Fabric challenge

You’d think, since I have been sewing garments and other things since I was pretty young, that I wouldn’t have much of a problem combining fabric and scrapbooking.  Well, I just haven’t tried much to mix them.  Even though my sewing machine is always out on my craft table, right next to where I play [...]

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committing to it

I’ve been fascinated and thinking about this project ever since I first heard about it maybe a month ago or so.  It’s been called Project 365 in the past, and it’s being called Project Life by some now.  The idea is to take a photo and write a little bit of journaling every day for [...]

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the result of this weekend’s crafting

I participate in a few “challenge” blogs and communities for scrapbooking.  I find them to be inspiring for getting some layouts finished– sometimes I work better with a deadline!
This set of pages, which is about our visit with my in-laws over Christmas 2006, was done as a combination of two different challenges.  The layout is [...]

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Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful that some things are moving along for my projects at work.
I’m thankful that God has been blessing several of  my job-hunting friends with confidence & peace for recent interviews.
I’m thankful for my supportive husband, who encourages me, and helps me to take a step back when I’m infringing on my own sanity [...]

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Look at this!

Wow, I was chosen as the winner of last week’s photography challenge on twopeasinabucket.com!
I’m pretty sure that it’s a random winner that’s selected, because the other entries were gorgeous and moving, and I’m not that great of a photographer.  The challenge was “Heroes” and I chose to enter a photo of my husband doing my [...]

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Crop productivity

That is, the scrapbooking kind of crop, rather than the gardening kind of crop.  Yesterday I went with my friend J to another crop at Daisy Lane in Mattoon, IL.  12 hours straight of scrapbooking (with a little tiny bit of scrapbook supply shopping thrown in– they have so much great stuff there!).  I got [...]

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Goin’ croppin’

Tomorrow I’m headed to my second all-day crop at Daisy Lane.  I’m pretty excited about it!  I’ve been collecting up sketches, challenges, and ideas to jump-start my projects tomorrow.  I’d like to get at least 2 layouts finished, whether they are 1-page or 2-page.  If I get more finished, I’ll be thrilled!
Maybe my [...]

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Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy

We had a great time putting our costumes together this year!  Husband and I, after many ideas and iterations, finally decided to do a period costume.  We decided on the Regency era because we were able to find a good men’s pattern as well as a women’s pattern that were manageable in the span of [...]

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In which an exciting package is received

Today was already a good day (hopefully I’ll post more about that in a Thankful Thursday post later), but then my husband came in with the mail, bearing a pizza-box sized package for me!  Wooo hoooo!!
Inside was a wealth of scrapbooking goodies– products from Little Yellow Bicycle’s Halloween line from this year:
It is the giveaway [...]

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Kinda neat…

Over at The Paperlife (a blog and scrapbooking community), Amy Coon asked for people to send in Halloween layouts and projects for her to feature all this week.  I thought I’d send in my most recent Halloween pages (I made them at the crop at the beginning of October), and they’re included in today’s post [...]

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