Saturday, July 27, 2013

Kit Killers - Fancy Pants To The Moon edition.

I already have two layouts done from this awesome kit that has been sitting in my stash for the past *gulp* 4 years.  I'm almost ashamed to say that these smack my lips delicious papers and accessories haven't been used yet.  But they have now!  And I'm thrilled to know that Jackson's 7th birthday pictures are **literally** in the books.  That makes 6 layouts of of that line and I still have some goodies left over - maybe tonight??

#43 - Big Brother Dog Pile
FANCY PANTS - TO THE MOON COLLECTION 
A visit from Jackson's dad and brothers November 2011. This overlay is actually flocked


#44 - Blustery Beach Day
FANCY PANTS - TO THE MOON COLLECTION 
A spring day playing at Gray's Lake - I did this one old school with mats and stickers and tearing but I love the finished result.

#45 - It takes 2 boys to make 1 brother.
FANCY PANTS - TO THE MOON COLLECTION 
Tons of random brotherhood pictures

#46 - Birthday Budz
FANCY PANTS - TO THE MOON COLLECTION 
Showing off Jackson's amazing friends at The Playground.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

My son pooped on the floor so I painted the bathroom.

True story.  OK so there were a few Rube Goldberg steps in between those two things but that's the essence of what happened in my house today!

The story goes like this:

It was a rainy day in the Potratz house, the kids had already deemed it "Lazy Sunday" and it definitely started out that way.  Kids playing Transformers and being so sweet to each other.  I was getting some things done on my scrap table, chatting with friends and even read a few chapters in my book.

Look look! Almost halfway to my goal of 100 pages
#42 - Now "present"ing
FANCY PANTS - TO THE MOON COLLECTION
The last layout for the 7th birthday!


Then I hung up the phone and noticed that the shower was on...a sure fire signal that someone had either puked, peed or pooped - the unholy trinity.  Unfortunately it was the third option.  Poor Joseph has had a tummy ache and got sick at school on Friday - apparently it wasn't all out of his system because the infection was leaving from the other end today (trying not to be too graphic here.)

So I got him cleaned up - and started the process I had been putting off for the last two weeks - scrubbing down the urine scented - moldy caulked bathroom.  It was time...I rolled up my sleeves, peeled up the grossness.  bleached out the toilet and the surrounding area (eeeew) Somehow I ended up at the WalMart for supplies - and somehow I ended up with a quart of paint in my cart (the color of which the boys picked out) and a tube of caulk.  Two hours later - my tub had new caulk and the walls had new paint.  Observe - I kind of love it.

                    Before                                                                          After







Saturday, July 20, 2013

Kit Killers!

So I did a variation of the stash challenge.  On The Scrap Room message board they have a thing called "kit killers" which is a challenge to use up every luscious bit of the kits down to the slivers.  So I took that on as a sort of personal challenge for some of my older full line packages.  You know the ones - you love the papers so you buy the whole line of 20 papers and only use up half of it (if that).

So all four of the following are from the scrumptious remains of the Basic Grey Oliver kit that I bought in Dallas 2009 when we went on our very first Have Your Way With Paper retreat - that's right - Joey was still in utero when these were purchased!!!  Bonus points that all of the pics except on the 2 pager are from 2011!

#37- All About the Bunny
BASIC GREY - OLIVER COLLECTION
Pictures from 2011 - Joey "helping" daddy mow the lawn! He was 18 mos old.

#38 - Junior Captains
BASIC GREY - OLIVER COLLECTION
Can you tell we spend a lot of time at Target?  2011 costume shopping...


#39 - Easter 2013
BASIC GREY - OLIVER COLLECTION
It was like I was holding on to this stash JUST for these pictures to come in...

#40 - I think I am big
BASIC GREY - OLIVER COLLECTION
I can't believe how little my bug is in these photos! 2011 at Grays Lake!
[/img]

Next I'm starting on Fancy Pants "To the Moon" collection - also purchased (I think) at retreat...Here is the first one on my mission to kill this kit!!!

#41 - Boy Wonder turns Seven!
FANCY PANTS - TO THE MOON COLLECTION
That's right - boy wonder is going to be nine in a few months and I'm just now scrapping his 7th birthday - don't judge me!