weeks early. When I brought her home from the hospital she weighed just 3 pounds and 9 ozs. Honestly!! The dr told me that they would send a nurse to the house to weigh her each day for the first couple weeks. Miss Marilyn was the nurse!! She was so wonderful!! She was so helpful and encouraging and helped me find things that I couldn't buy at the store...like diapers the size of a deck of a cards to fit a 3 pound baby!! Plus she let me be the mom. After only a couple days she realized that I was capable of weighing dd each day, so she left the scales with me and then just stopped in every other day. (It helped that I keep great records/notes...I wrote EVERYTHING that I did with the baby, How much she weighed in the morning, evening. What time I gave her a bath. How much she ate, the time and how long it took her....so much they want to watch) Anywho, we became good friends and have stayed in touch the past 15 years. We found out that she was a wonderful christian lady!! I'm sad to say that our sweet Miss Marilyn past away last week. We will miss her, as will many many other people who's lives she has touched!! Today was her birthday. She would have been 69.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Have a wonderful week!!

Until next time.................tootles!!

It's been a while!!

So here I am.

Back to post a layout

for a challenge at 

Creative Scrappers and Sketches in Thyme.

Creative Scrappers #243:

Sketches in Thyme #98:

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Have a wonderful, love filled week!!