Rainbow Springs Park

Today my darling daughter conned me into taking her and a couple of friends swimming at Rainbow Springs State Park. I didn't really want to go because I have been sick all week with bronchitus and I am suppose to avoid exposure to the sun with the meds I am taking. But I packed up a blanket, a book, and decidied I would relax in the shade for awhile so they could swim. WOW - I am so glad that I went - I have never been there before and frankly did not know that this place existed - and only 20 minutes from home!! Ok enough talking about it - I am going to let my pictures explain it. Just click on a picture to see it fullsize.

Isn't the water pretty??
Yep it is actually a River - but a natural spring fed river - cool clean water!!
Can you say BEAUTIFUL!!
Luckily we did not see any alligators!!
Such a lovely park
This is the main spring - 1000's of gallons of fresh clear water pumps out daily!!


Looking down the river
Across from the swimming area - so blue!!
Majestic old Oak trees
My favorite photo of the day!!
Crazy kids
Along the nature walk they have the most beautiful waterfalls

Just Gorgeous!!!






All I can say is WOW!!!! I never knew such a treasure existed and so close to my home - SWEET!!

Scrapping the New Grandson

I made both of these layouts for a GDT contest over at Mosh Posh (one of my favorite hangouts), www.mosh-posh.com Check it out if you get a chance!!

More Miscelaneous Scrap stuff

This one was done for a Blind Scraplift Challenge over at Treasured Scrapbooking - I had so much fun waiting to see what everyone else created using written directions only.

The rest of these were done for a Crop over at Scrap Freak - National Scrapbook Day Crop
My grandkids at the Pool... this was a color challenge

This one was a scraplift - and I just love this picture of my family

and finally this is my neice Lisa again - she does have a serious cupcake obsession!!

May's DT work for Treasured Scrapbooking

ok - I know I prolly say this about every kit I have recieved from TS...but this one has been my absolute favorite of the bunch - so much fun to work with. This first one is an altered wall hanging I made for my Granddaughter - she just LOVES horses!! Then this one of Ally playing in the park with the kids...so happy and content - I love the way she enjoys spending time with them!!

This is the most affecionate horse I have ever encountered - Kota is just too sweet!! We definitely have a little love thing going on!!

This one is the grandson getting "kisses" from the horses, so cute!

this is the Kites I got the kids for Easter - they had a ball learning how to fly a kite!!

and lastly - this one is not from the kit - this was my challenge layout for the month of May. May 1st was Mother Goose Day - so I challenged everyone to make a LO using a Nursery Rhyme as a title - I chose Rub - a - Dub - Dub!

April's Scrappy Projects

Ok we are moving into the month of April now - these were created all for Treasured Scrapbooking using the April Kit. This first one is an old photo of my Mom and Dad from 1965, they were so in Love.

This one is my adorable grandchildren and some yummy new Jenni Bowlin products!!

More of the JB products - so much fun to work with...this one is ME with my Daddy!!

And this last one is a journal that I created using more of the delicious JB papers - I love the play of the cherrie's with my name Cherrie - so much fun!!

More Missing Posts

ok here is some more of the creations I have finished in the last 2 months (I am such a bad blogger), these were all made for a crop over at Scrap Freak - one of my favorite places to play!!
This is Ally and I, taken several years ago in Phoenix, AZ.




These pictures were so fun to play with - special thanks to my neice Lisa for allowing me to play with her pictures!!

and this one is of my Beloved Mother - I miss her so much!!

Catching Up

Ok I am going to play catch up - these are some of the creations I have made since I stopped blogging. This post contains all DT work for Treasured Scrapbooking using the March Kit - I absolutely loved this kit - it was so much fun to play with!!
This one is my lovely neices Lisa & Angela...

This one is my neice Lisa and her boyfriend Gage...

and this one is my lovely sister Cathy...

And a mini album I made with that fabulous kit!! Note the "FAMILY" theme I used this month!

Been away awhile

I kind of lost track of things for awhile here - but I am going to try to get back to blogging again. I have lots of creations to share - too many for one post - so I will be adding a few each time I blog. But the biggest and best creation I have to share is that of my grandson Tyler William - he was born on Sunday May 17th (quite early) weighing 2lbs 15ozs. He is doing well, considering his size and prematurity. Would you like to see him???

Scrap Freak Birthday Bash Crop

This is one of my favorite places to play "Scrap Freak" and they are celbrating this weekend with a huge party/crop. Come on over and share in the celebration and have some fun.

I have been a bad blogger lately - so I am going to share a mixture of stuff that has not been posted yet - hope you enjoy looking...

Check out this Blog Candy

My friend Tracey has an awesome Blog Candy Give-a-Way going on over at her blog...you should definitely check it out - http://tailoredpages.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-candy-update-and-sneak-peek.html