Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking

Photo Friday 3/15/13 (aka: Notes for Project Life when I catch up)

Still trying to get a better "selfie" and feeling a bit fat - I did a half-hearted return to a strict diet and exercise routine but got derailed mid week when lots of other stuff zapped me and I just sort of needed a big bowl of apple pie ice cream:

Its been one of those weeks when not much happened but a lot of things happened.  Cryptic right?  Or possibly an over-share?  Without going too much into it, it was a week when advanced mothering skills were needed and I feel like I'm re-learning stuff and that new skills are going to be needed for the next phase :  The Pre-Teen Years.  My kids are 9 and 11 and I feel like we are there on the verge of puberty.  Last weekend we had "the talk" and there's just been a variety of other things that have come up this week which are most likely unrelated.  I think we are all ok, but I'm kind of emotionally exhausted. 

I have been working on finishing an album which has turned into finishing three albums:  Home Sweet Home / Everyday Life; Skiing; and Swimming.  I'll have a video share up sometime this weekend.

Carrying on, here's my Photo Friday:

Allison got word that she'll be testing for her Orange Belt in Karate next month. 

Mac is going through a very extensive 4 month Black Belt Testing Period with 20 other black belt candidates and he had his "8 hour or an eternity" Black Belt Test on Saturday.

As a reward , I brought him to the Renaissance Fair for getting through his 8 hour Black Belt Test and I think he may have found his people; we might just go back this weekend - it is in town until April 8th.  He loved the real life Chess match and the jousting.  We topped off our awesome day with his first trip to The Melting Pot, a fondue restaurant and he decided it was the best chicken he'd ever eaten.

Last night we did some fishing to relax and he caught a little fish and we fed it to Henry The Heron who was very curious and friendly and hung out with us on the dock while we fished.   We also got a new bait trap so we can do some more fishing since it is something we all enjoy.

That blur is my daugther the cartwheel machine.  She quit gymnastics, at least for a while, she's planning on starting up again next month.  Meantime, she practices her cartwheels about 1000 times a day; we doubled up the throw rug so that she's got some extra padding.  Its all cartwheels all the time - she has done this sort of thing before - with hula hoops and jump roping - she practices non stop until she gets it.  Go girl!

And Charlie's been getting more involved in local politics and he drove me to the voting place on Tuesday to make sure I voted - I did - and his horse won and I think he's joined some of the committees since he now attends local government meetings.  For years he's wanted to get into local politics and for years I've been discouraging it because we already have a lot on our plates, but perhaps as the kids are getting older, Charlie's political aspirations will get some more time and attention.  Meantime, he loves the Home Sweet Home scrapbook album that I've been finishing.

Its cold here in Florida and we are looking forward to the weekend.  What are you up to?

Obsessed with Instagram in a Scrapbooking Kind of Way

I admit it, my latest online Scrapbooking obsession is Instagram. Immediate interaction & gratification. Love love love it.

I like to overconsume information - which is maybe why I don't like Twitter as much as other things like Instagram and Pinterest that allows me to go crazy following people.  I follow a mix of scrapbookers, travel bloggers and photographers with a few random celebrities like Rainn Wilson and, yes (head hung in crap tv shame) Khloe Kardashian.

I will also say that I love Instagram because not only do I get to follow people, people get to follow me and "Like" my things - and lets just say that the same layout can get 31 likes on Instagrams and not even a look on a popular scrapbooking gallery where I post often and don't get much love - its ok, I know; but the truth?  I enjoy the Instagram love. 

Another reason that I love Instagram is that its a quick reminder to me of what I've been up to lately.

And I can quickly get a glimpse of the scrapbook pages I've mad lately - just the pictures - not bogged down with words like on a blog or even on Pinterest where there are comments.  You can see the comments if you like on Instagram, but what I really love is just seeing my pictures with no words.  It allows me to see my own trends.

If you are on Instagram, please say hi to me over there - I'm on whenever I get a spare minute & love to chat over there too!  As always, I love your comments here too ;)

Paper Strips Pinterest Inspiration Board: Layout #5: Me at 42 to Me at 21.

This is my completed "42 to Me at 21" scrapbook layout. 

