I’m a Font Junkie

I was out of town last week, then my computer was duplicating my emails times three…what a mess!  I deleted 2000 emails yesterday.  And…I feel like I’ve had a great bath!  Good to see some clutter erased!

This morning and saw a fresh flyer in my box that indicated I almost missed a great sale!  ScrapNFonts is having a HUGE sale on fonts for the 4th if you have some time to sit down for yourself a second.  One of my currents favs I saw on sale for the next five days is “DB Hello Cupcake“.  It is darling and cuts well with my Cricut and markers (with the SCAL program add-on).

I made this card super-fast, therefore the photo is not stellar, but I thought it turned out cute for the time I had.  I used the frame, cone, and journaling circle done from the DB Hello Cupcake font set.

I tried coloring a background with watercolors (didn’t really like how it warped the card, but live and learn).  I stamped her name with my new little Studio G ministamps I found at Michael’s on sale for $1 each on Spring break (Nashville).  Stamping ink:  Brown Chocolate Memento ink… LOVE it (very permanent, won’t bleed into other markers), available at Hobby Lobby. Brown marker for the Cricut, cut out using the SCAL “shadow” feature, colored with Prisma Alcohol based markers. The hot pink strip is from a new cutter I had found on sale (ebay) for my Cuttlebug.  Tiny eyelets were courtesy of Cindy J–Making Memories.

While I’m gluing, I’m usually help kids get into party clothes, pack pool gear for the party.  With three kids, a lot of summer parties most often means a cash gift from us and running fast!

A closeup of the sentiment (Photo cut off the “H” in Hannah!)

DB Hello Cupcake is on sale for one dollar the next 5 days at ScrapNFonts…normally $3.00.)  Even without SCAL or a Cricut, you can still print it on cardstock and use it on a layout or card design.   A great deal, super trendy, super-cute.  One of the images in the set is a cute “cupcake” calendar I want to print next!

Here’s a free product I want to snatch up before it expires on the 5th–cute hand-drawn elements with arrows and stars and such.  They’ve got some other lettering fonts I want to check out with the 40% off coupon code JulyParade.  The entire list of 4th of July “Padade” sale items is here.

I’m going shopping, I see Patriotic and Beach stuff I want!

Yup…I’m a font junkie.

Video: Kevin Skinner (35) of Mayfield, KY, makes America’s Got Talent, 2009–Wows Judges

Here’s the video from Kevin Skinner of Mayfield, KY who wowed America’s Got Talent in the 2009 season. Some call him potentially another “Susan Boyle” story. He’s an unemployed chicken catcher, 35 yrs. old. I really enjoyed the performance. Do you think he’s “got it”?

Unpacking…Processing Vacation Photos

So glad I did many loads of laundry our last day of vacation.  We were resting off sunburns anyway…we watched the reports of Michael Jackson, comparing the events to those of Elvis, which they had no memory of!

The drive home wasn’t as bad as we feared, the kids are old enough to entertain themselves.  One Mommy Lesson learned:  don’t trust new little gamers to know to pack their own recharger cords!  We never had that problem with our older son, he ALWAYS has plans for recharging his various electronics.  We tried to buy one at Wal*Mart and managed to get the wrong cord.  Ugh.  Apple has a way of added one tiny indiscriminate sticker to tell you this product doesn’t work for your product.

The kids are behind me right now laughing at the making of Prince Caspian movie…it’s funny to hear their analysis.  Someone just said a scene was like Batman special effects!  I would have never compared Batman to Prince Caspian!

We just finished a karaoke night with Disney on my daughter’s new PSII game we found at an upscale Goodwill, packaged new, while in Destin.  It’s a lot of fun and she was even enjoying the vocal exercises on it.  I’m not totally thrilled about all the early lovey messages of the Disney pop-love songs, but they are well sung, and often sung at birthday party Karaoke’s my daughter goes to right now.  Good to have the kids be able to learn to sing songs that are challenging for them in a safe environment.  They just don’t sing as much as I did when I was a kid.  That’s when to learn!

