I figured it was time to get back to the blog, at least now and then. I've cleaned it up a bit, and will be changing a few more things in the near future. I would like to be eligible for some design teams and product rep positions in the crafting world, and I'm noticing that most of those are starting to require an active blog. On the plus side, this blog will be around in some form or another until either I choose to no long have it or Blogger goes out of business, so I've got time to get it going again. I'm going through a bit of life changing right now, and trying to decide what direction or road life should take next. It's equal parts exciting and scary to contemplate. I'm not a fan for major changes at all. I enjoy spontaneity when it comes to random get-togethers with friends and family, or suddenly deciding to do something else for the day in place of what was planned, but not having parts of my life uprooted. Even when this meant moving into our house a couple years ago, it was still hard for me. I'm very thankful we found this great house to buy, and I love our space, but until I was settled and everything was put away I wasn't comfortable at all. Weird but true! We moved several time during my childhood, and also rearranged the main living area of the house on a regular basis, which left me wanting things to just stay when they have a place and not move!! (my mom is laughing over this)
Anyway, I hope to start doing some posting, and hopefully even some technique sharing, very soon. I've got a few projects I'm working on right now, so we'll see where it goes from here.
.... off to make sure I don't forget that left turn at Albuquerque!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Monday, January 19, 2009
A new year... and new resolutions....
Well, 2009 has hit and I'm taking stock of my life... where I've been, the road I've taken, and where I may go in the future.
I took a big step last June by not only getting a business license, but becoming a Crafter for Club Scrap as well. I still have the business license, but I'm no longer a Crafter. I still think it's a wonderful idea, but not for me and not in the area I live in. I'm calling it a life lesson/learning experience, and I hope to take what I've learned and apply it to new experiences. I am not the type of person who can casually shat up people wherever I happen to be, and I had a hard time keeping the personal separated from the business. After it basically took over my life (not to mention all my spare time!), I came close to a break-down... which is when I realized that it was time for me to gracefully retire from Crafting. The real downside is that I was in debt a bit on the CC when I came to this realization, so now I need to be really good and pay that puppy off this year. *sigh*
I'm hoping to be able to find my creative mojo again, and actually start scrapping and stamping, and to that end I challenged myself to do Tim Holtz's 12 tags of Christmas 2008, and also join some swaps on the Forum I joined in November. And if you are looking for a great place to find friendship, support, and inspiration, may I suggest you wander over to PAO? Click here: http://wwwpaperartistsonline.com and tell them I sent you!
On a more personal note, I'm going to spend a little more time to spend with my hubby and a little less time on my own. We bought a Wii and a Wii Fit, so i'm also trying to get healthier and more in shape.... and since the Wii is just fun to do, I have high hopes of this working..... as long as I can get through the initial aches and pains of long-unused muscles screaming over having to work..... {ouch}
That's about it for now.... remember to watch American Idol and Celebrity Apprentice... and root for Clint Black on Apprentice as his charity of choice is the International Rett Syndrome Foundation... a syndrome shared by his niece and my niece.
TTFN!
I took a big step last June by not only getting a business license, but becoming a Crafter for Club Scrap as well. I still have the business license, but I'm no longer a Crafter. I still think it's a wonderful idea, but not for me and not in the area I live in. I'm calling it a life lesson/learning experience, and I hope to take what I've learned and apply it to new experiences. I am not the type of person who can casually shat up people wherever I happen to be, and I had a hard time keeping the personal separated from the business. After it basically took over my life (not to mention all my spare time!), I came close to a break-down... which is when I realized that it was time for me to gracefully retire from Crafting. The real downside is that I was in debt a bit on the CC when I came to this realization, so now I need to be really good and pay that puppy off this year. *sigh*
I'm hoping to be able to find my creative mojo again, and actually start scrapping and stamping, and to that end I challenged myself to do Tim Holtz's 12 tags of Christmas 2008, and also join some swaps on the Forum I joined in November. And if you are looking for a great place to find friendship, support, and inspiration, may I suggest you wander over to PAO? Click here: http://wwwpaperartistsonline.com and tell them I sent you!
On a more personal note, I'm going to spend a little more time to spend with my hubby and a little less time on my own. We bought a Wii and a Wii Fit, so i'm also trying to get healthier and more in shape.... and since the Wii is just fun to do, I have high hopes of this working..... as long as I can get through the initial aches and pains of long-unused muscles screaming over having to work..... {ouch}
That's about it for now.... remember to watch American Idol and Celebrity Apprentice... and root for Clint Black on Apprentice as his charity of choice is the International Rett Syndrome Foundation... a syndrome shared by his niece and my niece.
