It's been one of those days...

Onwards...

We've had a busy weekend.  Cub camps, birthday parties at the neighbours, Zoo tycoon II .  The later of which amuses me highly - intrigues me even.  To the point at which I waited til the kids went to bed last night and despite the pile of tax and employee paperwork overflowing beside the computer, I played Zoo Tycoon for over an hour.   Give me a limited amount of money, the resources to build a zoo, the challenge of building one that attracts lots of customers - or not - and keeping them all happy?  My kind of game.  For me it harps back to the days of Santa Paravia.   And yes if you click that link you really can play the same game you played 20 years ago, just like me.  Weekends spent fixed in front of the old Commodore 64 computer playing Santa Paravaia against my brothers.  A game of skill and challenge.  Those were the days.

No Zoo Tycoon for me today.  I have scrapping to do and that pile of taxation and employee paperwork beside the computer isn't decreasing at all despite me sending a prayer off to the God of paperwork before I went to bed. 

The kids are having a quiet afternoon, Paul is attempting tech homework and I think I might take this quiet time to scrap.  I have the next Tarisota kit here and Abby loves the first page of her album so much that the pressure is truly on the complete the rest of the album.  NOW.  lol

I've been thinking a lot about the album.  I think to get into it you really need a full picture of what it contains.  I decided I might list the pages and the photos to go with them so that you can go ahead and take all the pics etc at once and then it's easier to go to it.  So this is what we are aiming for:

Page 1: Inside cover:
Photo of child holding the same amount of fingers as their age.  Title saying "All about me" and "A scrapbook made especially for me by ..." or something similar, and the date.

Page 2: A nice pic of your child.  Write "My name is....." and get them to write their name.  Write "And I am __________ years old".  Get them to write their age.

Page 3: Things I like about myself.  I like my ______________ (smile? teeth? feet? curly hair?  whatever they say!) Take a pic of that thing or those things for this page.

page 4 & 5: A list of favourites: (There is no photo on my pages with this list but since it goes over 2 pages, there is room for one if you want - add any 'favourites' you see will suit!)
Colour
Food
Ice Cream
biscuits
Song
Book
TV Show
Sport
Hobby
Game
Season
Holiday

Page 6 "This is a photo of my smile"  Take a picture of your child with their best smile.

Page 7"I'm smile like this when ...." Ask your child to finish the sentence and take a pic of them doing that thing.  Braden said "When I'm playing with my daddy".  Jacob said "When I'm eating tiny teddies"
Abby said "When I'm with Jessie playing "Dress-ups".

Page 8 "Friends make me happy!  This is a photograph of me and ________" and take a pic of your child with their fav friend. 

PAge 9 "something we like to do together is____________" and take a pic of them playing together.

Page 10 is a picture that your child has drawn.  Be sure to ask them what it is, if it isn't too apparent.  Record this in a note at the bottom of the page.  It's amazing what insight this page gives to their personality at the time.

Page 11 "If I were an animal, I'd be a _______________ " And take a pic of your child acting like that animal.

Page 12 "Someday I want to _____________" (Jacob said "be a builder like my Daddy", Braden said "i want to be a diver").  Don't take a pic of them, this time you ask them to draw a picture of themselves doing the thing that want to do someday.

Page 13 "If I could go anywhere, I'd go __________ "  Again, ask your child to draw a picture.  (Awww looking back on Jacob's, he said "home".  Braden said "Odette and Gratton's house".

Page 14" I'm happiest when_______________" Take a pic of your child to go with this.

Page 15 "This is a photograph of me with my favourite_____________"

Page 16 "These are my hands.  Please remember to handle me with care"
Page 17 "Hands are good for waving hello, helping, holding and for saying I love you.  Hands are never good for hitting". 
On these 2 pages, draw around your childs hands.  One on each page.

Page 18.  Thankyou for reading my book with me.  The end.

And that is the end of the book as it came - I added more pages such as the following:
This is my brother
Our favourite game is
This is a photo of my family

Now my personal plan of completing the pages and posting them on here still stands.  Except maybe page 2 and 3 won't be done by today.  But perhaps tomorrow.  I thought I might aim to post pages twice a week.  I'd love if you could keep up with me. 

