Baby boy scrapbook album Animoto Video

Babies, Babies everywhere!!!!

Here at the bottom of todays post is the video of the baby boy albums I made this week, and a little story about the why and how I am making 12 baby books so far this year!!!  3 done so far!!

     We have the arrival of new babies being announced all over the place...  We have new great neices and nephews coming...  Friends are having babies...  and Some of my favorite people are becoming grandparents too!!!   And we will be adding grandkiddo #9 to our could be baseball team when Payge delivers sometime around Aug 1st...
At the beginning of the year I had decided that i would make baby albums for all the babies coming this year...  At this time there are 12 on my list...  Yes, 12...  That includes friends and family having babies as well as a couple of grandparents that i will be making brag books for...
     I started with scrapbooks I already had actually purchased many years ago...  Wanting to use up my stash of paper products I choose a color scheme with 3-4 colors...  I went through the craft supplies  and added other products that would compliment the paper...  I went through my drawers of rubber stamps and pulled out all that would be appropriate and put them in a shallow box...  I had purchased a baby's first month calendar that included  stickers for firsts and months 1 through 12...   The calendar also matched the color scheme...  I had bear stickers that said "sweet baby boy" and a sheet of suns and clouds, also a sheet that said Its a boy and had foot prints, bottle, baby pin on it...  I also purchased some puffy baby stickers that had a stork and stars and a baby duck that all matched the theme...  With all the products out and ready I set my cricket cutting machine up and programmed it with baby theme items that I could use as well...
     I made up a layout of what I wanted to fit in the baby book...  Some of the things I had thought to add was a page that had the name, date, height, weight, place, time....  I found that in the calendar and cut it out and used it as the first page...  I added a page for home sweet home, family, sleeping, and a couple of pages that were generic and will hold more pictures...  then I added a page for each month 1 through 12 and two pages for the first birthday the last page just for general photos...  I also found in the  calendar lists of what baby does and will add them to the 1 - 12 month pages...  I also will be including the extra stickers from the calendar as they have all the first time doing things and the months of the year that can be added to the album later...
     So I started with an album for my best friends son who is having a boy!!!  (update born March 8th congrats)   I used an 8X8 binded album that had 24 white pages already included...  I was able to use my sticker sheets and stash paper as well as some other stickers that I only have one or two sets of...  I purchased a primary color puffy sticker set to add to the book...   This book took a while to make but I was okay with that because it is a special book and I could use the page layout ideas for the other 11 books I will be making in the coming weeks, months...  Im sure we will have a few more added to the list too!!
     I am so glad I made the special album first and it has made a great template for the ones to be made after...  I sat down and made 2 books on Monday...   Start to finish and they are great...  They have a few less embellishments, but they are beautiful and they are ready to go to their new homes...  These two books are also the 8X8 binded format that included white pages...   I covered most pages with colored and patterned paper and stamped a few pages too...   The result is adorable...  It is a small album and should be easy for the family to complete and feel good that they have something to show... one of the families this is their 3rd child and well, we know what kind of baby book #3 gets...  beautiful but probably empty...   I hope you enjoy this video...

And here as promised is the link to the whole album!!  enjoy!!  please comment and share ;)
Baby boy scrapbook album Animoto Video

I love my Cabana!!!

I was so excited to see it come back in stock and loved the tan color much better than the blue and white striped cabana that was available before then out of stock for months...   I was able to use a gift card we had received for Christmas to purchase it...  It is classy, eye catching and a definite conversation opener...

Carolyn and I put it up in the living room as practice for an indoor event i was doing in town...   It does take two of us to put it up and if you gently pull and push on the crossbars it does click into place...   We found that putting the curtains in a circle on the floor then lifting up was the best way to put the curtains on...   It was a hit and attracted attention with the mounted hanging mirror, hanging pictures and especially the chair with the frilly black and white pillow inside...   At 5X5 it is spacious and has plenty of room to comfortably change inside, just need to add the coat rack and it will be much like the upscale dressing room experience I was looking for...

My next event was outside...  It was cold, blustery, and raining...  The cabana was a great respite from the elements...  It stayed warm inside...  This time the cabana was protected under my 10X10 easy up...   It was also great to have  the cabana to put the clothes in when it started raining, as well as a place to warm up and still watch the crowd...  At this event I had many try on clothes and a lil ballerina even changed out of her costume in complete privacy...   We were even able to put all the contents of the booth inside the cabana and close it up and leave it there for the two day event...   This event had lots of security so leaving merchandise was an option...

I cant wait to use the cabana as a photo booth at our family reunion in June...  In case we dont have the cool Fischer Tent this year it can be used for resting babies and mommas... Protection for grand babies from the elements, and their cousins at parties and events...    This cabana could even be used as a place for a bride to wait before her grand entrance, as it has zippered openings on two sides... The cabana will make a great central location easy for family members to find when they wander off to other places at the park, or beach...  I can see our radios set up inside and again protected from the sun, wind and other elements...  Even the roadside set ups for bike rides, races and parades, it is after all a 5X5 easy up when you do not used the curtains...  I see lots of potential for our little striped cabana...  Any other ideas of uses for the Cabana?

Wedding Album for Randy and Amber

Wedding Album for Randy and Amber

Happy National Pound Cake Day

Outfit of the day #OOTD

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Happy National Anthem day!!!   I have heard this song so many times.  Many times it brings me to tears, especially when reminded just how blessed I am to call the USA my home.  I have heard the song butchered when the singer did not know the words.   I have seen the singer get so emotional that someone else came up and sang with them.  I have seen children sing it and adults.  I have seen it performed by a large choir and a barbershop quartet.  I have heard it sung as the traditional hymn we know, and some have changed the tune.  I have heard it with some very high and long notes.   I have heard it with a very low and long note.  Some of the singers have been famous and for some of the singers that one song may have been there 15 minutes of fame.  I am not sure when or where i heard my favorite, or even who sang it the best.  I just know that this song touches me deep in my soul and I probably cry at every baseball game when "the Land of the Freeeeeeee, And the Home of the Braaaaaaave is sung!!!!  God Bless America!!!  Which is your favorite National Anthem ever sung?