give me liberty...

Yes, caving in to peer pressure both live and on the internet, I finally went to Target today to peruse the Liberty of London offerings. My expectations were low since I'm about a week late to the launch. I figured I'd find a few picked over items; maybe a chipped cup or a hat with a dirty shoe print on it. Not the case however. Each department had a little something to offer - all completely adorable. I wish I had brought my camera to document the loveliness. By the time I got to the checkout, I had to do the 'do I really want/need this?' review of the cart contents and eject some of the more "frivolous" items: the hat (which looked not-so-great on me anyway) the wallet (which I rationalize was poorly designed and would certainly have caused me to dump all my loose change when trying to access my plastic money) the notepads (how many small notepads does one person need? well, I might go back for these...) Here's my what I picked up (so far, today):
I've got a thing for trays, especially the outdoorsy summery kind, the coordinating plates were impulse:

Tote bags - I use them all the time, for everything. I wanted all of the patterns but settled on this one:

This cute thing for my desk:

Love this print and the only room in my house this would make sense would be the room where my desk is. I will find a very visible purpose for it.
I think there is a layout in this post and I'm thinking I need to go back for some of the paper file folders - I can cut them up and use them on a project.  A Liberty 12 x 12 paper line, now that would make my day!

On the desk today is my Scrapper's Cove paper for the month from the Paper Company Studio. So far working on this mini for my kids school photos:

I love those paperclips on the transparency and the ribbon.

Here's a close up of the cover (the album is 4" x 4"):

(had to throw in a little Jillbean printed kraft to break up that red)

Here's a detail of the filler pages:

I made them out of cardstock sew together. The ruler border at the bottom is cut with my Silhouette. I downloaded that pattern today. It's really cool & I love the way it turned out, but there are so many tiny cuts, (I had to make 8 of them) that now I am in need of a new set of blades. (cha-ching). Each page will ultimately have a class photo for each year my kids have been in school. Now I need to go find these photos - I'm hoping they are all in one place....