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Two hours.  That’s officially my limit whilst sitting in a Chipmunks playland.  We ‘owed’ Jacob a trip somewhere special for his birthday, which was back in February, but he pretty much has to share a birthday with Abby so she had her choice of destinations on the actual weekend.  Jacob had to wait.  Then he fractured his wrist and has been in plaster.  So an April birthday treat, it was.  So yes, two hours was the complete upper limit.  It was the most I could take of screaming, squealing, running, and quite often crying kids, all in one go.  It was a welcome break to be able to leave and go have a picnic at a local park with a few favourite friends.  Finally the kids could run and play and the adults could talk.  Pair that with an impromptu daylight-savings-is-ending-so all-the-neighbours-should-get-together-for-a-drink-in-the-middle-of-the-culdesac-and-stay-there-til-it’s-too-dark-to-find-the-kids-anymore party last night, then the Warriors playing today, and the weekend was over.  Really, it went far too fast.  Goodbye daylight savings.

I didn’t scrap today, but did yesterday.  I finished up my Tarisota kit for April.  Tamar was quick off the mark this month and has loaded the Tarisota gallery early.  Erica L, if you don’t want to see your CJ entry, then don’t look! 

Here’s one of my favourite layouts, I’ll put it in the sidebar gallery too.

 

(Layout removed)

No Evana has not moved to Africa, yes she oppsidently hit Jacob in the head but more to the point, what is a guts tree?
I still don’t know.  But apparently you don’t stand underneath one because guts will fall on your head.  Really.  I have no clue where she was going with that.  I can only imagine that Abby has changed one word for another or she has been watching some pretty scarey TV that I was unaware of.

Missions for this week?  3 layouts for the Aussie Scrap Source blog.  They won’t go up straight away but won’t be too far away.  I’ll also be creating a new class kit for Aussie Scrap Source.  I need to get more pages done for the All about me album that we are all doing together – we are all doing the album together, aren’t we?  I’ll be posting more of those pages this week.  I think that’ll do me through til Friday, I hope your weekend was a good one!

Laters

Page supplies list: (April Kit from Tarisota).
Paper: Making Memories. 
Cardstock: Bazzill
Letters: American Crafts
ATC Transparencies: 7gypsies
Brads: Making Memories
Markers: Stampin’ Up! and American Crafts

I think I should have had the cheesecake.  Once the inkling of an idea is planted in my mind, it’s hard to let go.  Especially when it involves food when one is on a health-kick.  Or perhaps when it involves ridiculous songs from the Hi-5 TV show, like "I’ve got a box belly boom boom boom boom, boom boom boom boom boom".  That nasty piece of work once stayed in my head for 3 weeks, until I heard some other equally annoying song on the radio which kindly took it’s place.  Another one that stayed in my mind for far too long was this song from Youtube (warning incredibly R-Rated).  I couldn’t get rid of that one, singing it quietly to myself while sitting in my mother-in-law’s lounge one saturday wasn’t the ideal situation.

But I digress.  Back to cheesecake.

I have this rule that if bad food isn’t in the house, I won’t eat it, so I don’t buy it.  I was sitting here procrastinating over a layout yesterday cursing myself for creating the ‘bad food rule’.  And I remembered something.  Back in January I went to the optometrist.  I now have reading glasses for when I scrapbook.  How ironic that cutting out all those fiddly handcut titles would turn and bite me in the A$s.  Seems they ruined my eyesight somewhat and now I need to wear glasses to scrapbook.  Or read.  So I purchase the reading glasses (nope, you haven’t seen a pic on my blog!) and as I am leaving, the receptionist hands me a pen with the optometrist logo and a small box of chocolates.  Really it was the least they could do since they had just cleaned out my bank account.   I smile my best thankyou and leave the optometrist, come home and stash the chocolates in the furtherest corner of the pantry. 

Until yesterday.

Ahhh sweet chocolate.  To be fair, I did only eat 3 yesterday and 3 today.  And it’s not likely I’ll repeat the whole going-to-the-optometrist-to-get-chocolates thing in a hurry, so I’m guessing no bad habits were formed.  And I satisfied the bad food craving.  Back to being good again.

And all that being said, I never did complete a layout yesterday.  The mojo has disappeared completely.  I couldn’t even complete any simple Abby-album pages yesterday, much to abby’s disgust.  I did however, get quite a few in my inbox, so I’ll be adding those to the sidebar gallery in the next 30 min or so.  Thanks to Beverley, Kelly, and Gwen for the pages I’m posting in there tonight.  Check out their blogs for more details, (I see Beverley got her album for $1.50!).

