Thursday, January 27, 2011
wordful wednesday: and so i'm back
but from camping, as opposed to outer space.....
camping was good
.. except for the torrential rain and gail force winds which caused us to abandon our campsite and take refuge in a tourist cabin
but that only lasted 3 days and we glamped for 2 weeks, so y'a know, it was mostly all good!
things i forgot to take camping:
sunblock
coffee cups
a spatula
of course i was devastated about the coffee cups...
so this photo was taken by miss 14 on her camera (that she got for christmas)
i don't have access to any of our camping photos because they are on APERTURE on mr scrappy's laptop and i still have iPHOTO on my desktop.
even if i DID have my camping photos in APERTURE on my desktop, i'd still be none the wiser.
as much as i love my husband downloading/buying every new piece of technology there is, sometimes i just can't keep up.
i feel like i just get one programme or new thing sorted, and along comes up an update, or something completely different!
so, i'm putting one foot in front of the other
(get it, like the photo???)
...taking 3 deep breaths (name that show)
and heading straight to apple to watch the aperture tutorial
and just because i love to torture my almost 48 year old brain, i've gone cold turkey on PSE and only using full photoshop now.
this is the part where i remind myself that my brain is a muscle that needs constant exercise!
happy WW!
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
wordful wednesday: gone glamping
this time tomorrow my lips will be around this
my butt will be on this and my hands will be turning one of these

my feet will be sandy

and so will lots of other bits of me

and this will be my nightly view across the campground

it'll be a tough couple of weeks, but someone's gotta do it
spot ya at the end of the month.....
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
inspiration everywhere and other stuff
here's a roundup of my crafty creativeness from the past few weeks
this printable calendar template is from shutter sisters
i was so impressed with the amount of free downloadable holiday tags, chocolate wrappers etc that were available online! i think i found them ORIGINALLY from my scrapscene daily email
i made a 2011 calendar for tara featuring pictures of her and i and our girls from over the years
and here's some of the 'assignments' i completed from jessica spraque's free 'inspiration everywhere' class
back in december
this is from the 'create' banner i made
these rosettes are made from a printable PDF
you then cut them into 11 x 1 inch strips then SCORE at 1/4 in (10 of them!)
you join 2 together then somehow wrangle them into a rosette
i'd recently just bought a MACRO lens, so maybe went a little crazy with it here...
my folds on this E were very exact!!!!
YAY!
i'm not sure if i'm meant to include a link because even though the class was free, you had to register?
it DID take some time, but was so worth it
one of the other assignments was to make a cd of your favourite tunes
this was SO much fun, and i played it LOUD SEVERAL times while i did the housework!
then miss 12 and 14 and i made these albums last week at our LSS
another assignment from the jessica spraque class was to make a page using our own handprint
i found the mere act of painting my hand and placing it on a page incredibly moving
don't ask me why
maybe because as adults, we just don't do that kinda thing!
here i'm pretending to chase my daughter with a very wet and very blue hand
i hope you enjoyed my crafty show and tell!
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Friday, January 7, 2011
photostory friday and the list
how cute is this?
miss 12 made herself a christmas eve [day] list of things to do to make the time pass so she wouldn't get bored!
she managed to last ALL day without being bored or moaning that the day wasn't going fast enough
in fact, she didn't even get all the way through the list!

Hosted by Cecily and Lolli
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
wordful wednesday: done.
my 365 came to an end 5 days ago
i loved every minute of it
didn't miss a day
although, it wouldn't have bothered me if i had
i love that i can touch, feel and turn the pages on our year
(in the past i've done my 365 online)
my picture on june 6th was miss 14 reading the entire album
my picture on june 6th was miss 14 reading the entire album
she'd help me file the new photos, then spend AGES pouring over the album
love. that
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