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Just a quick note today....
I have been busy, busy, busy. We are starting to organise all the Christmas projects that we will be doing in the shop during the pre-chrissy gift organising time. I spent Thursday night and Friday starting and finishing our Christmas Traditions Book which will be a fantastic 4 hour Saturday afternoon class we will be holding during Oct / Nov. It has been so much fun to do this project and I'm looking forward to getting started on the rest...
Olympic Project Update - Yes, I have pulled the box out from under the desk and I have started to organise!! Yay - it's a start.
Tip - Here's a tip before I go - If you have a die cutting machine eg: Xyron Personal Cutter, Wishblade or similar, save your old cutting mats that are no longer sticky enough to cut on and use them for holding small project pieces (ie: punched paper shapes, die cut letters etc) in place while painting them, putting glitter on them or embossing.
Enjoy scrapping this week.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
What a week...
.....
You know that lovely restful weekend that I was going to have to get over my illness? Well... Isn't it always the way...I spent till 2am on Saturday with Lauren at the hospital. The diagnoses is asthma and that makes both the kids now!! Sunday I slept almost all day and the rest of the week our whole family spent slowly recovering from the dreaded lurgy.
There hasn't been alot of time for scrapbooking because along with recuperating we have been watching the Olympics. We loooooooooovvvvvvvvvve the Olympics!!!
When I was a girl in 1976 I kept a scrapbook of the Montreal (Canada) Olympic games. Back then a scrapbook consisted of a large book with off white pages with many pictures, photos and memorabilia stuck in with Perkins Paste. I treasured that scrapbook and I can still tell you facts from that year - the Olympic flame went out when it rained heavily, many African nations boycotted the games after New Zealand was allowed to compete (can't remember exact details but I'm sure you could google the reason) and the Soviet Union won the most medals with 49 gold and 125 overall. Australia was not in the top ten medal count and only had about 180 athletes compete. How times have changed.
In 2000, I went mad with collecting STUFF about the games. Steve and I landed tickets to the Opening Ceremony rehearsal (the only thing missing from the real thing was the athletes and the goodie bag), Steve was lucky to get invited to several events (really good ones too) through work and clients, Lauren (who was 8) and I went to the Equestrian - I was devastated to miss out on Swimming and Gymnastics through the ballot thingy they ran for tickets BUT I was lucky with the Paralympics, where I was given tickets for the Opening ceremony and the athletics events where Lauren and Madi were excited to cheer Louise Savage to victory in her events and the girls had their photos taken with several athletes and even wore their medals for photos with them (every scrapbookers dream). The Paralympic athletes were incredibly kind and generous to my two little ones and it is an experience they will never forget.
Have I scrapped all these memories I might hear you ask. I scrapped the page of Lozzy and I at the equestrian everything else is sadly still in a huge box under my desk.
So, I guess it's challenge time again...although this time I'll need more than a week.
I promise I will pull the box out from under the desk by the end of the week!!
Just kidding!! I will get everything sorted by the end of the Olympics (GULP) and then start my scrapbook. I will keep you posted on how it's going.
Your challenge...what do you have in the way of a large event that you have been putting off? Get it out and have it sorted by the time the Oympic closing ceremony has ended and then you can get going on the actual page or pages. Good luck.
I have two new features to my blog (both are on the right hand side of the blog) - one is called Creative Scrapbooking which is a collection of layouts and will feature a new layout each day, the second is Scrapbooking Quotes which will also update each day. I hope you enjoy looking at them.
Till next time....Happy Scrapbooking!!
You know that lovely restful weekend that I was going to have to get over my illness? Well... Isn't it always the way...I spent till 2am on Saturday with Lauren at the hospital. The diagnoses is asthma and that makes both the kids now!! Sunday I slept almost all day and the rest of the week our whole family spent slowly recovering from the dreaded lurgy.
There hasn't been alot of time for scrapbooking because along with recuperating we have been watching the Olympics. We loooooooooovvvvvvvvvve the Olympics!!!
When I was a girl in 1976 I kept a scrapbook of the Montreal (Canada) Olympic games. Back then a scrapbook consisted of a large book with off white pages with many pictures, photos and memorabilia stuck in with Perkins Paste. I treasured that scrapbook and I can still tell you facts from that year - the Olympic flame went out when it rained heavily, many African nations boycotted the games after New Zealand was allowed to compete (can't remember exact details but I'm sure you could google the reason) and the Soviet Union won the most medals with 49 gold and 125 overall. Australia was not in the top ten medal count and only had about 180 athletes compete. How times have changed.
