friendship

is starting to bloom

i caught these two hanging out a few days ago. and managed to snap a picture before they knew i saw them. they have their moments where they are each annoying and causing a problem. but it warms my heart when i see stuff like this happening.

and this was just today.

their mother must be in an excellent mood because they both got some candy. for no reason other than they wanted it. i happened to glance at them, and they were sitting beside each other discussing the candy. (i'm sure there were words about their amazing and generous mother as well)

we won't mention that Kiara should have been having a nap. Aidan should be having a quiet time. some days it just doesn't work out that way.

i got my list of supplies and required photos for the girls night out scrapbooking event i'm attending. this is a huge stretch for me. i am going "by myself". i signed up not knowing anything more than the cost and the number of projects we're doing. we have gotten hints lately, but it is still anyones' guess what we are making. it is less than 2 weeks away. i am quite sure it will be good and i'll know i'll be glad i went. breathing deeply.

and the election is over. this is an interesting riding. another close finish. i think there were less than 50 votes between the PC candidate who won and the LIB candidate. wow. and it turns out that there were more posted signs for the PC than i had seen. not that it makes a difference...

well the sun is shining. it is starting to feel like summer. i viewed a page yesterday at SIS where the title was "Spring has arrived...it's a quarter to summer." i like that viewpoint. and i wish i had that layout on my wall reminding me of the fact....i think i need to sit next to Jan when i scrapbook. perhaps some of her talent will float over to me.....i'm sure that is how it works. there is so much talent at that store. Sheri is teaching a card class tomorrow night. check them out on her blog or here. there may be space left. hurry!

i got distracted thinking about summer coming. maybe we will head outside and enjoy the sunshine today. get vitamin d the old fashioned way. and better take the camera!

provincial election day

in Alberta.

this one will be interesting i think. will the PC stay in power, or will the LIB become the leaders. personally i doubt the NDP or Alliance have strong enough platform or candidates to gain enough seats. our LIB candidate came to our door yesterday. he also served the previous term. nothing to complain about there. but the PC candidate seems to be interesting. if the winner who sent out the greatest amount of advertising and who put up the greatest number of signs takes it, then the LIB will stay in this riding. hmmm....wonder what the results will be?!

so i managed to add months 3 and 4 to the baby albums in my projects blog.

it has been so long since i've put any layouts up....
Aidans are pages from 2005 to 2006.
Kiara's pages were done in 2007 (the ones posted so far).

it has been fun to compare their photos. i tend to scrapbook based on emotion of the events. so the design of the layout means something to me too. and i'm relieved to know that my style is not stuck. phew! that is the way i was feeling lately. i was starting to think that i did the same kind of thing over and over. it is crazy how many new techniques are out there now.


this layout i finished just last week. the photos are from when Aidan was around 18 months old.

i have a lot of new supplies to work with...just need to brave my cold basement and get my groove going.

i think

i need to get a plan!

i've been working on the mini-album project i have been dreaming about. why do these things always look so good in my head?! i played around with a few pictures. i totally loved how they were looking. how is that for boastful? then i got the idea that maybe i should have some kind of continuity between the pages so that it all flows nicely and looks like it is from the same mini-album. i've decided that i just like to make extra work for myself. lol!

aside from flip-flopping, this project has been a blast. i'm making all of the pages digital - as opposed to paper.

i love that i am totally able to put a page (or album) together at home, and without having to run out to get that last thing i need to complete the page.

i love that i can change my idea completely and all that i've wasted is my time.

i don't like that it is too easy to change my mind.

there has also got to be a good way to organize all the digital stuff on my computer. i feel like everything is just in a pile--a digital pile.

which leads me to another bonus with digital. in the past 3 years i've been doing digital stuff i've only spent $4. (not counting adobe photoshop elements). and we won't even guess at what i've spent on paper supplies. $4 barely buys adhesive.

getting back to the main topic....i need a plan i've decided. i am going to keep the pages simple and similar. know what i mean? instead of making each page incredible and different and spending an hour per page...i will take an hour and design a template so that all i will then need to do is select my photos and drop them on to the page. which i hope will make a cool album the kids will understand and enjoy. something i will be proud of. something that won't take me a month to put together. i think the big thing right now is to finish it soon, before i can change my mind again!

and for comic relief check out what i came across at SIStv. this little BRO has had more people view his pages than i've had! but then my pages are not this interesting. but my favourite part is thie photos he has taken. now don't go expecting ansel adams....but it will make you giggle. and speaking of SIS....i am just so amazed at how some of them make so many layouts so frequently. wow! that is a gift.

i have also learned that there are some very fortunate scrap people out there. people with too much stuff apparently and they have to give some of it away. can you imagine? anyways my dream is to win one of these...one day. i'm sure me and the other 600 people who enter these random draws feel the same way! it kind of reminds me (just slightly) of when my grandmother used to spring clean her house. we knew we could get all kinds of amazing stuff if we stuck around long enough to "help" her. she gladly gave me this ugly red wallet once. i don't remember what ended up happening to it...but i thought it was amazing at the time. but i do recall that my pennies kept falling out. hmmmm...perhaps that was why she was tossing it in the first place?

and just a side note. i have been pretty verbal these past posts. hmmmm...and what is with the lack of spaces between paragraphs in the previous post. i put the spaces there...what happened to them? go figure!