Smash pages, continued

Here I added one of my tiny pictures to a page already in progress:

Same here, plus I used the kindergarten type paper to practice my handwriting at the bottom:

Here are some pics from Tami's wedding:

I'm going totally random with this thing and I think I'm going to like it. Not sure, but think so. 

Smash-able pictures!

OK, so my Pogo (it's a tiny printer from Polaroid) hasn't been working. I threw away the cord (accidentally!!) and the car charger I got for it doesn't work. I took it to a battery place and the guy made a face and said it would take 24 hours to test the battery and they didn't have one to replace it if something was wrong with it and blah, blah, blah. So I did THIS instead!

The Pogo prints 2x3 inches, so in Photoshop I set up a 4x6 sized canvas and put 4 2x3 inch pictures on each one! It was 19 cents to get them printed, so I have 20 pics for 95 cents. How great is THAT? 

Smashed Liam :)

This was before school one morning - I'm not the most awake person in the morning, and I hadn't had coffee yet, and he gets himself dressed and amuses himself until an alarm goes off that tells us it's time to go wait for the bus - and so his hair was crazy and he went to school this way. I don't care and neither does he, I actually think he's adorable like this! Will he hate me someday for letting him go to school with messy hair? There was also something sticky in his hair and I tried to get him to taste it - I was laughing to hard to get a picture.

There's a song called He's Mine and I love it! He's mine :) 

Smash pages in progress!

OK, I guess this one is done so it's not actually in progress. Don't tell the Blogger police!

Some trees on a page:

My leg while I'm peeing:

Cheeky on a school day:

And my sister-in-law and favorite little jelly bean:

Some Smashes...

A page for Puma:

Me lounging:

I guess I have to come up with a name that's different than Smash...I'll think it over and let you know!

Smash booking, Goog style.

OK, bloggy friends. I'm determined to overcome my Smash Book issues, but not in their book. The binding really is horrible. I want to apologize to all the Smash lovers out there for hating on your beloved books, but I really can't. The binding is bad. Horrible. Sucky. And this is not just the opinion of a loud-mouth. I worked in a place where we did ALL kinds of book binding, and the way Smash is bound would NOT have been OK there. The wire needs to be bigger. So, here is my solution: make it yourself. Duh. That's what I always do.

First I gathered papers. The more random, the better, but I did get a few that sort of have "meaning" to me. The toast one? My son eats a LOT of toast. There's a cat one, we're getting a cat. The mustaches just make me laugh. The music notes - I'm a musician (clarinet, piano, no rock instruments).

 Here is it all cut up and bound together:

Cover:

Toast page:

This is actually a "scrap" page from a piece of paper my friend TJ gave me:

The last page is a bag from Starbucks:

The pages are 7x10, in case anyone is wondering. I'll try to post more about this, if I can make myself really do it! I'm going to try to make it my February journal. We'll see how it works out!

Top 10...

This is my Smash journal. Tim made me go to Barnes & Noble on Sunday when his parents were here and we were all at Nickelodeon Universe. I HATE the Mall of America, especially on the weekends. It's a big mall, but it just has regular mall stores so I don't really see the attraction to the actual mall. Of course, Nick U is the fun spot for Liam.

I was feeling bad that I wasn't having fun and my hubby banished me - especially because I wasn't PREPARED to be banished. I only had my Smash journal, not my regular journal. I had no pens or pencils, no other supplies, I didn't have my headphones to block out the horribly annoying deaf man who kept shouting while he signed or the really annoying 12-year-old who couldn't chew his cheetos with his mouth closed. 

I did meet a really nice lady while I was there, I'm hoping to get to know her better. She's some kind of psychologist or something like that, but we didn't really talk about that. She could TELL I was all annoyed by the people around me and that's what we talked about. And art. She liked that I was drawing, said it's good for calming my brain. Good to know, right? 

More Smashing

So, I'm trying to make myself "journal" in my Smash Book. I played more with the cover...

Here's some of the packaging from Ajae's Christmas gifts:

And some pics from hanging at Kelly's:

Here is the problem with Smash:

See how tight that is? It's too tight. Seriously, how much money could they possibly have saved by doing that?