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My Little Shoebox

Here is my projects for this month over at My Little Shoebox -- this month I played with Imagine a Forest.  I LOVE the greens and pinks in this line - so pretty.

I thought the paper would work well with the photos from the pumpkin patch.  Since Alyson was wearing some pink --

I went a little button crazy on the layout! Hee!

  

These are pictures that I have wanted to scrap for a long while but couldn't tweak the coloring to my liking - finally with some work in lightroom I got a good result and finally a layout.

And this layout has photos from my friend Monica's sons baptism - did that make sense?  This is all I really got. But it captures some of the moment right?

  

That little flower at the top is one that I cut off of an old shirt that Alyson wasn't using anymore -- I knew it would come in handy one day - and here it is:)

Then one lil' card...

That's all I got for now...

Michelle 

Some of my favorite things....

I don't know but I love it when people post some of their favorite things at the moment.  I usually am drawn to something new and I love that --so I thought I might too -

Favorite Thing #1

 A couple weeks ago, Alyson's teacher handed me an envelope.  When I opened it there was a letter notifying me that Alyson would be receiving an award for the month of November.  Of course I was hugely proud and it was so hard for me not to jump up and down and tell her.  Because yes, it was a secret...she finally received the award.  I was unable to attend, but Mike did and he video taped it and took pictures for me.  Here is the video that I edited - very short:)

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I think that it has finally sunk in that she earned an award because she now can not stop staring at it and telling me to look at it - LOL!  I am so proud of her. dfhd

Favorite Thing(s) #2

Shopping online - seriously - gotta love that you can shop in your pj's ANY time of the day -- ideal i tell ya.  Here are some of my favorite stops.

Cath Kidston -- LOVE the stuff there - even snagged myself this bag as a Christmas gift to me

Janna Wilson is a scrapper whom I have admired for a long time now and when she opened her shop I was only too excited.  She has some beautiful necklace.  I have a couple of them and they are even prettier in person and they come packaged oh so cute:)

Shop here

And of course anything to do with sewing - I am there.  This little Strawberry Shortcake is already to go -- just need to put it together --:)

I hope mine comes out semi similar - hee!

Click here to go to her store:

And of course the obsession has begun - and I have to admit I started it:)  Santa just may be bringing these little ones to Alyson this Christmas.

And thank goodness I ordered them in November - because I see they are backordered until Feb -- that would NOT have been good.

But alas, Alyson already has her eyes on the "big girl" American Girl Dolls -- so it looks like a trip to the American Girl Store will be in our near future:)

Okay - enough shopping - on to more fun Favorite things.

I have this wierd love for planners - like it is so bad that I usually have more than one planner a year (I am trying to kick that habbit) and I think I found the planner that is perfect for me.

It's a momagenda and I love it -- it is the perfect size to fit in my purse and holds all the info i need.  I know my i phone has a planner and calendar but it is just not the same for me I need something tangible and this is perfect.

Ok I kinda lost track of what number I was at - but I am sure that I posted plenty -- that is all I have for now but I will be back with some scrappy things from My Little Shoebox:)

Michelle

New Adorn It Product!

I was lucky enough to get the chance to play with the 2 new lines that AdornIt is releasing.  And they are doing an online product release - so check out here for more inspiration and a little contest for your chance to win some yummy product!

Here is a layout I did with the new Family Heritage line.  I LOVE the browns and greens in this line. 

 

And then of course the Lapreal line - so pretty!  I love all of the paislies that were in this line.

I had fun playing with these papers and I am saving some of that Lapreal line for Valentine's Day - the colors are perfect!

Thanks for stopping in!

Michelle

December Daily Post #1

Well I am caught up - YAY!  I have been documenting on a piece of scratch paper what I wanted to document each day.  I made sure to take a photo and then I printed them all out today and filled them in the DD(december daily) book.

So here are my first 6 pages...

 

Day One...

How perfect that she wanted hot chocolate on the first day -- I didn't even need to "plan" anything:)

day 2

This is a part of a baseball card sheet that I cut down to size.  I printed out 4 of the photos from that day and just popped them in. 

Day 3

On the 3rd day Alyson received an award at school.  She was the student of the month for her Kindergarten class:):)  And it HAD to be documented in this DD!

The journaling is hidden in the envelope.

   

Day 4

Ahhh - our new little tradition(that I got for 50% off) - our Elf named Mikey!  Alyson loves this and how magical it is!:):)

Day 5

Ahh the yearly picture with Santa.  Once again this one was at 'cousins' house:)  Same Santa and everything!

Day 6

 Today Alyson had a playdate - that she was so over the moon excited about!  I journaled on the front and in the pocket I have some of the photos of Alyson painting the ornaments.

