Monday, October 10, 2011

Old + New


I was going back - way back (insert tears and sad violins) - and decided to scrap these funny pictures of Leah during the beginning stages of potty training. I think it's funny to have captured crying pictures throughout their life. I think it's needed. They look back and realize the crying and whining really isn't that cool.

It happened recently at a soccer game. I was video taping Titus' game and Leah kept whining and asking for a snack. Later at home we played the video and she was shyly laughing at how ridiculous she sounded. I was told to do that by a couple people: record the kids happy and sad and have them see what they look like. I did this unintentionally, but it worked just as well. Now I can say, "Remember what you sounded like on that video? That's what you're sounding like right now. Do you really want to sound like that?"

Apart from learning lessons, crying is part of life and the journey we're all on. In it's own way, it has it's cuteness.



These photos were taken last week and I knew I wanted to scrap them today. At first I was going to have the photos in color, but there was way too much color clashing, so black and white came to the rescue again. I think it looks real nice with the pictures in B+W and that allowed me to use a busy, pretty paper.

I'm feeling my love of scrapping coming back! I've always loved it but haven't had a whole ton of time to scrap lately. Now I'm wanting to keep on scrapping!
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Leah


I created this page a couple weeks ago. So much for the last post about wanting to get back into scrapping!

We've been rather busy lately. I've had some photo shoots so some nap times are spent editing photos rather than scrapping. Sometimes I wonder where the time has gone.

I've been thinking about doing Project 365 this coming year. I need to look more into it, but I think it's pretty much documenting the whole year through weeks, in photos. Does that make sense? During certain times of the year, it seems not too many photos are taken and that bugs me. I want to document more of the everyday. My kids do hilarious things and they just plain grow up way too fast.

I won a summer photo contest through Postcrossing! There were three winners. The photo(s) I entered were of jellyfish from the Shedd Aquarium. The winners got a coupon to Moo (an amazing postcard printing site) worth 20 postcards and free shipping. I was so excited and really surprised my photo was chosen since I can't remember winning anything. And it was a first for entering any of my photos in anything. I'm excited to get my order in the mail. I chose five different photos to be printed which means I'll get four copies of each (equalling 20 postcards).

Well, I'm off to make some tea and work on a scrap page. Then it's on to more Legos with the kids when they wake up. Enjoy the simple things! They tend to matter most.
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