Tonight I Blog - Peek A Boo.

I have said this to myself a few times today. My 11 month old has begun go to bed reliably at 8PM lately, so I have had some time in the evenings to do my things. You know those things that get left aside when ever something else seemimgly more important comes up. We all have those things. Some of my things are scrapbooking - yeah!!!!! Blogging however has only recently become an interest of mine. And so often it seems, in the name of energy and time management, blogging gets trumped by scrapping.

But I rationalze that since I began this blog as an effort to disipline myself to complete my numberous scrapping projects. Anytime I scrap but do not blog about it, is still time well spent.

So what have I been up to since my last entry. Thanksgiving and Halloween pages of course. Two major holidays. Both with their coresponding cascades of photographs. My selection process for scrapbooking pictures changes all the time. Often I arbitraily decide how many pages I will create for a ceertain event, and only the best pictures that can fit will make it to the album. Other times I sit infront of my computer and send all the pictures that tickle my creative bone to the printers. This time I let my creative bone do the clicking while I imagined layouts. Thinking about potential layouts, versus just the quality of the picture, seemed to curb my clicker finger as I am satisfied with just one double page layout for Halloween. Thanksgiving is yet to be scraped. However I only have about 10 pictures waiting for me there.

I am really please about my Halloween pages. Halloween really is a wonderful holiday. So much fun for all ages and parts of our community. I think Halloween layout will be something I look forward to each year.

I started out with matching mottled red with yellow sun star pattern papers. Ever picture has my daughter on it. She really was too cute it a pink leapord costume. We had taken her to one of the local malls and were lucky enough to get a get shot of her interacting with the mal mascot - a big green dinasour. Not only a neat picture to document her First Halloween. But also a great shot to build a layout around because this mascot wears a T-shirt with the mall's name in big bold letters. I love to build descriptions and place ot time documentaion right into the artistic composition of my work. When I travel I am often the werido tourist taking a picture of the 'welcome to such and such city' signs.

I boardered my pages with a lot of oranges and bloody burgendies and was able to find a few witch and ghost with pinky/purple background which really popped with my daughters costume.
I raised the text boxes with foam tape and added spider and "trick or treat" boarder emellishments. I am just so please with these pages. Do you ever create some pages that just make yousmile each itme you look at them? Well these pages do that for me. Can't wait for next year.