wanna see my first page?

Here is my take on this weeks sketch over at Scrapbook Challenges. I really loved this one. Its simple and basic design, left so many possible LO's that I will probably do this one again. This in not what I imagined, but I like it. Photo is of my son Blake, watering the grass for the first time. He thought the water hose was amazing. He is such a boy. The polka dotted chipboard buttons are from Miss Ken. The are wonderful to work with. Great color, and adds just the right about of dimension, and texture to your projects. Check her out, if you haven't already!!!

Here is the sketch.

The lovely Jocelyn, has tagged me with the request, to see my first completed layout. (yeah right) J/K I dabble in the cut up magazines, markers and memorabilia, glued directly down to those books that are tied together with the strings, but lucky for me that stuff is at my moms. Its a form of scrapbooking, but IMO not really. Its more teenage doodles to me. So here is my first official scrapbook page with actually scrapbook papers and real photos. I stole the title from a magazine, of course. All supplies were bought at Michael's, and of course they were deco scissors to cut out the pic. Photo was taken of my DH the first time he came to visit my house. lol.







And because I'm going to be brave today, here are my next couple of pages. Its clear I was a simple and to the point scrapper. I love to look back and see how much my style has evolved.















I'm not going to officially tag anyone, but if you are feeling BRAVE today, go ahead and show us your first pages. After all, talent has to be developed and style does change, so what are you waiting for? What can it hurt?

So at least its not pee & spider and help!

Spiders: What do you do about spiders? I hate them, and have found about 10 now in the house this month. They are everywhere. I've found them in my bed, Blake's bed, and even Blake's bath water, while he was in the tub. The one from Blakes bed looked like it would be poisonous. It was around the size of a quarter, black and had a white marking on its back. And it was so fast.

Blake is really on a roll this week. For mothers day, he made sure I wasn't forgotten. I woke up to a house filled with baby powders. Yes the entire new bottle spread from one end to the other.

Here is my couch and notice the dog bone.

Look how good he covered these ride ons.

And let's not forget about last night. He wanted to color in his art book, so I set him up. This time choosing to sit him by the wall for some crazy reason. I bet you know what I'm about to say already, so yep he color the wall bright blue. I guess its safe to say, he doesn't think I choose the right color for this said wall.


I told him to go stand by his art work and this is the look I got. Cracks me up.







Did you notice the hair cut his daddy gave him? I wasn't to happy about this one, but its starting to grow on me a little. I love his hair short, not this short though, but shaved bc I think it makes his facial features stand out so much more.


Of course, I had to document this crazy hair cut. I wanted a tough, grungy look , but I don't have those supplies. I used a free digital kit from Stacy called 2 little bots. The kits also has pinks so its works for girls too. It is still available on her blog for free, until the end of today. But if you miss it, she moves them to her store for $1, when she releases something new. She offers tons of freebies, so check her out.




What are you really loving right now? Link me up? pattern paper, collections, manufactures, stores, animals, TV, kit clubs, music, clothes, shoes, purses, whatever. I want to see it. I need some inspiration.



Both of the boys are napping, so I getting out the scrappy stuff. Toddles!

It's pee

Well I guess they are a reason we call it terrible two's.

Let me set the mood. Its about 8 pm and I decide to soak in the tub. Usually, Blake would end up jumping in also, but not this night. Instead he chose to play and watch sprout before bedtime. So while I am relaxing in the hot water, I can hear him playing, laughing and talking. He is starting to talk so much lately and I think it so cute. During this time Josh is on his computer, which is located about 20 feet from mine none the less. Approximately 15-20 minutes have passed, when I reenter the room. I find this cute little guy butt naked excpet for his PJ top. I proceed to ask him....Where are your clothes Blake? Why your shirt wet Blake? "Where is your diaper Blake?" He proceeds to go over to my new desk. Which looks like this.


See that little printer shelf on the bottom. That is where I store my pattern paper. Yes all my American Craft papers that I like to hoard, instead of using when they are new. Now that I have caught up with Blake, I realize my chair is also wet. This is when I notice a little puddle, it didnt take me too long to fugure out he peed on my pattern paper. AHHHHHH! BLAKE! Lucky for me, I store it in those hideous plastic storage bins, so only a few sheets were damaged.

Are you laughing by now? What are you waiting for, go ahead and have a huge belly chuckle at my expensive today. I must admit, it is pretty funny.

The moral to this story is little boys love to pee on anything.
Ok actually I was going to say DON'T HOARD YOUR PAPER BC ITS PRETTY, BC YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN SOMEONE WILL PEE ON IT.


I hope to get a few scrappy things done today. I'm working on the sketch for the blog hop this month...details later. I've also been working on SVG files to cut with my cricut. I love making my own patterns and designs. Its so wonderful compared to the cartridge limitations. I will leave you with a sneak of Mondays sketch challenge in from Scrapbook Challenges.

B and the white crayon

What you do think of my new look? I don't know why, but I'm not liking it all that much. I think its bc I prefer a cleaner look. It will stay like this for now, but probably not too long.



Lately, Blake really loves to scribble on the couch, on the walls, and sometimes paper. So last night I opened the new box of crayons, he received at his birthday party, from great uncle Thomas. He was very excited. Though he has coloring and activity books,he wanted to write in my sketch journal. Its one of those little 5x4 fat spiral books. Light bulb goes off, and I go and get him one of the regular composition spiral books. He was happy.

I set him up at the end table, in his high chair and away he goes. Scribbles, scribbles, scribbles. Afterwards I found he did 3 pages plus the back cover. After he was finished coloring, he puts all his crayons away, except one, and hands me the package. I say "Blake where is the other one, one is missing, where is it'? He mumbles something that I cant understand. I look around and discover its the white one tha'ts missing. I retrieve it from the floor and hand it to Blake to put into the box. He takes the crayon, looks down at his master piece and throws it on the floor, again mumbling something. I pick it up again, and see that he had tried to color with this white crayon bearing down extremely hard,, with no results. Then second light bulb goes off. He was trying to tell me that one was broken and it didn't work so he doesn't want it in his box. I could see his little brain thinking jeez mom, cant you see that one is broken.

April showers bring may butterflies.

I hope everyone had a fun, happy, and exciting NSD. Blake had a birthday party to attend, so I didn't get much done. Only 1 page! My challenge example for scrapbook challenges that goes up later this morning. My challenge is an easy one.... April is over and May is here, with that comes flowers and butterflies. So its simple your page must be adorned with at least 1 butterfly and 1 flower. Optional twist is to use a white background. This challenge is also for If the shoe fits challenge site to use green and purple. Purple is a hard color for me to scrap with, not sure why.







The new sketch goes up today also. At first, I was so lost with this sketch, but once I started playing it with, I love it.









Here is my finished LO. Its digital, bc I was waiting on my photos to arrive in the mail. Instead of using 4 small pic I chose to use embellishments there and 1 large pic in the middle. I like it.








For the month of May, Pamela lined up an awesome sponsor for the lucky winner. Studio Calico , check out the prize here.

As far as the big adventure of going back to school, I think I have decided on becoming a Medical Assistant. I know this is not for everyone, but I think it could be right for me. I'm kinda excited!!! Only thing now, is to worry about the Compass placement test. I have forgot so many math formulas and how to's. More later....Toddles!