Design Team Work

Hi all,


Some of you know that I am on the Design Team for my local scrapbook store, Scrapbooks Plus in Chantilly, Virginia. We just finished up our first year of Design Team work and are continuing to support the store and plan on being even more active with store events. Each month one member designs the kit for the month... picks out the papers and embellishments and packs it all up for us. The Designer of the Month also plans a class to teach at the store during their month. This is a little different from last year and should be a lot of fun! We recently had a call for new members and started year number two for the team. Last year we received kits on the first of the month and had two weeks to work on our projects and bring them back to the store. Now we are doing our reveal on the first of the month... so we just brought in our projects yesterday, which means that I have some new projects to share!


This month we had the Marrakech line from Basic Grey... a Morrocan inspired line of oranges and blues. The colors were beautiful and versatile too. I only need to make 4 items each month... one 1-page layout, one 2-page layout, one altered item, and one card... but I rarely do the minimum. Once I start pulling out photos that look good with the paper, I just keep going until it's pretty much used up. Besides, I'd rather have too much than too little. This time I had an extra four 1-page layouts and an extra card. Sometimes I see what everyone else has made and then pick what goes up on the wall... especially if one of my layouts uses a paper that wasn't used as much or an embellishment in a different way. We are trying to give customers ideas... so I don't want to repeat the same look if possible! :)


A few of my items are still on my camera... but here's what I've got on the computer so far. I'll put the rest up this weekend.


My 2-page layout of the hotel in Copacabana. I have some notes that will probably go on my hidden journaling on the Scrapbooks Plus DT Blog.





A 1-page layout of the fences in Bolivia. The bottom right is the gate at Sergio's grandparents farm... the other two were in Copacabana.




A 1-page layout of A~ in Kansas a couple of years a ago. Luckily we got this shot before security came over to say that the kids all needed to get down! Oops... missed that sign, officer! :)


My altered chalkboard... a $2.50 steal from the Target dollar spot:


A 1-page layout of the sunset over Lake Titicaca:



I'll post some more later! Have a great week!

much love,
erin

A little bit lonely

It is way too quiet over here.

I know that Sergio and A~ are having a great time in Bolivia, where it is summer! I talked to her yesterday and she was just bursting with energy.

Over here, I'm just trying to keep extra busy.. organizing recipes, pulling out fabric, baking bread. Sad to say, my Christmas tree is still up... I just haven't had the heart to take it down... BUT I promise it will be down in the month of February! I hope! :)

Our new design team season just started, so I'm working on some new projects with the Marrakech line from Basic Grey. The colors are lovely and the patterns are exotic. I actually finished one project already. I may be pulling out some of my photos of Copacabana and actually scrapping them. So far they have all been waiting for me to create a plan for a vacation album, but I can always get reprints and scrap them again... that it if a great idea hits me!

Since it's too early to show my new project... here are a couple of layouts from last summer...

First is A~ and N~ at Uncle David's house... I like how us mom's are both watching and smiling at our precious little girls together.




The second is our day at the fair. Notice the band-aids since this was also the day of the infamous 5 year check up which included 4 shots, a TB test, and blood draw. Poor baby!




thanks for stopping by!

much love,
erin

Mothers and Daughters

Here is a recent layout featuring a picture taken last June. I love generations pictures... they are so special! Love you Marmar! :)

Hellooooo Kitty!

Sorry I haven't been in for a bit! I'm trying to make one scrapbook layout per day for each day in January. Thank goodness January ends on a weekend.. I may just make it! I am also trying to take one picture a day (Project 365) for the year. So far, so good. I don't always have a great picture... but at least one each day!

I forgot to post A~ must have Christmas present this year. It was a Hello Kitty cereal dispenser. We saw it at Target and she begged and begged for it. I told her to put it on her Christmas list. The next day she asked me how to spell cereal. A week later, she commented that we would need to clear some stuff off of the counter to make room for her Hello Kitty cereal dispenser when Santa brought it. I raced down to Target at the beginning of December and got one of the two remaining. Wow, was that lucky!




By the way, she's eating more cereal than ever! :)



much love,
erin



PS. Here are a few new layouts....

Christmas Cookies

We are finally done with the last of the Christmas cookies. I think we have all gained 10 pounds... but it's Christmas, so it's ok. It's only once a year. A~ loved the Orea truffles and I just had to share this pic. Poor A~ eats them bit by bit. Actually she kind of nibbles at it and doesn't even finish a whole one... just part of it. She was nibbling away and then she looked at me and smiled....


Too funny! Chocolate bits in every nook and cranny!

much love,

erin

Little Ice Skater

I completely forgot to post the pics of our skating party at work. Oops! A~ had a great time. It was so funny to see her skating... mainly because she was really flitting around more than anything else. Arms out to the side... swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, hop... swoosh, swoosh, hop. A dainty style to say the least! Skating like this requires great concentration... so unless she stopped, there was no way she would even consider looking at the camera.

She really got into it when she started playing hockey with one of the other kids. A~'s pretty competive... so if she couldn't hit the puck with her stick, she'd kick it away, grab it... anything she could do to win!

Here are the cold parents:

We were freezing, but it was worth it! :)

much love,

erin

Smurfette

Okay... just had to share this really quick. Aunt Coral sent a Smurfette outfit to A~. I don't remember what Smurfette wore... but this looks cute to me! The hat is the best. A~ says that it looks like a banana is coming out of her head! Hilarious!!!

much love,

erin