Day 12- I Love You

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Grow with Love: March Letters Edition -- by Sara and Crystal @ TLP.
Prompt on Day 12 on Crystal's blog- Act: Gift of Words!
Reach for the Sun - charity collab @ 9th and Bloom.

Day 11- Stay True to You

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Day 11 of the March Grow With Love: Letters!

Our Love Story

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Grow with Love: February Letters Edition by Sara Gleason and Crystal Livesay
Prompt: Day 8 on Crystal's Blog
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Love Life Together

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Another page for my letters album... this one is using the prompt- send love and of course, I was sending my love to Eric! By the way, just in case you didn't know-- Sara and Crystal host these prompts on each of their blogs and everyone is more than welcome to play along or work at your own pace-- which is what I've done!

And, ... and this excites me... it made GSO at DST today!!!

I Won't let Go

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I am absolutely in love with this song by Rascal Flatts-- I won't let go! You can find the music video here.
This page is for the Grow With Love: February Letters edition. It's Day#5- Get Inspired with Musical Lyrics.

Wow!! This page made GSO at DST. I'm always floored when that happens with my pages!

My Loves

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This page is for the Grow with Love: January Letters:: Day 4 ... the prompt was about scrapping ourselves right now, what we, the scrapper loves! And by the way, right now I'm IN LOVE with the journaling bling by Jenn Barrette that's currently available at the lily pad! LOVE IT!!!
My Journaling:
Today is Wednesday, February 23, 2011. My life right now seems to be revolve around work, TV, scrapbooking at my family. We will skip the work part since that is pretty boring. It’s winter, so we’re usually stuck indoors which means, TV addiction time. I’m in love with American Idol, despite the new judges. I spend all weekend waiting for Glee. And even thought we record it, I still refuse to miss it. I will also watch any law and order type shows, just because they are a decent waste of time. Now, as for the computer... scrapbooking and gallery surfing is what I like to do best. So far this year I’ve done about 25 layouts which is a HUGE accomplishment compared to every other year. Then there’s photography. I love to take pictures, even though I have plain point-and-shoot camera. Every time I take a photo, I think about how I will scrapbook it, even kit ideas that’s how obsessed I am. I’m also trying to get my body healthy again, so I’m cooking more, which I love. I can’t believe we ate out so much last year!! I also love playing the Kinect... it’s such a great indoor workout that doesn’t feel like exercise. At the end of the day, I love going to bed with Eric and Rylee. Hearing that little chatterbox tell her “Once upon a time” stories is just a priceless part of my day. As it gets warmer I’m sure my loves will change. Less TV, more outside time which means, more family time which is my number one love of all.

Hindsight

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This was a very tough page for me. It's one that I needed to do, because it's something that I think about every single day. I actually started it weeks ago, I just had a hard time with the journaling. I wanted to be truthful and honest with myself and sometimes that is very hard to do.
This was for Day3 of the January Letters from the Grow with Love series by Sara and Crystal

This page made GSO at Me So Scrappy! It's always shocking!

Adorable

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This picture was taken in March of 2010. Another album... the Capturing Life album. Title inspired by the wordart by Sahlin Studio for the February BYOC!

R.Y.L.E.E.

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Well, this is page #3 in Rylee's book! I fiddled with this page for two days until I was finally satisfied with the outcome! I used a template from Grow with Love: Kids by Sara Gleason and Crystal Livesay and it's
Prompt #3: Word Play.

The goal was to create a page using the letters in your child's name to describe them... an acrostic. The lists below each circle was an afterthought because I realized with the elements and papers, it was really hard to see the actual words.

WOW!! This page got me the first ever GSO on the Gallery Standouts Blog!

How it Began

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What's in a name?

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This is my 2nd page using the ]Grow With Love: Kids Edition templates & prompts! I used Prompt#2: What's in a name. This is a great set of prompts... for me especially because I haven't scrapped anything, well almost anything, of my daughter's first year. I've may have scrapped the photos, but not the story behind them! I'm excited to finish and one day print them!

Journaling:
When we found out you were going to be a little girl we went to work searching for a name. We didn’t want a common name so we made sure to stear clear of those on the most popular lists. We found your name in a book and we knew instantly it was the one! ooks, we say Rylee. Of course they had 3 or 4 other spellings of it, but this one, we like. It was different! Your middle name, is my middle name. That was your dad’s idea! You have Mommy & Daddy’s name!

Free to be Me

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Wow! This layout feel together easily. Love this kit, and this prompt from Sara and Crystal is a great one. I got to explore me, in a positive light instead of always seeing the bad! The lyrics around the actual journaling is from a song by Francesca Battistelli "Free to be Me"! LOVE that song, Love most of her stuff! At the top of the journaling paragraph is the chorus from the song, then my journaling:
No matter how old I get, I never feel quite good enough. I tend to be a pessimistic person anyway, but I always feel inadequte. But you know what, Life is not about the have nots but about the haves. I am blessed. I am a good person. I am a Christian. I am faithful. I am loving, caring, considerate, compassionate, and occasionally OCD person. I am loved. I am blessed.

This page my GSO at Me So Scrappy on Thursday!! Everytime I see my page get recognized it shocks me!! I'm like.. "wow, they liked little ole me"

To be a Mommy

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This was a tough-- yet-- easy page to complete. I used the Grow with Love- Kids Edition- Template 10- {{Prompt #1: Remember... did you always?}} which is by Sara Gleason and Crystal Livesay available @ TLP.
Journaling:
When I was a little girl, of course I knew I wanted kits. I wanted 3:: Boy, Girl, Boy! And then, in high school, after having seizures for almost 10 years, I thought that it would be horrible of me to bring a child in this world that could possibly have epilepsy and have to deal with that disease forever, as well. So, at 16 I decided that I would not have kids.
Then, you came along. Miss Rylee Lynn, you’ve changed my life forever! Before you, I was dead set on not having kids, but now I don’t know what I would have done without you! You, and your dad, are the best thing that has ever happened to me. I was blessed to have been seizure free all during pregnancy and so far, there have been no signs of seizures in you. I pray that it stays like that forever!