It’s 11:30.  I took today to process vacation photos to go on my husband’s digital frame at work, then another hour and half trying to figure out why they wouldn’t load to his Kodak SD card!

SOLUTION FOR LOADING PHOTOS TO KODAK SD CARD:   I finally got it to accept .jpgs by reformatting the Kodak SD card (moving photos to my hard drive first that were there–he wanted to keep them on there), then creating one folder for all the old and new photos.  The forum recommended to try the “FAT 32″ file structure rather than the standard “FAT”, not sure why…we’ll see if his frame recognizes that.  The advice on a forum I visited said most new frame recognize the 32 version and it’s preferrable for whatever reason to techies who know what they are doing (that would not be me in this case).  It makes me happy that he was so excited to have new photos.

I practiced using some of my free Coffeeshop filters (just do a search)…some worked better than others.  I want to redo a few of them that processed with too intense a color, but I’m totally thrilled with what they could do to fix poor lighting!  Light comes and goes fast in that “ideal” non-squint zone!  With cranky kids, half an hour is NOT a lot of light!

Please do not notice that even though my son is downhill, he is STILL looking taller than me!  Good grief!

This was a good example of a PSE 5.0 filter fix.  After sunset, the light wasn’t so great,  a flash would have hidden the waves behind us.  So, this was taken with NO flash so that I could rescue it later with light.  The Coffeeshop “Coffee with Latte” is one I used a LOT for ocean photos, especially ones of my youngest playing in the sand like the next one.  It seemed great for little ones at play especially…

Oh, if that doesn’t make a Mom’s ovaries tinge a little, I’m not sure what does.  (No more kids…nope, not in the plans for this Mom.)

I’m so glad we FINALLY got to the beach before my kids were too old for just a few of these kinds of shots!  Oh, how I wish I had them of ALL my kids.

A word of caution…let me just say that it wasn’t a popular family activity even with simple white tees and khaki shorts!  All the photos I’ve ever seen make it look so fun and natural, and if you’ve been training your kids for beach photos for a few years, perhaps it would be.  Mine were not thrilled.  Older kids used to entertainment, sand ants, and sand in general…and sun in eyes.  All I can say is, stick it out.  It’s worth it!

For family photos, we set the timer.  We actually got our very best shots that way, but sometimes a passer-by would ask to help and we always took them up on it.  Very nice people in Destin…in the South in general.  Everyone was all manners and gentility.  The best beach vacation in that regard I’ve ever had.

This was a photo we took by timer on the dunes (which said to “keep out by order of the law”.  Not sure why…or what the function of these fences are…to catch sand in storms?  Anyone know?  What’s a dune, anyway?  Why is it unsafe?  Shifting sand?  Air pockets?  I’m just guessing…seemed safe enough for a few moments.)

My daughter and I were not impressed with the condition of our beach hair, but I forgot my curling iron–it just really didn’t matter all week.  If you can’t have beach hair, you just don’t need to be at the beach!  I had to have someone check the house to be sure I’d unplugged it before we left.

I’m sure I’ll be boring you with beach photos for some time as I have time to post.  They will be my favs for a while I’m sure!  Time for bed.  I’m tired!

Girl’s Birthday Card

Wow, the last few weeks have been crazy with a birthday party for Red, getting Father’s Days celebrated early, and going to our kid’s first time to the beach!  We had a great time…we had several photo shoots and mainly just a lot of resting and keeping up with the schedule.  Summer is too short to be tied to the computer too much!

Thought I’d take a second while my computer is processing to post a card I made last month for a birthday party my daughter went to.

I used the “Pottery Barn” font for this, and several other dingbats to create the flowers.  I think I used a DB font for the flowers on this card, perhaps a DB Christmas font for the oval.  I “welded” the sentiment to the oval so that it all cut together–that way I didn’t have to glue individual letters onto the card. I just ran it all through my larger Zyron.

