studio A all things ashley: Where the heck have I been lately!!!

Wow, has it really been almost a month since I posted? I am soo sorry.

Things have just been busy around here!!! We went to Florida to visit my Dad.

My sister in law had her twins! A boy and a girl. My Grandmother passed away (my dad's mom).

We made another trip to Florida. Lots going on. And there is so much I want to share with you.

I can hardly decide what to share first. So, I think I will start with what I have started with.

Sometimes, when I am really emotional I have to start creating with projects that don't matter to me so much

on an emotional level. I worked up to making a memorial page for my grandma. I will share it soon.

and now that I am done with it, I want to move on to the twins page. It will be special.

To get the creativeness going...

I altered my bulletin board to look like a scrapbook page.

The one thing I did differently than I have before, is make mats (like you would have for a picture).

You pin your notes just on those spots. This keeps the whole thing looking nice and not completely covered in crazy layers of papers all over the place. Not to mention the fact that when you keep putting pins all over the place you get holes in the paper all over, which gets ugly after a while.

The mats with the lines on them I placed a piece of clear contact paper over it,

and ta-da it becomes a dry erase spot!!! clever I know!

I still want to put a few more things on it. like along the top edge in the green border I want to put a favorite quote, but I need to pick a favorite quote first! How bout you all share your favorites here!!!

that would be so fun!

Okay I can't wait to show you my new A tooo so here it is