Take a look at my process for making this scrapbook page:

It is a 12x12 layout and It will have journaling on the back.  And yes I did use an original photo from 1991. I did take several photos of the photo just in case anything weird happened to this layout - since that photo is the only copy.

That was my real hair color (the one I'm trying to duplicate now) and I was something like a size 6 without a wrinkle on me.   And I totally remember that keychain of mine that's on the desk - and that 3 hole punch - OMG I use it at work even now and it has my named taped to it - and it still haas that same little piece of paper taped to it - 21 years later!  wow.  See, cropping out details isn't always a good idea. 

I picked some random odds and ends 6x6 paper pack left overs from the new Amy Tan and Dear Lizzy lines from CHA Winter 2013 - I got them a week or so ago at Whim So Doodle and I've been using them like crazy, I think these are two of my most favorite lines ever.  Ok, actually add in the Maggie Holmes from Crate Paper line in there too - I am just in love with all of it.

I did look at some other photos before deciding on this one of me when I was half the age I am now;  this one seemed to fit so perfectly into that negative space from where I had done some misting of something else earlier today.  Also the story of me being 21 fit in with some conversations and experiences I had today and this will remind me of that.

Then I thought it might be fun to add a photo of me from today since I had just returned from the store where I bought American Crafts Thickers (lots of them); sandals and two giant hats:  see some things never change - I loved hats then and still do now.  Perfect - I printed out that photo after I did a screen capture and then added it to the page.

And then I probably went overboard with lots of sparkly epoxy stickers, but I thought the 2 doilies were perfect (even though they broke the "rule of threes").

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And here's what I plan to print out for the backside of this layout: 

A Letter to Myself at 21 From Myself at 42:

Hey you, beautiful you.  Yes, if you are wondering, you are beautiful - trust me - I still have your image burned into my memory and brain and when I look in the mirror and don't see your fresh faced smile and amazing body - yes, amazing - if you only knew -- well, it shocks the system a bit to see me in the mirror at 42.  There are wrinkles and pimples - pimples I never had in my teens or 20s!  (so not fair!)  And I have an everyday and over the years battle with the scale, I try on pants that I'm sure will be too big and they end up being too tight - I know what to do to get it back to being something that at least resembles me at 21 but at 42, well, its just really hard to get the momentum going; but I do still try everyday.  I'll probably look back at my 42 year old self when I'm 84 (God please let me see 84 and beyond) and think about how beautiful I was now - but its hard to see that in the mirror at the time; know what I mean?  Yes, I know you do.

Many of your dreams came true.  You did meet the love of your life but it was someone you could not imagine when you were 21 - but 4 years from this photo, you would meet him and life would never be the same - its a good life.  You are loved and you love your family.   Those somewhat angst ridden single years weren't all that bad - even if you did spend them with your nose in a book most of the time.

I wish I could tell you to spend more time with your Dad and your Grandparents, that they wouldn't be around forever; but I'm not sure you would have listened  - you had adventures and travels and things to do.  But just maybe you would have (or will listen to yourself on this same type of thing now). 

A couple of warnings:  Credit Cards and Law School Loans are brutal  to pay back - use as little as possible.  Art is a passion, spend more time on it - don't put it on the back burner.  Travel more before you have kids because afterwards, well, its a whole lot more difficult.  Don't over do it on running; but do take a ski trip as often as you can.  Stay away from people who give you a bad gut feeling - trust your gut, you are almost always right about people.  Don't get too serious - you'll want to do that when you become a young lawyer - and don't  tell people to call you "Kathryn" because you think it will make you sound older - it will stick and will never feel completely natural even though it is your given name - your name in your heart is Katie and always will be.  But really, everything turns out totally awesome, so don't worry about these warnings too much - its all good.

I wish I could also say 1. buy waterfront property now and sell it around 2005; 2.  I wish I could give you some winning lottery numbers or tell you to invest in microsoft or apple or facebook when it gets invented. 

I will say it is comforting to see you in a big hat and to know that just today I bought a great big hat, some things never change.  Simple Pleasures - go after then then and now and ENJOY TODAY - then and now.