Is there anyone else that has their kiddie album started and wants to share – email pics my way!  I love how everyone is getting into this.  I didn’t expect it and the best thing is how inspiring you all are to me right now.  Hopefully I’ll drag myself out of this mojo-less slump soon.

Oh!  I almost forgot – a new stamping challenge blog.  Inkurable stampers.  Cute name.  Visit inkurable stampers here for monthly challenges and giveaways etc.

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Yesterday I mentioned that in a moment of I-must-have-bad-food-I-need-bad-food, hubby declared it pie and cheesecake day.  A good old steak and cheese pie was the culprit in hubby’s case.  Paired with a takeaway coffee.  It seems the cheesecake part of the day didn’t eventuate.  Perhaps that was left up to me to look after but nope, I was good.  I thought I would be rewarded for my efforts but it seems the scales punish for merely thinking of eating bad food.  Next time I’ll eat it as well.

A layout to share – this layout is up on the Aussie Scrapjack site at the moment.  There are those leaves. 

 

Alot of the stuff on this page is made by the Scrapbooking Manufacturer Bella.  I’d never used their stuff before and I especially loved the white chiboard word.  Saved me handcutting a title!  Yea I still do that. They are celebrating their 1st birthday over at the scrapjack site so pop over if you get a chance.

I’ve updated the "All about me " kids album at the side with heaps more pages by other people.  If you aren’t sure where to start with this album, checkout the photos in the sidebar.  A few people are emailing and asking about albums.  SEI do a 5.5 x 8.5 but it is portrait orientation, some people are doing 6×12, others are doing 6x6s.  It’s really not worth worrying about too much.  As long as the kids can play rough with the album, it’s all good.

A quick thanks to Liddy for the 6×6 pages she sent me for SCKC :O)

I see Luxe are holding a design team competition. Details here.

OK. Off to make dinner.  Homemade bacon and egg burgers .  Not the best nutritional value, but has to be better than steak and cheese pie, right?

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Materials list:

Patterned paper: MME, BasicGrey, Jenni Bowlin.
Stamps: Hero Arts

Tuesday turned up rainy.  It’s welcome.  Just for a day.  The dark mornings, the rain and the leaves falling off the trees make me want to eat copious amounts of bad food.  Hubby came home to pick up some plans at lunchtime and declared it "pie and cheesecake day" .  We’ve both been on a health-kick since January and I guess we both wanted to break all the rules today. I laughed at his ‘pie and cheesecake’ declaration as he left but laughed even louder when I checked online banking later in the day and saw he’d been at the bakery.  I guess he wasn’t kidding.

I had great mail today.  I’ve been coveting the Fiskars Threading Water border punch for a while and I know it’s going to be a few weeks til it’s in New Zealand and I really couldn’t wait.  They are hard to find online but I found some at All Moments Remembered in the USA and couldn’t help purchasing. (BTW no I’m not getting a kick-back from Fiskars or All Moments remembered  – I know a few people wanted this punch I’m just lettin ya know).  Look at what this thing does.  Beats using the corner rounder to make the scallops! 

I’m going to confess here though that I bought two of them.  I decided I wanted to get some money back on the flippin hurrendous U.S. postage charges so I bought a 2nd one and put it on trademe.  It’s there for the bidding if anyone wants it.

Check out the Queen & Co blog.  When I write posts for that blog I keep it somewhat tame.  I don’t think my latest post on the blog really conveys just how much I loved the layout I posted.  In real life I wanted to shake the lady that made it and scream "you are a freakin GENIUS!" at her.    She used the backing off the felt borders and I love how it looks and I really need to try it.  Another one of those ‘Why didn’t I think of that" kind moments.

April Taristoa kit is up.  Galerry due 8th April.

I’m loving trees on my layouts. I’m loving leaves on my layouts.  You’ll see a lot of them, when one is enjoying something one should enjoy it, right?  It used to be flowers, then it was the spiral punch, I’ve never really got over the paper curling.  Right now it’s leaves. I feel like I’m almost warning you. lol.

Kiddie albums – GOOD NEWS is that Stampin’ Up is following along with us have suggested they will give away some stuff if we especially like some of the products.  Well heck YES I like some of the products and heck YES we would love some giveaways! I got the new catalog today and they seem to have more of the scrapping products in like the Crop-O-Dile, bling brads, some really nice patterned paper and I was surprised to see rub-ons too.  Anyone that plans to join in the kiddie book thing – well there’s an extra incentive!

