Baby Scrappy Pages!

Yeah!! Baby Scrappy pages are soooo fun!!! Especially when you are the Grandma and have time to do them and not spending all of your time feeding, burping, and being up in the night. Here are a couple recent ones. The first one was made with the awesome Dixie Pieces May Dixie Designs kit, with the exception of the flowers and buttons. You should check them out, the link is on the side of this page.



I had a few requests from people to explain how I did the paper for this one. So I updated to add these instructions. I started with some Bazzill Bling cardstock and stamped it with Inque Boutique's #50355 Dotted Flowers and Flourishes using just a regular Stampin up Stamp pad. Then I used Making Memories Specialty Glaze-Glitter. I painted it over the whole page with a sponge brush so that it smears the ink a little giving it the sort of water color look.

Kodomo no hi

May 5th is children"s day, or Kodomo no hi, in Japan. It was originally known as boy's day, and is a day to honor Sons. Families with boys display colorful carp streamers outside their homes. These are called Koinobori. The carp symbolizes courage and strength, qualities that parents wish their boys to have. Warrior dolls are also displayed in the home. Children's day is a day when parents pray for their children to grow up healthy.

Visit to Ie Island Lily Festival

Sunday John and I took a ferry ride to Ie Island to the Lily Festival. It was about a 30 minute ferry ride. After departing the ferry, we looked aroud the shops a little, then headed off walking towards Mt. Gusuku, where we climbed to the top. There were stairs most of the way.........but LOTS of them!!

After we got finished at Mt. Gusuku, we headed off in the direction we assumed was the Lily Festival. We walked along some main roads, and some dirt roads through farmland. We had to backtrack a bit, but finally made it to the festival site where we looked at the Lilies, the beautiful ocean, and ate some Okinawan "festival food." The food was a bit different than the standard festival fare on mainland Okinawa, always an interesting and tasty experience. We picked a few things that looked good. One dish in particular looked really good-----John started eating it and told me I had to try it before he told me what i was. NOPE-------I didn't fall for that!! I thought it looked like beef chunks with veggies in a brown sauce. Well, that's not exactly what it was! It was Tripe(Yes,stomach) .......ewwwwwwwwww........he said it was really pretty good but I couldn't take a bite!! We listened to some local entertainment and music for a while, walked among the lilies, and then caught the bus back to the port for our return ferry to Okinawa. It was a beautiful day, perfect weather for such an outing.

Pics are as follows: 1. Ie Island view from the ferry, Mt. Gusuku
2. Steps up the mountain
3. John and I at the top of Mt. Gusuku
4. Tree on the trail up the mountain
5. Gwen at the Lily Fields.

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New Scrappy Pages

I have been trying to scrap a few pics of Stephi and I's trip to Tokyo. It seems the only ones I have completed have pics of Stephanie in them. She has always hated to have her picture taken and refuses to pose for pics. She was leaving to go to Florida the week after we got home, so I wanted some nice pics of her before she left. It's amazing what a teenage girl will do when she wants a $60+ pair of shoes!! Made her a deal after a few days in Tokyo that if she posed for pics (with smiles) the rest of the trip, I would buy her the pair of shoes! Of course, she went back to the shop in Tokyo where the shoes were and they didn't have a pair big enough to fit her big American feet----but she came home with a $60 skirt she said I bought her instead!!! Anyway, I am loving having pics of Steph to scrapbook!! So here are a couple. These were both made with supplies from the Dixie Pieces Dixie Design kits. The link for Dixie Pieces is on my blog. They have amazing kits, you should check them out.

Finally, some Tokyo pics--Asakusa

Yes, finally getting some time to post some pics and write about my Tokyo trip! These pics are from a small town called Asakusa. It was a very charming little town, complete with a beautiful temple, and some bazaar style shopping. DD and I took a rickshaw ride here. It was soooo much fun. This is one of the areas I enjoyed most from our trip.

Yep, I'm a Grandma!!

Connor Grayson Rich was born on 29th March 2008 to James Rich, and my dd Angela Anderson. He weighed 7 lbs 11 oz. Here are a few photos. I included one of my daughters and the baby. The one holding the baby is not the Mother.