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We had a wonderful weekend here. The weather was great, we took the day on Saturday to drive down to San Diego to the museum of natural history to learn about pirates! I thought that the museum would have been more interactive for the girls, but Hubby enjoyed it! We strolled around Balboa park, getting the chance to chase bubbles, enjoy street performers , and marvel the koi pond. We were all pretty hungry afterwards, and I was enjoying the break, so rather than cook, we chose to eat out. We chose Famous Dave's, please tell me what it is about men always wanting the feast? It was a nice weekend. I even had the day off today, and got to wrap up this layout. I was inspired by last weeks mood board over at Come on get crafty. I have loved this sweet candid of Little K, could be the amazing print on her outfit, or maybe its the simple, slight smile, or even the ponytails. I was happy to scrap it, and happy how it came together! I hope everyone else had a great weekend, and thanks for peeking at my layouts!
Brianna

birthday rewind

So, not to be terribly confusing, as I just completed a page of Little L's 8th birthday, I am posting this more recent layout of her 7th birthday; the joys of playing Scrapbooking catch up. I love this photo and how it captured at the perfect time.

 

 

 

 I used some American crafts papers that just screamed "make me into a birthday layout". It reminded me amazingly of confetti cake. Speaking of confetti, It seems that I have a current obsession with it lately. I use an old paper punch that punches out border circles, rather that, I love using the little punched out pieces instead. It can always give a matched look of fun on any page! I have also been getting back into hand-stitching on my pages, it's a labor of love, but I always love the result! I stitched around some cut vellum, and am quite happy with the look. Thanks for peeking at what I made today :)
Brianna

This happened

Look at these strapping lads! This pic was taken at little K's first birthday party (2012) of Daddy and "the godfather"; uncle G! I love looking at old photos of good times and amazing friends. Its hard to build amazing connections when you know that you may never live near some people again, but you learn that the genuine people become family! This was an amazingly fun day filled with great friends one last time before we made the treck across country. A random bit of info about this layout. I have yet to purchase a cameo, as they just started making their rounds as I was taking a break from Scrapping, so in the meantime, I need to use my resources. I knew I wanted to use cutouts in this paper,so I used my exacto knife to cut the hexagons from the paper for THIS layout, leaving these fun, random, floating hexagons to play with on this side! I love showing myself that I can still get fun results to tide me over until I get a cameo!
On a sour note, it has been cruddy and gloomy here in Southern Cali the past few days, So if anyone has sunshine to share, i would love some today to help wake me up. I was up far too late reading last night! Thanks for stopping in !

Wild and free

My middle child, little A, has always seemed to be a free spirit. I will get her all dressed to play outside, put on her shoes,brush her hair; but low and behold, within ten minutes she's barefoot and hair all a mess again. My little hippie!

I knew The glitz collection free and wild was the perfect line for this layout. It perfectly conveys her spirit!I created this layout using this weeks Creative Scrappers sketch! Thanks for peeking!
Brianna

sick on the homefront!

I have been fighting a cold all weekend, and it is a loosing battle at this point. I am predicting an 8 pm bedtime tonight. When you are under the weather, what better to do than sit on your booty and create. I didn't want to over exert myself, of course. I dug into this months scrapbook circle kit. I love how these kits always challenge me to use product that I wouldn't buy myself, with three girls, I tend to buy a lot of pink products to work with!

 

 

 

Nearly 2 years ago, we got orders from Maryland all the way to Southern California. No way were we going to make that long trip without making some great stops along the way. One of the places we made sure to get to was the Grand Canyon. Now let me start off by saying that I have an extreme fear of heights, even getting high on the ladder can cause my heart to start racing, so this was a big deal for me. It was a gorgeous sight that I will never forget, but I would be lying if I didn't tell you that I will always equally remember the way I lost my breath with fear seeing how low the bottom was. A bit overwhelming ,for sure, but the memories made it worth it. When I finished this layout, and shared with the family, as I always do, My oldest; little L, announced, " I remember this, it was the best day EVER! "I suppose that makes it to have been worth it all!

Brianna

#8

My big girl was lucky enough to have not one, but two birthday parties. 1 for friends and 1 for family, this past November. She turned 8, where has the time gone?

 

I had fun using this months Scrapbook circle kit, it always as such amazing products, that I wouldn't necessarily gravitate towards to buy myself. I created this layout by using this months my scraps & more sketch! I have been loving sketch's to get back in my groove. Thanks for peeking!
Brianna

Fabulous selfies

My girl are "selfie" queens, always stealing our phones and giving us surprise photos. Most of the time they are odd and out of focus, but little K got a few funny ones that I just had to print and scrap!She is always so impressed with seeing her own photos, begging me to take more! Such a ham!

I hope yall are getting through the week okay. We are all stumbling zombies in our home right now. The time change is hitting us hard, hopefully next week will bring more energy.
Brianna