A fun project to watch the Cricut cut.

It REALLY shines!

My husband said, “Gee, I think it needs more glitter!”

I had to touch up a spot with glue about that time to get it to stick down, to which he said, “Um, I was just kidding!”

I just laughed at him.

The party was a luau theme, so the sentiment seemed perfect.  We enjoyed making her something special to keep.

Group Hug!

I’m not sure, but I think the girls were having a good time!  Oh, to be 10 again!

Waves of Mercy, Waves of Grace

Today is Monday.  I’m enjoying it.  Two kids are out of pocket, the third immersed in TV.  Kicking back for a few moments after a bowl of Lucky Charms.  Getting a spontaneous hug from him at the moment…couldn’t type that until after he moved away, of course.

Having one of my two younger kids at home means one rare treat…I’ll sleep with them in the guest bed.  I get kicked a lot and lose my covers a lot.  Another reason it’s “rare”.

I took a photo of my man and a little one snuggled up after I’d gotten up for praise band yesterday.  Love those.

Shorter on words than usual lately.  Just feeling waves of grace getting us into summer, resting in the spontaneity of whatever needs to happen.

As the kid’s get older, some of their comments and behaviors seem more sacred, so it’s harder to put up on the web.  I don’t want to abuse that trust.  Some are so funny, though.  I need to start writing down some of the stuff they come up with.

I needed to make countless cards last week and need to work on Father’s day this week.  Scrapbooking has needed to come to a halt as a result.  Add the Esther study and a church devotion and a bunch of summer mom tasks and I stay busy.

Their social world is now my social world.  We need to work on that, but right now, just surviving it with food in the house is about all I can do.

Feel like I’m writing about nothing in particular, and time is short, so I’ll get off here and get to the week’s tasks.  Have a blessed day, friends, and keep riding the waves of mercy, waves of grace…truly.

Wednesday–Back to Lists

Watered the garden, ran the dog, trimmed a tree, had QT, had the AC repaired (I hope), moved some lawn furniture, broke up a kid-war…took an Advil and 2 Tylenol…can’t shake a bad headache.

UGH…heat!

The kids are eating breakfast…and it’s noon (where’s lunch?) …

Time for laundry.

Time for a nap and more headache meds, more work on the pool, work on gifts and guest lists.

Making new grocery lists, and “still needed” lists from Wal*Mart.  Lists, lists, lists.

Tuesday, Second Week of Summer

The season:

Summer is over 1/8th of the way over. On Friday, it will be 2/8th over.  That reduces to 1/4…tell me how that is?  Is that right? My math isn’t that bad, is it?

That’s incredibly depressing!

Today:

Today, I ran my son all over town to try to find a pair of semi-dress shoes to wear to an FFA get-together with my husband today.

We worked hard this week to get caught up on festivities for Thursday’s birthday party for Flash so they could take off.

Today, tried to get things moved, boxes, bags, to donate, to pass on…good to get the path the door clear again!

Pool craziness:

I drop off water at the pool store and say, “Can I just drop this off and take my kids to eat and come back for the results?  I hate to leave them in the van.”  We get back, it’s still not done…other people came in, so I take them all in the store and wait again anyway.  There’s just no good way to test pool water.  Seriously.  I think I want my own pool test kits.  How hard can it be?

I added nine pounds of Calcium hardness to the pool today.  I’ve never been able to get out of them what exactly it does to the pool to have soft water, but apparently, it’s just not good for the metal and causes the pool to corrode.  It called for 22 pounds.  Seriously.  That’s a lot of anything.

Conversation: “The water is sort of cloudy, I’m needing to check the levels.”

“Have you tried this hth product to clarify the water?”

“Is that like a flocculant?”

“No, what it does is like…it captures all the loose stuff floating in the water and causes it to sink to the bottom.”

“So, it’s a flocculant.”

“Yeah…do you have flocculant.”
“Yeah, I may try that first.”

“Yeah, I’d try that.”

