June Kit ~~ PL LO 1 & 2

And our little man went and graduated Preschool!!  

It was SO fun!!!

He had such a GREAT year.

Such a smart little fella.

This months kit is just perfect for 

some Preschool Grad LO's

I mean seriously.....

WOW indeed =)

WOW-ZERS!!

Oh Sir Cuteness.....

I love EVERYTHING about you!

Receiving his diploma.

Oh the joy of this child!

I love those Glitz Finley letter stickers

in my kit.

This is the page opposite the above loveliness.

Lovely black and teal accents.....

This little girl and Sir Cuteness had quite

the friendship this year.  

At first, they fought like cats and dogs,

and then by the end of the year

they were crushies =)

I am SO glad to be back to making LO's again.

I embossed this little lovely.

Swoon.

(MME Stamp)

So there we have it.

The first 2 PL LO's using my June Kit.

Back in the Saddle Again!

Hey I may have just named my kit =)

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

It's the Simple Things

I am having so much fun using up my

January CKC kit.

I love repeating items

like these tags 

and words.

And I am LOVING

vellum right now.

So for this LO

I have THE cutest of subject matters,

Yes, Sir Cuteness himself.

As I am looking at this,

I am realizing there is no journaling

on this page.

Sometimes it is just fine,

but I have a story to tell with this one,

so I will get that on there somewhere.

But this was us taking advantage of 

the Ding-Ding man.

(What we call the ice cream truck =)

He came around well after summer

on a nice warm day,

and Sir Cuteness heard him

and came RUNNING in 

and telling me to grab my money =)

I love him so!

They were out of Ninja Turtles,

so he had to get Spider Man.

He was just fine with that =)

It is indeed the simple things.

 I LOVE mixing my title.

Here you have 2 different yellow Thickers,

and then some tiny letters from....

yeah, I don't remember,

but I love them.

anyway....

This picture is a little dark,

but I'm playing round with picture taking

and lighting.

I really wanted y'all to see

my white Heidi Swapp Color Shine

on this vellum.

It is scrummy y'all.

What is scummy you ask?

Well yummy and scrumptious,

of course.

Sir Cuteness,

you my darling child,

are my FAVE boy!! 

I have started really using my stash lately.

I have so many lovely things 

that just wasn't getting used,

like the sheet of paper that all these words came on.

I started cutting them out and 

Voila!

Used.

On a page.

Novelist of ideas =)

And this is just a close up of our darling Sir Cuteness.

You are welcome!

I hope y'all are using up those kits.

Thank you for your kindness and support.

I hope you have a 

Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

PL Week #2 -- Documenting

Welcome!

I hope y'all are doing splendidly.

I wanted to show you my PL Week 2 spread,

and also have a wee bit of a discussion

on something I've seen on a message board.

First off,

I only took 2 pics of my spread this week.

lame.

And as I'm looking at this one,

remembered that I am missing a photo.

double lame.

The reason for this 

is because I put this page together 

and forgot about my title bit 

there in the corner.

So put that together

and then went to put it all in their sleeves

and had lost this picture.

Ummmm......ok

because it was right there with my other pics.

Hmmmmm.....ok.

Well I looked everywhere I could think of,

and it still has not shown up.

So I reprinted and now this sleeve is not blank,

but I still haven't found this pic.

Weird.

I think the studio fairies ate it.

moving on.....

I used bits and bobs from my January CKC kit

on this spread.

I love having my little blue box full of CKC goodness

that has come straight from my stash.

Yes folks, it rocks.

If you don't know what I'm talking about follow the link 

right up there

and check it out.  

It is fantastic!!

So on this page you see my title card 

in the corner with "Wk2" in white sparkly Thickers.

I'm gonna milk these stickers for all they are worth,

and then hopefully find some equally cool ones

to continue my PL this year.  

I like the continuity using a similar title

gives to the overall album, 

makes it come together, if you will.

Sir Cuteness being my personal stylist,

and snow boarding.

Be.still.my.heart.

Then the two written pics you see there

are memory verses I've been working on.

They are my yearly Verse Isaiah 26:3

and my January 1 Verse, Psalm 32:7.

This will be a regular feature in my albums.

Then the bottom right is from my first ever

Persnickety Prints order,

which is also the missing picture.

Hmpfff.....

Then here is page two of WK2.

Now I want to address something I saw 

on a message board,

where a lady asked if everyone documents 

only the good of the week

or if people document the challenging

or not so good too.

For me, 

I document both,

and the reason is 

that life is not perfect.

I want to be transparent here.

I deal with a lot of health issues,

but my God is able.

Sometimes these health issues

disrupt our weeks.