Projects:: 2011

Well, it is day 1 of month 2 in this great new year, and I'm already ending and beginning new products. Right now I'm working on about 3 "themed" scrapbook albums (love letters, Rylee, and Marriage from the GWL series). It is not surprised that I dropped out of p365 during week 1. Yep. It's sad, I know. If I had a better camera I think I would take more pictures, but I hate the one I have now... which is why I'm saving up for a DSLR. However, I am trying to still take pictures at least a couple days a week of not only the events, but our daily happenings. At the beginning of each new month I'm trying to do a 2 page summery spread of the previous month using those everyday pictures. AND, instead of waiting until the middle of December to do my 2012 calendar, I'm doing the calendar topper at the end of each month!!! I have *started* the January one, it's just not finished yet.

Here is page 1 from the Marriage Album! I used the template and prompts by Sara & Crystal which were originally held on their blog, but since that set was months ago, you have to look into the Archives. Well worth it I tell you for some template inspiration!

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Journaling:
As one of the key components of a relationship, Compromise is one area where I feel we need a little work. While we are alike in most ways, there are still some things that we just cannot agree on. Being stubborn to the core, means we both could learn to give a little. Some days are easier than others, but, no matter what happens, how far apart we are on some things, we do a good job of getting over it. We fight, argue, stop speaking for a short time, then it’s over and done with. But this means, we never get that issue resolved. Therefore, this year I hope we can try to finish those arguments, even though they may be tough, instead of just pushing them away.

Wild Thing

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I have always loved this photo! I may have even scrapped with it before, not sure! lol. But when I saw the fun colors of this kit, I had to have it. And it just goes perfect with this picture of Rylee being tickled on the couch!
Credits:
Z&S- Paper Garden Vol. 1
Valorie Wibbens and Heather Hess- Wild About You
Heather Hess- TheJacque Font!

This Moment

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I Love this photo! Yes, it's my daughter, so of course I love it! BUT I LOVE the texture, coloring, everything on this photo. I actually originally edited it sometime during the Summer 2010, but it's just now making it's way onto a page. This was one of the first photos that I played with textures, like real textures from a professional photographer/designer online. Sorry, right now I can't remember whose textures, but I know the rest of the photo editing was done using actions from My Four Hens.
Anyway... The journaling:
Miss Rylee. This photo is one of many from your third birthday portrait session at Sears. You were such a little lady. No goofy or silly smiles on that afternoon, you were all about business. That could have been because we bribed you with a carousal ride after we were finished, but no matter what method we used, none could have produced a better result than that musical horse. photos turned our gorgeous!

You're Amazing

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From the January BYOC @ The Lilypad::
Cute little Alphas- Lili
Amaryllis Templates- Sara Gleason
This moment- Sahlin Studio
Frosty Cardstock- Rachel Young
Mademoiselle papers and elements- Jenn Barrette
Funky Girl- Pixelworks
Other: Whimsicality by Jenn Barrette- Guest at TLP
Journaling:
Lyrics from "Just the way you are" by Bruno Mars

Save: One little word

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I have finally found my *one little word* for 2011. Don't know what it is?? Visit Ali Edwards Blog for more information. When creating this page, I incorporated one of the daily prompts that came with this template: Resolve. It was the perfect piece of the puzzle for my one little word layout!

Definition of Save: to rescue or deliver from danger or harm. To preserve or guard from destruction or loss. To store in a computer. To put aside or reserve. To deliver from sin. To spend less. To avoid unnecessary waste or expense.
I have finally chosen my word for twenty-eleven: SAVE. Save money. Save memories. Save lives. Two years officially on our own feet, I’d like to see us finally be able to put back some cash. Whether it be for an emergency, vacation, a new home, or just for a movie, I’d like to know that we have a little saved back for a rainy day. Step 1 for saving money is already complete with the opening of our new savings account. Next, I’d like to save more memories this year. Record more, journal more, maybe even a little blog to keep up with the weekly happens of our lives. I just feel like time is flying by and I’m barely remembering it. Now, for Saving lives... that one is a two parter. I would like to take the state exam and pass to be a CNA. I would like to help preserve the physical part of the young and old as well as help save their soul. I have people very close to me, that I’d love to see saved this year. As days go by, I believe our time on earth is coming to an end, and I would hate to know that I could help save someone but instead I did nothing. So... that is my little word for 2011. Now I just hope I don’t lose sight of my goals for this new year.

Snow Pants

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Journaling:
After the numerous snow storms last year, we decided it'd be a good idea to be prepared this year. These cute bright pink snow bibs were a Christmas present from Grandma and they couldn't be more perfect!! The timing was great too since we got a little over an inch on Christmas night. Now I just hope to see more snow accumulation like last year. Photo taken- 12/26/10

 Gallery Standouts @ Me So Scrappy!! Man do I feel honored to be there with such gorgeous pages!

Grow with Love

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Two of my absolute favorite template designers have been collaborating for quite a while now, and for 2011 they now have a feature in the Artisan Notebook. Right now, the only Grow With Love edition I have is the Marriage Edition, they also have a Kids Edition and the Holiday Edition. Right now, Sara is having a giveaway on her blog to win the newest set: Love Letters!