Where we live...

This has been a good week, we have been enjoying where we live. On Tuesday night, we had a family from the neighborhood over for dinner, our kids are pretty close in age. Last August, we met them at our neighborhood's National Night Out party and this was our first time to get together since then. We had a great time. On Thursday, we went to pre-opening party at our new local Starbucks, it was good to see friends and meet new people. It also happens to be in the same shopping center as the scrapbook store...isn't that convenient.

Speaking of scrapbooking, I am so behind in my year to remember class....I hate being behind. I have, however, been able to work on my overall goal for the class this week. I finished a few more pages for Emma's book, so that feels good. I think I will have to pull some late nights to catch up on the rest of the class and on my goal.

d. reeves acrylic albums

I wanted to share some samples of my acrylic scrapbook albums. The first one is an 8 x8 album. One of my favorite features on this sample is that you can see every page through the cover. My inspiration was a quilt block. I continued the pattern of the circles on the turquoise paper onto the acrylic with a white gel pen.



The 8 x 8 albums are perfect for home decorations. The great thing is you can make 2 different signs with one album. Below are some samples I used the same technique on both signs. Attach the paper to the back of the acrylic with spray adhesive. Wrap ribbon around the front and back of the sign. Then attach letters to the front. I used Glue Dots for "Happy Easter" and Diamond Glaze for "Be Mine." I love how they turned out.

I also carry 1 1/2 in. square pendants. They come in a package of four and would make great gifts. I used spray adhesive to attach the paper to the back of the acrylic.

6 x 6 album
Another great technique to use on the acrylic is paint. I painted the back of the album cover with acrylic paint then sealed it with modge podge. I really think it comes out looking like a retro glass tile. Then I stamped the circles with Staz On ink on the front. I attached the butterfly with glue dots.


I am so excited about these products because of all the possibilities. Leave me a comment if you are interested in an album or pendant. I hope to have something set up in the future for purchasing. Thanks for looking!

I never got to finish my last post. I saved it as a draft right before the computer shut down on me. It has been doing that a lot lately. And, as a result, we are taking the plunge and becoming a Mac family. Jeremy has converted me, and thankfully Apple sells refurbished Macs. It arrived at our house right before we left for Houston, so I have not had an opportunity to use it yet, but I can't wait to get back and use iPhoto. Not that I have any photos to edit from our week in K-town. I forgot the camera battery charger and the battery died right after we arrived....nice.

We have enjoyed our time so far. Emma and Stella are getting to go to parks everyday and on walks everyday. Well almost everyday. Today, we could barely make it down the greenbelt before we started seeing TONS of green worms flying down out of the trees all around us. YUCK. My dad was walking ahead with a big stick trying to knock all the worms out of our way, but it just wasn't working. So we turned around and decided to walk around the neighborhood on the streets, but those nasty little worms were flying from the trees out onto the streets! We couldn't escape. Just typing about it makes me feel like they are crawling on me.

But back to the parks, Emma mastered the ability to go the twirly slide by herself and has had a blast climbing, swinging, and sliding. It amazes me how much she has grown, all the things she can climb by herself, or will attempt to climb. Stella has just been a sweety to whole time we have been here. She is just full of smiles for all of us. I am looking forward to hanging out with some friends from high school this week and their kids.

Here are some pictures of a project I made for the girls room. I used a 1x4 piece of wood, stamps and a rub-on.

The Reeves in Print

So, this is a picture of an article about our family and our friends the Barnards in a local magazine called the Wacoan. It is about our "Best of Waco" club. You can read more about that on our family's blog here. The Wacoan discovered our little club by reading our blog. I am still not sure how they found our blog...I am assuming by googling "Best of Waco." Anyways, we did not expect the article to be so big, it is a feature article in the magazine. The top right picture is also pictured on the Table of Contents page under the word "Feature." The article also talks about our families, our blog and the entry about Stella being born on the bathroom floor! Seems like it all comes back to her crazy birth.

Things have been busy and exhausting around here lately. Last week, I did some work for my Dad's company. Four times a year I help him out with mailing a bunch of packets for one of his clients. It is a great way to earn some extra income, but the week the packets need to be mailed ends up being very busy. I think Stella was about to have a growth spurt last week too, because I think I fed her all night long almost every night last week. Also, Emma has also gotten back into the habit of getting out of bed SO many times at night and during naps-ughhhh, that can be frustrating. So it has not been very restful for our family either.

I have been working on a new scrapbook product. I set up an appointment to meet with the owner at my scrapbook store to see if she would be interested in selling them. The appointment was last Friday, which meant on top of printing, folding, stuffing, sealing and stamping lots of packets for my dad, I was busy making samples to show my product. I am excited about the product and have been taking lots of pictures of my samples to post on the blog. I am also excited to say that I made my first sale! and I will be teaching a class this summer with one of the items.....awesome. I have no idea what teaching the class will be like. I have only attended one class before.

I guess this post is sort of a catch up post it seems. Stella is going to be 6 months on Friday! I can hardly believe it. We will be heading to Houston to celebrate my Mom's b-day on Friday, then I will spend the week in Houston with the girls. I try to spend a week at my parents house and at Jeremy's parents house with the kids each year. We hope this will help build a strong bond between the girls and their grandparents.