Friday, 20 April 2007

And now for surprise number 2 on a Friday afternoon!

Not only have I completed my Christmas journey but I have also completed a mini-book as part of a new Shimelle class "When I Grow Up".

The class started with a few prompts and thoughts about what we wanted to be when we were younger, or what do we still want to be. What did we think we would be? What did others think we would be. I rang mum up and asked her what I had wanted to be all those years ago and she said that she had no recollection of me wanting to be anything! This became the theme of my thoughts...

Then Shimelle suggested that we made a children's style book out of this thought process written in a simple form. She even suggested we made little paper dolls for our pages with our photo as the head - but this was a little bit too creative for me and it would have taken me SO long to do that, so I just cheated and found photos where I could relatively easily cut out the whole figure. This was so much fun for me as I have never done anything like it before. I used a little Maya Road mini-album that came in my Modern Scrapbooking February kit and delved into my most precious BasicGrey stash (the new Perhaps collection.) Once I had the writing done, it really came together much quicker than I would have thought even though I seem to spend so long just looking at the product and wondering how to put it all together! I kept the embellishments to a minimum because the book had come in its own chipboard box, but even so, it ended up too thick to fit. But that is OK because now I have a box that I can use for something else in the future and my mini-book will be out in the open.

I am as pleased as punch that I got this done as I am the eternal procrastinator! And I am just tickled pink with the result!

Positively scary...

... how time flies. Already two weeks since I last updated the blog? Where does the time go? And what have I done with it?

Well, suffice to say, we have been busy bunnies and what with four family birthdays, Easter and loads of work, things have not exactly been as quiet as they could be. But I have been extra busy - not with work though!

I got it into my head that I simply HAD to complete the Christmas journal album from Shimelle's class 2006-7. Of course, I had made it really difficult for myself by deciding that I would do the entries as full 12x12 entries rather than some sort of a mini album or an art journal and although it was loads of work (37 entries in total) I loved doing it because I tried out all sorts of different styles and papers and products! So, no two pages are the same and the colours are all mixed up but I think it is really nice for a change. I have to admit that quite a lot of the pages are styled directly after Shimelle's but I definitely think that i have learned some of what I like and what i do not like. For example, I am not so keen when the page takes a gazillion different products and takes hours to make - I sort of lose interest. And I still have to master the whole stamping thing - I started doing a bit but then it all seemed a bit of a faff!

I will load a few of my favourite pages here or the whole album will be available on the right. Just click to load the album and then chose slide show to get them full screen and clear.

First off, here is the pile of finished pages - cool or what? I get pleasure from just looking at them and thinking to myself, "I did that."



And now for a few favourite pages:

Sunday, 1 April 2007

The last of March 2007

And now for the last 5 for this month - I enjoy these daily prompts!

Sometimes, they come really quickly and sometimes I need to walk around a bit to find something that jumps out at me. Of course, the next stage is to start improving the photography itself rather than just what is in the picture. One thing at a time though...


Tuesday 27th March

Heart


Wednesday 28th March

Light



Thursday 29th March

Button



Friday 30th March

Chair



Saturday 31st March

Colourful

Wednesday, 28 March 2007

Photo of the Day for March - pt 2

And on we go - always more to upload than I think!

Wednesday 15th March

Ornament

Friday 16th March

Curvy


Saturday 17th March

Soft

Sunday 18th March
Cloud

Monday 19th
Unexpected

Tuesday 20th March

Parallel

Wednesday 21st March

Spot



Thursday 22nd March

Music



Friday 23rd March

Orange




Saturday 24th March

Spring


Sunday 25th March

Bottle



Monday 26th March

Sew

Monday, 26 March 2007

Photo of the Day for March - pt 1

During March, I decided to follow the daily single word prompts from Her Space My Space and it has been quite interesting. There were a few days when they were off-line so I just made up some words for myself for those days. What do you think?

Thursday 1st March
Green

Friday 2nd March
Shiny

Saturday 3rd March
Dusty

Sunday 4th March
Storage


Monday 5th March
Craft

Tuesday 6th March
Tap


Wednesday 7th March
Read
Thursday 8th March
Round

Friday 9th March
Reflect

Saturday 10th March
Play

Monday 11th March
Brick



Tuesday 12th March
Blue

Wednesday 13th March
Plastic


Thursday 14th March
Alive

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