Layouts

I have been busy scrapbooking. 

Let's Scrap sketch

Here are the layoouts I finished this past week.

I popped up the buildings and added bling to the snowflakes.

This is the bottom half of the above paper. 

It was perfect paper for our trip to the Big Apple!

I got really good at making rosettes for the wedding,

so I decided to put some on this page.

Here are picutres from a battlefield right down

 the road from us.  We enjoy hiking the trails.

Here is this weeks sketch over at Let's Scrap.  This layout was going to be two pages but it was hard for me to figure out how to cut the papers so I kept it a one pager.

Looking at all those cookies makes me hungry!



Tomorrow I will share all the cards I made with

Jule over the weekend.  Stay tuned.......

Chicago

 We took a quick trip to Chicago. 

 I spent a couple days with my childhood friend Kel. 

We visited Starved Rock State Park

 We hiked into canyons and climbed many, many stairs to beautiful vistas.

We ate at Giordano's!  Yummy thick, sweet, cheesy PIZZA. 

We took the train to Andersonville.  It's history is Swedish.  In my youth my family would go here to eat authentic Swedish meals and bring home tons of baked goods from the Swedish Bakery . 

 So I had to get a variety of childhood favorites.  YUMMY!

 We spent Sunday afternoon at the Cubs game!  As you can tell from our picture it was a bit wet.  They played through the 8th inning and unfortunately they didn't win:(

We spent part of a the day at the Science Museum

On the way back to the hotel

we stopped at The Cloud sculpture.

Walked past the famous Buckingham Fountain

We took an architecture in kayaks!  The river was a lot cleaner than in my youth, but it was still stinky and I felt sticky when the water touched my skin. 

We got a great perspective of all the citys buildings. I have mixed feeling about this tour.

It was a great idea and really fun, but the

river was still too yucky to kayak in.

Love this city!

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Finishing Up

I have been working on this doodle for the past few months.  I finally finished it up this week. 

This is my last layout from our trip to Chicago last year. 

These pictures are from the gardens in front of the

Lincoln Park Zoo.  If you are ever in Chicago

make sure to stop by the FREE zoo and gardens. 

It's a nice respite from the bustling city.

You can take closer look by clicking on the pictures. 

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Scrappy Time

I spent a few hours yesterday finishing these layouts from our trip to the Windy City.  Doing them made me miss my peeps back in the hood;)

 I think we need to take another trip to Chi-town soon.  I am going through cardamom toast withdrawal.