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Thank You Berry Much

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Yesterday afternoon, I went over to my friend Lori‘s to stamp. We try to get together once a month or so. I worked on three cards while there and will share one of them today. I need to add some finishing touches to the other two before I can share them. I actually added the finishing touch, the strawberry embellishment, to this card today. I made the strawberry embellishment out of some red felt and black and green embroidery floss. I wish I had some green felt to use for the leaves instead of the floss, but alas I did not. I think I might have made it a tad big, but oh well.

The sketch is The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #122, which also added a spin of fabulous fibers. I think my felt strawberry counts as fabulous fibers. I’m also entering this card in the Hambo Hoedown Challenge #29 to use scoring. I scored the blue circle panel with a graph paper like look; although the cross scores are faint in the picture. In addition, there is the Simon Says Stamp Challenge to make a food & drink creation, which I think strawberries count as edible, except to maybe those poor people who are allergic to strawberries. One last challenge: Stamp Something‘s challenge this week is something to say thank you.

Thank You 'Berry' Much! Card

Stamps: Hambo Stamps Strawberry Kid
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Very Vanilla, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise
Patterned Paper: Stampin’ Up Play Date
Ink: Dell printer
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up 3/4″ Real Red polka dot grosgrain ribbon; homemade felt strawberry
Markers: Stampin’ Up Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Old Olive
Tools: Scor-pal; Nestabilities Standard Small & Large Circles

Special thanks to Lori for letting me mooch patterned paper and ribbon.

Have a fabulous day!

Deadbeat Designs Class

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Thursday night, my friend Kristy and I went to a Deadbeat Designs class at Felicia’s Scrapbooks. I got to meet Mark, the owner/designer for Deadbeat Designs and one of the Texas Tuesday players (which I haven’t joined in with since moving). Lynn, the instructor, was great. We used some fun techniques and hopefully, I’ll use my set of chalks more now. I had a lot of fun.

Kristy and I With Our Favorite Projects

The class consisted of three projects. The first was a treat bag topper. The back of the topper is stamped with “You deserve some Chocolate!” and an image that could be considered a Tootsie roll.

Treat Bag Topper

The second was a card that will fit in a regular business size envelope. The inside sentiment is “What’s Up?” This was my favorite of the projects.

Card 1

The third was also a card.

Card 2

I ended up buying the multi-balloon stamp, so you’re bound to see more projects using it.

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22 Months Old

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Tuesday, Jessica turned 22 months old. This might be the last monthly post I do for her. I’ll probably only do milestones from here on out. I’m not even going to share many photos in this post. I’ve done scrapbook layouts of many of the photos I would post and so I will just refer you to those posts: Mommy’s Little Helper, Budding Artist, and Zoom Zoom.

Stylish Jessica Sporting Mommy's Purse, 8/5/11

What Jessica is Up To

Jessica is a very independent child. She can play by herself quite well, but she also enjoys playing with me, who she calls Mommy, or her Daddy. She likes to do things herself and then gets frustrated when she isn’t quite capable. For instance, we currently have the Mini Babybel cheese rounds as a snack and she wants to open the package and take the cheese out of the red wax coating herself, but she can’t quite do that yet. I have to let her have a go at it and then ask if she would like help before she will let me help her pull the red wax wings so she can take it out herself.

Her favorite play activities seem to be books and diapering various stuff animals, mostly her two Curious Georges and stuffed kitty. She also enjoys her two puzzles and knows where each of the animal pieces go. She definitely is into pretend play. She will pretend to feed any stuffed animal she happens to carry into the kitchen for snack time. This includes the little cars that have characters, such as Cookie Monster or a cow, stuck out of them. When she plays diapering, she will take a wipe and wipe the poopy from the stuffed animal too. The door to the nursery where the changing table, wipes and diapers are stored is kept closed, because otherwise I would have wipes and diapers all through-out the house.

Jessica still loves watching Curious George, but more recently will ask for Train (Dinosaur Train) or Street/Elmo/Abby (Sesame Street) in addition to George. She knows a lot of the Sesame Street muppets by name. This video shows her pointing out and naming a number of the characters. Yes, she is standing quite close to the TV, but during the singing parts of the show, Jessica likes to get up and boogie or more often stand and sing during those parts.