We deal with them

and move on.

I try not to dwell in the land of pain.

It's not pretty there.

So we deal with it as it comes.

It is part of our weeks

a lot of times.

So on this spread we have both.

Some good

and 

some not so good.

Just keeping it real.

In the top right, 

I got to hang out with my girl

this week.

It made me SO HAPPY!!

And top right,

our winter has been winter this year.

In MO, we definitely get a mixed

bag,

but this year winter has NOT disappointed.

And because of that,

our dear Sir Cuteness has been home a lot.

For two weeks, he was home more than

he went to school.  

When he was littler and it was just

him and I

(before the preschool days)

he would have sink play.

Yes I know this may sound kinda strange,

but he LOVED

(and still does apparently) =)

to play in the sink.

He gets the soap out,

and the scrub brush

and here the dish gloves

and goes to town.

He gets himself and everything around

him a wet mess,

but I don't mind.

It makes him so happy,

and I get a clean sink

out of the deal.

Win-Win =)

More of the Persnickety Prints goodness,

and then here is where the

not-so-good comes in.

On Sunday of this particular week, 

my herniated disc started acting up.

I mean like shooting pain down my 

arm and seriously hindering everything.

It was hard to sit, stand, lay.....

Nothing seemed to help.

So my sweet man

went out in blizzard conditions

to get me a sling.  

Seriously so sweet.

So here I am,

bottom right,

hanging out

with no make up,

a tossled mess of hair,

and my sling.

It has been very painful.

But it is now starting to get better.

I'm so thankful.

So yes,

I document our week,

even the things that don't go 

just right.

I really want my PL to reflect our 

lives.  

Our everyday,

loving Jesus

and 

living life,

lives.

It is important to me.

Thank you for stopping by 

and keeping up with a really wordy post =)

I am linking up with Sami

right here.

I hope you have a.....

Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of day ~~ 

Dream Big

Yes I am still doing regular LO's 

as well as PL.

And using my January CKC kit

too.

Here are the girls

and when the Beautiful Miss A sent

me this pic,

I KNEW it had to make its way on a page.

Oh Maggie, Maggie.....

Old Collection

New Collection

no matter,

I love them all.

Can't wait for the new collection to come out.  

I will love it.

I've seen the sneaks.

LOVE IT.

Of course =)

Dream my precious girls.....

Dream BIG!!!

I so believe in you!!

So there you have it.

Thank you so much for coming by.

I hope you have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

PL.....It's Coming Right Along

Well Hello There....

I am so happy to tell you 

that PL is coming right along

in these parts.

OH MY GOODNESS.....

I love it SO much!!

I REALLY didn't think I would

like it quite this much.

But it is just great.

Here.....

let me just show you 

what's been going on.

I have been using some of my

January CKC kit to work on my pages.

This page is part of my Christmas pages. 

Yes the picture of Sir Cuteness 

that looks less than perfect

is one of the reasons 

I wanted to do PL.

This picture has quite the story,

but it may be one that 

I wouldn't have done a whole 12x12 page 

on.  

But it is just perfect for a PL page.

This page is my first official Week 1 page.

It is a learning process,

and I am really looking forward to seeing

how my pages will differ at the end of the 

year compared to the beginning.

But having said that,

I do love it.

Such a great way to document

and I can still be artsy.

I love that.

I've been watching a lot of youtube videos

and I love the idea of making sure you have

the week # documented.

so I will be including that in my pages.

See that "Wk one"?

Love it.

Lots of Thickers were used

in the making of this page.

Love this picture of Sir Cuteness

and his daddy.

And look at that camera.

Love it.

A little FaceTime action with me boy.

I added some wood veneer.

Check out this oversized arrow.

LOVE.IT.

I used some Heidi Swapp rubons on it.

SO great!

Here is the 2nd side of the LO.

More rubons

and some Amy Tan paper.

And speaking of the lovely Amy Tan,

she is one that I've been watching on YouTube,

and I must say, I really like her PL style.

Sir Cuteness and I went to see Frozen.

If you haven't, 

Oh you should.

You really should.

And if you have a 5 year old to take with you,

it only enhances the experience.

And then this picture.....

Oh goodness.....

cracks.me.up.

Yes, he was in time out.

Hahahaha.....

Some more Amy Tan paper goodness,

and yes I am mixing core kits

with my stash.

 This is my 2014 goal page.

I will need to get the most of the journaling

done, but other than that this page is complete.

I am linking up to thescrapmaster.com

Hop on over there and look at her inspiring

Week One.  

So there you have it.

My PL progress.

I can't wait to do Week 2.  

I am going to be working on organization 

between now and then.

I hope you have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~