Aggie Shoots. Aggie Scraps.

Before I go look for cheap insurance offers (the husband finally agreed that we get one), here is a two-page layout I made two weeks ago. Martha loves to dance, but she has her inhibitions when performing before anyone. The only people who would see her dance are her brother, our househelp and me. So I make it a point to snap pictures everytime she dances, just to have proof that she actually dances.

When she sees somebody else is looking, she freezes!

Credits:
Everything from Sweet Shoppe Designs
Janet Philips 2 Many Photos 35
Shawna Clingerman Quite Contrary
Font: Typewriter

I usually do a page or two about the kids when they reach a certain age. It has become like a tradition for me to write them a letter in the form of layout on their birthdays and I have yet to do one for my little girl, who celebrated her birthday two months ago, to the day! I take all the blame – I could have been better with my time management skills.

Credits:
Everything from Sweet Shoppe Designs
Julie Billingsley Bumble Blooms
Julie Billingsley Oodles of Tags
Cindy Schneider Template Set 57
Font: DJB Coffeeshop Espresso

I was supposed to make an album for our fifth wedding anniversary and a Father’s Day album for my husband and Dad but guess what? It also didn’t materialize. All the planning for nothing! I wish I can give them expensive cigars for gifts but my Dad has not been smoking for ten years and there is nothing in the world I would rather have as a gift than to have the husband quit smoking!

I want to share a page about my boy who is turning 10 this year. I think his hormones are-a-raging, so to speak, because everything I say ends up being miscontrued, misunderstood, met with aggression or simply ignored. This little boy surely doesn’t need the best testosterone cream as he is full of raging hormones.

We are not into the fully-phased teenage years though. He still obeys me and loves my company every now and then. I wonder how it will be three years from now when he officially becomes a “teen”.

Credits:
Everything from Sweet Shoppe Designs
Janet Philips Scrap Your Heart Out (Set 5)
Lauren Grier Not What I Expected
Font: DJB Coffeeshop Espresso

Anybody can relate with me here?

Credits:
Libby Weifenbach A Jean and TShirt Kind of Girl
Cindy Schneider Template Set 45
FOnt: CK Journaling

Seriously? Martha is a t-shirt and jeans kind of girl. She would rather die than wear a dress, and I am not exaggerating here. Everytime I let her wear one, it has always been a constant struggle – starting with me cajoling her how pretty the dress is, her telling me the dress is itchy, ugly, not liking it. Repeat 100 times. Until I lose my patience and force her to wear it. Then she cries. And throws a temper. And the whole purpose of her wearing the dress is defeated because she looks like a rag doll, all sweaty and crying. Yet I still do it. I actually dress her five minutes into leaving the house so she has no choice. She cries it out in the car, and gets over it. At four, she is all girly and into make-up, manicure, Barbie and Disney Princesses, but she would still rather die than wear a dress.

Actually, Martha is like me when I was little. I also used to throw a fit everytime my mom would let me wear a dress and there was one time I barfed at a Saniflo toilet in a hotel because I didn’t like to wear my flowergirl dress to a wedding!

I have so many pictures I want to scrap right now and albums I want to finish in time for my credits to expire over at Artscow but work had the insane good timing to pile up and make itself known so it would be another week without any chance for a long 8 hour sleep for me. I think after this week is over, I would be needing an eye cream for dark circles. But hey, I am not complaining.

I really love the kits I’ve used on the two pages below. It’s the perfect blue color combination I love and we happen to be in blue last Mother’s Day (coincidence, you think?)

Credits:
Traci Reed Dandelion Fluff
MandaBean And I Quote..Girls
Cindy Schneider Template Set 43
Font: DJB Jenna

Credits:
Everything from SSD:
Susan Bartolini Breath of Fresh Air
Cindy Schneider Template Set 52
Font: DJB All the Cool Chicks.

I finally was able to scrap after two weeks and it only took me three seconds after I saw the kit to realize that I needed to scrap with it right away. So even if work has piled up past my head last Friday, I took time to scrap with this amazing beauty. Even if it almost ruined my day when I was 90% done when my PS stopped working and closed itself – and I havent been able to save anything!

I had to sleep it off before I worked on it again. I was so angry at myself

They have an offer going on with a discount on this bundle:

Who would have thought that this was actually a maternity/pregnancy kit?

This was taken when we took a good friend out for lunch and coffee and she happens to be an online friend and Martha’s godmother. I have been friends with her since 2005 and I am happy that our friendship is still going strong. I even scored an amazing deal with her iPhone last month (it is now an unlocked phone). Add to that all the other big favors and I am really thankful for her and her friendship!

Credits:
Here We Grow! by Dani Mogstad
Cindy Schneider Template Set 45
Traci Reed Kleen Stitches
Fonts: CK Regal, Teen
(Brush from Fee Jardine’s Happy Days)

But it really is!

I have always loved Dani Mogstad’s work, her color palettes are always a knock out and her elements are one of a kind.

What would be a page about my guy if there will no page about my boy? I scrapped about him a lot this past week – I was trying to finish his second grade album (he is just about to end third grade!) and I am 75% done. I would not do it again though – a few spreads per school year will be in his album since 1) It takes a lot of work 2) It’s impractical and 3) His sister is going to be in school next school year and I know I would not be able to keep up! I just need to have an album done because he participated in a lot of school activities that year.

I had my son when I was two months short of turning 20, so I didn’t have any health care insurance nor life insurance. I am thinking of getting my life insurance quote soon – he is turning 10 and me 30 by the end of the year so I better start now!

Here are his pages, more to come!

I have been scrapping a lot of boy layouts lately. I did some rearranging on my scrapbooks a few days ago and realized with a pang of guilt that my son is so much behind on pages compared to my daughter, not that he has been cooperating lately. He has been in school for most of the day for the past two years and it is just so easy to take pictures and just “be with” my little princess. My husband also has about 10 pages out of the 600 I have printed – so I told myself I need to try to make pages about them.

Making pages about my husband is harder, since I always seem to be lost for words, and everyday life with him is far and few in between because he works in the city. So I just scrapped what felt like scrapping, after all, this guy – he doesn’t give me the whole world at my feet – no diamonds, no shoes, no bags no fancy dinners, but he gives me himself, focus and all. I doubt few men can offer themselves up like that. And for that I am grateful. After all, before we had kids, he was my everything.

Have you scrapped the men in your life lately?