In the Storm

a little creativity l a gift

inspired by a digital book that i saw in the designer digitals gallery i decided to make one very similar for my grandsons. it is an alphabet book. it uses soft zoo animals and other things for the alphabet cards. i'm using Ian and Wyatt's names throughout the book just like they are reading about two little boys Ian and Wyatt. i am making it an 8x8 album so they will be able to handle it easily. here are the first pages that i've made as a teaser and also to show off my bit of creativity for the week.

P is for penguin and paw prints and Pop Pop who plays with Wyatt and Ian and gives them high fives. P is also for panda bears all soft and snuggly and bright colored parrots that make loud noises. P is also for purple and pink cars, and P is also for those prickly porcupines.

E is for elephant and those everlasting gobbstoppers. The letter E is also for the number eight and eight pieces of colored confetti. E is also for eyes, like Ian and Wyatt's enchanting blue eyes and E is also for ears for hearing sounds.

hopefully ash and brad will like it for Ian and Wyatt and they will read it often. can't wait until it's finished, uploaded and ordered.

oh oh + wyatt

my third post of the day...

i needed some 'filler' pages for my december daily album...stories in addition to those other stories i wanted to tell. i'll add journaling to this page when i insert it into my album - the story of oh oh and wyatt. he never leaves home without him. oh oh and wyatt watch t.v. together. whenever wyatt has feelings of trepidation oh oh is there to comfort. whenever wyatt eats breakfast oh oh shares. whenever wyatt relaxes who better to relax with, hang on to then oh oh.

january desktop

at the end of january...ok, so it is very belated but i wanted to share my desktop that i recently made.

so cute. it looks good on my desktop too. think i'm gonna make my own the remainder of the year. this was fun.

subway art l baby gifts

don't think i ever shared the baby gift i made my neighbor who recently had twins. of course, i'm partial to twins since i have a set, a pair, two little ones who aren't so little anymore...

i've seen these 'subway' art type birth information all over the web and felt i really could make them myself in PSE. our neighbor said it was the first things they hung up in the nursery...they were thrilled with them.

isn't that a cool name - amy li

so unusual, doc; and i love aidan...

these were pretty simple to make. now that i have the template they'll be super easy.

 

two things

i know it is supposed to be 10 on tuesday but i didn't have something together and i saw these pictures on facebook of my granddaughter. elizabeth has been doing good lately about posting pictures. with them half way across the united states it is nice seeing them through pictures at least. i am also trying to make pages for a photo book for them since elizabeth doesn't scrap. she just has to get me the pictures and the journaling. so here are two more pages...

digitally i have been using alot of templates by Yin whose pages have really become my style - lots of photos, words, with few embellishments. sometimes she offers some simpler templates like the first one above. always nice to have variety. her templates are really my go-to templates when i'm planning pages. she takes the guess work out of where to put my photos. love it.

diy

 
i found this on pinterest. but it is sold here.

i fell in love with it and wanted to re-create it for our bedroom. it'll look nice up against gray walls.

 
i started with a 20 x 20 white canvas. and a whole bunch of dark wood letters. a tube of E6000 glue, and a can of white spray paint.

 
it turned out pretty darn good. in fact i love it. it isn't exactly like the original but i'm thrilled with how it turned out.

 

Daydreaming

John does this often when he is supposed to be doing school work. Sometimes his daydreaming pays off though.

 
 
John spotted a little box turtle moseying across the backyard. Of course he had to go and check it out - anything to pull him away from what he's supposed to be doing - the turtle got scared of the big humans, sucked in its head and peed. Lesson learned. Daydreaming causes one to be peed on.

Love + Looking Back

 
When Elizabeth, Ashley, John and Jarrod were young (I think John and Jarrod were 4), so about 9 years ago I cut out the letters L O V E from foam board and the kids posed in various postions with the different letters. I actually had all of them hold all the letters so I could pick and choose which ones to use for a Valentines Day gift to Hoosier Man that I was making. I'm getting somewhere with this story...

This Easter Elizabeth, Matt, and Ella were over for dinner and my house is a mess because of the move into our office/scraproom is in-progress. The same letters I used so long ago were in a pile to be trashed. Ella picked them up to identify the letters and proceeded to play with them. In fact, she played with them for quite a while on the stairs up to the boys' room. We could hear her talking to herself, saying her alphabet, which led into counting.

The letters triggered the memory from years passed so I had Ella sit and pose spontaneously (with some help) with a different letter to spell out    L O V E. They turned out great for no natural light, filthy house, wrinkled couch cover...but Ella sure is sweet.

Ella's face

 
She really does get more beautiful. Love just looking at her face. And I'll get to do it everyday the end of May and beginning of June when I'll get Ella for two whole weeks all to ourselves while her mom is in basic training. I've got homeschool plans for her as well - I think we'll have some much needed bonding time and alot of fun.

Zipline

 
 
 

 

Last week Jeff and I drove out early evening to Wilmington Island to the YMCA to look at a paint ball range that one of the Boy Scouts wants to refurbish for his Eagle project. While we were there Jeff showed me where he and the Georgia Boys camped last month one-overnighter and also the Rock Wall, Ropes Course, and where the Zipline was located. I was amazed at the height and steepness of the rockroll, the length they had to 'zip' along a line, and how high up Jarrod was on the ropes course. Jeff hadn't taken any pictures (he forgot the camera) but one of the scouts dad always has his camera with him and always gets plenty of pictures. I was able to make a whole page of just the Zipline. The other two pages are the rock wall endeavors of the boys.