A quick little plug...and some enabling!

Just wanted to say thanks to all for "voting" for Tiff last week...she made it and is one of the new designers for Little Dreamer!! Incidentally, Little Dreamer is having a birthday celebration all week and I'd hate for you to miss out on the fabulous new products and awesome deals...everything is at least 35% off all week! (Yes. I don't as of yet do much digital scrapbooking. Somehow that doesn't stop me from collecting against the day I do, LOL!)

So go check it out!! 

Catching up...

Sorry. I know I went MIA for a bit there. Call it a mental health break if you will. ;) In any case, some things for today...

ONE. Don't forget to go buy Tiff's awesome Little Apprentice kit!! Rockin' prices and fabulous kits! You have until midnight Friday to make your vote count! (Each purchase is a vote.) Pretty please?

TWO. Here's one of the layouts I started last Saturday and finally finished:

 

Yes, it just happens to also be my take on my March Album in a Year layout sketch. :) Have you finished yours yet?!

THREE. Micah's getting way too smart for me. Yesterday, honest to goodness, he came to me in the kitchen complaining his tummy hurt. With the expected sympathy, I asked him what we could do. His reply (without a moment's hesitation, as if, of course, he'd been planning for this exact moment), "Candy will make me feel better." Really.

FOUR. Not to be left out of the interesting things kids say department, a couple nights ago Asher and Noah were randomly and completely out of the blue discussing things they were grateful for...

Asher: "I'm thankful for gravity. It's good."

Noah: "Yeah. I'm thankful for the earth's magnetic field. That's good, too."

Um, hello? Where do they get this stuff?

FIVE. We got our Painted Lady butterflies last week! I placed a big group order for our homeschool group and even made up 24 of these fun little informational journal type things (a grand excuse to try out my new Bind It All, don't you think?): 

 

Our little caterpillars should be forming chrysalids any day now...very cool. (We've actually done this once before, so the boys aren't quite as excited as before, but we also have a field trip/class planned at Denver's Butterfly Pavilion next week, so that will be fun!) 

SIX. Okay, just some forewarning, but I may go missing for a bit again. Feeling overwhelmed here and trying to get things back in line. Nothing major, so don't worry...just feeling the need to step away from the computer and get things done, kwim? Don't worry, though, I'll be back! :) 

Course, I also reserve the right to not go missing. Who knows? Just wanted to apologize in advance just in case. ;) 

This morning.

Yawn. Still recuperating from the blast I had all day yesterday at a crop here at my local favorite place (The Treasure Box). I'll post more about that (and maybe even a layout or two once I finish them up) later. For the moment, I just had to share this sweet moment I had with Micah this morning.

I brought Micah downstairs after he woke up. His brothers, uncharacteristically, weren't awake yet (they were all pretty darn tuckered after a long Saturday). Micah looked around and said to me, "me sad. Brothers not up." I indicated that they'd probably be awake soon, particularly given how loud he was talking, lol. He brightened up and said, "Asher me best friend!" How cool is that? :) 

Filing a complaint.

I wasn't going to say anything, but I can't seem to help myself. American Idol. Last night's result show. What the heck?! This is the first time we've ever watched a season of American Idol (got hooked back during the writers' strike when there wasn't much else on, lol). Is this normal? My boys were totally pulling for Michael Johns. They loved him. When the announcement was made last night, Noah (7) immediately turned to us and said, "I want to file a complaint!" Really.

Overwhelmed.

Oh my gosh. I waded into our basement earlier today and have to tell you that I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I so need to sort and purge down there (have been working my way through the house slowly but surely since January). In particular, though, what overwhelms me is that this isn't a project where simply taking the coats that not longer fit to Goodwill or something will suffice. The stuff that's in the basement needs to be purged, yes. But what will remain is boxes (and boxes) of stuff that I know I want to scrapbook...ticket stubs and love letters and maps and brochures and programs from our lives before kids. On the one hand, I'm so glad that even before I scrapbooked I had the mentality of saving and documenting things...so I do have all sorts of stuff down there to work with. On the other hand, I have all sorts of stuff down there to work with. ;)

So, though I'm not feeling quite up to tackling the basement quite yet, here's a question for you. When going back to document stuff from before you scrapbooked, do you use the photos you have (the 4x6 prints from a film camera) and just make things work...maybe even with a general design that you just follow throughout a themed album?

Or do you take the time to go back to the negatives and reprint some of the photos that deserve a bit bigger treatment and maybe resize some of the others to make smaller prints so that you can scrapbook the layouts more like you actually scrapbook now? (Fortunately, I do actually have all my negatives organized chronologically in nice negative sleeves.) 

Any and all thoughts welcome & appreciated!!

Oh! And, I'm going to an all day crop on Saturday (HOORAY!) but haven't even begun to prep anything for it. Ack!! Wish me luck! :)