"when i asked if she believed in fate, she said yes"

I see bright colors. Things must be looking up. Or at least I've been pretending better.

The kit, Wild Child by KimB, came with lots of fun 60s/Native-ish elements, and I have a confession to make: while it is way too much fun, I have no idea what else I can do with this kit. At least how it was intended to be used anyways.

"i know that came out a little country, but every word was right on the money,"

For some reason (that I can't understand, I mean I shouldn't be this busy) I've been having the worst time actually finishing layouts so far this month. I swear I've got at least a half dozen saved in my June folder that need pictures and journaling. Craziness.

Anyways...

The colors for this month's MAK over at Scrap Matters are summery in what I think is a pretty fun, and surprising way. My desktop calendar for this month:

I was 11 the first time I got to leave the country. My mother and I went down to Cancun for a business conference. And this is the only picture we have with me wearing my glasses, before they were reclaimed by the sea. And consequently, this was the only part of Mexico I remember actually being able to see.

There was also some pretty fun "boy" pieces too; which is probably a good thing, cause I've probably got more sparkly girl kits than I know what to do with. And how fun is that title too, hehe.

And here's baby K. It's really funny how much he and J look alike in their newborn baby pics. It's a really good thing where ever my mother got the pictures processed dated them on the back.

This one is also K, but I was kind of a dunce, I just realized now, and didn't label this one properly. Oh well, I guess there is always editing before printing right.

"this lunch break is going to take all afternoon, and half the night"

I've been feeling very vintage lately - not in an old kind of way, more in a look how much I can grunge everything up kind of way. Erica Zane's Happy Snapper (and Happy Housemaker - let's just be honest, I bought that one to continue on my vintage binge) was pretty much perfect for that.

Messing with photos is so much fun. Not that this photo wasn't old enough to begin with - J can't be any more than three here - but adding some texture, and fiddling around with the colors to give it this real vintage lo-fi feel, just gives the photo more interest. Of course, I'm sure there are some people reading this and going "But Lia, this picture captures a memory of J. Isn't that interesting enough?" But hey, I've always been, bigger and bolder is better.

I gave this picture of K much the same treatment, a little less extreme, but the process was the same. And look, I keep saying I don't know what to do with all those fun banners...

And let's just take a moment to praise the puppet warp feature in CS5.5. Those ribbons were not anywhere close to being straight.

And one more (well, there is a second side to this one actually; I put it together as a 365 page before I realized I didn't have the pictures for it, oops). Using music on my scrapbooking pages is too much fun though.

"the fact that i'm still breathing means i'm still alive"

The weather has just been crazy insane. I mean, seriously what happened to spring. And must Mother Nature take it out on us with all these storms.

Apparently I was bored enough to actually scrap about the weather for this template challenge. I have officially reached a new low.