I truly hope that everyone had a fabulous easter. Church service was great and time with family was much needed. Aniyah loved getting her basket of eggs which had money, chocolates, and beauty products----she almost loves the makeup and polishes more than me, lol! It's back to the grind tomorrow and I need to get some rest. TTYL!!!! xo T
She just loves her hair. She almost won't sit still to even get her ends trimmed but she loves wearing it down with curls.
I finished my DD album, except for adding a few more photos and some journaling but it's done! I'm so proud of myself for finishing it. A sense of completion feels great.
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|Desk Mess|
My desk was in a complete mess after finishing my album but for some reason I love cleaning it up and organizing things. Now to start Project Life and some V-Day goodies. Have a great weekend!
I finally managed my way thru pages 1-10 today of my DD. I spent some time during the week working on it but it really all came together for me today. I'm glad that I'm sticking thru with trying to complete the album this year. I really want to have these memories to look back on years from now. My approach to doing the album was to "Keep It Simple" KIS! My new motto when it comes to creating. I can get more done without trying to over-complicate each and every project.
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I've been loving seeing the pics across the net of babies and Christmas lights for photos. We attempted this today with her leopard santa hat that that I'm loving. I got it from Target.
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|Day 1| I kept it simple on the left with just a few words that meant the most to me this year *love, peace, hope, gratitude and thankful*.
|Day 2| Included a picture of myself and what I had on my list for Christmas this year *iMac, camera lens, MAC, new living room furniture (I've had the same set 8 years now), a new home and a pair of Jeffrey Campbell's. I wanted to at least document myself once this year.
|Day 3| I wanted to keep Aniyah's Christmas list that she wrote down so I included it. Her list is extremely long this year. We'll see how good Santa is to her.
|Day 4| A simple day with only a picture of our wreath hanging on the door.
|Day 5| Aniyah broke my cell phone and it made me so mad. I told her 2 minutes prior to put it up and it ended up costing me $130 to fix.
|Day 6| I kept this day simple as well with just a snowflake. It called for a chance of snow so I thought it fit the mood of the day.
|Day 7| My love for Starbucks! I couldn't do an album without including it and especially this year since I'm loving the Tazo Tai Chi Latte.
|Day 8| It includes one of my favorite pics of Aniyah. She loves her fur vest and so do I.
|Day 9| Love her leopard hat and the Christmas lights
|Day 10| I always encourage Aniyah to be creative. She was bored and while I was working I told her to be creative also and make Christmas cards.
---------> My approach to this album is just documenting those moments I want to remember. I've kept it very simple yet I'm enjoying the process. I do work on my album daily even though I don't post daily but I'm hoping to do better.
It's pretty quiet around here this weekend and I love that. I still haven't taken all the pictures of the house decorated this year. I enjoy days like this when we don't have much going on. Working on my DD album and hope to post either later this evening or tomorrow. Off to a Christmas party at church. Have a good weekend.
------------> My little space of creativity. More to come soon.
---------> December is here! So excited for the Holidays and documenting this year for my December Daily album that I'm completely determined to finish this year. I don't have any set way that I'm going to document but just go along with the process and enjoy it. My wreath is up and has been on the door for over 2 weeks now. I love the traditional colors, pine cones and berries. So perfect for the Holidays!
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Got a chance to take a few pictures of Aniyah before I washed her hair. I know I am biased but she's so beautiful. Can't stand that she's growing up. Ugh! Working on learning my camera more and taking better photos.
:::::*I finally did my first advent calendar for Aniyah. I saw an idea using tags on pinterest. Click over there -----------> for my boards on Pinterest and it's in the Christmas boards. There was a little rhyme & reason to it and I wanted to keep it easy on myself instead of trying to create something personalized for every single day. I wanted to utilize the MS snowmen stickers that I just purchased, my slice, stamping, an ornament, my corragated alpha's that I've been hoarding and at least one other element on each tag in each row. I used my SC numbers set for most of the numbers and a mini clothes pin and stick pin on each. I'm not sure if she'll get something each day but it would be just a fun way for her to pull one down each day until Christmas. I'm not sure just yet how I'm going to cover my board but I may paint it white.
I took a few quick pictures of my baby when I put the tree up. I haven't had the internet in over a week and it's been so frustrating. Ugh!
This picture sums up quite nicely the seasons for me. I'm so ready for the Holiday season. I've already started shopping and getting prepared. Going home this evening to continue working on my Halloween album and start taking my Halloween decorations down. Is it too early to put my tree up?! =)
Still a pinterest queen.
This is just a small peek at things around our house this year for Halloween. I kept things simple and I didn't go too over the top with the decorations. I grabbed the font on the pics from picnik. Keisha Campbell used the font on her blog and I thought it was a cute idea. There is so much inspiration on pinterest as well as other websites so my decorations are inspired a lot by that. I'll add more pics this weekend.