I’m not sure what to say.

Meetings:

Yesterday was my last SBDM meeting at the elementary school.  We had a great lunch served to us.

I found out the summer training for service at the middle school falls during our vacation week.  I think that probably means I have to take a day to go out of county for the make up session…a total bummer.

It was the first time I’ve put my oldest in charge of the younger kids for a couple hours to run errands.  They survived!

Eating:

We’ve eaten out for meals far too much this summer.  I just haven’t had the gumption to stock up on fast kid friendly food and end up running a lot of errands over lunch time. Hopefully, we’ll do better.

Conversation today at “another” McDonalds:

“Mam, the water dispenser doesn’t seem to be working. It’s marked ‘out of order’.  How do we fill these?”

“Through the drive through.”

[silence, as I'm eating in, obviously IN the restaurant.  I finally break the silence.]

“Um so, I have to go through the drive through?”

She looks at me and sighs like I’m too dumb to follow her and yells across the room at the drive through people, “I need four waters!!!”  {Okay, so all I needed to do was go holler at the drive through people…got it.  I’ll make a note.}

Five minutes later I finally manage to get us some water…she wouldn’t bother to actually go get it for me.  I had to go yell at someone again.  Seeing as how there was NO ONE in line.  {Don’t knock yourself out people, I’m only paying $17 for 4 sandwiches so we can share fries, and drink water we can’t get.  SEVENTEEN DOLLARS.  I’ve got to find a better shortcut.  Rediculous.}

I hesitate to even mention the odd man behind me who thought he was a bird clock.

I kid you not.

I kept thinking there were birds in the restaurant.

He got a kick out of fooling me, apparently.  Very odd.  My son knew it and was rolling at me looking around the ceiling.

Back to the service:  it was 12:30 and they realized they’d never turned the menu to “lunch”.

It just keeps getting better and better!

Then, I listened to my daughter complain about the taste of her southern chicken sandwich “tasting funny” for a long time.  I finally tasted it–very freezer burned.  An extraordinary treat.  And no, I wasn’t going back up there to complain.  We’ll find a way to eat before we go to the pool store next time.

A treat for me:

My daughter made dinner and dessert tonight, a total treat!  She made the two of us chicken patties in the oven on wheat bread (so it would be healthier, she said.  Maybe we ARE getting somewhere), mixed veggies in a can, cause we needed a veggie, though she said she didn’t like them (who does, really?), and home-made mac and cheese (because we were out of the quick kind).

Evening entertainment:

We worked on some crafts at the table while watching Wizards of Waverly Place (all about werewolves, strangely funny).  I gave the younger kids a cuttlekidz die cut machine tonight to play with.  We had fun with it.  I would have bought it for the turtles alone.  I love turtle dies!

Gardening:

Just before dark, when it cooled, my daughter then helped me plant some hills of squash, green peppers, cumbers, and cantaloupe.  The corn is coming up…looks like it didn’t ALL wash away! She was such a good helper today.

State:

I’m tired today after all the running.  I’ll sleep good tonight, plus it was just HOT here today.

A lot going on this week–party mode–but we look forward to the fun Thursday.

THE END

That’s pretty much it…

Monday…Hmmm

Today wasn’t exactly the Monday I had planned.  What a hum-dinger!

Some blessings to keep me going, thankfully.  A birthday cake found and ordered on the first trip…what a bonus.

Hopefully we are getting prepared to enjoy the rest of the week more fully!

A Narrative Approach to Sunday

Today, Sunday, I got up early to get my shower and clean up before I had to wake the kids.  I took a super long shower, and prayed, and got the kids up.  The Hub had to work today.  Sadness.  Took the kids to McDonalds…keeping a tradition with their dad, one I never would have started, but he does as an incentive to get them ready on time when he’s managing things so I can do early praise band.  So…a tradition for us.