I have uploaded some more into the photo albums. Is there anyone else that doesn’t mind sharing what they’ve done already? I’d love to post more.  For now, here is page 2 & 3 of Abby’s album.  Click the image for better detail.

Yes, that’s the Fiskar’s scallop punch you see.  I mentioned I like leaves in my layouts at the moment, I like this punch too.  I guess that’s another warning.  Wonder if I can combine them. lol.
(Materials list below)

Other details – I used the Stampin’ Up! Everyday Flexible phrases stamps to stamp words on the background papers.  I use a typewriter font a lot so these caught my eye.  They have 2 words per stamp (just incase you can’t see in the picture).  The scallop circle punch is a Marvy Uchida one, but I spied a scallop circle punch in that latest Stampin Up catalog.  I enjoyed matting the photo.  Which is kind of a sad detail that you didn’t really need to know I think but I had a small thought at the time that perhaps I should throw any knowledge of current trends aside sometimes and just scrap . 

Again – email me with pics of your kiddie albums!  Looking forward to seeing them.  I’m off to enjoy pie and cheesecake day before it expires.

Laters.

Materials list:
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up! Old olive and Chocolate Chip.
Punches, Fiskars (Scallop and Circle), Stampin’ Up! (Flower) and Marvy Uchida (Scallop Circle)
Stamps: Stampin’ Up! ‘Looks like Spring’
Stamps: Stmapin’ Up! Everyday Flexible Phrases.
Ink: Stampin’ Up! Chocolate Chip
Font: 2peas Hot Chocolate.
Pen: Uniball Signo.

We’ve had a busy weekend.  Cub camps, birthday parties at the neighbours, Zoo tycoon II .  The later of which amuses me highly – intrigues me even.  To the point at which I waited til the kids went to bed last night and despite the pile of tax and employee paperwork overflowing beside the computer, I played Zoo Tycoon for over an hour.   Give me a limited amount of money, the resources to build a zoo, the challenge of building one that attracts lots of customers – or not – and keeping them all happy?  My kind of game.  For me it harps back to the days of Santa Paravia.   And yes if you click that link you really can play the same game you played 20 years ago, just like me.  Weekends spent fixed in front of the old Commodore 64 computer playing Santa Paravaia against my brothers.  A game of skill and challenge.  Those were the days.

No Zoo Tycoon for me today.  I have scrapping to do and that pile of taxation and employee paperwork beside the computer isn’t decreasing at all despite me sending a prayer off to the God of paperwork before I went to bed. 

The kids are having a quiet afternoon, Paul is attempting tech homework and I think I might take this quiet time to scrap.  I have the next Tarisota kit here and Abby loves the first page of her album so much that the pressure is truly on the complete the rest of the album.  NOW.  lol

I’ve been thinking a lot about the album.  I think to get into it you really need a full picture of what it contains.  I decided I might list the pages and the photos to go with them so that you can go ahead and take all the pics etc at once and then it’s easier to go to it.  So this is what we are aiming for:

Page 1: Inside cover:
Photo of child holding the same amount of fingers as their age.  Title saying "All about me" and "A scrapbook made especially for me by …" or something similar, and the date.

Page 2: A nice pic of your child.  Write "My name is….." and get them to write their name.  Write "And I am __________ years old".  Get them to write their age.

Page 3: Things I like about myself.  I like my ______________ (smile? teeth? feet? curly hair?  whatever they say!) Take a pic of that thing or those things for this page.

page 4 & 5: A list of favourites: (There is no photo on my pages with this list but since it goes over 2 pages, there is room for one if you want – add any ‘favourites’ you see will suit!)
Colour
Food
Ice Cream
biscuits
Song
Book
TV Show
Sport
Hobby
Game
Season
Holiday

Page 6 "This is a photo of my smile"  Take a picture of your child with their best smile.

Page 7"I’m smile like this when …." Ask your child to finish the sentence and take a pic of them doing that thing.  Braden said "When I’m playing with my daddy".  Jacob said "When I’m eating tiny teddies"
Abby said "When I’m with Jessie playing "Dress-ups".

Page 8 "Friends make me happy!  This is a photograph of me and ________" and take a pic of your child with their fav friend. 

PAge 9 "something we like to do together is____________" and take a pic of them playing together.

Page 10 is a picture that your child has drawn.  Be sure to ask them what it is, if it isn’t too apparent.  Record this in a note at the bottom of the page.  It’s amazing what insight this page gives to their personality at the time.

