Hi everyone.

thought i would try uploading one of my videos i took to see how it works. here is a clip of my son laughing hysterically at his sister from the bedroom door. he has the best laugh. enjoy.

new shape books

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Well thanksgiving is over for this year and the christmas season is officially upon us. My family and I went out last night and picked out our christmas tree and tonight we got it decorated. We have a new 4 season/playroom this year (thank god) so that is where we decided the tree would live for the season. Usually it goes downstairs in our finished basement but the area where it goes is now occupied by my scrap nook. I love it on the porch it is so peaceful and beautiful, what a lifesaver having the extra space has made for us. here are some pics of the tree on the porch and two new shape books i designed and made. The second book is for halloween and is cut using plantin school book for the rectangle shape and i believe i mostly used paper doll dress up and a childs year for the accent pieces, as well as some premade stickies. the design is not my own, i saw something similar on one of the blogs i frequent and tried to copy as best as i could. The first book is a harvest themed shape book made with everyday paper dolls, plantin, happily ever after, animal kingdom and storybook. I got the idea for the design i believe from the bugjunkie blog, but i did change the elements when i designed it. thanks for looking and dont forget to leave a comment if you like it. sorry i have the first and second out of order, i forget that when i upload the photos they come in on top of each other and not under each other.

Hi everybody

Here is a quick thanksgiving card i made for the challenge over at bitten by the bug, Regina's blog. I used the cornucopia from paper doll dress-up and hand colored the fruit with gel pens ( i was feeling ambitious). I used design studio to weld together the phrase and image. I used storybook for the colored, layeredmats behind the cornucopia. thanks for looking, this is my first time entering something for the challenge, so be kind :)..

Baby shower favor cake

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Here is a photo of this gorgeous favor "cake" i made for my sister-in-laws baby shower. I used tags,bags and boxes for the cake boxes cut at 7 1/2 inches i believe. paper is from paper trey ink (cuts like butter on the machine). I also used paper dolls, everyday paper dolls and a childs year for the embellishments. the stork on top came from lyrical letters and the baby from stretch your imagination. this was so much work to make but alot of fun and i was very pleased with the end results. hope you like it.

Halloween.

Hi everyone!

This halloween was such a blast! Logan got to trick-or-treat for the first time and he did great. when the bowl was handed to him he reached in and carefully took out only one piece of candy, such a gentleman. Ashlyn went trick-or-treating with friends for the first time this year and we missed her, but she had a great time and we got to focus on going at logans pace. we went with two of our best friends, rick and janine and their two boys, jake and matt. Here are some pictures of the night and other halloween related photos from this year. enjoy.