5 posts from January 2008

Have spent the last two days doing some scrapping and polishing off some projects from the pending file.

It's been immensely satisfying and the results are not too shabby.

Aunty_myra

A very special photo from our wedding.  Shelee sent me some beautiful stickers last year and as soon as I saw them I knew they were perfect for this.  Didn't have a clue how to go about journalling for the page, but got some inspiration...and a library pocket template...from the scrapbooking pages on about.com.  I wanted to semi-hide the journalling as it is personal, but I needed to do it in a space efficient way.

I'm somewhat ashamed to say that this layout has been in the projects pending file for over a year.  I had the background done and the photos and buttons but didn't have a clue on where to go from there.  Aquamum passed a whole pile of scrapping stuff to me that a friend of hers was giving away.  The diecuts from one of the kits were perfect for this.  The diecuts lead to the raffia, which lead to the titles and in about an hour the project was finished.  I am very happy with it. 

Saw this at dooce this morning.

I actually started this LO before Christmas.  Regrettably, I had a rush of blood to the head and decided to hand stitch the embellishments with gold lurex thread.  May I never decide to do this again!  It took forever and was some of the most painstaking work I've ever attempted.  In the end it looked good, but it was a bit of nightmare to do.

Here it is finished...the first finished LO of 2008

Actually it's not a moon shadow, but a puppy dog one.  For the next two weeks we are minding Gizzy, the beloved pet of my SIL Aquamum.  Aquamum and a few other assorted family members are having a well deserved break in a non-pet-friendly holiday house so we are looking after the dog.  She's a Maltese cross something-or-other and absolutely gorgeous.  Very well-mannered and truly a companion dog.  Gizzy has been one of the bright lights in Aquamum's hitherto dark and miserable existence and now I understand why she's been described as Aquamum's shadow.  Am loving her to bits.

I have only one, hence the singular title.  It is to slow down.  I seem to do everything in this huge rush and it is so not healthy.  This year I will slow down.