Bekah's Blog Spot

My Celebrity Look-Alikes

2008-01-28T18:06:00.000-05:00

Everyone tells me I look like Debra Messing. I like that! :)

Getting good at that crawling thing!

2008-01-16T16:42:00.000-05:00

Another day home - another layout! I'm rolling through my stash (although I admit, Michael's pediatrician is dangerously close to my LSS, so I may have stopped in for the scalloped paper and the felt border... maybe). While Michael was taking his nap, I sat down with my dvd's (more My So-Called Life) and scrapped away at the pictures of him crawling, pulling up, and then leaving just as quickly as he came. He used to do this hilarious army crawl before this particular stage of things, and these pictures were a total surprise... I forgot that I had them until I printed several folders of him as a baby and saw them.

Anyway - hope you all had a fantastic Hump Day and that the rest of your week is amazing!

-Bekah

Jumperoo!!

2008-01-15T18:19:00.000-05:00

Wow, this is an unusually productive day... I finished another 12x12 layout! I've been eyeballing these pictures for a while because the Jumperoo was Michael's absolute favorite toy -- he wanted to be in it all the time.

Don't tell the folks at Fisher Price, but I may have recreated the logo in Fireworks. Shhhhhhh!!

Gotta love the Jumperoo!

Totally had a "Beth" moment earlier with my Halloween layout. I got a little scared that my skeletons were going to suddenly appear in the house... Pirone Bat style.

Happy Halloween, 2005!

2008-01-15T11:01:00.001-05:00

Let's see - where to begin! I'm home today because my little one has an upper respiratory for the second time in two months, and it's borderline pneumonia, so we're doing the nebulizer every four hours and taking lots of medicine. So since he's "so sick," and playing like he's never played before, I've had some time to scrapbook another 2-page 12x12 layout. I've finally hit Halloween of 2005, when my little buddy was a Droolasaurus, and my husband decided to start carving pumpkins. It was a fun night for us, and I'm happy to have it scrapped!

-Bekah

Autumn 2005

2008-01-05T09:06:00.000-05:00

I got a little free time last night and thought I'd use it to look through my "autumn" stash and see what I had to work with. I had LOTS of goodies, thanks to Beth, so I was excited to get started. I found this awesome burlap background on the web that was a great addition to what i already had.

Instead of just laying it out and thinking of what I'd do... I finished a two page 12x12 spread! I've been dying to scrap some of these pictures for some time because we had so much fun that autumn, getting Michael all cozied up and going on our adventures to the Ashland Berry Farm to find a pumpkin and out to Farmville to visit my brother and sister-in-law at Longwood U.

Thank you Beth for the awesome paper (great minds!!!) and for the ribbons. The brown and blue polka dotted ribbon was perfect for my layout, and your ideas on how to use my silk leaves were just right.

Enjoy!

12 Days of Christmas

2008-01-02T19:20:00.000-05:00

I found this nifty Christmas layout the other day on the DIY network website, and thought that, since some of us are getting our pictures together from the holiday, it might be fun to share it. I hope I can find enough time to work something like this out for Michael's 1 year book, since I just worked myself up to the fall of 2005. I'd love some fall/winter/Christmas ideas, if you have them!

The 12 Days of Christmas

Also, just signed up for the Creating Keepsakes message board! I'm bekah80, just fyi. :)

Happy Day 2 of 2008!

~Bekah

Another layout -- oh my!

2008-01-01T14:55:00.000-05:00

Yep - I found another inspirational layout, this time on Shanna's Scrappy Sketches. I didn't copy it exactly, but it did spark a little imagination.

On Shanna's blog, the layout I found had the Christmas theme, with the circular ornament in the background. I needed to change a few things around to get the layout to match the orientation of my pictures.

My Scrapchallenge.com Layout

2008-01-01T14:02:00.001-05:00

Can I just say that I think a girls "stuff to scrapbook with" necessities list needs to have an iPod at the very top of it? That having been said, I finished my layout in almost two hours and I got to use some rubons that Beth sent me, some transparencies that my mil gave me for Christmas, and some embellies that a coworker gave me. Hooray - my stash is a little smaller. :)

Scrapchallenge.com

2008-01-01T11:24:00.000-05:00

One of my New Year's Resolutions is to get into online scrap challenges. They're a fun way to go outside of your normal style and experiment with different layouts. So I decided to search the web for some challenges to get myself back on track with Michael's baby book. The big issue is finding a challenge that accomodates more than one picture (which kinda drives me nuts). I'm working on a 2 page 12x12 spread of my father and step mother's first visit to Virginia to visit Michael back in August of '05. I have a good dozen pictures that I've narrowed it down to, and I don't want to cut any more out... so I found this layout and I'm thinking I can tweak it to suit my needs here.

