Princess Day Camp

Last week was a busy, fun one! I had a princess camp at my "castle", actually in my yard. It was great; really a blast! We did all sort of princessy things, and I took hundreds of pictures. After camp was over, I wondered, "What am I going to do with all these pictures?" So, yesterday I made an online album of my favorite pictures from camp. It ended up being 36 pages, and I'm not sure if I'm going to pare it down or not. But it was a lot quicker to make than scrapping the pictures, and I will still dedicate a few pages in my daughter's album for Princess Camp, so I'll get to use the new little girl paper pack which has tiaras and wands, very cute! Scrap Happy!

T- Ball

Last week, I was feeling ambitious and decided to cross one of the things on my longstanding TO DO list off. So, I finished off the 10th grader's last album! (Well, the last one I'll be doing.) It feels great to be completely done. Now I can focus on my daughter's albums.

These pages, of Kristie's T-ball games are very simple, but cute. I tried to make the one shot of her batting look like a baseball card. I left a lot of room for her mom to jot down any memories she might want to add. I just write what I know, which is only what I can see in the picture or what has been left on a sticky note for me.

Pictures are so personal, that of course I have gotten to know this family in a small way as I did the albums. I hope that her mom will make her some more albums, even if she does them online. I have almost completed an album for my cousin online and I want to send it to him as he is in a different country right now. I think it will help him fight any homesickness he might have.

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You're Invited!

Each year, we have a themed birthday party for our daughter. We carefully pick out matching decorations and invitations. I like to include the invitation with the pictures from her party. I have occasionally included a stamp, because the price is interesting, and some years the stamps really go with the theme!

This page, with an invitation and a picture of the family or just the birthday girl, is the first one leading into the birthday party pages.

To do this, you need to plan ahead a little bit and either keep an extra invitation for the album, or ask a Gramma to hold hers for you! That's what I did this past birthday party!

In a Creative Memories album, you can feel safe adding the invitation directly to your page, but just be careful not to have the paper touch the photo in any way.

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caught in a summer moment

I couldn't have posed this shot if I had tried. The setting is fabulous, the subjects relaxed and having fun, just doing what they do, and I just stumbled apon them. Although they saw me, (even though I tried to be sneaky) I told them to ignore me, and keep saying whatever funny things they were saying. This picture screams "SUMMER!", and it's my favorite picture in a long time. Unposed. I love unposed!

50 Fun things to do this summer

This summer, I created a list of things for my daughter and I to do. They can be anything, from little things like blowing bubbles, to bigger things like going camping. As we complete activities on our list, we check them off. I try to get a picture of us doing them, too. We have learned a lot, and have had fun together, doing things we probably wouldn't have thought of doing, or gotten around to doing, if we didn't have them on our list! We have found the park with the best swing, caught tadpoles, had picnics and hiked. Even after we cross something off of our list, we still find ourselves coming back to do it again, if it was something we really had fun doing! We have gone to so many different parks and waded in several different creeks and had many more picnics than usual! Best of all, we are having fun playing together. And making the memories is the best thing that isn't even mentioned in writing, on our list!

In the pool with Daddy

What a beautiful, sunny, summer day! We had been shopping at the outlet stores in Ocean City, and came back in time to have the pool to ourselves pretty much. My daughter had just started swimming that summer, so we couldn't get enough of watching her swim underwater! She never seemed to get tired of swimming from the side of the pool to her Daddy. Back and forth, over and over again! I just sat in the sun, with my feet in the water, enjoying the sight of the 2 of them playing together.

Tip of the Day: These pictures were taken in the evening, so the sun was not directly over head and didn't create a glare on the water. I loved the color of the water,and tried to keep it the focus by using aqua sticker letters and the little ripple sticker along the side of the page.
I also used a gold flecked page instead of white. I think that helps the page not to look so plain. I love the way the aqua looks with the gold page as well.

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