Fall is Here!

Boy, have the months flown by.  I have been more busy than I ever have before.  Since I last posted here, we have sold our old house and bought a new (much bigger) one.  We went from a postage stamp yard to 2 acres to take care of.

I even changed my siggy for it

This even looks like my life!  We still have boxes all over and are trying to find room for things!  But we love the new house so much.

So, I scrapbooked some of the changes over the past few months.  To start, I will a little trepidicious.

Then, the excitement started to build and the waiting was so hard

I can see more layout about getting our keys

 But, one of the first big changes was all the fresh fruit and veggies

We worried about our kitty

But one of my favorite parts is when the sun comes up

So much change, but so wonderful!  I think that now that things have settled down, I can keep up better her! LOL
Meagan

Disney Speed Scrap Weekend (or how to complete a lot of pages over the weekend)

Man, I wasn't kidding when I said that my life is centering around Disney right now!  Just this morning, one of my favorite sites - Mousescrappers, posted that they are hosting a Speed Scrap Minnie Marathon this weekend.  YAY!!!
So perfect!  I have all of these pictures from our two trips to Disneyland that I need to get scrapped and this is the perfect opportunity to get some done.
For those that don't know a Speed Scrap is a hosted event, where they give you certain criteria for a LO and you create your page based on those "rules" in a certain allotted time.
For this specific Minnie Marathon, there are 8 separate speed scraps, each with their own participation prize for completing it in time.  Then, as if that isn't great enough, if you complete all 8 in time, you get a goodie bag full of digi scrapbook stuff.

So head over there and check it out.

Now, onto my next 4 pictures for the August Disney Photo-A-Day Challenge
Day 4 - Sport
I chose our speed cone (Racing is a sport)

Day 5 - Fast
I chose, Lightning McQueen.  If anyone is fast, it would a race car!

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Day 6 - Nobody's Perfect

Since we are potty training mode (for the 4th time), I immediately thought of all the accidents that happen and how some days are Pull-up days and some are Big-Boy-Underwear days.

Day 7 - Child

Have fun and Disney On!

Meagan

Fun Disney Photo Scavenger Hunt Challenge

One of my favorite sites is Mousescrappers.  It is a great community of people that love Disney and Scrapbooking - 2 things that I love.  You mix that with photography and scavenger hunts - 2 more things that I love and you have me quite giddy!
This year, for the first time, we have gotten the Annual Passes to Disneyland and have already gone twice.  We went in April for Spring Break and again in June for the Grand Opening of Cars Land and Buena Vista Street.  For each of these trips, Mousescrappers had photo scavenger hunts.  If you are planning a trip to Disney, I highly recommend printing out the list of things to find and participating.  It is a lot of fun.
In April, the challenge was to find the alphabet in the park by taking pictures of the signs.  You didn't need to find the whole alphabet, but once I got started, I wanted to find them all.
Here is the layout that I did for that one

Then, for June, the Challenge had a new list of items, of which you needed to find 15:

1. Take a photo of something that starts with the same first letter as your first name. It can be a letter itself or an item or character (ie. J for Jasmine, Jammitors, Jar, or Jewel).
2. Since Mid-May marks the end of the Flower and Garden festival take a photo that showcases how well Disney uses plants to decorate the parks. It can be a topiary, or just an arrangement of flowers in a vase, but try to be creative with your photo.
3. Since Mid-May is also the start of Star Wars weekends take a picture of someone with a lightsaber. Can be a character, one of the members of your party, or the Jedis in the Jedi Training Academy. Use your imagination!
4. Take a photo of a wishing well.
5. Take a photo of a bicycle.
6. Try to take a photo with as many Disney rides in it as you can. It will be fun to see how many we can get in one photo (please label the rides in the photo).
7. Take a photo of a restroom sign. Try to find unusual or themed ones. I can’t wait to see how many different and interesting ones there are.
8. Take a photo of some kind of wooden statue. It must be wood! Think of a totem pole or the Indian in Frontierland.
9. Take a photo of a street performer.
10. On my last trip I became obsessed with all of the different trashcans in Disney World. Take a photo of one you find interesting.
11. Take a photo of you and a cast member who helped you in some way.
12. Take a detail photo of something you have never noticed in the parks before. Detail means close up or highlighting one aspect of an item.
13. Take a photo of a meal, snack or drink that you didn’t like so much, try to get you or a party member in the photo with the offending item.
14. Take an up close photo of one of the major icons of the park you are in. If you are on a cruise take a photo of the ship or a major icon of the ship up close (figurehead, aquaduck, main entry chandelier etc..)
15. A photo of some fastpasses, extra kudos if you can show them and the fastpass time clock over the machines in the same photo.
16. Get a photo of something reflected in the water at a park or on a cruise, be creative.
17. Take a photo of Mickey ears of some kind. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a hat, I want to see what you can come up with.
18. A photo of Disney Balloons. Yeah I love Disney balloons.
19. Take a photo of the same spot outside in the morning and again at dusk to see how different they can look. Place them side by side on your layout.
20. Take a picture of a flag of some kind.
21. Take a photo of an umbrella.
22. We all like a good laugh so take a photo of something you find to be funny (a moment, a character acting out, a sign etc..)
23. I love seeing fireworks, so take a photo of some fireworks.
24. I also love night time photos. Take a photo of something at night. Try to be creative.
25. Try to find a merchandise display that really wows you and take a photo of it.
26. Take a photo of the park schedule or tip board. I don’t know if they have this on the cruise ships, but if you can find a schedule of the daily pool games or of the daily activities offered that day on the 

