We live in a poor rural county. Studies show that your poor rural areas, or maybe just poor areas in general, are less likely to have books in the home and less likely to encourage reading in children. Schools obviously want to combat this, especially at the preschool & kindergarten level. The kids bring a book home from the school library every day, this month is 2 at a time for a special reading program, and are often given books by the local Literacy Council, the PTO and Scholastic Books(the schools earn points to get books to give away or keep in their library). Mayhem has been given 5 since the beginning of the year. He’s being given another one today (Goldilocks) This is where the guilt comes in. Mayhem doesn’t need those books. In that same space of time the boys have checked out 17 books from the county library, in addition to the 4-5 a week from the school library and I have bought/traded for 8 more. The boys have 6 shelves stuffed with their books in the house, plus...
Love these! In the first one, love the hair, love the journaling, love the layout! Okay, so I love it all. I also really like "sweet." Nice to see flowers and bright colors on a boy page. Finally, the 11 things layout if very eye-catching; the design highlights everything in a pleasing way.
ReplyDeleteRinda
Wow these are amazing
ReplyDeleteGreat pages love the "Sweet" page - great journalling and a fab title - want to try that (text within text) sometime. The 11 things is fun too - though by the looks of your journalling it may not be working as a project - funky page design though!
ReplyDeleteIs it wrong I was disappointed that the blue arrow hair wasn't used for the professional photo?
ReplyDeleteLove your layouts here! Lots of great variety and pretty colours :) I especially like the layout design of the first one!
ReplyDeleteGreat LOs!...Love how you've done the 'SWEET' title..and the concept of the '11 Things'
ReplyDeleteAlison xx
Oh, brilliant :) I love the 11 things idea for a layout, but they're all great!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I really have to strain my ingenuity with girly kits from designers I CT for.
ReplyDeleteAs a project, it needs help, but I'm working on it. The 'sweet' is word art from Darcy Baldwin at Sweet Shoppe Designs. I love the idea but Paint Shop Pro makes text within text a bit too challenging for me
ReplyDeleteWe held off on the blue hair specifically so we'd miss the professional photos
ReplyDeleteThank you! I love paper blocking but getting it all to match up frustrates me.
ReplyDeleteIt was for a challenge where they wanted you to use arrows pointing to things in a numbered list & I thought it went well with a recent post topic
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