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has got to be the longest song in history and guess who had to lead the (most unenthusiastic) class in singing it - a cappella - in front of the entire school this morning??
I don't get paid enough to do this.
In early 1997 when Mister Bear and I married, one of our friends gave us a most unusual wedding gift. It was a box of beautiful wooden ornaments and three huge tinsel garlands. In Christmas 1997 when we were strapped for cash, those ornaments were wonderful. Our tree was small but magnificent. We decided that each year we'd buy a set of ornaments for the tree and so as our life together grew, so would our tree. Not all years are represented here, but you'll get the picture.
Snagged this from kiwiria
1.) When you walk in your front door, which room do you enter?
The lounge room and it ALWAYS looks like rubbish, but it especially looks like rubbish at the moment cos we got a fake tree with fake snow and the fake snow is everywhere!!
2.)Do you have a dishwasher?
Yes. An ancient one, but hey, it does the dishes.
3.) Is your living room carpeted or does it have hardwood floors?
Carpeted. And it is filthy.
4.) Do you keep your kitchen knives on the counter or in a drawer?
Counter, except we call it a bench.
5.) House, apartment, duplex or trailer?
House
6.) How many bedrooms is it?
Officially, three, but in reality could be up to five.
7.) Gas stove or electric?
Electric.
8.) Do you have a yard?
Yes, a very big one. Seriously overgrown a the moment and in desperate need of dealing with, but with the drought breaking in the last month we have had constant rain and it's all we can do to keep the lawn mowed..
9.) What size TV is in the living room?
19 inches. It's so old that the Foxtel man laughed at it when he came to hook up Foxtel..
10.) Are your plates in the same cupboard as your cups?
Yes, but on different shelves.
11.) Is there a coffee maker sitting on your kitchen counter?
No. It lives in the cupboard. It was a present for my 21st birthday. 16 years ago.
13.) What room is your computer in?
Study/Craft Room.
14.) Are there pictures hanging in your living room?
Three photos of the kids, a big picture that we are minding for my sister of the moon over the ocean, three smaller pictures of the kids, a photo of Mister Bear with Michael that is possibly one of the best photos I have ever taken, a photo collage of the kids, that originally sat on my desk at work, and a picture made with bark of a couple of elephants that SuperJ brought back from Uganda for us.
15.) Are there any themes found in your home?
Not unless you count "perpetually untidy" as a theme.
16.) What kind of laundry detergent do you use??
Either Spree, Surf or Duo - whichever is on special. Yesterday I got a 3kg box of Duo for the same price as two 1kg boxes of Surf. I was very chuffed.
7.) Do you use dryer sheets??
When I remember to buy them, which isn't often.
18.) Do you have any curtains in your home??
Yes, but not in all rooms yet.
19.) What colour is your fridge??
White.
20.) Is your house clean??
Nope. Never.
21.) What room is the most neglected?
We have an egalitarian household. All rooms are neglected equally.
22.) Are the dishes in your sink clean or dirty?
Usually.
23.) How long have you lived in your home?
Since November 30th, 2001
24.) Where did you live before?
A small 3 bedroom villa with one living area, a minute kitchen and a bathroom with separate loo. It got way too small when Chickabid came home from the hospital.
25.) Do you have one of those fluffy toilet lid covers on your toilet?
I have two young children. What do you think?
26.) Do you have a scale anywhere in your house?
Yes. Both a kitchen scale and a bathroom scale. The bathroom scale tells lies.
27.) How many mirrors are in your house?
Dressing table master bedroom, dressing table Ladybaby's room, bathroom, lounge room, inside the hall door, two not in use in bedroom cupboards.
28.) Do you have a garage?
Yes, a one-and-a-half car garage but there's no room in it for the car.
I think it has something to do with perfectionsim, but I would have to be the world's slowest scrapper. I've read about - and met - scrapbookers who grab photos, cardstock, PP, embellishments and then throw together outstanding pages in a couple of hours and make like 48 pages in a month. I am lucky to complete 10 in a year. It's not a paucity of photos, or a lack of supplies. It's not being able to get it perfect and if I can't get it perfect, I won't do it.
Take a gander at my current project:
THEME: Christmas Traditions
As you can see, I have CS, PP and die cuts which complement the photos perfectly. In line with the cybercrop challenge I want to incorporate some hand stitching on the page and I know roughly how I am going to do that, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to put it all together. I wind up leaving everything out on the craft desk and fiddling, shifting things around, trying out different combinations and waiting for ages before deciding to go ahead and complete it. With a little luck this layout should be ready for Christmas 2008.
Follow the link to see the card I made for the second challenge. The instructions were to complete a photoshoot for Christmas and then incorporate one of the photos into a card suitable for sending. I was very happy with this one and might end up printing multiple copies and sending it...one of the simplest cards ever.
Find it here
I ended up entering it in the competition even though I hadn't planned to.
Am making some of our Christmas cards this year. Only some because I can't work that fast and I have a limited supply of stuff to make the cards with. So far they look ok, with a few in the bit better than ok class. I am just so incredibly slow!
Am participating in the LSBS Cybercrop this weekend, my first one in ages. Looked at the Sketch Challenge and immediately thought of a particular layout that's been waiting in the projects pending pile now for months. I've completed the background, matted the photos and added a quote so far and am now waiting for the chipboard I just inked to dry. Whwn finihsed it will get photographed and put up in the gallery at LSBS. A picture here will have to wait until the winners are announced, but I'll add a link when it's uploaded to the Gallery.
Until today my ribbons have been stored in two cardboard drawers stacked on a chest. The drawers are difficult to pull out, harder to push back in and the ribbons were all jumbled up inside.
I was pottering around on the net looking for a soution to my ribbon storage woes and saw "it". It looked like one of my embroidery bobbin boxes - enough like one to inspire a digging out of such a box from the back cupboard. Over the course of the day it has become:
Ribbon Storage!
A pretty pink box that I had set aside has all the really wide ribbons in it along with the odds and ends which are too small to wind around a bobbin. All the fibres will be stored in this too. It's a pretty pathetic collection, but at least I can see what I have and it might just get used.
