Hodgepodge

I know I've said it before but I'm not a chronological scrapbooker, I grab whatever photos I want to use, no matter how old they are. No matter how much they might embarrass my now 15 year old son. This is an Embellish It! page (thank you Shelby) from ck convention a few years back. There is really so much to see in these photos. I could look at them for hours, remembering how funny Dan was (oh he still is, just with that teenage edge now) and what a great imagination he had!!

I couldn't resist using my Chicago Bears paper with this photo from last winter. 

First Day of School

I'm not a chronological scrapbooker so these pages were completed and photographed in a random manner. I waited to post them until I was at least up to date. I finished 2008 earlier this week and 2013 just this morning, after I dropped the kids off at school for their first day. They always complain a little bit about first day pictures. As if it's hard to just stand there and smile a bit. I try to make it easy and not fuss about it too much but but they still manage to give me a hard time. It's the game we play. 

Without further ado here are the layouts I created to commemorate Daniel & Waverly's first days of school 2002 to 2013.....

2002: Preschool for Dan. Daycare for Wav

2003: Kindergarten for Dan

2004: First Grade for Dan

2004: Preschool for Wav

2005: 2nd Grade & Kindergarten

2006: 3rd Grade & 1st Grade

2007: 4th Grade & 2nd Grade

2008: 5th Grade & 3rd Grade

2009: 6th Grade & 4th Grade

2010: 7th Grade & 5th Grade

 2011: 8th Grade & 6th Grade

2011: continued

2012: Freshman & 7th Grade

 2013: Sophomore & 8th Grade

Random Pages

Just a few random pages I've finished the past few months.

Social Hour Cosmo Cricket. Perfect for Magic Mike night!

Fancy Pants: This was originally a page kit but I threw caution to the wind and used a layout from CTMH instead! Crazy I know! This was me recycling years and years of Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Rubber Stamper, Simple Scrpabooks magazines among other crafty publications. Dan was pissed because we had just moved all these boxes only months earlier, only to now be throwing them out. I tried to explain that i had to get rid of them in my own time, lol!

This was a kit but I'll be darned if I can remember where it came from.

Fancy Pants kit from Embellish It!

Fancy Pants from Embellish It!

Basic Grey kit from Embellish It!

Random supplies I collected at CKC 2012

Halloween scrapbook pages

I use to love Halloween. I mean, I still love Halloween it's just different now that I'm not planning elaborate costumes every year for the kids.

All the credit for these costumes goes to my friend Steph who put them together for Dan and his 2nd cousin Lily. They got quite a lot of attention as they trick or treated through College Square Mall in 2000.

My friend Bev made Waverly's monarch costume in 2002. She was a beautiful butterfly. Those wings and the tulle skirt were amazing. To say Dan loved his Spiderman costume would be an understatement. I specifically recall a morning a few weeks after Halloween. Dan came downstairs dressed for preschool in pants and a long sleeved shirt and I noticed something sticking out from his collar. He had put on his Spiderman suit underneath his clothes. That memory still makes me laugh.

2003 and 2004 were kind of slow years for us. Nothing too fancy. Waverly was a butterfly again in 2004 but a little more low key. Dan was Harry Potter, scar and all!

It was fun to see them interact as their characters in 2005. They really played it up for me. I made Waverly's costume this year. I believe I finished it about an hour before we headed out to take pictures and leave for trick or treating. (I am the queen of procrastination, especially when it comes to sewing projects.)

I told them I wanted to go traditional with costumes in 2006. Scary was the theme. Of course Wav still had to have a little glam with the feathers and the make up. Dan was the perfect grim reaper. You can see it but his head is shaved bald under his hood!

2007 was the year of the red devil! We went all out with the wig and the eyelashes and the dress. This was probably my all time favorite costume. Dan required a little less prep however I did sew his alien hands which he LOVED! It's hard to see in the pictures but they were made with iridescent, shinny material. He scared many a little kid that year!

Jason Voorhies and a Witch went trick or treating with their friends for the first time in 2008. I was left at home, alone, passing out candy. It was a sad year for me, they were growing up.

2009 was the final year for costumes. We went all out with Dan's ghost costume. I think he would have been happier just wearing a sheet over his head but that wasn't what I had in mind! I loved his makeup and the hair and the spiderweb in his hair. He hated it but he was a trooper and played along. Waverly was a bad fairy. He wings were made of black feathers (honestly they were a little creepy) and the black wig with pig tails were perfect!