From Katie at 42; 3/1/13

 

 

 

Get It Scrapped Post: Make Scrapbook Pages That Record Your Everyday Places

It seriously amazes me how awesome Debbie Hodge's Get It Scrapped site it,  it is like an online encyclopedia of scrapbooking and it is so easy to find whatever you want to know about scrapbooking.  I am still feeling delighted and thrilled and lucky to be a part of it. I've also had the chance to be a member of the Masterful Scrapbook Design and it is equally well organized and there is so much more content than you could ever imagine with videos and lessons and articles and inspiration. So seriously awesome.

This is my page in Get It Scrapped's blog article about scrapbooking your everyday places:

My daughter’s favorite place to eat lately is Tropical Smoothie Cafe, so the last time we went, I picked up a franchise flyer shaped like a giant smoothie and I used it on this page.  I added stickers and stuff (the banners are from a Walgreen’s flyer) over the franchise info on the cup  The photo isn’t from any particular day, but every time we go to Target she has me take her photo in the giant red Target bull’s eye circle. It has gotten to be a bit of an everyday type of tradition.

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For More Scrapbook Inspiration for Everyday Places from Chris Asbury, Sue Althouse, Debbie Hodge, Brenda Becknell, Stefanie Semple, Michelle Houghton, and Meghann Andrew; GO CHECK OUT Get It Scrapped's Post: Scrapbooking Everyday Places About Town.

The Century Scrapbook Project Episode #5: 1912 & 2012 Presidential Elections & Family Politics

The Century Scrapbook Project: 1912

It seems that being vocal about politics runs in the family.

Plus it seems like some people want Taft to run this year!  So I found my connection for this page:

(photo source: notoriousmle.com)

Here's the ustream video about this page and The Century Scrapbook Project - find out how scrapbooking family politics can be interesting and easy:

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Get It Scrapped Post: Scrapbook Pages Made From Journaling Prompts

True Story! 

I keep a Pinterest Board called Story Prompts and one of the pins I have up is Debbie Hodge's 365 Questions; I found this list: https://pinterest.co...75441359141002/ and many of the questions had to do with what happened today.  If I had to write home about today - (I know I'm a day late with this one) - I would tell this story:

Journaling:  "True Story!  Today on the way to work I saw a snake in my parking spot at work wiggling all around and then suddenly (and inexplicably) rolled over dead!  (I called the office from my iphone - I wasn't getting out of the car just yet!) Kelly came out and poked it with a broom and it was totally rigid!  (It was seriously weird)."

I found a photo of me in my car in the office parking lot and decided to use it for this page even though the photo was from a year ago and the story was from today; I also found a picture of a snake that my father-in-law caught in our yard a couple of years ago - and it was the same type as I saw this morning - so I used that in the small black and white frame.

I used border stickers that looked all wiggly to mimic the snake and decided to make one of the wiggly lines into a snake - I found some googly eyes and punched a circle for the head - but the head needed to be more oval like so I just ran the circle back through the punch to make an oval, so it looked more like a snake head!

Supplies:  K&Company border stickers; Cosmo Cricket embellishment at the top; Smash Stamp (at the bottom).

Need some story ideas for your scrapbook pages?  Check out Get It Scrapped's Post : Scrapbook Pages Made from Journaling Prompts to see pages from Deborah Wagner, Kelly Purkey, Tanyia Deskins, Sue Althouse, Adryane Driscoll, and Sara Gleason.

Big Picture Classes Day #8 & Playing with Jenni Bowlin Kit from Whim So Doodle + Instagram

The challenge up today at the Big Picture Festival is from Karen Gruenberg and her challenge is to scrapbook a happy memory from the past week or two.  I've been sort of addicted to Instagram for the past couple of weeks and, last night, we had the first Design Team Meeting at Whim So Doodle.  I mashed up those two happy memories to make this photo which I think I'm just going to print out 8.5x11 and put in my Project Life Album. 

 

Still Justified & #BigPictureClasses Festival Day #7

Not much has changed around here since 2009 - well, the kids have gotten bigger, but they are still up to the same sort of shennanigans - and they are "full of it" all day, everyday.  Its high energy around here all the time - which could explain why scrapbooking is so relaxing for me. 