If you have completed pages and don't mind sharing them, please send them through to me.  I have set up a photo album in the side bar for my pages, but also one for kid's album pages by others.  I've uploaded Chris Millar's title pages in there already.  Take a look!

Ok.  Things to do.  Pages to scrap.  Let me know if I can help with your kid's pages, and send through any you have done and don't mind sharing.  I'll upload them.  After a game of Santa Paravia, that is.

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Winners...

Just a quick post tonight as I know you are all busy scrapping those kid's book pages ;o) (and I've been working on getting my sidebars added - I'm only about 1/4 the way through my blog links!)

As Trina mentioned on her blog, Southern Cross Kids Camp - I BET you thought we'd forgotten this!  But each set of 8 pages were entered into the draw for four prizes and the winners are as follows!

Margo from Manawatu – Fiskars squeeze punch

Kate A – SBO pack

Andrea Senn – Paper Pesto kit

Rachel Tucker – Stampin' Up! pack

We met our goals for the 2 Aussie camps and we are currently stockpiling for more  - they hold eight camps per year, including one in NZ and it's a very real possibility that with the help of ladies like all of you that have kindly sent in pages, that we can supply memory books for them all.  That's an exciting prospect!  (at this point I need to say thanks to Christine Cleary, Maggie Armstrong, Justine Hunt and Brenda Ponder who all sent me pages in the last week or so!)

Basically, if you feel the urge to do some random creating, we'd love to continue collecting 6x6 pages.

Kid's book!  - The mian question I'm being asked is how many pages is in it - just counting here, there was about 15 official pages that came with the book but I added about 5-10 more - so work on a 15 minimum.  But when you get on a roll and start personalising it to your child, you'll find so much more to add - I guarantee you!

Anyone that has completed pages, I'd love to see them, if you aren't too shy I'd love to create a gallery at the sidebar so we can all be inspired by each other.

More images after the weekend!

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Kid's albums

I really had no idea that the response to doing this kid's album would be so huge!  How awesome!  I can't say I had anything prepared or planned - I was just going to go off what I had done for the 2 previous albums I had done and find my way.

But it'll be even better if you all find your way with me!  OK first we need to make a pact.  What is started must be finished, and anyone that has sat in on any of my classes knows that is one of the 'rules'.  Noone leaves until they are finished.  I'm not sure how I'll enforce that here, that could be tricky, I'll think on that one.  But I guess all I need to say is that it really is worth it.  We do lots of albums about our kids, but how many can we hand to them and truly say, "here, this is yours, read it, share it, enjoy it, take it and show everyone, throw it in your bookcase and it'll be alright." So that's the aim.

Some people have mentioned they are doing this for older children - this is aimed towards younger, but we'll work it out.  Now I have typepad I can answer comments!  WOW!  We'll work it out together.  If anyone asks a question in comments, feel free to join in if anyone else has the answers. Because although I tell my kids I know everything, it's not entirely true.  I'm working this out as we go along.

Oh - and I have to say again that this was something originally done by Lisa Bearnson.  She put these albums together and sold them as a unit to raise money for under-priveledged kids back in 2001.

First thing we need to do is find an album.  I use these provocraft ones, they are about 6 x 9 inches with sewn in page protectors.  I don't know if they are still available. I bought mine in 2001! Adapt this to whatever album you want though. As I said, I did nothing special with the cover because the kids truly own these books.  They get a rough time!

I have shown you the first inside cover of Abby's album, but here is the boys.  Remember to include a photo of your young one holding up however many fingers they are in age, something regarding the album being made for them by you, and the date.

(Remember these are 5 and 3 years old and oooh so simple - I wanted to just give you an idea of what I did years ago for the format I'm following!)

Now the next 2 pages after this require another the following:
* A nice pic of your child - no subject, just a nice pic of them.  Write "my name is..." and ask them to write their name.  Then put "and I am ___ years old"
* Ask your child what they like about themselves.  I'll add Jacob and Braden's pages below to give you an example. 

I'm going to come back to you on Sunday with examples of what I've done with these two pages for Abby's album!  Being a little but further on in time and being that I have some Stampin' Up! stuff to play with, my pages will probably be a little more extravagant than I made for the boys.  Creating is half the fun!  The other half is giving these books to the kids. 

Ok - so I'll post more pages on Sunday, and hopefully I've given you a start!  See how you go to get up to that step - I'd love to hear from you if you make a start!

