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I love modern technology, but I can’t stand it when I think I’ve done something correctly and it doesn’t work!  Sorry for you who have wondered what the video was and couldn’t get it to play.  It worked when I wrote that post, but it won’t play for me now either.  Darnit! 

So, let’s try it this way.  I’ll send you to youtube where the video is and you can watch it directly from there.  Go here to see it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno 

and hopefully that works!

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Does it get cuter than this?

Um…..NO. It doesn’t.

I was over at the fussypants blog (who by the way is hilariously funny) and saw this video.  Seriously, it’s like the cutest thing I think I’ve ever seen!  Watch all the way to the end cause just when you think it can’t possibly get more cute, it does!

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Altered Coffee Mug

So I usually mosey down to my Pop’s house once a week or so to have a cup of coffee and conversation with my dear ole’ dad.  (It’s just an expression, Pops, I don’t think you’re old.  Chill out.)  And lately whether it’s a lack of coffee mugs or a lack of clean coffee mugs, I have a hard time finding a mug to put my coffee into.  I was at the Dollar Tree I think and I saw these plain white mugs and decided to buy one for myself and leave it in the cupboard at dad’s house!  Then after I got it home, I decided to alter it.  I don’t know what’s gotten into me; I’ve been this altering fool lately.  I was going to put “Do Not Use Unless You’re Corinna” on there or something cute like that, but then I saw these American Crafts rubons and knew I wanted to use the floral one to decorate my cup.  I LOVE it.  My only dilemma now is researching and figuring out how to seal over the rubon so that the cup can be washed.  Anybody have any idea what will work?  I figured Mod Podge would eventually peel off and that was my only idea.  Leave me a comment if you have any brilliant ideas!  Oh, and here’s the mug.

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A visit to the Budweiser Clydesdale horses.

We live near a town where there is a fairly large Budweiser beer distributor, and a few weeks ago we had the opportunity to go there and see the Clydesdale horses.  Okay, first of all WOW.  They’re so beautiful!  The word my dad used was “majestic,” and I think that sums it up pretty good.  When we arrived about 9 a.m. they were getting their morning exercise of a long walk around the area in a field.  What’s so cool is that there is actually a man between the 2 horses in the photo below.  Can you see the man?  No?  That’s cause these horses are so HUGE! 

Here’s the Budweiser dalmation after their walk.  He tagged along behind them the whole way.  He was a cutie and came over to Summer and let her pet him.

Here’s another one where you can see how much taller they are than this man.  His head comes up to around the height of their mouths.  And these weren’t the biggest ones! 

They have beautiful stalls where they are kept.  They are covered in fabric and each horse’s name is embroidered at the top of the stall.  Embroidered!  When they came back from their walk, they each got a drink and then they were put back in their stalls.  Which, by the way, we were standing next to and when the horses walked by us it literally shook the ground like an earthquake under out feet.  It was awesome! 

Anyway, so THIS is the part of the trip where it got kind of interesting.  And I’ve been mulling it over in my head to try to think of a way I could tell this story without offending anybody that reads it, especially someone who may be a customer some day and get a bad first impression from this particular post on my blog, but I figure what the hell, ya can’t please everybody right?

So as we are standing there, me and my dad and step-mom and Summer looking at these horses all lined up in a row like the photo below getting a nice butt view while they’re eating their hay or whatever it was……..

when my 8-year-old daughter points to the horse directly in front of us and says to me, “Momma, what’s that pink thing sticking out of that horse’s wee-wee?”  I thought I was going to die.  My dad immediately cracks up, so I said, “Ask your Papaw.”  The look on his face was priceless, people.  Wish I’d gotten a photo of THAT.  Okay, so I am really not ready to have this conversation at this point in time, but I’m all about telling the truth to my kid and explaining things and all that crap (what am I thinking?) so I whisper to her that it’s his penis, his private parts.  We’ve discussed HUMAN private parts but not HORSES for crying out loud! 

I live in a very rural, farming type of county, but I’ve never had a horse, or ridden a horse (though I would love to do so), and haven’t been THIS close up to a horse before, so I can’t really explain to her why there’s this darker “thing” hanging down there which the pink penis is sticking out of and “Momma, how come that horse’s penis is sticking out farther than that one’s? And look, that one’s is shorter and that one’s is longer”  I don’t know, people!  What the hell is wrong with these horses anyway?  Um, is anybody else ready to go home now?  I think we’ve seen enough, if you know what I mean! 

