Piper Monthly -10 months

by Lesley Oman on 28 January, 2012

oh gee. 10 months.

- You celebrated your first Christmas, and Santa didn’t just leave presents he also gave you some more skills! You started crawling on Christmas day! You had been sliding backwards for a while but Dec 25th was definitely the day that you discovered the forward motion. By Boxing day you were an absolute pro!

- You are constantly trying to repeat what we do and what we say. In the car today daddy sneezed and then you made a noise which sounded exactly the same. You were so pleased that you made us laugh so hard.

- You can say cat, da, ma, ba, moo, dog, ball, duck and ta (thank you). And every day you are trying to create new syllables. You make me so proud

- You have discovered that when we are holding you, if you point in one direction we will move that way. It is one of the greatest games now. You love being in control {ahem, not at all like your daddy, eh?!}

- Poor Miya. She loves being near you and keeping a protective, watchful eye over you, but now that you can crawl you like chasing her around. I sometimes think Miya is a bit of a gluton for punishment because there are plenty of places up high that she could sit safely out of your reach, but no, she chooses to be right down beside you. i LOVE that!

- In nursery you are moving up to the next age group. Now that you are very mobile you are no longer a Koala, but are progressing on to the Grizzlies. Poor Rachel is going to miss spending her days with you.

- Finally I am putting away your first Maxi-Cosi car seat. Daddy has been using the bigger car seat in his car, but we needed to buy another one for my car. It was getting so difficult to carry both you and the car seat in and out of the car. Another item that you have outgrown that needs to be placed up into the attic.

- You are doing really well at eating your finger food. I think i underestimated you for a while. I picked you up early form nursery one day and you were happily munching on a toasted teacake, a spinach & feta goujon and chunks of apple. Since then you have been trying everything. You even tried some of the famous Kenny’s chicken fillet special! It made daddy so very jealous!

- You are such a little flirt. On the aeroplane over to Northern Ireland you were looking around the plane, waving, clapping hands and blowing kisses. Loads of people were sneaking peeks over at you beaming with smiles. I guess you have that effect on loads of people.

- Still creaming you up everyday. You must have the most extensive beauty regime of anyone i know. I think we have now reached 7 different products. You want to help now, but sometimes that means we get a teeny bit messy!

- Last week in Tesco when i was doing the grocery shop, two different people stopped me on different occasions to tell me that you are beautiful. No wonder daddy says you’re not allowed to start dating until your 25!

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‘N.I’ Scrapbook Page (multiphoto)

by Lesley Oman on 27 January, 2012

Its been ages since I have been scrappy so I decided to just get busy. To inspire myself I grabbed this book, page maps 2.

I got it for Christmas last year and I decided to actually pull out the removable cards and give it a whirl. I opened the book at random and picked out a card.

Turns out I am not so good at following sketches, LOL. You see, as soon I got going, my own brain started making design decisions so I kinda forgot about the little card sitting in front of me. It wasn’t until Craig came knocking on the craft room door that i finally broke out of autopilot and i realised (1) it was late and i really needed to go to bed and (2) this layout really couldn’t be farther from the sketch i was supposedly following.

No worries though. I don’t really get hung up on things like that to be honest. The main thing is that i have a scrapbook page completed. Another page, another memory for my album.

This page is modestly titled ‘ni’ and is about my first trip back to Northern Ireland with Piper. I always abbreviate my homeland to those two little letters so it seemed fitting to use them as the title.

I didn’t have our laptop so i just pulled some iPhone photos from the bundle that i had printed during the summer. I am so glad i just decided to print a bunch that day. I really should print some more. Even if they are just lying around, maybe one day they will end up on a layout just like these little photos.

Here’s the layout..

and some more close ups

There’s a list of products at the bottom but in case you are wondering the title is made using Heidi Swapp sheer letters. They are really old so i don’t think they make them any more but thought i would mention it. <3

Thanks for popping by.
x



 

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Twine love

by Lesley Oman on 24 January, 2012

I forgot to share one of my Christmas gifties. Hiding in my stocking was a fistful of gorgeous twine. And I gotta say, looooooove twine!

Pick up some twine for yourself over at the ribbon reel.

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MAN-Day Monday- Granda bday card

by Lesley Oman on 23 January, 2012

Happy Manday Monday everyone.

Today’s masculine card is a Granda birthday card because it was my daddy’s birthday last week. It was so good to be home to give him lots of birthday hugs. Even Piper delighted in giving lots of snuggles to Granda.

This was a card made of mostly scraps, but i love the finished card. The spotty paper co-ordinated well with kraft so i made this the main basis of the card and went from there.

I pulled out my star cookie cutter dies from Quickutz and ran some brown card through my cuttlebug to create a frame then popped a felt alpha in the middle : g for Granda of course! I also used a Quickutz die to cut out a little panel and then used my white gel pen to write text in the middle.

Well i couldn’t go too long without a button, but the tone of the red matched the spotty cardstock and worked well with the design, and instead of using twine i used some linen thread which is a bit coarser and hence, more masculine i think.

Happy Birthday Dad.

 

There a layout coming this week, so come back soon….

:-)

 

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