Merry Christmas

Dreams & Wishes for 2008

-Teach Callie to use the potty - sooner rather than later.

-Take a camera course so I can more effectively use my new camera.

-Continued good health with a clear scan in the spring.

-No more braces!!

Catching Up....I wish!!

This month, I was able to scrap some photos of the girls that I've had sitting on my desk for awhile now. These are some of my favourite photos of the two of them together.

Learning to eat cereal

We started feeding Julia cereal in late November. The above photo was taken December 6th and as you can see, we are still trying to learn the art of not getting it all over EVERYTHING and EVERYONE. This is because she has to suck her thumb after every bite to swallow the cereal. Brett and I were talking about how we could curb this one evening and his solution was to just not let her suck her thumb as she eats. So, I let him give it a try and see how he made out. The pictures really don't do the mess justice. Her hair was totally matted with cereal. It was by far the worst mess yet!! Like all good ideas, sometimes they work much better in theory than they do in practice.

It's Official!!!

The Winter issue of Scrapbook & Cards Today has been released and you will find my layout, "Baby it's Cold Outside", on page 67 of the print version or page 25 of the online version. This is my first layout publication and I couldn't be more thrilled!

3 Bugs & Rick Rack

I used my 3 Bugs kit from Scrapbook Doodle to create this card for the {Caardvarks} blog challenge this month - to use rick rack. Notice the rick rack flower I made to complete the topper on the sentiment tag. These are a piece of cake to make. All you need is a needle and some thread.

3 Bugs Projects for Scrapbook Doodle

When I opened the "Seeing Stars" kit by 3 Bugs in a Rug a couple of days ago, I wasn't sure how I was going to create three projects with a kit geared for boys and me with all girls. Well, I need not have worried. I whipped these layouts up in two days flat and had so much fun doing it. Blue and green are two of my favourite colours anyway so I don't know why there was any hesitation. You will see "1st Halloween" on the homepage of Yvonne's store, Scrapbook Doodle, right now. Thanks so much, Yvonne, for the opportunity to design for you this month. I trust you are as pleased as I am with these projects.

Cosmo Cricket's "Be Good" Line

This month at Scrap Lovers we got to play with Cosmo Cricket's holiday line, Be Good. I absolutely love their style. Here are my projects for the first reveal. I used the die cut page tabs to create the ornament topper in this layout.

I was inspired to make this project by a tutorial I saw on the blog Taylored Expressions, not to be confused with Tailored Pages. I just love how the file folder has been transformed into this neat little pocket folder. This is a project I will do again.

Just like mom??

My daughter does not miss a thing and she imitates her father and I often. One day I was telling Brett a story about something and I was talking using my hands and the next thing you know she's imitating my hand motions. That was when she was just over a year old. Now that she's two, she's getting more and more daring. Today, she decided she needed a little lipstick on to brighten her complexion!! If nothing else, she's got good taste. She used a whole tube of OPI for this makeover.

So far, the only place I found lipstick (besides all over her) is the mirror she was using to paint her face. Here's hoping there are no more surprises!

What was I doing while this was going on? You guessed it, feeding the baby. I just never know what is going to happen everytime I sit down to feed.

In other news, today was the first real storm of the season. Schools were closed and the works. It's hard to say how much is on the ground but there is no more grass peeking through and the plow has been around several time over the last two days. This is the kind of weather that gives one the Christmas spirit.

The winner for the Iron Chef was announced yesterday and it went to Katie. She made some amazing projects over the past 6 weeks. It was definitely a well deserved win. Congrats, Katie!!

Final Round - Iron Chef III

I made the final round of the Iron Chef at Scrapper's Haven and we had to work with three different "ingredients" - fabric, ghost shapes and fasteners - and create a layout, card and an altered item. So, here they are. Wish me luck!!