This has been my view. I have my trusty companion beside me and we are busy filling up my album on Scrapbook Bargain Basement’s Facebook page. I am hoping to purge enough paper and stuffs to eliminate 2 shelving units from my studio. Hope is the operative word. I have been at it all day and my album is nearly full. I will be having a sale for the entire weekend. Here’s hoping I have a bunch of packages to mail out on Tuesday.
In the meantime, here I’ll be with my trusty companion.
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Early this morning I packed a bag for the postal carriers food drive. I was so proud that I actually remembered. Usually I have good intentions and then my senior citizen brain goes on the fritz. I am so glad that the poastal carriers run a food drive at this time of the year. I know the food banks do not get as many donations and they struggle to help families. In general, I think this is something I need to be more mindful about.
Jess and I traveled down the road to move some of her items over to Mema’s house. Little by little we are whittling the amount down. One day we will just rent a van to carry the bigger items to their temporary location until Jess is ready to make her big move!
Finally, we celebrated National Scrapbooking Day, a week late. I didn’t take any photos of us scrapping, but I did take a photo of our dishes piling up in the sink. I think I will leave them all until Mark gets home. He loves to wash dishes!
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Tonight I headed over to the Paper Source store in the Promenade to spend a bit of time playing with paper with two of my favorite crafting buddies.
Today we crafted with vintage map paper, stamps, shipping tags, and lots of embossing powder! It was fun! The class was well organized and included all materials necessary to complete the projects. I think my favorite was learning to make a gift bag from the map paper. It turned out adorable.
After planning this evening, over two weeks ago, I was beginning to question my decision. But even though it kept me out of the house a little later than I am used to, it was an evening well spent. As we were preparing to leave I noticed this saying on the wall...
Something I need to remember, “Do something creative everyday."
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and a little bit of that. That was the way today went. Easy, no stress, fun kind of Sunday.
Of course there was laundry and my regular Sunday chores, but there was also a little time to get creative. I have had a few 8x10 photos, that I have wanted to scrap, for quite a while. Today I decided to get one on paper. So happy I spent a little bit of time playing with paper and pearls.
Happy to have this memory saved and in the books! I need to remind myself how happy I am when I get a chance to be creative!
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Today I finished a layout for a workshop I am hosting at my house tomorrow. I am pretty pleased with the way it turned out.
The truth is we are really enjoying our yard this summer. We were gone most of last summer so we never really got around to doing any work in the yard. But this year, we have worked in the yard a little every couple of nights and it is paying off. One of our favorite ways to relax is spending time in the yard, grilling and having dinner outside, this has been the perfect summer for doing just that!
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The crafting started earlier today with Miss Jackie learning to use her new sewing machine and making her first maxi! She did an awesome job!
Just look at how cute her skirt turned out! We did add a hem of just a half an inch by zig-zagging across the bottom. I like a finished look so it was worth the extra step. It was a total of 4 seams plus the hem and the skirt was finished. No pattern, just measurements, cut and sew! Easy!
This evening I hosted a scrappy group of women making the Close to My Heart Butterfly Album. This had been offered as a fundraiser in 2006. I bought a case of the albums in 2008 thinking it would be a great project, expecially for those new to scrapping and stamping. Tonight I welcomed four friends from school and it was great fun to see what everyone did with their albums.
When I offer a workshop I bring down any embellishments I have that I think would work with the album or layout. These ladies really went to town and I love that everyone's album looked so unique!
One my favorite things is to see how different people take the same project and make it their own. I just enjoy the process! Well, I also love the chatter, the laughing and the opportunity to just hang with the ladies.
The margaritas that Mark whipped up weren't bad either. All in all, it was a great day to create!
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Last year Mark and I celebrated the longest day of the year in New York City, just as I had done the year before. We participated in Yoga in Times Square, had a great lunch, hung out in Bryant Park and then met Jess for an early dinner. It was the perfect day!
This year, with the solstice being on a Saturday, I opted not to register for the yoga in Times Square celebration. I figured that I should let those that don't usually get to participate have a chance to do so.
Good thing too! With my hip surgery on Tuesday, I don't think that it would have been a good idea to attempt the journey up to NY and the yoga.
Instead, I spent a pleasant day in my studio. Again I am attempting to reorganize so that my space is usable! I did take a short break to visit the Wild Birds Unlimited store and then we grabbed a late lunch at Zinburger, sitting on the patio to enjoy this gorgeous day!
The organization of my projects is coming along. I have my new 31 bags to help and I am attempting to prioritze my projects so that I am able to complete quite a few once school is out for the summer. It has been a very productive day!
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November, 2010, Disney World. Actually I think this may have been MGM Studios, before the name change. I was on my 5 year plan of visiting Disney and Mark had flown in from Seattle to join me. We were sitting in the outdoor theater, taking selfies, when the guy behind me said, "Hand me your camera, I have a great shot." Well, I trusted him and this is what I got. I couldn't have asked for a better photo. It turns out that the photo was his wife's idea. She's a scrapbooker! So happy they interupted our selfie photo shoot so that they could take this shot! It's one of my favorites!
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Yesterday was National Scrapbooking Day. I love it! It is the one day I put aside each year to scrapbook. Yesterday my mission was to get finished layouts into their appropriate albums and to finally finish several layouts that have been hanging around, un-done, for years!
Mission accomplished! It felt so good to finally get things a little more organized and a little more - "done" - so to speak!
This layout was started way back in 2005 at a class I took at The Scrapbook Station.
It actually sat in an album with no journaling all those years. I had a post-it on the page with what I wanted to include in the journaling, why I never finished it, who knows. But now it is done and I am one happy camper!
I cannot remember what the focus of the class was at the time, probably a technique class. I attended the class with a fellow teacher, her layout has probably been done for years!
I am happy that it is finished and that I can move on to sharing other stories!
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It is a shame that now my postal love is contingent upon my ordering something online. Since I have not been spending money, there has been no postal love at my house; that is until today.
Last week I registered for the National Scrapbook Day 10K over at Big Picture Classes. It is a free event and usually the free events are just terrific, filled with challenges and all kinds of great inspiration. But this year, in addition to the free class, Studio Calico offered a few of their monthly kits for only $10. That's a savings of $24.95. Who can beat that?
Needless to say I cased and purchased myself a kit. Today, postal love arrived in the form of a Studio Calico monthly kit. Inspiration in a bag! Now I am nearly ready for National Scrapbook Day!
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