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blurb book
Since the whole scrapbooking thing has fallen by the wayside lately, I had to do SOMETHING to use all those 100,000 pictures I take of us a year. Ok, maybe not really 100,000 but close. So I found this super cool thing online at blurb books where you basically publish your own book. They have a zillion different templates to plop your pictures into, backgrounds, colors, designs, you name it. Plus you can use any font in your computer. So cool, creative and fun. And I got to use all my favorite pictures to boot. I pulled almost all of the journaling right off my blog which makes it so much easier.
Here are a few shots of the book- nothing spectacular. It looks so much better in real life. The whole book is about 141 pages long. Hardcover with a dustjacket and everything. Thanks to Patrick for being my book holding helper.
And for a little sneak preview of my next project: a picture wall for the den. There are currently two small picture shelves there above the couch, but I wanted to do something different. Here are the frames layed out on the living room floor. I just ordered all the pictures for the frames and am waiting for them to come in. Doing a mix of black & white and color. The actual hanging is going to be umm…challenging, I think. I hope it looks as good in real life as it does in my head.
Tommorrow is the wedding- getting excited. I will post pictures on that as soon as I can. The boys finished up their speeches tonight and they are all ready to go. Today I had a shoot for the gup baby- she has her christening tommorrow. I feel so bad that I can’t be there for the actual christening, but that would be a little difficult! So we got in a ton of shots today. Planning on posting those early next week. But here’s one little sneak peek until then…
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the day (and night) from you know where
Oh. My. God. I totally quit. Don’t wanna play anymore.
Last night Timmy decided it would be a great idea to not sleep. Pretty much at all. The whole night. He ended up having a very busy day yesterday (Thursday). Jen and Jack watched him in the morning so I could get my hair highlighted, then we headed over to Sharon & Olivia’s for a playdate there. By the time I looked at the clock, it was almost time to get the big boys from school. So no nap, but I figured it would be okay since with the PT/OT thing, he is generally not napping on Tuesdays or Thursdays. And he slept til 8:25am Thursday morning. Wrong. By bedtime, he was a total mess, trantrums, tripping over himself. He even whacked his head on a toy and gave himself a swollen eye (yeah, thats gonna look great for the wedding pictures Sunday!). Well, he didn’t sleep last night. Just didn’t. He was up crying, schutching, whining, screaming, kicking, you name it. I don’t know why. Maybe overtired + lack of papi = no sleep? I tried everything…ignoring, comforting, holding, rocking, laying in his bed, laying in my bed, yelling, threatening, kissing…nothing!!!! So he slept for maybe 3 hrs (not consecutive either) and was just grumpier each time he woke up. But I didn’t cave and give him the papi!! Not that he asked for it, even, but it probably wouldv’e helped. He was so exhausted I think he was a little delirious! Seriously. He was SCREAMING at me things like, "I spray the flowers!", "I want my roly-poly teddy bear!" (he dosen’t have a teddy bear), "I like honey-nut cheerios!" (he dosen’t). If it wasn’t like 4am and maybe if I had actually slept for more than 15 minutes prior, it would’ve been funny. And then to top it off with the sleeping, or lack thereof, he was up for the day at 6:10am. Nope. I called the doctor’s office then to make an appointment for this morning, hoping for a good old raging ear infection. Nope again. He’s totally fine. Let the beatings commence! (okay, before you call CPS, I didn’t lay a finger on the kid).
In the meantime, Jack decided he wasn’t going to sleep either. He was awake til 3am. Don’t know why. Neither does he. He was a whole lot of fun today too, you can imagine.
I had a slight nervous breakdown at breakfast, being so sick of cleaning up after everyone, all the time. They all seem to think I’m the magic mommy maid. So when they all leave their crap wherever it happens to land, it will magically be cleaned up, washed, and returned to it’s proper place so that when they are looking for it 2 minutes before they are supposed to be someplace (and they only have 2 minutes because even though I asked them to be ready about 20 minutes ago, they were too busy whining and complaining and dawdling about whatever that they couldn’t get ready) it’s amazingly where it should be. I’m all done. Can’t find your (insert item here)__________? Oh, that’s really too bad. Guess you will have to play soccer with one cleat. SO DONE!!!!
