Five for Friday

Hello June. I can't believe you are here. We are excited for you though-trips to the cabin, trips to Ottawa & the end of school await us this month and we are looking forward to all of it! 

1. I made this salad for dinner this week. It was delicious. I think we need more salads in our lives-I've been pinning some interesting ones.

2. I discovered that my fav scrapbooker Kelly Purkey is going to be in Ottawa in September at Scrapbook & Cards Today's 'Crop & Create'. I WILL be making this happen. Great city + Kelly Purkey classes = heaven. Seriously. I'm so excited. Now I just have to make sure I get in the classes! I'll worry about the rest of the details later.

3. I've been noticing a lot of people-Jen Jockish for one-posting their 'anatomy of a layout' or their 'layout process'. I might try this sometime soon. I love seeing how others put their projects together.

4. My friend D left yesterday. Boooo! I'll miss her this summer but we had such a great time and did so many things while she was here. I got to have a 'staycation' and be a tourist in my own town. Everywhere we went people asked where I was from. I LOVED it. Here's a few of the highlights.

We went on a whalewatching tour...



...and toured The Rooms.




We 'partied' with the girls and celebrated my birthday!

 

D had french fries from Ziggy's! Yummy!

 

We hung out at V's new house with the girls!

 

We took Eugene on a big walk through Manuals River.

 
 

We found delicious chocolates from the Newfoundland Chocolate Company.

 

We had some awesome lunches including Piatto. 




5. We're heading out of town this weekend to hang out with some friends at a cottage. I'm pumped because cottage= s'mores and campfires and there's really nothing better. There's also beach. This will be Eugene's first road trip. He's been great in the car, wandering around town with us. So we're hopeful that he'll be just as good on the 3 hour drive! Wish us luck!

xoxo
K

The Dog Whisperer-Kinda

Edit: Please note that yes, I realize that I spelled 'whisperer' wrong. Opps. Embarrassing. Blerg. It will be fixed before this layout goes into my album. 

It's the last day of May-where did it go? Seriously?! I can't believe that June begins tomorrow! We've got some good stuff lined up for June too so I'm pretty excited about it. More to share tomorrow.

Now, for an explanation of that blog title.

M & I are big Ceasar Milan lovers. For those of you who aren't aware Caesar hosts a show called 'The Dog Whisperer'. We watch it pretty religiously.

But while we were in Ottawa our very good friend proclaimed himself a dog whisperer...and a baby whisperer. You see our friends Mark & Nicole also recently got a dog and Mark, the guy pictured below, decided he would spend the weekend he was visiting with us to 'dog whisper' Kobe their Boston Terrier. So funny.



Then Allison & Paul came over to hang out. Mark decided he would also 'whisper' to the baby. It was hysterical to say the least.

Needless to say, he's not really a 'whisperer'. Sorry Mark. But he gave it a good shot anyways.



But what the heck?! So that explains the title.And the story is tucker behind the single photo. Lots of strips of stickers (red circle by Crate Paper), washi tape (blue stripe by Bella Blvd) and some paper strips (AC). Also that stamp-by Studio Calico from a Project life set! LOVE it.

At the top I added a few buttons and a stamp with some scraps that I turned into little flags. I also did a little misting on this layout as well.



Bright colors and funny stories-that's what this hobby is all about!

xoxo
K

Wednesday: The Adventure; Part 2

I'm all about the adventures these days! I've been having all kinds of 'staycation' adventures while my friend D has been in town. There'll be a recap of that within the week but for today I thought I'd share a little mini-album I made of our adventures in Ottawa or O-town as I like to call it.

I used a Jillibean file folder for the bones of this layout and then used some neutral pattern paper, adhered to create a little book inside.Love those airplanes from the SC stamp set from their travel collection this summer.



I think my favorite part of the cover thought is the badges I used in place of the 'o's- an idea suggested by my friend Peggy & what a good one.



I used all instagram photos and stuck with a simple formula for each of the pages- a weekday title on some cardstock + some washi, a grid of 2 by 2 photos with a thin line around it and a little embellishment or two to dress it up a little.




I love those 'day of the week' stamps by Studio Calico. Aren't they awesome?!



Love them. I love this mini album. It's simple but full of 'stuff' and lots of pictures! I'm the worst at journaling so you'll notice that there are very few words...journaling is not my forte. I'm working on fixing that!

Happy hump day!

xoxo
K

Spring has Sprung...or so we thought.

So here in Newfoundland you never really know if Spring will come and stick around. Let's put it this way-May 24th weekend could be warm and sunny OR it could bring snow and low temps. Well, mother nature waited a week but she's intent on reminding us she hasn't forgotten about our Spring snow. The forecast for today may bring some sleet and snow. Seriously?! Never a dull weather moment here on the island of Newfoundland!

So to brighten my spirits today I'm sharing a little 'spring' layout I made.



One of my favorite adventures with Eugene is going downtown. He's pretty cute so everyone loves him. We usually visit The Doghouse and that turns into a little romp in the park at the War Memorial.

I love a good grid so I used 2 by 3 photos in a grid for this layout.But perhaps my favorite part of this layout is the title section.



I love those wood trees by Kaiser Craft and I added a little washi tape from Freckled Fawn and American Crafts, along with the leaves from a package of Amy Tangerine stickers to mimic the ground and anchor my photos. I also love that badge by SC-perfect for this layout don't you think!? Originally I had planned on typing my adventures and adding them on the side of the photo grid but recently I'm loving the look of ruled journaling lines and hand-written journaling so I stuck with that instead.

I really like this layout. It's got lots of layers but the photos are still in the forefront-just how I like it!

I'll leave you with a recent picture of Euge-



Isn't he hilarious. This weekend while I was working at my scrapbooking table I leaned back to get something and discovered this sleeping mound behind my chair snoring. Hilarious. He has no fear of letting it all hang out huh?!

xoxo
K

Monday Musings

And we're back to Monday.

I had a great party on Friday night for my birthday with the girls. We had a blast. There were lots of laughs and reminiscing even if the party didn't start until late.



We also did some planting this weekend. Well, M planted while I supervised. For those of you who don't know-I have a black thumb. It's something I'm working on.



And we went on a monster walk downtownand Eugene made a friend! She's a cocker spaniel too. Her name is Indie and she's just the tiniest and the cutest. We're going to plan some puppy dates!




I've got a few Simple Scrapper layouts to share today as well-all about food. What a shocker!

When we were in Ottawa we visited a few of our old food haunts and of course there had to be layouts made about them.

This is the first double layout I've done in a while...



On Good Friday we went to Whalesbone-an awesome seafood spot-for fish and chips and fish sandwiches. It was delicious.



I stuck with lots of pattern in this layout and used a combination of instagram photos and regular photos-all taken with my iphone. Gotta love that little guy.

My favorite part might be the little tabs that came with my 'A Life Handmade' order last week.



After our lunch at Whalesbone I wanted to hit up the Marbleslab for some ice cream-a little cake batter + mini eggs = delicious. Love it.



Now I don't usually cut out pattern paper to use for embellishments but I couldn't help myself with the kite paper from My Mind's Eye. I used last months kit from 'The Paperie' and just loved the colors. I love how the little kite and the clouds came out too! So cute on top of that washi tape from Freckled Fawn.



And that's a wrap. It was a good weekend around here.

xoxo
K

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