It wasn’t frigidly cold today in McDonalds, but cold enough I took a light blanket in with me…Red’s baby blanket.  I double use it as a shawl and will probably always wear it.  A kind lady in our church made for him and it’s super-soft.   The softest yarn in the world…had to be a booger to knit.  She knit it for us while her mother was dying in the hospital on long term care.

In any case, we went to early worship.  It was good.  Mom came with my aunt.  It was good having family there.  It made me happy to have our pew filled, especially since The Hub had to work…always a lonely worship week somehow. The Hub called my cell phone during the last five minutes of church!

After church, bought t-shirts (mine didn’t fit again this year…what’s with that?  I’m a standard size, I thought?)  Bought Beth Moore books for three people (Esther…I think she could have named the book something besides the sub-title she did “It’s tough being a woman” to appeal to more people…we are doing it as a church on Wednesday nights).  Marketing flaw there.  Lined up sound people for band practice, recuited some singers.

Sort of a bonus today, the praise band schedule is off right now, so I didn’t have to teach SS this week either…I had a “day morning off”.  We had a discussion in Sunday School as to whether or not you could know people well enough to discern their moods and facial expressions when so many have gone to online “relationships”.  I’ve had the same reaction at times, though in some ways, I know some people much more deeply because of online interactions.  I can tell “where they are” from behaviors online…and whether they are present or absent.  I can tell a lot about people I don’t know much about by WHAT they write about or not.  I don’t know…I know some people a lot better by blogging than life would allow otherwise.  It gives me a keyhole to worlds.  For that, I’m grateful.  Is it as good as face to face?  I don’t know.  Try to talk to me with three kids hovering in a live conversation and let me know!

After church, I ran by dollar store for some items, and to Wal*Mart to replace my much loved sunglasses…glad they had the exact same pair. My cheekbones are so high, I can’t wear the popular wide lens style…the Cherokee in me…or some sort of Indian, I can’t remember.  Then, I came home, heated up a turkey breast, cooked some quick dressing,  mashed potatoes, and biscuits.

Took a short nap in the coach, had a headache…still not feeling great, but better.

Worked on praise band music the rest of the afternoon.  Trying to figure out an order, enjoyed trying programming drum loops, intros, and exits for the songs, hoping it wasn’t
“too much”.  One of the Hub’s eye hyperdialated after brief sun exposure…we aren’t sure why…praying for his eye…it is some better tonight.

Goldilocks loaded ALL my keyboard as a surprise while I brushed my teeth and threw on some jeans.  She helped me set up, too…I love that girl.  She went and got me water once we got there.

Somebody called me at 5:30 to ask me to teach VBS, second grade.  I told them I’d have to call them back later!  One thing at a time, please.  Whew.

Probably will…be good for that class to have some continuity, most likely. It’s my 2nd grade SS class.  I have a class of basically seven boys.  Sometimes more.  One girl.  It can get a little crazy, but they are a hoot!

Two of my kids came up during practice to kiss me while we played.  I loved that.

Practice went fine.  Worship went fine, but I was drenched afterward…usually am…adrenaline.  Gotta love it.

After church, I ran to McDonald’s to get the kids and me some quick calories, I was starving.  Felt guilty about it later, went for a walk, trying to break in new sandels.  My feet hurt.  I made two dog friends.  They stayed when I told them to stay home.  I hate it when they follow me home…I’m afraid they’ll get run over.

As to shoes:  after the sermon tonight by the children’s minister, perhaps I should have worn steel toed shoes.  JK…it was great.  No words minced.  Very true, and speaking to things on my own heart.  I loved it.  It actually drew applause from the back half-way through.  No joke. Sometimes it’s good when young ministers haven’t had to learn to prance around sensitivites quite as much.

Visited with some older neighbors on their porch after my walk.  They gave me some soft peppermint candy they .picked up “for the kids” last time they were there.

Came home.  At peppermint candy.  Listening to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Original on the “tele”.  REALLY wanting to run the vaccum.

