I LIKE BIG CUPS AND I CAN NOT LIE

This is my latest project for The Memory Nest using the following sketch.  I went to my local scrapbook store in search of circus paper; I came out of the store with Moxxie's "Coffee Addict" collection.  My daughter loves coffee.  She gets it honestly; her father would have coffee dripped intravenously if he could.  I'm hooked.  Her grandmother goes to Tim Horton's so much, they immediately put on a fresh pot the minute she walks through the door.  So I decided pictures of my daughter hanging out with her friends at Starbucks would be perfect subject matter for this sketch!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

This is my latest project for Let's Scrap using the following sketch.  Last month was my daughter's birthday.  And it was an interesting one...My daughter has a food allergy, so she can't eat traditional cake.  So my Mom made her safe cupcakes for her birthday.  The cupcakes were sitting on my kitchen table waiting to be eaten when my older daughter came into my office and said, "Mom...how many cupcakes did Mimi make?"  She had made twelve.  On my table were two cupcakes...My dog ate the other ten. The remnants were scattered on my couch.  Because we were on a tight schedule because of an indoor soccer game and no one wanted to eat a potentially dog saliva covered cupcake, I  improvised.  Come to find out, candles in a pizza work when in a birthday pinch.  (Although the candles melted from the bottom up so they were in a strange "J" shape when I took them out of the pizza).  To document this birthday classic, I used Echo Park's "Party Time" collection.  And as a side note, my Mom made my daughter another batch of safe cupcakes for when she returned from soccer.  So she did eventually get to eat birthday cupcakes. :)

SWEET MEMORIES

This is my latest project for Sketches in Thyme using the following sketch.  I'm still in Valentines day mode and fell madly in love with Doodlebug Design's Cream and Sugar line.  When the papers arrived at my house, all the sugary treats on the papers reminded me of these pictures I took of my younger daughter when she was a baby.  My daughter has food allergies.  Although she is allergic to milk and egg, this child has a massive sweet tooth.  Over the years, I have become quite the food detective and have learned a variety of ways to make baked goods that are safe for her.  I've also found all sorts of other goodies such as soy ice cream (which is all over her face in these pictures) that tastes just like super creamy regular ice cream.  I've learned to substitute applesauce for eggs when making cookies and cakes. So long story short, she eats all the junk we do, although a healthier version of it! 

HAPPY TOGETHER

This is my latest project for Let's Scrap using the following sketch.  For this project, I went full out Valentine's Day.  I don't take many pictures on this holiday, so instead I decided to feature pictures of a few of my loves; my girls and my puppies.  These two humans and three furry creatures warm my often times cynical heart.  And I thought they would be the perfect subject matter for a Valentines' Day themed project.  To pull this layout together, I used paper from

Photo Play's "So Loved" collection.

I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW

This is my latest project for The Memory Nest using the following sketch.  About a month ago, I stumbled upon a CD of pictures that contained a treasure trove of photos of my children as babies.  Why was this such a big deal?  For a long time, I thought that these pictures were gone forever...The website where I upload many of my pictures suddenly deleted everything I uploaded from this time period.  Thank goodness I had the good sense to make a CD back in the day!  And thank goodness I happened to stumble upon it one evening this past January!  This particular picture I have been in search of for a long time, and I was over them moon that I found it on the CD.  It continues to be one of my favorite photos of my two girls; the older one was blowing bubbles while the younger one was trying to pop them.  I've wanted to do a project with this picture for as long as I can remember, but thought it would never happen. Now that the photo has been recovered, I decided a sketch featuring circles would be perfect for a bubble blowing picture as the subject matter.  I used a variety of papers from Bella Blvd's "Illustrated Faith" collection to pull this project together. 

TAXI

This is my latest project for The Memory Nest using the following sketch.  By far, the picture on the right of my oldest daughter is one of my favorite photos that I have ever taken.  She was five and having a blast touring Chicago.  We had spent hours at the American Girl Doll store, strolled up and down Michigan Avenue, and were tired.  Her father and I were born and raised in Southwest Ohio.  In other words, we are not big city folks...We needed to hail a taxi to get back to our hotel and neither of us were exactly sure of taxi cab hailing protocol.  Our knowledge of taxis came from Sex & the City...needless to say, we were feeling a bit out of our element.  So as we were trying to figure out the proper etiquette of taxi cab hailing, our five year old daughter sticks her little arm in the air, starts waving it around  yelling, "TAXI!"  She became so confident being our family taxi cab hailer, I was able to catch her doing it in the picture on the right.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of papers from Bella Blvd's "Let's Go" collection, namely because I loved the cute taxi cab print.

WINTER WONDERLAND

This is my latest project for Let's Scrap using the following sketch.  I live in the Midwest of the USA where we are supposed to have all four seasons...Except this year. Ohio had winter for a week and now we are experiencing Spring.  This is sad for me because I'm a teacher.  Teachers love snow days more than students.  BUT, I'm trying to stay positive about our lack of winter and decided to pretend I'm living in Florida this year and experiencing a southern USA winter.  It's made things more bearable.  In the meantime, since snow is not in the forecast, I decided to dip into my snow picture archives and use some of my favorites of my girls for this sketch.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of Doodlebug papers from the "Polar Pals" collection.