April in a nutshell!

I couldn't go back to when I stopped blogging and add pics, so I needed a starting point, and Easter is a great place to start! We had beautiful weather and set up a table on the back patio to do eggs! I had gotten kits before we left Alamogordo 2007 Easter clearance sale! lol When we got to Yuba City last year, it was chaos, so coloring eggs got put on the back burner til uhm, well this year! ha haHere the boys are enjoying different kinds of egg dyeing! You put the egg in a bag and drops of real thick dye (maybe thick because it was so old)
The girls were so serious, but had fun and you can see the final results! I thought they were beautiful! Plus they were yummy! You know I was eatting some tuna salad sandwiches for a while...my favorite!


Tony helping out in school. The girls science pack they had to do an experiment, you can see the end of the fizz blowing the balloon up. the ol' vinegar and baking soda gas experiment. I love this pic and it will be a layout...actually it already is, but not for public viewing yet...lol holding for designer to put in store!
Lastly here is me in the nursery, one of the boys in the nursery taking my picture! We had a blast! Lovely shot of my chins and blue gum! ha ha


Okay, I am feeling rather good about this blog now, it's moving and groovin'

You asked for it!

I have had a few emails, phone calls and comments left from my peeps...the people who pray for me and sent us here to California for more pictures and life stories and less scrapping...lol,
I have taken my 365 blog and changed it to More of Us, Me and Family. I will update it at least weekly with more personal pictures and adventures of the Pistilli family! I encourage you to go there now and bookmark. More of Us, Me and the Family <---that is the title but the blog address is http://annes365pictures.blogspot.com/ . I appreciate ya'll hanging on thru the scrapbooking business. I will also put a link to the blog on the side of this blog!
I really am enjoying the digiworld of scrapping and totally understand it is a different world! ha ha...I wanted to keep this blog for scrapping and then will use the two to keep everyone semi-satisfied!
I am Anne of Alamo...and will never forget those who invested in prayers, finances and just all around support in our lives to help us be smack dab in the will of God; pioneering a church that preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ!


Thanks for reading!

Anne


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For those who want personal!

I send an email about life pioneering a new church in Yuba City everyweek to my friends and all from Alamogordo and beyond! I had used this blog for a project called 365. You were to take a pic a day and post it. I did real good, then life got in the way! lol
There is the basis for the change of this blog plus this fact. Vanessa aka Freddy said she was tired of all the scrapbooking stuff and wanted to see pics! I pondered this a few days.
The Anne of Alamo blog is really turned to a commercial site as it is a part time job now (with a small paycheck every month). I enjoy it, but don't want to stop keeping a more personal journal type blog. So I will update at least weekly here, before I send out the email! I'll be back with some pics for you all!

Charlie's product release is mini(well sort of..lol) called Summer Nights Dream. Charlie had wanted to try something a little more whimsical and was a bit unsure whether it was a workable kit or not. I opened it and knew I had to do a black and white shot...and wasn't sure about how! I went thru a few pictures and then began laying it out...it went so fast I felt a bit worried! But I loved the end result...my Anna in quite a spectacular pose of happiness!The kit is on sale right now at ESS, so pop on over! ESS is Enchanted Studio Scraps, my brain always wants to switch those S words around. ESS is having a huge going on for National ScrapBooking Day: Take a look at this schedule:
Date: Friday, May 1 thru Monday, May 4
Event: Brag Book Blog Train by the Enchanted Pixies
Start Time: 12:00 pm EDT (Friday)
End Time: 11:59 pm EDT (Monday)
Link to event: http://enchantedstudioscraps.wordpress.com/

Date: Friday, May 1 thru Monday, May 4
Event: Scrap-a-thon
Start Time: 9:00 am EDT (Friday)
End Time: 11:59 pm EDT (Monday)
Link to Event: http://enchantedstudioscraps.com/forums/
***Prizes for the winners

Date: Friday, May 1 thru Monday, May 4
Event: NSD Storewide Sale--50% OFF!
Start Time: 12:01 am EDT (Friday)
End Time: 11:59 pm EDT (Monday)
Link to Event: http://www.enchantedstudioscraps.com/xcart/
***Spend $10 in the store and receive a never-before-released Mega by the ESS Designers!

Date: Saturday, May 2 thru Wednesday, May 6
Event: NSD Speed Scraps
Start Time: varying
End Time: varying
Link to Event: http://enchantedstudioscraps.com/forums/


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Anne


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Claudi is having a BIG sale

Okay, this is a big one and I am excited, 1st ad I have done for her! yeah, I am excited! Go get something! lol The image is linked to the Divine Digital shop!


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Anne


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st. george and loucee

click on image

I am on one of the funnest Creative Teams with Charlie's Designs...we have a forum for all the tasks that Charlie barks (ha ha) at us and schedules and such, but we also have fun. I mean giggles and laughter that we have all pinkie swear not to tell...so you will never hear from me, about incontinent designers...ever.
Well all that said, Louise, who will always be loucee, no caps is designer and a CT member! This lady makes me smile and laugh! She is in England, and she loves her country and had a hankering for a St. George kit. So, Vicki and her put this cute little kit together and Charlie said she could ask us (Charlie's CT) if we wanted to do a bit of CT for loucee..of course I said yes.
Now, I have to interject in my already rambling post full of run-on sentences. Our loucee has a precious dog named Lenny. Perhaps it is the name, I have never heard of dog named Lenny, or perhaps the video she has on her blog, with Lennie playing in snow? This dog just got to me, and Lenny is very sick. Heart probs and all...things I don't understand. But thru it all, her precious Lenny, loucee has pushed thru and posted her dear kit. Please go by her blog, pick up the fun kit and leave some love (not just for loucee) but a scratch behind the ear for Lenny!
So here is my layout for loucee. My son Gman whose imagination is the biggest and his love for play is also!


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Anne


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Layouts I love with Masks!

Doris Castle from Scrap Book Graphics tossed a few sets of masks at us early this week, and I love masks. They really add so much to a layout, it is like blending with a bit of control! I took a ton of pictures when we went to the coast for my Dadem's birthday! So here is one of my hubby. He thinks he looks like a monk...ha ha but I love his smile!

Then the boys had just settled in for a long game of Risk! (is there such thing as a short game of Risk?) and I was playing taking pics with and without flash, cause I liked how the light was illuminating their board!
love framing the mask...just liked the look to this layout!
I don't usually work from more than one kit, I have a bit (shall I say) focused...lol off balanced, over the top. but I opened like 3 of Doris' kits, Dreams, Gypsy Chic and Sunday Love and her word arts...and began grabbing and dropping and it all worked, so I hope you enjoy these, as I really had fun putting them together!

Thanks for reading!

Anne


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