A Mini Album Keepsake and New Adventures

Hi everyone!

Thanks for dropping by yesterday to see Lowri's post. Today we have an awesome project from our CHA booth. This one comes to us from Donna Budzynskij of Meme's Artplace.

Donna took a wooden box, added some feet and then painted and decorated it with Art Angel. When you open up this box, you find a hidden mini album inside.

I think this is so fun! It's almost like a time capsule. I have plans to make one for Abby with photos I have of her friends she left behind when we moved to Austin. 

And speaking of Austin, did you know there was flooding here last weekend? Well, when I say here, I literally mean in my house.

It was just before midnight, Ethan had stayed up late to watch a movie. Since the dishwasher was going, he turned the volume on the TV up a bit. He didn't hear the water running from the broken bathroom valve, down the hallway, through the kitchen and over the steps into the front room where he sat on a rug, on a pillow. When the water level was high enough to have soaked through the rug, the pillow, his jeans, his underpants and then meet skin, we heard, "DAD, DAD, DAD" being screamed at length.

It took about an hour to get all the water up. Fortunately for us, Ethan hadn't gone to sleep yet. Fortunately for us, our older house has uneven floors that sent water away from our computer equiptment and most of our furniture.

We called our insurance company and I'll tell you what, they don't mess with water in Texas! No, unlike Utah, Austin doesn't just dry out. It's much too humid and mold really loves it here. So, my floors have been ripped out. My baseboards are gone. I have 2" holes drilled in my sheet rock and our home now hosts 18 fans and 3 de-humidifiers.

But hey, we have great air circulation! And, we were going to re-do those floors eventually anyway.

Seriously though... my life... you can't make this stuff up!