made by brightsmith, purchased through the HeartsForHaiti shop
brooch and key chain by Nellieandelsie, purchased through the Craft Hope shop
Finished up a couple new scrapbook pages this afternoon. I pulled the photos, journaling and comments straight from this blog post for the Sadie page. Easy-peasy!
Fun to see the new scrapbooking goodies from CHA popping up on the Internet.
Well, the weather hasn't been much to write home about, has it. Between the freezing cold, the snow, wind, ice, fog, and today's misty rain, I feel like we've been cooped up inside for a month! Add to that a nasty stomach bug for Lachlan all last week and I didn't really feel much like blogging.
I must admit that the ice can be very beautiful when you don't have to come in contact with it in your car or on foot!
Lachlan's been keeping himself occupied with lots of fun indoor activities - reading books, playing with playdoh (I made the little things in the picture, but he likes to squish and cut and move the pieces from place to place),
building with blocks, coloring, driving toy cars around, and playing his musical instruments have been his favorite activities lately. Oh, and of course, helping with whatever I'm doing - putting away laundry, vacuuming, cleaning out the dishwasher.
I've been keeping busy crocheting granny squares and today I made a crochet chocolate chip cookie! I also finished making a new Valentine's wreath this week. I will share photos of those projects soon!
In other news, I hit the halfway point in my pregnancy this week! Feeling pretty good right now, other than what feels like a mild cold hanging on. I can feel baby girl move every day at least once, so that is fun and exciting!
Thought I would share these layouts that I finished today after starting them on Saturday.
Rachel threw Deb an early birthday party on Saturday in the form of a scrapbooking/crafting crop and I got to join in for a few hours. It was fun and relaxing! And I *might* have come home with a few new adorable scrapbook papers.
My preschoolers are always interested in bringing something special to share from home - especially since all the exciting Christmas gifts appeared at home! I decided to set up a specific sharing day and schedule to keep things more manageable and organized. This weekend I whipped up two drawstring sharing bags to make transportation of the sharing items easier and more "fancy". :) They are so quick to sew (here's a simple tutorial I found if you want to try one). I also made little fabric tags with stamped instructions and sewed those to felt, set a couple eyelets in each, then threaded the ribbon through the tag to keep the tag with the bag.
We've got plenty of the white stuff here! And the frigid temps! At least someone in our family is enjoying it. :)
I've really been a scrapbooking machine over the last week. It was nice to have some time to work on it after Christmas while I still had some extra vacation time. Deb and Rachel came over to craft (they knitted while I scrapped) on Saturday so I spent a few hours working on these layouts and finished them up yesterday. Notice Cleo was helping me photograph them today. :)
I like the simplicity of this layout, but I think it needs a little something. I was thinking of repeatedly stamping the word "pumpkin" vertically up the two orange strips. Any ideas?
I also finally put my 12x12 and 8 1/2x11 layouts from the past couple years into albums. I decided to go with Stacy Julian's method and organize my layouts in category albums instead of chronological. My 4 albums are "Celebrations","Everyday Life","Christmas", and "Places We Go". Celebrations has birthdays, weddings, Halloween, parties, etc. in it. I decided to make one just for Christmas because I tend to make lots of Christmas layouts and I think it will be fun to look at them all together through the years. The light blue album is Lachlan's, with layouts specifically about him from when I got pregnant - current. They have windows on the covers for the titles, but I'm working on an idea to make labels for the spines. Also ordered a new album for baby-to-be so I can start filling that one!
We were so fortunate to have a photo shoot with my friend Wendy's sister-in-law while they were visiting from California this week. Her name is Joy and her business is Wildflowers Photography. What an amazing photographer! Here are just a few of the photos from the day. I would say they are a few of the favorites, but right now every single photo on the cd is my favorite! I'm sure you will see more soon. :)
After completing a Project365 photo-a-day project in 2008 and losing steam with another in mid-2009, I wasn't planning on trying a 365 project this year. But, I have been inspired by a few friends who are trying it this year (Rachel & Deb) and I'm motivated to document another year that promises lots of new beginnings for our family!
I am going to set a goal to upload the photos to my Flickr account and the 366-1 group at least weekly, and make prints monthly to put in an album. I think It will be more motivating to see a physical album fill with prints.
Good luck to everyone who is trying something similar!
Happy New Year to everyone! I'm so excited about 2010. I think it is going to be a great year. Of course, I am most looking forward to our little family of 3 becoming a family of 4 this year.
As far as crafty goals for the new year, here are a few projects I have in mind:
