And another one done, and another one done...

I guess I go in spurts. I have put scrapbooking off for longer than usual... (like a week...omg) and I think it is because Grant is gone to work, and I really have been run off my feet with both kids. For the first time, I don't have any back up plan so that I can have a break. My MIL is away at her cabin, and my dayhome isn't really available at the moment, soooo I guess parenting has trumped scrapbooking. ( I can't believe it either...)

Anyhoo, this is a pic of Cohen in October of last year. He was such a little man that day. No matter how many times I pulled his hand out of his pants, he would shove it back in. (and grin, of course.)

TFL.

Another one done...

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so I guess if I put my mind to it, I can get something done. I was just saying to my friend Tara that i am a little worried about the second half of Cohen's first year album. It seems a little less bulky than Avery's. And now that he isn't a "baby" anymore, I don't feel right taking a bunch of pictures to fill it up. Anyhoo, i will work on what has to be done, and will carry on from there.



At least i am finding the motivation to finish some of the older layouts.

a year has passed.

this was Cohen a year ago. He had pneumothorax (??) and had to be intabated for the first day and a half of his life. He spent eight days in the NICU, and it was honestly the scariest time of my life.

There was a time that we didn't think that he would live to see his first week, let alone his first birthday. But that time has come. My baby is one year old.

I am a little sad about it all. I know that he is my last, and therefore the last baby that I will hold as my own, the last baby that will be all mine, the last baby that will let me smother him in kisses (I know that will end all too soon as well). I am thrilled that he is happy and healthy, but a part of me would do anything to keep him as a baby. My baby.

boring...but done.

I have had this layout sitting in Cohen's album forever. Obviously. I don't know why I kept putting it off. I LOVE the paper, and it wasn't that hard to do. Obviously. but it is done. Boring, but done. I want to stay as caught up as I possibly can, and that means, doing the layouts in his first six month album, before finishing his first year pictures...

TFL.

another MNC kit

I started this kit right after finishing the Dream one. I really struggled with this one. I am all for kits... I should be considering I design for Monday Night Class, but I am also all about making a kit your own. My friend Tara told me that I had to quit "shaking things up" on the kits, and to just do them as they come, but I can't. I don't want to have the same layout as 200 other women. I want it to have just a little of my personality. So instead of whipping off a layout, I let this sit in my scrapbook room for a week. (the original can be viewed on the MNC website under "Shop for Kits" http://www.mondaynightclass.ca/

I wanted to include some blue accents on this page to bring out the blue in the patterned paper, and also because Cohen is a boy...

I also knew that the picture I would use would be vertical rather than horizontal as in the original kit. And I had a huge chipboard "C" that I thought would work well on this page.

I am still not thrilled with how it turned out, but I will fill in the info and include it in his album. A finished page is a finished page!

Last minute Birthday Gift!

A friend of mine is having her 30th birthday party this afternoon. I have known about it for a while, but does that mean that I did anything about a gift. nope.

So in a panic, I scrounged in my scrapbook room and made this. I know that lunch kits are old school, but she is relatively new to scrapbooking, and hasn't made a lot of mini albums, so I think this might get her going in that craze!

I used all old stuff (obviously), but I think that it turned out not too badly for a last minute, thrown together, mini album...

Happy Canada Day

I LOVE being Canadian. I really do. I love living in a country that allows freedom of choice, speech, and freedom of expression. I love that we are multicultural, and I love that I will be able to raise my children in a free and tolerant nation.

I love our politeness, our alphabet, our beer, our flag, our knowledge of other nations, our acceptance. I love all things Canadian. And saying that, I love that we have the chance to celebrate our nation's birthday.

Happy Canada Day everyone.