A Boy & His Bear

Ni-Night Bear has successfully made it through the washing machine yet again. He lost his mouth and nose in a previous washing, but Evan doesn't seem to mind at all.  True friends can overlook those little things. 

I couldn't resist snapping a picture of Evan and Ni-Night Bear watching a  Signing Time DVD together yesterday. Evan looks pretty comfy with his sippy cup of almond milk and his best bear. They remind me of Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin.

A Boy & His Bear

Big Box

Evan has been having such a good time playing in the new freezer box.  Terry cut it in half, added a door and a window.  Who knew a box was the best toy ever? :)

My Little Hopper

Christmas time--it's the most wonderfully BUSY time of the year. Today, my 'to do list' includes baking cookies and making Christmas cards. I decided that I would take a little time out from all the hub-bub this morning and open up My Digital Studio. It's such a nice way to start the day. Plus I still have plenty of time to make my Christmas Cards, right?! EEEEK!~


This particular page was made using the sketch challenge from SUDSOL. (yep, I finally took the plunge and became a full fledged member!) I'm having such a great time looking through their gallery and participating in their challenges. I wonder why I didn't do join years ago. :)

Here's Evan again. I think he's outgrowing his favorite place--my stove drawer. I swear I can watch him grow right now just looking at him. All of a sudden, he is a big boy. Where did my baby go? ♥

Sweet Little One

My new great niece, Shannon . I think she is just the most gorgeous baby.

I have a request. My niece, Lindsey and baby Shannon had to say good-bye to Shannon's daddy last night. He will spend the next month at Fort McCoy and then will be deployed to Afghanistan for the next year. Ryan, Shannon's daddy, was allowed to be home for 48 hours for his daughter's birth.

Lindsey just turned 20 yesterday, has a brand new baby and a husband that will be gone for the next year.
If you could send her a card congratulating her on the new baby or a thinking of her while Ryan is away I would really appreciate it and so would she.

Please email me at stampiepoo@gmail.com and I will send you her address.

Introducing.....

♥♥♥Miss Shannon Rose Pishion♥♥♥

My niece, Lindsey had her baby yesterday afternoon. I couldn't wait to make a PINK scrapbook layout to introduce her to all of you....

Congratulations Ryan and Lindsey. She's beautiful!

****I edited this post to add another picture with a different font. I couldn't tell until after I posted how light the original writing was on the first scrapbook page.

I LOVE My Digital Studio. A couple keystrokes and new font and unlike traditional scrapbooking--no wasted cardstock! :)

Ketchup--Food or Fingerpaint

Evan has a new love--ketchup. Ketchup makes all foods worthy of eating. Without it, few foods will make it into this toddler's tummy. Evan loves to dunk his fries and hamburger in ketchup.
He loves to run his finger through the ketchup and lick it off. BUT most of all, Evan loves to fingerpaint with the ketchup. He made a lot of abstract art on his highchair tray during lunch today. Some moms would say he's simply playing with his food, but how can you be sure? Picasso could have gotten his start w/ ketchup art. LOL

Shameless product plug......
Do you like the colors I used? I didn't think of it on my own. (yep, I'm strong enough to admit this. LOL) I used the COOLEST NEW TOOL that Stampin' Up! has in their 2010-11 Idea Book & Catalog--The Color Coach! It is awesome. I would highly recommend to everyone that does any kind of scrapbooking, papercrafting or cardmaking.

Evan's Computer Time

Evan has always loved the computer. But now he is finally big enough to climb up into the computer chair. Every time we leave the room, we come back to find Evan plunking away on the keyboard looking ohhhh so serious. It is really hard for me not to laugh (or take pictures) of Evan surfing the web, checking his email and updating his Facebook status. Honestly though, I need to nip this in the bud--he makes screens and options come up on the computer that I have no idea how to fix!!! Yep, he's 20 months old and more computer savvy than his mom. LOL

Just doing a little INVENTORY....

Evan loves unloading my baking drawer almost each and every day. Most days he takes out each and every piece. Once upon a time it made me upset that I spent so much time repacking and often times rewashing every thing in this drawer. Now I can't help but smile when I see my baking pans scattered across the floor, because I know that Evan is enjoying doing a little inventory. :)

Dirt Digger

This afternoon, Terry, Evan and I worked on a flowerbed behind the garage. Last fall, we transplanted a few hostas along the backside of my garage when we built Evan's room on the side of the house where my hostas had been. Well...it was a good thing probably to move them. We separated 5 hostas and now have 14!!

