She is known by the family for her love for cell phones.  Everyone knows that if you retire a cell phone, a very eager 5 year old will be your best friend for life is you pass down your old one.  She is obssessed with every aspect of them, but most importantly they must have the ability to charge.  So when we got new cell phones in our house (mine is on some 7-47 flying high somewhere in the US and Marty’s was as ancient as mine)  we upgraded.  I honestly think I was more excited for this girl who couldn’t quit asking if Daddy’s phone would belong to her.  Pretty sure she asked me 15 times before we left the store as if every time she thought we must have changed our mind.                                           She carried it with her everywhere for the first couple days and even slept with it.  This shot was the morning after and she had the phone clipped to her waistband of her pj’s as she decided coloring was better than breakfast.   Later that day, I found her sitting and waiting by it’s side as it charged.  I told her she might as well play while it charged, but she didn’t want to.  She wanted to wait for it.    I walked away with a smile.

We’ve been at soccer all morning.  Glad to be home because we had coats, scarves, mitteens and blankets….brrrrr.  Hope you can find a way to celebrate the day.  I know there are LOTS of shopping specials out there and it’s a great day to treat yourself.  I’m going to do some  myself.    I was just browsing around Designer Digitals. I have been working with them for about a year now and getting to know the digital side of this industry a bit better all the time.   I must say it’s a whole new world I am really impressed by what amazing ways you can incorporate digital in with your scrapbooking.  I keep trying a few new things here and there.   It’s pretty addicting.   They are running a special sale this weekend, with  coupon code  148694, you can get 30% off.  The sale runs through Tuesday at 6am EST.   Several of my Art Warehouse designs, scrapbook and stamp, are available now at Designer Digitals in digital format with my best selling Swatchbook art coming soon.  I am always so amazed at what beautiful things are digitally produced.   If you have used anything in your creations, I would love to see.  Also,  if you have a request for something in my Art Warehouse collections that you’d like to see in digital, let me know, I’d love to hear your requests.  Also, in honor of National Scrapbook Day, everything is 20% off at www.justneedit.com through midnight tonight.  All Art Warheouse Scrapbook and Stamp, as well as Creative Cafe.       Enter code NSD to get the 20% off.   The perfect day to treat yourself.   Speaking of treats , the girls have asked to visit the local “old fashioned” ice cream parlor in town this afternoon with friends.  So we’re going to make a visit there later today.    Bring on the calories….  Have a great day of shopping and creating! 

I can not believe what a blur this month has been.  Last time I updated my blog I was in Nashville, seems like yesterday.  I came home to craziness and then brought home a nice bug that I think I maybe is finally gone. What a beautiful place the Scrap Etc Event was held,  the Gaylord Resort and even better was the company.  We met some really great women and I got to see old friends including all the girls from Scrap Etc, Monique and Lucy, spent LOTS of time with Britney in the storage room (waving hi Britney).  Heidi and Janet were teaching, as well as Jenni.   I even got the chance to sit in on Jenni’s class, she’s a doll.    Funny story, but did you know that while Kristi was talking in class, the interpreter had to have a stand in for a bit so she could rest her hands.  For those of you who have ever heard Kristi talk, you know why…;)   I loved spending time with Melodee and Kristi even though we didn’t even have the chance to sit down for a nice meal at one the many great restaurants at the Gaylord.             We spent a lot of time with Britney, thanks for all your help!    Wednesday night I had the pleasure of traveling to Scrappacino.  If you are ever in the Nashville area, it’s a great store to visit.  Lola and the girls there will be sure to treat you right.  Melodee and I each taught a class there and i LOVED getting to see some familiar faces.   I wish we had more time, but isn’t that always the case?   Lola made us the yummiest dinner which hit the spot after traveling.  Thanks Lola!    I called late Saturday night to arrange to fly “confirmed standy” with the hopes of getting home 4 hours early and suprising everyone.  So after waking to leave the hotel at 3 am, we all set off for the airport.  I made the first leg of my flight to Dallas and called home just I would have when arriving to the airport with my original flight plans.  The very first thing Marty said was, what airport are you in?  Hoping not to spoil my surprise, I said…well, I’m in Nashville, where would I be?  He said, but the airline says you’re in Dallas.”  He’d logged in to my American Airlines account to check on my flight info and spoiled my surprise.  I was stunned he knew…and totally disappointed, not sure why i should be surprised because I can never get anything past him.   He has some flight tracker software that he likes to follow, knows if I’m sitting on the runway for 5 hours.  I know it’s usually a good thing.  At least he hadn’t spoiled it for the girls, but honestly I mostly wanted to surprise him.  Needless to say I did make it home early.     I came home to McK with the croup and Laney with strep throat.    So I think it was good to have mom home, even though Dad does such a good job while I’m gone.  We are lucky he’s a good Mr. Mom.    The next day McK had Kindergarten Round Up  (which honestly I had totally forgotten about) …I’m still in a bit of denial that she’s going to be gone all day come August.  The decision was just made to change from 1/2 day Kindergarten to full day Kindergarten for next year and I think this sentimental mom feels a little sad.  They grow up too fast and honestly I don’t feel it’s needed.  Call me old-fashioned.  The rest of the days have been busy with soccer for McKinley, Kindergarten Screening, running to dance practices, pruning the yard and flower beds, finishing up a bunch of new product designs and getting over a nasty bug that I decided to catch.  I FINALLY feel like I am coming up for air. which…feels…so….good.       I am looking forward to the the last month of school and summer.  I sure hope it goes slowly, so we can enjoy it.   I just want to sit back and enjoy some of it, don’t you think?      So what do you think of this?  I can tell you what I think.  I should be there RIGHT now.    I saw this earlier today and…   I’m  finding it hard NOT to think about being there….        I wish we were headed there today.   What a gorgeous spot and to think this will be a spot for a retreat, a scrapbook retreat.   I absolutely can’t wait to sit on this beach and to think that we’ll be beachside for workshops and for a tiki barbecue.  I will have more to share about this…in the weeks to come, but I just wanted to share the link to registration.  I heard that spots are filling up.    Do you think they will save me a cabana?  Is that how you spell that?    I will be finding myself a spot to soak in the sun here.   The girls at K2 Scrapbook Studio who are hosting this event are planning quite the set up.  Wow is all I can say.    All the details can be seen here.   This is the resort.  I have been here to just drool a little.

