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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Another Baby Album Complete

So a friend of mine's daughter was having a baby boy. I decided to make her a baby album just like I did for my Godson. I had a lot of fun making that album so I figured why not try it again! I actually got this one done in about a week. I used sketches from SASsy for all of these pages! I did 9 pages this weekend alone! I have been a busy bee! I think it turned out so cute. I used Imaginisce Wild Things paper and ribbon, Bazzill cardstock, stamps, Zing powders, colorbox chalks, a few flowers.

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I thoroughly enjoyed making this album! Now to find the perfect album for it!!!
Thanks for looking! I hope that y'all enjoy the inspiration from these pages!

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Baby album updates!!!

So as many of you know.... my Godson arrived on December 1st. I was not able to go up to see the delivery due my own family issues. After my father passed away, Lala and Caden flew home to see us. I was able to give her the beautiful album I had made for her. This was my first attempt at a blank album let alone a boy album. With having 2 girls it was really hard to not make it girly. I found the best paper. CTMH You Rock collection which is now retired. Well yesterday she finally posted some pics of the album with actual baby pics in them! I am so excited and wanted to show y'all the final result. I made space for a 4x6 on each page and she added several other pics to it. It has really turned out darling. Now I wish I had made one for myself too......

Here is his hospital pic along with his stats.


Here is mommy and daddy with baby Caden. He's so precious!


Here is that cutie pie at a month old. Lala does some the best editing!


He makes some of the funniest faces. So precious. She has already started early with the embarassing pics. lol


Isn't he just the cutest little heartbreaker? Adorable!

I will keep y'all updated with more pics of the album as I get them! He is so adorable. I am slowly working on added other pages to the album. I just hope life slows down some so I can get more scrapping done!

Thanks for looking! Hope y'all enjoy this cutie as much I do! He has already stolen my heart!!!!!

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Hot Lily!!

Well for challenge #5, we were to use something we DON'T like. Well I purchased the Crate Paper Pink Plum collection along with about 5 other sets of Crate Paper. It was offered as a bundle and so much cheaper than purchasing separately plus I got 2 free gifts!! So I figured I could give it away or find a way to use it. It has some calmer pieces in it also. I just don't like the combo of the pink and orange.


So I misted the orange background paper with Smooch Spritz Log Cabin. I had to tone it down some. Those colors are just too much for me. Then I took the white pp and used a Tim Holtz Crown mask and some Smooch Spritz Gold Glow. Here is my results:
Prima flowers and centers
Thickers
Distress tool

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Hope y'all enjoyed this page! I really like how it turned out after a little altering.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Christmas time....

Well Lala takes some of the best pics of the girls. She took this in her bedroom. She had a photo shoot day with Lizzie when she was a year old. They spent the whole day together and she took all sorts of pics of her. They turned out so great. She bought a huge sheet of white fabric. She draped it over her bed and then gave Lizzie all kinds of props to play with. This is one of my favorite.

For the SASsy Queen of Hearts Crop Challenge #7, the goal was to use some sort of playing card or elements from a playing card. Since I don't have any playing cards for scrapbooking I decided to use the wonderful SASsy kit I got in December. It features Pink Paislee Father Christmas.

Pink Paislee Father Christmas paper and trading cards
Prima ribbon and flower

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Thanks for stopping by!! Hope y'all enjoyed my page and it brings you much inspiration!!!
 

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Learning to blow bubbles.....

Well Daddy has been doing a little better the last few days. He is gradually going downhill and it is very hard to watch. I have been trying to bury myself in my scrapbook stuff I don't have to deal with the pain of watching someone slip away from my life. He has been sleeping alot more and hasn't been able to make it to his bedpan for the last few days. One a better note..... his trach has been doing better and he hasn't asked for much instant relief pain pills in the last few days either!!! I just hope that's a good sign so far. I am so worried about him and would really hate to lose him. He's my daddy. :'( Well I have been talking to my Uncle James (dad half-brother) since daddy came home from the hospital. I have only met him once in my life and I was about 10ish. He lives in Jacksonville, FL which is about 6-7 hours east of here. So he decided to come visit this weekend. He got here Friday evening and visited for a few hours and came back all day Saturday. The girls had a blast playing with him. Here is a picture of daddy and Uncle James.
Believe it or not, but they only have the same mother and look so much alike!!!

