Paper Album Kits

This is a paper album kit. It has become my favorite gift to give family members, because they are so easy to put together quickly and I don't have a lot of decisions to make because everything is already coordinated and included in the kit.

The kit comes with all the wallpapering paper you need, photo mounting paper, epoxy stickers (love these), die cuts, and clear title stickers. It even comes with a mailing envelope! All you need is adhesive, a photo safe pen, and your pictures. You don't even have to crop your pictures to put one of these babies together.



These are pictures of the paper album the girls and I put together for Peanut Head for Father's Day. It's the For Him paper album kit and it's manly.



Annika wrote a little note to go with her pictures. It says: Thank you for my noo bike. I love you Dad. Love Annika.





Another note to Daddy.



A note from Zoe. The only thing I added to this particular album was the Expressions of Him vellum quotes.









These are the contents of the For Him Paper Album Kit. This particular kit is currently available while supplies last.



Here is one page from the Purple Paisley Paper Album Kit.



And here are the contents for that kit.



The Preppy Patterns Paper Album Kit.

The Garden Party Paper Album Kit.

The Summer Fun Paper Album Kit. This one is available while supplies last.

The For Her Paper Album Kit, also available while supplies last.

The Bohemian Paper Album Kit. This is a picture of the Creative Memories website, so it doesn't show all the epoxy stickers and die cuts. You get one sheet of each.

The Merry and Bright Paper Album Kit.

You can't beat the price on these kits, they are $16. Not bad for a very nice gift. It's also the perfect gift for the person who has everything.

Last year I made one of these little albums for each of the Grandmas after Christmas. I put pictures of the girls from the holiday season in the albums, and we wrote a note saying that even though we are far away, we wanted to share our holiday season with them.

My First Blog Award!

Tanya at Ladybug and Honeybear gave me this sweet little award.  Thank you, Tanya.  Now I have to pass it along to ten of my favorite blogs.  Here goes:

I'll start with Joanne at JoeGIRL. She's got style and cool stuff on Etsy.

I stumbled upon this Freeze Happy! site recently and it's got some great ideas for making ahead and freezing food.

Another favorite is Tip Junkie.  It's a pretty popular site and for good reason.  It has excellent ideas on it.  Recently Tip Junkie ran a whole bunch of ideas on themed parties.  That was a lot a fun.

Bakerella inspires me to bake more.  Like my butt can handle it.

Ikea Goddess has lots of digital scrapbooking freebies.  This site can be a little addictive.

Who doesn't love the Pioneer Woman?  She's hilarious and she has great recipes too.

I think most of you know about my passion for organizing.  So naturally the Organizing Junkie is another one of my favorites.

Since I'm relatively new to blogging, Blogging Basics 101 has been an invaluable tool to me.

Debbie over at Virtually Organized has inspired and challenged me to take on her procrastination challenge.  I'm going to get right on that tomorrow.  Really.

I like to check in with Sassy Southern Mom periodically to see what she's up to.  She lost her camera so she really needs something to post about that doesn't require a picture.

Oh, I know I'm at my limit, but I have one more.  Suzy at Suzy's Homemade does competitive baking.  I'm in awe.

Smashley

This is my friend, Ashley, who I will always refer to as Smash or Smashley.  I meant to post about her sooner than this, but I've been waiting to get a pre-approved picture from her.  She's particular like that.

I don't know what the big deal is.  She always looks cute. She has cute dimples (on her face where they should be) and she's always perfectly made up, the hair is flawless, and the clothes and jewelry are always color coordinated and stunning.

When Smash gave me this picture she said "I look a little tired, but it's my new look since Garrett was born."  Garrett is four.  Poor Smash, the kid just does not sleep much.  He doesn't need much sleep, therefore, no one else in the house gets it either. 

Anyway, whatever.  I wish I looked that "tired." 

Smash is a hard person to get to know.  At first anyway.  She has a great sense of humor, but you don't really get that until you've known her for awhile.  A long while.  

She's not afraid of confrontation at all, so she'll let fly whatever she's thinking and you're never sure about how serious she is, so there's always that questioning and searching thing going on in your mind. I think she gets a lot of funny looks from people.

Smashley comes to my house every Saturday night to crop, and one Saturday night Peanut Head was yelling at the girls to pick up their toys before bed, and he was doing it in his usual Drill Sergeant manner.  I don't say anything when he's in this mode, because he lacks a sense of humor at times like these, so I just kept quiet.  Hard to believe, I know.  Smash didn't though.  

She saluted Peanut Head and said "YES SIR!"  I swear, I held my breath when she did this.  I didn't know what Peanut Head was going to do and I was a little bit scared for her life.  I at least expected him to let fly with something colorful from his vast Marine Corps word bank, but to my surprise, he just threw a stuffed animal at her head instead. Whew!  She lives another day.

I think I had Smashley running scared this week because I kept referring to this post as my Smash Trash.  She must have really thought I was going to chuck her under the bus or something.  Honestly though, I don't even think I have any trash about her.  I love her to pieces and I'm glad to have her as a friend.  

Now that you've been properly introduced, I can let fly with any future tidbits that come along pertaining to Smashley, and you'll know who I'm talking about.  Game on.