In 2000, I went mad with collecting STUFF about the games. Steve and I landed tickets to the Opening Ceremony rehearsal (the only thing missing from the real thing was the athletes and the goodie bag), Steve was lucky to get invited to several events (really good ones too) through work and clients, Lauren (who was 8) and I went to the Equestrian - I was devastated to miss out on Swimming and Gymnastics through the ballot thingy they ran for tickets BUT I was lucky with the Paralympics, where I was given tickets for the Opening ceremony and the athletics events where Lauren and Madi were excited to cheer Louise Savage to victory in her events and the girls had their photos taken with several athletes and even wore their medals for photos with them (every scrapbookers dream). The Paralympic athletes were incredibly kind and generous to my two little ones and it is an experience they will never forget.
Have I scrapped all these memories I might hear you ask. I scrapped the page of Lozzy and I at the equestrian everything else is sadly still in a huge box under my desk.
So, I guess it's challenge time again...although this time I'll need more than a week.
I promise I will pull the box out from under the desk by the end of the week!!
Just kidding!! I will get everything sorted by the end of the Olympics (GULP) and then start my scrapbook. I will keep you posted on how it's going.
Your challenge...what do you have in the way of a large event that you have been putting off? Get it out and have it sorted by the time the Oympic closing ceremony has ended and then you can get going on the actual page or pages. Good luck.
I have two new features to my blog (both are on the right hand side of the blog) - one is called Creative Scrapbooking which is a collection of layouts and will feature a new layout each day, the second is Scrapbooking Quotes which will also update each day. I hope you enjoy looking at them.
Till next time....Happy Scrapbooking!!
Friday, August 8, 2008
As you can all imagine - I love my job!!!
But sometimes , like today, I'm like everybody and just want to go home early.
"Why?" I hear you ask. Because just like everybody else...I'm sick with a terrible cold!!
I love winter!! I am a really typical winter girl - gloves, scarves, gorgeous winter coats and my favourite boots. I love bed socks, dressing gowns and my electric blanket and doona BUT I hate that when winter arrives so do all those coughs and sneezes and runny noses and I could really just take my head off at the neck right now, set it down and come back for it later when it's all better!
This time last year I had the worst flu ever. I don't think I've ever been that sick, I went to the business awards even though my doctor told me not to and I had to give a speech when we won our category even though I could hardly talk. This year I'm hoping to not get that ill so I'm taking Vitamin C and Echinacea and cough medicine and sucking on Strepsils.
Does this sound like you at the moment? If so, I hope you get to go home from work early, can rug up this weekend under a warm doona and watch DVD's and get better really quickly!!
Would you like a challenge this week?
If you are sick I challenge you to get well again (that's the challenge I'll be taking) and if you are well then how about scrapbooking yourself.
Yes, I did suggest scrapbooking yourself. Have a look at your albums...How many photos are you in. If your answer is not many then you need to be including yourself in your pages. Have a photo taken of yourself on your own, with your kids, with your partner, with your pets, with your neighbours, friends or family. It doesn't matter who you are with or not with just get yourself in those photos.
Why scrap everyone else and not you? Don't you think that future generations would like to see more of the person resposible for the wonderful gift of scrapbooking.
Don't forget that the girls here at Memories in the Making and myself love to see pages. Come in to the store and show them off or post them here for all of us to see. Be proud of your work and show it off!!
Till next week.
Happy recuperating or scrapping yourselves. (I know which one I'd prefer to be doing!!)
But sometimes , like today, I'm like everybody and just want to go home early.
"Why?" I hear you ask. Because just like everybody else...I'm sick with a terrible cold!!
I love winter!! I am a really typical winter girl - gloves, scarves, gorgeous winter coats and my favourite boots. I love bed socks, dressing gowns and my electric blanket and doona BUT I hate that when winter arrives so do all those coughs and sneezes and runny noses and I could really just take my head off at the neck right now, set it down and come back for it later when it's all better!
This time last year I had the worst flu ever. I don't think I've ever been that sick, I went to the business awards even though my doctor told me not to and I had to give a speech when we won our category even though I could hardly talk. This year I'm hoping to not get that ill so I'm taking Vitamin C and Echinacea and cough medicine and sucking on Strepsils.
