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6 Months Supported Stand
This is a simple and typical baby book layout, not much story behind it. It was just funny that he first stood supported on the day he turned 6 months. What’s special about this layout for me though, is I didn’t plan it! Woohoo! When I worked on the previous layout, the travel page, I […]
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8,208 Miles
Over eight thousand miles before his first birthday, wow! I wanted to document how many miles he flew and how frequent the travels were, not just because it’s fun, but I wanted to document why we did it. My father was battling cancer, which we knew was terminal in the very beginning. What’s the best […]
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Project Not-PL365
Project Life 365 is such an exciting trend in the scrapbooking community. The idea is to document life in a week in a 2-page spread every week, using specialized products (like Becky Higgins or others) or traditional 12×12 page protectors. I know there’s no way I can pull this off. My life is too mundane […]
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Celebrate Failure
An accounting firm I used to work for had monthly meetings called “Celebrate Failures”, where teams shared their failure experiences, like lost engagement proposals or lost clients. The partners explained that people don’t like to talk about failures, which is a pity because often times you learn more from them than success. Hence we should […]
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B.Y.O.D.
I’m in the process of doing my son’s first year scrapbook. For some reason that most scrapbookers understand but can’t explicitly describe, I unconsciously restrict myself to working on first-year layouts only. It’s hard to start working on other projects when I set my mind on a project. So I ignore all photos taken past […]
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Halloween Layout
This is a layout I did for my son’s first year album, Halloween 2010. He was such a little thing — cute, obedient, easy going, and didn’t know what’s going on. He’s now one and half years old, but has entered into the terrible two stage since his first birthday. I suppose “terrible two” starts […]