Then after going out in the pouring rain to the doctor, dry cleaner, bank, gas station (which, by the way was just the cherry on the cake of my day…. $4.01 per gallon of regular? WTF?) and taking Timmy to his gym class, we come home from class and Timmy proceeds to pee all over the floor, of course getting his sneakers totally soaked with pee too. Yeah. Great, now that will be 7 loads of laundry for today (that are still sitting clean but not folded). Good times!
The day did start to improve from there a little bit. Timmy did take a 2hr nap. I took a 20 minute nap while rocking him. I started working on one of the photo projects for the house. And, the best part…Mom & Ken brought me my two favorite dishes from the Peking Duck House in Chinatown! (crunchy greenbeans with crumbled pork & chicken with walnuts) Yum. Eating right now. And so far Timmy is sleeping. But it’s still early.
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visitors day, japan, & projects
Last Thursday (see, I’m a week behind…arrrggghh!) was Visitors Day at the boys school. The theme this year was It’s a small world and it was very, very cute. John couldn’t make it so my mom came along so each boy had a visitor in their classroom. They started in the gym with a Japanese story and song that they all played on their recorders. Then it was off to the classrooms (in which I had exactly 7.5 minutes each) to hear some presentations on Japan and see the haiku’s the boys wrote along with the art they made. It was a really great Japan presentation. You could totally tell how hard the whole class (and the teachers) worked on the whole thing. And both boys received HUGE compliments from their teachers on their Haiku’s.
Grandma took the boys out to lunch while I took Timmy to PT & OT. Even though I felt bad I couldn’t be in two places at once (I really wanted to take them out to lunch), they didn’t really seem to mind as they each ended up going with Grandma to the store and getting 5 new Kooky Pens each. And on a side note about those Kooky Pens…they have so many now, that Patrick’s backpack actually broke under the weight of all the pens hanging off the zipper today.
In other news around here, I am working on a few photographic projects around the house. Went to HomeGoods and just about bought them out of frames. I have a project in mind for the den, living room, and timmy’s room for now. Then moving on to the boys room and our room last. Might even throw something in the dining room someplace in there too. Ya know, in all my free time! I will post pictures when each project gets moving. Maybe some before & afters.
Getting everyone ready for the big wedding (grandma & grandpa’s) on this Sunday. It should be a whole lot of fun!
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new branding
I have some big projects in the works around here for my little (but growing fast) business. So I am playing with some branding logos. Here are 4 that I worked on tonight. I know NONE OF YOU ever leave comments, but any comments on the different ones would be very helpful. Vote for one if you feel so inclined. Please?
Don’t worry, announcements about new products and offerings from bsquared will be up sometime in the next few months. Can you stand the suspense??
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beaches n buckets
One of my previous clients (the O family from last summer) has started her own business selling all kinds of fun beach accessories- bags, flip flops, matching belts, headbands, etc for adults and kids, too. She asked me if I would take some pictures of her product for her website. So down to the beach we headed on Mothers Day to get some shots of all of her super cute and fun stuff. I took pictures of the product she gave me, but there is a ton of other stuff on her site. More of the pix I took are in an album on the left.
I am having a beaches n buckets party here at my house on Friday, May 30th. I sent out a ton of evites, but if you didn’t get one and you’d like to come, please send me an email and I will forward it along to you. The more, the merrier. Please don’t feel like I skipped over you, I did the "mailing" at around 1:30am and was a little punchy and the whole thing wasn’t working right. So I had to type in each email address one by one (and there were 108 evites sent!).
Please feel free to check out her website for ALL of her product and have fun shopping. The link is here: beaches n buckets. Really, I dare you to not shop!
