Winter blahs...

We've been a household full of sick people lately, not all at the same time thankfully! Colds & flus have laid us low and now my youngest son has picked up a tummy bug. Poor little thing is thin enough, a day without eating he looks skeletal!

Since I haven't been doing much else, I've scrapped 10 layouts with my kids Tee-ball team photos, which I won't share here for privacy reasons but I will share a couple of others I've done. Hopefully I'll still like all my pages when I'm feeling better. Some I've done when I'm sick or tired, I've looked back and thought what was I thinking!!!

Here they are anyway ;-)

Here's my little man on his birthday. He got into Lego this year which I'm really happy about. He's always been one of those kids who just wants to play with his brother & sister, or whatever they're playing with. He's never really been into toys (except for his cuddly toy frogs), I've found Christmas & birthdays sooo hard because he doesn't really want anything, and let's face it by kid No. 3 you seem to have so much anyway! So he developed a love of Star Wars Lego, so we had to have everything Lego. I found this great paper at Scrapbook Secrets (sorry I can't remember who makes it). I used gesso and yellow paint on the background. I also sprayed it with "Radiant Rain Shimmer Mist" by Luminarte in Ocean Wave. I traced some numbers from an old stencil on it and added some painted & glossy accented chipboard stars. Finished it off with journalling and some Doodlebug letters.

Here's a layout with my oldest son & daughter when she was less than a month old. We took this photo to give our parents for Christmas. This page came about because I was sitting looking through a pile of die cut sayings I have. When I started scrapbooking I kept finding these and falling in love with them, now I have a pile of them that I still haven't used! So I was determined to challenge myself to use one. Originally I thought I'd use this one on a page with my 2 boys, but I liked the teal tone with this photo and thought it would go with the Kaisercraft "Hummingbird" Range. I'm really pleased with the end result. I love the Hummingbird range, such pretty papers! I've added some Prima flowers and a chipboard bird (think it's Dusty Attic) that I inked and embossed. My scrap partner in crime lent me some of her punches, thanks SP!

School holidays are nearly here, hoping I can scrap a little. I might need to for sanity's sake!

Keep blossoming!