1st Dentist Visit

It was Ethan's first visit to the dentist and I must admit I was quite nervous it won't turn out good. Even though I told him several times about this visit, as soon as we've reached the hospital's lobby, he was already asking me why does he have to go to a hospital when he's not at all sick! I reminded him that this is a dentist visit and he needs his teeth cleaned and checked. When we reached the dentist's clinic, he saw Dra. Sheryl Borja, who is also a friend of ours and a mom of Ethan's classmate. Sheryl was wearing a white lab gown and immediately Ethan associated that with a doctor, I saw panic in his eyes and in his voice too! He asked his Tita Sheryl why was she wearing that. He's not used to seeing her Tita Sheryl in that attire. I was thinking that we're doomed. But I was all wrong ... just take a look at the photos.

 

It has been more than a year since I created a spread layout. It was a good exercise to keeping this layout simple and keeping the embellishments to a minimum : ) The photos were taken using a cell phone. I just don't have the guts to carry my SLR at the clinic. But I realized now that I wanted to bring it next time to take more good photos.

To make the face, I used my bookplates that I have hoarded and placed googly eyes and brads as ears. For the nose and mouth, I cut an "apostrophe" into two from my AC Thickers : )

materials used: Bazzill cs, Daisy Bucket Monster parade and Kaisercrafts papers, bookplates, buttons, Shabby Green Door baker's twine, American Crafts Thickers, googly eyes, Making Memories button brads

-Pia

Recycled

Remember this layout I made two years ago? I initially tried a 6x12 format then but later on realized it wasn't workable for me. I wasn't able to buy a 6x12 album and so may 6x12 layouts were left inserted inside my 12x12 albums. They didn't fit well as expected.

When I saw these papers from Lily Bee, I found them to be a perfect match to my old layout. I realized that if I put my 6x12 layout on top of a 12x12 paper it'll make an instant 12x12 layout hehehe!

I just love it!

-Pia

Not So Good Photos

I bet we all have those not-so-good-photos. I guess they are not so good in a sense that they are not technically good. Probably blurred, dark or too bright or poorly composed. For photography enthusiasts like me, I feel bad whenever a very memorable photo turns out a not-so-good one. I have so many of those, most were taken using my celfone camera which gives my photos poor quality. But because these photos have a meaningful memories, I wanted to scrap them.

I had photos from my celfone printed, without any photoshop manipulation or whatsoever. I realized these everyday photos of mine are true reflections of our lives - no photoshop needed and are good as they are : )

These photos are drawings of my son. I still have a handful of photos from my celfone showing his creations and I'd definitely scrap them soon!




These photos were taken inside the car and the morning of Valentine's Day. I love that these pictures were able to capture how Ethan looks after he wakes up! : D

I used Lily Bee papers for this project which are available (locally) at Lasting Impression.

The past weekend was a productive one for me. I made three layouts and "recycled" another one. The story behind that one on my next post ; )

Title: Fave Hobby
materials used: Lily Bee Three Little Birds - Double Dutch, Die Cut frame, Bazzill cardstock, buttons, Shabby Green Door baker's twine, American Crafts Thickers, Zig pen, Chatterbox chipboard, and Prima ribbon

Title: Donut Love
materials used: Lily Bee Three Little Birds - Faded Jeans, Three Little Birds, Die Cut Frame, Rub ons, buttons, Shabby Green Door baker's twine, American Crafts Thickers and cardstock, Fancy Pants pins, Sakura, Uniball Signo and Zig pens

-Pia

Just for Statistics Sake ...

I actually didn't want to do this but I know I should. I didn't want to count how many layouts and projects I've made for the past two years because the numbers/results will only prove how unproductive I was for the past years.

Life has taken a full turn. As you all know the past years have been the worst in my scrapbooking life, I've been MIA for most of the scrapbook events, I have not scrapped as much, I've not been active in Scrapbooks Exchange and Pinoy Scrapbookers Forums, I have not been active in joining design teams and scrapbook contests and my list can go on. But one thing is for sure, I am still as scrapaholic as I am before. I haven't changed in terms of conceptualizing pages and layouts, even during sleep. I still spend my free time illustrating sketches and writing down my ideas for pages and journaling.

So just for statistics sake, I tried counting my layouts and projects. And here's what I found out. Note: I didn't count layouts/projects made for clients/friends/celebrities. I only counted layouts that I have done for myself.

2009

Layouts (12x12): 33
Projects (altered art, cards and other stuff): 6
Mini Album: 1 6x6 10 pages

2008

Layouts (12x12): 40
Layouts (6x12): 8
Projects (altered art, cards, and other stuff): 11

Todate, I have only made one layout. I have so many ideas and I'm determined to keep the number higher for this year. I'm aiming for 52 layouts assuming I can make one layout a week. Since I've only done 1 LO, I needed 6 more. I'm really hoping this year will be more productive.

-Pia