scrapjack

I finished this layout for this months Aussie Scrapjacked
using a sketch from Sarah Vanwijck, titled 'be like that then' I used a photo of Jacob, and seeing I find it hard to take shots of him without pulling a face, I scrapped one where hes poking out his tongue at me!
I will come back later and post up our Christmas and show of some photos!

gifts

I was inspired by the girls from Scrap of Faith to make Jacobs teacher a gift, which he gave her on the last day of school today, its a pen holder for her desk, Jake said she was quite impressed when she found out I had made it, I put boxes of smarties in it, because she was a good teacher and she made the kids a lot smarter because of her teaching! I thought that was clever of me to think that! and I told Jake to make sure he tells her what the smarties meant, but he forgot!

My next gift is a gift I treated myself to a - Clip it Up, I have had my eye on one for ages, but as they are quite pricey I knew Id be waiting for a while, until I stumbled upon one on an American ebay shop, I bought both tiers plus a cover for it and all up including postage it cost me $140 compared to $110 from Blue Bazaar just for the bottom tier and not including postage, plus I received within 10 days!! so it was an early birthday present for me!

I will finish up with a couple of layouts 'peace, joy, love' is just a Christmas one of Ella I did.

'When we were young' is one of myself and Ella and the quote I used is one I just love by Dorothy Evslin - 'What is the price of an afternoon when a small girl is soothed in your arms, when the sun bolts through a doorway and both you and the child are very young' - so that explains the title! lol!

Well its Marks birthday today and we are about to sit down and watch a dvd, Im just waiting for him to tell me to "GET OF THAT COMPUTER" he says that in a nice way of course!!

December

December already! I love this time of the year!! so full of celebrations, love, presents and fun! I am so excited about Marks Christmas work party - which happens to fall on my birthday! we have our hotel room all booked and Mum is staying over to mind the kids, Mark and I can have a full day and night to ourselves!
We had the kids party on the weekend with Marks work, and the kids received a present from Santa, such fun!

I have a few more layouts 'blessed' is of Bethany and Ella taken on Mothers Day,
'Slow down' is of Ella, the photo was taken a few weeks ago not long after she began to walk, I used the wall in the photo to write the journalling and used a rub-on,

and the blue one 'moments like this I love', the girls were sitting together on the chair swing outside, just giggling together and kissing each other, so I just had to photograph them and scrap it! the journalling is just how much I savour and love the moments I have with them!

I really must start scrapping Jacob, at the moment whenever I try and take a photo of him he pulls a face - very frustrating!!!