TTFN!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Elections
***WARNING!! If you're a Democrat, skip this page!! Do not flame me... remarks will be deleted!***
Well, I haven't blogged in forever, but I'm so disgusted with the country and the way the voting system works that I wanted to vent. I absolutely cannot believe people were so stupid as to vote in a person to run our country that has a crappy financial plan, wants to simply make nice with all the fluffy terrorists, and has no respect for our armed forces at all. What the hell was everyone smoking today??
Another thing I really don't understand is how the electoral college votes, which are supposed to be cast according to each state's popular vote( see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College) manage to be cast before the majority of a state's ballots have been cast and counted. What the hell?!?! So basically this is saying that by the time I cast my vote in Washington state, it no longer matters because whoever represents us in the electoral college has already cast their votes. How is this possible?
We were discussing today at work how Obama could be the Anti-Christ... who knows? Maybe the world is ending and the Lord is coming back really soon. (fingers crossed) I've been saying for months that a snake oil salesman is still a snake oil salesman, no matter smooth a line he talks. I cannot believe that so many people blame the Republicans, and President Bush, for what's happened in the last 8 years, without taking into consideration that Congress has been run by Democrats for years now.
I feel for President Bush. Not even a year into his presidency, and some sick terrorists decide to take out the Towers. He declares war on them, and gets full support long enough to get troops over there, then the Democrats start backing away from it and he's gotten nothing but hell from them since. People are idiots, morons, stupid, misguided..... pick a word you like best.
Well, I'm off to bed... and will start tomorrow with a new gloom & doom outlook... which will last until 2012!
Well, I haven't blogged in forever, but I'm so disgusted with the country and the way the voting system works that I wanted to vent. I absolutely cannot believe people were so stupid as to vote in a person to run our country that has a crappy financial plan, wants to simply make nice with all the fluffy terrorists, and has no respect for our armed forces at all. What the hell was everyone smoking today??
Another thing I really don't understand is how the electoral college votes, which are supposed to be cast according to each state's popular vote( see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College) manage to be cast before the majority of a state's ballots have been cast and counted. What the hell?!?! So basically this is saying that by the time I cast my vote in Washington state, it no longer matters because whoever represents us in the electoral college has already cast their votes. How is this possible?
We were discussing today at work how Obama could be the Anti-Christ... who knows? Maybe the world is ending and the Lord is coming back really soon. (fingers crossed) I've been saying for months that a snake oil salesman is still a snake oil salesman, no matter smooth a line he talks. I cannot believe that so many people blame the Republicans, and President Bush, for what's happened in the last 8 years, without taking into consideration that Congress has been run by Democrats for years now.
I feel for President Bush. Not even a year into his presidency, and some sick terrorists decide to take out the Towers. He declares war on them, and gets full support long enough to get troops over there, then the Democrats start backing away from it and he's gotten nothing but hell from them since. People are idiots, morons, stupid, misguided..... pick a word you like best.
Well, I'm off to bed... and will start tomorrow with a new gloom & doom outlook... which will last until 2012!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Mocha Java keyholder
My New Year's resolution this year was to finish up all the projects & kits that I've gotten from Club Scrap and tossed into a drawer to languish. This is my favorite so far... a totally cool key holder from Club Scrap's Nature's Wonders kit that I totally changed into a coffee themed one. I bought the original Club Scrap Mocha Java stamps a couple years ago off a member, and then acquired some of the papers from another member last month, and they were just screaming to be done into this fabulous project. The focal points are air dry clay I stamped onto with the Mocha Java stamps inked with Ranger's Adirondack Espresso ink. Now I just have to decide if I'm actually going to let my hubby hang his keys on it or just use it for decoration!!
Monday, February 18, 2008
long time no news....
Hmmm... I can see that I haven't been posting since I started packing up our old house to move into the new one! A lot has been going on since then.
We are all moved in, except for a few random boxes that seem to stay no matter how many of the darn things I unpack. We have enclosed a portion of the back porch for Dave to have his very own shop for the R/C airplanes and such. I am down to the last 3 or 4 boxes of craft stuff that I have to either find a home for or donate to a worthy cause. We bought a new stove, refrigerator, and dishwasher that look SO cool! They are black, and I totally love them!
We took 2 weeks off around Christmas and New Year's to drive down to sunny California and visit my family for the holidays. My brother was there for a couple days, and my grandma flew in from Kansas for 3 weeks, so we had a great time. I hooked my nephew on Insaniquarium, and we all did the karoake thing with the PS2 American Idol and country music games. We took a jaunt up to Big Bear/Sugarloaf to spend the day with Aeryn & Mike... too fun!! Also daytripped over to Cherry Valley to visit Dave's Grandparents. And last but not least, we went to the Happiest Place On Earth for a couple days, as you can't be that close to Disneyland and not go!