Had to pick up the 2011 Halloween Vintage Craft kit today from Jenni's mid-month release. Not sure what I'm planning to do with it yet but it's a must have..................go grab one for yourself HERE!
Click the picture to go to my pinterest page......if you need an invite, let me know! Happy Pinning!
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My favorite time of year is slowly approaching. I can smell it in the air that fall is coming. I picked up this issue of Martha Stewart Halloween and these halloween lollie pops.
I took Keisha's idea of her lovely stamped tags and used the new clear stamps from House of 3 Phantom collection to create a few of my own. Love how they turned out.
I am already ready for the season and to decorate. I love Halloween and Christmas. I made this kraft box for Aniyah's teacher this year. I will add candy to it later.
I used My Minds Eye Mischievous collection for this box. I loved the colors and that it had a bit of whimsy to it for her to take to school for her teacher.
The box it started from.
These were some cards that I made with some making memories spook alley collection that I had laying around. I have so many Halloween collections and I need to try and use them up.
I finally got a few projects done with the JBS April Kit and I still have May's Kit to do and several past kits and project kits waiting for my attention. I hope to get back to scrapping on a regular since my parents are moving to Illinois this week. Aniyah is in transition with them for some of the summer and I already miss her and it's only been a day. I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. I'm off to watch the first playoff game and finish baking my sweet potatoe pie.
This card needs a bit of journaling but I didn't have a card in mind for anyone so it is blank for now.
Once again my hair has gone thru another change! Change is good right? LOL! I absolutley love my La'Bella Couture earrings! I have another pair and they are truly the talk of the night. I have nothing on my face and on my lips is MAC Currant lip pencil and Up the Amp lipstick (which is my fav pink). Love how Aniyah made it into my photo!
Mother's Day was awesome and I'll post some pics on that later this week. I love Tina's blog and how she does a post on currents, so I'm joining in.
listening: Steve Harvey morning show online at work
eating: Frosted mini wheats
drinking: hot tea
wearing: crop pants, cardigan and heels
feeling: happy today for some reason
weather: sunny and hot (90 degrees today)
needing: a new camera lens and to save
enjoying: loving on Aniyah
wondering: if I'm gonna pass and take the GMAT
Have a great week loves and I'll be back for some photos and scrapping. Oh, Happy Birthday to my sis-in-law Nikki. We love you!
From the moment I saw that cute shadow box Keisha made for the MM blog I just knew I had to have one of my baby for my office. I was trying to think of ways to decorate my area in a chic way with something different and this was just too perfect. I purchased the shadow box in the smaller size but I also bought a larger one and I was somehow thinking of making it again as gifts my mothers for Mother's Day. We'll see . I had the paper reverie card and I loved those butterflies so I broke it out and used it today. I definitely need to use it more often and I used MM Je t'adore papers for the butterflies. It is still my most fav collection right now.
I don't know where the "diva" personality in Aniyah comes from but these pics were taken one afternoon after she got home from school. She is such as mess!
I finally got some scrapping done! Yay! I'm so behind on a few kits from 2010 but I didn't want to make 2011 that way so I got caught up on my JBS Jan kit. I need to work on my SC Jan kit next so hopefully I can still get some scrapping done today. I love the black and cream in this kit. Jenni is always fab when it comes to the combination of colors in her kits. I can't wait to get my Feb kit, the colors in it are awesome!
I totally love MM Je t'adore collection. The colors are so fab and since I love the month of Feb, it was just too perfect. I bought a few more things from the collection that I need scrap with and I hope to dive into the rest of the collection soon.
Aniyah is growing up way too fast. She will be 7 this month and it's so hard to believe.
I had a post ready to publish but my internet deleted it all. Working on some layouts but no ink for my printer to print photos and we are snowed in. Trying to add more photos but I keep getting kicked off.
I just realized that I haven't posted a single thing in December and I didn't want to let the month go by without me doing so. We made it back down south and I've been on the new job working for almost a month now. We are finally moving next week and I will be signing for our place this evening. I have a quite a few new pics to post but I don't have my computer with my programs on it so I'm sneaking while at work and posting! Our Christmas was fabulous! Aniyah said that she got "everything" from Santa! LOL! She scored pretty big this year, as always, even with a birthday coming up. Since we are moving, my wish list for new things in our home has now increased. I really want some new furniture so we will be saving our pennies. All the men in our family love to lounge on the couch so it will definitely have to be a sectional and I've been eyeing this one. There are some pieces that I love from C&B but until we upgrade to a larger home that has both a living room & family room and/or den, we will have to keep something that is functional for all our needs right now. I love Ikea and we finally got this headboard. I love that is contemporary and simple. We will eventually get this dresser but we will keep what we have for now. Hope everyone had a fab Christmas and Happy New Year!
We went to the pumpkin patch last weekend with Mom and enjoyed our time there. Aniyah picked out a pumpkin and got the chance to ride a pony. I loved the spooky tree.
