How’s that for Photo Freedom

And really loving your pictures so much you want to sleep with them. 🙂

I am repeating Stacy Julian’s Library of Memories class at Big Picture Scrapbooking, which is based on the book Photo Freedom (which is sadly out of print). This time around I decided to go back through the parts that I had previously completed to see how well I have been doing on keeping my library flow. I went through all my chronological binders to move them to 3 ring binders, which was a result of my huge mistake in buying the wrong kind the first time around. I cleared out tons of pictures I just don’t feel enthused to scrap anymore.

I ended up with piles of pictures on the floor by me. Nicholas came over and started looking through them and naming everyone and everything in them. So we took one of my old binders and made this for him…

He now has his own photo album that we can add to as I have pictures I have no use for. He doesn’t care if the shot isn’t perfect, he just likes to look at his family and places we go and things we do.

It’s a rainy Sunday here in what is usually sunny Arizona. Last night I made this Marmalade French Toast Casserole I found at myrecipes.com. It was quick to cut up the bread and mix together the ingredients:

Pour the mixture on top and stick it in the refrigerator overnight.

Sleep in this morning and stick this in the oven for 45 minutes and we had this yummy stuffed with orange marmalade French Toast for breakfast. We skipped the walnuts the recipe called for because Mike doesn’t like nuts and I don’t need the fat in them. Next time though, I will sprinkle some cinnamon on top. The nutmeg wasn’t quite enough for me.

While it was baking our impatient guys had to have breakfast, while Jackson ate pancakes and cereal….

Nicholas stood by the window and watched the raindrops hit the pool (pancake in hand):

And to leave you off with a little scrappy fun…last night I found this layout in the Studio Calico gallery by Stephanie Howell and I lifted it to make this one with a favorite photo of my dad and Nicholas at Christmas.