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Storyboards, 12×12 Set 3

Don’t you love it when your children bring your inspiration? Oh yes, little Fidget was my brain-child tonight with all his stinkerness, lol. In honor of him, I put together this new set of storyboards for the shop:

Am I a bad mom if I say this one is my favorite?

It’s READY!!!

I’m SOOO excited about this project!!! And now I can share it with all of you. Many of us are partaking in the 365 Project, the challenge to take one photo every day for an entire year. I began, but knew unless I had a plan for all these photos, I would never complete the challenge. As a result, these templates were born! And now in week 4, I’m thankful. Potty training is looming. Laundry is piling up, and I don’t have time to fuss. It’s hard enough to GET that shot each and every day, let alone fuss with it much. These templates have made it quick and easy, and such a joy to just be able to pop them in.

Here are my pages for the year so far, the last one still in progress for this week. But moments is all it’s taking me. I LOVE this!

All templates are 12×12, and are Shutterfly-ready so at the end of the year I’ll have the option to print a beautiful hardbound book if I want. Woohoo! I’m SOOO excited. (No, you’d never guess, huh? lol) They’re available at Studio Amy at SBG if you want to grab them and do the same!

Got a Story to Tell

I’ve just begun a new series of product over at SBG, and I’m really excited that it’s done. Why, you ask? Because I’ve struggled with these crazy things all week and it wasn’t until my brother helped me adjust a setting that I was able to fix them. But they’re done and I’m grinning because I’m going to use them to decorate the walls in my own home. They’re Storyboards, this set 12×12.

I think this one is my favorite so far:

And I have to show you one more picture I took this evening when I should have been in bed asleep. It’s tired out, and it makes me a bit silly, I’m afraid. See, I had all these oranges lined up on the counter in the kitchen, and they began to talk to me, saying all sorts of crazy things. Isn’t that mouth a hoot?

Project 365

I’ve been working diligently on my Project 365 so far - the photo a day for a year. But knowing myself as well as I do, I knew I would never finish this project without a plan clearly, simply laid out for what to do with these photos both as I go and at the end of the year. So this past week I’ve been working on a project for them. And . . . . tease tease tease, that’s all you’re gonna know for now, lol.

Here are my first two weeks of photos all together, and I’m liking this! How fun!!!

Going Swimmingly

Last night I sat down with a new scrapbook kit from Madame Mim at Catscrap and ended up having a ball! What a gift she has for creating unique and FUN digital elements. This page of little Fidget literally flew (or should I say SWAM) together. Such fun. Those fish just kill me - so cute, out of clay, I think.

I also found a bunch of new fonts that are fun to play with from www.fontdiner.com Makes my brain at all the possibilities of this stuff. I’m working on a project that I really, really hope comes together soon. Most of it is clear in my brain, but there’s enough still vague that’s making it difficult to manage, lol. Focus focus focus, somewhere between the three children, laundry and a husband.

School starts back tomorrow, so maybe the routine will aid in the process. Who knows. At least we’re smiling here.

Taking Time

I got smacked hither and yon by the Lord this week about a few things, then this morning in church it all culminated during the sermon. I’m busy, but in all the busy-ness I haven’t been taking time for what is important. It’s always an enduring the here and now until I get to the next project or task on my list, rather than a doing the now with all my might for the glory of God. That last part is the part I’ve been leaving off, yet it’s the most vital.

I’ve also been thinking much on the concept of the book Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, so on the way home from church we stopped at Borders and I picked up a copy with some Christmas money. I think I’m going to make a book of rememberances this year. Not of the ordinary life, but of the extraordinary way God cares for me each and every day -what I’ve been viewing as ordinary. Tomorrow I’m also going to figure out a way to help the kids do the very same thing during our school time each week. It should prompt some very good discussions at the very least. I’m thinking of using a small three-ring binder for each of them to write, decorate, and add pictures to for each letter. But as a start of this journey, I made a page tonight, using it more as a focusing time than anything.

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Calendars

I was told this year that I’d better be planning to create another refrigerator calendar for family members. . . . or else! So I sat down last week to put them together, using Heather Ann’s template again, same as last year. And this year it was even more fun than last because the kids were a bit zanier. Aren’t they cute? heehee

Finder of the Bean

We have a tradition here at our house for Christmas. We always open our gifts one at a time, so everyone sees what everyone else is enjoying and so the process is savored. The order is determined by a bean. Yes, a little bean hidden inside a treat eaten Christmas morning. Whoever gets the dry bean gets to open the first gift. This year, Fidget was the lucky beany winner, lol. Here he is enjoying his chocolate cake ball with the bean peeking out. Happy, happy boy.

We had a wonderful day here. More on that later, after the kids go to bed and I can quit dodging the foam bullets that are streaking through the house at the moment. Can a family have more fun?!! These guns are the BEST!

The Little Lady

I have a sweet little girl at my house. The perfect little lady. Wanna see her?

Journaling:  Little girl, you can laugh with the best of them, and when you do, it is loud and raucus and full of energy. I love to hear it come rumbling up from the depths of your belly, rippling out with your mouth wide and your eyes squeezed shut.  A lady should be real -  unpretentious and honest. For you, this means you must guffaw. So go ahead, dear daughter. LAUGH. And laugh with all the energy and enthusiasm you can. For with each and every breath you will be every inch a lady.

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