Strange Brew

These are two of my guy friends clowning around at a brewery tour. They both love being funny and they both love beer. I used the All Mixed Up Cricut cartridge for the title on this page. The patterned sheet came from a discontinued Creative Memories paper pack called Asian Miyabi...I liked the way it worked with the rest of the layout.

Colorized Heritage Photo

This is another photo of my great-grandparents on my maternal side. It was hand-colored at some point, probably not professionally done. Still, it is a neat candid picture of them. My grandmother, who is now 92, still remember the day they took this photo while visiting family in Washington state many years ago.

I used a fancy gold, embossed sheet of paper that I had been saving for some time on this layout. My Cricut was used to make the dual pink flower design at the bottom right, using the Home Accents Solutions cartridge. I also added a couple fabric brads at the top.

Thommes' 50th Anniversary

This was the photo taken for my great-grandparents 50th Anniversary. I am proud to say both sets of great-grandparents on my maternal side made this milestone celebration. It certainly doesn't seem to be the norm anymore, although there are rare occasions that it happens.

I used my Cricut for the lettering and stamped the word "celebrate". I really like the fancy metal embellishments in the corners. I saved these for a long time until I had that special photo that was just right to use them.

More Family Heritage Layouts - The Sisters

Here are a couple more layouts I did for my family heritage album. They are photos of my grandmother with her sisters. I love these old pictures. It is so neat to see the hairstyles and clothing, and in my particular case the extreme age differences between the siblings. My grandmother was the 17th of 18 children, so she is the youngest in both layouts.

111 of My Favorite Movies

This is a list (not complete in any way) of some of my most favorite movies. You know the ones. You will watch them every time they are on TV and you never get sick of watching them again. As I first mentioned, this is not a complete list. In fact, I may find myself adding to this list as I think of more great movies. There are many movies I have seen and liked, but these ones stand out for me. Some are Oscar winning/nominated films, others may have received two thumbs down from critics, if they were even noticed at all, but they entertain me and I enjoy watching them. Hope you enjoy reading my list.

Air America (1990)
Air Force One (1997)
Airplane! (1980)
American Grafitti (1973)
The American President (1995)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Back to the Future (1985)
Bad Boys (1995)
Bad Boys II (2003)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Bettlejuice (1988)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Big Daddy (1999)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Blast from the Past (1999)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Bring It On (2000)
Broken Arrow (1996)
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Cocktail (1988)
Con Air (1997)
Dante's Peak (1997)
Die Another Day (2002)
Die Hard (1988)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Disclosure (1994)
Doc Hollywood (1991)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
E.T. (1982)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
50 First Dates (2004)
Fire Down Below (1997)
Footloose (1984)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Ghost (1990)
Golden Eye (1997)
Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Grease (1978)
Guarding Tess (1994)
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Hope Floats (1998)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Independence Day (1996)
The Italian Job (2003)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
The Living Daylights (1987)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Message in a Bottle (1999)
Michael (1996)
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Murphy's Romance (1985)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Mystic Pizza (1988)
National Treasure (2004)
The Net (1995)
No Way Out (1987)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Panic Room (2002)
Pirates of the Carribean Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Presidio (1988)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Rain Man (1988)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Real Genius (1985)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Risky Business (1983)
Rear Window (1954)
Road House (1989)
Sahara (2005)
The Saint (1997)
The Secret of My Success (1987)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Stripes (1981)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Swordfish (2001)
Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Tin Cup (1996)
Top Gun (1986)
The Wedding Singer (1998)
Under Siege (1992)
Walking Tall (2004)
The Wedding Planner (2001)
West Side Story (1961)
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
When Harry Met Sally (1981)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Wild Hogs (2007)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Working Girl (1988)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Shanty Town page

This is a layout I worked on over the weekend. I used the Cricut Printing Press cartridge for the title and other lettering. For this Jaycee project we camped out overnight in a mock shanty town to collect donations of food and clothing for the local area. We built our "headquarters" from wooden pallets that were lined with cardboard. This was done the weekend of Thanksgiving and it was actually pretty chilly out, despite the lack of snow...probably in the 30's.

Laff Olympics

This is a two-page spread I did for an event back in 2000. Teams did various relays and races. It was a cool September morning, but it was a fun time!

The title was made using Cricut's All Mixed Up cartridge