This next layout is a combination of a continuation of this Justified story; a rift from something Cathy  Zielske said about "confessional scrapbooking" on Day #6 in the BPC Big Idea Festival; and today's BPC challenge to use a large photo on a scrapbook page:

I know this is a simple page but it felt really good to make it.  Especially adding that bit of neon pink (which Allison heat embossed last night btw!) to the mostly neutral grey layout.  I love mashing up a bunch of concepts and ideas on one page - and this page wouldn't necesarily look like I did a lot - but there's a lot going on in my creative brain space - which is actually more important to me than the outcome.  P.S. I listened to Henry Rollins on The Nerdist Podcast while making this page - it was an exceptionally awesome episode.

Journaling: "This story started in 2006 when Mac squirted Allison with the faucet at the park and continued in 2009 when ally learned how to turn on the hose.  Here we are in 2012 and Mac is prepared!"

 

 

 

2012 Goals - There's Still Time & #BigPictureClasses Festival Day 4

The Big Picture Classes Big Idea Festival Day #4 Challenge by Nichole Magouirk was to make a scrapbook page recording your goals.  I've always been a BIG  believer in writing down goals, since I was little and then this idea was reinforced in college when one of my classes had Steven Covey's 7 Habits as part of the required reading.  Back in college I wrote down my life goals and even drew pictures of my future house and family - I can't seem to find that book (which breaks my heart just a little) but my life now looks a lot like the plan I wrote down in college down to how my house looks, what I'm doing and my family structure.  I have been thinking I need to do that again for the next 20 years.  Meantime, I'm going to try to take a smaller bite and just focus on the rest of this year - 2012 - and focus on only three things that I want to accomplish before the 12/31/12. 

Here's the journaling on my Goals Page:

{Note to Self:  Hey Katie!  There is STILL TIME ENOUGH in this year 2012 to accomplish some of those New Year's Resolutions!  Focus on these TOP 3 OK?: 

1.  Write that Improv-Scrapbooking Book & really learn how to make e-books.

2. Maybe 50 pounds is too big of a goal - just try to get to #160 by 12/31/12!

3. Make sure the 4th Quarter at Work is Awesome & Save up for a Ski Trip to Utah!"  K 9/7/12

Big Picture #BigIdea Festival Day #3 & #Glittergirl Adventure #36 & My Art Journal

So Inspired!

This morning I watched Courtney Walsh's amazing video over at the Big Idea Festival at Big Picture Classes and then I watched Shimelle "Glitter Girl" Laine's Adventure #36 about Masking and these ideas came together and I made this page:

I meant to write "I Can and Do Fight Wrinkles and Acne at the Same Time!"  But the complaints never made it to this page in my art journal. 

Here's what I did write:  "Sometimes its good to step back and be happy and proud and look back.  It is easy to focus on the things I don't have or the things I can't do.  It is a bit harder but way more  happy and productive to focus on the things that I can do and I do have.  I can keep going.  I can keep trying.  I can succeed.  I can accomplish goals.  I can be happy in the process."

 

Here is my list of things I CAN & DO: * Be a great mom.  * Be a good wife.  * Tell Stories.  * Make art.  * Run a small business. * Help real people. * Make a difference. * Raise money for good causes. * Make my kids feel loved everyday.  * Discover my family's history. * Pray everyday. * Exercise everyday. * Vote. * Live a Happy, Hopeful, and Awesome Life full of Good People and Good Things." - K 9/6/12

I made the misted / masked part of this page when I went to the Art Journaling Class at Whim So Doodle - the most fabulous scrapbooking store anywhere - but actually located in downtown St. Pete.

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Ten Things - August 2012

Ten Things is a blog series by Shimelle.  I love this concept but don't always make it on the tenth - same deal with 12 photos on the 12th.  I took some photos this morning so I thought I'd do my ten things today - that and TODAY is the last official weekday of summer in our house - SCHOOL starts on Monday!

1. iPHONE GENERATION: They used to complain that I was on the iPhone all the time - now they've joined me.  Not sure how - or if -  I'm going to solve this one.  Mac is a big fan of Weird Al And Nyan Cat and Allison likes to make lemonade on the iphone - there's a game where you actually - ok, virtually, squeeze the lemons.  That's all educational right?

