[Inter]National Scrapbooking Day

I've been pretty frugal when it comes to my digital scrapbooking supplies. I very occasionally buy something on sale, but generally I use a lot of freebies from the net, or kits from my creative team designers. So.......once a year when International Scrapbooking Day rolls around you can bet I make the most of it to stock up on lovely new goodies. The basic digital scrapbook kit costs between 5 and 8 American dollars. You can of course get kits more expensive, but that's the medium. For NSD many stores put selected items on sale for US$1-2. Now that's what I call a sale! The majority of the kits I got were US$1-2, with a few special ones costing US$3-4. I mainly shopped for kits, but also managed to find a few quick pages and templates along the way. I feel like a kid in a candy store, and can't wait to have a play with all this:

OK, I realise the preview is pretty small - you'll have to click on it to see it bigger. I got a lot more stuff too, but you'll just have to wait and see the items on my layouts. I did get to play with one kit today. "I Dream Of Poppies" by Bren Boone. Here's the kit:

and here's my page:

I did these ones earlier in the week:


I should have some 365 pages to upload tomorrow night too. Brooke is sleeping over at Ryan & Logan's tonight - something she's been looking forward to for ages. As for Elisa, she's just being her cute little self. Her speech and language skills are really advancing quickly, and she often surprises me with the things she says and the length of sentences she uses. She loves to sing now too. Makes up her own tunes with bits and pieces of lyrics from other songs. Oh, and remember a while ago I said she was terrible at tidying up? Not anymore. She's very good now at picking up things and putting them away. More so when it's just a few things, not a whole mountain of toys.