Please do not disturb! Scrapbooking in progress

Let me apologize for the bad quality of these pictures of 2 pages I did this week. I took these pics at night, with the flash off, so they aren't the best!
Aside from that, the page above is of our room on our December cruise. I made the little portholes from paper, using the circle punch.
The page below is of unposed pictures of my daughter's reaction to items we found in local stores while at Key West, Florida, our cruise's first stop. I only used a little paper, and then took one shell sticker and placed a title sticker over it. I love it! You will see that I used quite a lot of title stickers on this cruise. I often used them with stickers to give them a unique look.


Ah! I'm now 12 1/2 weeks pregnant! I really feel the pressure to get caught up on my girl's album and other dangling projects before the baby comes. This week, I worked whenever I could on my daughter's album and was able to get all the pages designed and created! I am now in the process of journaling, which will probably just take me one more day's work. It is so much faster to journal than scrapbook! When I work, I just scrapbook, only adding page titles if needed. I save all the journaling for the end. Especially when I'm working on a project that is many pages long.
I loved reliving the cruise, and I really like so many of my pages! I try so hard not to do the same thing over and over, and I was quite satisfied with the ideas I came up with. Not to brag...I just can't wait to get it all journaled and finally show it off.
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Baby Butterfly

When I had my daughter, I thought that the next time I had a baby, I wouldn't worry so much. I believed that the next time I was pregnant, I would eat whatever, do whatever; because I already had her so if I lost the pregnancy, it wouldn't hurt so much. But now that I am pregnant with my little one, I worry. I carefully eat what I should and shy away from things my husband has warned me not to eat. ( Oh, yes, he is very much like that. The first move he made after I told him I was pregnant was to e-mail me a bunch of pregnancy eating tips.) I already know that when I go to Disneyland I am not going to be riding the rides with warnings on them. Because this baby is already so important to me. I already want to protect it. I already include it in my future plans and in my prayers. I am in no hurry for this pregnancy to be over, because I love being pregnant. I love feeling the little kicks and seeing my daughter's face light up in a huge smile when she heard the baby's heartbeat. I even like looking pregnant. I like having the baby all to myself!
This week was a special one because the caterpillars that my daughter and I had watched turn into chrysalis', broke out and became butterflies! We were actually able to watch many of them emerge. As they climbed from their cage, my daughter would put her finger out and they would climb on. Her face was priceless. As she held one, she said, "This is the best day of my life!" She was able to let all 9 of them fly free for the first time from her finger. It was an amazing thing, and would you believe that I took 100 pictures?
My, I'm chatty today! As for my scrapbooking, I am moving right along on my cruise pages. I keep it set up in the school room and sometimes my daughter even comes to "scrapbook" with me. I did let her do a page of pictures that she herself had taken on our pirate adventure.
That said, I am now itching to get off the computer and get something done!
So, Scrap Happy!

Mission Accomplished!

Before I explain the page above to you, can I just tell you that I have finished my Disney World (Dec. 2007)vacation pages?! There are only 20 some this time, which isn't much for me. Last year, I had 2 books for my Disney trip! I still have to scrap the cruise. But I have finished a big part of my trip, so I'm excited. I just was realizing that I only have a couple weeks free this summer before my big trip to CA, so I really need to get to work on these albums!

The page above is of my birthday dinner at Teppan Edo in Japan. (really in Epcot!) I have since journalled on this page. It's a simple page, but I like it very much.

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Scrapping and loving it!

This page design came to me as I looked closely at the border of the picture on the upper right hand corner. It took awhile to punch all of those mickey shapes out, and then I even cut some of them because I wanted them to go right up to the border of the page. I adhered these with the regular tape runner as well as the CM glue pen. I even put 3 silver Mickeys on the page, and those are actual confetti from Disney World. Here's a close up:

I started scrapping again, and I really have been booking! I completed my Disney World trip last night, and now I need to find my notes so that I can go back and journal all 8 days. I still have the cruise to do as well. I feel so far behind. Having the room set up so that I can scrap anytime has been just what I needed. I also have had to cut way back on the anount of things I do around the house, since I get backaches or lower abdomen pain if I do too much house or yardwork! I have to spread my work out now, and that gives me time to scrapbook.

This is probably one of my favorite pages (above) from this trip. I love using punches and you can use different colored paper to match any page you're doing! I have used some of these punches for years! I have 4 slightly different Mickey punches.

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Different Angles

First, I have some news! I'm pregnant! Yay! These pictures were taken yesterday by my newly 6 year old. I feel like my tummy is enormous already, but I can see from picture #2, that I'm not. The first picture is from my daughter's point of view. But it really wasn't flattering! So, I had her stand on the second step of our porch and take another picture. Sometimes it's all in the angling!
My plans for scrapbooking are as follows: I have a huge desk for my daughter, which she won't need for the summer since she is done with Kindergarten! I've taken over this desk as my scrapbooking station and I plan to sit there for hours every day and scrap. This room is right on the main floor of my house, so this plan HAS to work! I simply feel the need to catch up now that I have a baby on the way. That is the best incentive for me. As for after the baby comes, I plan to still scrapbook for my oldest, but keep up to date on the baby's album by doing Digital albums as I take the pictures. Once I fill up a book, I'll simply order it and it will come to my house all done! Those of you who think that it is unfair to the baby to only have a digital album, keep this in mind....Which child will need to rent 2 U hauls to take their albums when they move out, and which child will just need a van? Which child will be laughing then?!
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