Here are some pictures of my girl and her little cousin. They don't get to see each other more than once a year. Aren't they cute?
I just love this one! It shows the size difference between a 2 year old and a 6 year old.
Apparently, the slip and slide also works as a drinking fountain!
These girls have such a great time together. I just loved to watch them play.
I'd like to encourage you to personalize your scrapbooks. After all, this is a very personal thing, why not change your stickers and die cuts to fit your page just right? For the above picture, I really wanted the wreath to be in a mickey shape. I ended up using grass paper, then covering it with holly so that it went with the round wreath. Ta Da! A perfect Mickey wreath to match the mouse himself!
Something I do a lot with the title stickers is add regular stickers to make them perfectly match your theme. For this beach page, I added seashell stickers to the title sticker.
I did the same thing on the page below, only this time, the clear title sticker is placed right on top of the other stickers.
I had a lot of fun on this book, and just finished putting it all together this morning. My husband looked at it today and pronounced it "Nice" which must mean it's fabulous! Happy Fourth of July everyone! Scrap Happy!
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!
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 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:
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!
The picture above was published as the photo of the week in allears.com's newsletter! Yes, that's my little girl and I took the picture! The funny thing about this picture is that I took it in November. I knew it wasn't the best picture I've ever taken, so I sat on it until deciding this week to just send it in to Allears. It was chosen immediately. I had to crop it first to get rid of the flash. It's the first time a picture of mine has been selected, and I've been sending pictures in for years!
This year, my daughter paricipated in a Dance recital again. It was our second recital. It was just as time consuming as last years recital was, and just as worth it once again! This year, we did feel more comfortable and knew what to expect, and thus were better prepared. I took most of my photos at the dress rehearsal. This is because the school asked that we not take pictures during the performance, and I like to get action shots as well as posed pictures! I did take a picture of my daughter with her Grammas and Auntie after the show. I like to remember who was there. Tickets are in high demand and we were blessed to get 2 extras this year. I also spent a good deal of time trying to get one of the 3 of us that was perfect. I'm very picky and this is a big night, so I was a bit grumpy with my loved ones as it seemed to take awhile to get a shot of my husband, the star and myself that I would settle for. The picture above is the last picture I took. She looked so adorable in her white coat and was holding her flowers with so much happiness. She had practiced really hard before this recital and it showed! She had done a stand out job, and we were all so proud of her. My sister and I both cried during her ballet number. She was like a beautiful angel!
HI! I'm leaving for a youth retreat this weekend, and will miss my daughter's first little league game, as well as T ball pictures. I decided to take some of my own today! I like that I can always capture her REAL smile, something professional photographers don't always do because they think her "cheese" smile will pacify me. I'm a proud momma! My girl was chosen as one of her cyber school's student of the month this month, an honor you don't usually see given to kindergarteners. School is winding down! Maybe then I'll have time to scrapbook again!
Happy Easter! I am very excited about Easter this year, so I even got my little girl a whole Easter outfit! Of course, I had to take her outside on a nice day and get a picture of her from head to toe. I actually don't like this picture much. It looks like a snapshot. This isn't the only way to capture her from head to toe!
This picture is better than the first, because it is closer! Also, since I took this picture in the shade, it isn't just her face that's shaded, and there aren't any weird shadows on her face from her hat. Even the background is better, more green and alive.
I like to remember the details. Her little hands in the too big gloves, clutching that purse she is so happy with. I remember being her age and having a little, white purse for Easter.
She loves this flower on her hat. So much so that she always wants to wear her hat backwards, so that the flower and bow will be in front.
And here are her toes! When I talked about getting her some new shoes to go with her Easter dress, she said that she just wanted to wear her red, sparkly shoes. I really think that they go nicely with her dress, and best of all, it's very J.
I am always trying to find new ways to decorate my pages. This string of pearls wasn't all that challenging. Here's how to make it. Punch out the beads with a circle punch. Use the wavy trimmer, and cut a very thin strip of paper to string them on. Use a heavier paper, not the thin paper, which will tear if you try to cut it in a tiny strip with the trimmer.
