Today I had reason to question the parentage of Ethan!! Surely he could not be a child of mine!!! What would make me say such a thing??? Well, there I was finishing my shower, all fresh and clean and I can hear banging coming from the other room. When I proceed to investigate, I am greeted by a foul stench! I mean really foul!! So what had my darling little angel done?
E had decided to rip off his nappy, do a poo and proceed to put it in a jar. Now that is pretty gross in and of itself, but it is what he did after that really takes the cake! The little angel found a paintbrush and decided he was a little Picaso! Yes.....he really did paint the walls with his own poo!! I had to clean it up! For the record, it isn't easy removing poo from walls and it is even harder to remove the stench, even after the walls are clean!
When I told Paul, he asked me if I took any pictures. I laughed, because I actually stopped after putting the paintbrush and jar in the bin and thought I should takes some pictures, then I decided that no one really wants to see pictures of a wall covered in #*@#! There are limits to my scrapbooking sensibilities! I couldn't bring myself to take those photos!
Okay, major shift in topic! Here is one of the pages I have created for the 12x12 album class I am teaching at the shop! I have created the album 2x, one using the "Trend" papers and the other using the "Peabody" range. The classes are now booked out at the shop.
On a good note, I scrapped this week and I actually liked the results!! YAY!! Maybe the mojo is returning, I can only hope!
GROSS - who'd have boys LOL You gotta scrap it, maybe just with an angelic pic of him and the story to go with it - Im sure its something you will NEVER forget though!!!!
Gorgeous LOs and thats great to hear the classes are fully booked. I popped into 'another' store the other day and it made me REALLY appreciate how awesomw SS is!
Nic xxx
Posted by: Nic Wood | August 24, 2006 at 02:21 PM
oh my goodness! i'm not sure i could cope with that. changing those stinky nap naps is wayyyyy bad enough for me. speshly after weetbix, errr shudder...
great layouts! xo
Posted by: kate mason | August 24, 2006 at 09:40 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have to be joking surely....OMG Janine THATS GROSS GIRL..... And to think I have been dreaming of a boy...........
Steph xo
Posted by: steph caskey devlin | August 24, 2006 at 11:21 PM
OM freakin Gawd!! I can't believe it? You didn't take a photo!! LOL I also can't believe the poo painting. I can see an artist in him. Trying out the textures of different mediums. Gotta be proud there Janine.
Posted by: Susan J | August 25, 2006 at 12:20 AM
Yay! You updated, but did you have to update with that??!!!LOL It's given me a good giggle!LOL
Your album class looks like it's going to be tops!
Posted by: Chris | August 25, 2006 at 11:47 AM
ROTFLMAO! That's hilarious! And totally gross!! hehehe
Love the pages you've done here!
Posted by: Roz James | August 25, 2006 at 04:56 PM
Oh dear!! You poor thing having to clean it up, all the while cursing the little cherub LOL. I like the idea of a sweet pic of him with the journalling, you can always tuck it behind if you think he'd hate it later on...
I am very jealous of the ladies that get to do your 12 x 12 album, both pages look gorgeous :-)
Allie
Posted by: scrappinallie | August 25, 2006 at 05:11 PM
Hi Janine, it was so nice to hear from you. Love the picasso, OMGoodness, very stinky I bet, I have all that to come, wow, what I can look forward to.
Love your layouts, they are just gorgeous, but then I always do, I liked how you did them in different colours and papers, so different but not.
Carole.
Posted by: Carole Janson | August 25, 2006 at 08:33 PM
You poor thing, I can sooooo relate to this, you youngest DD has done this sort of things on many of accasions. LOL...
Posted by: Nicole Rayner | August 25, 2006 at 08:34 PM
OMG!!!! Like you I would have thought about pics, but not taken them. What a story! Hope the smell has gone now.
Gorgeous LO's!
Posted by: Trina | August 26, 2006 at 10:01 AM
Oh Dear... some Picasso you've got there LOL!!!
Love those layouts! I can see why the class is booked out!!
Posted by: Michelle Perry | August 27, 2006 at 07:30 AM
Euuuuuuwwwww!
Posted by: Sally M | August 27, 2006 at 02:06 PM
yuk! yuk! yuk!totally gross! now i'm glad i have a girl...lol. my friend's boy took hold of his nappy with poo in it and flick it all over the room and this happened when i was there! boys are tooo gross!!! lol
Posted by: shirls | August 28, 2006 at 01:26 PM
BOYS....BOYS ....BOYS.......don't you just love 'em? Hey Janine......if you had of taken a pic you could have added the title....."altered wall"....with aged and distressed look.....finished off with an aroma all of it own......sorry J...but I can just see it now...LOL!
Posted by: Lyn Dwyer | August 28, 2006 at 10:27 PM
ROFLMAO!!!! Janine that is too funny!!! I am so glad I'm reading about it happening to someone else, and not to me though!!! Oh what a funny thing!!!
And as always, I love your layouts :-)
Megan xx
Posted by: Megan Stephenson | August 29, 2006 at 01:37 PM
ROFLMAO!!!! Janine that is too funny!!! I am so glad I'm reading about it happening to someone else, and not to me though!!! Oh what a funny thing!!!
And as always, I love your layouts :-)
Megan xx
Posted by: Megan Stephenson | August 29, 2006 at 01:37 PM
Oh, lovely. But very artistic! Gotta give him points for keeping himself busy while you where in the shower. Showing skills of being able to keep himself entertained while you are busy....Making do with the materials he had at hand!! I must say I am glad you didn't take photos to scrap although you were so good at telling the story, I have quite a clear image in my head!!! Thanks!
Posted by: Lydell Quin | August 30, 2006 at 09:45 PM
that is SO horrible. i've heard of babies smearing straight from nappy to wall before, but putting it in a jar first. that's priceless. maybe that's REAL life art. lol.
as a memory though i think you should definitely scrap it - but can also see the attraction of a photo-less layout for it!
a big thank you for your email of some time ago. i've been rude not to do it before now but you blew me away. thank you
suz
Posted by: suz | September 07, 2006 at 08:26 PM
I literally laughed out loud at this!!
too funny - photos would have been great, not on a page but certainly for a 21st!
Posted by: Jaimie | October 15, 2006 at 12:46 AM