No Craft Room at Hogwarts

I am childless this week, which means I should be spending the quiet time scrapping, but once I start reading, it's hard to stop. I decided it was time for my now-annual rereading of Harry Potter, so that squashed any hope of making real progress on the boys' scrapbooks. What is it about Harry Potter that completely sucks me in? The irony is that I never had any interest in reading the books or watching the movies when they first came out (I really am not a fan of fantasy). I only started reading them when Aaron was getting ready to read them for the first time. He was only six at the time, so I was curious about the content. I got completely hooked, and now feel the need to read the books once a year. I also got the complete set of movies for my birthday, which is how we're trying to encourage Caleb to read the books now. We'll watch the movie, then he reads the book and we can't watch the next movie he finishes it (He and I started the movies over again while Aaron and Dad were at Scout camp, though, when I decided to read the books. Don't tell him that I watched Prisoner of Azkaban without him).

I did manage to get a few pages done before we left for PA last week, and did some the other day. I feel ever-so-slightly accomplished, as the boys' books are now officially less than a year behind (but not by much!). I have resorted again to doing exact doubles of pages to move things along.

I have one more day before I need to pick up the boys. Maybe I'll drag myself away from Hogwarts for a few hours tomorrow and see what I can come up with. In the mean time, here are some pages from last summer.

This is the page for Caleb's album. Aaron's is identical, with the exception of there being a photo of him instead on the left.
Papers: (Old!) Provo Craft, scraps
Cricut Cartridge: Mickey Font
Sticker: Paper Studio

Papers: DCWV
Stickers: Bo Bunny, Felt Fusion
Cricut Cartridge: Calligraphy Collection

Papers: DCWV
Stickers: Paper Studio
Cricut Cartridge: Calligraphy Collection

This is another I copied exactly
Papers: DCWV, Provo Craft
Stickers and tags: Provo Craft
Rub-ons: Making Memories

Papers: DCWV
Cricut Cartridge: Lyrical Letters
Sticker: Paper Studio
Punch: Fiskars

This time, I used identical designs, just changed the papers.
Papers: DCWV
Cricut Cartridge: Lyrical Letters
Sticker: Paper Studio

Sometimes you (okay, I) just have to slap down photos and be done.
Paper: DCWV
Punch: Martha Stewart
Rub-ons: Making Memories

A ten-minute page using the Doodlin' Around Stack from DCWV