***Had fun last night. Jay has started his summer business - building fences and decks - and was out giving people price quotes. I had some time to do whatever. So I scrapbooked.
I could have embellished this layout lots more but the minimalist in me won once again and I kept it very simple. I got the inspiration for the joy thingy from some digital brushes I saw online. The ribbon looks like it's wrapping a gift and it's a bit symbolic to how we received Sienna as a gift through adoption. Y
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***The paper feels like velvet! The rings are raised a bit and so soft to touch. The mini letter stickers spell "together", "family" and "love".
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Sienna and I went with Jay to deliver flyers to advertise his business. It was fun. Saw this cute flower rack.
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Merkkareita viela kipossa. :)
We've had this dresser forever now and I still haven't painted/stained it. The reason is that I keep thinking it won't be in our living room eventually and I haven't wanted to commit to a color for it. I feel that right now this represents our home in general. I have a long list of things I'd like to do for our house but I know we'll be moving in about 3 years once Jay finishes school and I don't want to spend lots of money on renos. I keep putting up with things as I'm thinking "couple more years and we'll have a new house, why put in the effort". I guess I could paint the dresser some neutral color (black, cream, brown...) in hopes that it'll go with whatever room it'll eventually end up in.
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***Sienna and I went with Jay to deliver flyers to advertise his business. It was fun. Saw this cute flower rack.
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***Merkkareita viela kipossa. :)
We've had this dresser forever now and I still haven't painted/stained it. The reason is that I keep thinking it won't be in our living room eventually and I haven't wanted to commit to a color for it. I feel that right now this represents our home in general. I have a long list of things I'd like to do for our house but I know we'll be moving in about 3 years once Jay finishes school and I don't want to spend lots of money on renos. I keep putting up with things as I'm thinking "couple more years and we'll have a new house, why put in the effort". I guess I could paint the dresser some neutral color (black, cream, brown...) in hopes that it'll go with whatever room it'll eventually end up in.
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Itse olen nykyisin huokaissut lähes joka ilta, josko saisin tunteja päiviini lisää. Olisi niin paljon ideoita ja intoa tehdä scrappays-sivuja, Tilda-nukkeja, ristipistoja jne. Mutta pakko levätäkin, jotta töissä edes puolet puheista kuulostaa järkeviltä :D
ReplyDeleteDowntown Edmonton -postauksen kuvat oli hienoja. Olisipa mukavaa päästä matkustelemaan enemmän. Ehkä joskus vielä, kun ruuhkavuodet helpottaa. Olisiko Edmontonissa koskia ja jokia joissa kalastaa? Saisin miehenkin houkuteltua ehkä reissuun :D
Ja hei, postausten välin pidentäminen voi helpottaa blogituskiin! Joku kommentoikin jo aikaisemmin, että kyllä niitä lukijoita käy, vaikkei kommentteja tulekaan. Usko pois.
tanja: Sitapa me kaikki haluttaisiin. Lisaa aikaa. Mina en koskaan ole ollut kovin hyva ajankaytossa ja tuhlaan sita ihan liikaa. Saisin enemman aikaiseksi jos tsemppaisin. Jos tulette koskaan Edmontoniin niin ehdottomasti pitaa tulla Heritage festarin aikana (elokuun eka viikonloppu). Se on Edmontonin paras juttu. Edmontonissa kuluisi helposti melkeen viikko turistina. Mielellani olisin sitten turistiopas jos joskus tulette. Miehelle voisit kertoa etta Kanadan Rocky Mountains on UPEAT ja siella on UPEAT kalastusmahikset. En tieda miten kalaisa tuo Edmontonin joki on mutta on taallakin hyvat kalastusmahikset silla eras meidan ystava kalastaa usein eika "mene kauas kalaan". Jos joskus tulette niin pyydan kaverimme miehesi kalastusoppaaksi. Ollaan itsekin mietitty etta meidan pitaisi kayda Siennan kanssa kalastamassa. On meilla virvelit ja kaikki. On taalla Albertassakin alysti nakemista (vuoret, kanjonit...) jos tanne tulee.
ReplyDeleteAion nyt bloggailla silloin kun huvittaa (mika on varmaan melko usein kuitenkin). Unohtaa sen "pitaisi blogiinkin jotain laittaa" fiiliksen. Jos huvittaa, huvittaa ja silla selva. Kommentit on hammentava juttu siltikin silla muiden blogeilla on aina hurjasti kommentteja. Siksi mulle tulee aina kriisi. Ihmettelen etta miksi muut bloggaajat saa paljon kommentteja ja itse aina valilla vaan. Mutta kylla tuosta lukijamittaristakin nakyy etta taalla useat kay. Pitaa nyt vaan uskoa etta tama blogi kiinnostaa muita vaikkei kommentteja tulisikaan. Mutta aina kun tulee vahan kommentteja niin kriisi nayttaa iskevan. Yritan take it easy nyt sitten blogin suhteen. :)
Tsekkaa sähköposti!!
