DesertKatz | by Denise Vaughn

Pictures....lots of pictures!

I had this brillant idea to make scrapbooks for my Mom’s family reunion. Well she comes from a family of eight….so that means 8 scrapbooks!!! No big deal, easy peasy……I must have been smokin’ crack (never have) or the moon was involved some way.  I really can’t say how it all began, but let me tell you my story. It all started with me telling my Mother I would take care of the reunion for her this year as it was her turn in the order of siblings to be the host. I thought of some fun games and have been buying lots of cool stuff for the ticket drawings. There has gotten to be so many people that it is hard to come up with something everyone can be involved in. My sis Patrice is willing to help (after finals this week) so I hope her brain can come up with something great. My sister-in-laws, Terri, Leslie and Cindy will be helping also. (What are my brothers doing one might ask)?  OK so this is all going good. I have the invites out and the scrapbooks started and I realize this is a project that is going to take some time. That’s ok, I have time…..Now if I can figure out how to upload pictures I will show you what I mean by project.

pages.....lots of pages

As you can see I have a quite a few of them done.  I thought I was done, but no, not just right. I must have a great ending to this book. Thus….

my final page……But wait I have to decorate the outside of the scrapbook. It can’t just be easy, like a title or something. NO…. I must learn how to stencil.

These books look almost blue in the pictures, but they are all natural linen.  So my stenciling will be done with different colors of browns.  I keep practicing on paper and old canvas bags and just about anything that will hold paint (The cat looks kind of cool), I can’t quite get the shading to go how I want it to……so off to the internet to find “Cream” fabric paints. They are suppose to dry slower thus making it easier to blend. Oh how I wish we had a Roberts or Michaels in this town!

This is how I start my day…after 3 cups of coffee. G2, love the purple kind and good and plenties…..yum!  Speaking of having a Roberts or any kind of scrapbooking store in this town would be great when I need just a little paint or something.  But other than that I really don’t need one. I sell Stampin’ Up and they have most everything I will ever need to do what I do (except paint) but maybe that will come as they just came out with these great stencils.  I really could go on and on about the great products that Stampin’ Up has but there is a really long story to finding that out and It will have to wait for a different post.  For now take a look at my “scrapbooking studio” (Ken laughs) Just wait until I showcase his “airplane studio”.

and another view….

and a few of a mess! Check out the black photo boxes above. They are going to help me organize all those loose pictures. Well that won’t actually help, they more & likely will just sit there and watch. (or get in my way when I’m trying to find other stuff). Wow look at that mess!

I think this picture is already posted.  I can’t figure out how to delete it without deleting the whole post…so Eric will you take this out?? Never mind I like it there.  So are you wondering who this Eric is that I bossed around so elegantly?  He is my oldest son, he designed this blog and is absolutely brilliant!! He is doing freelance work and getting very talented as a photographer.  He designs websites so Eric if you are reading this plug in your stuff.  You know where you highlight a word and it takes you where you want to go…..you know what I mean.  I can’t do everything on here!

(It’s called a hyperlink Mom. If anyone is interested you can see my personal stuff at vaughnet.com and my work stuff at foundry75.com. My little company is just getting started so there isn’t much there yet but thanks for the plug Mom!)