Here's a page I made of Nicky with his daddy, it's another Winni Scrapbooking lesson. This was the last lesson per se, and I am amazed how much I learned. Now I will be learning how to make scrapbook elements, look for my results here in my blog!

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/lesson35.html



Second page I've done with Nicky's help! It came out real cute I think, this was Connor's FIRST birthday!

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These new pages today I did with Nicky's help! He picked the QuickPage and the pictures to use.

The first one was a trick we saw on the Scrapbook Memories TV show, he watched it and wanted me to do it, LOL.

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The second one Nicky just decided to do a page from old Camp pictures, so, voila'.

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/june05.html

I talked to mom yesterday and she keeps wowing about these pages, so that entices me to keep it up. I've been thinking how to approach this. I guess what I need to do is go back to ALL my photos that I have lying around. My 11 year old told me he would help me :-). I will start by making piles of photos by decade. I will then tackle the oldest photos and scrap those the old fashioned way, BUT, the best ones I will scan and digiscrap. Once I have a certain amount of pages I will start scrapping either by person or, more likely, by year, or both I guess! I will start in July when we come back from CAMP. It should be a HUGE undertaking. I already scrapped all my baby pictures, but Nicky's... I stopped scrapping for lack of time in 1998, so I have 10 years worth of pictures that are just 'everywhere'. I feel bad about it, but at least I am starting now!

This first page... awww... it's some of my favorite pics. Connor was just a peanut. A quickpage from somewhere. Wish I knew where! Sorry!
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Second page is my peanut once again, a few months later. Another QP...

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I am in the middle of doing these cute royal dollies, but I needed 2 minutes to relax, so here's the page I whipped out. Of course, a quickpage! Nicky and Connor, too darn cute in this pic, were 9 and nearly 2 here. Awww... brotherly love!

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Awww... my sweet boy! Connor here is almost 4 months old. Too cute!!! Cute Scrap kit courtesy of Lisa at http://ronimasil.blogspot.com/

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Someday my Ship will come...

I saw this layout on the August 2007 issue of Digital Scrapbooking magazine, the one I took to Italy with us. On one of the advertisements there was the back of this little boy, maybe 2 years old, looking at the school bus and the layout simply stated 'someday *my* bus will come'. I thought it was cute and thought nothing of it until one of our days in Venice, when we were having dinner by the Rialto bridge and Connor just stood there for a while, looking at the boats go by and though of doing a page of him waiting for a ship the moment I snapped this pics! So... all this time later, there they are!

Bigger version of this page is here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug07.html

The papers and elements I used to make this page are from Elisa's Bits

I could not go workout today because I am sooo sick! My voice is shot. Nicky is also home and shortly I will go eat dinner and change his gauze, but first I had to do this page! Isn't it adorable? BIGGER version is here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/jan2006.html

I got the inspiration from the Digital Scrapbooking magazine. I finally can look at these layouts thinking... YES! I can do this!!!! I got the new issue yesterday and I bookmarked the pages that I want to do and this was the first one. I think mine came out even cuter than the example, but I am biased! I love having these inpirations, I could never come out with these ideas on my own...

I used scrapbooking elements from this gal over here. Very talented!!

The bigger image for this page can be seen here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug04.html

This is a very simple page I made out today with a sample kit from June Hill aka Tink © Andika Designs at http://andikadesigns.blogspot.com

Connor was almost 1 year old and he was SO DARN CUTE in these pictures, which were taken in late August 2004. The water was pretty cold but he was happy to be cooling off in a very hot day. I took about 20 pictures of so of him in his little pool but only these 3 came out half way decent! That's why I love digital pictures!!! I could have never caught the main darling shot with a regular camera, I would have given up by then!!!

Here's one I did for my little one. It was a Winni Scrap tutorial #29... notice the footsie coming out of the frame...

This tutorial was not very easy to do, I should have picked something more squarish or an easier shape, the foot was problematic, but I do love how it came out!

Here Connor was 7 months old and in his Easter outfit, I LOVE IT! At 7 months, Connor barely knew how to sit up well so I ended up taking almost 100 photos that day trying to get a good shot! This is one of the handful that came out good that day.

I am still feeling BLAH today emotionally, I just hope I don't get sick. My husband was so sick he had to go to the Doctor and that happens very rarely, so I hope the kids and I don't get sick as well.

Looking forward to American Idol tonight and Big Brother... ya know me, the Reality TV Queen!!