November 13

Today Aaron wanted to play trains out of the blue. It’s always interesting to watch how a certain toy gets ignored for a long time and then makes it back to the forefront again.

I scrapped it…of course.

June 18

Oh my gosh the end of the school year is getting REALLY close now!!! REALLY need the break!

 

Okay, so this morning I woke up at 6:45…why!??! And I did a project that was long overdue, organizing the bookshelf. Again, I wish I had a before picture for you, but let’s just say that it wasn’t pretty. There were more books than shelf. I went through my books and set aside about 15 to list on half.com and another 15 to donate, and then got Chris to do the same when he woke up. So now they all fit, there is some empty space, and we made a sale by the end of the day on half.com! (with two more in the following week!)

ah. accomplishing home projects does  a soul good.

 

and speaking of projects…here is another one I have been working on for a while, Chris’ Father’s Day book. Here is Aaron proudly holding it after we printed it, cut the pages, and put it all together. More on that tomorrow.

May 13

Here is a little scrappy project I was working on for Neecers’ birthday. Greg got her a cruise and asked if I would scrap the itinerary in some creative way. I think it turned out great.

May 11

OH my goodness how exciting is this!?!??! I got a package from my friend Andrea in the mail today…from ENGLAND!! It was a total surprise and I was just giddy as I realized what it was. She sent me some stationary and chocolates. SO sweet!!

Coming Friday!!

Check out this adorable preview of a beautiful new collab between Graham Like the Cracker and WM[squared]. Makes me feel like a blogheader change is in order!

Click on this link to enter for a chance to win this kit!

February 7

Here is another example of Aaron and I doing a fun activity together RIGHT when we get home because of his good behavior in the morning. Today he wanted to read from his Toy Story Collection. I love the way he was sitting on my leg and leaning on my shoulder.

I scrapped these pictures with a GREAT LOOKING new kit from Unforgettable Moments called Rustic Charm. I also used a template that she has coming out THIS Friday!

Some new releases!

Okay…as a CT member one of my responsibilities is to blog about new releases and I have not done that in…let’s say a long time. Well, my paper is turned in (8 hours early, WHAAAAAAT??!!?!?) and I am waiting for some groceries to make it home so I can work on Ashley’s bday fondue, so in the few moments I have, how about some new releases??
Okay, first up, because I made them and I am SO proud…here are some printable Love that Boy and Love that Girl Valentine cards for little sirs and ladies to give and get. Because they come in both blank and messaged formats, consider picking these up to use as sweet notes for your little ones all year long! You can use them for bookmarks or slip them in a lunchbox after writing your own notes on them!


You can also pick up the bundle of all 16!


Next up is a new Valentine’s kit from Band Geek Designs called Every February. I loved the creams and browns!

I scraped a fun page with some lion pictures from our recent zoo visit.

Let’s keep going with the Valentine's theme…
Here is a new boyish Valentine’s kit by Stolen Moments that is in her guest store at 9th & Bloom!

I had a REALLY bad day last week, and it led me to create this page with pictures Ashley took of me and Aaron.

Okay…now it’s several hours later, Ashley’s bday festivities have concluded, and I am back at the computer to finish this post! :)
Finally, I want to share two new products from Unforgettable Moments.
First, here is her With All my Heart Mini, full of yummy browns.

I scrapped this sweet picture of Aaron with it.

and here is a page I scrapped with a new collab between Unforgettable Moments and Statements by Jodi, which is the free Daily Download at GingerScraps this month!

The whole family loves these pictures of the boys…I could scrap them a million times!
So what are you waiting for? Go buy something!

January 10

I have been working on this for three days. It has about killed me. I am going to finish it tonight and pray for snow.

Update:
Hubby says give up on the snow dream. I’m going to bed. EXTREME closeup of current project, still in progress.

August 10

Today was ScrapMatters Disneyland Day!! It is SO fun to meet online scrapping friends in real life. I hung out with (from left to right) Czianya (and her two kiddos), Jan (and her two kids, all in matching homemade shirts!!) and Jen (GLTC) and her son Alton, who is Aaron’s buddy. I do have a few VERY cute pictures of Aaron and Alton from this day, but I just love this picture of the ladies. (it is pretty rare for me to be a picture as it is!)

August 8

Tubing day! Today was our last day at the river, so we only went out on the boat for a little while, but we got to use a big huge fun raft! I scrapped one page about it so far, but I am going to have to make a facing page for sure! I made this with the perfect Lakeside kit by Stolen Moments and WM[squared] and Scraps by Number: Just Call Me Andrea Templates by Stolen Moments.

But, that’s not the picture of the day…THIS IS! Look at these adorable cousins, Aaron and Mady.
 

August 4

Family California Adventure Day!! This day was just AWESOME. We had an AMAZING time, we did so much, the kids were good, it was so fun.
As I mentioned in an earlier post…I take awesome pictures of my nephew. Here he is relishing a new-found kid pleaser, the frozen apple “goose”.

