How many shoes

should a 6-month-old own? Especially given she hardly ever wears any?!

I'm not sure I like the answer to this question.  Because this photo only shows about a third of the shoes she actually owns!

I'm playing along with the challenge from These Are a Few of My Favourite Things which prompted us to scrap our favourite shoes. So I took a picture of some of my favourite shoes that The Moodle owns. And in doing so I realised that half of these shoes she's lucky to have worn once!

The problem with most baby shoes is they never stay on for very long. And coupled with the fact that this baby of mine seems to be growing at an alarming rate means that all of these beautiful shoes seem to be going to waste. But at least I've captured them in picture form :-)

I really like the combination of products I used on this layout. I think they all go together nicely, and that's definitely something I struggle with - mixing and matching from different companies.
The background paper is Basic Grey, the title alphas, embellishments and paper strips are The Girl's Paperie and the flowers are Kitschy Digitals. I've also used some paper doilies, ribbon and washi tape.

I'm also using the June sketch over at Handmade by Suzanne's for this layout.
Two birds, one stone and all of that.

I rotated the sketch onto it's side and put the title at the top and the journalling on the bottom. Oh, and kept the two photos the same size. But other than that I've kept to the sketch pretty well. I'll show you again so you can see.....

 
You may have noticed how I tried to photograph this layout in a new way today. I'm a bit undecided on whether this was a good idea or not. What do you think?
I really like it when other people have a some of the background showing in their layout photos, and I'm sick of having distorted-looking layouts when I've tried to photograph them on the wall. I certainly had more success when photographing them on the floor, but I don't think it's very nice to have some un-vacuumed carpet showing!!

So I'm experimenting. Maybe I just need to change up the location? or change the way I propped it up?
Hhhmmmmmmm.......

I'd really be interested in hearing your thoughts on this.