Page 11 "If I were an animal, I’d be a _______________ " And take a pic of your child acting like that animal.

Page 12 "Someday I want to _____________" (Jacob said "be a builder like my Daddy", Braden said "i want to be a diver").  Don’t take a pic of them, this time you ask them to draw a picture of themselves doing the thing that want to do someday.

Page 13 "If I could go anywhere, I’d go __________ "  Again, ask your child to draw a picture.  (Awww looking back on Jacob’s, he said "home".  Braden said "Odette and Gratton’s house".

Page 14" I’m happiest when_______________" Take a pic of your child to go with this.

Page 15 "This is a photograph of me with my favourite_____________"

Page 16 "These are my hands.  Please remember to handle me with care"
Page 17 "Hands are good for waving hello, helping, holding and for saying I love you.  Hands are never good for hitting". 
On these 2 pages, draw around your childs hands.  One on each page.

Page 18.  Thankyou for reading my book with me.  The end.

And that is the end of the book as it came – I added more pages such as the following:
This is my brother
Our favourite game is
This is a photo of my family

Now my personal plan of completing the pages and posting them on here still stands.  Except maybe page 2 and 3 won’t be done by today.  But perhaps tomorrow.  I thought I might aim to post pages twice a week.  I’d love if you could keep up with me. 

If you have completed pages and don’t mind sharing them, please send them through to me.  I have set up a photo album in the side bar for my pages, but also one for kid’s album pages by others.  I’ve uploaded Chris Millar’s title pages in there already.  Take a look!

Ok.  Things to do.  Pages to scrap.  Let me know if I can help with your kid’s pages, and send through any you have done and don’t mind sharing.  I’ll upload them.  After a game of Santa Paravia, that is.

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Just a quick post tonight as I know you are all busy scrapping those kid’s book pages ;o) (and I’ve been working on getting my sidebars added – I’m only about 1/4 the way through my blog links!)

As Trina mentioned on her blog, Southern Cross Kids Camp – I BET you thought we’d forgotten this!  But each set of 8 pages were entered into the draw for four prizes and the winners are as follows!

Margo from Manawatu – Fiskars squeeze punch

Kate A – SBO pack

Andrea Senn – Paper Pesto kit

Rachel Tucker – Stampin’ Up! pack

We met our goals for the 2 Aussie camps and we are currently stockpiling for more  – they hold eight camps per year, including one in NZ and it’s a very real possibility that with the help of ladies like all of you that have kindly sent in pages, that we can supply memory books for them all.  That’s an exciting prospect!  (at this point I need to say thanks to Christine Cleary, Maggie Armstrong, Justine Hunt and Brenda Ponder who all sent me pages in the last week or so!)

Basically, if you feel the urge to do some random creating, we’d love to continue collecting 6×6 pages.

Kid’s book!  – The mian question I’m being asked is how many pages is in it – just counting here, there was about 15 official pages that came with the book but I added about 5-10 more – so work on a 15 minimum.  But when you get on a roll and start personalising it to your child, you’ll find so much more to add – I guarantee you!

Anyone that has completed pages, I’d love to see them, if you aren’t too shy I’d love to create a gallery at the sidebar so we can all be inspired by each other.

More images after the weekend!

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I really had no idea that the response to doing this kid’s album would be so huge!  How awesome!  I can’t say I had anything prepared or planned – I was just going to go off what I had done for the 2 previous albums I had done and find my way.

But it’ll be even better if you all find your way with me!  OK first we need to make a pact.  What is started must be finished, and anyone that has sat in on any of my classes knows that is one of the ‘rules’.  Noone leaves until they are finished.  I’m not sure how I’ll enforce that here, that could be tricky, I’ll think on that one.  But I guess all I need to say is that it really is worth it.  We do lots of albums about our kids, but how many can we hand to them and truly say, "here, this is yours, read it, share it, enjoy it, take it and show everyone, throw it in your bookcase and it’ll be alright." So that’s the aim.

Some people have mentioned they are doing this for older children – this is aimed towards younger, but we’ll work it out.  Now I have typepad I can answer comments!  WOW!  We’ll work it out together.  If anyone asks a question in comments, feel free to join in if anyone else has the answers. Because although I tell my kids I know everything, it’s not entirely true.  I’m working this out as we go along.

Oh – and I have to say again that this was something originally done by Lisa Bearnson.  She put these albums together and sold them as a unit to raise money for under-priveledged kids back in 2001.

