MMDT Challenge #15: Home Sweet Home

Challenge #15– August Feature Grid – Sandstone

Hello everyone, and welcome to Challenge #15!! In this challenge, we were to use the August featured Grid Paper, Sandstone, and Page Pattern #59 from www.tamipotter.com. The design requirement was to create a double page by flipping the page pattern and use a panoramic photo sequence. The theme was our choice. 

Since all of my time and energy is shared between work and working on my house right now, it seemed only natural to go with photos of my new house! I thought about doing a panoramic shot of the lake, but I didn't take enough pictures to cover both pages of the layout. So I decided to take a panoramic shot of my house itself. It is comprised of 6 photos, lined up mostly by the roof line and cut into the 1" x 3.25" strips across the top. Even with 6 photos, I still didn't have enough to cover both pages because my overlaps were a little too large, so I put a date cornerstone (www.tamipotter.com) on one end and some patterned paper (Cappella-Interlude from BasicGrey) on the other. It was NOT as easy as Lori made it look!

Next, I took some pictures of some of my favorite things around the house right now. A lot of personal items are still in the garage from the move as my roommate and I are doing some work on the house still. As you can see, I used one of my failed panoramic photos of the lake, a shot of the mailbox (I haven't had any time for landscaping or gardening this year because we're concentrating on the inside first, so these flowers are the only thing I planted so far!), the funky mod-looking bird feeder I hung on the front of the house, the vintage hamper the previous owner's family left for me, the totally retro bathroom vanity with the boomerang cabinet pulls and gold-flecked formica, and...oh, yes...we got a kitten.

Never having been a cat person myself, my roommate has wanted a cat for the last 2 years. When I bought this house, I told him he could get one if he wanted; our previous landlord did not allow cats. And don't you know my friend's cat had one kitten just about 4 weeks before I bought the house?? So now we have a 10 week old kitten thrown into the mix! We found out just yesterday that HE is a SHE, and now we're calling her McMuffin. She is getting along quite nicely with the dogs, and I have been spoiling her since the week before we picked her up. Sigh. So that's a picture of her on the cool bed I found at an antique shop that happened to carry the overflow from the pet store down the street. You never know where you're going to find cool stuff!

The chipboard cat is Max & Whiskers from Basic Grey and the chipboard Home Sweet Home is Life's Little Occasions from K & Co.

I hope you enjoyed your visit to my home! See you next time!!