Oh and a few other things  I have to let you know about ..

1. The prize draw for the SCKC 6x6 pages that you all did will be soon.  We are just counting names/pages and prizes.  Stampin' Up! have let me now the prize they will be sending out is one of the new catalogs (it's a great idea book!), a 'Good things Grow' stamp set, a tag punch and a few inks. All the names from Trina and I will be combined to go up for all the prizes, so I'll update on that in a few days.

2. Thanks for moving with me - I'm still a little unsure, but I'm sure this will be great once I learn the ropes.

3. A fundraiser in Aussie I want to mention : Newcastle - July 26th 2008.  12 hour crop and online raffle to help raise money for Muscular Dystrophy Australia. The link is here - click for more info.

phew. Long post. 

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I did it - I

I did it - I finished the Kindy book. It took me about 30 hours probably and it included around 70 pages. Most of them were not made by me, I merely collated the gorgeous artwork and little cards etc given to me by the children, but it's done. I did scrapbook around 25 pages, but they were so simple I didn't photograph them. I secretly dropped it off to one of the teachers today and quickly took these pics before I did. Thanks everyone that helped! It's been a long process, I started by standing at the Kindy gates about a month ago asking everyone for their contributions to the book - we couldn't let the teacher know so I had to do it in secret! It's been ongoing since then. It's felt good to give a little of my time to the Kindy, I'm not often one of the parents on school trips or cooking sausages at PTA fundraisers, but I do give what I can.

Today marks the start of the Stampin' Up! Project I've been planning. I mentioned in an earlier post that Stampin' Up! had been reading my blog and were pleased I used their products every now and again and they got in touch and said "hey.. why don't we do something.. we have some cool scrapbooking products we'd like to show people". I considered what project I could do for them and came up with something and thought why not.. So here we are.

And I was thinking.

Which is what I do inbetween scrapping.

The project I want to do is one I do for all my kids. When they turn 4 years old I make a book for them. I wait til they are 4 because at that point they start to try and write and recognise their name, they realise they have things that are truly theirs in the way of likes and dislikes etc. It's something made about a child, for a child... so simple and easy and so treasured. I have made Jacob and Braden each one of these books and they are one of their absolute loved items. They have read and re-read them and just lately Jacob asked me to do one for when he turned nine! but he's out of luck at the moment because I need to do one for Abby, lol.

(And just a note here - this was an idea I got from CKU Utah in 2001 - Lisa Bearnson did kits to make these albums as a fundraiser for underpriveledged kits - kind of like we have been doing! More on that in a few days - our fundraiser, I mean!)

So anyway, I was thinking....

Would anyone be interested in doing this album with me? It's not hard - I could give you the list of photos you'd need and questions to ask your kiddos to go in the album. Leave me a comment if you want me to do that, and I'll work through it with you over the next month or so! I don't know if anyone is keen, but I thought I'd put it out there!

Here is my inside cover page. The book itself doesn't have an embellished outside cover. It slips in and out of the bookcase and bed-side drawers so much it would get ruined. I want Abby to do whatever she wants with this book so it needs to be kiddy-proof! I've used an old provocraft album which is around 6 x 9" and has page protectors. You could use what you want.

For this inside cover page, you take a picture of your child telling their age by holding up the right amount of fingers! Wording should say something similar to what I have done. "All About Me" "A scrapbook made especially for me by my Mummy" and the date.

Just because I was feeling nostalgic, I crackled the background. The cardstock is a Stampin Up one called Buckeroo Blue, and most everything else is SU as well. I'll do a materials list below. I must start doing that with all my layouts because I get quite a few emails after I post them. One thing I want to point out about this page though, is the cardstock stickers. They are Stampin Up. I'm in a layering-pop-dotting-scallops and circles kinda craze and it was cool to see SU could help me out with that. I think. lol.

Materials list below. Let me know if you want to join me in this project - I'll help you out! Use any materials - use up your stash! It'd be fun!

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Cardstock: Buckeroo Blue, Old Olive.
Simply Scrappin' At Home cardstock stickers.
Mixed Bouquet Stamp Set.
It's a Date stamp set.
Spring Bouquet punch.
Buckeroo Blue ink, Basic Black ink.
All by Stampin' Up!