First thing we need to do is find an album.  I use these provocraft ones, they are about 6 x 9 inches with sewn in page protectors.  I don’t know if they are still available. I bought mine in 2001! Adapt this to whatever album you want though. As I said, I did nothing special with the cover because the kids truly own these books.  They get a rough time!

I have shown you the first inside cover of Abby’s album, but here is the boys.  Remember to include a photo of your young one holding up however many fingers they are in age, something regarding the album being made for them by you, and the date.

(Remember these are 5 and 3 years old and oooh so simple – I wanted to just give you an idea of what I did years ago for the format I’m following!)

Now the next 2 pages after this require another the following:
* A nice pic of your child – no subject, just a nice pic of them.  Write "my name is…" and ask them to write their name.  Then put "and I am ___ years old"
* Ask your child what they like about themselves.  I’ll add Jacob and Braden’s pages below to give you an example. 

I’m going to come back to you on Sunday with examples of what I’ve done with these two pages for Abby’s album!  Being a little but further on in time and being that I have some Stampin’ Up! stuff to play with, my pages will probably be a little more extravagant than I made for the boys.  Creating is half the fun!  The other half is giving these books to the kids. 

Ok – so I’ll post more pages on Sunday, and hopefully I’ve given you a start!  See how you go to get up to that step – I’d love to hear from you if you make a start!

Oh and a few other things  I have to let you know about ..

1. The prize draw for the SCKC 6×6 pages that you all did will be soon.  We are just counting names/pages and prizes.  Stampin’ Up! have let me now the prize they will be sending out is one of the new catalogs (it’s a great idea book!), a ‘Good things Grow’ stamp set, a tag punch and a few inks. All the names from Trina and I will be combined to go up for all the prizes, so I’ll update on that in a few days.

2. Thanks for moving with me – I’m still a little unsure, but I’m sure this will be great once I learn the ropes.

3. A fundraiser in Aussie I want to mention : Newcastle – July 26th 2008.  12 hour crop and online raffle to help raise money for Muscular Dystrophy Australia. The link is here – click for more info.

phew. Long post. 

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I did it – I finished the Kindy book. It took me about 30 hours probably and it included around 70 pages. Most of them were not made by me, I merely collated the gorgeous artwork and little cards etc given to me by the children, but it’s done. I did scrapbook around 25 pages, but they were so simple I didn’t photograph them. I secretly dropped it off to one of the teachers today and quickly took these pics before I did. Thanks everyone that helped! It’s been a long process, I started by standing at the Kindy gates about a month ago asking everyone for their contributions to the book – we couldn’t let the teacher know so I had to do it in secret! It’s been ongoing since then. It’s felt good to give a little of my time to the Kindy, I’m not often one of the parents on school trips or cooking sausages at PTA fundraisers, but I do give what I can.

Today marks the start of the Stampin’ Up! Project I’ve been planning. I mentioned in an earlier post that Stampin’ Up! had been reading my blog and were pleased I used their products every now and again and they got in touch and said “hey.. why don’t we do something.. we have some cool scrapbooking products we’d like to show people”. I considered what project I could do for them and came up with something and thought why not.. So here we are.

And I was thinking.

Which is what I do inbetween scrapping.

The project I want to do is one I do for all my kids. When they turn 4 years old I make a book for them. I wait til they are 4 because at that point they start to try and write and recognise their name, they realise they have things that are truly theirs in the way of likes and dislikes etc. It’s something made about a child, for a child… so simple and easy and so treasured. I have made Jacob and Braden each one of these books and they are one of their absolute loved items. They have read and re-read them and just lately Jacob asked me to do one for when he turned nine! but he’s out of luck at the moment because I need to do one for Abby, lol.

(And just a note here – this was an idea I got from CKU Utah in 2001 – Lisa Bearnson did kits to make these albums as a fundraiser for underpriveledged kits – kind of like we have been doing! More on that in a few days – our fundraiser, I mean!)

So anyway, I was thinking….

Would anyone be interested in doing this album with me? It’s not hard – I could give you the list of photos you’d need and questions to ask your kiddos to go in the album. Leave me a comment if you want me to do that, and I’ll work through it with you over the next month or so! I don’t know if anyone is keen, but I thought I’d put it out there!

Here is my inside cover page. The book itself doesn’t have an embellished outside cover. It slips in and out of the bookcase and bed-side drawers so much it would get ruined. I want Abby to do whatever she wants with this book so it needs to be kiddy-proof! I’ve used an old provocraft album which is around 6 x 9″ and has page protectors. You could use what you want.

