Another Weekend and It's ALL GOOD

Little One has been sleeping slightly longer, at least one 3-hour stretch each night, sometimes even longer. This has done wonders for my mood. I feel recharged physically.
It's a productive weekend, scrapping-wise. Did 8 pages in the last 2 days. Creatively recharged.
Listened to about 2 months worth of sermons, which I totally miss out on while in the nursery week after week. Spiritually nourished.
Yeah!! It's all good!!


Next week, we'll start Little One on formula once a day. She's feeding more in the day, perhaps making up for the reduced night feeds. The stockpile is depleting and I do not have enough for the days I am at work. If she takes to the formula, I'll just stick to feeding her when I'm around and forget about pumping.

Layouts (3)

Just for fun, Marcus from Table Scraps @ MWL tagged Little One with a price tag valued $99.99.  Of course we'll never trade her for all the riches of the world!

Supplies:

Cardstock - Club Scrap

Patterned paper - Creative Imaginations, My Little Shoebox

Flowers - Prima, Imaginesce

Fabric label - EK Success

Brad - Kaiser

Stickers - American Craft

Stash Organisation - Rubberstamps

This is how I store my wood mounteds.  The plastic cases are just the right thickness.  I can fit 4 months worth of CS Sr, Jr and St in each box.

I can also fit two half sheets per layer if I so decide to put the same theme together.

Unmounteds are stuck onto folders made of transparencies folded in half.  I use Alene Tack-it-over glue.  Some index sheets are photocopied onto transparencies.

Working Arrangements

Had an impromptu chat with the Boss who asked whether I will continue with the part-time arrangement.  I have thought about it and, since Boss brought it up, I just might take it on for another year.  I sure would like to be around when Little One walks, talks, learns her alphabet.  I would like to be around for Big One when schools gets more intense, when teenage woes need a listening ear.  I also secretly look forward to some "me" time when Little One is older and takes longer naps, or goes to childcare and I can have a couple of hours in a stretch.  Of course that would be several years down the road!

Layouts (2)

I had fun with this.  For one, it's using a sketch, something which is out of my routine.  I'm such a non-conformist that I don't even follow what I sketch, if at all.  But for this layout, I made sure I kept to the details of a sketch, just to get out of my comfort zone.

The other fun aspect is the Dymo lettering on cardstock.  I have wanted to do this for the longest time.  I finally found the old Dymo clickity labeler and, after experimenting with the width of cardstock and the amount of pressure, embossed the words and inked over them.  The next experiment will be to use cardstock with a white core and sand the embossed words.

• Cardstock by Bazzill and Club Scrap
• Hambly, Maya Road sheers, Heidi Swapp clears
• American Craft Thickers
• Assorted buttons
• White pen

Some Recent Layouts

A rare double layout about Little One.

• Bazzill white cardstock
• Club Scrap red cardstock - Salsa collection
• Patterned paper from Cosmo Cricket and DCWV
• Stickers from Cosmo Cricket, Making Memories and American Crafts
• Felt borders from Queen&Co. 
  
• Others: Stickles by Ranger, Paper Tagger by Around the Block

Lots Done, Lots to Do

The year is tailing off. There is much to be done on the homefront.
Renovations has started in the flat and I'm really excited about doing up the place. We will be moving after Big One's examination, some time mid October.

Big One is enjoying her school holiday, and it's half gone already! Ooops, better clear the holiday assignments by tomorrow so that we can enjoy the weekend.

Little One is waking up once less in the night for her feed. Dada had to whisk her away when she stirs the first time and get her back to sleep again. That will be around midnight. I will relent the next time and feed her, which is around 2 or 3 am. But this morning, she was bright and alert after the feed and crawled around trying to wake us up. I was ignoring her, hoping she'll get bored and get back to sleep. Finally, I don't know who fell asleep first, but we got that precious 2 more hours of sleep. That's GOOOOOD!!!

I think we need to tweak the timing so that I feed her around midnight and she skips the 2-3 am feed. We'll see ....

On the crafting front, I did a major repacking on Friday and Saturday in a near futile attempt to neaten the craft stash. At least I cleared the table top, and removed the supplies from the wobbly carts. They are now in the bulging cupboard or in pizza boxes under the table. Must have dusted off and woken the scrapping genie in doing so, cos I got several pages done between Saturday and yesterday. That's GOOOOOD too!!!