Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge #44 - Books!!!

Woo Hoo!!! Happy Tuesday to you, Twilighters!!! Today's your day :)This week, the always lovely Rebecca of Bella Carta, is challenging us with...

Books!!!

Here's what she said -

"Reading the Twilight saga books and is what has brought us all together .... so this week is really dedicated to books. I hadn't stayed up all night reading anything in a very long time, yet that was exactly what I did with these books - I couldn't put them down! Many of you have shared similar stories with me on that topic."

... each book in the series was inspired by and loosely based on a different literary classic: Twilight on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, New Moon on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Eclipse on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Breaking Dawn on a second Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Meyer also states that Orson Scott Card and L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series are a big influence on her writing.

Craft Challenge: Make any project that celebrates your favorite book!!!

Comment Challenge: Which novel would you put in Bella's hands??? (classic or contemporary)... Did Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse or Breaking Dawn inspire you to read (or re-read) any of the classics??? Do you compare Edward and Bella to that of Wuthering Heights Heathcliff and Cathy???

One of my fave author's of all time is Richard Paul Evans... he has such a way with words, after reading each one of his books, you cannot help but feel appreciative of all the good things in your own life...

The Last Promise is about...

"Ellen, now called Eliana, has been living in Italy for several years. She's a talented artist in her 30s, originally from a small town in Utah. She came to Italy to study art and soon met and married Maurizio Fernini, the head of a large family agricultural enterprise. What seemed like a fairy tale quickly soured; Maurizio now spends much of his time traveling and philandering, leaving her to care for their severely asthmatic son, Alessio. Eliana knows that in her adopted country she's expected to shrug philosophically at her husband's cheating, but she remains furious and desperately lonely, and even considers illegally fleeing back to America with Alessio. Then she meets American Ross Story, an art lover and tour guide who knows everything about everything in the Uffizi Gallery. Eliana asks Ross to sit for a portrait, and soon she's not nearly as lonely as she used to be. But as the two fall for each other, she faces a tormenting choice between romantic love and her love for her son."


This story really touched my heart... what love do you treasure the most - the love of your child or the love of your soul mate??? Who would you risk? Choose???

The ending is touching and beautiful...

Treasure what you have now - in the end, you might be surprised how things work out :)
Treasure Card Details:
Paper(s): Colorbok "Black Eye Susans" DP; Papertrey Ink Kraft CS
Stamp(s): Heidi Swapp "Treasure" Clear Stamp
Ink(s): Memento Tuxedo Black Ink; Stampin Up Chocolate Chip Ink for distressing
Accessories: The Robin's Nest Dew Drops; misc felt flower and ribbon.
Ok, now it's time to go check out all the other Twilight Tuesday gals :)

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

with Guest Designers:
Alison ~ Donna ~ Jacquie ~Erica

Happy Tuesday!!!

Welcome to Drama Island!

Good afternoon ladies and gents :)
First, let me start by saying THANK YOU to ALL who love my new bloggy makeover!!!
I really like this one too! It fits my personality a lot better ;)
The other style, pink with black swirly/flowery thingys, seemed a bit 'stuffy' looking for me! LOL! Hope y'all like and enjoy the new one!



Ok, here we go...

Welcome to Drama Island Day!First up, we have here a very cute pic frame... Ummm, kinda... yesterday, someone decided to take a Stamping Up Marker (Bravo Burgundy) and trace around all the chipboard pieces and add a lil burgundy coloring to the squirrel! Ahem... nameless lil 5yo boy (pictured, far right) decided to "help" and add a lil color to the chipboard pieces! LOL!

Not too bad! Could've been worse ;) It's his to put in his room however way he chooses! and he loves it!

... okay, this time was it was brilliant and cute... but next time - there might be a time-out ;)

PLEASE, No alterations without permission!

Second on deck... this is hilarious!

My poor lil Matt tripped and scraped his knee earlier today! Now I know that for your average kid - he would cry a lil, get a band aid, maybe a cookie and all will be good again :)

Not my kids! They never get hurt! This is Matt's first official, really hurt, blood oozing scrape! Yes!, he almost made it to the age of 3 without ever getting his knees scraped up! LOL!

He'll be 3 in 2 weeks!

See pic above - he's soothing and hiding his knee! He doesn't want anything or anyone to touch - not even the band aid!!! I think that is why my boys are sooo careful, they hate band aids more than anything else! After each immunization shot, I would always have to remind the doc not to put band aids on him, unless he wanted them to not like him even more! LOL!

I know, strange... but don't we all have odd lil quirks? ;)

Here he is being cuddled by his Mama.

Oh! The drama! Every time someone looks at him he starts whimpering,

"My leg is broken" - perfect! LOL!

"It's just a lil scrape Matthew! Let's go play!"

"NO!", he said... "Me hurt! Me too tired!"... 10 minutes later he fell asleep! My boy hasn't napped since he turned 2 !!! Maybe having a dramatic moment pays off ;)


Sooo, I thought that Matt would wake up all happy and refreshed after his nap!


NOT!


He's whimpery and doesn't want to walk! He's finally hopping around on one leg! LOL!



Oh, the drama we've gone through today!



This is going to make an awesome layout or mini album ;) hee hee

Thanks for stopping by today!

I've been very busy! and ready for sharing :)

Jillibean Sprout Contest and Sissy's Scrap Challenge

TGIF!!! Even though I sometimes don't look forward to Saturday mornings 'cause we have to get up early for T-ball! ;) I'm still happy it's Friday! it has been a very rainy Friday, but I've been too busy to dwell!

Well, actually, not 100% true - I did dwell on it for about 20 minutes this morning when I got stuck under a downpour holding big bag of dog food, broken umbrella and car keys lost in the bottom of my purse :) Good times! lol

Ok, moving on ;)

Here's this week's Sissy's Scrap Challenge! A Layout Sketch made by little sissy, Sara (of Scrap Happie!).

And, I finally decided to use my Jillibean Journaling Sprouts that I received in one of my Memory Works kits!

Jillibean is having a Journaling Sprout Contest!!! Winner will receive a $100 cash prize! How awesome is that! (The contest deadline is June 15th.)

... and here's what I finally created!

There isn't much to it! I flipped the sketch around a bit! I wanted all of my pics to fit on one layout!

This was Nicky's first bus trip to his first field trip to a local farm! We had so much fun!

He was suppose to go on his second bus trip to his second field trip to a local small zoo, but was cancelled because of the rain... there were a lot of sad lil faces sitting in class this morning!

I made a second layout to save the rest of the trip stuff (permission slip, etc.)...

Details:

Paper(s): Colorbok Friendly Forest Photo Mats and DP.

Stamp(s): StudioG Alphabet Stamp Set.

Ink(s): Stampin Up Basic Black Marker and Spica Glitter Marker.

Accessories: Colorbok Friendly Forest Chipboard, Alpha Stickers and Flower Brad; Jillibean Journaling Sprouts; Stampin Up Corner Punch; Creative Memories Rounder Corner Punch.

Thanks for looking!

Can't wait to see who joins in with us this week :)