Designs by Latisha Yoast

I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween! Jacob was Harry Potter and Kendall was a witch this year. I passed out candy and Jess took the kids around the neighborhood. Normally it is the opposite, so it was nice getting to just sit on my behind and talk to all the kids that stopped by.

Tonight my son received some awards at his Pack meeting. He is the cutest Tiger Cub Scout! Tiger Cubs are the youngest of Boy Scouts and they are normally 6 years old and in the first grade. Jacob has been working really hard to get things "signed off" so he can earn more slides and badges. They just finished up their popcorn sales and he got to pick out a prize based on his sales. He wanted a knife really bad, so he picked out this whamadine pocket knife that has a flash light on it and everything, plus it has the Boy Scout emblem on it so that made it even better. At the next meeting, which is next Monday, to earn a badge/slide they need to make a scrapbook. So my husband volunteered me, which is fine, to go in and make Paper bag scrapbooks with them. Can you see 10 dads trying to make albums and decorate them...I envision duct tape lol. These boys are going to make some cute scrapbooks...did you know they make Cub Scout paper! I picked some up a few weeks ago, I don'...

I have not posted in a week...holy moly! With all of the activities my children are in and my son getting sick, my time has just slipped away from me lately. I am going to do my PaperTrey swaps tomorrow, so I will be posting them soon. I was going to post some before and after pictures (before editing them and after) but something is wrong with blogger and I cannot upload any pictures....what a bummer. Well I hope you all had a great weekend. I guess I can go catch up on my tivo-ed shows :)

I finished up my "Treat your fellow swapper" swaps up today. It has been so hot I just couldn't mail them out, so I would just sit and look at the treats. But because we have had rain the last few days and the temperature has dropped a little, I sent them out today. I couldn't fit everything that I sent in the picture, but here are a few of the items I put in each of the swaps. I bought starbursts , that come in the boxes, like the ones you get at the movies...I used my score-pal to make sleeves for each one. Then I made 3 x 3 cards to coordinate, I need things to match :) So I had some Hershey's nuggets laying around and avery labels, so I stamped some labels using Papertrey Ink's stamps and wrapped up those nuggets. Not pictured but in the swaps were those swirly suckers that I bought at Walt Disney world, twizzlers , and other suckers. They turned out pretty cute. I used Moxxie paper the Bump in the Night series/Eek, Purple Bazzill cardstock , Whisper ...

Julee over at http://www.poeticartistry.blogspot.com/ has a challenge every Monday and she calls it "Mojo Monday" all of her sketches are always awesome, but I never get to play. However this weekend I finally made a card using her sketch, cool huh!! The base of the card is More Mustard, all of the printed designer paper is by My Mind's Eye...you gotta love double sided paper. I used SU All in a Row and Eat Cake. Chocolate Chip & More Mustard ink. Ribbon is from Martha Stuart

My son and husband went camping with the Cub Scouts this weekend. So my 11 yr old daughter had the house to ourselves. I pulled almost everything out of my craft room and put it in the dining room, I had to clear the buffet and add two more tables for everything to have a place. So I scrapbooked, made some cards and did a few altered items, it was FANTASTIC! So here is one of the layouts I did. I used the Secret Garden Simply Scrappin' kit from SU. I really love this kit. The stickers are not like normal stickers, these are really really thick and I like that. I am definately going to buy more of these sets!! The pictures are from when we still lived in South Carolina. It has been a little over a year since we have moved but I still miss Charleston everyday. It is such a beautiful city. I believe these were taken around Easter last year, and we had gone to a really nice restaraunt downtown. The kids looked so adorable in their outfits, and isn't Jacob's hat too cute!! So ...

While I was blog surfing, as I do, I realized I received blog candy in the mail yesterday and forgot to post it... eek . Michelle over at Mish Mash aka www.michellewooderson.blogspot.com sent this to me, she has a great blog so go check her out. This card is stunning in real life, the photo does not do it justice. This stamp set is so incredibly cute I cannot wait to ink it up. Thank you again Michelle!!