More Mother's of Multiples - July

So this is what I've been busy with for the last two weeks. My next issue of the newsletter is just a few minutes away from being ready to publish and I've gotten my LOs complete. I thank God that I found Yin from Yin Design/Simply Yin, her templates have been a huge time saver for me - the hardest part is figuring out which one to slightly modify to make it work for the number of photos I have - but I would be sunk trying to fit all these photos in the newsletter without her marvelous talent.

I really appreciate all the wonderful comments people left for me on "No Boys, Just Girls". It was definitely the most positive response I've received so far. It has gotten me inspired to create "Ok, Just Some Boys" add-on which I'll start working on when the girls & I get back from a mini-trip back to my parents this week. I have a few ideas, but I'm always open to more suggestions. I've gotten 40 comments so far, and 1750 hits and 1000 people downloaded the elements, and about 50 fewer for the paper packs. That's always interesting to see, I guess I'm a numbers person as an engineer, but I'm always curious why people downloaded elements and not papers, I'm much more a paper person myself. Now I'm anxious to see some layouts people have created. There's a little Thank You below all these LOs.

Template 25 by Yin Designs Paper from Strawberry Delight by Flergs (recolored) Alpha from Patriotic by ScarlettSinger Designs Fonts - Arial, Cooper
Template 9 by Yin Designs Paper from Frozen Passion by Pay it Forward Scraps Fonts - Social Animal, CK Journaling	Template 36 (used 1/2) by Yin Designs Paper from Mango Tango by mglscraps Fonts - Placard Condensed, CK Journaling
Template 47 (modified) by Yin Designs Paper from White is White by Dnad Papers from Silly Season by Zoe Pearn Journal Tag from Wild Sorbet by Michelle Coleman Quote from Quote Challenge by Mindy Terasawa Font - CK Journaling	Template 12 by Yin Designs Paper from Shimmer Secondaries by Tracy Lee Designs Date Label from Calendar Labels by Mira Designs Notebook from Nothing Girly by Christine Smith Tabs by Scraps from Sarah Belle Fonts - Chocolate Box Decorated, CK Journaling, Soopafresh
Template 34 (modified) by Yin Designs Papers from Beach Glass by Ginger Scraps Fonts - Death, Century Gothic, CAC Leslie, Blue Cabin
Template 22 (from 2 pages to 1) by Yin Designs Papers from Wild Sorbet by Michelle Coleman Fonts - Elephant, 2 Peas Chatter, LB Punchy, DymoFontInvers	Template 40 (modified) by Yin Designs Papers from Wild Sorbet by Michelle Coleman Fonts - Elephant, Arial

I got my husband one of those coffee mugs you can change the insert on and I love it, so much that I just bought one for myself this weekend and I don't drink coffee. I'll probably make a scrap page just like this mug insert (why didn't I save the psd file????), as I think it turned out pretty cute. All the items are from my two latest kits which you can find on the left sidebar under My Scraps. The kits are "No Boys, Just Girls" and "Spring Swing".

Pick up the mug inserts HERE.

Our Little Tomboys

I really took some shortcuts with this LO. During one of my earlier visits to Sweet Shoppe Designs Gallery for inspiration I noticed a LO and added it to my favorites for a future "lift". To my great surprise, the LO was chosen to the the cookie (template) of the week, which made it even easier to lift. It's almost an exact duplicate of the original because I already had the same kit that Kay Miller used in the original LO. So no originality here on my part - just knocking out another LO using one of my favorite pictures. I think its the outfit in the picture as much as anything - I loved those brown cords and that jean jacket, and they still love to wear Daddy's ball caps.

I did want to share a little tip I use for naming files. I start each file with the year the picture was taken followed by the month then a title. So this one is filed as "2006 10 Our Little Tomboys" In this way all the files are orderly and I can use the files to quickly organize a book since they are already in chronological order.



Template by Aggie Adviso for Cookie Decorating 101 at Sweet Shoppe Designs
Kit Haute Spring by Zoe Pearn
Demin from Spring in Denim by Dnadryad
Glitter by Flergs
Actions - inked edge by Atomic Cupcake
Font - Mom's Typewriter