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Basketball 2011.

I created the right half for my layout today. I had created the left half a few weeks ago.

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LOAD21, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Making plans...no house number yet but there is a road that because a trail running through the pasture; and nearby just past the yucca plants but before the plum thicket ... you will find us...someday!

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LOAD20, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

The prompt was Fashion Plate today and I was planning a page for my Joy of Love album. It was fit nicely in the "What They Wear" page protector. I hope to add a page beside it with more tags and labels from their purchases! I need to collect a few to do this!

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LOAD19, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Thanks to Sarah de Guzman for the inspiration for this layout (found in Scrapbook Trends magazine.) She used a sketch from www.sketchythursdays.blogspot.com

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LOAD18, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

C's 15th Birthday.

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LOAD17, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

I took this photo with my new 50mm lens (a Christmas gift). Wow! Do I LOVE it!

It seems like a tradition now to create at least one page for the Christmas ornament albums during LOAD. I think that's because they are quick pages requiring little journaling and few embellishments. Not room for much on a 5.5" x 7.5" layout.

T's 2011 page...game over!!

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LOAD16, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Absolutely no time tonight for anything. Good thing I had this idea tumbling around in my brain and a sketch on a Post-It Note! Came together super quick!! Good Night!!

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LOAD15, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Today's prompt was about Songs of Days Gone By. These days have definately gone by...her first MP3 player (2008)...now a total dinosaur! She wore a couple of them out before graduating to an iPod last spring (2011). I miss the teeny-bopper Disney music happy-go-lucky lyrics! Not so crazy about the stuff they choose to listen to these days!

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LOAD14, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Orchestra again. It's a tradition that these three girls take their picture together after each performance.

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LOAD13, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Finally done! Years in the making literally. I picked up the rest of the photos today @ Walgreen's.

I installed Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 this evening...let the re-learning begin. I had been using PSE 4.0 for several years and knew my way around fairly well but I tried the PSE 9.0 trial this past fall and love it ... so here I am embracing #10!!

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LOAD13, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Another school layout! Woot, woot! Thanks to Donnajazz at scrapbook.com for the inspiration for this layout! I love her work!

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LOAD11, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Here I go again...thinking I need to keep on working on school pages for C's album. She turned 16 yesterday, over half way through her sophomore year. I ordered a blue and a butter colored 12x12 We R Memory Keepers albums today. I thought I'd see if I like them and if so, use them for her middle and high school albums for our school colors.

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LOAD10, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Inspired to keep working on pages for the Joy of Love album....I've got a long way to go but these little 8x8 pages with only one photo are really quick! I need to find the original creator of this layout...I scraplifted it from scrapbook.com.
A thank you to her will follow tomorrow.

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LOAD9, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Day 9. Home Sweet Home.
Today's prompt and the Joy of Love album prompt for page 24 "Where" were the perfect combination for today's page. I am thinking of an entire album about this home...a digital one from Shutterfly. I need to get that started before the next home gets started!

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LOAD8, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Yish!! Not a great photo so late at night! Even though the style of this layout (paper piecing) is very dated I still like it. The title went so well with the story I wanted to tell and the precious few photos I have of the girls in this program. The photos only seven of them were all dark and distant.

This week of scrappin' has got to get better...it's a late one again tonight. Probably shouldn't have taken that nap!

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LOAD7, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Went for easy again tonight as it was a busy one! Tomorrow and Thursday are as well so I'm planning ahead and have already found photos. This is another page for my 8x8 album called the Joy of Love...this one is for the prompt, "the things you love to hate". This is C. There is no changing it. In a weird sort of way I love this about her, but I hate the cluttery mess!

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LOAD6, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

I couldn't get organized enough to get the other photos printed to finish Tanner's Super Bowl layout so I went for something I already had printed. I am slowly working on pages for an album called The Joy of Love. The prompt that inspired this page was "going out". This was the first time Jon and I had gone to a costume party since college. We had a great time!

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LOAD5, a photo by Miss_Niki on Flickr.

Not my best work. I'm hopeful that the right half of the page will pull in all together and I will like it better. I need to print more photos tho because T. used them on his own collage today for a Cub Scout project! I will post a picture of his project tomorrow.

Yesterday was a productive day.

I was able to start and finish another skirt for L. just in time to take to her. Can't wait to see the delight in her eyes. I looked for Minnie Mouse fabric today but decided not to take on more than I already have on my sewing list. I bought fabric to make her a Halloween one too (at Christmas time) and still have fabric to make an apron for me. Ok, I confess I did buy fabric to make two pillows for my hopeful scrap space...stay tuned for photos of those!I'm still learning. This is the second one I've made...both without patterns.

Next time, I'll get it perfect!

So here's what else I've been up to...

LAUNDRY!!