This is lifted from Scrap Challenge.com.

Once Michael gets his nap, in about a half hour, I'm on this. The end result will hopefully follow tonight.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Well, it's Not!!

2007-12-31T14:44:00.000-05:00

The last layout that I worked on was a real labor of love... being that I had to get over the nerdiness that is scrapbooking a bib and spoon, and remember that my son would either laugh at it in the future or love that I thought to do it. (I hear Beth's husband laughing at me already!!)

Anyway, I scraplifted the title (It's not easy being neat, when you're learning how to eat) from the ladies on the BabyCenter scrapbooking board (where I'm a big ole lurker) and have been dying to use it for almost a year. So I'm slowly chipping away at the ideas in my "scraplifts" folder on my desktop. Next dorky scraplift: using the velcro shoe straps to reveal hidden journaling on my "Baby Steps" layout! Wait and see!

Luck o' The Irish

2007-12-31T14:31:00.000-05:00

In an attempt to catch up to Beth (:D), I've decided to post pretty much everything I have photos of.

One of my favorite scrappy projects is an altered shadow box frame. I've done a handful of them now, and even though they take a lot of time and energy, the end result is worth it.

The first is a three-paned shadow box that I purchased from my LSS, Memories Galore. I used some Saint Patty's Day papers, ribbons and other embellies that I had to scrap our family's trip to Ireland in 2006. The shadow box can either be hung vertically or horizontally (and the layouts are easy to change around to suit either direction) or it can sit on a desk or shelf. Happy Birthday, Mom!

The second was a donation to a co-workers church fundraiser which took place in November. I went with a Christmas theme so it could be used as a gift to showcase a family holiday photo.

The third was a gift to my grandmother, who is ALL about family!

The last was a gift to my neighbor, who just welcomed another little baby boy to their family.

Thanks for looking!

Lizzy's Journaling Jar

2007-12-31T14:23:00.000-05:00

I think we all probably know at least one person that nobody ever listens to. The interrupter, the one that talks over everyone else because it's the only way they're heard. In my case, it's my sister Lizzy. She's a beautiful little girl with so much to say, but because she's the youngest in the family, no one listens. I notice it every time I'm around her, and it breaks my heart! She's going through a particularly rough patch right now because, aside from the encroachment of adolescence and expected maturity, there's a lot of stress and uncertainty at home. So I thought, what a better way to let her get the words out than to give her a journal jar for Christmas? Instead of the usual questions, I made sure everything would provoke positive thoughts... "What's your favorite thing about yourself?" and "What do your parents do to encourage you?" for example. I wasn't sure what she would think of the gift, but was happily surprised when she was excited. I bet Lizzy fills it up before I know it - and I can't wait to read every last word.

Love you, Lizzy!

Scrap Happy and Fancy Free!

2007-12-12T20:17:00.000-05:00

Whoo hoo - another creative outlet! My partner in crime, Beth, totally inspired me to start a little blog, basically to keep you all updated on the Nyalko's and to share some of my scrapbooking creations.

Life in the Nyalko household is in full Holiday Swing. We are gearing up for Christmas morning, which is going to be extremely exciting this year now that Michael "gets" the whole Santa thing. He's asked for trucks, dirt and markers... and considering he's been such a good boy this year, I bet Santa is happy to oblige. There will undoubtedly be a trillion pictures of the big morning - so stay tuned.

On the scrapbooking side, I've been really lazy for about a month and a half now. Between work, the change in the daylight savings, Michael becoming more of a three year old every day, and not feeling real great - I've either not had the time, or not felt like doing anything when I did have it. But I'm back in the "mood" so hopefully I'll have lots to show for it soon.

Totally scrap related, my family decided to pull names this year for Christmas since there are so many of us and the majority of us are kinda pinching pennies... and I got Laura Peyton. YAY!!! This was a no-brainer; my girl is crafty and loves making stuff so I hooked her up with about ten billion little scrapbooking goodies! Check it out!

Hope you all have an awesome week!

Love,
Bekah!