I woke up this morning in Nashville and realized I think that I just got 8 hours of sleep, in one of the most amazing beds and it felt sooooo good.  I have been averaging 4 hours a night since Easter I think.   So that might explain why I have been absent.  I think I could hold up in this room and that bed for 4 days and truly love it….lol.BUT…not the next 4 days because I’m going to be at Scrap Etc event in a few hours, at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel then over to Scrappacino tonight for a workshop.  It looks to be a great few days, so I’ll just have to save my little dream sleep fest for another time.         Can you believe over 600 coming, pretty cool.   Still some preparations yet to do.  Lots of product coming in, and we’re excited for our evening sessions.  We’ll be seeing almost 1/2 of the group at once, can you believe?  I think if I weren’t looking forward to it so much, I just might be nervous.  Here’s a photo of one of the projects I’m bringing.  It’s a Family Circle Journal.  I graffiti’d up this CCafe journal with full sheets of rub ons, so fast and easy.             It’s  a little book for writing  notes to other family members.  After writing in it,  you leave it in a special place for the other to fine.  Then you pass it on to someone else with a happy note.  My goal with this journal is to encourage each other through thoughtful notes, telling each other the things we might not otherwise say.  I think sometimes we will write things down what never gets said otherwise.    I wrote a little note to Laney because she often doesn’t think playing with her little 5 year old sister is the “most fun” option for her day, sometimes.   But, on this day, the girls had been really getting on to each other’s nerves,  and mine,  and so they ended up with a list of jobs to do from me,  together.    They know there were in a little bit of trouble by the size of my list.  But as soon as they were done with their work, I wondered where they escaped to so quietly.      This is where I found them.                    and this is what I wrote later to Delaney.           She passed it on to Dad with this.                     This morning, I was  working on some pieces for Scrap Etc and browsing my photos when I came across something that cracks me up.       This is what a mom wants to remember of her dear sweet children from Easter.            and then you find this photo              Maybe a bit more the reality… perhaps?   Looking at the series of shots before this one and after is even more hilarious and telling of that day.  The girls had cousins in the house and were DEFINITELY NOT interested in stopping what they had in mind to be in a picture.   I love that I have this in a picture  because I can tell you that this is one image that is truly a part of life as we know it… and I’m glad to be able to look back and remember it all.     Have a great day everyone.    

