Saturday, January 2, 2010

Silhouettes

Well, where do I begin? Happy Thanksgiving? Merry Christmas? Happy New Year? Obviously it has been awhile; someone in this household has been sick since October 30th with very, very few days of all 5 of us feeling well. Jacob has been diagnosed with having small airways/larynx, which should correct itself as he grows, but in the meantime if he gets the slightest little cold he sounds horrible. His pediatrician is hesitant to diagnose him with asthma, but he did prescribe an inhaler that he gets 3 times a day when he's sick and as needed (usually once a day) when he's well.

As a result, there has been little spare time for crafting. I've done a few projects here and there, which I'll be posting soon. For those that have followed for awhile, you'd know that I had been working on Disney character albums for 2 of my boys for Christmas. They seemed to like them--especially Noah. I'm hoping that, as the boys grow, the albums will bring back lots of fun memories we made at Disneyland last year.

Anyway, here is one of the projects I managed to get done since the last time I posted. I made one for each set of grandparents for Christmas this year. I had the boys' silhouettes scanned, and, after some work in Inkscape, was able to cut them out in SCAL.
I added their names and ages with a fine (005 Micron) pen.
Thanks for looking!

6 comments:

Kaye's Crafty Place said...

Wow sounds like you have been busy. Hope things are looking better now and that your little man is better soon.

Glad your boys like the Disney Albums, I'm sure they will appreciate them more and more as they grow older.

Happy New Year

hugs
Kaye x

Miss Jody said...

I'm a new follower and I have been checking your blog off and one...looking for you :) Bam! Your here! Yeahhhhhh!!
I'm so glad your back :)
Hopefull everyone is good in the house again :)
Happy Scrappin'xooxox

Sandy said...

This is beautiful....I love the look and feel of it...they must have been a great hit with the grandparents....Sorry to hear of the illness in your family...seems to be that time of year....Hope the little one is well...I know how precious this time is with them small...so enjoy....it goes so fast.....but still can't wait to see your projects...LOL....

Djhs said...

Let me tell you THIS! It DID go over VERY well with THIS set of grandparents!! So good to see you getting a little time to create. I know it is important!! :)

Aimee said...

Great job on the silhouettes! Also, congratulations on sweet Jacob! He's darling! I loved seeing the pics of his arrival and the pics/reactions of your boys. It was quite similar to how things went at our house. Aden was brimming with excitement and kisses for his new sister and Jonathan was really unsure and didn't really want to get too close. Of course, he's really warmed up to her now and kisses her all the time! I guess he just had to get used to her. Anyway, I hope you are all well.

Stine Ursin said...

You have really had a tough start with your little boy. Hope everything goes well from now on.

Really loves these silhouettes, what a great idea!! Almost makes me want to get SCAL... but I won't... I think :o)

Stine from pregnancy chat