Does this sound like you at the moment? If so, I hope you get to go home from work early, can rug up this weekend under a warm doona and watch DVD's and get better really quickly!!
Would you like a challenge this week?
If you are sick I challenge you to get well again (that's the challenge I'll be taking) and if you are well then how about scrapbooking yourself.
Yes, I did suggest scrapbooking yourself. Have a look at your albums...How many photos are you in. If your answer is not many then you need to be including yourself in your pages. Have a photo taken of yourself on your own, with your kids, with your partner, with your pets, with your neighbours, friends or family. It doesn't matter who you are with or not with just get yourself in those photos.
Why scrap everyone else and not you? Don't you think that future generations would like to see more of the person resposible for the wonderful gift of scrapbooking.
Don't forget that the girls here at Memories in the Making and myself love to see pages. Come in to the store and show them off or post them here for all of us to see. Be proud of your work and show it off!!
Till next week.
Happy recuperating or scrapping yourselves. (I know which one I'd prefer to be doing!!)
Friday, August 1, 2008
Double Page Layout...
.....I did it - created a double page layout this week. I wasn't sure I was going to finish it as I had a few problems with the title looking right but I eventually went with a chipboard title with the word EARS covered in cardstock and then I drew vine like flourishes in blue gel pen to try and match the background paper. The paper I used was (of course) my favourite Basic Grey from their brand new line Euphoria. I was wrapt to also use the buttons, glazed brads and chipboard flower stickers to match (you should be able to click on the picture to enlarge it to really see the details).
How did you all go this week? Did you get a layout done? Thanks to Rachel for leaving her comment and scrapbooking advice (click on "comments" below to see) and I hope she is having a successful scrapping week. It certainly is the weather for it. Rug up, heater on, scrapping supplies at the ready and away you go. Leave us a comment regarding your scrapping experiences or any experiences for that matter.
My page is of Loz getting her ears pierced. This is her second hole and it was only after they were done that she let me know that they're not allowed two holes at their school. Typical teen!!
I loved the fact that two of her friends met her at the chemist and held her hands to support her. It was really nice of them. She's very lucky to have great friends.
Talking of teens, one of Loz's friends is turning 15 next week and having a "party" at the park, the parents are not going to be there and she has some 'school' friends and some 'church' friends and some 'other' friends going including boys, a few being 17. So with this we have now reached the "do we let her go to this party" stage!! Luckily for us Loz's best friend isn't allowed to go and as we were talking about going away for the weekend Lozzy decided that she wouldn't go. Steve and I sighed with relief - until next time. I must admit Loz has been a pretty easy teen but I bet I won't be saying that about the wild child pre-teen that also resides at our house!!
Here's a tip published recently in an American mag.
Reader Dana Lowry from North Carolina said " Remember, it's better done than perfect. I absolutely love some of my pages, while others a just so-so. But my family is looking for the memories not perfection."
I'll leave you with that thought.
How did you all go this week? Did you get a layout done? Thanks to Rachel for leaving her comment and scrapbooking advice (click on "comments" below to see) and I hope she is having a successful scrapping week. It certainly is the weather for it. Rug up, heater on, scrapping supplies at the ready and away you go. Leave us a comment regarding your scrapping experiences or any experiences for that matter.
My page is of Loz getting her ears pierced. This is her second hole and it was only after they were done that she let me know that they're not allowed two holes at their school. Typical teen!!
I loved the fact that two of her friends met her at the chemist and held her hands to support her. It was really nice of them. She's very lucky to have great friends.
Talking of teens, one of Loz's friends is turning 15 next week and having a "party" at the park, the parents are not going to be there and she has some 'school' friends and some 'church' friends and some 'other' friends going including boys, a few being 17. So with this we have now reached the "do we let her go to this party" stage!! Luckily for us Loz's best friend isn't allowed to go and as we were talking about going away for the weekend Lozzy decided that she wouldn't go. Steve and I sighed with relief - until next time. I must admit Loz has been a pretty easy teen but I bet I won't be saying that about the wild child pre-teen that also resides at our house!!
Here's a tip published recently in an American mag.
Reader Dana Lowry from North Carolina said " Remember, it's better done than perfect. I absolutely love some of my pages, while others a just so-so. But my family is looking for the memories not perfection."
I'll leave you with that thought.
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