ReplyDeleteHienon skräppäyksen olit tehnyt.Kaunis idea.
ReplyDeleteTykkääkö miehesi merkkareista?Vai saatko itse vain niillä herkutella.
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The pages are great! You've inspired me to take some time in the next little while to scrapbook!
ReplyDeletemirva: Ei Jay ihmeemmin. Sienna kyllakin. Minusta on ihana etta Siennakin tykkaa merkkareista. :) Taalta saa salmiakkia Saksan kaupasta. Ja Turun sinappia. Muuten olisinkin tosi pulassa.
ReplyDeletejennifer: Fun to do something creative every once in awhile.
You CAN'T paint that dresser!!! It's just part of your home! It's so YOU!! Natural and IKEA like!! If you altered it in any way or moved it to another room it would seem like something was missing! It's a part of your family!!! If you didn't know this about me by now I am really sentimental about things. Yes "things" it's only a dresser, but you've had it for so long and it's been so useful and good to you AND what do you mean by MOVING??? Where??? I know it's a long way off...
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your scrapbook page!
do you know that i have never been to edmonton's city hall?? i can't believe it! when i saw your pictures i thought why didn't we go??? and i've also never been to the street performers festival - i'm very ashamed to admit it! the pictures show just how awesome it is!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the cupcakes that were a few postings back!! They are so awesome!!!
do you want to know what i thinK? you should draw your dream home, if you haven't already.. i would love to see it!
does sienna watch yo gabba gabba? did you know that the creators are 2 lds guys?!!!
connie: You're funny. One of these days the dresser will be pink with green dots all over it. :D We don't have a clue yet where we will move to. Possibly just to another house in Edmonton since it's hard to live away from Jay's family. We've thought of Calgary too. Or Vancouver (as if that'll ever happen). Depends on where Jay will find a good place for his practice after school. If we stay in Edmonton, we still want a newer home. Nothing too big but new so we don't have to do any renos. It takes us way too long to do anything around here. The city hall is a really nice building and I can't believe you never went to street performers' festival. It's so fun! My favorite performer was this guy clown (non traditional looking) who made some young people from the audience to do a fun play with balloon art hats etc. He was so so funny. I wish I'd remember who he was or could find a you tube video of him or something. Me lovey funny.
ReplyDeleteWe're going to have a cupcake enrichment soon. We'll decorate 12 cupcakes in various different ways (you go from station to station to learn new stuff). :)
My dream home... Minimalist, totally modern (not in a cold kind of way though), sauna & hot tub, indoor pool/gym, library/family history room, huge play room (enough room to keep a huge trampoline inside :)), big open rooms, tons of storage space (covered so you can't see any junk but this way you can still have junk but your home will look minimalist and organized), art studio in the loft area with lots of natural light, crafts room, you could take a slide downstairs instead of staircase, swings inside the home (from a really high ceiling so you could swing big :)), hammock, even a bigger lovesac than we have now in a home movie theatre room, pool table so that I could show off with my squirrel move :)................ And couple of janitors and groundskeepers! And a chef. :) And you guys and K&J as our neighbors. Yeah! :D
Awwww.. mikä skräppäyssivu.. Ihana pullero (tää oli sellainen söpöttelysana, tiedäthän).
ReplyDeleteSulla on samanlaisia haaveita kuin mullakin on ollut. Keinuja sisällä ja oikeasti olen ajatellut tuota liukumäkeäkin sisälle. Mietin miten hauskaa se olisi meille kaikille (me ollaan niin lapsenmielisiä koko porukka).
Sivu on ihana. Minimalismi rocks! :)
ReplyDeletemerja: Pullero on hyvin osuva sopottelysana Siennalle. On aina ollut ISO tytto. :) Ihana olisi sellainen huvikumpu koti. Kaikkea hauskaa ja lapsenmielista. Erilaista. :)
ReplyDeletepikkujutut: Kiitti. Siksi taalla ei tykata mun tyylista. Taalla pitaa olla alysti kamaa sivuilla etta julkaistaisiin lehdissa. :) En voi sille mitaan etta itse tykkaan kovin simppelista.
my vote is for you to move to calgary!! but then we would never visit my family - oh well sucks to be them!! it's still close enough to visit! and the zoo and closer to the mountains and closer to us!
ReplyDeleteyour dream house is quite the dream!!! i love it!! and i know the perfect place to build such a house!!