We just got home from our trip last evening. I was exhausted but tried to unpack whatever I could while I had an ounce of energy. Then, as I was hanging some new clothes into my closet, I had a sudden burst of motivation to…clean out and rearrange that closet!! I filled a giant box with stuff just from that little space!
I love getting rid of extra junk! Out with the old, in with the new. It’s a great way to start the 2007.
There is a lot to do today. It’s my daughter’s seventh birthday. We’ve got to make it special for her. But I also need to finish unpacking and get the house cleaned up. We still have opened presents and packaging everywhere! We’re also having our best friends over to celebrate the new year tonight, so I want the house clean!
But, it is my intention to spend at least fifteen minutes scrapbooking today! I haven’t scrapbooked in a week! Even if all I do is to pull out photos and papers for the next layout.
Away from my home, away from the internet most of the time, away from my little dog (sob).
We’re in Kansas City visiting my parents and siblings! We’re having so much fun! Yesterday we went away to some farm areas where my parents have some gorgeous hilly property away from civilization.
You see me with my baby sister, Lindsay? She is so much fun! We called her Lou-Lou when she was little. I moved out of state to go to college when she was only ten. Since then I have only had a handful of chances to live with her, three months at a time while on summer breaks. Once I graduated ten years ago, we only see each other on short visits like this current one.
And here I am with my little guy, Aiden. He was having so much fun playing in the tall grass.
We also took turns riding quads, Grandpa pulled the little ones in a trailor with his miniature tractor, and we sang Karaoke.
If only you could have heard (and seen) my brother-in-law’s versions of Lady Marmalade and The Final Countdown. Or maybe you would have enjoyed my husband and I singing Zombie by the Cranberries, with the funky vocal flips and all! What a blast.
I’m making my daughter’s birthday party invitations right now. Yes, we have another birthday coming up! It’s going to be a flower garden party so the invitations are really springy. To maintain my Christmas spirit, I am listening to this amazing version of the Carol Of The Bells. You must take a listen!
Enjoy!
Here is a layout I did for the Sketches Challenge. I was able to do most of this layout while the sugar cookies were baking! Three 7 minute sessions, plus a little bit of time afterward to finish it up!
The main journaling is a story my son wrote last year in second grade. I’ll come back and add it to this post later if I have time. My own journaling says, “At 7 years old, Blake loves to write stories.”
Products:
Patterned Paper: Rusty Pickle, Creative Memories, Basic Grey???
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up
Rub-ons: Art Warehouse
Font: Times New Roman
Pen: Creative Memories
Ink: Stampin’ Up
Here is one of the layouts from the third episode of Paperclipping that I promised to post. The Easter layout will take me a little longer to do because it’s harder to crop together a two-page layout. It is coming, though!
The products for this layout are:
Paper: Basic Grey, Creative Memories
Rub-ons: Chatterbox
Ink, stamps: Stampin’ Up
Pen: Creative Memories
Photos: These unusually shaped/cropped photos were done through www.moo.com.
I’ve been tagged. Dina did it. So, here are my six weird things:
1. I have to have like-dishes with like-dishes so the cupboard looks beautiful when you open it. This caused a real issue with my college roommates when there were six of us with six different sets of dishes. They went along with me for the first semester, but by second semester there was a mutiny. Five against one. The six beautiful stacks became one giant ugly one.
2. I also arrange and rearrange the cups and dishes in the dishwasher as they go in so that like-dishes can be together.
3. And I arrange and rearrange my groceries as I put them in the cart so that each item has a nice little spot.
(Okay, if I’m not freaking you out at this point, maybe I need to tag you. I’m getting weirded out, myself).
4. I can’t drink liquid without making weird gulping noises.
5. I have two different pillows that go under my legs at night. One large one for when I sleep on my back. One small one for when I sleep on my side. And I rotate them as I rotate positions. Which I do. Over and over and over again.
6. The last weird thing about me: I have so many intense conversations with myself in the society of my head that when my children start talking to me I feel as if they have interrupted a very important discussion. Yeah. That weird thing needs to change.
Okay, well, now that I feel totally exposed, you’ve been tagged. Go blog your six weird things, then come back to tell me about it. When you’re done, check out Dina’s awesome blog and her amazing art. Then you can learn about her weirdness as well.
And when I get in this state, my scrap area shows it! I am unusually organized for someone with the number of scattered thoughts I have. Many years of observing organized people gave me some good habits. I am really good about cleaning up my area in-between each layout. But then I have these times when tons of ideas are whirling in my head and so I get a start on each of them, which means there is no cleaning up between each project’s end!
But that’s okay. It is temporary and I’m really excited about these ideas. I told you about the Christmas file-folder. I have a couple others on different topics I want to do as well. Plus, right now, I am working on a mini-book that I am bordering ecstatic about! It is probably going to be part of my Hall Of Fame entry, which means, again, you don’t get to see it. At least not for a while.
Back to my book!
The 3rd installment of Paperclipping is here. If you do multi-photo layouts, you’re going to like this episode! Be sure to check back through the week if you want to see the layouts close up on the blog. I’ll post them as soon as I can.
This episode is in the archives. To learn how to access the archives, please visit the membership information page.
I pulled out a file folder. I pulled out some Christmas papers and other possible supplies. I gathered the torn out magazine pages of Christmas decorating ideas I’ve been collecting. And I took photos of the decorating I already do.
I’m now ready to alter this file folder and turn it into an idea book for Christmas decorating and entertaining! Once it is done (although, it may never be done. I am designing it so I can add or remove pages), I will take pictures and post them here.
Disclaimer: This is totally the type of project I would typically gather parts for and then never touch again! Which is why I normally stick to scrapbook layouts, as opposed to altered projects. I can get a layout done quickly. I’ve never done any kind of themed book where I have to stick with the same idea for very long. It’s just not the way my mind likes to function. We’ll see how this goes!
I had so much fun creating this layout!
I decided to participate in a sketch challenge from the Pencil Lines blog. I don’t usually work from sketches because I can usually find the design by playing with my pictures. I wanted to join the super cool ladies at Pencil Lines, though, so I gave it a shot. Always good to try something new, right?
Well, it made the layout totally easy and fast. Plus, it was super fun. Of course, any layout of pictures with such a cute little darling is going to be super fun.
If you’ve never worked a layout from a sketch before, go check out this blog and look at all the completely different layouts that come from one sketch. This is really great if any of you are new at scrapbooking or if you ever get stuck on a design.
Journaling:
Could there be a more perfect costume for you than a gypsy? You love creating unique fashions, layering clothes. Add to that the performer in you and you’re a perfect gypsy.
Happy Halloween
Trinity
2006
Little Gypsy Darling
Products:
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey, Slab, Close To My Heart
Transparencies: Hambly
Rub-on: My Mind’s Eye. 7 Gypsies
Pen: American Crafts
Stamps and Ink: Stampin’ Up
Paint: Grumbacher
Flower Brads: Unknown
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