Cookie Monster

Scrappers!

I found a working Cookie Monster at Savers and op shop recently and was SO excited! 

Naturally I had to do a layout to add to my kids folder. 

The Kids, new additions and catch ups

  Many of you who follow me, know about my toy collection. Here are some more that I have photographed. Some are new and others just kept getting forgot when I set up to shoot the "Kids.

There are a few Nerf as well as the new Bubble guns that I found at Target around my birthday.

Predator here was a birthday present back in 2010, however I managed to forget to take photos of him for almost 3 years.

Also finally fixed my Z'GOK model from years ago, who got damaged in transit from Perth.

Some toys have recently however, been donated to charity, time to move them one to a new home.

 

Holiday Projects: Portfolio

Well, after a lot of effort and having to be VERY selective of what work to put in to this Portfolio Memory File, I have finally completed it. I must say thought, I didn't realise how prolific I was with my creativity and art work until now. I am even looking at compiling a second portfolio later one, for all the photos that didn't make the first Memory File.

I used one of the memory files I made while doing the Heidi Swapp Memory file classes a few months back, as I liked that it was big enough to add more pages too.

So I worked my magic at making new memory file folders and covering them with some papers that I already had in my craft supplies. This was an arduous task going through ALL my papers and selecting ones that I liked or would work. The Portfolio is now quite bulky, fitting comfortably in the 1/2 inch  depth that the outer folder was formed to.

 

 

I made my own photo stacks for my photographs as there were many and the techniques Heidi Swapp used to make her own photo stack just wanted and option for me. In the end I cut a peice of patterned card paper for each photo, cutting it about a 1/2 inch longer than the picture. I scored that extra half inch at the top of each piece and stuck that down with double sided tape.  Works like a charm.

 

 

This was the original photo stack that came with the kit sent out for the Memory File Classes. 

 

New kids

Many of you will not be aware that I do not have children of my own, and do not plan on having children of the human varity. However, I do have a considerably LARGE collection of toy that I affectionately refer to as my kids. Low maintenance with no on going cost and easy to relocate. I sometimes wonder if Toy Story is accurate and my kids come to life when I leave the house, it is a nice thought and one that my inner child will cling to for the rest of my life.

With out much ado, I introduce the new arrivals.