Swoon. I am in love with the colours and vintage inspiration in this new Vintage Moon scrapbooking line from Pink Paislee. I jumped at the chance to play with it for this week's upload at Shop and Crop. Our theme was "masculine layouts". A perfect excuse to get some of the zillion layouts about Jamie out of my head and onto the page!
OK, this first one is one of my milestone pages. I write at least monthly entries into my journal with observations of what Jamie's been up to. This is him at 32 months of age.
I love the Pink Paislee transparent overlays - they make the page all by themselves . All I needed to do here was add some ribbon, a couple of splashes of colour and my story. Simple! I layered some paper under the transparency scribbled my journaling onto the background paper, and then added the photo, ribbon and chipboard on top.
Journaling: I watch you as you're engrossed in your task. You're 32 months old now and can occupy yourself for quite long periods of time. This day you were playing with playdough, making "turtles" or "snakes" or some such thing. I love seeing your imagination develop. You are in love with jigsaw puzzles this month and I watch you, fascinated, as you place the pieces exactly where they belong. You have an amazing memory.
Far better than mine. You love to act out little scenes. "Jar-Jar go shop!" you declare as you pick up a bag and head to the door. On your "return" we discuss what you've bought: "rock-ben, bwee-bwees, binebabble and pears". Ah yes, you love your fruit. You count everything in sight: "bun, doo, dee, bibe, bik" you say. You always, always skip four. What is it with that? And you spontaneously break into "happy birthday to you" at various times of the day. It's always your birthday. You insist on that. You really are gorgeous. I love you! Edited to add a pic of the original overlay- just so you can see how lazy I was and how Pink Paislee have taken all the hard work out of making a scrapbooking page with these things:
And this next page - well this is the second try at scrapping these photos. So glad that I saved them when I ripped up the other page ;) because they were perfect on this:
Journaling: Grandma took these photos of you when you went to the park with them. It was the first time that you showed an interst in the camera. Normally you just run around, doing your own thing, and we have to run after you with the camera. However, Grandma tells me that this day you just lay there on the play equipment and posed for the camera. Like a supermodel.
LOL, can you tell that I was watching Make me a Supermodel is that even what it's called?) when I was making this?
So, what's new in the Link household? We're sick. LOL. Nothing new in that. I am delirious at the sign of nice weather - twenty two degrees and sunshine here today - hopefully all our bugs and viruses will dry up. I have had conjunctivitis for about three weeks - several doctors visits and three lots of drops and I am hoping that the red-eye look I've been sporting is finally going away.
Jamie and I headed off to see a speech pathologist at the beginning of the week. I am a bit concerned at the lack of clarity in his speech. His use of consonants is all over the shop and, while I'm aware that is to be expected at this stage in his development, his language just seems unclear when I see him with children of a similar age. He has so many words now and I'm finding it increasingly difficult to understand what he's saying. Anyway, we went off to see if there's anything that we can do to help.
The answer turns out to be yes. He is having a little more difficulty making his words than is expected at his age. So, we are now on a waiting list to see a speech pathologist and I am investigating getting started seeing a private provider while we wait (as long as we don't need to take out another mortgage on the house to do it!).
Have a sunny Thursday!
Kathie
