Daddy's Garage Buddy

First off, I want to mention that two very good blogging friends awarded me with the "you make my day" awards, and I want to thank them! Thank you Becky and Sharon! You are both so talented, and you both make my day too! I'm honored that you awarded these to me!

Next, here's a scrapbook page. This is another page that I did for a challenge during the virtual crop at ScrapCity over the weekend. This one was called "think outside the box", and we were challenged to use some cardboard from an actual box on our page.

I came across this picture of my youngest, Jessica. Once in a while, we all find ourselves hanging out in Daddy's garage! Why wouldn't we? There's a big T.V., it's heated, there's a dart board, a refrigerator, etc. It's a FUN place to hang out! I snapped this photo of Jessica one evening back in 2005 when she was just hanging out with her Dad! She is just too cute! Since the photo was taken in the garage, I thought the cardboard frame I constructed worked really well with it! If you look closely at the four large brads at the corners of the frame, you'll see that they look like Phillip's screw heads. Very cool! I actually broke out a set of my Stampin' Up alphabets! I forget how much I love my alphabet stamps! I need to use them more often! Jessica actually chose the letters for me, and she mixed up the upper and lower case . . . a very cool look! Of course, I had to add some Primas to the layout! As you might notice, I was still digging the blank space challenge, and this one also leaves a lot of blank space. I'm loving that look right now! I'm very pleased with this page.

Here's what else is going on with me. The children's librarian at our community library knows me really well. We've been going to the kid library programs the entire time we've lived in this town (7 years now). She knows I scrapbook a lot. In fact, I've actually done scrapping classes for the kids over the summertime (and gotten paid for it! What fun!)

ANYWAY, she hired me to make a scrapbook for her nephew. He's getting married in June, and she wants to give him a scrapbook for their wedding shower. I met with her a couple of times, I sent her to buy some stuff (so she could get an album she likes, etc.), and she gave me photos and all the stuff yesterday. I told her to get 8x8 (easier to work with). She gave me A TON of photos. I'm going to get started today. I'm kinda nervous! I've done a ton of mini albums (mother's day albums, a book for my father in law, birthday books, a book for my husband, a book for one of my best girlfriends for her 40th, etc.), but this one will be hard, because I don't know him!

The other thing is that I don't know what to charge her for the completed album. I have no idea how many pages it's going to be. I don't know if I should charge by the page or by the hour. Hhhmmmm . . . should be interesting! I'm sure once I get started, it will all flow . . . at least I hope so! Wish me luck!! I need to have it done by April 6th! I need to get MOVING!!

Have a WONDERFUL weekend everyone! Thanks for stopping by!