My son started a Twitter account and invited me today.  He is so fun.  He is one of my favorite people on earth.   He’s a cool boy, but he manages to keep his feet on the ground a good percentage of the time.

Tonight, my heart feels liften and a little lighter.  I’m thankful for church, friends, and grace.

Tomorrow, meetings, grocery, chores, hopefully some scrapping catch up if all goes well…still no time to get my hands on new papers!

Well, the most boring post on the face of the planet…but there it is for posterity.   Hopefully, a good  night’s sleep, but most likely interrupted by work calls.  Such as it is!

TODAY

Today, my son finally raised enough money for us to order his iPod Touch.  He has been quite the helper, and I think he gained an appreciation for the things I do in helping me.  He would say, “But, Mom, do you have any BIG JOBS I can do?”  And I’d say, “You know son, my life is a series of lots and lots and lots of very small jobs that HAVE to be done.  You help me with them, and you will be paid, but it’s just a lot of ‘little things’.”  He learned to do laundry from beginning to end, folded and put away…all of it.  I was SO thrilled.  A few days later, I said, “Son, where did you put the detergent?”  “Oh, it’s on top of the washer.”  …to which I said, “Oh, son!  That is DOWNY!”  He said, “Yeah?”  …”Son, is that ALL you’ve been putting in the laundry?”  “Yeah, isn’t that what I was supposed to put in?”  “Well, that AND the soap…that’s like hair conditioner.”  “What’s hair conditioner.”

Obviously, we have a few bases still to cover, the I HAD been noticing how GREAT the clothes smelled!

Today, I felt pitiful.  Feeling better now.  In the good moments, I got 1/2 or maybe 2/3 of my closet gone through.  I’m still not sure summer is here to stay, but I am needing shorted and a swimsuit on rare occasion that it gets warm!

Today, I had something wonderful happen.  This spring felt led to NOT do my annual shopping for flowers.  I bought a very few for three pots, but  usually have a galore around here.  I wondered if the economy was going to be bad, or after last year’s drought if I just felt more excessive about things.  I didn’t know and really didn’t feel a need to reason it out…just knew it wasn’t bringing me a sense of joy to do it.

Wouldn’t you know?  Last week, my mom called me…she said, “Would you like petunias?  I’ve got them coming up EVERYWHERE from last year…I’ve got to thin them out or they’ll die.”  Enough for a planter!  Well, cool!

Today, my Mom called again, she said, “Are you still wanting flowers?” Someone gave her a bunch and they were beautiful!  I added six pots!  I’m feeling so blessed by God today.

Today: We had some steaks in the freezer.  The funny thing is, I’d NOT been using them because I thought they were someone else’s left from the storm.  Turns out, they were mine that I’d stored in Mom’s freezer!  They were sealed and still WONDERFUL, even though I figured they’d be freezer burned by now.  Aaaah. I sure didn’t feel like going to the store…so I’m glad we had something GOOD to eat!

This week:  we went to the county fair Thursday night.  I usually dread going, have a wonderful time while there, and am delighted to come home to a bath!

Yes, there are safety concerns.  But, it’s a tradition, and we go together.  I love a lot of things about it:  local, easy, and fun.  A great bonding thing with us and the kids…every year.

Yesterday: We got to see the Disney movie UP this week…everyone, everywhere should see it.  It is one of my all time favs!  Great story, great everything.  Just very cute and touching.  Find a reason to see it sometime!

Today: I started something I’ve wanted to do for this summer…work with my kid’s on their quiet times.  My son and I sat on the porch at sunset and had our quiet times together.  I loved that he had a question and listened to my answer, though it was necessarily long. I started a”teen devotion” book with journaling space in the side.

I don’t know “how to do it”, but I’m going with my strengths.  I’m writing them questions about the devotion, or thoughts of my own, or my life experiences for them to read…I’ve found that they love for me to write to them.  I’m trying while things are “slower”.  It’s a year long book, so we’ll see how I do!  If it takes me a few years, that’s okay!  We’ll see how that goes.

