Good morning ladies. It's a scorcher here this week. I sure hope the pub we are going to for dinner (a friend's b-day) has good A/C. It will be over 100 today. We have 2 episodes of Joe vs Carol so will watch that tonight if we are back early enough from dinner. I need to go out for errands this...

Good morning ladies. Jen and I will be heading over to meet the owner of the dog kennel in a bit and finalize the week stay for the dogs next month. We are having 40ish weather now for the next week or so, so any errands will be in the morning. Afternoons will be pool time and a few times we'll...

Good morning ladies. It's hot and sunny out, all week it will be close to 40. We took the dogs to the park yesterday and we decided to drive a minute further down the road and check the river, see if there is access for the dogs. Turns out there is a boat dock so has a nice sloped sandy area...

Read, scrap, binge shows, eat, go for a hike, sleep in, stay up late, go shopping. That is my life :)

THE WINNER OF THIS MONTH VICKI STEGALL DESIGNS CHALLENGE IS ...PIA/PIPPIN. CONGRATULATIONS!! Hi, I'm Rae and I'm hosting this challenge for Vicki. I love to peruse the internet, finding random facts about things and came across this meaning of "august". When we describe something as august...

Good morning ladies. Had a full day of shopping with Jen yesterday. I have never spent so much time and money buying underclothes LOL. We had so much fun together. I ended up with 3 pairs of shoes, socks, underwear, bras and then the last store La Vie En Rose had really cute jammies that said...

@faerywings Taz too likes to lay out in the heat, he will seek out the sunniest area and stretch out, panting and squinting, yet won't move from that spot to somewhere cooler. We don't let the dogs in the pool, it was be too dangerous if they got in without us around to watch them. They are not...

Good morning ladies. It'll be a quiet day around here with pool/hot tub fun and playing with the dogs indoors (way too hot to let them out for more than a few minutes at a time in the backyard). My back is a bit sore from our afternoon at the beach yesterday (lots of bending to pick up sticks)...

I am indoors and scrap (slightly) more in the winter but I'm out all year round with the dogs, exploring and taking photos, so weather-wise it doesn't matter too much. In the summer I tend to get out to the beach (now we have a pool and hot tub so outside in that every day). My scrappy schedule...

Good morning ladies. I'm looking forward to hopefully getting the dogs to the river today. The flooding is subsiding so we should be able to get them down to the water and let them cool off and play. I want to organize a bit today but no big plans aside from taking the dogs out. I am feeling...

Good morning ladies. Got out early to fill up the bird bath, with the high heat now, the birds are spending a lot of time in the trees/bushes and jumping in and out of the bath. I love the hot dry weather here but I feel bad for the dogs that we can't go out to the dog park much now b/c it is...

Good morning ladies. Heading out for errands in a bit and then hope to get some scrapping done this afternoon. We went to the travel agent yesterday morning. The same cruise we did 7 years ago was available on the same cruiseline but different ship and then another one so I chose the other one...

What a pretty page! I like the little bird perched on the strip.

Lovely background and I like the woodgrain title.

This is lovely! It has such a peaceful feel to it.

We just moved here but we heard that last summer they had mid 40's weather. This summer so far it has been mid 30's but the next month will get hotter. I am hoping to stay in the 30's...fingers crossed.

I will soon start working with some of my family's old photos from the past 60 yrs or so. I will be remembering this conversation and will look at what current kits work with my old photos. You are so right...you don't have to just use heritage themed kits.

Good morning ladies. I will be in and out of here quickly. I have to shower and get ready to head out to a travel agency soon. We checked online and there isn't much left but we might get lucky and can book Alaska for August. We saw a few online but it depends how quickly the cruiselines update...

Good morning ladies. Had a wonderful day yesterday with our friends, we sat out on the deck most of the day as the shade and a slight breeze made it comfortable enough (it was 90ish again as it has been all week). Had a simple BBQ and visited until late in the evening. Jen left for a few hours...

Like all scrapbooking styles, art journal scrapping IMO is very fluid, the purpose can change as the scrapper wishes. It might be for creative purposes, just having fun or it might have more meaning, a way to express thoughts/emotions/reactions to life and for some, like me, I sometimes combine...