It's beginning to look a lot like Disney!

It's almost December! It sure is cold enough to be, isn't it?! I have been scrapping away and have almost finished my Disneyland trip from this August. I only need to journal it. I feel like I have been neglecting my family for the sake of catching up, but it's actually good for me to sit still and not rush around doing too much since I only have a month of pregnancy left. (I'm perfectly able to rush around, but when else will I have the excuse to sit still?) Now, if I could only figure out a way to scrapbook as I nurse, I'd never get behind! ...hmmm...



Some of the pages that I did, I absolutely love! I'm used to doing Disney albums that coincide with the Christmas season, so I've been somewhat confused as I was scrapbooking this trip, listening to Christmas music, but not using any Christmas things on the pages. I'm serious! It's been different! Creative Memories came out with all new Disney sets, and that has been fun to use, because everything is new. I can't wait to finish journaling so that I can show this book off!

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The post below has a picture of one of my favorite pages from this Disney trip. Take a look at it!

Using a Map

This picture is from a page I did in my daughter's Disneyland album. I'm not able to put the picture I took of the page I'm talking about here onto the blog at this time!

This page is one of my favorites. I loved that my daughter was learning to read the maps while we were on this trip. I liked letting her lead the way. This page is simple. I cut one of the California Adventure maps to fit the 12x12 page, covered it with a piece of vellum, and put the pictures right on top. In order to adhere the map to the page, I used a tape runner. To adhere the vellum to the map, I used clear photo tape. I also put some adhesive in the middle of the map, using frosted splits to do this, so that you wouldn't see them. I often "Disney-up" my stickers and pages in subtle ways. This time, I simply used a mickey punch to add a Mickey to the top sticker.

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Busy Bee

Don't mind me, I'm just scrapping! I have been neglecting other household chores in order to spend as much time scrapbooking as possible. This week, I finished journaling my 18th book for my daughter, and am now a full day into our Disneyland trip. Most of these pages feel very uninspired. It could be that I am just trying to get it done, but I don't want to do boring pages just for the sake of getting caught up! This is Disney after all, and who knows if we will ever get back there. I may just be feeling hampered by the new stickers and papers that Creative Memories has come out with. I find myself trying to work around the new product rather than the pictures, and that's no good. I have laid out all the pictures on page layouts for after the Disneyland trip. I am feeling that this really can be done in time. I have a month and a week until my due date and multiple picture taking opportunities between now and then, one of those being Christmas! ( that's a big one!) But I can do it!

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Croptoberfest

November 2008

Yesterday, I was able to go to Croptoberfest and scrapbook all day! I finished 11 pages and laid out pictures for my whole Disneyland trip. Whew! The food was wonderful! It was quite literally a Thanksgiving feast! We were each given an exclusive sticker pack and with a purchase, we were given a coordinating paper pack. I was just happy to be scrapbooking, well fed and immersed in healthy girl talk. Several of my friends were there, and we all had our own tables. It was a really nice day. Fortunately, my friend Bekah had come with me and carried my bags into the building. As I'm midway through my 8th month of pregnancy, there would have been no way I could have carried all of them! We used a wheelchair and loaded my bags onto it since none of them were wheeled carts.

As I was getting all the pictures ready for this day away, I realized that once I'm done with my Disneyland album I'll almost be caught up!

Quilts and Scrapbooks

This week, I am adding an extra blog, because I'm getting this out so late and I'm sorry! Here's why it's late: The baby's afghan and my daughter's quilt. (Both are firsts for me.)

As the warm weather draws to a close, so does my pregnancy! I have had several projects that I've been trying to complete before the baby comes and I am pleased and a bit relieved to tell you that I have completed the quilt I wanted to make for my daughter! I have also made the baby's knitted afghan big enough that it could snuggle up in it if it was born right now. But I am still planning on making it bigger and I'm working on that. It is also included in the first picture. I'm a long way from done on my daughter's albums, but I keep on plugging away and some days I feel so inspired! I can take hours on one page, and sometimes that's OK. I know that if I take hours on each page, I will never finish, but there are times when I can't help it. If I have an idea, I don't think that I would be satisfied with any less!

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