The Arch + DT Call

Lately I've been busy using lots of our summer vacation photos on layouts. We took hundreds of photos this summer, so I'm slowly working my way through my favorites. Today I'd like to share a page about our visit to the St. Louis Arch.

I will admit that I was a little nervous about going to the top of the arch. The ride to the top is inside a little round pod with 5 seats in a semi-circle. The ride to the top was 4 minutes and it went by pretty quickly and it was a really smooth ride. Nothing to worry about!

At the top of the arch, there are little viewing window on both sides. The view from the top were worth it. This was a great activity in St. Louis and I recommend it to anyone visiting the city!

On another note, Scrapbook Circle has a design team call running right now. All of the details can be found here. We're excited to add more to our team!

Hello, Friend

Last weekend we escaped the heat of Phoenix for a few days and drove north to the cooler pines of Flagstaff. (It was still around 90 degrees, but that was much cooler than the 115 degrees at home.) We met up with friends and enjoyed a lot of relaxing, reading, eating and time together.

One of my daughter's best friends was up there and they had a fantastic time playing together all weekend. I did a terrible job taking pictures, but I did get a couple of the girls together.

Don't the girls look so happy? Got to love that!

Hope you are looking forward to the weekend! Tomorrow we have 2 soccer games and 1 volleyball game - the first games of the season! It's very busy around her right now with all three kids in a sport, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Happy Friday to you!

(All of the layout supplies are from The Good Life Scrapbook Circle Kit.)

Where is a Pencil?

Now that school has been in session for over a month, my kids have somehow misplaced many of the new pencils we bought for them to use while doing homework. Pencils are kind of like socks around here. They like to disappear.

When I found out about the Fancy Pants Challenge this month to create something school themed, I knew that I wanted to create something that will hopefully help us will the missing pencil problem.

I altered a metal can with a bunch of Fancy Pants Off to School goods and created (what I hope) will be a happy place for many pencils for months to come.

There is still time to enter the Fancy Pants School Challenge and you can find all of the info here.
If you want to see other school themed project ideas, you can check out this post. 

Now if I could just come up with a solution for keeping track of matching pairs of socks...

A Video! The Scrapbook Circle September Kit

I've been planning on doing short videos showcasing the Scrapbook Circle Kits each month, but things were busy and it didn't happen.

Today was the day for the first Scrapbook Circle video! I share what comes in The Good Life September Kit. It's pretty simple and I have plans for jazzing things up in the future, but here's a look at this month's video:


Untitled from Scrapbook Circle on Vimeo.

Hope you enjoy the video!

Glitz It Up: Party Theme!

This month Glitz Designs is hosting a Party Theme challenge over on their blog.

You can see all of the details here. 

Hope you are enjoying your 3-day weekend!

Passport Photos

In a couple of months we are going to Mexico and so we needed to get passports for our kids. I took them to Costco for the passport photos and we received 2 of each photo. When I turned in the passport application, they only needed one photo. So what should I do with the extra passport photos? Make a layout, of course!



Everything on the page came from the Scrapbook Circle The Good Life Kit plus I used some of these Amy Tangerine Bits.

Hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Hair Feathers

Are hair feathers the new exciting thing to add to your hair where you live? "Everyone" in my daughter's 6th grade class is getting hair feathers and I think they look pretty fun.

Last week I took Audrey and two of her friends to have feathers put in their hair. The longest part of the process was choosing which feather to use. The feathers just get clamped into the hair. Supposedly the feathers will stay up to 6 months and you can wash, curl, flat iron the feathers just like regular hair.

Almost everything for this page came from the Scrapbook Circle The Good Life kit that is available starting today.

The only non-kit item is the cardboard/fabric embellishment from Precocious Paper. You can use code LABBHFREE for free shipping from Precocious Paper through September 5!

Hope you have a fantastic day!