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Murray

My little guy has this fascination for some friends of ours' cat, Murray.

Atticus has taken to Murray like Calvin did to Hobbes.

He tells me stories about how he and Murray ride bikes together (Atticus' is blue and Murray's is green) and then snuggle together (Atticus sucking his fingers and Murray sucking his paw!). LOL

Atticus even has a beanie baby version of Murray that he carries around.

Of course I had to record this.

Of course. :)

(To make the green frame, I traced the die cut paper in the kit around the green cardstock, cut it out, and then cut out a large square on the inside. I added liberal amounts of distress ink to define the edges!)

Our Craft Room

Recently, in the throes of major pregnancy nesting, I took it upon myself to completely rearrange several rooms in the house, the main goal being to convert our play room into more of a craft room. I had this small desk that I would scrap at in there, and the kids were always wanting to sit with me and do crafty stuff, but there wasn't enough room.

I moved out the desk and moved in a big table and made the craft side of things more kid-focused. We absolutely love it! Our craft table gets lots of use, every day, and I'm so glad we did this.
I used the Noel Mignon Five Foot Two (sold out!!) kit and the Noel Mignon Eyes of Blue kit (there's a few left!) to create this layout. I did lots of layering in this little section- I cut out roses from one of the 4x4" mini Jenni Bowlin scrapbook papers and layered it underneath a Maya Road sheer. Then a Collage Press die cut, some October Afternoon labels, and finally on top, some Jenni Bowlin alpha stickers! A Sassafrass brad & Making Memories mini alphas finish off the title.

Just checking in...

we've been doing VBS/Walk thru the Bible last week, plus two birthday parties, and normal commitments like Sunday School, nursery, laundry, eating, getting a chance to take a shower... you know.

I'll be back later today with a re-cap of the cool stuff from last week's Walk thru the Bible, and hopefully some new creations soon! Because of being so busy, I hadn't had a chance to do anything creative in a week or so, and it was driving me crazy... I finally settled down on Saturday night and last night to play with some paper and it felt so therapeutic. Dude, I need that time!

Ok, off to catch up on normal stuff. Atticus is sorting all the clean laundry into baskets for me right now, and he's actually doing a pretty decent job! Now it's my turn to fold it all- yick!

Later folks!

Photo Editing Cheats

My friend Michelle does awesome things with her photos, and she's willing to share a few of her secrets. This is right up my alley because she does it the way I can relate to- not a lot of mumbo jumbo or complicated tricks!

For example, check out this great tutorial she just did on how to make a photographed layout look so fresh (and so clean! hehe Now I bet you have that song in your head...)

Michelle's Make Your Layouts Pop Tutorial

She's offering a class with her secret cheats:

Here are the details...

*click on the image to make it larger

To sign up for this class (only $12!!!), just click the "buy now" button below, or go here:

P.S. You don't have to be a scrapbooker to take this class! :)

Weekend Creating

We had a fun weekend, but boy this Monday morning is it hard to get going! We are having our Walk Thru the Bible workshops/VBS at church this week too, and I'm in charge of decorations & crafts, so I woke up with my mind full of "things to do" today!

I hope you had a fun & relaxing weekend... I was able to sneak in a tiny bit of creative time.

A birthday card made from my scraps bin & the packaging on a Jenni Bowlin set of birthday bingo cards:

A "Summertime Traditions" layout (check out the new challenge later today from NoelMignon here!):

Created with the Five Foot Two (1 left!) & Eyes of Blue (8 left!) kits.

Gotta get rolling, peeps. We have swim time today, visitors stopping by, errands to run for VBS, and I'm sure many more things going on today before my head hits the pillow tonight!

Have a great Monday!