My best bud, Allane, finally came back from North Carolina, and we've been hanging out as much as possible since then. She got hooked on stamping while she was away, and I am loving the cards she creates. She's so talented!
And I've actually started putting photos on pages again, and not just ALSBing everything and putting them in PBs for later. If I don't start to print off and scrap those digital pictures, then I will forget what happened by the time I get around to them! I still have 2+ photo boxes of 35mm prints to scrap, but they are old enough that I can't remember particulars and I have little motivation to do them anymore. Club Scrap is doing a PSL (Pro Scrapbookers League) right now, and I'm on Team Gold (GO GOLD!!), so I'm scrapping those ALSBs with photos that I got printed last week. Gotta help my team get in the top 5 if I can. Winning would be nice, but I am just loving the finished layouts at this point. And I've been slowly posting them on the School of Scrap as well, so I'm back on that forum again.
Heading back to scrap some more....
We are all moved in, except for a few random boxes that seem to stay no matter how many of the darn things I unpack. We have enclosed a portion of the back porch for Dave to have his very own shop for the R/C airplanes and such. I am down to the last 3 or 4 boxes of craft stuff that I have to either find a home for or donate to a worthy cause. We bought a new stove, refrigerator, and dishwasher that look SO cool! They are black, and I totally love them!
We took 2 weeks off around Christmas and New Year's to drive down to sunny California and visit my family for the holidays. My brother was there for a couple days, and my grandma flew in from Kansas for 3 weeks, so we had a great time. I hooked my nephew on Insaniquarium, and we all did the karoake thing with the PS2 American Idol and country music games. We took a jaunt up to Big Bear/Sugarloaf to spend the day with Aeryn & Mike... too fun!! Also daytripped over to Cherry Valley to visit Dave's Grandparents. And last but not least, we went to the Happiest Place On Earth for a couple days, as you can't be that close to Disneyland and not go!
My best bud, Allane, finally came back from North Carolina, and we've been hanging out as much as possible since then. She got hooked on stamping while she was away, and I am loving the cards she creates. She's so talented!
And I've actually started putting photos on pages again, and not just ALSBing everything and putting them in PBs for later. If I don't start to print off and scrap those digital pictures, then I will forget what happened by the time I get around to them! I still have 2+ photo boxes of 35mm prints to scrap, but they are old enough that I can't remember particulars and I have little motivation to do them anymore. Club Scrap is doing a PSL (Pro Scrapbookers League) right now, and I'm on Team Gold (GO GOLD!!), so I'm scrapping those ALSBs with photos that I got printed last week. Gotta help my team get in the top 5 if I can. Winning would be nice, but I am just loving the finished layouts at this point. And I've been slowly posting them on the School of Scrap as well, so I'm back on that forum again.
Heading back to scrap some more....
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Cyper-crop hop
Well, I see that I forgot to toot my own horn here about the cyber crop! I only got one layout done, but I was othe random winner for that challenge so it was great! Thanks again to School of Scrap for all the inspiration I get! The base paper is from Club Scrap's Varsity kit, the mats are Culinary (silver) and Games (burgundy) - both Club Scrap, and the patterned papers and journaling box are FooFaLa by Autumn Leaves. The jacket and tassel are Jolee's, and the brads are Club Scrap. Titling is done with Thickers... I forget the company.
Monday, August 6, 2007
random scrapbook thoughts
I've been laughing to myself the last few days, reading about people's various tirades on scrapbooking and what people choose to scrap. I do agree that when looking to post a layout on a forum one should keep in mind the stated rules for posting on that site, but if you have a personal space online where you feel the need to share any and all of your layouts, then go for it. I personally choose not to put any profanity or nudity in my scrapbooks (well, not yet anyway!), but I do feel that a scrapbook today is like a diary or even what I called a scrapbook (full of clippings and random stuff) from when I was a teen. Why flame someone who chooses to document their frustrations and misery, stupid mistakes and all? As long as they don't violate any forum rules what does it matter? Life happens, and in 30 years I want my friends and family to look at my pages and see how goofy, nutty, and normal we were.... not how "Leave It To Beaver" vanilla and bland we think we should be. Why must we only preserve the "perfect"? What does that truly say about our society nowadays? your style may not be my style but that doesn't mean we can't co-exist together in harmony. A little tolerance goes a long way, but it's harder to find than the dodo bird. I choose to use my blog to type whatever I feel at that moment, along with sharing some layouts and photos. Likewise, I choose to let my scrapbooks reflect the real me, not the me that "should" be. And I should warn you.... flame me and your comments will be rejected.... I do not tolerate negativity. Constructive criticism is fine, but mean catty cruelty is not. Okay, I'm off the soapbox for now, but stay tuned for future speeches! lolz!
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