  Our strawberry girl… she has loved them since I can remember.       If there is a strawberry on it, she wants it.  She has 2 strawberry swim suits and one set of strawberry wooden clogs.  The Easter Bunny left this umbrella and boots in her Easter basket, thank goodness he figured out that the boots turned upside down would fit and umbrella too.    I love knowing that she’s wearing her ballet slippers inside the boots.  ( Easter bunny knows how fast kids grow, so they needed a little extra fitting inside, thus the ballet shoes)            If there is a strawberry in the house, she eats it.   It’s not uncommon for her to eat 2 lbs. at one sitting, on average, sometimes more.  The kid is going to turn in to a strawberry.   She could do this 4 days in a row.  It’s not only strawberries that she loves, but any kind of fruit.   A normal day easily includes 8 servings of fruit or more.   If we’re not stocked with fruit, we’re in trouble.                BTW, she dresses herself.  Nice combination here don’t you think?   Can you believe that she is not even in school yet by the looks of those long legs?  Can’t believe how tall she looks in these pictures.  I wish personally that this was an optical illusion, but unfortunately she is just growing faster than I approve of.     Wish she was feeling like eating those strawberries tonight.   Poor thing has the tummy bug, so I’m sleeping on the floor with her in the family room tonight and sneaking in a catch up blog post as I can.     I apologize for being MIA for so long it seems.     I have been slammed with so much going on…and I keep trying to make it here EVERYDAY and even getting a few extra nudges to get my fanny here too, thanks those of you who have let me know I’ve been gone too long.      Since Easter I have been on a sprint all day long and then back at it until late at night.  Last night I was going check in on my blog at about 2 am and decided maybe a little sleep would be smarter.   The weather here has been super depressing with more than a week of no sun…blech.  I can’t honestly remember the last time I prayed for the sun to show it’s face.  It’s all anybody can talk about, we’re so ready for spring.  Days and days of mist, rain and dreary clouds.  Delaney and I decided to focus our minds on how green everything would be once this all passed.       I have been super busy with work, new designs, some surprises,   some SUPER cool events this year, can you say BEAUTIFUL SETTINGS that are so worth checking in to.  I can’t wait to go myself.  I think that’s another blog post in itself for maybe tomorrow?  Question is… will she be back??  Let’s make that a goal.    Back to my sweet little strawberry girl      

The other night, the 4 of us sat in the living room with the tv off.  We love to watch tv as a family, but lately we have been shutting it off more.  I personally love the quiet, the girls hate it, but I think it’s good for them to learn to enjoy it, not going to be easy for one of them.   I don’t know why we ended up there.  Think we started talking in the kitchen and wondered to the living room.    

We were talking about the cats.       Marty and the girls spend a great deal of time outside, down at the barn and shop with the cats.  I try to keep up with all of their names they give them and the stories, but I have noticed lately that it’s getting really hard.  I think at times we’ve had more than 20 at once.  I can still remember the first one we brought home when we first moved here.  Her name was Pretty and she was Laney’s first cat.  Laney  was 2 1/2 then, such sweet memories of those days and our first kitty on the farm.     

The other day I realized that I have been stopping to reminisce a lot, much more so than usual, involving the girls and taking the time to enjoy it and talk to them about it.  It’s shocking to me what I find they remember and then also what I find they don’t remember.  Scares me a bit, which is also good I think in some ways.  Makes me want to slow down (if ever that might be possible.)  Actually I think it’s  possible perhaps only with intention to do so, to soak it in deeper and savor it maybe just a tad bit more?    

So we were talking about all the cats we’ve had, the most memorable, the unpopular ones,  laughing at the names, and their personalities, letting each of the girls talk, something which is somewhat hard in this house because we have ONE that wants to have all of the air time.   Even though Mck’s only 5, we had a hard time remembering all the kitties that have graced our barn and shop since she’s been active with them.  Some of them special kitties and some “not so special” kitties.  So many funny stories in the lot.    Lots of kitties go missing, but we live on the river and we have always talked about how kitties just decide to go exploring and sometimes don’t come back.  I think McK is starting to pick up on that just a bit.

The have experienced special cats who have died and it’s been tough.   I do think those experiences will prove beneficial as time goes by.  We recently lost our most beloved dog Tangy, who had been with us since before the girls.  She also has been much talked about since she has gone.

I realized before long, the girls would be 18 and 14 and we will  have forgotten all of the animals since we even had a hard time remembering back more than a few years.   So I grabbed a sticky note and started the list of all we could remember.  I’m going to put it in my photo journal so we’ll have it in there, but we also decided to get a notebook for the guys to keep at the shop and record the “day to day” cat antics in more detail.  But I see a scrapbook of some sorts on the horizon soon, a super simple one. 