What Jessica is Saying

I’m not going to list out single words any more, because there are just too many words she knows. Jessica is great at mimicry and if James or I say a word, she will repeat it. This can be a bad thing, so I need to really watch what I say. One day, we were watching Sesame Street before my OB appointment. I happened to doze off and when I awoke, it was 10 minutes to my appointment time. Now, my OB happens to be really close, probably a 5-minute drive, but still that was pushing it. I started up and said “oh shoot” and Jessica repeated it right after me. She still uses a lot of single words, but she is using two or three-word phrases more and more.

Manners: She is very good at saying thank you. She will say please and your welcome, but they don’t come as easily to her. Jessica also says bless you when people near her sneeze.

Counting: Jessica can count 1-5, but still likes 1 and 2 the best.

Animals & Their Noises: She knows so many animals and so many of their sounds. It is so cool.

What Jessica is Eating

Jessica is still the pickiest eater ever. Right now is particularly bad as she is getting all four of her canines in at once it seems. At times, she barely eats.

Mommy’s Little Helper

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Today, is new sketch day at Sketchy Thursdays and I was immediately inspired. I loved the circles underneath and around the title. I was looking through my photos trying to decide if I wanted to blog about Jessica turning 22 months old (yes, that happened two days ago) and thought these three photos would work perfect with the sketch. The digi-kit I decided to scrap with is lovely neutral tones with just a hint of lime-green, which almost matched the color of Jessica’s shorts. I added some pink touches (the lime-green flairs in the kit actually say “me” so I just covered that with a pink heart) to go with the hearts on her shirt. I also added the pink embossed circle on the rose.

Sketchy Thursdays 8.18 Sketch

Journaling reads: “Jessica enjoys our new washer and dryer. Every time it sings its little song indicating the load is done, she points toward the laundry room and runs to go check it out. On this day, a simple “Do you want to put the diapers in the basket?” started her unloading the washer and filling up the basket so we could go hang the diapers in the sun to dry. August 10, 2011″

Mommy's Little Helper

Digikits Used: Milly Dee Designs – About Me
Fonts Used: Dragline BTN Dm

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A Few Layouts

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I’ve been steadily working on the scrapbook album that I am putting together for my parent’s trip to the Canadian Rockies. My goal is to be finished by Jessica’s birthday, which is 2 months from tomorrow, when my parents will next be in town. That way they can proof the album before I order the bound album. So far, I’ve put in 14.25 hours. I think I’m at least a third of the way done.

Here is what I intend to be the cover page (not necessarily the outside of the album). I used a screen shot of a Google map. I had seen a similar idea somewhere and thought it was really neat. The layout was scraplifted from here.

Canadian Rockies Cover Layout

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Just Imagine
Fonts Used: my font isn’t funky enough

This next page will follow the layout in this blog post. Journaling reads: The largest North American ground squirrel, the Hoary Marmot is a 17 to 22 pound grizzled ball of fur that sleeps 7-8 months of the year. Not shy, we were able to observe one near the tree line.

View from the Top 2 Layout

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Just Imagine
Fonts Used: Catherine’s College Days

These next three layouts are from our recent Dzubinski family trip. They wrap up the portion of the trip spent on a boat in the lake (see the first three here). So I put 2.5-3 hours of family fun into 6 layouts. Do you think that is reasonable?

Journaling reads: James was the only one of the Moores who choose to take a ride. Being pregnant, the tube was not a wise idea for Jennifer and she had no interest in the jet ski. Jessica wasn’t interested in riding the jet ski with her Daddy and it wasn’t forced.

Lake LBJ 4

First section of journaling reads: “Neither Papa or Nanny tried out the tube, but they did get behind the wheel of the jet ski and zoomed around the lake.” Second section of journaling reads: “After Sarah took a turn on the jet ski, she asked Cameron if he wanted to come join her.  He wasn’t liking that idea at all so she asked Trevor.  He nodded immediately and “jumped” right on.  He liked holding the steering panel and really enjoyed his ride. The rental time was nearly up, and Cameron still hadn’t taken a ride.  We knew that once he got on it, he would love it so Sarah sat him in front of Brian with a little resistance.  We’re so glad we “made” him get on because he had a blast.” If you read my sister’s blog, you might recognize the journaling, because it is almost verbatim from her blog. I just changed it up so it would not be pronoun specific. I’m making the layouts so that if I print these pages out for everyone, it is not family specific.

Lake LBJ 5

Lake LBJ 6

Digikits Used: Connie Prince – Whale of a Good Time
Fonts Used: my font isn’t funky enough

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