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Scrapbooking, Weed Bouquet


I hope everyone had a good valentines day.  My daughter had so many fun activities with school and church.  I made lots and lots of boxes for her school class party.  It took forever!  I really think valentines day is the best when you are a kid and really should just be celebrated when you are little.  Little kids have so much joy when they give all their little friends cards.  If you do that as an adult you get a lot of weird looks!
So here is my layout for the Memory Nest.  It defiantly has a love theme to it with my title. The crazy part is that I was in not the greatest mood when I was working on this page, but when I put the title down, I became much more calm.  It was very therapeutic. To sum up what happened, lets just say mean mommy comes out when mommy wants to go to bed after a very long day, but everyone is awake 3.5 hours past bed time and making a mess and destroying furniture. I was so frustrated and didn't know what to do, so I scrapbooked!  I also vowed that my kids would never get a piece of candy for the rest of their lives.  It doesn't mater how early in the day they consume it, they turn into monsters for the rest of the day.  The last time they had had candy was Halloween and a very similar thing happened.

 I really enjoyed this sketch.  Looking back, I wish I printed my photos off a little smaller for this layout.  I had a few different things in mind that ended up being to difficult to do with the size I printed.  Anyways, I did some stitching to represent the arrows.  It's hard to tell in the photo, but in person the page has a nice texture from it.  I know the background paper is a bit random, but I loved the colors in it!  Another random side story is that while I was trimming this paper my husband asked me if I had a lightbulb and I handed him this paper and said I had a bunch of them!  I thought it was hysterical.


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