Taylor is finally starting to sleep more at night, sometimes getting as much as 5 hours in a row! That is helping me a lot! Now if only I could get to sleep as SOON as she does, I could get 5 hours too! But I cant seem to do it, it is still taking me about 40 minutes to fall asleep. And that is not when my husband’s snoring is keeping me up longer! LOL We have GOT to find a fix for that- nose strips don’t work at all. I have been working hard on the baby book, when I get a chance, and finished a few more pages, I am hoping to be cought up soon and will order a book to cover all the layouts from pregnancy to six months, maybe even to only three months since most photo books have a limit on the number of pages, and charge a lot more to add a lot. I have so many done already- if I did pregnancy to one year it would be like 200 pages! Wayyy to big!

Check out some of the pages I have done, you can see the rest of the book here, with a few layouts for the family album mixed in.

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I was out shopping on Saturday and the early voting place was open. I decided to stop- I had planned on voting anyway, but being able to avoid long lines on Tuesday with a baby was a definite plus! I dont call myself a republican, I am a registered independent, but voted for McCain because I believe he is our best option. From what I know. Don’t want a big political discussion- I was just proud I actually voted this year, it was my first time! I made the layout last night, used kit called politics as usual by Sweet Shoppe Designs.

Click on the layout to see it bigger, and if you have not seen my other layots you can click right above the layout on Picasa where it says view album and see them all. I am loving my new hobby!

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I got picked to be on a Creative team!!!! For Shazbutt’s DigiScraps, you can see her store here and her blog here. I get to try out her new designs and make layouts with them that will hopefully inspire others to buy her kits and templates! I have already made three layouts with her supplies, see them below- I am pretty proud! :-)

On other news, I was researching printing photo books again and really paid attention this time- turns out I need to add .25 to all sides of my layouts AND make sure nothing important is on the 1/3rd of the page edge…. huh? Yeah, I am thinking the same thing… Lucky for me I have only made 22 layouts so far that I plan on printing, So I am going through all of them, one by one and checking to be sure everything will look right, it would SUCK to spend 50 dollars printing a book only to have half my journaling cut off! Most of them will be an easy fix, but the one I am worried about is the 2 pager I made with her picture in the middle! I may have to rethink that one! We will see!

Ok, off to bed, I GOTTA get some sleep!

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I finished this page yesterday, click on the images to see bigger and read the journaling if you want. I thought it was important to show what our days are like, I think it will be fun to do one every few months and see how things change. I have finally talked my self into buying a external hard drive, I have almost 15 gig of scrapbooking things on my computer now, not counting pictures, it would really really suck if I lost everything! The are on sale this week at buy.com.

I seem to be downloading so much more than I am scrapping, there are just so many cute kits and such for sale! And the freebie selection is awesome!! I can’t wait to have a full year of pages for her baby book, it is going to be HUGE! Hopefully she will love it! Heck, depending on how many pages I have at 6 months I might split it into 2 books, each can only have like 100 pages I think, at least at the printing companies I checked, and I don’t know if that is 100 front and back (so 200 layouts) or 50 pages (so 100 layouts..) too much info! Full bleed, leather cover, photo cover, image wrap, etc. etc. Lots to figure out before then!

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I am sitting here with Taylor on my chest, thinking that I need to go shopping for office chairs that lean back more! I am leaned far enough back that she can lay on my chest and I have both hands free to type but this is so uncomfortable!! :-) Anyway, I have been scrapping when I can, it is really relaxing and so much cheaper than any other hobby! I was telling Joseph that for my birthday he can just get me a gift card to one of my scrap stores for like 30 bucks and I will have a field day!! I think I would like that even better than a new necklace! (and the budget too!)

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