the first 12 months

A friend of mine just recently had a baby shower and since she was having her second girl, I was at a loss of ideas for a gift. Then I remembered a memory box that I made for Gavin's first 12 months. It's a great way to store all of the sweet little trinkets from those early stages of life.

My friend is not very traditional in her girl colors (no to pink) so I found some old Pink Paislee paper that just happened to be her theme colors and was also very feminine at the same time.









On the inside of the lid I left a spot for her to place a 4x6 picture of her new baby.



On the inside of the box and used some Thickers to spell out her name.



I also made a card to match the box!



I was really happy with the results. In fact, I wanted to keep it for myself :) But of course, I didn't. My friend was very happy and impressed with the gift. And she loved the colors (whew!!)
I love giving handmade gifts to people that appreciate them!!

finally finished!

Last month a friend of mine asked me to create some pages for her daughters nanny. It seemed like it took forvever, but I finally got them finished!! All EIGHTEEN pages! Now I can do some scrapping of my own :) And let me tell you...I've got a lot I want to do!!

Stay tuned...

Holiday baby

There's a new prompt up at Scrap that Baby! We are challenging you to create a layout about your baby celebrating any of the winter holidays. I chose to do a layout on the anticipation and excitement on Christmas Eve.




I absolutely love this line by Pink Paislee. For this layout I used the December kit at Scrappy Chics.



I've been trying to use my punches more often...and right now I am favoring the scallop border punch. I love layering them on top of each other and then curling them up for dimension.



Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to enter your layout!!

top 10 of 2010

Looking back at all the projects that I did for 2010, I am a bit surprised that I did more than I thought I did!! Of course, I do have some favorites. In no particular order, here are my favorite projects/layouts for 2010...














I would like to thank each and every one of my blog readers for visiting my blog. I wish you all a very safe and happy new year!!


P.S. Be sure to come back tomorrow because I have a secret that can finally be let out of the bag!!!

four Christmases

This year we had four Christmases. Yes, it was fun, yes, it was exhausting, and yes, we are all still trying to recover from them!!

Our first "Christmas" was just the four of us. Since Daddy was working nights during Christmas week we decided to celebrate a few days early, before he went back to work. Santa always makes a special trip for the kids even when we have to celebrate early with Daddy.

So five nights before the big guy actually comes, the kids left out cookies and milk for his "special" stop.



Can you see the excitement on their faces? Bekah kept "testing" the milk to make sure it was okay :) Silly girl. The next morning Gavin was so excited to see that Santa had left a partially eaten cookie. Apparently Bekah was excited too, but for a different reason. When she thought nobody was looking she ate the rest of the left over cookie!


Christmas Eve, the actual Christmas Eve, was a very big day for us. For me, actually. It was the very first time in the 34 years of my life, that I spent Christmas with my Dad. I sure was missing out :)

My Dad's side of the family is huge! Gigantic!! There were over 40 adults and teenagers there and probably about 20-30 kids. We all had a great time and didn't get home until 1:30 am!! Crazy, I know!






Christmas day we spent with my mom's side of the family. It was definitely more low key than Christmas Eve!! And it was very different not having Papa with us to celebrate. He was extremely missed and I know that he was looking down at us from Heaven.

Today we spent the afternoon with my mother in law and opened presents and ate pizza. It was a nice, quiet get together and the kids had fun opening another round of gifts.

Although we had a wonderful Christmas, er Christmases, I am so glad that it's over. Time to take the decorations down for another year. Time to clean the house after the holiday bomb. Time to get ready for a fresh start to a new year!

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!!

Scrappy Chics January Reveal

January's kit at Scrappy Chics is one of my favorites!! It features October Afternoon and Cosmo Cricket. I love the retro feel of the kit.

This first layout that I did is of an old picture of my grandparents. I love how this line went so well with the retro picture.




The second layout is of Miss Bekah at Gavin's 4th birthday party. She was so cute eating all the fruit off of Daddy's fruit kabobs!!



Be sure to stop by Scrappy Chics and check out her fabulous kits!!

feeling sassy

My friend Aimee is on the Design Team for Sassy Lil' Sketches...it's a great sketch blog and I've been wanting to give it a try. I fell in love with the sketch for October 28th...here is my take on it...



I love the color combination on green and purple. It goes perfect with Miss Bekah's shirt!





I'm so glad that I have such great subjects to scrapbook! As you can see, they definitely keep things VERY interesting :)