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Daily Photos – August 5 2009

Nathaniel’s become a big fan of his fingers. And not so much a fan of the swing. I am finally making progress on the tasks I have at hand. And booked our vacation and everything. I have started this new schedule where I eat my frog first thing every morning. It’s been working quite well on days where I do it.

And I’ve also been doing the wii fit lately. So is David:

Happy hump day!

Digital Downloads – Joy of My Life

Here’s a simple download for today. A png that can be used as a “rubon.” Here’s an example:

As always you can click on the image or here’s the download link: joy of my life.

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.

Daily Photos – August 4 2009

My sister. My wonderful sister. She and David and Nathaniel and I chatted for 40 minutes over Skype. God bless technology. They blew kisses back and forth on the computer. I am so lucky to have my sister.

Here’s another one of her and you can also see David:

And here’s my daily Nathaniel:

He’s not a fan of the swing lately so we end up having to distract him with David’s toy that lights up. Otherwise he will only nap on my lap while nursing (as he’s doing right now).

Daily Photos – August 3 2009

This is the little boy when I am not holding him. When he’s tired. It’s the saddest face to me and I cannot resist it for more thqn a second.

Digital Downloads – Journaling Card 1

Here’s a simple download for today. A journaling card that can be used digitally or printed out.

As always you can click on the image or here’s the download link: journaling card 1.

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.

Daily Photos – August 2 2009

I love how Nathaniel always touches his toes when he’s sitting in this chair.

Here’s my beautiful son, playing with legos. I love him to bits. Literally. Every little bit of him.

And, of course, the daily Nathaniel.

It’s been a quiet unproductive weekend but I was relaxed and got ideas ready for the week. Here’s to a productive week!

Catalyst 73 – Teaching at BPS

This week’s prompt at creative therapy is: Tell us about a recent ‘dream come true’ it can be big or small as long as it was a dream for you.

here is my journaling:

I still remember the first time I read about Big Picture Scrapbooking. I was incredibly inspired by the idea and couldn’t stop thinking about it. A few months later, I was taking a course on accomplishing your dreams and on my list, I wrote down “submit a proposal to BPS.” I had no idea if they took proposals or what I would teach, but I didn’t care, I would find a way to make it happen. As it turns out, they did take proposals and I wrote mine up and sent it over to Stacy. A phone call and a few months later, my class was up and I finally got to accomplish my dream. And, honestly, it was better than I ever could have imagined. I loved writing the course. I loved teaching the course. I loved every bit of it and I am so lucky that I get to do it again and again.

Digital Downloads – Layered Template 1

Since I rarely make digital pages, I am not sure these templates are all that great, but I like experimenting so I will make them for a while.

Here’s a sneak of what the template looks like (you can click on it to download the template):

And here’s a sample page I made with it. I kept it really simple so you could see the template’s layers. And remember, I am not a digi scrapper so I am not that good. All the papers I used are free kits from 2peas.

here’s the download: template 1. It’s zipped and should work both with Photoshop CS series and Photoshop Elements.

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.

As always, please let me know what you like and don’t like. I am experimenting.

Three Months

Here is the last one of my layouts with this month’s A Million Memories kit.

Journaling Reads:

Little boy, today you are three months old. I can’t believe how quickly the last three months have passed. You have already grown so much. You weigh almost double what you did at birth. You are so strong and can hold your head up without any assistance. You can do tummy time like nobody’s business and you have just recently started grabbing things. Oh, and you laugh, you laugh so much and so magically that it makes everyone around you laugh.

Everyone says how much you look like me and I suppose they are right. You certainly look more like me than your brother does. You have my coloring, my face shape, and maybe even my eyes. But the one thing you have that I never did is the best attitude in the world. You are the most smiley baby I’ve ever met. It takes two seconds for you to break into a smile when someone looks at you. You meet their eyes and you smile so wide that the other person cannot resist smiling right back.

You’re not sleeping all that well just yet but I have hope for you. You’re already a better sleeper than your brother was at six months. I am hoping that, with time, that will just fall into place. Either way, before I know it, you’ll grow up and sleep in your big boy bed like your brother so I am going to enjoy these moments while they are still here and keep it all in perspective.

Happy three months, my son. I love you with all my heart.

Daily Photos – August 5 2009

Digital Downloads – Joy of My Life

Daily Photos – August 4 2009

Daily Photos – August 3 2009

Digital Downloads – Journaling Card 1

Daily Photos – August 2 2009

Catalyst 73 – Teaching at BPS

Digital Downloads – Layered Template 1

Three Months

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