Love this Picture!

My DH has hazel eyes, Gavin and myself have blue eyes, but my Marin has brown eyes and this picture captures them beautifully!  This layout is based on the sketch over at Once Upon a Sketch.  The journaling criteria is to use a quote.  The quote reads, "When I grow up I want to be... Princess!"  Yup it's a quote from Marin.  I had a different quote picked out that I actually had on the layout.  But it was a quote that I googled and kind of corny.  When I started typing up this post I decided it needed to be changed.

This layout is made up of a lot of stuff that was just laying on my desk.  I'm not always great about putting everything away after I finish a project.  I inevitably leave out something or if I only have a few of an item left in a package, I tell myself that if I leave it out I'll use it up.  Well I am happy to say that I emptied out 5 packages of embellishments on this layout!  Woohoo!!!  I also had some dress patterns laying around, I rumpled them up a bit, put them under the photo and added some blue ink.  I really like how it turned out.  A coworker of mine was spring cleaning and told me how she was getting rid of her old dress patterns.  Well I offered to take them off her hands and this is what I received...

Jackpot!  I was so excited and offered to pay her for them but she looked at me like I was crazy.  So anyway to thank her I'm working on a little altered project using some of them.  You'll see it here one day.  It's started but I'm lacking any real inspiration so it's temporarily on hold.   I know, this post is getting long... but I bring up the dress patterns because I'm willing to part with a few.  If you're interested in some packages, say so when you leave a comment and in say a week, I'll pick someone at random and mail them to you, even internationally!  How cool is that!?

And don't forget this months challenge over at Scrapbookers Anonymous!!!  You can win some fun Nikki Sivils goodness!  Go check it out!