Summer Crush

I am sure we have all had a summer crush at some time in our life and this summer I am totally crushing on Andrea Bethke. For my second Summer Camp challenge I am challengein you to tell me about your summer crush, who is inspiring you right now.

I took Andrea's One Magical Mini class on Big Picture Classes and fell in love. Like me she loves Disneyland and mini albums. I was inspired to finally get started on my Disneyland Midori. You can see how I made these pages on my video here 

I made a cute shaker pocket for the cover of my first notebook.

I used the Minc foiling technique from the class to make this fun gold castle for the inside page.

Our first stop was a Breakfast with Minnie in the park where we met Minnie and a bunch of other characters.

The food was amazing and I loved the cute Mickey Waffles.

I hope you stop by in a few weeks to see part 2 of my Disney Midori.

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Minnie Mouse Love

I am so glad we had National Scrapbooking day a few weeks ago, it gave me a chance to actually do some scrapbooking and layouts just for fun.

I love this Selfie my hubby took with Minnie when we went to Disneyland and I had to scrap it.

I made the Minnie Mouse ears with some wooden hoops from the Crate Paper Craft Market collection, I love these and I have used them before to make Mickey Mouse ears.

The heart is a die cut I filled with torn patterned paper.  

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Disney Love

Last month I talked about our first trip to Disney, this post I am going to be talking about our second trip which really wasn't that long after, February 2004. We had so much fun we new we wanted to go back right away and we decided to take my Mom.

One of my favorite memories from that trip was Linden running away from all the Princesses it was so funny he would literally turn and book it whenever he saw one even though they thought he was so cute and wanted to hug him. I managed to get one of them on camera before chasing after him.

My scrapbooking styles has definitely changed over the years in 2004 I did a lot of multi photo layouts and used my computer for my journalling. It was really nice having my Mom on this trip to help out with the boys. Luckily this time our film camera had no problems and we had some great photos when we got back. In the journalling I list our favorites, for my husband it was the parade, for me it was seeing the joy on every one's faces, my Mom loved the castle, Rhys loved the Astro Blasters ride and Linden loved the carousel and the gigantic lollipop his brother got.

I remember these early years at Disneyland fondly. The kids really wanted to meet all the characters and get their autographs. It really was a magical vacation.  They loved the parade and seeing all the characters singing and dancing. In fact I think this is where Linden's love of music, singing and dancing all started.  

I have also realized looking back that I really haven't scraped a lot of my Disneyland photos. I have taken probably tens of thousands over the last 12 years and only a few have made it on to layouts and in mini albums. It's something I really want to remedy this year.

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Do you believe in Magic?

Do you believe in Magic? I do!  I believe in the magic of Disney. I love Disneyland and have been lucky enough to go 8 times in the last 12 years. I decided my Blog needed a little more of my personality and passions so I will be starting to incorporate a few different posts every month. The first one is all about Disney. From Disney pictures to Disney adventures to scrapping Disney I will add a little Disney Magic to my Blog. If you love Disney then come back on the 13th of every month for some Disney Magic.

I thought I would share my past trips first and how I have documented each trip so far. First up let's go back to September 2003. My husband Mike's family decided to all go to California for his Mom's 60th birthday. We did Sea World, Legoland, the beach and Medieval Times that visit.My oldest son Rhys was 4 and my youngest son Linden was 7 months old. People always ask would I go with the little one again and my answer is always yes. He loved it at 7 months as much as my four year old did. This was the first time for everyone in our family.  My husband Mike and I had never been as children and it was amazing. I had the Disney bug from the first time I stepped foot in Disneyland.

Since it was our first time we decided to stay at the Disneyland Hotel and we were only at Disneyland for 2 days which is definitely not long enough. It was also before digital cameras and when we got home and developed the film we found out the O Ring on our camera had gone and almost all the photos were completely ruined I was devastated. You can see it in the edges of the photos here. At least the images that were the most important like seeing Mickey Mouse and the castle for the first time.  Also one of the funniest moments. My son Linden eating his first McDonald's French fry. Many years ago there was a McDonald's in the California Adventure park and we stopped to get my oldest a Happy Meal and Linden started making that noise he made when he was eating something he really liked, mmmm, mmmm,  I look over and he had grabbed one of Rhys' fires and shoved it in his mouth. So funny.

We had such a good time that we ended up going back 5 months later. 

I take a lot of photos when we go to Disneyland. Now with digital I usually take about 2,500 photos, which is crazy I know, and hard to sort thorough when I get home. For this first trip I made a really quick mini album, one of my first ever, using some of the keepsakes like the maps and entry tickets. 

 I also did a layout of Linden's first French fry. 

I love looking back at these projects and seeing how much my paper crafting has changed over the years. We are hopefully going to Disneyland again this year, for the first time in the summer, and I can't wait. I heart Disneyland! Next month I will share some more fun photos and projects from our Disneyland experiences. 

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I will be sharing these posts on the 13th of each month - why the 13th?  Some people say it is a very special number.  The address for Disneyland is 1313 Mickey's fist letter "M" is the 13th letter of the Alphabet.