Saturday, May 26, 2012

Twenty Years Ago

I can't believe twenty years ago this week I graduated from high school.
It truly feels like it was just yesterday.

I look back on my hopes and dreams and feel so blessed to say that if I had known then what I would be today, I would have been proud of myself.

Late this summer is the reunion. I'd like to lose some of the life that I've accumulated on my hips before then! Other than that, I'm ready. 

Friday, May 25, 2012

The Last is the First


Today was the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!


This has been an incredibly tough year and are so very thankful that we have made it to SUMMER!!!!

So, with an early release from school and the first day of the season for our waterpark, we were so there!
I just LOVE the Last Day of School/First Day of Summer!!

Monday, May 21, 2012

If Scrapbooking was an Olympic Sport!

If Scrapbooking was an Olympic Sport.. I think I could be a medalist!

We have two teachers having baby showers tomorrow, so.. you know it.. two scrapbooks!

First is the one for baby boy.  The desired color scheme was blues, greens, khaki and white.  I was thrilled when I found this paper!  In fact, it came in a little paperpack, so I bought two of them to get 12 sheets of matching cardstock and made the pages. The bonus here is that there were boy stickers with the paper pack!!

In the above picture, I used a ton of eyelets and put them in the polka dots at random intervals.

Can you see the buckle on the left picture? I love it!

These brad things are self adhesive. I love them. So easy!

The safety pins are holding on elastic!  It is really fun in person! I can just see this page about a Growing Boy!! Wouldn't that be super cute :) ?

The second album was for a baby girl.  The colors here were brown and turquoise.  This was harder!
But, I found a pattern that was great and went from there.  
 I love the whimsy yet elegant look of these two colors together with the silver!

 More of those self adhesive bradlets!

 The embellishment here is glittered clips!


 Ribbon on these!! I can't make an album without using ribbon!!

And finally, more sticky buttony things!

And there you have it. My favorite baby gift! Total time spent? Two hours. And no, I didn't make all the pages from "scratch." I used my Close To My Heart layout books for most of the pages, but I make a habit of ALWAYS using scraps to make more pages, so a few are my own spur of the moment designs.