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Weekly Layouts – I Love You

This is with the February Kit from A Million Memories.

At almost nine months old, you still make me swoon.
Your smiles are magical and your giggles even more.
You crawl into my lap several times a day and all I want
to do is hug you and kiss you and hug you and kiss you
some more. I love you so much Nathaniel, there are no
words to express the love you brought into my life.

ps: these are some of my older layouts that I never shared which is why they might look different from my current style 🙂 The stories are still authentic and they are ours so I am going to post them even if some of them already make me cringe a bit. (Not this one, I love this one.)

Weekly Layouts – Three Boys

This one is for fun. For me. And a layout I made months and months ago which is why the stitching is a minimum and no white background 🙂

I love this photo. The journaling is about these three boys whom I adore and who are the best part of my life.

Even Your Walk has so much Personality

Here is another Tim Holtz layout.

Journaling Reads:
I think many parents would like to think that they have a strong hand in the personality of their children. But I think kids are born with so much of their personality. While I’d like to take credit for how sweet, kind, and funny you are I know you just came to us with all that. Your walk, your stance, your tone has so much personality even before you can speak. I love you madly.

Tim Holtz Products used:
Lost and Found paper
Shabby Vintage paper
Locket Keys
Folicage
Alphabet soup Grungeboard
Elements Grungeboard
Tiny Attacher
Tumbled Glass Distress Ink
Game Spinners
Mini Pins

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Weekly Layouts – Your Protector

When you sat up on the couch to chew your toy,
David rushed to stand behind you
to make sure you wouldn’t fall.
You are so lucky to have this protective brother.
I hope you are always there for each other.

The First Day You Gave a Hug

Here is one of my first Tim Holtz layouts. I know it doesn’t look like it since it’s a typical Karen layout but this page uses pretty much only Tim’s products. List below.

Journaling Reads:
Nathaniel I don’t think David or I will ever forget the first time you ever gave David a hug. He was playing by the couch and you just walked up to him and gave him a hug from the back and we were both shocked. But you kept hugging him all day long. I think it was one of David’s favorite days of all time. We will never forget it. We love you so much!

Tim Holtz Products used:
Lost and Found paper
Shabby Vintage paper
Timepieces
Symphony tissue tape
Alphabet Soup Grungeboard
Red Pepper Paint Dabber
Trinket Pins
Ruler Ribbon
Type Charms
Mini Pins

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The Joy of Living with You is Endless

I love love love love my little man.

I made this layout using A Million Memories August kit. It uses the sketch designed by Zoe. If you haven’t been using our monthly sketches and playing along with our challenges you totally should. You can win a gift certificate to buy goodies at the store!! Here’s the August challenge

(temporarily removed for publication, coming back!!)

Building Blocks and Lego Love

I made this layout using A Million Memories August kit.

Journaling is about how much Nathaniel loves building blocks and legos.

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Too Often I Forget You are Just Five

I made this layout using A Million Memories August kit.

Journaling is about how David is so mature and helpful that sometimes I forget he’s only 5 and this is to remind myself that it’s ok for me to let him act his age a bit more.

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If Only You Were not so Adorable It would be so much Easier

I made this layout using A Million Memories August kit.

Journaling Reads:
Little boy, sometimes you really drive me crazy. Put toys in the trash or take the trash out to play or you eat David’s toys or the Wii remotes. But none of is can ever really punish you because you are so cute and we are all so hopelessly in love with you. You are one lucky boy.

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Focusing Hard and Oblivious to the World

I know I post layouts on Sundays but I’ve been crafting more and more and I think it’s annoying to wait a month (or six) to post them so I think I will post them more and more as I make them from now on. I will still continue posting them on Sundays too. Let’s see if it works.

I made this layout using A Million Memories july kit. It was a lift of Wendy Kwok’s amazing layout and I loved the design of her layout so much. The journaling is about how when David’s playing the Wii, he is completely unaware of anything that goes on around him.

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