I finished a couple of pages I had started just over a week ago. I was so excited to finish these because I knew exactly what I wanted to do and the pages actually turned out like I had planned !!!! Usually I have these grand plans and then they don't turn out like I had hoped and then I am disappointed and then I say bad words and then my whole day is ruined and then...... LOL!!! Anyway, usually I don't journal this much because I don't have that much to say but the story about "Cutey Patootie" is funny so there was a lot to write about!!! I couldn't even fit everything but there will be more about Cutey....
To make a long story short, last year my daughter's first grade class hatched some eggs. Because we donated the eggs (we HAD roosters at the time), it was understood that if any hatched, we would take them home. Well, only 1 egg hatched and boy was she active and strong! The kids teacher let them all write a name down on piece of paper and picked the name out of a hat. Well, Cutey Patootie it was! The kids were so darned excited and Cutey just loved them and all of the attention she received. She was sad to leave the classroom but we brought her home and showered "her" with attention (we had to because we had her in the basement and she would peep REALLY loud until someone would come pay attention to her). Mary took her little piano down there and sang and played for her. Anyway, the entire time we have had "her" we have been hoping that she is not a rooster. We cannot keep roosters as they are so mean. They attack the other hens as well as us! I have a scar on my ankle from our first rooster Bob.
Cutey follows us around and actually comes when I call her. I try to give her special treats when the other hens aren't around and she will jump up and down like a dog trying to get them! As you can tell, we REALLY love her! She now lives out in the coup with the other girls (and 1 Guinea named Oscar). Anyway, we will cross our fingers and hope that she stays a SHE!!!!
This is page 1:
Of course my journaling is crooked. It is not you and your eyesight, it is me and my ability to NEVER journal straight!!!! The base cardstock is Ballet Blue. I also used Celery and Really Rust SU! cardstock and Brown, Mustard and Winter White cardstock from Bazzill. The decorative paper is Oh Baby Girl from Basic Grey and Frances Meyer ~ Passionnant. I added Heidi Swapp bling to the 2 (SU! lots of letters chipboard) as well as the lower right circle. The bling color is a yellow/orange. The corners were punched from the SU! photo corner punch and layered and adhered using SU! Rust brads. The 'be" is American Crafts foam letters. I stamped the chicken feet (from Best of Cluck) using Timber Brown Stazon. The font used on the right side of this page and the second page is Quickutz unicase Blossom. I used my Xyron to stick the letters on.
Here is my second page:
For the fence and the tree trunk, I used my LSS's Sizzix (or something like it) to die cut them. The grass is from my Quickutz, the wire mesh is from Making Memories and I made the tree "fluffs" by punching green Bazzill paper with a cloud punch. I sponged the edges with Close to Cocoa and layered them for dimension. I also used the Heidi Swapp bling on this page. Mr. Rooster and Mrs. Chicken from Cornish Heritage Farms are so darn cute! I stamped them using Basic Brown ink on watercolor paper and then colored them with my watercolor crayons and a blender pen. I then cut them out and mounted them using dimensionals.
Here is a close up of the bottom part of the page (as you can see, I am very proud of that part!).
The chicken and rooster were really easy to cut out and were large in size as well. Under the "we shall see" I used my paper piercer and made a little swirl. I have no idea why I did that except I didn't want the letters to go straight across and thought I NEEDED something underneath to show that I WANTED the letters to go like that. Now, with my track record, if I didn't put the little swirl underneath, some peeps (AKA ~ Smart Alec Friends (you know who you are!) would have thought I was getting old and THOUGHT that the letters were straight!!! This was done on purpose!!! I stamped the chicken feet from Best of Cluck using Timber Brown Stazon.
Today was my kids first day back at school. Mary is starting Second grade and Joey is starting Fourth. Mary was so excited because she could FINALLY wear her new school clothes! Joey was excited but nervous too. There are only 18 kids in his class and he knows ALL of them and has gone to the school for 2 years (this is his third) but he doesn't like NEW. He does like NEW shoes, clothes, toys but a new teacher and classroom makes him a little nervous..... Well, school is almost out and I need to go pick them up but wanted to post this first since I haven't posted for a few days!
Have a great day!
~Lynda
