I made a great little mini for my god-daughter, who is FOUR! Handmade gifts can be tricky for little kids I think. There are so many
toys and things out there for kids. I thought a little book she can fill
out for herself would be fun. I made a little “all about me” for my
step sister when she was younger and she loved it.
The cover uses some cardstock I had Tuesday paint, and my favorite Heidi Swapp letters, the elementary ones. If you have some you don’t want send them to me! Sometimes I hate how fast scrapbooking products rotate through. I digress…
I cut down some Paper Source envelope things so she can stick things in there.
The favorite colors page is my favorite. I want to make one for me!
I love the idea of giving her the camera to take some shots!
Because she’s so sweet 🙂
And the back:
So much fun to put this little thing together. That plus some treasure jars (that I stayed up way to late making, and thus, no pictures) and a huge stack of stickers rounded out her gift. I let Tuesday yank some stickers off the rounder at the store so she got a very unique assortment, including some celebrating Jamaica 🙂
So remember when Tuesday and I painted?
I scrapbooked that (surprised?). I spelled emerging with out an “R” so I had to pop off the letters, only they don’t pop off without breaking, so it was a bit of a disaster.
I love, love, love these pictures of my BFF Ceara. I took a ton while I was there, but was recovering from flying cross country with a toddler and I don’t think I ever posted many. Anyway it’s all about how we’re supposed to live next door to each other and stuff. Just happy to get some of these delicious baby pictures on a page.
Thanks for the front yard love. I need to get myself together to stain things in the back, but paper has been calling my name… Oh plus, did I mention that after Tuesday spent the night at my mom’s she was like, “no more diapers for me.” So I have to sprint up to her crib when I hear her wake to take her to the potty. Plus she’s only napping for like an hour at a time. See, I’m justifying here, but it really doesn’t make sense for me to get all crazy messy and dirty.
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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Ok so I still have to stain things in the back and finish up some bits here in there so I want to save those pictures. But check out the front!
Same view last summer:
Curb in the same place and it looks so much bigger to me!
Bj and my step dad made this super cute little picket fence.
I can’t wait to see my yard next year; especially this front part. Just image big bunches of lavender in the front with roses spilling over the top. I think I’m going to do tulip bulbs in front of the fence and crocus in front of the lavender for early spring. Try not to look too closely at the dogwood, it is the sickest of all our plants 🙁
I can’t say enough awesome things about our designer Tina. I never would have thought we could have a wider driveway, or plants in front of our picture window. Next year you’ll see clematis growing up one side of the porch and a climbing rose up the other.
We are eating out on the porch almost every night, just like last year. Tuesday loves to use sidewalk chalk all over the driveway and walkway. She digs in the dirt and picks up the little gravel. She hasn’t tried to shred the plants yet, she goes up to them and does a very dramatic show of smelling them. Speaking of plants we could never have gotten all of these in the ground on one of the hottest days of the year without our awesome friends and family! Seriously we were freaking out that they would all die and for the most part they have come through great. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! -
A couple weeks ago (or maybe last week—it’s all running together!) Sarah and I had an online scrapdate 🙂
Look at me using thickers!
This next one is a scraplift (and then switched up a bit) from an old book I forgot how much I loved: Scrapbooking Life’s Little Moments.
I hope it goes without saying that these are straight in real life 🙂
If I ever run out of those vellum stickers I will cry at least a little.
This actually started by looking at this inpiration page. I veered… alot.
I love brads!
That last one was from today. Hopefully with the yard mostly done (pictures soon!) I’ll have some more crafting soon.
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