Today was the first time Evan had played in the dirt. Last summer, he would eat the dirt, grass, weeds and everything else outside. Needless to say, outside time was limited when you had to dig all kinds of 'goodies' out of his mouth. He sat and he played in the dirt for about an hour and a half this afternoon. Evan was such a good boy. Yeah, he buried himself in dirt, but he didn't uproot any hostas and stayed right with me.

He was FILTHY!! He had dirt EVERYWHERE and I do mean everywhere....including a whole diaper full. He went straight from the flowerbed to the bathtub! He was MAD--he loves 'dirt diggin'!


Made using: Stampin' Up! My Digital Studio (love it!)

CinderEvan

The Royal Blog Tour is almost here! Are you ready? Cinderella--I mean CinderEvan has been dutifully working to finish all his chores so he can ride the Royal Coach to all the Castles along the paths. We hope to bump into you along the way!

The Whipped Cream Addiction

Dinnertime at my house is always something of an event if my husband, Terry is home. Evan absolutely adores him...

Can you guess why?

Dani and Evan

Today, I was creating with my Stampin' Up! My Digital Studio. I know that I have talked about two of my children on my blog occasionally, but feel that I have neglected to tell you about oldest daughter, Dani. She and Evan are 16 years and 17 days apart in age, but I have to tell you that I was amazed that from the very start she has taken to the little guy. And as you can see from the photos, he is quite fond of her as well.
I have a lot of pictures of Dani as a little girl, but as she got older she wasn't quite as into posing for photos as I would've liked so it is a rare occasion I get pictures of her to share.
Well the nice thing about Evan is he is a great distraction and I took advantage of that and got some really priceless photos to keep and share.
MDS is going to be a lifesaver. Dani graduates high school in 13 months. Yikes! Where did that time go? Anyway, I have a lot of scrapbooking I would like to finish before then. I know that this page was made in about 5 minutes so if I sit down and sneak a couple in here and there it won't take long to make an album just for her. :)

Now it's FINISHED...

Last night, there was just something about the Fall Layout I didn't like. This morning, I decided to take one more stab at it before I put it in Evan's album.

So I took off the photo corners, straightened the main image, paper pierced around the pumpkin pie dsp, journaled and I added the words "No seriously--you are" from the retired Absolutely Fabulous set.

Did I do the right thing revamping it?

Fall Scrapbook Page Challenge #33

I participated in the StampinUpLNS challenge this week. It was to design a fall scrapbook page using all current SU! products. I had just the pictures for this challenge! My daughter, Dani took these pictures of Evan back in June. He was so good to put up w/ her.

I decided for this challenge to do a progressive page, so no matter what size album....this layout has them all!

8 X 8

8 1/2 X 11

12 X 12

I love the little tag and clip!

My punched pumpkin using wide ovals, 5 petal flower, a little handcut stem, and a SKINNY piece of cardstock! :)
Recipe:

Stamps: The More The Merrier

Stampin' Write Markers: Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Close to Cocoa

Ink: Basic Black, Chocolate Chip

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Ballet Blue, Garden Green, Very Vanilla

DSP: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie

Accessories: Chocolate Chip ribbon, silver brads, rhinestone brads, wide oval punch, 5 petal flower punch, word window punch, photo corners punch, scallop edge punch, modern label punch, clip

SU! LNS Challenge #32

The challenge for this week was to take a project in the current SU! Catalog CASE it just a little different. I'm a professional CASEr so this was just the challenge for me. My first challenge and my first try at watercoloring...I might add!

I took the scrapbook layout on page 90 of the catalog using the Sock Monkey set.

- I used the Pun Fun set.

- I changed the colors (pumpkin pie, bashful blue, old olive and close to cocoa)

- I flipped the layout over

- I left the old olive rectangle as a journaling block

- I used stars, a rhinestone brad and bashful blue and pumpkin pie ribbon.

AND FINALLY

- I used the CUTEST LITTLE BOY'S Photos. Mr. Evan! :)