2010 December

Wings tucked in…

December 20, 2010 Leave a Comment

Speaking of Katey, she is just adorable lately. She has a ginormic imagination. I think she always has, but now she also has the vocabulary to let us know what she is doing. Beauty. One of the latest is tucking the wings from her Tinker Bell doll into her clothes and flying around. She just flits about – so cute!

My featured designer at Jessica Sprague’s site this month is LIV. She is such a sweetheart. I adore her creativity too. I used a lot of her product on this one. For complete credits go here.

The squiggle glitter line reminds me of a hostess cupcake swirl. Yum!

One of my favorite parts of the layout is the lilac colored washi tape. In the description Liv says that Washi is “Japanese masking tapes made of rice paper. I hand-tore each one of these and extracted them with love so that we can bring all that wonderful hand-crafty goodness to our digital creations!” Beauty. I love the crumply ones especially. The semi-opaque ones are my fav, but it’s nice to have those and opaque ones. I also love all the different sizes and shadowing options on these yummy tapes. The tapes come in blush color too, so far. More colors are promised. 😉

It is brand new in the store today! Because it is new you can get it for 20% off. However, the whole store is 20% right now for the holiday sale. Sweet.

My layout is also featured on Jessica Sprague’s home page today. Fun!

Filed Under: {digital happiness}, {Jessica Sprague}, {tickles and smiles}

December 20, 2010 2 Comments

“You can tell a lot about a kid by what’s under their pillow.” – Jim Bob

Said after discovering Lego magazine under Jacob’s this evening. A while ago we found a fun discovery under Katey’s pillow:

2 pink containers of bubbles.

Filed Under: {reflections and deep thoughts}, {tickles and smiles}

happy holiday

December 19, 2010 Leave a Comment

{Jacob’s email to the family last Sunday.}

ho,ho,ho! Oh, ! How are all your holidays going? Thanksgiving was a blast! We had a great time. I can’t wait for Christmas.

I just love this time of year because of: (1) Halloween!(2) Thanksgiving!(3) Christmas!(4) New year’s! I wish you a merry Christmas!

Love,

Jacob

P.S.-Here are some pictures of the Salt Lake Temple.

{Jacob forwarded some photos he sent to himself from a kiosk at Temple Square. Me thinks this boy likes having an email address. 😉 I’m not sure of the copyright on the photos so I didn’t include them. I will post a few we took the last time we were on Temple Square – November 28th. The same evening he sent the photos to himself from the Visitors Center. 🙂 } Sadly, I cannot find my SD card anywhere. My lovely full one with photos from our trip – including the fun comics. I will continue to search the couch cushions and toy boxes. I know I had it at one point… my apologies.

Filed Under: {holidays and celebrations}, Miscellaneous

yummy secrets

December 11, 2010 2 Comments

Katey’s secret for me tonight:

Said in the deepest gravely voice she could muster:

“I love you more than candy cane pie.”

Mmmm, she might have something there.

p.s. Katey had her Strawberry Shortcake doll sitting on her milk sippy tonight while Daddy was tucking her in. Every time she took a sip her doll went for a ride. She told Daddy, “mmmm, i love strawberry milk!” I don’t think I’ve heard both of them giggle so hard in a long time.

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Comically thankful

December 11, 2010 1 Comment

I placed these comic papers around the tables for Thanksgiving. While the younger crowd dished up their food the older ones drew comics. Then while the adults finished eating, the younger ones that wanted drew a comic as well. Funny, thoughtful, downright silly – all were great fun! …and all made it to the fridge. 😉

*This is a place holder for all the comics I need to find on my SD card and put here – they are amazing. The anticipation will only make “Bob the Turtle” and “Smiley Man” that much more exciting. Coming Soon. I promise. *POW* *

Nutmeg Candy Candy by Cosmo Cricket
font: DJB Poppyseed

Filed Under: {digital happiness}, {holidays and celebrations}, {Jessica Sprague}, Miscellaneous

Drewby-isms

December 9, 2010 Leave a Comment

I have been collecting Drewby quotes. It’s one of my favorite pasttimes. Here are just a few from the last six months:

How I adore this little guy. He can be soooooo mischievous. Full of curiosity and downright fun.

p.s. I love adding a heart to each of my layouts. A little “find my love” if you will. Can you spot the one on this page?? heh.

Chalkboard Paper Collection by Kitschy Digitals
font: chalkduster

Filed Under: {digital happiness}, {Jessica Sprague}, {tickles and smiles}

Instant Gratification

December 9, 2010 1 Comment

A fun little creation just for me. An ID tag – to tuck in the front pocket of the camera bag – just in case I ever lose our camera. Knowing me, it just might happen. Once I lost my flute for an afternoon while I was in college. I was studying Music Education and my flute was quite necessary for many of my classes. I called the campus police to report the disappearance. A few hours later I talked with the transportation department. I had left my flute on the bus. I realized when the Statesman (campus newspaper) came out that I had never contacted the police again. There it was – a flute missing – highlighted in the police blotter.

The other creation is a cover for my camera manual. My favorite feature is the polka dot ribbon bookmark glued into the cover binding. Sweet.

And a fun little tid-bit. My first camera was a Polaroid. I won it in the 8th grade invention contest. I invented an educational board game, “Mind Stretchers”. And won Grand Prize! How I loved that camera. Rita, one of my favorite roommates in college, had a polaroid camera. She used it often and would always say “instant gratification”. Made me laugh every time. I guess digital is that way now. 😉

Vintage Cameras Kit by Kitschy Digitals
fonts: DJB Poppyseed & American Typewriter

Filed Under: {digital happiness}, {Jessica Sprague}

Day 20

December 4, 2010 3 Comments

Just slightly overdue. 😉

We spent Day 20 in the car traveling to our Thanksgiving destination – Aunt Ruth-a’s house. We were planning on going the day before but a blizzard warning {first time in my lifetime here} prevented that. We were happy to be warm and snug and traveling instead of on the side of a slippery road. A day later than planned, a little slower than planned, but we made it. Hooray! 🙂 My creative endeavor for the day involved felt and a glue gun. Yup, in the car. I might even be impressed with myself. 😉 It is amazing what an inverter can allow you to accomplish.

I love making place cards. For Thanksgiving especially. It’s been my “job” for years. Last year we made cornucopias out of sugar cones, jelly beans and Runts. Hard to top, no? I think we did okay:

I love taking parts of one holiday and infusing it into another. Thus the “fortunate cookies” were born. The felt fortune cookies served as place holders for the dinner table. Mint kisses were hidden inside and a whole bunch of printed tags, labels and journaling tags were scattered around. I invited people to write fortunes for each other. We got some funny fortunes from some of the smaller ones and lots of giggles. Later I thought it would be way better to write “fortunate” things about each other and place them in the corresponding cookies. Ah, there’s always next year. 😉

What fun – and so easy to do for a crowd! The fortune cookies are felt circles. Each one has a piece of floral wire hot glued across the diameter with a ribbon over to keep it purty. I’ll have to take a close-up photo of that – it’s a little hard to explain. That way the wire can be bent and the cookie keeps it’s shape (thank you Martha Stewart). Adorable and reusable. And obviously portable seeing as I made them in the car. 50 of them, just-in-case. We ended up using close to 40.

*Huge special thank you to my brother John. He sacrificed some computer time to help me cut all those tags and cards. I’m thankful for him!*

Nutmeg Elements by Cosmo Cricket {tags and labels}
font on photo: CK Renaissance