Masterpiece Monday {page 4}

Updated: More pages at the bottom

So I had this great advantage over my scrappy sista and thought I may actually catch up on her awesome progress because she's been driving for about 8 hours out of the day. Unfortunately it just didn't happen for me this week. So today I realized that I had to get something done to share with you all and I couldn't let her continue to get ahead of me. While this doesn't count in my efforts to catch up to her it does complete some unfinished pages so it's my own personal progress. I didn't have my printer for a while so I had left some pages unfinished & in need of journaling. So I did the journaling for my pages from last week as well as some from a long time ago. I am still missing a photo on the first page of the first spread but I'll add it & show it to you all once I get it printed. I didn't realize just how many photos are missing from Lydia's album. So one project this week for me will be to see what photos I need to print & stick them in a file so when I'm ready they are all in one place. How do I know what photos I'm missing? Well, the OCD in me wrote out notes for the missing photo including what size I need to crop them to. I've learned {the hard way} that if I don't write something down I forget so now I write down just about everything. Anyways, here's my progress for this week.

These are the pages from last week. So like I said I'm still missing the other photo but I will show you again when I put it on there. Someone commented last week that they were surprised that I put photos of me laboring on my blog. I may not be at my cutest but I still like the photos and people knew ahead of time that I'd want pictures to scrap later. This is a lot of journaling but it was 24 hours of labor so there was a lot to remember. The paper is brown though these photos almost look black. I also added the flowers and stamped 'team rebecca' and 'how i saw it' by the photos. The bottom one came out blurry which is how things looked at the time and my memory is still fuzzy. I had back labor the whole time and being on my side or crouching on my arms and legs while hugging a pillow were the only comfortable positions. Well, not comfortable like a nice fluffy overstuffed chair and half but as comfortable as could be expected.

These are Lydia's ultrasound photos. The top on one the page above was her first at 9 weeks, she looked like a little peanut. The middle photo was taken on my mom's birthday because she kept moving around so much they couldn't listen to her heartbeat and wanted to take a look just to make sure things were okay. The bottom one and all of the photos on the bottom page are of when we found out her sex. I was so excited to be having a little girl! Especially since we already had her name picked out. The same thing happened with my son, only had a boy's name decided on and it all worked out. I loved all of the shots they gave me, profile, her toes, front of her face & the 'girl' shot. There were some other ones of her spinal cord and arms as well but these are the cutest.
These are pages of Lydia's Welcome Baby Shower. It was such great fun. I printed photos of all the decorations to wallet size so they could fit more easily on the pages. I used a combination of three different pattern papers; on that looked like ribbons, one with paisleys and a word collage paper along with two shades of pink textured cardstock & green. The ribbons were left over supplies from decorations. No journaling on these pages, just highlights of the shower.

These are more pages from Lydia's shower. Same papers used and lots of journaling this time. The wallets on these pages are photos of me & each guest as I opened gifts. On each page there is a stack of matted wallets stapled together into a flip book of sorts. This way I can still look at all of the photos but they don't take up as much space.

Thanks for stopping by & taking a look. To see more Masterpiece Monday or show off your own stuff click on the button above with all the flowers on it. Just a reminder - this doesn't have to be scrappy stuff to show off. It can be any creative accomplishment!

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