I laugh every time we talk about the cats because of some of the names they are given.  It’s obvious that we are not going to win any awards for creative in the naming process.   I think that’s one of the girls’ favorites is naming the baby kitties and all the discussion of what is the best name. Of course you have to wait until their full personalities start to show up, but I have noticed most often the names follow some physical trait of the cat such as Brokefoot and Halftail or Mudface. 

Here’s our list of all the ones we could remember: 

• Calli
• Pretty
• Furball
• Brokefoot
• Queso
• Midnight
• Halftail (name given by the guys)  a.k.a Haffy Laffy Taffy (nickname given by the one who enjoys hearing herself talk)
• Chainsaw  (name after chewing through a glove on a hand that tried to pet him)
• Lanky
• Freckles
• Spot
• Mudface
• Bit  (Swedish for Fat-Delaney thought naming a cat fat might hurt his self-esteem so she wanted us to disguise it in Swedish so she called her grandpa for the Swedish version)
• Zig Zag   a.k.a  Ziggy   (named by McK because of the zig zag on the tail…she’s the only one that really saw the zig zag, but we never had the heart to tell her any different)
• Momma Kitty  (she’s been here since the very beginning and is a veteran, yet she’s still having litters.  Delaney says she’s quite sure that she can’t possibly have any more)  we’ll soon see if that is the case
• Salt
• Pepper  (brother to Salt)
• Zorro  (the only one that gets to come in the house)
• White Lip
• Fal Al  (named after one of Marty’s H.S. classmates, apparently that is what everyone called him even his friends)
• Lynette  (Fat Al’s girlfriend from H.S)   I thought these names seemed a bit odd and so when I cornerd him about them and found out the story, I rolled my eyes and ask him to refer to them as Al and Lynette for the girls sake.   Honestly Men are nothing more than big kids…at play.
• Possum
• Blackie
• Dishwater
• My Kitty  (McK names this one also and we didn’t realize that she wanted that to be the official name.  We all just thought she was taking that one for her own special friend.   Each time she talked about it, we would get the giggles for how serious she was.  So. . . she decided that “MY KITTY” was not a proper name (since she picked up on our giggles) and so she renamed him several times.  But the name stuck anyway and so it stayed, except I heard my kitty is also referred to as “bugar” and Marty said that one really needed no explanation.
• Tommy- He only comes around for some food occasionally and to check out the girls for dating, which he does a LOT of, according to Marty.  However, we like that he’s a very good looking thing, mostly all black with a little white, so he’s helped make our cats a whole lot cuter)

Delaney and I browsed some of the photos I have on the computer of the cats and found a few of our favorites.  This one I think I have posted before, but another of those “eyes closed” ones.   I can say without a doubt that this girl gets more confidence and self-esteem from 5 seconds with her animals than anything else in her world.  The love she finds in their companionship is immeasurable.  

Since she was tiny, she has followed the cats EVERYWHERE on the farm and they love her.  She carries them and they never seem to mind.   I have always loved this photo in particular for some reason. 

 She’s rubbing a golf ball on this one’s back as if he’s going to enjoy that. . .

I know this cat in this photo was a favorite, but I can’t think of it’s name.  I’ll have to ask the Marty and see if he can remember this one. 

 Laney at the age McK is now. . . I can hardly believe.

 This is Ziggy again below with Laney and maybe this is why I’m reminiscing so much.  How did this girl grow up so fast?

Seems that the cats have been a big topic of discussion lately, more so than usual.  I enjoy that the girls love to talk about their cats all the time.  The funny thing is, so does their dad.  Since it’s spring or since spring seems to be just around the corner, the cats have been busy in the yard, one reason they are getting so much attention.

 You have to be creative with your word choices to selectively explain animals behaviors to the girls sometimes.  For example, a mommy cat has babies after she has been on a date with a boy cat, somewhere along the line that became the story.  Well lately,  there has been a lot of dating going on, down at the shop and barn.   

Zig Zag, who McK was snuggling with in the photos in this post , is one of the few cats who hangs around up at the house.  I think she does so, to be as close as she can to McKinley and any attention she might garner there.  I have always thought she was a little “slow,” and not 100% normal.  She just too laid back and has issues with her eyes, seems to lack a certain basic amount of animal intelligence.   BUT…as you know, McK adores her, so we dont’ pick on Ziggy too much.    

