26w 6d

Inspired by Sketch This: 83 and Lyssa's monotone challenge at Scrappin' Mojo, I put together a quick digital page last night using the photo from yesterday's post. I wanted to capture how much I'm enjoying my pregnancy at this moment. :)


Supplies: Solid Purple Paper from Anne Langpap's Free June 2007 kit; Crystal Wilkerson's Inked Edges template #1; Purple Floral paper from Rhonna Farrer's Color My World kit; Tia Bennett's Fit 2b Tied alpha; mesh (recolored) from Erica Hernandez's Maddie Embellishments; label (recolored) from Tia Bennett's Comical JuniorPEA kit; Block Label from Jennifer Pebbles' skinny label & paper digital freebie; Amienne font.

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Belly Update

Before heading out to Trent's softball game last night, I had him take a few photos of me in our backyard. Here's my favorite:


I'm happy to say I feel great and feel as though I look great too. That black long sleeve t-shirt is actually one of my pre-pregnancy tops. With the belly, it comes down to about where you see my fingertips so I layered it over a maternity tank top. I haven't purchased any long sleeve maternity shirts since most of my rounder days will be in warmer weather and, with a few good tanks, this layering has worked so far on the few cool days we've had.

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Say What?

It's true. People say the darnedest things particularly to pregnant women. I just hope nothing like this has ever slipped from my mouth. And, thankfully, have a good sense of humor that I can laugh at these statements that have been said directly to me over the last couple of weeks. (Keep in mind, I still have 13 weeks to go!)

From a stranger at a party who immediately rubbed my belly...

When are you due?
Early July.
Really? My daughter is due late July and I'm really worried because she isn't as big as you are.

After dinner at a local restaurant that same night, the cashier asked me if I was expecting. What the gender was. When I was due. After telling her early July, she paused and said, "Early July? Wow. Long way to go. Big baby."

A family member (we'll leave it that vague) ... "You're a lot bigger than you were last week." I think this was the result of my clothing. "Last week" I wore a slim fitting t-shirt. "This week" I had on a looser fitting top.

The OB at yesterday's appointment, after looking at my chart, "I see you've had a good weight gain." If still being 2 lbs below my pre-pregnancy weight (I lost 10lbs the first trimester) is a good gain, I'll take that. Then when measuring my belly, "Your belly is on the big side. Baby's had a growth spurt." Really? I haven't been in the doctor's office in 6 weeks. Seems like a "growth spurt" would be expected. ;)

Honestly, I'm now quite curious to see what is said to me next. And, perhaps I should start counting belly rubs too as my belly has suddenly become public property. Trent keeps asking if rubbing my belly is good luck. Well, we haven't won the lottery yet - oh, wait, you have to actually play it to win, don't you? Let me buy a ticket and I'll share the answer. In the meantime, for those readers of mine who've been down this road before, what humorous comments do you recall?

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spring

A few photos of our flower garden last year for Terri's weekly challenge at Scrappin' Mojo and the Two Peas March Super Sketches class:


Supplies: Bazzill cardstock; Autumn Leaves patterned paper; Making Memories tiny alpha stickers and patterned paper; Maya Road chipboard bird; Martha Stewart Crafts sepia pen; EK Success corner rounder punch.

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Project 365 Organization update

In January I shared my plan for organizing my Project 365 photos. I had purchased photo sleeve pages to fit my 3-ring scrapbook albums and planned to simply insert photos as I went. If I felt inspired to scrap a certain photo or event, those pages would be mixed in with the photo pages. I was okay with this until recently when I realized I wanted something more. Just a little notation spot on each page for more details about the photos and the days they represented. Plenty are "real life" and not exciting enough (nor do I have enough time!) for a full scrapbook page, but did deserve a little more than just a title on the photo.

Over the weekend, I officially started this change by rearranging the photos in the pages leaving a single pocket on each page open. Then I created a 4x6 journaling card in Photoshop:


I printed the cards on both sides of white cardstock sheets, cut them out and added stamped dates using my Making Memories date stamp:


Then began to journal details about the photos and events surrounding them. Between the photos themselves, my blog and notes about the photos on Flickr - I was quickly able to begin filling in the details of the first few weeks of the year. Here's an example of what one of the pages looks like:

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Day at the Zoo

We had a wonderful visit yesterday to the NC Zoo in Asheboro. The weather was sunny and in the mid-70s making it perfect to get out and see the animals. The zoo is quite large and divided into two sections - North America and Africa. We started at the Africa entrance planning to visit just that one half. Walking the entire zoo is approximately 5 miles and, at 26 weeks, I wasn't sure if I was up to that. Suprisingly, I felt great the entire day and we walked almost all of it!

At the start of the day checking out the elephants:


Better view of the elephants from further down the path (even though we enjoyed this new path during our visits last year, I'm still in awe how close we can get to the elephants now) :


Bison relaxing (these guys were always way across the field and hard to see during our visits last year) :


Pardon the glare from the glass - this chimp was a total showoff and had fun coming up to the window & interacting with the kids:


Giraffe (the zoo is opening a new feeding station next month where you can feed the giraffe leaves - can't wait to try this on our next visit) :


And, yes, I did manage to capture a few shots of a zebra as I mentioned in yesterday's post. This particular zebra was starting to chase a couple ostrich:


Still having fun chasing those ostrich around and entertaining the crowd:

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PhotoHunt: Stripes

We're off to spend the day at the North Carolina Zoo which led me think of zebras for this week's PhotoHunt theme. We missed seeing them last year. I went back in my files to 2004 to find this particular photo. Hopefully, we'll catch a few out and about today.


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Altered Notepad

Jess shared a post earlier this week on altering a notepad. I loved the idea and used it for my little craft project last night. Lately I've had so many things on my mind that I really need to be carrying a small notepad with me to keep track. Using a few odds and ends from my stash, I quickly recovered a boring red notepad we had into a much cuter floral one. ;) I used the Xyron laminate/adhesive cartridge to adhere it all and give the cover a little more durability (thus the shine in my photo).


Supplies: Basic Grey patterned paper; Prima flower; Making Memories acrylic flower and tiny alpha letter stickers; Heidi Swapp journaling spot; black stamp ink; Xyron laminate/permanent adhesive cartridge; notepad.

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Thank You Very Much

Fun little card I made earlier this week for my Etsy shop:


Supplies: Die Cuts with a View card; miscellaneous cardstock; American Crafts patterned paper, ribbon & rub-on sentiment; staples; Making Memories metal rimmed tag.

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Wordless Wednesday w/ Cali & Chester

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