ship then that will work too.

Since we were going for the Cars Land Opening, I tried to do as many of pictures of that as possible.

Here are my 2 pages:

Such fun.  It definitely added a fun element to our Disney trip to be on the look out for these hunt items, so next time, you are traveling to the happiest place on earth, be sure to check out the current list of photo scavenger hunt items - I know that we will! :)

August Disney Fan Photo-A-Day Challenge

I can't believe how long it's been since I posted anything!  Bad Blogger!!
We have been busy just living life and an AWFUL Lot of Disney :)

For the first time, we got Annual Passes to the magic and when we haven't been at Disney, we have been talking about, or making plans for it, or scrapbooking the pictures from it!  It has been great.
In fact, I wanted to share something with you that I am doing.  A Disney Fan Photo-A-Day Challenge over on Britt-ish Designs Blog.  The Challenge is for the month of August and can be of anything, but I am going to see if I can do them all of Disney-related items.

Day 1 was to take a picture of Mickey, so here is mine.  It is a figurine that my husband's grandmother gave us from her collection.

 Day 2 was to take a picture of something red.  This is the popcorn holder that my 2 yo had to have during the grand opening of Cars Land.  He loves Lightning McQueen

Day 3 was "movie".  This is one part of our Disney DVD collection.

That is it for now, but I plan to come back and post my pictures of the days challenges.  You can participate, too!  Let me know that you are doing your own challenge and we can share with each other.
At the end of the month, I plan on putting them all on a scrapbook page together.

Project 365 - Week 7 & 8 Completed

I am still going strong on my Project 365.  Now, I have completed 2 full months and I thought that I would give you what I have learned so far.
1 - It is okay to not have EVERY DAY accounted for.  I think if you stress about each day, the project would not be enjoyable for you.  I have skipped a few here and there, but I have taken a picture 98-99% of the time.
2 - Make sure to take pictures of things that are important to you as well as what has happened that day.  There are some days that you aren't really doing anything.  These are the perfect days to snap a picture of your favorite items.  This is a great way to really capture what your life was like this year.
I really like the fact that I am scrapbooking every week and that by the end of this, I will have an up-to-date completed yearly album (which I have been lagging on - I am still working on '03 the traditional style).

For week 7, I did something different.  I did a 2 page spread.:

 

Here is my week 8. 

I am so happy to have this much done, it makes me feel like I am getting stuff accomplished.

Thanks,

Meagan

Valentine's Fun

So, in addition to making heart pancakes this morning, I also hand-made cards for my friends and little candy treats.  Here is what I made:

This a candy mold from Wilton that you can do simply (with one color) or make more complicated by changing colors as I have done.  Also, it was supposed to be a pretzel rod candy and I made it into a lollipop. 
My card is using my frog stamps from Stampin' Up.  As soon as I saw the frog set, I knew that I had to have it even without knowing why.  I just love frogs!

Another thing that I have been working on is a digital challenge for February at Design House Digital.

Their photography challenge for February was "I want you to find a heart somewhere unexpected (use your imagination) OR take a fun photo of something you love."
I found a few more that I may make another page.
Have you seen any hidden hearts?
Meagan

Project 365 Week 5 & 6 Completed

Yeah, I finally got caught up with with Project 365 scrapbook pages.  I missed some days of taking picture since I was sick, but I think it still works.

thanks for checking them out
Meagan