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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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  • Twenty Years

    Twenty Years (20)

    A picture a year for our twenty year anniversary...here's to the next twenty years!
     
  • ORMOLU PROJECTS

    ORMOLU PROJECTS (12)

    Layouts and projects I've made for the Ormolu Creative Team. :)
     
  • 2009 Lists of Me layouts

    2009 Lists of Me layouts (53)

    These layouts are part of a project I decided to tackle this year...just fun layouts of lists, yet a kind of "all about me" album at the same time. :) The goal is to do one a week.
     
  • Monthly To-Do's 2009 layouts

    Monthly To-Do's 2009 layouts (12)

    Here are the layouts that appeared in my Monthly To-Do's column in Creating Keepsakes magazine.
     
  • Album in a Year 2008 column layouts

    Album in a Year 2008 column layouts (14)

    Here are the layouts (from my 2007) that appeared in the Album in a Year column during 2008. (Note, three of these have minor variations from what you see in the magazine because I didn't always remember to photograph the layouts just before mailing them off. ;) So. Those few have small details that were changed before publication. Sorry!)
     
  • 2008 Album in a Year layouts

    2008 Album in a Year layouts (6)

    My 2008 versions based on the column...
     
  • Everyday Beauty

    Everyday Beauty (11)

    A fun little album I put together using Ali Edwards' awesome CK Kit of the Month from May 2007.
     
  • Some of my favorite layouts

    Some of my favorite layouts (14)

    Here are some of my current favorites. For more of my work, please visit my gallery at Two Peas Thanks! ETA: Yikes. I haven't updated this in ages. So sorry! I'll work on that eventually!