Layout Time:
Well anyways here is an adorable LO I was able to get done today. I love the Bo Bunny Peacock Lane!! Just vibrant, gorgeous colors!!! Well for the SASsy Color My World Round 6 Challenge #2 was to use teal, purple, and lime green which are all featured in this beautiful line. Did I mention how gorgeous this line is? lol. Well my lilybug had the most beautiful blue eyes when she was a baby and along with her purple dress it made this LO work.
Bo Bunny Peacock Lane paper & journal notebook
CM purple journal pen
purple & lime green dew drops
Thickers & mini alphas
Smooch spritz green & purple
Shimmerz paint

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Thanks for stopping by!!! Please say lots of prayers for my daddy!!!

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Daddy Update

Well daddy came home Wednesday nite with Hospice care. He seems to be doing better. I got to ride in the front of the ambulance when they brought him home! He had a tracheotomy a week ago so they didn't feel comfortable with him leaving in a regular vehicle. We got him all settled in and ready to go. The nurses checked him out and we started unpacking all the supplies the hospice brought and the hospital gave us. It was alot! The nurse set up his feeding tube pump. Well about midnight daddy said he was feeling nausea so I turned it off and disconnected it. I gave him some Zofran, but that didn't help he ended up getting sick. I panic of course and the nurse tells me it'll be ok just make sure his trachea stays clean and clear. That is the only thing I can't handle! He didn't sleep too good that night so neither did I, but his recliner is ALOT more comfortable than the one at the hospital.

Thursday he had a really good day. I woke up and noticed the feeding tube bag had come apart and leaked all over the rug. It was already soaked up so there was nothing I could do. The aide came out and cleaned him up which of course he didn't like cause he was cold. lol. It was Noah's birthday party so my sis was suppose to come over early so I could show her what to do. Instead she shows up over 30 min late! The nurse was still here so he showed her most of the stuff and of course she didn't ask any questions. Well he hooks up the feeding tube pump and leaves. Well a little bit later daddy's feeling sick again so my sis turns the pump off but never disconnects it from his stomach!!! Thanks goodness the tubing on the bag broke cause he would have ended up with over 400mL in his stomach! She's in a panic and on the phone with the nurse cause she thinks it all went in his stomach. The floor was too soaked for that. The nurse drives 40 min thinking she has a patient in severe pain and everything else cause all this fluid was drained into his stomach. Well she gets here and of course my sis has already left by then. So we had to figure it out all on our own. Thank goodness my sis can't keep her story straight cause there was nothing in his stomach! Needless to say because of that incident daddy was worried about me leaving him with someone else. So I ended up having to miss work again and stay home with him. He had a pretty rough day. Coughing up alot of phlegm thru his trach. He didn't eat at all and was in alot of pain. The nurse ended up increasing his pain patch and his instant relief morphine pills. He slept thru the night!!!!! So exciting!!! Today he had a really great day too and actually let me feed him some thru his tube.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

My dad......

I have lots of new pages I want to share with all of you! I have every intention of taking close-ups of them. I just haven't had the time lately. My girls and I have been staying at the hospital since Saturday nite! It's exhausting. My dad has terminal cancer. It is very hard seeing him go thru all of this. They did a tracheotomy and moved him up to the pallaitive care floor. He is in good hands, but it is like hospice for the hospital. They are here to make him comfortable. If my stepmom and I can agree on a hospice care company then we can probably get him home soon, but she is a horrible decision maker. But anyways......my dad is doing as good as to be expected. It's just hard having to deal with taking care of him and 2 girls (4 & 7) with very little help. My stepmom doesn't stay up here long and my sis seems to not care. She hardly checks up on him and I finally got her to sit with him today and all she did was complain. Why can't people be grateful for what they already have? When will the world stop having such selfish people? A short word of advice.....Spend as much time as you can with your loved ones and cherish every moment with them! You never know what might happen the next day.... just some advice I have learned over these past few days. Scrapbooking has become a wonderful way for people to perserve the most cherishable moments. Even if you have no pics at least journaling about it can help. Thanks so much for following and I hope to get some new pages up by this weekend for y'all.