Pink Pasilee Love

Every Sunday throughout the spring, our family spends the afternoon at the soccer fields. 3 kids each with a 1 hour game a piece, all scheduled back to back. I must take hundreds of soccer pictures each season. I may only capture a few that are FABULOUS shots but even the others capture the concentration, determination, aggression (or lack thereof) of my children in the throws of the game. Also, given we play two seasons a year, the photos pile up. It is nice when I come across a paper line that is just perfect to use with these pixs. I love the versatility of the red, white, blue, and yellow...and of course those stars! What better way to showcase my own "Soccer Stars".

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day ladies...I hope you all had a wonderful day! My children let me sleep late and then smothered me with homemade gifts. Some of the gifts were just scraps of paper on which my daughter had written, "I love you mommy". Is there really any better gift than those words?

With all of our activities this past week, I have not had the chance to post any of my layouts. This first one is Studio Calico's Anthology line. I wasn't too sure what I would do with it at first, but this came together nicely. Hannah had gotten a skateboard with her b-day money this winter and had been dying to get to use it outdoors rather than in our basement. She ran outside with it the first day the snow had melted and the sun was out!


I had also promised to post my Color Room layout from last week. This is a picture of Sarah from this past fall. It makes me wish we had spent more time jumping in the leaves! The look of absolute joy on her face makes the work of raking the leaves up so worth it!! The papers are mostly Pink Pasilee's 365 degree collection.

Apple Jack

Remember those pictures from last month's post "Einstein wrestles Clown at Dance Party" --- Sassafrass had the perfect papers for a layout! These Apple Jack papers couldn't have been more perfect. In addition to that, I pulled out some of my old embroidery machine threads and also played with some of my mists. I love the way it turned out.


Also, have you checked out this week's Color Room palette. It features the warm colors of fall --- certainly a palette I can work with. I will post my layout in the next few days.

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Before our lives were so packed with sports and practices, classes and games, I imagined my kids as well rounded, balanced children. They would play soccer, go to summer camp, spend time in science and math programs learning how to build miniture volcanoes and rocket ships, and they would each learn to play an instrument. Instead, we are sports ALL THE TIME....not that there is anything wrong with that. They love their teams! They have learned how to play as a team, how to treat others, and how to be a good sport b/c yes, sometimes they loose. But, there just hasn't been time to really introduce music (not unless you count Lady Gaga on Sirius radio). As a child, I took piano lessons and while I am sure I complained about it as a kid, I love the fact that I can play. I may not be Mozart but it is nice to sit down at the piano every once in a while and try to play.

Anyway, Hannah approached me last night and asked me to teach her how to play the piano. So I taught her how to play Mary had a Little Lamb. I didn't begin to show her how to read music but I taught her the note associated with each key and wrote down the "letters" for her to practice. She is now singing Mary had a Little Lamb with only letters instead of words. :) So proud!