Last year as a gift for a friend I made this Disney scrapbook album.  I had a lot of fun making it and (though I worried about) my friend absolutely loved it.  I never made anything quite like it for someone else before and I worried that my tastes (which tends to be a little juvenile) wouldn't be quite her style.

But I worried for no reason.  She loved it so much that when they went to Disney again she asked me if I would make her another album, even offering to pay for it.

After about six weeks of work, I gave her the new album last week.  I'm happy to report that she was just as happy with this one.  Maybe even a little more.  With her permission, I am sharing it with you.

***clears throat and stands***  My name is Kisatrtle and I have never made a scrapbook for a friend before.    Scrapbooking is such a personal hobby.  What you like, I may not like.  What I like, you may totally hate.

And even though I know this, I took a chance and made a scrapbook for a friend.  She didn't know about it--it was a surprise.  In fact, when I asked her for 100 of her favorite Disney photos, she didn't even flinch.  She just said, "Sure."  I thought that was a bit of a red flag.  "Don't you want to know what I need them for?" I asked.  "Nah," she said, "I'm sure whatever you do with them will be fantastic."

No pressure.

I'm happy to say that I had a lot of fun making this book and my friend LOVED it! 

I've uploaded a slide show of the album for you to look at minus the faces of my friend and her family.  I wasn't sure how she would feel about her family vacation photos floating around in cyberland.

I am working on a secret craft project.  I don't want to give too much of it away, but I hope to post pics of it after it is complete.

These paper piecings are part of the project.  I made quite a few different ones, but these ones were, by far, the most complicated.

These are made at 7 inches on the Cricut Expression.  Each individual color is a different cut.  Even at 7 inches those little eyeballs were a pain in the a**.

Do you have a craft you'd like to share?  Leave me a link so I can stop by and see it.

If you want to see some of the other pages click here, or  here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here,or here, or here, or here, or here, and here.

Wow, that's a lot of linkage, baby. Let me know what you think.

Many Two of you have been waiting anxiously for this update and I didn't want to keep you waiting any longer.  I'm thoughtful like that.

My weekend had its ups and downs.

Some of the ups included:

• The Steelers whomping the Chargers
• My hubby enjoying the dog park as much as Copper, and
• Time to craft. 

Some of the downs included:

• The dog peeing on my scrapbook bag (I mean does he want to continue to live here or not),
• The kids overflowing a disgusting upstairs toilet and
• vomit on the living room floor (the dog again).

As for my to-do list here the update:

• The snowman.  As usual the weather report for the area was all hype and no action.  After being promised six inches of snow.  This is what we got.
• Create a few scrapbook pages.  I was able to make a few more pages for my Disney Book and I will post them later this week.  I only need to make three more and then my book is complete!  Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to make a card.
• Put the laundry away that is piled up on my dresser. Yeah...it's still there.
• Vacuum the entire upstairs of my house. I'm happy to say that I did get this accomplished even if I don't have the pictures to prove it.
• Update the Blog.  This one is pretty obvious.  I'm happy with the way it turned out.  Let me know if it is user friendly or not.