Angelic

I love this picture of Rayna, so sweet and angelic and gorgeous!

I made my own bling swirls and then had to fill in the spaces between the bling with black dots.  I also sewed everywhere and distressed the heck out of everything.

I also wanted to enhance the beauty of the paper so I outlined the ornaments with crystal laquer and put glitter in it.

Only 5 months to Christmas! LOL  Did that freak you out?

PS - Super duper happy birthday to my super sister Sarah today!  You rock and I'm glad we're sisters!

my pet monsters

Oh how I love my crazy little girls!  They love having their picture taken and often go for the extreme close up!

I cut some extra monsters out of another piece of patterned paper to make a cute lineup of them all.  The horns on Skyler are from the Iron on kits I won from SEI last year!  I Ironed them onto a white t-shirt, cut them out and glue dotted them on the picture!  It's my fave part of the whole layout.  Any monsters in your life?

4 Maniacal Monsters

This picture is from last Halloween's photo shoot with their SEI Iron on T-shirts.  Poor Lucius kept startling from all the girl's noise! 

The eyeball frame is one I created by ironing the eyes on a t-shirt and cutting them out.  I also used half a zipper (that actually still zips) and the great Martha border punch that I got on sale after Halloween.

How is your summer going so far? 

Lollipop Love

Oh the sweeeet taste of your very first lollipop!

Skyler spent a very quiet half an hour sucking on this lollipop like we'd take it away at any moment.  She had so much drool we had to put a receiving blanket under her chin.

What's your fave candy?

peek-a-BOO!!

We spend tons of time at the park and the kids always find a new way to play with the same equipment.  On this day, the rock climbing wall became a great place to play peek-a-boo!

I used some more of the mesh that came covering my hot dogs again!  Loving the texture and dimension it adds to a page.

What items are you reusing on your pages?

Captain Adorable

This picture is adorable, but Snuffy still wishes to remain anonymous so you only get to see part of it.  How sweet is my little boy in his Daddy's arms?.....................THE SWEETEST!

I have been reading a series of books about Superheros so this page just naturally fell together in that light.  Lucius's hat says "Captain Adorable" on it.

Who is your fave superhero?  I think Wonder Woman rocks!

I'm Gonna Kill Auntie Linda

Yup, only Aunties get away with buying your kids colored bubbles!Check out the MESS!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa!

Tentative at first... 

looks like blood..... 

 bloody fingers....

 one perfect purple bubble.....

 quiet contemplation before pulling out all the grass.......

 messssssss (note: Rayna, is not messy - she cried when the first bloody bubble hit her and ran inside to get cleaned off)

 Yup, letting her pour it out if she wants, then only ONE day of mess..... no repeat performances of this mess.....

 now she's painting her face with it ....ACK!!!

 look at the bloody murder on the wall behind the very proud and STANDING Lucius....

 soooo soooo funny that mommy is freaking out....

Serenity has to get every last drop of the mess out!  Who is messing up your life today?

Skyler's Party

Skyler recently had her 2 1/2 year birthday party!  Poor December baby, it's just easier to have parties on her 1/2 birthday.  That way everyone can attend and it's just about her and not about Christmas too.

The decorator at DQ did this Strawberry Shortcake free hand.  Awesome!

 I created a strawberry patch with balloons.

 Skyler had a choice between party hats and these glasses - she made the right choice.

See how much she loves her "Bye".  I think that's baby talk for berry. 

 Nana reads her a story and Lucius reads to himself in the background.

 Skyler used her chalk to draw and to kill bugs. LOL!

 Look how happy her new ballet shoes make her.

 This is how old she thinks she is.

A woman after my own heart - she loves shoes AND she wants to keep them organized!  Notice the "AQueen" backpack in the background.  She wears it Everywhere now.  Do you love shoes?  How many pairs do you have?