Kayleigh's 2nd Level 5 Meet

So Kayleigh had her second meet on Saturday. It was held at Gold Country Gymnastics in Grass Valley. Kayleigh had an awesome meet!!!

1st place on vault: 8.675

The team won 1st place!!

2nd place on Bars: 9.150

2nd place All Around!!

4th place on beam: 8.750

4th place on floor: 8.175

Bar routine

Bar routine

Beam Routine

Love this shot of Kayleigh coming out of her handstand!!

Dismount!

Kayleigh's favorite picture! (floor routine)

My favorite picture!!!

Back handspring

Vault

Vault

Vault

 The vault pictures are a progression of her vault!! Thank you sports setting on my camera for rapid fire shots!!!!

More Halloween Cards

Here are a couple more Halloween cards that I've been working on. Some of them are ideas from someone else, some are my own brainstorms!!

Digital Images by The Cutting Cafe. This is a great idea for those who don't want to buy an entire stamp set. You can buy single digital images, print and color!! So fun!

Love these witch's shoes!!

This owl is a $1 stamp I found at JoAnn's. 

I love this bat!! He is too cute!!

Spiders!! EEK!!

This one isn't Halloween, but I needed a Thank You card. I used some scraps of paper that I soooo need to use up, and also some bits of ribbon! EASY!!

More Vinyl

Okay, I finished the vinyl for my craft room wall. Well, at least the words. I am going to cut out a few more owls and stick them up!

Craft Room Wall

So, I am slowly putting my craft room together. While the kids were at my mom's house, I got the "focal" wall painted a very pretty dark teal color. It isn't as bright as I wanted, but I really like it!! Chris helped me put my shelves up and I got some vinyl cut and put up. It was a little awkward to put up and it is off-center, so I may have Chris help me rearrange it. I'm still working on how to store things on the shelves, so excuse the mess that's there. I'll be cutting more vinyl out to go in between the two bottom shelves. It will say "Creativity is messy...and I am VERY creative!". I think that sums it up about how I work. I do like everything to have a place, but I like to put everything away after I am completely done working for the day. My table ends up looking like a tornado passed through!!

1 More Halloween Card

I ordered a couple of owls stamps from Side Show Stamps and bought a small grab bag of stamps. This vampire was in the mix and I thought he'd make a great "Man" card!!

Halloween cards

So, I've set some goals for myself in the card-making department.  I lost my mojo there for a while, but I think it's back!!! I painted my craft wall, and cleaned out my supplies. I'm slowly getting organized, but it is good enough for me to make cards!!! Here are 4 Halloween cards I just finished!!

Trick or Treat cat!! I added some homemade "Flower Soft" to make the cat look fuzzy!! Can you tell?

I found this little witch in the $1 bin at Michael's!! I thought she was cute!!

Here's the witch's friend, Frankenstein!! The thing that took the longest was hand drawing the "stitches" on the cardstock!!

I saw a similar card on Split Coast Stampers, and wanted to re-create it!! The spiders' silk is drawn in with a silver pen!!

1st Level 5 Meet!! Pictures

Kayleigh had her 1st Level 5 meet in Rancho Cordova and Technique Gymnastics. The judges are a little harder on the Level 5 girls, so Kayleigh didn't do as well as she thought she was going to. I thought she was amazing, but I think I'm a little biased!!;)

Bar Routine - Look how straight her legs are!!!

Bar routine - I don't know how she does it!!

Doing her kip!

Beam routine

Floor routine

Back handspring

Splits

Back walkover

Vault

I just thought this was a cool picture!!

Up and over

Waiting with Coach Megan and Coach Carrie

She hurt her knee doing her vault, so she's icing it before awards.

5th place on vault!!!

1st Day of School!!!

Thursday was the first day of school for Cameron and Ashlan!! Cameron is in 6th grade and has Mr. Becker for his teacher. Ashlan is in 3rd grade and has Ms. Johnson for her teacher. This year for 1st day of school teacher gifts, I did pencil jars. I found the jars at Wal-Mart, filled them with pens and pencils and then added vinyl to each side. 1 side has a "P" and "Pencils", 1 side has a "P" and "Pens, and the 2 remaining sides has the teachers' names and initial. Easy!!!! And the teachers LOVED them!!