Marty came in today to tell me that Ziggy has been “playing the field” a lot.  I was rushing around the house, not paying too much attention, but stopped to figure out what he was talking about.  So he said, “Ziggy’s been on a LOT of dates lately” and he gave me the long list of suitors with that smirk on his face.  I was glad that it was just the two of us in the house at the time, so I didn’t have to consider how I was going to explain that one to the girls.   

 I think Delaney is getting old enough that her wheels are spinning.  I totally giggled under my breath  another time  when I heard Marty try to explain how one of the mommy cat’s boyfriend’s happened to be her brother, when Delaney overheard Marty mention that to another adult.   Delaney, who is actually very smart and doesn’t miss a bit of eaves dropping in on a conversation, had the worst look on her face I think I have ever seen and we can thank her father for that one.    

If anyone is in the need for kitties, I think we’ll have our fair share before long, not that McKinley thinks any amount of kitties is enough.     

Spent the day yesterday in my office working on art and getting caught up with my photos.  Since I’m trying to develop a relationship with my new camera, which means just spending a lot of time with it.  I’ve had a lot more photos to keep up with it seems and I can get behind SO EASILY.  Good and not so good.  

I always upload my photos and then watch them in a slide show format.  Not sure why, but I guess it’s my way of really enjoying them again and reliving the pieces of our everyday.  That’s probably one of the things we enjoy the most, playing all of our photos in slide show.  Somedays I’ll just let them run all day long and the girls love that. 

I’ve been  ”trying”  (the key word is try)  to focus on printing my photos for my personal photo journal, weekly and sometimes daily.  Daily would be ideal, but sometimes it becomes a weekly thing.  It’s been hard to change old habits, but something I’m trying hard to work on. 

So yesterday I was printing photos throughout the day on my most prized little “ginger” I call her and loving it.  I have a big wide format printer and yet I use ginger because she’s fast and friendly and it works for my everyday life.  Because of her, I actually get to the creative process a whole lot faster, which is huge for me.  I kept working and printing most of the day, feeling really proud of myself for it. 

The girls got home from school and we spent some time tidying up the house.  They both got some new shoes for spring/summer.  They came yesterday so they were each trying them on.  (We are SO lucky when catalog orders fit)  Pretty happy because both girls LOVED their new summer sneaks, so they were wearing them around the house with happy feet, skipping and oozing with energy and excitement.

       and then there are even more colors for $12 on closeout here.

It all helped in the fact that they both had their little bags packed because they were heading off to their first “sisters sleepover” at a friend’s house.  Delaney has had several sleepovers and they have both stayed several times at my sisters and parent’s house, also one time they have camped overnight with these friends, but never an “official” sleepover.  Just the “officialness” of it was making McKinley a little anxious, but I knew she would never have glimpse of regret. It was more than obvious how excited they were, which just makes your heart swell too, although I have to admit Mom was also a bit excited  (looking forward to a quiet dinner out with Dad, a nice quiet house and time to get a lot done.) 

So I ran upstairs to get my camera and back down to catch a photo of them leaving with their bags and big smiles.  McKinley was screaming when they were coming up the drive she was so beside herself.Well, I realized about 5 minutes AFTER they had pulled out of the drive that my photos I had quickly snapped of them leaving, were going to have to only remain in my mind   ….SINCE…    my card was still up in my printer, from my good day of printing photos. . .  sigh

  The girls both had music programs this past week.  It’s always fun to see how their personalities come through in being in front of a crowd.  Delaney has always liked performing, but she’s getting to the age of being conscientious of other’s watching her.  Never been a problem before, believe me…she LOVES attention.  So it will be interesting to see if she continues to like to be on stage.  She loves everything musical  except she would just as soon take piano lessons and practice only the day before her next lesson.  She’s working on songs for her recital and I usually play a couple of duets with her.  Last night we were working on asome for the first time this spring and it seems that her songs are getting hard enough that I’m going to have to practice to know my part…where as in the past, it’s been pretty easy for me to just pick up the book and play with her on anything.  Hmmm…wasn’t planning on that  this soon.    Here’s Delaney at her program playing the cymbals with the group.  She said they have to “try out” to play the extra instruments.  

Mck’s pre-school is part of a church program and so they sang on Sunday for the service.  There is nothing sweeter than watching 4 and 5 year olds sing  church songs.  McK is a polar opposite from Laney when it comes to singing.  She gets anxious about it coming close and really would just as soon not be in front of a crowd.  You can never tell it from watching her, she is so shy and really doesn’t like being in front of a lot of people (she gets that one from her dad 100%.)  But even though she probably told me 10 times she didn’t want to sing, she was such a trooper through it all.  How could I possibly let her not sing and miss this?   Can I just keep her this age forever?                  

