Mommy and Tot Swimming

My niece and her BFF and their 3 1/2 month old babies at Mommy and Tot Swimming classes.

Kit: Tale of the Mermaid Princess (Michelle Batton)
Template/Sketch: Three Is A Crowd (Mye De Leon)

I Love Ketchup!

My grand-nephew Hayden REALLY loves ketchup. I love this photo of him and his Daddy ... it was taken two weeks ago at "Hutches on the Beach". This is an old diner that I ate at many times when I was a kid, and even more often as a teen ... and it's still going strong today.

Hutch's Restaurant is a classic! Since 1946, the restaurant has built a reputation for its fabulous fish and chips, hamburgers and hotdogs "with the works", milkshakes and its own delicious brand of French fries. The atmosphere inside is made warm and friendly by the classic diner-style booths, old sports pictures on the walls and 1950s music on the jukebox. Hutch's classic combination of great food, fast service and 1950's-style dining makes it one of the area's most popular eateries.

I used a number of elements from a variety of kits, including... 'Mom's Diner' (by Sweet Digi Scraps). Love, love, love this kit. I won a $5.00 coupon from Liz (the designer) and chose this (and I ended up buying another kit while I was there, lol). I'm a huge fan of diners. My first website back in the late 80's was called The Dabble Diner :)

The gorgeous background paper is from 'Cruising' (by Mel Hains). This was another amazing deal ... it was on sale earlier this month for $1.00 and it's super cute. I love that the painted paper reminds me of water, and since the restaurant is on the beach and the colour matched Hayden's shirt, I just had to use it.

The SVG wavy shape is from Barb at Albums to Remember. I filled it with black and white tiled paper because the diner actually has that floor, haha.

I also used a few bits from 'That's My Dad' (by Mye De Leon). It's an absolutely gorgeous kit that is on sale for $1.00. Mye has opened a new store and will be selling exclusively at Digital Design House. She is leaving MyMemories, GottaPixel and Scrapmatters and retiring over 70 products, so I picked up a bunch more of her $1.00 kits (reg. $5.99).

The Nautical cluster by Flower Scraps was a freebie. And finally I extracted the ketchup bottle (because only Heinz will do, lol); made the ketchup hearts and wordart; and added the Hutches logo to the drink cup.