Still not sure what to do with my seven year old yet…then again, regular disciplines are taking more time with him–that may be enough for him for now…perhaps a “verse for the summer” .  That worked really well last year (”Seek peace and pursue it”).

I don’t feel I’m as good with spiritual disciplines as some of my Mom friends, but I take inspiration from them. Summer seems a good time for us right now.  I hope to build to cover more of the year soon.

Tonight…working on worship for tomorrow night…only got the call last night…still mulling the topic and possibilities.  Glad and joyed to give others a break, but always feel so limited/humbled and challenged…I’m already counting on sleeping in Monday AM to recover, so don’t call.  If you’ve ever done it, you know what I mean!

Want to work on my closet a bit more…

Want to to peruse some new sale scrapbooking papers I picked up 50% off at Hobby Lobby last night (yeah!).  Was a real blessing to pick only the ones I really liked from a great selection!  I’ve always done thick “packs”, but decided against “bulk” this time and hand picked singles of what I liked.  I look forward to finding ways to incorporate them into pages.

Dreaming about Vacation: Making lists, thinking about a way to journal a vacation book while on vacation this year…exploring the best non-intrusive way to do that.  Not wanting to “work” while on vacation, but the journaling quips are always SO fun to record and review later.  Thinking of kitchen things I might want to take (I always miss my best teflon if I don’t take it!)

Just Summer…

Today is the first day since school has let out we have not had overnight house guests of the wee sort.  I’m catching up on some cleaning of cabinets, straightening, and cleaning the oven.  I also printed off photos of the kid’s Upward season late last night, cropped and placed those this morning to be taped later…journaling and title will have to be added.  I can only do part of a page at a time like that, but enjoy taking “the next step” when I get tired working and need to sit down a minute.

I painted some areas of the back porch that needed it yesterday before the rain set in.  We figure the seed washed out of the garden and we will have to replant.  The pool is close to balanced now, but still needs another test and perhaps some flocculant, it’s still not see-through clear.

On to the tasks of today!  What are you up to?  I want to see “Up” soon…is it out yet?

SIMPLICITY QUOTE

SIMPLICITY

The difference between something being elegant or elaborate.

The difference between class and common.

The difference between just enough and too much.

The difference between concentrated and diluted.

The difference between communication and confusion.

–Charles R. Swindoll

Summer Monday

Good to sleep in a bit this morning!

Working on a scrapbook page as a reward for living through four days with little houseguests.  Printing a few photos.  Totally exhausted and looking forward to bed, but not so much to waking up…dentist apointments in the AM.  Ugh.

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Christian Paper Crafting Magazine Online Forum

Today is the last day of school!  Ya-hoo!  I am offically “pool girl” today, dealing with all sort of algae and dead worms in the pool trying to get it open and ready for summer.  I hope to get cleaned up to each lunch with my kids the last day of school, but I’m going to have to put a rush on it!

Wanted to have you check out Christian Paper Crafters Magazine’s Online Forum for free for the next several days!  I expect it to grow a lot after the magazine is published.  Looks like fun.  I’m on the challenge team there and it’s getting me all crafty on my kid’s albums again…yeah!  There are already so many awesome faith-based works and pages in the forum I can’t even tell you.  This is one of my favs I hope to scraplift.

I’m posting some tutorials and layouts there myself and have enjoyed the challenges so far.  I like seeing more how to incorporate the things most important to us in our layouts.

Here’s a layout I posted there yesterday:

I really like that is has some scripture on this particular page…it’s blue because it’s for my big guy’s album…hopefully the blue will make up for some of the Easter elements I thought the page needed, and the smidge of almost invisible ribbon threaded through the bottom!  I was excited to use my Cricut, SCAL, and markers to create the “Easter Sunday” title embellishment.  It was great to create something that matched my page and didn’t take a lot time or have to be stored for use.  Great to have something fresh and easy.

Anyway, head on over and join the forum to see what’s going on while it’s free!

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