After the program we had lunch.  McKinley loves those marshmallow PEEPS, so we took some cupcakes that she approved of.   (They have PEEPS of every color at Target.  So cute.)  She was worried that she wouldn’t get to have one of the pink PEEPS, so she asked me to save one for her.   She was pretty concerned about that before she sang.  

There were plenty of pink PEEPS for her when we went through the line, but she fully intended on only eating the PEEP and and didn’t  touch any part of the cupcake.  She really doesn’t like any desserts because they are too sweet, yet she’ll devour a marshmallow PEEP, go figure.  

It was a GORGEOUS spring day and on the way home.   You could tell that the natives were getting wild and excited to get outside.  McKinley colored on the way home and Laney made me promise “not” to take her picture,  granted she was behind me in the seat so she got lucky.  Even though the drive is all of 10 minutes, she HAD to color as if she couldn’t sit for a short drive. 

Once home, both girls jumped out of the car and ran off to play in their church clothes.  Delaney had on her flip flops and McK was jealous.  I’m not the kind of mom to let my child sing in church, in flip flops.  Now older sister, who was just coming along to watch, that’s a different story, thus why the flip flop issue.  

Then McK, you can see in this picture below, started to spin her wheels a bit on something other than her sister’s flip flops.                  

She spotted something off in the distance from the porch.  I had told her that I wanted to take a couple of pictures, but she had other ideas brewing.  So she was there all of about 5 seconds…for these couple photos and then GONE        

and this is what came next…the coat was tossed to me and 5 seconds later this  

So when McK hit the swings, I tried to get some pictures of my anti camera child.  It’s a recent phase for some reason.  This is pretty much what I got.  Her back to me.   and then lots of this…8 year old (9 in two weeks) girl in sundress and flip flops playing BBall.     

On the swings,  Mck spotted her BESTEST BUDDY ziggy and ran to pick him up.  She gave him the usual “mckinley cat grip” which is a flip and a twist upside down, so she can pet them appropriately and there is no getting out of this grip of hers…hilarious really.  But we are discovering that ziggy is not the little kitty cat she has always been.  She’s getting pretty big now.  There is truly something of a love affair between these two.  She will just stand and hold him for minutes and squeeze and love him with her eyes closed.   I have probably 100 photos of her with ziggy with her eyes closed.   I would give a million dollars to know what she is thinking when those eyes are closed. 

                All the while Delaney was playing basketball, but when Delaney went to pet Zorro, then McKinley snuck in to get Laney’s ball, in a blink.  She’s fast.        

So she insisted on shooting the ball anyway regardless of what her sister had to say.  Kind of funny to watch her shoot because she throws it up and then stands there,  ducking afraid she’s going to get hit, instead of getting out of the way or looking up, she ducks every time.  

Laney made sure to get the ball back at that point and proceeded to sputter out a bunch of verbal banter (very Laney) and Mck just snuck back off to get Ziggy as if she had gotten away with so much.  

This is truly the back and forth game they play.  I just laugh at these last 2 photos because they sum up a great deal of the dynamics between them.  That finger and that smirk on Mckinley’s face…sometimes you just have to smile about it.

    

  of the happy hour project from Memory Mania.   The video had some issues uploading, might just be a tad big, but there’s been some issues with it.  We’ll get that worked out, but in the meantime, here are some images.Simple little 10 minute project that we’re going to give to Grandma for Mother’s day.  Good thing Grandma isn’t a blog reader huh?  One envelope holds photos of the whole gang together at Christmas (she hasn’t seen those photos yet and she will love them.)  The second envelope holds some sweet little pictures the girls made for her.  The last envelope will hold a note from each grandchild and maybe even the rest of the family.  We’ll be together for Easter and that should be a good time to beg those off the rest of the family…;)  I printed 7 4×6 sheets of index size photos to include.  I love that they show a frame by frame of true personalities.           I used a scallop scissors on the envelopes, and can’t live without my industrial corner rounder on the chipboard covers.  Kits for this project can still be purchased from the gals at Memory Mania.  We enjoyed having a chat tonight with people from all over the US doing this project.  We’ll be posting the finished projects in the gallery here.   I’ll be finishing this now with photos and then we’ll have a follow up chat after everyone is done and can share.  So watch for details of that to come.  But here are what the papers and ingredients in the kit look like.