Many of you who know me, know that I'm not a scrapbooker. My mom has always been the one with the eye & the patience for scrapbooking. She's awesome at it. I do, however, have an unhealthy obsession with scrapbooking supplies. In the last 8 or so years, I'd say the scrapbooking industry has really come into its own. Papers & embellishments no longer boast of unsightly forest greens and maroons and the artwork is artwork, not some automatically generated microsoft clipart on repeat. Ew. Scrapbooking is all about pretty these days. No? I have a friend who works at We R Memory Keepers in the product design and development end of things. She's been back and forth from Salt Lake City and China a few times in the last few months in preparation for last week's CHA. WRM has been very busy coming out with new papers & tools to make our eyeballs pop out of their sockets. What you see above and below is a small fraction of what they've been working on. When Jen gave me the samples* to play with, I could tell she was really excited (and proud) of what they're releasing to stores soon. Aren't these papers and embellishments fun? I think I need to host a baby girl shower soon. I think these papers would be so cute cut out into little doilies for serving cupcakes. The stamps would be an easy & inexpensive way to add color & cute to black and white printed invitations. The pink flower lace you see above is adhesive backed. AND Glittery. Isn't that genius?!? Use that for a closure on an envelope or wrapped gift. Awesome, right? So, I didn't have time to plan and/or execute a baby shower, but I did have time to spruce up Penelope's room a bit. Remember the scalloped border I did a couple of weeks ago? First, I just want to tell you how much I loved your comments. I loved hearing from you & I really appreciate how nice you are to me. Thank you! Second, the scalloped border was getting a little lonely. A lot lonely. He needed a friend up there by the ceiling, so I made a little mobile for the Nels. This particular arrangement was heavily inspired by this beautiful nursery I saw here. I was just blown away at how gorgeous it was & had to have it. . . part of it, at least. I made tissue pom poms via Martha Stewart, attached them to ribbon and stapled them to the ceiling. Then, I cut a million and a half irregular circles out of the WRM Hippity Hoppity paper and sewed them together. Sewing paper is tremendously easy and SUPER satisfying. If you haven't done it, try it. NOW. You don't need any special equipment, a threaded sewing machine would do just fine. You can't tell from the picture, but the little circles spin around gently from even the softest little breeze. It's so mesmerizing. If you don't have a sewing machine, or you're too afraid you'd mess up the paper trying, you could buy pre sewn paper from WRM. I was just a little giddy when I saw the 12x12 sewn sheets of paper. Did I mention that I love sewn paper? It's wonderful! Not wanting to cut up this perfect piece of paper, I wanted to do something with the whole sheet. Again, I'm not a scrapbooker, so a pretty 12x12 with pictures of the Nels on it won't happen. A door sign with almost all of Penelope's nicknames was just what the doctor ordered. Penelope really has so many little nicknames, and they're all just so cute, so I did a hand-calligraphed cloud of her nicknames. When I showed Chris, he let out an audible, "ooOOoooOOoo!" That made me feel so good inside. The above paper is a nice cardstock, so I just needed some double-stick some tape, ribbon and a thumb tack to post it to Penelope's door. It's thick enough that it doesn't look silly all by itself, but I have to admit it would look cute framed in swirly gold. *note: I received free product.