For this inside cover page, you take a picture of your child telling their age by holding up the right amount of fingers! Wording should say something similar to what I have done. “All About Me” “A scrapbook made especially for me by my Mummy” and the date.

Just because I was feeling nostalgic, I crackled the background. The cardstock is a Stampin Up one called Buckeroo Blue, and most everything else is SU as well. I’ll do a materials list below. I must start doing that with all my layouts because I get quite a few emails after I post them. One thing I want to point out about this page though, is the cardstock stickers. They are Stampin Up. I’m in a layering-pop-dotting-scallops and circles kinda craze and it was cool to see SU could help me out with that. I think. lol.

Materials list below. Let me know if you want to join me in this project – I’ll help you out! Use any materials – use up your stash! It’d be fun!

Laters.

Cardstock: Buckeroo Blue, Old Olive.
Simply Scrappin’ At Home cardstock stickers.
Mixed Bouquet Stamp Set.
It’s a Date stamp set.
Spring Bouquet punch.
Buckeroo Blue ink, Basic Black ink.
All by Stampin’ Up!

Rebecca Cameron. You are a genius. Thank you so much for taking the time to search out some ideas for me. This is the link you gave me and this is what I’m currently working on.

It’s a total scraplift of ‘Coverton’ from the Simple Scrapbooks gallery. And I’m thrilled beyond words! The book is still a work in progress. It measures over 13 x 9 inches – so it is BIG and it is already full of stuff, as you can see – it’ll be heading towards 100 pages when I’m finished. Many of them are drawings from the Kindy kids, and there are lots of letters wishing Anne well. I’m going to be so proud to have collated this. Thanks again Rebecca. Will update with final pics soon.

(And thanks everyone for sending ideas my way – Scrapbookers really are awesome people.)

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Shhhhhhhhhhhh it’s that time of night when all good kiddos should be asleep. In our home Easter Sunday is greeted with squeals from the kids as the trails of little caramello eggs lead to the big one at the end. If the kids would go to sleep perhaps the adults could, well, you know.. make sure things would run smoothly in the morning.

Unfortunately one boy is so hyped up on Willard Price’s Whale adventure all he can think of is catching a black sailing ship with white sails to some far away ocean. The other one has just got out of bed and come to tell me he is feeling a little CRaZy and he doesn’t know what to do. Sleep might fix that I suggested, but he wasn’t down with that suggestion, really.

Thank goodness for little girls that stayed up til 10pm last night playing spotlight. She fell asleep in her dinner so that was that sorted. Good plan.

I haven’t shared this layout yet – it’s another Tarisota one – it looks better IRL actually, it flows better. Another one that outlining one of Abby’s days. It was simply a case of having a pic I loved and wanting to journal and not wanting to tell he how sweet and funny she is. Because quite often she is not sweet and funny, – hey just keeping it real here – so the journaling ended up being a summary of one of her days. And those are my favourite layouts to do anyway. You’ll see a lot of them coming from me. They’ll never be the same because the kids change so quickly.

My brother, Vaughan, is in Switzerland. I always thought I was the smart one in the family but this dude is clever. He lives in London but chose to go to Switzerland for Easter. I’ve tasted Swiss easter choccies. I know what’s going on over there. Cleeeeeever. Love that boy.

I’m a little late to the party perhaps, but there is a whole lot of fun going on at the Fiskars blog this weekend.

Kindy – ok I need help here.
A teacher (well 2 of them actually) are leaving and I am in charge of collating a scrapbook for each. I have been given a pile of kids drawings and letters wishing them good luck, a pile of photos ranging from 10years old to recent, some other random stuff and I’m meant to be compiling! Argh! So anyway. I have some plastic stationery sleeves and I’m going to make chipboard front and back covers and hold it all together with book-rings.

Trouble is. HOW – WHAT do I make this cover look like? What do I call a book with all that kind of stuff in it? *Shrug* completly lost here. They aren’t scrapbookers so I don’t want to make them toooo scrapbookey, ya know? But I need to impress as well. We aim to make the teacher shed a few tears so – help! Anyone? Has anyone got images or links to images that might help me? Any ideas? Fire away – I’m all ears , I’d love some suggestions. It’s almost as if the scrapbook needs sections – room for the kids drawings/memories – room for pics, room for other stuff. OK I’m lost and ready for help. Bring it on. Please? I have 2 days. lol

Wish me luck!

Happy Easter everyone.

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