This is with A Million Memories May Kit. Inspired by the Amazing Maggie Holmes.
Nathaniel has just started trying to play peek-a-boo. He often misses his eyes but he’s super-cute. I love the photos.
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So I am pretty pleased at the progress of LOAD but it does seem to be sucking all the other creative energy out of me. I have no idea what I did today and here it is 8pm and I haven’t accomplished much. I did take a walk with my family and have a mini-picnic. I read a bit. Oh and I bought a bunch of scrappy stuff. That’s it. Ugh. I will read a bunch more after this and I plan to get organized. Even if I don’t do any of my todos, it’s good to know what they are. David was playing the Wii most of today and this is the best shot he’d give me.
And Nathaniel played.
And laughed when I made noises.
Love my kids. Love my husband who puts up with my crazy. Cause I have so much of it, trust me. Note to Self: Three Things I’m Grateful For: Two Things David’s Grateful For: Another layout with the A Million Memories stunning May kit.
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yey for happy layouts. Journaling is all about how David makes Nathaniel laugh so much and how much we both love doing that. Here’s this week’s item: I’ve been dreaming about this project for a long time. I have this huge wall in my living room that was itching to get filled. I knew I wanted to put a lot of small prints there and I knew they were going to be from etsy but I spent a long time putting it off. When I finally bought all my prints, they then waited another few months for my mom to arrive and help me hang them. I intended to hang them all next to each other but that wasn’t so easy and as they ended up being all over the place, I decided I liked that better so here we are. I couldn’t get a photo without glare as I have so many windows in this room so I got a few closeups and I will list each of the prints. Here’s a faraway shot to give you a sense of the space. There will be a much larger TV coming very soon which is why the left side is open space.
here’s a closer shot of the wall:
When I was trying to decide what to put on here, I wanted all of the images to be happy and full of love. I wanted them to be fun and uplifting. A few months before I bought the rest, I had bought six prints from Kal Barteski whom I adore. Two of them were for this wall. This is one of them:
And the elephant in this photo is the other:
Here are the links to the two prints: Tiny Art 104 and Tiny Art 91 Other pieces you see in the above image are these lovely giraffes, trees one and two(not in this photo) from Stephanie Fizer, Mistletoe kisses, and the awesome boy chairs. After I bought Kal’s prints, I saw Marisa, who is one of my favorite artists, put up this set of postcards and I bought them as soon as they were up. So now I had all the colorful art I wanted. I went looking for some blue and green and quieter images that made me fee happy. I fell in love with all of the trees in Once Upon a Paper but finally settled on this clean, green one.
I bought several postcards, too. One of which was this love one.
I adore angels which is why I bought this top right print called Angels the minute I saw it:
And another one was this little girl (I love this artist.) Another print I don’t have as closeups is My umbrella which has incredible texture. And finally, I have a postcard that says you are so loved in green. Since loved is my word for 2010, I thought it was only fitting. On the opposite wall, I hung this wonderful painting by Picasso that I adore:
And that’s it for the living room. More next week.
It all starts with the morning it seems. I woke up more rested today and that caused most of my day to go better. Amazingly simple and yet it’s something I cannot actually control. Oh well. Life. I took a series of shots of Nathaniel getting up to walk today, I actually took like 12 of them but here’s a small montage.
A typical Nathaniel face. Checking things out.
And here’s a typical David look. Love this boy to bits.
David’s been learning how to ride his scooter. Two days in and he’s already better than I am.
We had some friends late today and one of the women gave Nathaniel some cheerios which he never eats when I give him.
But he didn’t hesitate when she gave him some. And jammed them all in his mouth.
As if he’s never seen them before.
Well, love these boys. I can’t believe a whole week of LOAD is finished and I am still going on. I didn’t think I’d make it this far honestly. My heart just wasn’t really in it even though I thought it would be a neat idea. And now, I have seven layouts every single one of which I absolutely adore. Let’s see if I can keep this going. Still taking it one day at a time. I am also hoping to read some this weekend, paint some, help a few friends with technical stuff, and maybe reach for my art journal which has been neglected a bit. I have a sewing project in mind too. Or and some long-overdue todo items. And the email. oh the email. Note to Self: Three Things I’m Grateful For: Two Things David’s Grateful For: My first layout with the beautiful A Million Memories May Kit. It’s to die for.
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You know I had to have butterflies. It had been too many days without them 🙂 And I finally put up the layout I’d sneaked earlier this week. You can see it here.
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I’ve discovered today that I don’t do well during the 4:30-6pm timeslot. No matter what, I get stressed, cranky, tired and overwhelmed. I’ve been suffering from back and jaw ache and I now have allergies again which is causing me to have headaches and means medication and lots of tiredness and crankiness. All in all, not good. But I am still loving doing my layout a day and I’ve just received the May kit from A Million Memories which is full of beautiful October Afternoon which I love so I am really excited to be ripping into it tomorrow. I can tell you without a doubt that my favorite thing in the world is watching my two kids play with each other.
And they both love it too.
I adore them.
With all of my heart.
I love how Nathaniel looks at David and how patient David is with him.
And how he walks him around. (I know this is blurry. I don’t care.)
I adore them. They and my incredible husband are the highlights of any bad day. Of any day. I swear. Even when they frustrate me, my heart swells with love at seeing them. I know I say this every night but I think I am going to head to be early tonight. I can tell I need rest. I just can’t seem to get enough of it. I am really behind in email and I apologize if you’ve sent me mail. I am not ignoring you, I swear. Note to Self: Three Things I’m Grateful For: Two Things David’s Grateful For: And here’s day six. Still enjoying this so much. I can feel it getting stressful but I am trying to remind myself that there’s no medal for doing 31. I will be happy however far this takes me. It’s that many layouts to have done and that many memories preserved.
No butterflies again! The journaling is about how I want Nathaniel to be a less picky eater than his brother and how I started with pasta and how he didn’t much care for it. Happy Thursday! This week’s download is some you themed sayings. Here is what they look like:
You can download it here: You Sayings download. You are welcome to play with these as much as you want and use them anywhere you’d like. You are NOT allowed to sell them ever. You don’t have to but I’d appreciate a link back if you do use them. This is part of a weekly digital download series. They are posted every Thursday. You can find all of the ones that were posted here. If you like my downloads, please click here and give me ideas/requests for 2010. I would like to continue this feature but I am not sure I can come up with enough ideas on my own.
A while ago I read Katherine Center‘s two published novels: The Bright Side of Disaster and Everyone’s Beautiful and I loved them both, so I was really looking forward to Get Lucky. So much so, I didn’t even wait for the library to get it. I just went and bought it. Which is really rare for me. But it was worth it. This book is about sisters and about life’s choices and their unexpected (and expected) repercussions. It’s about love and relationships and having babies. It’s a wonderful book that I read in one sitting. As with the others, I loved her characters, I loved the light and beautiful way in which she can write the not-so-light topics. I really enjoyed this sweet book and am glad I didn’t wait longer for it.
Long, frustrating day here. I don’t even want to rehash it. I am ready to be over with today. Ugh. Nathaniel’s started to push things around. He loves David’s chairs especially.
And when they fall over, he tries to pick them up.
But he can’t.
So he gives up.
And starts getting into other things, of course.
He’s a big fan of the empty water bottles I recycle.
And David spends most of his days with legos still.
And that’s pretty much life here. Note to Self: Three Things I’m Grateful For: Two Things David’s Grateful For: |
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