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Category: Scrapbooking

  • I think the creative part of my brain works so well at night, even late at night. But stay up until 2:30 (poor teething tutu), get up before 8:00 and I am so DONE. So I did finish seven layouts last night (from about 8-midnight). It was totally fun speed scraping. I mostly used my (extensive) Ki Memories stash and even though some of it is quite “vintage” it all worked. I’m not as up with the latest products like I used to be (I used to work for a scrapbooking company and I could name every. single. product.), and…

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  • Oh goodness. I was really on a roll tonight. Here you see the first of I think seven layouts I did. Of course I had to try to squeeze in one more. At 11:45, not such a good idea. Now I’m blogging from my phone and have a big happy creative mess to clean up before I can sleep (after tutu is done nursing of course). Any advice for babies getting THREE molars at once? The teething tablets help, but all teething toys are too short to reach them. Hmm. Ok going to try to put her in crib.

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  •   I have started working on my album for Week in the Life, and how fun it is! Of course I never seem to have as much time for these things as I would like. But interruptions need not be all bad (in fact one is very very cute and I don't mind her at all). When I was thinking about how I wanted to put my story together, I was digging through my stuff and also thinking about stuff I can purge (hello swap—it is coming). I wanted to use as many things I had on hand already as…

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