Last day of SUMMER!

It is here, the last day of summer. And we are enjoying a quiet day puttering at home together as a family. I'm looking forward to a routine, kids in school (though Reece is only 3 mornings a week), gym time, walking my kids to school, and more scrap time. I've got the fall off waiting for my next surgery so lots of time to catch up on my scrapbooking.

Last night I got 2 layouts done while watching "The Listener" online. I really shouldn't do that, it really does slow me down ; )

My Scraps and More sketch #44

my layout:

I have had this My Mind's Eye "Lay-over layout"(a clear plastic with writing over the coloured paper) in my stash since Blake was born...so over 7 years. I always knew one day I would come across the perfect picture for it. Well last night I was actually going to start on a layout of Reece and forced myself to go through my 'old' baby paper stash and saw this one, happened to glance up at the picture sitting on the top of my pile, which was one of Blake at age 4 (he's showing you that with his fingers). Well there it was, the perfect picture!! The colours matched, the theme matched, and right down to the barefeet! Problem is trying to use a style of paper/lay-over from 7 years ago with my style today. With some washi tape, foam Thickers, and wood buttons and twine, I was happy with the end result. Another problem was I didn't write down any notes about Blake when he was 4, so my journalling is so so.