Rebecca Cameron. You are a

Rebecca Cameron. You are a genius. Thank you so much for taking the time to search out some ideas for me. This is the link you gave me and this is what I'm currently working on.

It's a total scraplift of 'Coverton' from the Simple Scrapbooks gallery. And I'm thrilled beyond words! The book is still a work in progress. It measures over 13 x 9 inches - so it is BIG and it is already full of stuff, as you can see - it'll be heading towards 100 pages when I'm finished. Many of them are drawings from the Kindy kids, and there are lots of letters wishing Anne well. I'm going to be so proud to have collated this. Thanks again Rebecca. Will update with final pics soon.

(And thanks everyone for sending ideas my way - Scrapbookers really are awesome people.)

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Shhhhhhhhhhhh it's that time of

Shhhhhhhhhhhh it's that time of night when all good kiddos should be asleep. In our home Easter Sunday is greeted with squeals from the kids as the trails of little caramello eggs lead to the big one at the end. If the kids would go to sleep perhaps the adults could, well, you know.. make sure things would run smoothly in the morning.

Unfortunately one boy is so hyped up on Willard Price's Whale adventure all he can think of is catching a black sailing ship with white sails to some far away ocean. The other one has just got out of bed and come to tell me he is feeling a little CRaZy and he doesn't know what to do. Sleep might fix that I suggested, but he wasn't down with that suggestion, really.

Thank goodness for little girls that stayed up til 10pm last night playing spotlight. She fell asleep in her dinner so that was that sorted. Good plan.

I haven't shared this layout yet - it's another Tarisota one - it looks better IRL actually, it flows better. Another one that outlining one of Abby's days. It was simply a case of having a pic I loved and wanting to journal and not wanting to tell he how sweet and funny she is. Because quite often she is not sweet and funny, - hey just keeping it real here - so the journaling ended up being a summary of one of her days. And those are my favourite layouts to do anyway. You'll see a lot of them coming from me. They'll never be the same because the kids change so quickly.

My brother, Vaughan, is in Switzerland. I always thought I was the smart one in the family but this dude is clever. He lives in London but chose to go to Switzerland for Easter. I've tasted Swiss easter choccies. I know what's going on over there. Cleeeeeever. Love that boy.

I'm a little late to the party perhaps, but there is a whole lot of fun going on at the Fiskars blog this weekend.

Kindy - ok I need help here.
A teacher (well 2 of them actually) are leaving and I am in charge of collating a scrapbook for each. I have been given a pile of kids drawings and letters wishing them good luck, a pile of photos ranging from 10years old to recent, some other random stuff and I'm meant to be compiling! Argh! So anyway. I have some plastic stationery sleeves and I'm going to make chipboard front and back covers and hold it all together with book-rings.

Trouble is. HOW - WHAT do I make this cover look like? What do I call a book with all that kind of stuff in it? *Shrug* completly lost here. They aren't scrapbookers so I don't want to make them toooo scrapbookey, ya know? But I need to impress as well. We aim to make the teacher shed a few tears so - help! Anyone? Has anyone got images or links to images that might help me? Any ideas? Fire away - I'm all ears , I'd love some suggestions. It's almost as if the scrapbook needs sections - room for the kids drawings/memories - room for pics, room for other stuff. OK I'm lost and ready for help. Bring it on. Please? I have 2 days. lol

Wish me luck!

Happy Easter everyone.

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Busy days

I thought it would be calmer once summer started to come to a close but if it's not one thing it's another, and renovations on our home are taking over at the moment. Computer time has been cut dramatically as I spend a lot of time supervising the children while they watch things like concrete trucks and jackhammers etc. I haven't scrapped a page in nearly 2 weeks. I've done other stuff but scrapping, no.

I did go to the dentist the other day. I used to think people that were scared of needles needed to harden up. I thought it was all in their mind but I tell you, I lost the plot somewhere along the way and now it's me shying at the thought of a needle in my mouth. I've had plenty of spots cut out and stitches put in, and don't worry about those needles, but take one near my mouth and I'm a basketcase.

So I walk into the dentist. I nicely question her about the possibility of doing this without the numbing up bit. I must have had "complete wuss" written across my forehead because she kinda went..."mmmm...noooooo, I think we better give you the pain releif..." and she tried to go into conversation about the new type they have that doesn't numb the tongue and I responded by bursting into tears. I take back every single thought I ever thought about how silly it was for people to hate the dentist. Make room for me on that couch because, baby, I am there. I can be the president of that club, if you like, because I cried. Like a baby. Poor dentist - she was so nice. I did get the added bonus of a nurse to give me a head massage as the needles went in - that had to be worth it, right?