Using the sharp point of one of the blades from my cutting system, I poked one slit in each pearl.
Here is a picture from Easter last year. I used the paper that reminded me of basket weave to mat the picture of my daughter checking out all the goodies in her basket. Then I doublematted it using a piece of plain, pink paper. I used the straight trimmer (pictured below) to make a pattern on the paper. I laid the paper on the trimmer, then used my multipurpose tool to rub the paper until the ridges showed through. This just gave it a different texture. It made the pink paper match the plaid paper as well.
What pictures will you be taking of Easter this year? I usually get my daughter's picture taken professionally in her Easter dress. Then one day we have my "nephew" come over and we hunt for plastic eggs in the yard, then dye eggs together, and open resurrection eggs. So, of course I get pictures of all of that! On Easter day itself, it's nice to get pictures at church, especially if your church puts flowers up front like ours does. They make a nice background. I usually don't take a whole lot of pictures on Easter day, but sometimes it's nice to get pictures of the family at the table together. Everyone usually is dressed up a little, and that makes it easier to get pictures, since no one is complaining that they didn't brush their hair, put make-up on, and that sort of thing! I used to try to get pictures of my family out in front of the church, too. it's most important to take pictures of what matters to you. What do you want to remember? Take pictures of that! And when you scrapbook it, remember to journal!
My sick girl last Saturday
She was all curled up in a ball, looking so tiny on the couch, and I was trying to capture my feelings for the moment.
It's so sad when your kids are sick. On this day, She was so tired, and so sick. She just seemed so tiny and frail, and so like a baby. I have pictures of her sick from last February , too. In taking these pictures, I really was trying to capture this from MY point of view. I had been sitting net to her on the couch, in that blank spot, just watching her. When she fell asleep, I snuck to get the camera, and took these shots without the flash, because I didn't want to wake her and knew that the light from the window would be sufficient. I took a shot looking down on her, which I didn't put here, but while it was adorable, it wasn't the view I had wanted to capture. So, I sat back down on my side of the loveseat to take pic #1. #3 was the picture that showed how I felt, to see her there on the loveseat, all balled up, so small. Picture #2 was cute, but it didn't capture these feelings, her smallness.
As you can see from these pictures, we ended up in the hospital after our baby girl was sleeping for 3 days. She was severely dehydrated and needed an IV. Poor little thing!
Her favorite stuffed animal
She always has her little ankles crossed.
It was a loooong day in the hospital. I hated that she was sick, but I loved holding her in my arms again, like I had when she was a baby.
Hailey and I at 2:45 AM, just calling it a night! (This is typical for us.) We only started scrapping after everyone else left, and each got about 4 pages done.
Christine, aka Aunt Cricket comes to support me
My Mom came, even though it was her birthday! Happy Birthday! She and Ruth became good friends from coming to workshops here in my Mexican Marketplace.
Here I am with Fred and Royanne. Fred is going to start scrapbooking, digitally!
Friends Forever! me and Bekah
This is the first time my friend Christina came to scrapbook with us! I'm afraid we overwhelmed her!
I had set a personal goal for myself to start on my Disney Album this weekend. Well, that didn't happen, but I did clean the house! There has been some transition in my life. I am no longer a Creative Memories consultant! I missed my deadline, and didn't place my order in time! It was a complete accident, but it is all for the better, because I do have plenty to keep me busy. It was a shock, but now I feel relieved. I'll miss my customers, and having a store in my basement! That was really nice! But I am still going to scrapbook, and I'm still going to keep writing this blog as well. I will still use Creative Memories supplies, because they are the best. I even want to keep having crops, because I love to scrapbook with others, and sometimes I don't get around to scrapping unless I'm having a crop. I am still going to take way too many pictures! I just completed the 14th album for my 5 year old daughter!
