Sass shares and finally some new pictures!

Hi Everyone!! I finally have some pictures to share with you all! They were taken a few days after her 'one week birthday', and hopefully I will have some more taken tomorrow too. And not just pictures of the wee bitty, but of us all. :D Much needed right now as none of us have been in front of the camera in a while. :P

Seriously, could she be any cuter?!!! That last picture is one of her funny little smiling faces. She actually does those a lot! And almost always when Jed comes around. :D We know already that she is a daddy's girl.

I have some Sassafras Lass shares for you all today! I finally finished a few of the projects I had been working on for the Sass DT call. :P I just hope that they nose around on peoples blogs so that they see these! Laugh! If not, oh well. I am really happy with these LOs and that truely is all that matters. I still have more that I am working on but they are not quite done, and I have a few other projects to work on right now so they will have to take a bit of a backseat until those are done.

This first one is the first that I finished (and it was before my Truly Scrumptious kit came from Noel Mignon so it is made primarily of all older Sass products). The photograph here was almost deleted by Jed, and I am so glad that I caught it because I love it! Yeah it is not of anything but Creedence's head and the path behind her, but I think it is gorgeous. Something about it just spoke to me and I had to use it on a LO. This is titled 'Follow Your Heart'. Something that my mother taught me to do, and something I will be passing on to my own daughters.

This next LO I made for the Valentine's Day Crop over at Noel Mignon (did you come and join us?! It was a blast!), and I used my Truly Scrumptious kit to make it! :D My challenge was to follow the rule of twos! That means that you can use anything you want on your LO, but it must be in twos! So you can only use to pieces of cardstock, or two pieces of patterned paper, or only two pieces of chipboard. The only things I required you to absolutely have on your LO were two hearts. It is a Valentine's Day challenge after all. :P I decided to use two of the new Sassafras Lass Paper Crush papers for my patterned papers. LOVE THESE! :D

This last LO was an absolute blast to make, and it came together so fast! I made it for the current DT challenge over at Noel Mignon, where we followed a sketch. I decided to turn the sketch as it made it flow better for me. :D One thing that was a lot of fun (but difficult!) to do was the circle punched border running vertical on my paper. I punched 1 inch circles out of my Sassafras Lass Mix and Mend paper, then lined them up exactly as they were on the paper on the paper I wanted for my background. It created this scalloped border that looks exactly like the Mix and Mend paper. :D Certainly more work than it needed to be but lots of fun to do.

And there you have it! I will have more to share with you real soon! Certainly more photographs of us. I need to stay more on top of sharing those for my family! I am sooooo bad at getting photos sent off to them.

Hope you are all well!! Thanks so much for your sweet comments! They make me smile so much! :D

Take care!! ~Amy

One week...

Thank you so so much to everyone for your sweet comments!! :D They mean so much!

I can't believe it has been one week already since I had her!!! She is just as sweet as can be. But is a bottom-less pit, so I feel like I am CONSTANTLY feeding her! Laugh! I wish I had some pics to share with you all but the week has flown by and we have all just been in a daze here. No routine for anything yet, but family just left 2 days ago, so it being just the four of us is still new. Creedence is doing wonderfully! She tries to be gentle bless her heart! But she wants so much to just play with Aurelia and show her all her toys and things. We keep telling her soon, very soon. We both know too well that the first year goes by soo fast! I layed awake the other night looking at my sleeping munchkin Creedence and just cried. Bringing home Aurelia made me realize just how big Cree really is! These are precious times, but extremely short, so I am trying to focus on just being present and not getting overwhelmed. There are emails I need to send, projects that need to be made, deadlines coming up, but I just sit with my two little girls in bed and watch Sprout or read a book because I know that is where I truly want to be.

Thought I would share with you all the most recent LO I've finished. I made it with the Noel Mignon Very Virginia kit (which has since sold out!), for the most recent challenge that went on over there. Love how this LO turned out! (although on my blog the pic looks a little dark? Is it just me?) I was trying to go for clean and simple, yet messy and distressed at the same time? :D Laugh! Either way, I really love this LO.

Right now, in between feedings and changing the tiniest diapers in the world, I am trying to finish up a couple little LOs that I started for the Sassafras Lass DT call. They got set aside when I went into labor last Tuesday night. :P Oh well. I would have had them done in time, but I was holding out for the new Noel Mignon Truly Scrumptious kit to arrive!! (Sorry this is now sold out too!) It is jam packed with brand new Sass Paper Crush and stickers! But alas, it is somewhere in transit and still hasn't arrived. :P I hope I get it real soon!! Until then I have TONS of older Sass that I am using, and that certainly isn't a bad thing as working down my stash is essential! :D

Well that is all I have time for at the moment...wee one is wakin up! I will be back soon again, and hopefully with pics next time!!! Take care!!

~Amy

My Cup Runneth Over...

Our sweet little one finally arrived.

Aurelia Sierra Mae Johnson
born 1/26/11 at 4:49 am
weighing 8lbs 1/2 oz.

I can not express in words how full my heart is right now. Thank you everyone for your thoughts and well wishes! And thank you to my dear family for all your support, especially in watching Cree!

Noel Mignon Blog Hop!!

Hi Everyone!!! :D I have desperately been meaning to get back on here and start doin some more posts, but gah it has just been hectic!! :P Thought last Thursday we were gonna have to head into the hospital, but nope the contractions stopped. Not sure if I have progressed any more since, but either way I am still very much preggin along here. Laugh!

I am stoppin in real quick to let you all know that an awesome thing is going on right now: a Blog Hop over at Noel Mignon!! :D So exciting! If you already know this then that means you came from the lovely Jill's blog! If you didn't know about the blog hop, well head on over to Kim Moreno's blog as she is the first on the list!! :D Here is the description of how to play along:

Welcome to the blog hop for the NoelMignon February kit, "Truly Scrumptious"!

Let's play a little word scramble game, shall we? As you can see, there is a letter showing in my sneak, and there will be letters in everyone's sneak peek.

Here are the rules:
1)Follow the hop in order(go back and start at Kim's blog if you are starting here).
2)Leave a comment on each blog showing that you have picked up your letter from their sneak.
3)Collect all the letters and unscramble the word.
4)Leave a comment on the last blog of the hop on Thursday, revealing the secret word, and you may be one of 3 lucky winners to win $10 off their kit purchase!

It's that easy!! Here is my sneak:

Isn't it incredible?!!!! I am dying over the colors! Just love it! :D Now since I am the last stop for the day (Wednesday), this means you all need to pick up tomorrow (Thursday) morn with the super sweet Diana! She will direct you where to go from there!! The best of luck to you all!! Hope you enjoy all the sneaks as much as I am! And just so you know this amazing kit goes up for sale on Friday morning, so don't miss out on it!

And last thing real quick, just wanted to remind you that we are having a Crop this next month! Super fun stuff planned, so mark your calendar! See you all there!!

And Thanks so much for stopping by!! I will be back very soon with more updates! Take care! And have fun with the blog hop!

~Amy