Capt Jack?

Oh my poor little neglected blog!! I don't know what my deal has been lately. I've actually had pages I can share with you all, I've just had this mental block about doing so. Maybe I'm realizing blogging isn't as important to me as it once was. No worries for now, I'm not planning on deleting it or anything. Just realizing that there has been a definitive shift in my priorities. And there has to be, once you start working, you have "more important" demands on your time. It's all about choices. Like today! I really want to scrap and get in a final challenge or two for the 2Ps Stamping event going on. But then I also really want to re-organize my space, buy some new storage, move things around. {sigh} There just aren't enough hours in the day!!

But on to happier, less complicated and infinitely more cuter things :) Urijah got to spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa earlier this month. I know I've mentioned before but my mom has this affinity for all things skeletal and pirate-like, and she has now even got Urijah mixed up in it! She found these cute little skeleton "pjs" (what she's calling them) that she had him running around in all weekend.

Isn't he the cutest little skeleton/pirate you ever did see?! I got him that foam pirate hat from Michael's awhile back. It was just something silly that I knew my mama would appreciate. Never did I realize he would like wearing it! He kept it on all day I'm told. Such an accomplishment for a (then) 17 month old!

For this page, I had some fun with my circle punches, my must have scrapbooking tool. Just went to town on the latest Martha Stewart Halloween paper pack. I'd never seen a 4x12 mat stack before, but for all the different paper options I got, and for the clearance price, I was very pleased.

I also did a bit of misting with silver Maya Mist. It's subtle on the black background but I liked the extra sparkle it added to the page. Question though, how do all of you Glimmer Misters keep your nozzles from getting clogged? This is why I'm not a fan of Glimmer Mist and why the Silver Maya mist is the only metallic I have. All the little glitter particles get caught up in there I'm sure.

Well, I suppose that's all for now. I'll hopefully be updating more this weekend. I have plenty of little projects to share. Happy Halloween yall!!

xxbesos

j.leija

Urijah Update

Kelekon

So it's been awhile since I created a layout of my favorite little guy! His mama has graciously been sending us nearly weekly photo e-mails. We're always so excited to receive them and literally crowd around the computer to view them 1, 2, sometimes 3 times. He's just the most beautiful thing to us. It's hard not to see my brother's face reflected back in his cherubic baby cheeks!

These were the photos she sent us from Halloween. We were all very excited that he was a little "kelekon". {You know there's a story coming...} So when Johnny was little he went to the doctor and after his visit he got to pick out a little toy. Standard practice (pun intended) in a pediatrician's office. One day, he came home with a little pink plastic skeleton which he rather adorably called his kelekon. It's something we've teased him about over the years. Along with his infamous "I'm scared of the baths {bats}" quote.

Needless to say, it was perfection that Christin chose this to be his Halloween costume. It also doesn't hurt that my mother has a large affinity for skulls and pirate contraband. You should see the beach house! We even have a pirate ship and a glass bottle of vodka shaped like a skull sitting on top of our refrigerator. Not to mention the pirate flag they cheerfully hoist, out back on the canal. She even got my dad a pair of skull and bone flip flops! It's a sick obsession really but we love her for it anyhow. Her contribution was the pirate beanie Urijah's sporting. Sadly, it got cropped out in the printing. But he definitely was the cutest little kelekon you ever did see!

Baby Button Butt

Another obsession of mama's and mine is Urijah's baby clothes. We go hog wild in our local Target, picking out his little outfits. He's growing so fast! So there you have our excuse for all of his new clothes ;) This has to be one of our favorites. I mean, how can you beat footie onesies?! You just can't! And especially on our cute little trucker! He also looks great in bright colors and this outfit was nothing if not bright. We especially loved the little button butt on this onesie. I had to memorialize it in the best way possible, with a scrapbook page of course!

Buttons where the theme, so I made sure to include plenty of 'em. I hand stitched around the edges to achieve the "patch" look of his outfit. And using inspiration from a challenge over at 2Ps, I journaled in the form of a list. It came together rather quickly and I'm happy with the result and proud that I was able to add a few more pages to Urijah's scrapbook. Poor child is going to be scrapbooked to within an inch of his life...

xxbesos

j.leija