We're getting down to just about a month until we arrive in California…and I am sooo ready to see my nephews and the rest of my family!  When I sat down to scrapbook this weekend, the only photos I wanted to play with were ones from last summer…

 
We're a big homemade ice cream family.  In fact, I think we had it three times last summer in the 4 weeks we were there! 

I'm getting down to the ends of last month's Studio Calico order, but I think this makes 6 or 7 layouts I've gotten from that one add-on kit with a few extra sheets of kraft cardstock (with enough to do another layout or two still!).   Definitely worth the money!

 
Just a little peek at the stitching.   A layout just doesn't seem finished until I've sewn something down.

 
And my requisite cute nephew layout.  Hard to believe how much he'd changed between these photos and when I saw him a few months ago, and I can't wait to see how much more he's changed again.

Same letters as the ice cream layout, but I painted and sanded them lightly.  I really like the effect (almost sort of fuzzy or a bit like chenille). 

Four weeks of scrapping in a row – and I'm realizing that I never finished my album reorganization project (i.e. I need to buy about a dozen albums just for the layouts I have sitting in stacks!).   

I'd better get on that before the piles of finished layouts completely take over!