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The journaling says:

I love that within 24 hours of my having brought Nana's old guitar out of the garage for Jake to play with,  he had already made a sign and had plans to go outside and charge for his performance.

HAHAHA.  I *love* my kid.

Fall Festival

So it was my turn this week to do a blog entry over at Eva Kipler Designs blog, and I did a scraplift to make this page:

I LOVE how scrap-lifting pushes me out of my routine and gets my creative juices flowing!  I copied placement of those circles almost exactly, because I have such a hard time making stuff like that balance!

Happy Scrapping!!!

Walden Farm 2010

Pumpkin Farm mini-book

Ok, this is perhaps the craziest scrapbooking project I've ever done.  Remember how AOL used to send out CD mailers CONSTANTLY, and sometimes they got oddly creative?  Well this project uses a wooden CD mailer. 

Half of the pictures are just pictures, and for the other half I used a digital kit from Chef (ScrapKitchen Designs) to make scrapbook-enhanced photos.  :)

The scrapbooking paper is an old Chatterbox line, and who knows where I got those stickers.  Other than that?  Lots of Mod Podge, and lots of ribbon.

My best friend and I have gone to Walden Pumpkin Farm with our kids every year but one since 2005.  We love it for the photo ops!

Album for a birthday girl

The days leading up to Aowyn's birthday were pretty busy for me, and I didn't get around to getting her a present.  (BAD Aunt Jenny.)  She LOVES scrapbooking, however, so I told her for her present I would help her make an album.

The chipboard 5x5 ringed album was only 99 cents at Target, as was the set of flower stickers.  I picked out a set of old KiMemories papers that would match the pictures (and each other.)  Oh I got her a set of sticky jewels at Michael's, too, and she was obsessed with them.  They were like $3?  I also picked out the best 8 pictures and sized them in Photoshop so they would look right in a 5x5 album. 

The hardest part was sitting down with Aowyn to make the pages - I tried to let her have artistic freedom, while guiding her a bit so the pages would look good.  :)  I did all the cutting, double-sided taping, and paper/photo placing (after consulting with her) and I let Aowyn have at it with the stickers and jewels.  I tried to go fast so she wouldn't get bored, but she IS just 6, after all.  She was pretty happy with the end result :)

First Hockey Game

Photo snow-globe!

Jake came home with a school fund-raiser catalog in September and convinced my mom to buy him a snow-globe with a place for a photo insert.  We just got the order in, and he has been carrying it all around the house with him.  We decided we would do one round of pictures for Halloween, and another later for Christmas.

First I took out my handy ruler and measured the insert guide that came in the snow-globe.

School assignment: scarecrow

My buddy Elauna came home today with the following assignment: make a scarecrow out of materials found in your home.

I think that teacher underestimated the amount of materials found in my home.  :)

We cut the base out of a cardboard cereal box, then added layers of papers and stickers and fibers.  Elauna drew the scarecrow's face and designed the top of the hat, and the necklace (which bears the name "Emma.") And she helped me with tracing, color picking, and sticker and paper placement.

The piece of cardboard allowing it to stand alone is covered in grass-colored paper and covered with fall leaves stickers. :) Around its wrists and neck - and sticking out from its hat - are fibers meant to seem like hay. Then there's fibers as a belt, and also at the bottom of the overalls for clothing accent. :)

I had a fun time using my stash and silly creativeness on a non-scrapbook project!

Seasonal switch-out frame

Ok, this has nothing to do with scrapbooking, but rather with art and home decorating.

Ya know how when you stand at your kitchen sink, thinking "I. hate. doing. dishes?"  I decided that if I had something pretty to look at, I might hate it less.  Enter Stephanie Fizer at Etsy.

I bought 8 of her ADORABLE monthly prints, and a picture frame that holds three 5x7's.

Here's the spring/summer combo:

Here's my fall line-up:

*edited 12-10-11: here's my new winter scene:

And here's where this frame lives:

(The kitchen sink is on the other side of this counter.)

To view the prints from her monthly series up-close, click here.  I'm going to buy a few more soon, they're just cuter than I can stand!!!

I also have a cuuuute Stephanie Fizer print on the door of my library, but that will have to wait until that room is done.  :)

 

Family

This is my best friend and I and our collective children - family for me is about who you choose, and who chooses you. Thus they are mine.

Kit used is Eva Kipler's Love of Family.