Sunday, March 16, 2008

Been Offline

Been Offline!!
Due to mini crisis at home related to enforcing computer gaming rules for my boys, we had to take a hard stand last week and removed the cables to the computer indefinitely!! It worked and there was no protest and in fact a peaceful week (it was a one week school holiday) spent playing board games and creating with Lego and Knex, outdoors, at the beach, and at the museum!
Unfortunately for me I share the computer with the boys (the dh has one for himself..because he has work on it, well that's his reason anyway :p ) I was OFFLINE too!

It was quite uncomfortable, but I too did more reading, and finally, I scrapped, the traditionally paper way! Well, I have been wanting to re-scrap the boys' baby photos which were not digital photos, and did not want to bother with scanning them. Guess what, I enjoyed myself so much! The scrapping was tedious and I kept it simple, but going through Ryan's baby photos just felt so... well, precious and warm and fuzzy, and I am now able to journal a lot about those days, well, from my current reflections of 11 years ago! Look at some of these pages!


I asked Ryan what he did to my sweet baby in those photos, and he said " I upgraded him." I can't disagree with that!
Okay, I did log on a few times after they went to bed, downloaded freebies and over the weekend, completed a page:
Credits: Papers by Kschmidt's flight of fancy, wordarts and ribbon by Gina Caberra, title alpha by faith42love , charm by Lori Barnhurst, swirls by Janosch designs, butterfly by Weeds&Wildflower

And here's the template:
This is now available as a set in the store here

28 comments:

  1. THANK YOU!! LOVE this new template! Your templates are all awesome! I will be using them all the time!

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  2. Thanks so much - I love your templates, especially the 2pagers. I feel like I can tell more of the story with double the room! Thanks again!
    Ellie

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  3. Oh boy - while I agree with enforcing rules for the kids, that would sure be harder for ME than for them! I admire your example to them by sticking with it! I am waiting for my children to notice that they have timers for "screen time" but I don't... I'm a bad mommy... :O
    Blessings to you Yin!

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  4. What a great idea to make the game thing rule happen. I know it was a bummer for you but still looked productive. Maybe I need you to come to my house and enforce the less Internet rule... lol my DH would love you for it... lol

    I love all your layouts and I am continually amazed at the amount of photos you can fit on a layout and still have it look so classy. You are AWESOME!!!! Thanks for always being so kind and generous with your talents too!
    Blessings,
    Shawna

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  5. Wondered what happened... But you know, sometimes I take a week off, just so I can refocus on other things (sometimes because I'm going out of too, LOL). Love Ryan's baby pics and his response to you. How funny is that. Thanks for another great template.

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  6. I look forward to all your new templates. Thanks for another 2-pager.

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  7. Thanks for another beautiful template!

    MiKiko.

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  8. Thank you so much for another great template and I always enjoy seeing your layouts!

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  9. I love your templates. Thanks bunches!

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  10. Great layout! thanks for the template.

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  11. Love the new two pager!!!! Thanks for sharing your talent once again!
    Thanks
    Sharon

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  12. Thank you - I love these 2-pagers!! Great layouts and good for you for unplugging the computer for a week, I'm glad you enjoyed the time with your boys:)

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  13. Thanks for another great template set!

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  14. as usual...i love the template :)

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  15. I really love your templates - thanks SO much for sharing!!

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  16. You have the best 2 page templates! Thanks so much for sharing. (BTW, I don't think I could hold survive without my computer like that!)

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  17. Thanks so much. I love 2-pagers. Cathy

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  18. Beautifully arranged on the page. This one is gonna be used and re-used! Thank you!

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  19. Thank you - love the big two page template!

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  20. Thank you so much...

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  21. Thank you so much! Your templates and pages are always so awesome!

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  22. This is wonderful. I love your 2 page templates. Thanks so much
    mmikes

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  23. i really love your templates!

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  24. I just got done using your template, you can check it out Kaua'i Garden Center. Thanks for sharing!

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  25. Wow wow wow, that is a lovely spread that you scrapped :) Thank you so much for sharing the template for it

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  26. Thanks so much for your templates. I had a few, but just went back and got them all. I love the way you put so many pics on a page. That's what I like doing, too. Thanks for the tips for printing 2 pagers. I'm using some for my son's lifebook, and will print it on Shutterfly, so want to make sure it comes out great! Thanks, Starla

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  27. Wonderful, thank you again!

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