Jamie Danford

Fort Mcallister Scrap Weekend in Review... (Part 1)

Okay, hear me when I say this... Ft. Mcallister is a PRIMO spot for a scrapbooking getaway weekend! It was close to home, but still felt far away... the accomodations are lovely and quite roomy (we think we can stuff at least one or two more people in there with us next time)... and the price was right.

Here's the cottage...

Sure the stairs were a bit grueling, but not enough to worry us. 

As usual, we dismantled the place, moving stuff around until we could fit our tables and scrap paraphenalia in comfortably.  Here's Deiha modeling what it was supposed to look like...

 We enjoyed a lovely 'hike' on Saturday, if that's what you want to call it... Deiha had on heels and Sid was sporting her leather jacket, not really very outdoorsy, but oh so chic.

(Don't ask... that's all I'm sayin.)

Sid showed me how to be a showgirl...

  and Kristine did the potty pose... So this is where the bear sits in the woods!

 
 There are plenty more photos of our day in the forest, but they're on Deiha's camera so we'll have to wait for a full viewing. 

Oh yeah, and we also SCRAPBOOKED... so I guess I'll throw some layouts on here soon too. 

 I tell ya, I'm still in recovery so it's taking a while to get back to normal around here.  Play hard pay hard right?

  

Home again home again, jiggity jog...

...or should I say jiggily jog, because after a weekend of scrapping, eating and drinking {tooo much} I feel kinda sloshy.  Good for nothing really.  In fact, I'm throwing this one picture on here, taking the trash to the road, and then settling on the couch with my snoring hubby for an afternoon of pure laziness. ;)

It was beautiful... my friends are hilarious... the weekend was perfection. Can't wait to tell you all about it later!

The Legend of the Lucky Soup.

Looks like I forgot to put one of my layouts from the Springfield crop on here, so let's have a looky...

Don't laugh.

 
Basically, the Legend of the Lucky Soup is of my own creation (of course... who else would come up with something this random and absurd?)  See, when Bid Dave and I were moving out of our Timberline house and over to Stillwood, we found this can of soup. The expiration date said July of either '95 or '96 on it, so we quickly figured that the sucker was approximately 8 years old give or take a couple, and that we were quite lucky it hadn't exploded all over the back of the pantry. 

Sure, most people would've tossed it in the trash and been done with it, but oh no... not the Danfords. We quarantined it in a sealed Ziplock baggie and declared it lucky.  So now, here we are... how many years later?  Uh huh... and it's still with us... got packed up and moved right on over here to Dhuland last year, and nestled into it's rightful place beside the Karo syrup. 

I know... it's weird.  And yet it's so, well... Danford. 

Some showsie tellsie while I'm gonsie...

I was rummaging through some of my old folders on here and thought it would be fun to pull out some of my favorite layouts for some show and tell.  It's funny how old layouts get stuffed in albums and sometimes forgotten... then I find them and fall back in love with them all over again. 

Like this one...

I love love love it.  It's photos like these that make me SO happy I'm a scrapbooker.

And this one...

Oh I love that face!

This one's a grinner too...

Oh... and this one...

So many layouts... so many stories. 

It's so much easier to share the stories when they're combined with photos... it kind of makes 'em more real or something wouldn't you say?

Even the stupid little conversations that we record... I hope when Miss Priss is old and gray, she remembers how much her Mom and Dad LOVED each other... I'm sure pages like this will help. ;)

 Yes, I am definitely thankful for being a scrapper. ;)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Phew!

Thank GOODNESS I am finally done with the last two Twilight books... and thank goodness they gave me an ending I can enjoy.  I've kind of been on a reading marathon lately, having just finished

and

before taking care of the Twilight books.

Yes, I think I'm going to enjoy a weekend of scrapping and watching movies with the girls instead of being piled up under 'pink blankey' on the couch with a book.  Time for a break.

So now I'm heading to the scraproom to get started planning pages for the weekend.  We'll be heading over to Ft. McCallister State Park on Friday after a field trip down to Jacksonville for some Black Friday scrapbook shopping at Pictures in Time (The PIT Stop) and Scrap N Stuff.  So if you see a tan Kia packed with four women laughing hysterically and smiling from ear to ear, give us a honk.  ;)

Indeed, this may just be the best Thanksgiving holiday ever! Ha ha!!!!!  

