So, here we go... my first real blog post. As I sit here writing this, the superbowl is on (not that I am watching it!) I guess the NY Giants are winning, but, whatever. I'm not into football AT ALL - just keeping my boyfriend company. Of course, the commercials are fun to watch...like the Dorito commercial where the grandma slingshots the baby forward to snatch the bag of chips from the brother in the treehouse? Funny! But really, what better time to blog than during a football game?
For this first post, I've decided to show you all a little bit of me - through a craft, of course. Since I don't have a real photo of me on my profile I thought I'd start by showing you my very first attempts at scrapbooking. I've made a couple of mini albums for a couple of my friends who have new babies, but never a full 12 x 12 layout like these, which I put together last week.
These layouts are nothing fancy, but I am in love with them because, well, I am scrapbooking photos of me and my boyfriend and, well, we are so cute together, what can I say? And I say that because we are happy, and I like that we are happy. Happiness is important, and I know because I've been in relationships before where I've not been very happy. Those weren't so good, but we're not going to talk about bad stuff. Not today, anyway.
So, I used these:
My Mind's Eye scrapbook paper (Lost & Found TWO)

Lost & Found TWO brads

Tim Holtz tickets

and combined different bits and pieces with a few of my favorite pictures to create these layouts:

Here's a closeup of the journaling box:


(By the way, now the New England Patriots have pulled ahead and are winning 17-9. Madonna's halftime show was good...)
See? We're cute, aren't we? Told ya so. I would never lie about such things. So, that's me. I am a real person and not just a cartoon drawing. My friend, Victoria, did the drawing - she is very talented. Not only as an artist (check out her fb page, Paint Me Senseless)- she's also a gymnast-turned-circus girl. She's pretty much awesome.
So yeah, pretty simple layouts, but I still like the way they turned out. Looking at them makes me smile. Basically, my boyfriend makes me smile. He's not afraid to be a complete goofball, which I totally love. I love him. I am so lucky.
(P.S. Giants back ahead, 21-17 with 5 seconds left. Good game.)