I guess I haven't posted many of my pages lately, although I have been doing a lot!



Using Neopolitan Taffy by Dani's Delusions.



Using We Are Family, the charity collab.



Using Get Your Grunge on by Captivated Visions.



Using High Tide by Brandi Sutherlin Designs.

We went to the Renaissance Festival yesterday. We had a good time, but after awhile the heat and crowds get to me. Everyone was congregating in the shady spots! The kids ended up getting some fancy walking sticks, and the lady even carved their initials in them.

On Saturday night I went on a photo walk in downtown Denver. I guess it's a national event and there are walks going on all over the country on this same night. I joined a yahoo group of local area digiscrappers, and some of them were going, so I signed up, too. Basically we just walked around on a route the leader had already picked out and took whatever photos we wanted. My main goal was to experiment with my camera and get to know it better on the manual settings instead of always using auto. It works well for a lot of situations, but there are times that it's better to use the manual settings. I used to do a lot of photography, and develop my own prints and negatives and everything, so it's something I always mean to get back to, even though now it's all digital! So I am happy to say that I didn't use the auto settings, or the flash, for any of my photos, and I spent a lot of time just experimenting with exposure bracketing and the different white balance settings. The other digiscrappers were really nice and we stayed and had a late dinner at the restaurant at the end of the walk.

I had a chance to work with this awesome charity collab, We Are Family, available at Gotta Pixel. It will help Sally (KyRainbow)pay some medical bills from her fight with cancer.

I did another layout for the contest, week #3, without really thinking about how it looked similar to my week 2 entry. Oh, well! We had to put title or song lyrics from a favorite summer song, so I ended up picking Rock You Like a Hurricane by the Scorpions. I have a friend I used to visit in the summers and she was a huge Scorpions fan. We would sit there and listen to this album and copy over the lyrics into a notebook, but I have no idea why. We were out in the middle of nowhere in a mobile home, so I guess we had to be easily amused!

I did this layout for a challenge. The layout was supposed to be inspired by your favorite ice cream. I did mine based on the Cappuccino Heath Blizzard at DQ. Yum!



I used Espresso Yourself by Jen C Designs, and a modified template by Allison Pennington.

I don't know why I'm having such a hard time getting a grip on the fall schedule. I think I am just overwhelmed with this soccer business, and the fact that both kids are not at the age of two weeknight practices and one game day. On top of that they will both be in Scouts. Declan is also interested in baseball, so he might do a Sunday only league for 8 weeks. It is hard with our school getting out so late in the afternoon compared to most. Maybe we'll have to start getting in the habit of morning homework, but that really isn't my prime time of the day! Then today I got an email asking if I can work two day shifts at work, which I really don't want to, plus I think it will interfere with my availability for my computer job, which is definitely more of a priority for me. I know it's still only July, but registration is starting for everything now so decisions need to be made. We are checking out a new Scout pack for Declan to join since our current one is kind of disorganized and lacking in participation. Owen already has friends so I don't want to switch him over, but Declan has a chance to find a good one still. I may be helping run the Bears (3rd graders) so hopefully at least his den activities will be fun.

It's time to sign up for the August Brownie Addicts Membership!