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Sep
18

Kyle’s first day of Preschool!

Posted by DeAnna

I can’t believe I have a kid old enough to be in preschool.  He just turned 3 in July and Tuesday was his first day.  I took this picture in his classroom.  He was so happy, but then I left and he cried.  I think he stopped pretty quickly though.  At least, I hope he did.  I took this picture just before I left.  He’s so cute – I love his dimple!

kyle_preschool

We are heading to Seattle Saturday morning for a couple of Mariners baseball games against the much hated Yankees.  It will be Matthew’s first major league game.  Kyle was almost a year by the time we made it to see the M’s.  Matthew is only 4 months old.  I love Safeco Field – it’s a beautiful park.  And it has a great kids play area for Kyle to wear himself out in.  We usually try to let him run around at least once in there.  AND this year he’s big enough that he can play in the climbing gym, but I’m not sure if he’ll actually do it or not.

I’m excited to go shopping in Seattle and at the outlet malls on the way down there.  We’re staying at a hotel called Hotel Max, which is very artsy and also happens to be the hotel I stayed at in the 80′s when my mom and I drove from Kamloops to Seattle to see a Mariners/Blue Jays game (except it was called The Vance back then).  It’s also right downtown near some great shopping. It should be a nice trip I think.

Rob had such a busy summer schedule with umpiring, I’m glad he’s going to be able to get away with all of us together actually watching a game (as opposed to watching daddy umpire a game!). ;-D

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Sep
15

Catching up

Posted by DeAnna

I mentioned in my last post that I’ve finally been getting on to doing some scrapbooking again.  Yay!  It’s been a while.  Check out some of the images I created from Jessica Sprague’s Photo Special Effects and Frame Ups class:

I love the Run Jump Play photo – I still can’t believe how Rob caught Kyle in mid-air!  Fantastic.  And the text and texture effects just make the photo.

I also did the Extraction Mega Lesson, and here’s the final layout.  It’s amazing.  Christmas 2008 I was pregnant with Matthew, so our family was “Almost Perfect” – one sweet boy and another on the way.  I’m so glad I have two boys.

extraction_layout_web

It was a long lesson – 11 different tasks, but I think it was totally worth it.  It took me two days of working on the layout around feedings, taking care of my boys, dishes and cleaning and laundry.  You forget how much laundry you have to do with a baby around, not just baby laundry but yours too from getting spat up on all the time.  ;-P.  Case in point – I had three loads of laundry to fold yesterday morning and at least one more to do today.

Kyle stars preschool today.  I’m so excited for him and yet I am still stunned that he’s old enough to be in preschool.  How time flies – don’t you think it goes faster the older you get?

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Sep
14

A quick tip from Silhouette

Posted by DeAnna

Okay, so I finally got my new MacBook Pro!  Yay.  It’s beautiful and easy to use, and I can see the screen!  Woo Hoo!  It’s been a slow process moving all my stuff over to this new computer though, considering the least little movement with my old laptop and I can’t see anything, and then it takes 10 minutes just to get back to the login screen, grrr.  But we’re almost there, and I’ve been busy doing some of the Jessica Sprague classes I signed up for but wasn’t able to complete because of the computer.

Now, on to the Silhouette.  I made a card for my mother’s birthday late last month.  I used a word art design I purchased for my Silhouette, which is a square block birthday design.  I love the look of it, and I thought it would come out of the machine all in one piece.  Boy was I wrong!!  It took an hour to pull out all the pieces, run them through my Xyron machine, and position them on the card.  Yikes!  Here’s a photo of the finished card.

birthday-card-with-word-art

So, I was looking at the Quickutz website for some tips, and found this:

“How can I cut letters best to easily apply adhesive once they’re cut?

Some of our designers have mentioned they like to cut their letters out backwards so they can apply adhesive onto the backs of the letters after they’re cut and then simply pull them off the cutting mat and have them ready to place on their layout or card.

To do this, after you have placed your desired text onto your screen, right-click on your text and select “Mirror” and then “Horizontal Mirror”. This will flip your text to a mirror image and cut your letters out backwards. After the text has been cut out, take your preferred adhesive (prior to pulling the cut letters off the mat) and apply as desired. You may now take your letters that already have adhesive applied on the back and transfer them from the cutting mat directly onto your project.

When using this tip with textured cardstock, you may wish to place your cardstock textured side down onto the cutting mat prior to cutting so that your letters have the textured side on their fronts. Please note that this tip is only for papers or cardstocks that do not already have their own adhesive backing.”

I would have never thought of that, but I’m sure going to do that for any word art designs, and any thing that contains small pieces (like the little baby feet – each toe is separate).

Anyway, I thought I would share since it’s such a great and easy tip!  I love my Silhouette and I don’t think I could live without it.  I even had to install VMware Fusion so I could run Vista on my Mac just so I could still use it!  Awesome! Aren’t Macs great? ;-P

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