I loved this series of photos so much that I scrapped them a couple of weeks ago with Liz’s (Band Geek Designs at Digiridoo Scraps) Irrepressibly Sweet (click on the title to check it out) kit. This is a template by Liz too, click on the page for full credits.

I do of course have some GREAT pictures of Aaron from this day, but I can' have pictures of Aaron any time. My time with my nephew is rare and precious.

My Scrappy Week

Hi! Miss us and our antics? Well I am ready to catch up! We had a great time in California, and are now in Myrtle Beach, and boy do I have some P365 photos for you! That is coming up, but first, I am going to start a weekly post on Friday, Saturday or Sunday of every week where I post all the pages I have scrapped that week. I think doing it this way will help me keep up, show off this hobby I love so dearly, and show off the great products I use to make them.

My scrapbook pages are always linked to my gallery at ScrapMatters for full credits, which I will not post here because it takes more time than I want to spend. However, if a page features a new release from a designer that I am on a creative team for, I will specifically mention those here and link up the product names (in blue) to their location in their stores so you can check them out if you are feeling inspired!

So…let’s get this scrappy party started! :)

I did A LOT this week because I felt like I really needed to catch up on scrapping from my California vacation, during which I scrapped only 3 or 4 pages in 3 weeks. Well last week I made 6 pages!

Graham Like the Cracker has some cool new templates out this week called Weave Me, Weave Me that are different types of paper weaving. What a handy thing to have templates, for, right? I love how weaving looks, but it is very time consuming to do! I made two pages with these new templates.

This one, I am particularly proud of and I just love. As you may have seen, I have slowly but surely been making my way through Aaron’s baby book, which will go up to his 1st birthday. So far, I think I am up to 12 weeks. Yikes. For this page I also used another new product, Band Geek Designs It’s Only Words v. 2 Templates. Liz makes these amazing photoless layouts, and her templates are great inspiration to get your stories down on your pages. I really need prompting to do journaling, so these templates are just what I need. She has v.1 in her store, too.

Here is my second layout with Jen’s (GLTC) Weave Me Templates, and also with her new Love That Girl kit. I almost didn’t download this kit, because I really struggle with using pink, and this kit is all things pink! But then I remembered I took this pictures on our river trip of the most gorgeous girl you could hope to see, my cousin’s daughter Mady.

I also made this page, a summary itinerary of our entire CA vacation, day by day, using the It’s Only Words v.2 Templates. I changed it a bit to fit what I wanted to do, but I really love how it turned out. It will be a great opening page to that album. It already got put in the Gallery Standouts at SM today! How COOL!!!!

Okay, next up are my two pages with the AWESOME teacheriffic new releases from Stolen Moments this week, A Time to Learn and Blackboard Alpha. She also put out a new set of templates this week based on the amazing layouts of my fellow CT member, Andrea, which I used to make this page. I kept crying while I was doing the journaling…but it captures exactly how I feel.

I also made this one with the new Stolen Moments releases, and the It’s Only Words v.2 Templates. This is a page I have been meaning to make for a year, but these products gave me the perfect inspiration.

and finally, my last page of the week (phew, this is a lot of scrapping, that’s one thing I LOVE about summer!!) is of Aaron in the Casey Jr. Train line at Disneyland, just flat out being a rascal. I made this page with this kit called He’s Electric from The Design Girl as part of my application to be on her creative team, and when I saw it, I thought of Aaron’s shirt and these funny pictures of him being mad.

That’s it for last week…stay tuned for photo updates! (after I make a couple more posts in my grad school class!)

Some (old) New Releases from 3/19

LAST Friday, there were some great products that I scrapped with and never got up on my blog, so here goes.
First, Andilynn released a set of Quickpages made by the Creative Team with Fair Are the Meadows. Don’t they look great? I made two of them, shown below, and I am so proud to be part of something that is in the shop!

 


Also, Sarah Bennett released a beautiful kit (I think this is one of my favorite things from her store) called Memories of You. It is the primary kit I used to decorate this blog.  I love the browns and blues and greens together, which I think is the same thing I said about Andilynn’s Fair Are The Meadows last week! I made two pages to show off this kit. One is of some pictures I took of Aaron at the dinner table while learning about using my camera on manual, and the other is Week 2 of my P365 pages.

Good stuff, right? Go get it!

New Releases from 3/12

Some good stuff new at ScrapMatters this week! First up, here is my layout with Andilynn’s new kit Fair Are The Meadows. Pretty colors, right? I love brown and green and blue together. You can also grab a freebie for a little while on her blog.

 

Andilynn also released some new journaling blocks that you can use lots of different ways called Facts Matter. I made a page with some brand new photos of a GREAT little self-portrait Aaron made on his chalkboard.

And finally, Sarah Bennett released a kit called Remember Me with deep browns and blues. The colors in it reminded me of a set of pictures we took with Aaron the day he turned 1 week old, and I am also constantly trying to work on that book too.

 

That is it is for last Friday’s new releases. Hopefully I will have some more of my 365 pages up soon!