Rainbow Flower Big Sister Layout

This layout from earlier in the year (I did it right around the time my maternity leave ended) looks like a rainbow exploded on the page. Ha. I wanted to use up some of the Prima flowers I'd gotten a few years before. I also did this layout during a big watercolor phase, so I used various colors of Glimmer Mist to watercolor the background.







New Year's eve tonight . . . we'll be our usual fuddy-duddy selves and likely be asleep before midnight even rolls around! Just kidding, we're not fuddy-duddies, we're parents of young kids. Just kidding, we already did that before we had kids. Ha.

Parker at 10 Months Old

Parker turned 10 months near the beginning of December.

Fun in the laundry basket. It was good for containing him for a bit too, while we were sorting laundry:


Baby-height bar at the Children's Museum:


At Peter Piper Pizza, killing time at a 4-year-old's birthday party:


Grocery store:


Hello Kitty robe belonging to Evelyn. It's so big on him, ha:


Fell asleep on the plane ride to Florida:


With Mikey:


Swinging, Maclay Gardens in Tallahassee:

• At first, Parker could get himself to a standing position, but didn't know how to get back down. Now, he can get himself down.
• Got more teeth (number 5).
• Had another ear infection. his third one (and course of antibiotics to go with it, gah). Evie hardly had any.
• Went on a trip to Tallahassee and Orlando over Thanksgiving through the first week of December. We spent Thanksgiving with our friends in Tallahassee, and then during the first week of December when Greg and I were at a work training, both Parker and Evie stayed behind with our friends until the weekend, when our friends carted both our kids and their own four kids down to Orlando. We hit up DisneyWorld the Friday and Saturday. Props to the wife, Mikah, who at certain points had all six kids by herself during the day.
• While Greg and I were still in Tallahassee over Thanksgiving, Parker was actually kind of a little jerk when it came to bed time (crying and crying before falling asleep), when normally at home he is the most chill at bedtime. We suspect it was the time difference.

Birthday Bitty Bag

As part of sending some goodies to a snail mail crafty pen pal, I wanted to package it up cute, rather than just throwing stuff into a padded envelope (not that I haven't done that before, but still. Starting with a black Diagonal Striped Bigger Bitty Bag, I embellished it with a black Sweet Sticky Label and silver Metallic Divine Twine, along with some doilies, washi tape, and other embellishments.





See this project on the Whisker Graphics blog here: Sweet and Simple Gift Wrap

SUPPLIES:

Paper: Bazzill Basics silver foil cardstock
Embellishments: mini doilies; black Sweet Sticky Label; silver Metallic Divine Twine; Pinkfresh Studio washi tape, mt washi tape, clear button
Stamps: Mama Elephant Happy Everything stamps and die
Tools: Glue dot (to secure the clear button); Cuttlebug
Ink: Tsukineko Tuxedo Black ink
Other: black Diagonal Striped Bigger Bitty Bag