Dana Nichols! I have a prize for you! (and some scrappy stuff)

I have all of my giveaway stuff boxed up here waiting to go out to my lucky winners. If anyone knows Dana Nichols, please tell her to email me! If I don't get her address this week, I'm going to have to draw another name for the big fat blog giveaway - otherwise, I'm afraid this stuff will just stay here on my desk! And I really want to send it to her!!

I got my most recent issue of Memory Makers a couple of days ago. My address is switched officially which makes me happy because it means my issue comes on time! I loved working on the 'green' issue - it was a fun challenge, and something I really enjoyed because I love taking junk mail and making stuff out of it. (I save everything. That's why my house is so messy right now!!)

One of the projects I really liked doing was the tri-fold mailer dealie. It was an advertisment for diapers. Of course, the magazine only has so much room, so they could only publish the cover of it, but here's the rest:

Someone really needs to learn how to take photos indoors. That would be me. Sorry about the weird color, but you get the point. I am going to put this on a shelf in Ethan's room when I get it back from the magazine.

The other thing I wanted to post was my Scarlet Lime layouts. I have so much fun with Christy's kits. I have them all in a basket by my desk, fully intact because I love how she puts things together. I'm not good at mixing and matching different lines, so having someone with such a great eye do it for me is awesome! I use the kits long after I've done my layouts for her website. Some of the kits I've gotten an additional five or six pages out of. It's awesome. Anyway, here are some of my pages from last month:

That's my niece, Emery. Skinny Sister's little girl.

That's my nephew, Eli. Skinny sister's little boy. They're twins. I love those circle things along the side of the photo mat. Seriously - how fun. I think they're from an Etsy shop.

Speaking of Etsy... check out THIS shop. Jeanne has some SUPER cool stuff. LOVE the fabric flowers.

Okay, one thing I'm really into right now is not completely adhering things down on my page. No clue why, but I love the messiness of it. I tried to do that a little on this page:

The journaling on that page is about Sophia's hair. God help me with Sophia's hair. I always swore my daughter would have hair that looked, you know, fixed. But nothing stays in her hair, or should I say... she won't keep anything in her hair. So this is what we get. We've since cut it, but there's still this random strand that is always in her face (or her mouth - yeah, talk about annoying.)

Love that KI Memories laser cut paper stuff. I can't remember what it's really called, but don't you think "Laser cut paper stuff" is a catchy name?

Okay, that's our first family of five photo. From Thanksgiving. Notice I have completely buried myself behind small children. Yeah, mama's always thinking!

Okay, those are my Scarlet Lime pages. I love that kit club. Highly recommend it, though you need to preorder - everything sells out fast, but it's so worth it!!

Oh, Here's a link - duh! Scarlet Lime

One more thing. American Idol. SWORE I wasn't going to watch this year. But then, the David Archeletta. I know I am not spelling his name right, but seriously. Could this kid be any cuter?? I totally want to keep him away from Hollywood though - he seems so innocent and pure. I also loved Joey Castro and Michael Johns (who, my mom has just informed me has a recording contract already?)

anyhoo... this morning, I am please to say... I boxed up all of the layouts for my book and am shipping them to Memory Makers this afternoon. (Kristin! I'm early!) :) Kristin is my fablous-o editor who is seriously awesome and I love her. I am really excited to have this book finished - mostly because crunching over my computer screen has given me a horrible neck problem. (Brought on by childbirth at the age of 31. Apparently, not wise... the body is deteriorating.)

SO. I'm finished!! And I'm excited!

And now, I need to go find a low point meal for myself because my stomach is about to turn inside out and ingest itself. I hope you're all doing well this fine Wednesday!

:)

Comments

[Jill]

Congrats on finishing the book. Can't wait to see it in print!!

I love all of the SL kits. I started hanging the bags on the back of my door for inspiration. I also keep them all together until there is almost nothing left in the bag. I need to force myself to make time to play with them more!

Happy Wednesday!

[Miranda Ables]

You are so incredibly inspiring. I just got my issue and fell in love with your projects!!

The KI Memories stuff is called Lace Paper, but laser paper is catchy, too :) The orange, green and blue page is super cute, I LOVE those colors!

Miranda Ables

[Shaun]

Beautiful pages! I cannot wait to read your new book!

[Tawanda]

Those are beautiful layouts!! Well-done, and cute little ones too!!! Makes me wish mine were little again, enjoy them because they grow up toooo fast.

[Cyndi Hoehn]

Love all of the layouts!! they are awesome! Congrats on getting the book done =)

I like Carlee (sp?) on AI. and that David A - is that the one with the lost vocal cord? I think it is and he IS a cutie! We watch it cause at least I don't have to worry about it being trashy for the kids to see;)

[Shelly McCabe]

Wow, what fabulous layouts. Your finishing touches are just perfect. Thanks for the inspiration!

[Kristin]

I almost skimmed right over the part about me being fabulous. =) You're fab too! Thanks for making my editing life so easy. Can't wait to see all the layouts!

[beth murphy]

great pages! ive been so busy checking out your "losing it" blog i haven't hopped over here in a while! i totally know what you mean about the video games. jim and i have had to tighten down on alex. he could easily become addicted. YIKES!

[Jenn]

Awesome pages!!!!