<FONT face=arial>Background paper is Flavia, most cardstock is Wal-Mart. Poem and tag are from Hubby swap, serendipity squares are from All Boy swap, die cuts are from Daddy's Little Helper swap. Some cardstock on poem and on die cuts is Bazzill, available here at SG! (And I forgot to add Bazzill to the category listing - sorry!)<BR><BR><BR><BR>Fabric is from hubby's favorite pair of jeans that had a blowout recently. I used the little front coin pocket and a few belt loops.<BR><BR><BR><BR>This layout will be one of the first ones in our family book that starts right after we got married in August 2001. This is about our first home and all the work DH put into fixing it up for us. This will follow layouts about moving, and come right before some pics of the house itself. The pics of him and of us together are engagement portraits. I'm going to give this layout to him for Christmas as part of a 12 Days of Christmas gift plan.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Poem reads: My Loving Husband<BR><BR>It's you who filled my life with joy;<BR><BR>it's you who helped to make my dreams come true.<BR><BR>It's you who holds the secret to my happiness...<BR><BR>and when I think about the one I'll always love,<BR><BR>It is you.<BR><BR><BR><BR>My journaling reads:<BR><BR>We've only just begun, but I already know that this is meant to be! When you put on your favorite jeans, I know that you're ready for just about anything. You're my repairman - of my house, and of my heart!<BR><BR>Our first house had a lot of repair issues. We lived in Ropesville, TX in the old gardener's apartment on my grandparents' property. In exchange for rent, you repaired windows and doors, redid the kitchen, kept the lawn, built steps, filled holes, and worked your way deeper into my (heart).</FONT>