no, we didn't adopt a daughter...

I've gotten a few e-mails from friends wondering about this:

Have you seen it? It's the cover of the October issue of Scrapbook Trends Magazine. I was given an assignment by Making Memories to create a layout for SBTrends using the new Halloween product, and this is the layout I created. Well, almost. It's the same layout, but they had to switch out the photo.

Here's my original layout:

They wanted to use a color photo rather than a black and white photo (which is what I used on my original layout featuring Meagan on Halloween last year). And this is the color version of the photo I took:

See the problem? Yeah, that pink hair just wasn't working with the other Halloween elements on the page. Of course I was a little disappointed...but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. I am still very excited to have my layout featured on the cover - and the journaling as well as the write-up inside the cover are authentic. (assuming they didn't change anything in my write-up. I haven't actually seen it yet, so I can't say for sure, but I don't think they would have changed that. I'll definitely let you know if they did).

So, no, that isn't really my daughter on the cover - though Meagan has been begging and hoping for a baby sister for years and years. Unfortunately for her, this is probably as close as she'll ever get...