2. PROOF OF SUMMER FUN:  Still thinking about whether I am going to order this - it is seriously pricey - but it is PROOF that we DID HAVE FUN this summer!  If you ask my kids they will assure you we didn't have any fun!  Granted, I usually make a much bigger effort to do more fun things - but it was seriously lots easier to tell them to "get in the car - we're going on an adventure!" and bring them to the park when they were smaller - now they have a zillion questions about exactly what we'll be doing and they have their own agendas - and they don't let me be "cruise director" like they used to - I keep trying to tell them that they should trust me, that I know what I'm talking about and they will have fun - but they just aren't buying it; now they'd like to know if I could buy them something... maybe at Toys R Us... And seriously?  I HATE - really HATE - bringing them to stores - they turn on their wild child act and I always end up spending more than I planned, so I just don't take them to stores anymore.  Maybe that's not the best way to handle it, but, well, it is working - for me at least.

3.  SCHOOL SHOPPING:  It was the first year I didn't bring the kids school shopping!  Instead, I took detailed inventories of their current clothes and MADE A LIST of what they needed and sent Charlie and Allison off to Target.  He later told me they had to hit Walmart too and there was a giant crying meltdown in Target.  Ahhhh, I think he was happy to take Allison and I was happy not to!  Plus last time we put a Summer Olympics together with me taking the kids school shopping, we impulsively bought Chinese miniature hamsters - and, well, I didn't want to take any chances.  Uniforms? Check!  Hamsters? Thankfully NO!

4. MODEL BEHAVIOR:  Allison put on this outfit recently and said this is her version of me - what I look like when I go to work!  Not exactly and I wish I was that cute, but she did let me take some fun pictures - a rare treat for this scrapbooker mom.

 

5. TACO NIGHT:  Mac loves meat and Allison is a vegetarian but somehow they both LOVE taco night!  I don't often make the same meal twice but taco night is becoming a regular thing around here.  (And "not wearing a shirt" has been a regular thing for Mac for the past couple of years - I am so not a fan - especially because it makes taking pictures of him difficult - but hey, it is summer and it is Florida, I let him run around the house without a  shirt.)

6. SEAWALL FIREWORKS:  We never used to, but doing our own fireworks on the seawall has become a bit of a tradition.  I was happy to get a picture of this with the point and shoot and have it come out decent.  We also spent some time a couple of nights ago watching shooting starts - some kind of meteor shower apparently - I didn't get any photos but imagine this flying by you in the sky - it was pretty spectacular - Mac and Charlie and I laid in the dark on the dock and watched the show in the sky.

7.  PICTURE TAKING:  I've been a bit lazy with my picture taking lately and I haven't been printing on a regular basis but I have been scrapbooking a lot; I'm getting to where I want to have better photos and more current photos for my scrapbooking, so I'm recommitting myself to taking photos everyday and maybe trying, just a little, to make the photos better.  I took these this morning, its a start.

8. HEAVY.  I was doing really well for a while there.  I started at 180 in the summer of 2010.  I got all the way down to, I think 159 or maybe 149, I can't remember.  It is all a blur.  Because after doing the Bikram Yoga Challenge in April - 30 days of hot yoga - I gained 10 pounds that month!  TEN POUNDS!  Anyway, I got completely discouraged and haven't been back to yoga and have only been getting on the stepper 2-3 times a week - on a good week.  Losing weight and maintaing a healthy weight is HARD.  And FRUSTRATING.   So I'm back to about 173.  YUCK.  I feel like complete crap.  I am disappointed with myself.  I have been avoiding mirrors and the camera.  But I'm back to being tired of that too - so I'm BACK to my Weight LOSS GOAL:  I want to get to 130 pounds.  I'm going to take it slow and just focus on losing the first 10 pounds right now.  Back to the everyday stepper routine - which means you can catch me more often in the Pinterest and Two Peas Galleries - I Pin while I step.

9. CHARLIE.  My husband is a saint.  As much as I am a "fiercely independent" kind of girl, I really couldn't survive without him.  I don't think I'd be able to use a phone, computer, or television without him; I'm also sure that I'd have a seriously hard time running the office and successfully getting the kids to school.  I am completely dependent on this man.  The man can fix anything, knows how stuff works, and thinks of things I never even thought.  I know I don't tell him enough, but I'm thankful and lucky to have him as my husband.  Here he is making p-touch labels - one of his very favorite things to do - and this time there was a really good reason - last weekend we had a giant malfunction at our house - a technical thing that would have been seriously expensive and difficult to fix, but he fixed it.  And no, thankfully, neither me nor the kids caused the problem (this time), but we were super glad to have such a clever Daddy to fix everything.  God Bless Charlie.