So anyway. I was at Ngaire's blog the other day, and she pointed me towards Mel's blog which in turn pointed me towards Fiona Carter's blog. No wonder I get no work done. and Fiona made these yummy looking cupcakes. And being the incredibly domestic person I am - my husband is laughing, why is he laughing - I decided to give these a go. So I made cupcakes. I dropped a little easter egg in the middle of them, you don't need to cover the chocolate up, it rises around it when it is cooking, and I cooked choc filled cupcakes!

So now I am the cupcake making president of the I-hate-the-dentist club.

I'll leave you with some images of a wall hanging I did. I made this for a book called "Show it Off" which is about to be released in the U.S.A. through Memory Makers Books. It's all about using scrapbooking in your decor. Showing it off, sharing it with the world. Which is something we should do more often. 700-800 layouts on a shelf isn't going to be any use to anyone really. Am I the only that has that issue? yes? oh. lol. OK so I did this wall hanging. I used cheap frames from the Warehouse and I hung it from some old meshy stuff that I found in the garage, I have no idea what it's really for, all I know is that Paul has never asked after it so it can't have been important.

Other supplies - from memory they were FancyPants Designs rub-ons and maybe some WeRMemory Keepers papers. Thanks for looking!

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Sunday Morning.

Being awoken by a smoke alarm going off at 5.40am on a Sunday is never fun. Physically I flew out of bed and was running down the hall before my mind caught up with what was going on. When I got to the living area the smoke alarm stopped and I quickly ascertained there was nothing on fire, or even remotely smokey even. I decided it was a cruel trick being played by Daddy-Long-Leg spiders crawling over the sensor, who were probably at that very minute trying to muffle their giggles behind one of their 8 hands and I went back to bed. I have no clue what set the alarm off but I fell back to sleep wondering why it happens on a Sunday morning and not any other morning when 5.40am is actually quite normal.

I told the kids this morning when they got up that it was probably just a Daddy-Long-Legs. I was quickly corrected by Abby who told me they are infact called "Deadly-Long-Legs". Jacob followed quickly after with stories about how Daddy-Long-Legs are infact one of the most venomous spiders in the world but they are harmless to us because they have no biting mechanism. Nice.
I love the Deadly-Long-Legs thing though. One of my other favourites of Abby's right now is "Oppsidently". As in "I oppsidently turned the TV on when I wasn't meant to". Aha. Right.

This week holds a lot in store for me including a dentist appointment, sending more SCKC layouts to Australia - we are hitting to supply ALL the camps with layouts now and it's not going to be hard thanks to ladies like Vanessa M & Rachel R who sent me half their scrap-room in the form of over 120 6x6 layouts! Also Heidi B and more from Christine C as well - thanks so much ladies!

This week I'll be starting on some Stampin' Up! stuff. I hinted at this a while back. Stampin' Up! has been in New Zealand around a year now (guessing!) and I've been in touch with the company since their introduction here. Just recently I was asked to join them with a promotion to show you all what they have to offer. Why not, I thought and I'll be starting to work on that this coming week. Each week I will post an ongoing project I'll be working on. It's a cute book for Abby, I make one for each of the kids as they turn 4. With each weekly post I'll hopefully introduce you to some of the Stampin'Up! products and perhaps a technnique or two. With each post I make there will be a Stampin Up giveaway. It's a win-win so keep an eye out for that in the coming week.
And I've just been to the SU site and they are retiring lots of their stamps! If you are a stamper or a scrapbooker that likes to stamp go check it out!

Ok, back to my Sunday. We are having Hot Cross Buns for lunch. It's been quite the culinary weekend, yesterday I made Lemonade Scones (you know the ones where all you need is self raising flour, a can of lemonade and cream?) - anyway, I didn't have lemonade and used L&P instead. Not quite the same. lol.