I’m pretty sure I’ll be making a scrapbook page about that!

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Altered Dog Treat Container

Here’s a cute little (big) peanut can (could also use coffee cans) that I altered with dog print patterned paper and some ribbon and turned it into a dog treat container.  It sits on our piano by the back door so that when we bring the dogs in they can have a treat if they behave.  Wish it was that easy with kids! 

and here’s the lid

What do you think?  Cute?

I think I’ll use some kitty papers next and make a smaller one for the cat treats.  Have I mentioned my hubby taught one of the cats to catch?  No, I’m not kidding. 

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Altered Notebook

My daughter had her tonsils and adenoids removed on Wednesday.  Wow, was that a long day.  Beforehand they told her she wouldn’t be able to talk for a few days because her throat would hurt too much, so I altered a regular size school notebook for her to write notes to us in, with the ulterior motive of course that I could copy the pages and include them later in a scrapbook!  The wheels are always turning, people! 

I must say, my 8-year-old girl was VERY impressed with my craftiness! 

I might even put one of these in the etsy shop www.summerrosescrapbooks.etsy.com. 

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Father’s Day Scrapbook in a Box.

I showed a sneak peak of this right before Father’s Day, but I couldn’t show the whole project or any of the photos inside the album cause my dad reads my blog!  (Hi Pops)  I must say, from his reaction I think he rather liked my little Father’s Day scrapbook.  It’s a little Petaloo accordian scrapbook that came in a little box for gift giving, but I altered the outside of the box also to be the album cover and used adhesive to attach the book inside so it unfolds out of the box when you open it.  Here’s what it looks like lying flat on my counter. 

Here are a few views of the pages closer up while lying flat.

Here it is standing up and opened on display.

Here it is just opened and unfolding out of the box.

and a little more….

and the last bit unfolding out of the book.

 Here are closer views of the individual pages.  These were so hard to do because they’re only 4 x 4 inches.  So really your photo takes up the whole space and there’s not much room for a lot of “scrap crap.”  I tried to keep it as simple as I could so the focus would stay on the photos.

The book cover and spine can be seen in my previous post in the link at the beginning of this post.  I think I’ll put these up for sale for $20 as a custom order in different themes in my etsy shop at www.summerrosescrapbooks.etsy.com. 

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Ballet Photo Shoot.

The other day I showed you photos from my amateur photo shoot in the front yard with my daughter in her tap dance costume.  Here are some of my favorites from the ballet shoot we did after her recital in May, also in the front yard.  Someday I’m gonna buy backdrops!  Anyway, this was so much fun because I just let Summer do whatever she wanted and I took photos when I felt like it. 

And this last one?  Ah, this one takes my breath away.  This one is going on my wall.  My God, I love this girl.

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Dance photo shoot.

My daughter missed her professional studio dance photos this year due to illness, and I’m a scrapbooker so I can’t let the year be done with no photos, are you kidding me?  So about 3 weeks after the recital at the end of the dance year, Summer got her costume on and went out into the front yard with me for a photo shoot.  These are my absolute favorites.  (I am so in love with my macro lens!)

(the ladder was Summer’s idea.)

I showed a ballet photo a while back, but it was from my digital camera and I also took some photos with the regular film camera that came back and I’m loving those also.  I’ll share those another day.

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Father accordian scrapbook.

Summer and I made this for her daddy for Father’s Day this year.  I let her pick out all the photos, and she also chose what the cover would say.  I’ve never heard her SAY this phrase, so I’m not sure why she wanted it on the front of the book!  haha  She wanted me to draw guitars and drums on the front for a “rock” theme, but I’m not artist and I said no way so she settled for drawing her own dance floor under her and Daddy.  Daddy loved it.

This is an accordian book with only 6 photos and the photos took up most of the space, so I had to really work at adding things on top of the pictures like rubons and tiny Prima flowers and I really like how it turned out.

There were 2 horizontal photos that Summer picked to go in the book, so I put those at the end so that when someone is looking at it they only have to turn the book one time to see those last 2 pages instead of going back and forth. 

Here’s what the book looks like opened up like an accordian.  Ken’s going to display it on his desk.

This is the type of book that I will selling in my etsy store for around $20 at www.summerrosescrapbooks.etsy.com.  I enjoy making little mini books of memories like this one and they’re more affordable for people.  This can be done in any theme such as baby or wedding or school, etc.  Lots of possibilites. 

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