Design Team layout with AMM‘s wonderful January kit.

Journaling Reads:
When you were born, I took your photos constantly and you never
objected. (Well, you didn’t have much choice.)



As you grew up, you went through a phase were you were very annoyed when
I approached you with a camera. “No picture,” you’d say over and over
again. Those months, most of the photos I captured were angry,
frustrated, or annoyed faces. I didn’t mind too much, I loved those
faces almost as much as the happy ones since they were all different
parts of you. I figured I should capture all I can while you still let
me take any photos.



I thought that eventually you’d find clever ways to hide from the
camera. I have been preparing myself for that day. But, today, you
completely shocked me. You walked up to the camera, gave it to me, and
said “Mommy, take picture,” and you gave me the sweetest smile.



I didn’t care that the light was terrible and that it would be blurry. I
captured the moment and thanked my lucky stars.

Photos from Google’s yearly holiday party. Design Team layout with AMM‘s wonderful January kit.

Today’s prompt was actually to design your cover. But she also suggested
we could do photos from Christmas and I couldn’t pick one. So I picked
two of my favorites: david opening presents and eating all the leftover
chocolate.

Another minibook from Danelle’s class. I love this and
am reserving for letters I want to write since the pages are tall envelopes.

The third book from the class I took where Danelle Johnson introduced her
new Creative
Cafe line.

This is year three.

Over a month ago, I took a day-long class where Danelle Johnson introduced her
new Creative
Cafe line. The lectures were so profound, so life changing, that I
didn’t end up scrapping much at all. So I brought the directions home
and the materials at home and didn’t complete the albums until today. I
still haven’t journaled them but I have done all the prep work. In my
minimalist style, of course.

Trust me that Danelle’s designs were much prettier. Also, she has hard
plastic see-through covers for the albums but I wanted to use those
elsewhere so I took them out. It was three albums of 12 pages each, so I
used them to commemorate David’s first three years since he will be
three in five weeks.

This is year one, when he was a teeny-weeny baby. Each page has a
chipboard that comes out and there is one photo on each side. I didn’t
photograph the photos since they are not new.