Hopelessly hooked...

Well poopers, it looks like I'm a hopeless Twilight addict afterall. 

See, back in December I decided to see what all the fuss was about and read the Stephanie Meyer novel, Twilight.  I ended up falling under the hypnotic spell that seems to overcome all readers of the series... So I went ahead and  sunk my teeth into book 2, New Moon. However, after 800 plus pages of teenage angst mixed with some sci-fi vampire drama I decided that the books weren't my thing.  I Googled the last two books in the series and satisfied myself by finding out how the story ended.  Sure, it's cheating, but whatever. 

Then the Twilight movie came out, and of course I took Miss Priss to see it... I was less than impressed, but it was kind of nice to put faces with the characters in the book.

No harm done... I was over it.  Phew, I could get on with my life and leave the adolescent saga behind me.  Right?

Oh heck no.  Of course not.  That would be tooooooo easy.

Because now New Moon is in theaters. 

Oh lord. 

So Miss Priss and I waded through the hordes on Friday so she could say she was one of the first people to see it, and I was kinda dreading it.  However, after the first hour of angst, angst, and more angst (plus a lot of 'Oh Bella, I cannot imagine my life without you blah blah blah...') it got pretty good.  The werewolves ROCK, as do the abs on the Quileute  tribesmen.  (If you're wondering what I'm talking about, I'm speaking Twilight-ese and you'll have to read the book/see the movies to understand.)

And now?  Yep, now I've got bulging bloodshot eyes, a stiff neck and nothing done around here because I've just read 629 pages of Eclipse (book 3) in two days.  Geez.  I guess the moved piqued my interest again, and like I said, I'm hopelessly hooked. 

So I'll be starting book 4, Breaking Dawn, after I get off of here.  I MUST have it finished by Thanksgiving because that's the day I plan to get packed for our girls weekend in the woods.  And since I already know how it ends (thanks to some good ol' Googling) I can really enjoy the ride. I hate surprises, and quite often read the ending first so I don't have to get my panties in a wad unnecessarily.  See how big of a dork I am?  I know.

Okay, I'm off to do some readin'. 

PS ...

And just in case you're wondering, I'm team Edward.  I know... he's got his flaws, but I just don't like Jacob's attitude (more so in the books than in the movies) and besides, those bad boys have always been more my style than the jock-a-lo's.   In fact,  if I'm being honest here... I think Rosalie's the hottest of the all haa haaaa!

M*E*O*W!!!!!

Paper Crafters Corner...

Cute!  My new cyber buddy Susan chose my post about The WWAD technique on her blog, http://www.papercrafterscorner.com/

She's got lots of scrappy stuff to look at, so why not head on over and take a peek. ;)

Adults at play!

We had a blast out here last night! Big Dave invited some friends over, lit the fire, and threw some low country boil in the pot.  All I had to do was sit there and look purty. ;)  After we stuffed ourselves with shrimp that Big Dave and Bubba caught out of the local waterways, we turned our sights on the horseshoe pits.  A tournament was in order!

The teams were:

Teddy and Bubba (better known as, 'hey get yer hand off my butt man')

Joshua and Me... (with coordinating colors... my sweatshirt matches his nose.)

Kristine and Mendy... (Girl Power!)

 Karl and Lisa... (Who ended up knocking out Josh and myself for the championship. Yep second place for me again, sigh.)

and of course, the gruesome twosome... Guy and Big Dave...

(Why does Guy always look like Mr. Creepy Pants????) 

We threw and laughed and threw some more...

 
 
 
 This one's my FAVE...

(This is one of those photos that I can NOT stop laughing about.)

I'm a lucky girl to be surrounded by people who are as nutty (if not nuttier) than me... they make me look kinda normal don't you think? 

Yep good times in Dhuland with people I love... can't get much better than this. 
 
 

Gimme a break...

He steps on MY foot, and he's got the nerve to yowl? That's Archie for ya.

Ha ha!  Have a happy Friday!  ;)