A couple months ago I bought an Ephemera Pack from Jillibean Soup. It’s basically a bag full of old-timey stuff, so I decided to use some of it on a layout for an old-timey person. This is possibly my favorite picture of all time. Baldness runs in the family, I guess. I made the background by covering a 12×12 white …
My friend Sara and I spent Saturday afternoon shopping at the Scrapbook Expo in Pleasanton. To say I went a little overboard might be a little understatement. I bought tons of paper (that’s a literal statement, according to my still-aching shoulder), and an assortment of new stamps, dies, and stencils from La La Land, Impression Obsession, Lawn Fawn, The Crafter’s …
Jesse’s grandfather is an amazing woodworker. We have several of his creations, but my favorite is a little yellow rocking horse that had been Jesse and his brother’s when they were children. I took this picture back when Allie was still tiny. Her feet didn’t even reach the floor, but she was just big enough to sit on it unassisted. These …
I made this layout ages ago, and I love it. Not sure why I never got around to sharing it. This picture came from my “Weekly Rita” photo series from Allie’s first year. She was 35 weeks here, or not quite 9 months. The chair I always photograph her on sits in front of a window that gets lots of …
This layout (clearly) took me months. I bought the papers back around the same time the picture was taken, but I just couldn’t figure out how to put them together. When I scrapbook, I generally spend a lot of time sitting with a bunch of pictures and a bunch of papers in front of me, waiting for an idea. These …
YES I KNOW. I’m way way way behind on my weekly layouts. But I’m still doing them! I purposely skipped posting a couple because I liked them so much I decided to submit them to magazines. That means I can’t post them here until after I get rejected. And I’ve skipped posting the rest because…well they’re not finished yet. But …