Keeping Calm & Carrying On

Love Calculator: A Lovey Dovey Layout

Thanks for joining me for another wedding-themed post. Our wedding is officially less than a year away! Should I start to feel the crunch? I hope not yet. No stress yet. ;) I recently created a scrapbook layout remember mine and Steven's five-year-dating anniversary.

I thought I'd share it with you today. I used my Lovey Dovey collection along with plenty of Sophisticates chipboard numbers.

If you read this journaling, the chipboard numbers will make much more sense to you!

Little did I know that exactly one year from this day (our five year anniversary) that Steven would  propose!

2.6 million minutes together. wow. Have you every calculated your love in months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds? It's kinda crazy.

1,825 days together.

This is one of my favorite pages as of recent. The photo of us isn't all that great, but I love what it means for how far we've made it, how long we've lasted and that it's just the beginning!

It's time to announce the Scrap Drawer Giveaway Winner from Friday's post. Thank you to everyone that stopped by and left a comment!

Sara Andrews said, "I just recently purchased a Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher after someone posted how it would complete my life. I must agree that tiny tool is AWESOME!! And addictive!"

Congratulations Sara, you've won a random box full of Bella Blvd scraps! Please email me with your mailing address, using the subject line: SCRAPS DRAWER WINNER!

Memorial Day

Today's blog post is my own little twist on Memorial Day. Because it is a day of Memory, I thought it fitting to share this layout with you honoring my brother-in-law. The story of this day was beautiful and something that I wanted to remember forever

--when our local high school called our family for a special chapel service dedicated to Chris where they also wanted to pass along Chris's high school football jersey to Carson.

There's a combination of several different manufacturer's products here. Mixing and matching is one of my favorite things to do and this color scheme seemed perfect: not to loud, but also not too soft. The layout is supposed to uplifting like the day was, while also somber too.

The day of the chapel service there was SO MUCH LOVE. It was one of those times in my life where I just felt overwhelmed and taken aback with the love and compassion that other people felt for our family. A simple heart punch, a couple of them actually helped remind me of that feeling.

Here's a look at the entire page.

Wishing you a happy Memorial Day today, no matter who you are remembering and honoring. There are so many people that have fought out there for our freedom, our life and integrity. We are an incredibly blessed nation, that's for sure. And I'm proud to live here.

Side Note: Don't forget to leave a comment on Friday's post to enter to win a box of Bella scraps from the studio! The giveaway is still open and you have until tonight at midnight to comment. Winners will be announced at Bella and here tomorrow!

Athlete: Bella Blvd's Making the Team

Ciao Bella! Did you make your way over here from Bella Blvd? Lookin' to win some random Bella Blvd scraps from our not-so-spring-office-cleaning?

Here's How to Enter to Win My Scraps Giveaway:

Leave a comment below telling me the one scrapbooking product/tool that you cannot live without! I'll announce the winner right here on Tuesday. Good luck!

School's almost out for summer which means I will be catching many-a-basketball tournament, gymnastics meets and little league games; Rootin' on my nieces and nephews any opportunity I can get. The layout for today documents my last season coaching my niece Anabelle before she enrolled into middle school. 

I mixed together my Mr. Boy and also my Making the Team product collections.

I fed the graph patterned paper (from the Family Dynamix collection) through my printer for my journaling and then trimmed it into a pennant banner. 

I had to journal about how at this moment in Anabelle's life she is so similar to how I was at that age. I see so much of me in her sometimes that it's scary. And because of Bella's recent team-up with the Twinery have some left over twine o play with! 

The school team is The Star of Bethlehem Stars...so KI's star puffies were a perfect match for the layout, along with Bella Blvd's new Star buttons and referee looking Designer Tape! Here's the finished page that will go into my 2010 album.

Wishing you a wonderful Holiday weekend!

Window Displays, Clothes, and Everything in Between

Happy Friday friends! Hope you're having a great end to your work-week! I know I've shared one of my favorite clothing stores here (Francesca's), and today I have another one.

If you don't have an Anthropologie in your area you are seriously missing out. Sorry to break it to you, but if you are the creative type you're missing all of this awesome inspiration they have to offer: window displays, housewares, clothing, inspirational books (that have inspired several of my mini album workshops actually), and so much more!

On a recent trip to the Third Ward (where my local Anthropologie is) I fell in love with this shelf display of Mason jars splattered with paint and filed with tulips! I just loved the splash of color against the wooden shelf! I think they are going to inspire a fun summer centerpiece for our dining room table. Should be easy enough, don't you think!?

One thing about Anthropologie that makes me kind of sad is that I can't register there for my wedding. If I had a wish upon a star I wish I could register for all their eclectic mix of bowls, plates, glasses and kitchen-wares. Everything is so pretty and mixes and matches to make beautiful, unique collections. 

I often wish I had "a million bux" to spend in this store. I just love it, the catalog, the website. Everything.