Ugly Shoes

Oh my son and these dinosaur shoes. He loves them and over time I guess they've grown on me. They are so ugly, they're (almost) cute. I bought him a bunch of dinosaur shirts so at least they match. He asks to wear them almost every day. I wonder if these will be one of those "favorite things" that he'll remember about his childhood. I think it will be funny to look back at this layout in a few years when Nico wouldn't be caught dead in dino shoes.

I had a huge pile of this Stomp line by My Mind's Eye and I'm happy to say that it is just about all gone. That's really rare for me. I usually buy way too much from lines like this and never use it all. It must be the bold color scheme and the way that the patterns mix together. I love MME for that reason alone.

All of the paper, chip and brads are MME. The letters are chip stickers from Basic Grey and old Pressed Petals.

Thanks for taking a peek. I'll be back Thursday with Disney...

My Pet Dinosaur

Another sketch and another page done in two hours. Hooray! This great sketch is by the very talented Jana Eubanks and was posted over on A Million Little Thing's blog. One of my favorite scrappers and my favorite store - thanks!

The small pictures are from our recent visit to Disney World this past fall. I wanted to capture the story of Nico's first visit to the T-Rex restaurant and the making of his first Build-A-Dino. I didn't have a good pic of him with Spike, so I posed him after we got home. The restaurant was fab, but the lighting was horrible for taking pics.

The paper, dino and tags are all from My Mind's Eye (which I'm in love with). The green letters are Bo-Bunny and the cork alpha and numbers are from Making Memories.

Thanks for looking and for bearing with me during this busy season!

A Fear of Dinos

Ah yes, it's Fall in the northeast and it's one of my favorite times of the year. The mornings are crisp and Nico goes back to his regular preschool schedule. This means one full day of scrapping a week for Mama. Life is good!

The moment I saw this dinosaur line by My Mind'e Eye, I had five different pages in mind. Nico loves dinosaurs and has so many books, toys and even T-Rex shoes that I knew I would need all of it. This page is about how Nico has recently developed fears of the very things that he loves the most (dinosaurs, slides, spooky houses). The journaling goes on to describe the who/what/when of his fears and how I feel about it. I thought it was important to mark this milestone in my (usually) brave little guy's life.

This is one of those pages that took me forever to do. As a matter of fact, this is the second version of it. I had it all done and left it on my work table. When I took a look at it the next morning, I hated it and started all over. I don't do this very often, but I also know when a layout is not working for me.

All of the paper, brads and chipboard is from MME's Abby Road Collection. The big green letters are Bo Bunny Press. The grass border is from K&Co's AtoZ line that I got at Michaels. And last but not least is the canvas ribbon from Lil Davis, a company I sorely miss.

Have a great Labor Day weekend everyone!