moon ko photography

l'office.

it's finished.

it's finally finished. for the most part. just a few more photos on the walls and a couch along the wall in the kid's work area. but here's what it looks like:

 

my main office is to the left as you come up the stairs. here's the other side, from my chair:

i have shelves behind my chair that houses all my scrapping stuff:

and to my right from my chair. we decided to put down the foamy stuff on the floor so it would add extra padding to the floors. we have a computer in there for the girls so they don't have to breath on me to use my computer.

:)

another view from the kid's work station:

i even have my sewing machine finally out of the box. and i did sew on a layout the other day.

it's come a long way from this:

don'tcha think?

happy new year everyone!

card and stocking stuffers

happy christmas eve, everyone! i can't believe christmas is tomorrow. and i haven't bought anything yet. yeah. i know. i'm that person. it's true. but i was able to get my cards out in time this year.

i used these digi papers to create my cards.

and then i made some stocking stuffers for my sister, sister in law and my mother in law. here's what the cover looks like:

and just one example of what a month looks like:

and here's one of all12 months:

i used this template for the month calendar and created everything in ps, grabbing some of my favorite photos of my niece and nephews. i pulled a color from each photo for the background color. that's pretty much it. pretty simple.

:)

i hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!

xo,

moon and the gang

friday's layout

hey everyone,

sorry this one is so late. charlie's been having some sleep issues as of late. he's been skipping his naps (and don't you dare say he's at the age where he could be skipping naps forever. i just won't listen...lalalalalalala) and last night/early this morning, he was wide awake from 2:00-5:00am. he hasn't done this in...ever. i know he's tired and needs the sleep, but more importantly, I need my sleep.

:)

so please, charlie, sleep through the night tonight.

supply list:

• milan brown letter stickers
• jfk letter stickers
• basic grey cupcakes paper
• bundt pan paper

a very simple two-pager about his second birthday. i just love the cupcake paper from basicgrey. yum!

since i know my sister never reads my blog, i'll have a cute little calendar idea to share with you next week about the gift i'm giving her for christmas. i promise that it'll be simple and hopefully she'll like it.

have a great weekend everyone!

we have a winner...

of the vintage hip christmas ebook:

Inge said...

We all bring a dish to the family christmas dinner, this is a great way to get in the christmas mood even when you're still in you own home.

Inge, please email me at moonko@aol.com to receive your coupon code for your free book.

thanks to everyone who participated and for sharing your wonderful traditions!

a giveaway from ella publishing

I need some good news after my weekend. I had to go to my very best friend's dad's memorial service yesterday. and it was so sad saying goodbye...

So now for some good news: Win a free copy of the Vintage hip Christmas Crafts book by Ella Publishing:

A gorgeous, download-able e-book to get you in the mood for Christmas. This book is filled with great ideas for the holidays.

Here's what you need to do:

1. tell me about your favorite holiday tradition
2. join Ella's email list if haven't done so already (but if have you can still win a book)

That's it! I will draw a winner on December 13th. Good luck to everyone!

ah friday

And that means layout day.

supply list:

• Poolside thickers
• AC cardstock
• Early bird paper
• Early bird elements paper
• Boyfriend paper
• AC striped paper
• Junior brads

The funny thing is (actually it wasn't funny at all. In fact it was down right terrifying and I'm just now able to talk about it and as a parent, this ranks up there as the "most feared" when it comes to raising children, right next to "abduction" and "drowning") these photos of Charlie with a sucker were probably the last time he had these organic suckers. A couple of days later, he choked on one. There was gagging and throwing up (three times) until the piece of candy finally dislodged itself from his throat. So we will miss these "mouth corks". They were good to us until they turned and tried to kill my son. OK. I may be exaggerating a little here. Maybe there wasn't ever a point when Charlie wasn't able to breath, come to think of it. In fact, he started crying immediately and didn't stop until the sucker came out. And then he was completely fine. As if nothing happened. But for me, I think I could feel another gray hair start poking out of my scalp at that very moment. And it took a good 20 minutes for me to stop shaking.

But he was fine.
HE WAS FINE.

And I haven't even told you about the Toe Incident yet. Just another example of my overreaction to things. I'll be making a layout about that too... especially since I received the emergency visit bill in the mail yesterday.

:)

Have a great weekend! I will be at IKEA (yay!)

attic renovations: part 2

As some of you may know, we started renovations on my attic. And when I say "we", I mean my husband and his crew. Actually, not even my husband. Just his crew.
I posted back in September when it first started and I would post the link but for some odd reason, Typepad only shows the main page addy whenever I go to any page so that would be pointless. But this is what it looked like when it first started:

The insulation had just gone up, along with the framing for the drywall.
Then in a few weeks, it looked like this:

Can I just tell you how much Charlie LOVES being up there? He cries every time we leave. He's such a punk.
So all the insulation is up and ready for the drywall...

As always, with drywall comes drywall dust. It was pretty much everywhere in the house. But a small price to pay...

And then a few weeks of sanding and sanding and more sanding, the paint finally went up:

I chose a granny smith apple green just for the accent walls. The rest of the walls stayed a nice neutral.Then in came my flooing:

I wanted a dark, almost black wood for my floors and when i found out how much that was going to cost, I settled for a nice laminate in a brownish color. This was probably the hardest decision I've had to make. Probably because it was the most costly one too.
The trim is up and so are the lights:

I have four of these babies along one wall and two on the opposite side. I'm no longer going to be living in a cave! This makes me SO happy. I may have over compensated for my current space's lack of light. I think the amount of light I have up there could light a small town.

So who's ready to come over and scrap with me?
:)

a layout and a challenge

i've posted a challenge up at 2peas this week. my theme? scrap those embarrassing photos.
as some of you are also facebook friends, you've maybe seen some of my profile pictures over the past couple of months. they've been my senior pix taken over 20 years ago. I decided to do a layout with them.
:)

the boy is hungry so i must leave you all. have a great weekend!

hey man, where's my layout?

I know, right? I totally missed last week's layout on Friday. We've had some sickness around the house. Charlie got an ear infection on his birthday. The nerve of the bacterium to fester in his ear on his birthday. How dare they! And Richard's got something. I don't know what it is. He's been coughing and has a scratchy voice but nothing else. And then Maddie and Katie have stuffy noses that I think are caused by allergies and I have been having sinus problems.
Yup.
We are the Family of Phlegm. The House of Snot? The Tissue Warriors?
Good times.
But on the bright side, I think I may have an idea for a future layout.
:)

I promise to have a layout this week. Maybe even a challenge...

a give away.

i found this out from a friend of a friend who is going digital and giving away all of her paper goods. leave a comment on her blog and you may win a generous amount of scrap stuff.

http://justus-photographyanddigistuff.blogspot.com/2009/11/give-way.html

i will be back with my regularly scheduled post for this week.
:)