 

Soo not so bad right? I especially love this album because I get to use up lots of alphas that I haven't used in a long while. 

Sooo if you have yours to share - link it up.  *I hope it works:)

Turkey Day & December Daily

Well I was truly bad with the photography aspect of Thanksgiving.  I took no more than 10 and 3 of those were self portraits by my sister and her fiance - hee!  So what I do have was taken at the beginning of the evening.  I did want to make sure to take a photo with Alyson because that is one I usually forget - well not this time - LOL!

Yes - this is how we started the day.  Alyson was in no mood to pose for me unless she could be close to the camera - sigh - gotta laugh!  I didn't even get a pic of her in the dress I made her.

So then I thought - let's take a picture of Alyson and Melissa -- umm yeah Alyson in full giggle mode - :)

And then when I get Alyson to smile - blur - but I love it!

 

Now all three of us...

came out good right?  Love that I match the carpet:):) (Love you mom)

ok - let's try one of just us...

 Not bad - I'll take it!

This is where I put the camera away - but not before......

I bring it back out to take a photo of

THE TURKEY!!!

LOL!  I guess I was hungry?  Sorry family memebrs that I so selfishly forgot:)  But the memories are priceless:)

 

 

 

Well before go - I wanted to show you my December Daily album that I compiled this past weekend.  It is a WIP kit and Trish has step by step directions to go along with the mini - but I decided to just go with the flow.  I wanted felt on the cover for some reason - so here it is.  I sewed first and then attatched it to the chipboard album.  Fun right?

**ok there are some of you willing to play along (yay) so I will post a link on Monday --and some asked if I scrap everyday for this - nope.  I do take a photo everyday and then document what we did that day later when I print out the photos.

Ok - well I will be sure to udate with the pages as I complete them!

Michelle

WIP December reveal & a blogger question

 This month trish gave me the choice of working with either the Christmas themed kit or the non-themed kit this month.  I chose the non-themed kit.  And it is beautiful - click here to see them all.

*I also got the Decemebr Daily that I will post tomorrow.:)

   This kit had some Basic Grey Pantry line and I was OH SO HAPPY!  I have been dying to get my hands on some!

I just happened to have a picture of Alyson the Day of a family celebration eating some yummy cake!  Perfect right??

So here it is!  The black and whites are her digging into the yummy cake!

There is quite a bit of sewing I did on this - but you can't tell from these photos.

 

This one has pictures from just this past weekend!  I tried over and over to get a picture of Alyson and my sister - but Alyson was not cooperating - ALWAYS giggling - hence the title~

When I saw all the cardstock food stickers I knew I couldn't let them go to waste - especially the egg:)  So I decided to do a layout about how picky Alyson is about food.  I know her tastes will change through the years so this is a good document layout.  And the photo is actually an iphone photo that I took while we were at Alyson's favorite resteraunt - Souplantation - LOL!

 

And then I made a little card:)

Isn't that piggy cute?  I love those October Afternoon journaling cards!

That's all I have for now - thanks so much for stopping in!  Make sure to stop by tomorrow for a peek at my December Daily album!

Michelle   

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After I wrote this I thought I would ask you all if you would be interested in doing a "blog hop" of sorts to show how our December Daily albums are coming along?  I could post a Mr. Linky once a week and you could add yours and we could all visit each other?  I know I like seeing what others have done?  Yay - nay?  Let me know in the comments and I will organize things....I figure if I always need something to hold me accountable so maybe others of you do to?

here is a little peek...

Happy Thanksgiving

Well this year I have much to be thankful for.  First and foremost a daughter that completely amazes me every single day.  I am so blessed to be her mom.

I am also thankful for my family who has been there for me through all the ups and downs of this past year.  I have so many people that want to make sure that I am ok - and that means a lot.

I can't wait to eat lots of good food with awesome family. And hope that you do the same.

Here are some Thankful projects that I wanted to share with you. This turkey came about as I was visiting one of my favorite sites to visit.  She has some awesome downloads and just has a fun blog (check it out). She had this pattern up for sale and I knew I had to get it!  It was pretty easy - the hardest part was the veggies (for me anyway). And then Alyson kept on adding things to it.  She wanted tomatoes - hence the red. LOL!  So I made those but refused the peas - could you see me making those!

We found that plate at the 99cent store.  It was originally on one of our plates and I knew that was not such a good idea.  And really it was too heavy.  So this little plastic gem can be droppped as many times as she would like!  And it fits perfectly in her little oven!:)

I also created a garland that is hanging in place of our Halloween one.  I used Dream Streets Sam paper line for this.  Here is the blog post about it and a few tips for making it.

And a  fun card....

   

That's all I have....I hope you all have a wonderfully delicious Thanksgiving!

Michelle