From One Child to Another

I have a fun mix of the old (hey, not that old!) and the new to share this week - a couple of layouts from my childhood, and some of the pages I created for my nephew Logan's 3 year old scrapbook.

DigiZines by Teri recently released Arabella, a beautiful new scrapkit that was a joy to work with. Take a look at what I did with this kit.

Dream Big and Bold - this is me as a child, which was a little bit longer ago than I care to admit.

Little Girls Love Dresses and Dolls - another look at young Tania

Young and In Love - reflecting on my parents, pre-children

And now to switch tracks, this year Nicole and I decided that Logan's 3 Year Old album should be themed with Marvel Superheroes. Obviously this was very exciting for me, although scrapbook supplies for some of the heroes were harder to find than for others. For example Spider-Man is all over the place, but The Avengers are not (even with their movie just coming to DVD). As it turns out, Logan is very into superheroes this year, so it's perfect timing. Here are a couple of my favorite pages from the album (Nicole will be putting pictures in it throughout the year, as he just turned 3).

Avengers Assemble! Did I mention I love superheroes? Or that this year was awesome with the release of The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spider-Man? Well, I do and it was. That's it for now. Happy Scrapping!

Back and Better Than Ever

Not me, silly.  I'm talking about E-Scape and Scrap, Julie Mead's Digital Scrapbook Boutique.  (I'm on the Creative Team at E-Scape and Scrap.)  At the end of June the store was forced offline due to fraud at their server host.  All changes made to the site and the gallery since April were suddenly gone, with no way to recover them.  That included the custom design of Julie site.  It was obviously devestating but Julie preservered.  Throughout July she worked tirelessly to restore the site, and when that was not possible she worked to rebuild.  The site is now back online, with the added bonus of being available both at .com and .net addresses.  Designers are reloading their products and there might be a surprise or two on the way (don't tell her I told you ;-)).  Also, the designers have created a collaboration kit called "Hot Mess," available free on the blog, as a call-out against the crimes committed here.  Check it out!

In the meantime, the Creative Team is back to work.  Here are the first couple of layouts I completed since the site was up, these are using Cheryl McCain's new Mosaic kit, which she designed in celebration of the reopening of the store.

She Waits
We recently had the opportunity (Lisa, Tabatha and I) to attend a book signing at the Romance Writer's of America Annual Conference at Disney's Dolphin Resort.  Approximately 500 authors were available to sign books, and books were available to purchase.  We found out about it because two authors that we love were a part of the book signing - Maria V Snyder (Poison Study) and Melissa de la Cruz (Blue Boods).  One of them sent it to Lisa in their monthly newsletter.  It's a good thing one of us is reading newsletters.  Here is Tabatha as we waited in line for the conference arena to open - she missed the parade of authors (and Melissa de la Cruz) but she did get to meet and talk with her after we were inside.

Maria V Snyder
Once inside we made a beeline for the authors we knew before wandering around to see who else was there.  Maria V Snyder had one of her new books for sale, Inside Out (which is amazing).  She also had news on her newest of the Glass series books, Spy Glass.  She assured me we'd see plenty of Valek in that book.  Yay!  She was super-nice and talked to us for a while.

I'll see you again soon!  In the meantime, check out the restored E-Scape and Scrap Boutique as well as a couple of my favorite authors.