I'll leave you with another Tarisota creation. This is done with the "Life's a Hoot" collection. Which I think has one of the best galleries ever. I'm not big on the cliche type crowns etc, but I loved the crowns in this collection. Especially the one I used in this card, which is actually a brad by Delish Designs.
(Love quote transparency by Delish, Crown card by My Mind's Eye, papers by My Mind's Eye)

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I've got an extra voice

I've got an extra voice around home this morning. Jacob is due to get his cast off today so he stayed home. Mainly because the rest of the senior school have gone to swimming sports. I'm looking forward to having that cast off as much as him. It's harbouring all sorts of dirt and grime - much more than the average mother likes to see. The trick now is to get to the nurse to request that she tells him he can't keep it - before he gets to her. It'll be a rush in the fracture clinic door. lol.

More Tarisota!

This layout talks of Jacob's nightly routine. His struggle to get to sleep and his amazing reading skills. Which in turn can really be blamed for his inability to get to sleep. What 9 year old boy lost in the african desert with Willard Price would be able to fall asleep easily.

I had a question about this layout in particular which featured on ScrapScene today (and wasn't that a pleasant surprise!)

I was asked about the dimension in my layouts - I admit I do like dimension. I've always been envious of those scrapbookers that can put together beautifully graphically balanced pages. Cardstock and photos. Shapes and design. I've never been able to do that. I think of myself as more of a paper-crafter type scrapbooker. I love to cut and scrunch, change and craft the papers. I'm not neccessarily successful all the time but I have fun trying :o) So dimension is my thing.
I was asked whether I use pop-dots or something similar. The answer is sometimes. Usually not. I use tombow green glue and it sticks everything. As in, everything, my laptop keys wish I was a little more careful. If I feel something needs popping off the page, or sometimes one side of an embellishment needs boosting because the other side is already boosted by another embellishment (getting confusing now?) I sometimes just cut a corner of scrap chipboard and glue it under there. We waste a lot of chipboard from around alphas and chipboard shapes. I guess I found a use.

Ok, time for that appointment - a quick note though that Tarisota has the new BasicGrey on it's way to them and they are due to ship the limited BasicGrey FourYou Take two as soon as it arrives. (Scroll down to see it - as you scroll you'll notice some gorgeous digital downloads that Jo Kneller has been creating - amazing stuff, we are lucky to have that girl on board!).

Gotta run
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Missing in action.

I've been missing in action. I had good reason though because despite the fact that after having our 3rd child we thought we'd never get any look at acting on a whim again - let's face it, a trip to the local park takes a finely tuned routine and a minimum 15 min organisation time, we packed up on Thursday and went to the beach. And it was not so hard to do so on a whim. With the blessings of both the boy's school teachers. To be with Vaughan for the final few days before he flew home. We had planned on just one night over on the Coromandel, but had such fun playing Scumbag over a few drinks late that night, that we decided to stay another. And again. It wasn't so hard. It felt good.

Vaughan left yesterday. That was hard. The night before he left we saw videos from his computer on the stuff he does overseas. Christmas in Bulgaria. Raves in London. I had been sure it was time for him to come home but after seeing those videos I realised he shouldn't come home yet. It's such a big world and he is having a ball. I had a mortgage by the time I was 21 and didn't travel. I kinda thought I'd travel later in life. In the meantime I lost the party attitude though.
So anyway. Vaughan went home. It was an emotional day and the funny thing was that it made me want to scrapbook. On our return home I needed to sit and write. And write. And write. And I wonder sometimes if it is the stories that makes me a scrapbooker, not the 'creating'. And sometimes I think I should just stop thinking about things so much and just scrap.

Thanks to Rachel Tucker and Kate Mills - beautiful pages for the SCKC arrived in my mailbox over the weekend. Thanks so much ladies! Don't forget to check in with Julie's blog - she has pics of what 1600 layouts look like - because we have reached our goal! BUT WAIT - we are supplying for other camps too, including one that is held in New Zealand every year. Don't stop creating! I've seen the corrospondence about how much difference these books make. So keep it up for just a little while yet!

And finally a layout to share. This was in this months Tarisota gallery. which just went up yesterday.

It's one of my fav layouts for a while. I think it's the pictures. Abby & I were at Kindy last December and Nannie & Grumpr arrived to see her at the Kindy Christmas concert. Abby was on the playground when they arrived. She rushed to them as soon as she saw them and this is the look on her face as she was telling Nannie all about kindy. If anyone wanted a definition of absolute glee, I think this would be close.

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