Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The walls are finally sealed.

above the box fans shane and grandpa al stacked up to run a wind tunnel and below the plumbing rough in and drain tile.
This is how you dry block out...cover with plastic


This is what it looked like under the plastic


This is who we keep hidden in there Grandpa Al with a blow torch drying out blocks one by one. (We are very grateful for him!!)



Look out back side of the basement sealed







garage side of house



front side of house




Monday, July 27, 2009

A gift I made for my mom to give to her bestfriend

Sorry I didn't crop the pictures. I love how this turned out.
The front
Front embellie
inside
inside again
outside construction

Friday, July 24, 2009

I have a Rak to give away

For those of you who may not understand RAK it's a random act of kindness. So I have this little kit of items to give away. Scroll to the bottom to find out how.




First of all whats included
4 pieces of cosmo cricket two sided paper
6 matching two sided paper embellies
2 jounaling tags
2 ribbon flower slide brads
6 chipboard items
1 glass pebble
4 photo turns
3 flower eyelets
4 heart brads
2 birthday cards
So you say How do I win? You can get multiple entries into the hat by doing...
1. Commenting (just leave a comment and I will put your name in the hat)
2. Becoming a follower of this blog (Click on the top of the screen where it says follow this blog than add to your comment that you became a follower and I will put your name in the hat)
3.link this rak to your blog (post a message on your blog about this rak and when you comment here paste the link to that message on your blog and your name goes into the hat)
4.link this rak to a message board (post a message on a message board about this rak and when you comment paste the link to where it is and your name goes into the hat) You can post on as many message boards as you would like.
So many many ways to win
I will draw for the winner on August 1st.
Thanks for coming by.




That darn rain...it makes everything wet

This is what we have done 1 to 2 times a day since the 20th darn rain
(pump water out of the holes)
The block is tring to dry
More
This one still pretty wet
Dam water and a wet wall






Tuesday, July 21, 2009

More Layouts of the girls

Theres still a couple days left over at www.3scrappyboys.com to get in pages heres some more that I did from this months sizzle sketches.
This is got to be one of my favorite Lo's that I've done so far.
Dads Hat
Grave Digger
Still needs a title Christmas card cuties is what I'm thinking.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Are you getting sick of seeing the block work?

garage with door rough ins
front of house
From garage to house
House and lookout





Wednesday, July 15, 2009

A new cousin and dog bank

More pages for the challenges and sketches over at 3sb's
Dog Bank
A new cousin
This is got to be one of my more favorite lately.

got us some rain last night (pictures taken 7/15)

Shane took all the pictures so I'm not going to quote on them. What I can tell you is that the water has been pumped out already. Hi ho hi ho back to building a basement Bob and Al go.







Monday, July 13, 2009

More basement and the well

picture from the back of the house
joining wall to the garage
front wall
well being drilled


Pictures in a field of flowers

First two are for challenges over a 3SB and the second 2 are for 52 sketches 52 weeks sketch 28
Natures Beauty
Daydream

Emma
Abby


Saturday, July 11, 2009

All about me...

Challenge number 3 at 3sb
This is one of the few pages I've done about myself. The hand journaling is a big thing for me as well cause I usually use the computer for any writing.

For my dads birthday I redid one of his picture board into this frame.
www.3scrappyboys.com is having a sizzling summer challenge her is my LOs for there sketches of the day
Day 1
Squeaky Clean
Day 2
Making a Splash in Nanas sink

Day 3
First Steps
Day 4
Can we keep her
Day5
Baby Hawk

Thanks for looking. Hoping your having a nice day.