Bella Blvd

Friendship needs no words

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on January 14, 2012

I had flown home to North Carolina to spend a week of summer 2004 with my family. On this day Daddy was out in the front yard building a little brick border around a flower bed, and Mom and I were hanging out with him while he worked. We had Spenser out with us, and [...]

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Halloweenies

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on October 27, 2011

Blogtoberfest Day 27 Don’t miss out on my GIVEAWAY (closes 12:00 midnight EST on Sunday, October 30th)! Today’s layout uses photos from Halloween 2005, when Matt and I darkened the lights on our own house so we could help our neighbors hand out their treats. Norm and Linda, the neighbors right across the street from [...]

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Blogtoberfest Day 3

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on October 3, 2011

Dressed to impress Today I challenge you to pull out a few older Halloween photos and use some of the great new products that are available to scrap them. That’s what I’ve done here, using a photo of me and my brother in 1972 and new Bella Blvd supplies. Phil and I are all gussied [...]

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Soo cute! Using bright patterns with a black-and-white photo

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on September 8, 2011

How cute is this photo of me and my little brother from 1969? I know: we were cute, our outfits were cute, the expressions on our faces were cute, the way the photographer had us positioned was cute. Cute, cute, cute! Now I will attempt to write the rest of my post without using that [...]

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The good kind of pride

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on September 2, 2011

I’ve been thinking lately about scrapbooking things that make me proud. Things I’ve done that I’m proud of, things family and friends have done that make me proud and things about the world that fill me with pride. I think focusing on this emotion in my pages will be uplifting, so I’m going to start [...]

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