Scrapbooking Weekend

This past weekend I went with my family up to the cabin for the stout's annual scrapbook retreat. It was so fun! I was able to get a lot of fun projects done!...

Halloween Necklace! I love the way this turned out!



Junior High! Crazy. This layout was so easy. The pictures were already black and white so I stayed with a black and white layout and added orange in for NLJH. :)


Cute little Jackson helping me garden. I used paper, paint, rub-ons, and stickers on this cute page.

Mother's Day this year was pretty fun. At my grandparents the whole family put our hand prints on tablecloths for my grandma.
On this page I had fun layering stamps, and using a black and white scheme with a bit of teal.

I finally finished the title pages for our Honeymoon! Ha, only four and a half years later!

Hard Work!!

Finished product (Love!!)

So our huge project this summer was refinishing our table. Above are some pictures of the finished product. I had no idea it would take so long! My husband and I now appreciate the art of refinishing and agree that we are done for a while. :) The stair banister was already black so I decided to go with black legs and chairs with a stain on the table top to match as close to our bamboo floor as possible. Tip: If you are thinking of refinishing consider all of the nooks and crannies that your piece has. If it has a lot like ours did, paint! It takes too much work to sand down to the wood grain in order to stain. That is why I chose to do a mixture of stain and paint.
It took a lot of time and work, but I love it!!

Before...boring!