kayla aimee: only slightly neurotic

Scrapbooking : 156 Days

This is the first scrapbook page I've made in an entire year due to that pregnancy where I laid on the bathroom floor for six months and then all of the sudden had a baby. I ordered a Studio Calico kit for my birthday to help me get back on the wagon. And okay, also because we turned my old scrapbook room into Scarlette's room and so all of my supplies are in boxes in the basement. The sacrifices we make for our children, am I right?

Um, it took me forever to make that page. I was all "Stephanie scrapbooks with twin babies. I can totally scrapbook with one baby." Except that apparently, my baby hates scrapbooking as evidenced by her wailing and gnashing of teeth every time I picked up a glue dot. Did this child not get ANY of my genes? Next thing you know she'll be playing the Xbox and leaving half empty glasses of water everywhere.

I don't plan on having any sort of order to Scarlette's scrapbooks. I am keeping a pretty detailed baby book via her blog posts to be printed out. This is something just for me, so I intend on it being no pressure. TFL!

(Supplies: Studio Calico Paper Moon kit, shimmer alpha and tiny alpha by making memories. Read the journaling here.)

so enchanted to meet you

 
I'm quite sick at the moment so me and the wee little one are taking it super easy. In the meantime, I made this page with some fantastic digital kits by Michelle Underwood (click here to see it in detail w/product list.) 

Remember when I talked about our Tornado Safety Room? What, you don't remember all the mundane details I write about on this blog? My scrapbook room is currently being packed up and moved into the basement so that it can become the nursery. I don't know why I didn't just set up down there to begin with. For one thing, it's a bigger room. So I'm in the midst of converting half of the Tornado Safety Room to my new scrapbook room/kid's playroom.

This is an excellent idea because now when it storms and I freak out and spend half the night in the basement, I can make pretty things instead of just lying on the floor in the fetal position. And the great part is, my kid won't know that we're actually ducking and covering because hello! Looks like a playroom! She'll just grow up thinking that everyone listens to the National Weather Service on the radio while they play Barbies.

I had such good intentions when I started

 
I am currently enamored with the new Jennifer Knapp CD. Specifically the lyrics that inspired this layout. The song is written as though the Lord is speaking it to us and I think it is beautiful.

"Lay down, have your dreams, I'll work quietly. Put all my labor to love and you'll wake up feeling enough. You will want for nothing, know the truth I will be here waiting for you."

I love the idea of the Lord working over us, putting all things together for our good while we rest.

Jenni Bowlin sent me the new collection to play with and I used the rest of the lyrics to make this page. And some others but they'll be up on her site soon so I can't share those just yet. They are lots better. This is my Jenni Bowlin reject page. Because I meant for it to look like the butterfly was spreading glimmer everywhere. But it kind of looks like the butterfly got massacred and is now in the middle of a butterfly crime scene. I made a scrapbook page that looks like a butterfly is a bleeding y'all. Word to your mother.

In successful scrapbooking news, I can share that I have a tutorial up at Pink Paislee today on how to photograph your scrapbook layouts, so check that out if you were looking for tips! Happy weekend!

Scrapbooking news that I find exciting

Several of you were so sweet to message me about my layout in this month's Creating Keepsakes! Thanks so much for letting me know, I wasn't expecting to see it in the magazine so soon!

I was at work today when my brother in law called and said "I'm looking at this Creating Keepsakes magazine and you and Jeff are in it!" I told Jeff that story and he was like "what's my brother doing reading Creating Keepsakes?" as though he doesn't sit and look at my magazine with me and point out layouts he likes.

(If you are one of my husband's guys friends, he TOTALLY doesn't do that ever. He also never gives me suggestions on things he thinks would make my pages better. And he totally can't recognize manufacturers by glancing at patterned papers from that time he worked with me at the scrapbook company. Not at all.)

I was completely narcissistic and asked Jason to send me a photo because I hadn't seen it yet. I created this page as part of our guest book for our wedding and so it was extra special to me for it to be featured in the magazine. Plus, I'd hadn't submitted any pages since 2008, so for this one to be picked up meant even more. Although I've been so busy opening Little Light Studio that I haven't submitted since so this may be the only time you see me in print this year.

Thanks for sharing in my joy :)
 

A quick Valentine's Day project

First, thank you for the sweet comments on my last post. Tomorrow I will post a deeper explanation and what I think God has been teaching me.

I spent the weekend crafting and going to the movies with Jeff. We had free movie passes, so we were super excited because we never spend money to go to the movies. When we got to the theater, every single movie we wanted to see was marked NO PASSES. It was the last day we could use the passes before they expired so we saw The Lovely Bones. Now, Marky Mark is h-o-t hot and I quite enjoy him in many movies. But not so much in that one.

Jeff and I spent the drive home trying to figure out what we had just spent the past two hours of our lives watching. Did anyone GET that movie?

Then I made this Valentine's Day artwork to frame for our living room. You can see the step by step instructions here. I am loving the brown wall more and more every day. Some people have referred to it as purple (coughjeffcough) but those people are wrong.