and i dont really know why! 🙂 i hurt my back so i dont want to sit at the computer long… yesterday i did, got lots of JACstuff done.
here’s a layout i got done for midmonth:
whoopee! a boy layout too! these pics are from last summer. i hold on to pictures that i can’t bear to scrap… worried i won’t do them justice or something. 🙂
cam is starting band this year. we rented a trumpet today. whoa mama. once he makes some progress maybe i will film him and put it on the blog 🙂 a waters concert! 🙂
can i help you?
this is what elsie says when she sees me scrapbooking now… can i help you? meaning, can i play with the glue and use all your scraps and diecuts and put them in my pretty cinderella book????
why yes, you can.
kira used to do this too… notebooks filled with stickers and tags and whatever else she could find and save. she still has them too, under her bed. i love it. my girls inherited my scrapbook/packrat abilities 🙂
layouts
3 of 4 kids this time 🙂
layouts for 2peas.
jeans
i cannot tell you how different my boys are from my girls- or kira at least 🙂 each year they hate going school shopping, and for the last few years, i haven't really had to.. they wear the same things, take pretty good care of them.. and our weather doesn't have any crazy extremes so they can wear shorts and tee shirts all year long 🙂 so for the first time in about 4 or 5 years, cameron got jeans. 🙂
i dont want it to seem like we are witholding new clothes from him… it's just that he DOESNT care 🙂 and he LIKES wearing shirts and tees ALL the time. it could be raining out and he will want nothing to do with the one track suit pants he owns. 🙂 but anyways, yesterday while i dragged them out to get new clothes, cam voiced a desire to try jeans on.. so he did, he liked, i bought. chris came home later and noticed immediately. it's different to see his legs covered 🙂
caleb took this next pic. i love it so. 🙂 he has a serious picture bug right now.. so we're going to let him use one of our old cameras for a bit– can't wait to see what he gets!
oh and here's a layout for KI:
my good friend had a baby last night and i have serious baby fever. needing to journal about remembering little features and old habits.. this one for 2peas.
friday
the midmonth garden went up today.. and i got this one done:
it was one of those moments that needed to be recorded right then and there. 🙂 i also scrapped another picture that i totally forgot i already scrapped–duh! tonight we have a wedding and then part 2 of it tomorrow. then r e s t on sunday, yay, im so excited 🙂
august already?! no way!
i can't believe how fast the year is going by! as chris and i enter our busiest month with jac, i'm enjoying bits of time to scrapbook and read. here are my layouts for the first of the month at 2peas. the theme is finishing touches. i went a little crazy with the softies! and this is a new product that came to my doorstep the other day, im not sure i would have known what it was if i didn't get it in real life. loove that it's tape and ribbon in one. pretty.
and this one:
digging through the stash of older pictures lately. sigh. 2 years has gone by so fast!
and some pics for my cousin, mihan, you'll be proud of us, getting together last week 🙂
that's it! 🙂
we just had an earthquake!
it was scary for the kids but nothing fell off my shelves (and i have a LOT of shelves with stuff on them) and we are okay.
and here are your winners via the lovely kira:
Posted by: Anika | July 28, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Posted by: Megan Spinks | July 28, 2008 at 05:55 PM
please email me your info and i will get it to Trish who will mail your kits to you 🙂
again.. thanks everyone. your comments are much appreciated. SO sweet. for the questions about how i get stuff done.. i am pretty fast. those 2 layouts were done in an hour or so. and lately, i’ve been going downstairs to the dining room and scrapping while the kids are playing there.. so i am not holed up in my room. i take a few things and scrap with them near.
thanks!
the rush
there’s still a rush when i see a box of product sitting at my door. i love getting mail. good mail 🙂 (that dates back to me and my cousin writing letters in the 4th grade-xo mihan) and this month i was a guest designer for WIP kits. i loved the stuff that trish, the owner, chose– i immediately scrapped these two layouts with it.
and that is the rush. getting something and creating immediately. and liking what you created. 🙂
here’s another layout i did for the ki blog
i hope you’ll join me at that challenge 🙂
and just because i’ve been the anti blogger these days.. the lovely trish from WIP is donating a couple of kits for me to giveaway via my blog. so leave me a comment and i will pass a few winners on to her 🙂 gracias.
**updated at midnight on tues– thank you for all the super nice comments. you guys are great. im gonna have kira pick names in the AM. 🙂 she sleeps in, so hopefully by 10ish 🙂
taking the day off
after a chaotic day with elsie in the craft room, it was suggested i take the day off today, LOL.
yesterday's craft was to make a bird feeder with peanut butter. while i was assisting the kids, elsie was sticking her hand in the jar of peanut butter, licking it off her fingers.. and managed to get a handful of bird seed in her mouth… which she continued to spit out ever so dramatically. while the other craft leader was giving directions to the kids, elsie stood up on the chair and said, "no no no no". there were other instances that made the day verrrrry long for mommy. she'd sense that mommy was losing it, she'd make this face at me and say, 'do you like this face mommy?' or 'you happy, mommy?' which of course, i could deny neither 🙂 so today we are taking the day off. we'll drop all the kids off and just have some downtime. we'll give the craft break room a break from elsie. 🙂
aw!
someone made it on the packaging of an autumn leaves stamp set!
there's another one out there of me and chris and one of me and my friend, shannon tidwell 🙂 my model wasn't cooperating with me anymore when i was trying to get those shots 🙂
im so behind on internet stuff… hoping to post a lot next week 🙂 for now here's some layouts– one for a 2peas challenge
and a few for KI memories… the bloom line has got to be one of my favorites lines EVER!
that's it for now…happy friday!
watersix 