playing...

My cousins daughter and I were having fun playing with my cricut. We made some cute paperdolls with magnets to play on the fridge. They were so cute! Counting these as 4 more projects towards my 100 projects challenge.

Offically additcted

That's the first step right? Admission. This past Wednesday my old computer bite the dust. I'm talking complete and total meltdown which took the last 2 months of pictures away from me. Ack! Hopefully they'll be saved later but I had to buy a new computer. I didn't realize how much I'd come to depend on my computer and really my link to the rest of the world. My routine in the morning hardly varies with me waking up to fresh brewed coffee (coffee timers rule!), filling up my cup and waltzing over to my computer to check emails, facebook, scrapbooking message boards and online stores (to window shop!) For the last few days I haven't been able to do that and I was almost panicy about it. So I scrapbooked while watching Star Trek.

Happily though I brought home a new computer last night. Shocked me how much computers have changed since I bought my first one 7 years ago. Loving windows Vista though, very cool but I still need to get used to it. Unfortunately I lost my photographs from my second week of lessons so I need to redo them. I'll post pictures later :)

Oh and I'm proud to admit that I have refrained from purchasing any scrapbooking supplies for 6 weeks!! That and I've decided that my mini albums count as 2 projects so I'm up to 35 already. Only 65 left to go. Hmmm maybe I should make a whole load of cards just to up my numbers ;)

100 projects challenge - January Totals

So here are my projects for the month of January. In addition to the previous scrapbook layouts posted this past month. I created 2 mini albums, 1 altered item and 25 layouts for a total of 28 projects. Only 72 more left to go. Course I think that mini albums should count as 2 ;) This was a mini album that I did about our trip to the Calgary Zoo using the January main kit from The Memory Workshop featuring Basic Grey Granola papers, Mini album is a black acrylic album from Prima marketing.

This was a mini album about Abby this past year. I used a maya road sheer butterfly album and the January bonus kit from The Memory Workshop featuring Basic Grey Urban Prairie papers.

Stampin Up! chipboard mini album that was turned into an address book.

Kaiser Kraft papers

The Memory Workshop May 2008 kit

Lifetime Moments kit featuring SEI papers

Crate papers and Riff Raff chipboard

Rouge de Garance papers that I have a really hard time using :)

old My Mind's Eye papers that I've had for 3 years

KI memories pop culture papers and really old Heidi Swapp chipboard alphas

Cosmo Cricket Get Happy papers

Favorite new paper company October Afternoon!

Found a new feature on Picasa! Photo collages! Great way to get a ton of photos onto one page.

So I signed up

for an online photography class at scrapshotz.com and am excited to be starting my first lesson. Here's my first (and favorite so far) picture in AV mode.

My Baby is 8 months old!

I swear that I just had him the other day! I can't get over how quickly time is slipping away from me. I mean I knew that this would happen because of previous experience. Hello? 2 other kids. But Owen just seems to be growing up at an alarming rate. Maybe its because he's my last but I'm trying to soak it all in. For the record, the little man is sitting up so good but seems to be stuck in reverse when it comes to scooting around. Its funny because the other 2 were walking by 9 months and I don't see Owen doing that anytime soon. I'm thankful because I want him to still be a baby for awhile longer.

He's also big on food, fruit being his #1 favorite. Banana muffins are a hit as well as any type of apple sauce. He's pretty good on veggies too but any funny texture like mashed potatoes is out. But he'll eat boiled chunks of potato (cooled) go figure. Hopefully his palete will be more developed than Ethan's.

Just love this little man who I'm thrilled to say is quite the momma's boy. Hey I've got the food :)

100 projects challenge

In keeping with my desire to use up a lot of my scrapbooking stash I've joined a challenge on the scrapshotz website ( www.scrapshotz.com) the goal is to create 100 projects before you purchase anymore scrapbooking supplies. I'm sure that I could do more with all my stuff but baby steps :) Projects are anything scrap related, cards, layouts, altered items, mini albums whatever. So I'm off to create and see how long it takes. I'll be posting monthly totals and the projects here. The challenge starts from Jan 1 so I've got a nice headstart from all the scrapbooking that I did previously :)

good thing he's cute

cause the little monkey has been keeping momma up at night.

Apparently its all part of his master plan. Look at that sinister grin

The power of a dancing musical mouse...

How cute are these two boys? My cousin's little guy was a guest at my house for a couple of hours just before Christmas break and I had to find a way to entertain 2 babies... Enter the musical dancing mouse...

He was a huge hit

Nothing tickles a babies' fancy quite like a stuffy that has glowing red cheeks and dances back and forth.

Plus the mouse sits there patiently waiting for grabby little hands...

more layouts

So this is the accumulation of my *me* time lately. All of these layouts were done in the last 2 weeks with the exception of a few of them. I've had so much fun with falling in love with scrapbooking again. Loving my cuttlebug and cricut machine again too!

The following 5 layouts were all done with the first monthly kit that I got from the memoryworkshop.ca Love how easy it was to pull these all together. I enjoyed them so much that a renewed my sub. for 3 more months.

Favorite photo of all the kids...I just love how the light is filtering through the trees.

playing with my new ali edward stamps from Technique Tuesday. A must have in any scrapbooker's stash :)

October Afternoon papers. Gotta love me some stripes :)

new scrapbook pages

these were done a month or so ago. My favorites of the time that hang on my wall :) This is so one of my favorites. I found and scanned pictures of my older 2 kids at the age of 5 months in similar poses to a photo I had of Owen. I think that its so cool how I can see the similarities between my 3 kids. The photos are arranged in birth order, Ethan, Abby and Owen

My little diva with a 'tude! Lord help me! Pray that she gets it all out of her system by the time that she's a teen ;)

My all time favorite photo of Ethan. One of the few non-weird, forced smiles that I usually get. What a handsome guy!!