***ETA: Texas girls, I’ll be teaching make and takes from 1-3 on Saturday, June 13 at Crop Paper Scissors in Waco. I will be using Jenni Bowlin Studio, October Afternoon, and Lily Bee products. I’d love to see you there!! ***
being trapped in a teensy house with two sick, coughing, tired, grumpy babies is NO fun. i think i’m slowly going crazy.
for example, harper and i made this this morning.
she calls it her “pet parade”. the only way i could get h and s to stop fighting for 5 seconds was to get them to get all their animals out. i lined them up as slooooowwwly as i could. this kept their attention for precisely 5.5 minutes and then the screaming started again.
moving on. last week i got a comment by a reader on one of my posts.
they wanted to know if i could share my very first layout and also my favorite layout.
so i went and got harper’s baby album out of her room.
i looked through it and couldn’t remember what the very first layout i made was.
technically, i made J several scrapbooks when we were dating. but i am NOT sharing those. teehee.
here are a couple of the first things i made once i really got into scrapbooking.
i remember being SO proud of these. so proud.
they took me so long to make!!
and as for my favorite layout that is such a hard question.
they all mean so much to me. my favorite changes with regularity.
but if i had to pick just ONE, i guess i’d say this one.
there was so much going through my head when i made this.
so much fear and uncertainty.
so much i wanted to tell him and i just didn’t know how.
i remember him picking up this layout and reading it and saying thank you and just hugging me. and i was so glad that he found it and read it, b/c these were things that i just couldn’t get my mouth to say out loud.
i’m so grateful for this question, it gave me the idea for an entire blog post!
if you have anything you’d like to see me blog about, please ask!! i’m always looking for new topics and creative things to share.
hope you are having a beautiful Sunday and that you are not trapped in a teeninsy house with two snotty sneezy babies. b/c it’s about as fun as it sounds!!
on to do something else faaaascinating, like making another pet parade.
good times.
xoxo
here’s a super simple layout i did last night.
it was for a challenge at 2peas to scrap a page with a one word title.
it didn’t photograph well, sorry about that. the b/w photo is not dark like this on my page. i need to become a “flat scrapper” so that i can scan my layouts!!
journaling label and tag behind title- my minds eye andreavictoria line
chipboard flowers- basicgrey
paper flowers (layered on top of chipboard)- sassafras blossoms
alphabet- american crafts thickers
cardstock- bazzill swiss dot
pen- american crafts precision pen (.01)