10. REFRESH.  So I feel like I'm hitting my REFRESH button on at least my attitude about a bunch of things, I'm ready to recommit to losing weight, working hard and having more fun.  This summer has been fun - but really?  It probably could have been a bit funner - I have been "calling it in" a bit lately - especially in the fun department - and while I think its ok to take a breather - its also good to LOOK FORWARD AND GET BUSY which is exactly what I'm planning to do starting right NOW!

 

 

 

1DCWV Stack = 24 Layouts: Layout #20: Almost @42

1 DCWV Stack = 24 Layouts:  Layout #20:  "Almost @ 42"

This one was inspired by the Memory Making Monday series over at the Two Peas in a Bucket site.

Journaling:  "It is May 11th & I can't believe that I let May 6th pass me by because usually I freak out a little bit on that day since it marks "one month till my birthday".  I'm not where I'd like to be on many fronts, especially with my weight loss goas, but I am still here and trying and LIFE IS GOOD.  I have a family who is happy and healthy and our home is full of love andmy life is a good one.  HERE AND NOW.  Love Mom / Katie 5/11/12"

P.S. I got crafty with the numbers and used the negative spaces and then sketched them in with red pen.

 

 

Scrapbook File: May 2012 / May 2008 {using Project Life Journaling Cards}

Scrapbook File:  The Month of May 2008 & May 2012:

I took an old chipboard folder from some photo paper and covered it with patterned paper to create a folder to compare a collage of photos from May 2008 with one from May 2012.

I used journaling cards from the Clementine Core Kit from Becky Higgins' Project Life Line.

 

 

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Then & Now Layout: Ali Edwards' Big Picture Classes Challenge #2 for National Scrapbooking Day 2012

I love this sort of challenge to take an old picture and a newer one and to tell a common story.  Here, the photos told the story:  Photo #1: Me and my Dad in a canoe in 1975 and Photo #2: Me and my son in kayaks in 2011.  The small watercraft and me are the constants - my dad passed away in 2003  and my son was born in 2002, so they actually met once but Mac was a baby so he doesn't remember.  I am the connection.  That's pretty awesome - not that my dad is no longer here, but that I can connect my son to him so that he knows his grandfather a bit.

 

I stepped out of my usual box on this layout too because I got the stamps out!  Those two journaling blocks at the bottom are stamped images on cardstock and I journaled on them.  I also loved the contrasting blue and orange colors, kind of nod to the comparison between then and now.  Also, the retro flavor of an older Basic Grey 6x6 paper pad seemed to be just perfect - especially that top block with the diamond starbursts - reminded me of countertops from the 70s.

Fun challenge - National Scrapbooking Day is flying by so fast!  How are you doing?  What are you up to this National Scrapbooking Day?

 

Just Checking In

Sometimes I blog a lot.  Sometimes I don't.  And no, I don't enjoy Almond Joys or Mounds.

For the last couple weeks I've been in the off mode but for several months I've been in the on mode: 

December Daily;

60 Layouts in January!;

CHA scraplifts in February; and

The Hunger Games in March. 

Lately, I've been working at work, doing lots of Mom stuff, spring breaking, pinning things on Pinterest, and working on the 30 Day Bikram Yoga Challenge!  Today was DAY 16 of my Bikram 30 day challenge - I've definately been sleeping more and the sleep and the 2 hours of yoga a day have definately been cutting into my scrapbooking and blogging time.  And that is OK!

Tonight I'm gearing up to get ready to do some scrapbooking.  My other little tweaky issue is that I can't post photos from my home computer on Typepad and my computer geek (otherwise known as my husband Charlie)  hasn't figured out how to fix it yet. 

So dear blog readers, that's my status update.

I have lots and lots of good things coming to this blog starting tomorrow.

What have you all been up to lately?  Lots of scrapbooking?  Or lots of Life?