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.
Its August and I'm itching to go on a road trip - a real road trip - like for a month, but, alas, it is just not going to happen right now for me. So, in the meantime, I'll settle on short road trips over to Disney, I know, rough life right? But really, I would so love to take a road trip up the east coast and end up in Nova Scotia or out west and then drive up the California coast - ahhh, maybe someday.
That page with my daughter at the wheel was from a couple of years ago - seems that we're creatures of habit and we do this girl's weekend to Disney every year about this time.
I made a double page layout for the Get It Scrapped Road Trip Post.
I used the single page sketch to create a double page layout about our recent trip to Orlando; I changed the placement of the sketch for the left side page.
We live about an hour and a half from the Magic Kingdom so sometimes its a day trip and sometimes its an overnight trip; and many times, we go on a whim. A rainy day for us means a great day to visit the Disney Water Parks; my daughter and I made an impromptu trip during T.S. Debby.
Journaling: "Can we got to Typhoon Lagoon? Allison wants to know. "Maybe" I say. "I Have to check my work calendar and see how much the hotel will be." Daddy adds "There's a tropical storm coming!" "Perfect!" Allison declares. She knows this will mean a much shorter line at the zip line which we remember (after we are all the way in at Typhoon Lagoon) is at Blizzard Beach." "It was indeed rainy, but that meant we got a bonus day in Orlando and saw the Brave Movie at Downtown Disney + Room Service at Floridays + A shopping trip to Tommy Hilfiger where Allison bought that adorable dress and I got some new bathing suits at Nautica. We had a fabulous girls weekend. June 2012."
Supplies: Red Cardstock Patterned Paper (Scenic Route); doileys, maps die cut with Quickutz Metro letter dies; sharpie for journaling; border stickers (Sassafrass).
Want to see more Road Trip Scrapbook Pages from scrapbookers including Adryane Driscoll, Debbie Hodge, Brenda Becknell, Tara McKernin, Barb Brookbank, Sue Althouse, ? Get over to Get It Scrapped's Post on Scrapbooking Road Trips.
Whoo Hoo ! It was the Scrapbooking Yard Sale at Whim So Doodle Today and I made a HAUL VIDEO! Here it is:
$20 for an art class next Saturday for me and my daughter to take together!
$28 for 5 paper packs (6x6):Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic; Heidi Swapp No Limits; Crate Paper Story Teller; Studio Calico Take Note Collection; & Amy Tangerine Sketchbook.
$26 for 4 organizing bins; 4 mini books; 4 packs of embellishments; 4 packs of Theresa Collins journaling cards; one pack of metal clock faces; one acrylic stamping block; one Creative Memories paper trimmer; and one piece of 12x12 Studio Calico patterned paper; PLUS an assortment of Barbie garden pots, presents, shutters and hats for my girl.
And lots of fun conversations with scrapbookers and art journalers.
What a lovely Saturday Morning.
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Now we are off for another adventure - more on that soon.
Supplies: Patterned Paper .10 cents x 2; Stickers .25 cents; thickers $.10 cents; photos: .09 cents x 3. I made this page entirely from things I picked up at the scrapbooking yard sale for a grand total of $.82 Cents; ok maybe add a few more cents for the adhesive - still, I'm barely up to $.90 cents total. Wicked Bargain Right?
Not only do I now know that Santa's Reindeer are fueled by jet packs, but that time flies faster than a jet. I had intentions of blogging and even making a scrapbook layout for 1-12-12 but I got busy with lots of other stuff including:
1. Going to the ER thinking that I had a bursting appendendix only to learn that it was a gigantic gas bubble; I don't normally have that sort of problem and it was exceptionally painful. Now I know and feel a bit like I'm taking after my Grandma Grace in the hypochondriac department. I am thankful that everything is ok.
2. The normal daily routine of life including working, taking kids to school, laundry, dishes, dinners, homework, work work, meetings, phone calls, mountains of paperwork; it is nice to get back to the routine but I'm wondering how I'm going to fit everything in. I lots of times think I would like to be able to freeze time to get stuff done and/or clone myself - Samantha Stevens Style ala Bewitched.
3. Ok this one is fun in a scrapbooking kind of way: I went to the Whim-So-Doodle scrapbook yardsale on Saturday Morning and got so much stuff including the red graph reindeer paper on this layout.
Welcome Scrapbookers and Blog Hoppers!
You should have arrived here on the August Happiness Blog Hop sponsored by Stephanie Medley-Rath's Scrapworthy Lives: Because your Life Is Worth Scrapbooking Blog {click here for the link to Scrapworthy Lives}. More specifically, the stop before mine on the hop was { Tammy's Blog: Your Memory Connection }.
August's Theme is "Buy Some Happiness" inspired by Gretchen Rubin's book: "The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent A Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun." On the subject of money buying happiness, Gretchen Rubin explains: "money, spent wisely, can support happiness goals of strengthening relationships, promoting health, having fun, and all the rest."
Can Money Buy You Love? - the Beatles didn't think so - and neither do I, but can money infuse a little happiness into your relationship? I think so. This layout was inspired by a recent "Modest Splurge" when my husband and I re-instituted our long standing tradition of Saturday Night Date Night. We didn't go crazy, but we did go on a bit of a geek spree at Best Buy and then downtown to the restaurant of our choice and indulged in good food and quality time together - without the kids.
The Page: The page I made for this blog hop seems simple enough, I didn't use any embellishments or even any letter stickers - just a piece of colored cardstock and a few strips of patterened paper. To the casual observer, this is a frugal page. But to me, it represents a splurge. I try to keep my spending on scrapbooking supplies to a bare minimum - I try to limit my purchases to adhesives and page protectors because I have enough scrapbooking supplies to last a lifetime. Most of the time, I am happy using older supplies and papers in my scrapbooking, but occasionally, I find myself in a rut and when that happens I allow myself to indulge in a "Modest Splurge" and that Basic Grey Lauderdale Paper represents just such a splurge that I recently made on a trip to my local scrapbooking shop Whim-So-Doodle in Downtown St. Pete. I bought $30 of patterened papers that I didn't need but I really wanted - it was all impulse shopping - buying whatever I thought was attractive, but I kept a dollar limit for myself and paid in cash - not with a credit card. I didn't know what I'd use this paper for when I bought it but it seemed perfect for the mood I wanted to create with this page.
Here's our story: Charlie and I met in 1995 and quickly fell in love, we were both recent law school graduates with lots of potential and lots of law school loan debt. We had a long courtship and it was four years before we got married, but during our dating years, we took a giant leap of faith by starting a law practice together in 1997. In 1999, as newlyweds, we had lots of time and love - but not much money - just a lot of law school loan debt, a new business, and a home mortgage. We worked hard to get to a financially OK place. In 2002, we started a family and when the children were small, we indulged in a live-in nanny, babysitters, and a housekeeper. We kept up our Saturday Date Night Tradition even when the kids were small and we were seriously busy.
But somewhere around 2008 or 2009, when the bad economy hit, we decided to tighten up the bootstraps and stopped having a housekeeper and started cleaning our house ourselves again; and since the children were getting a little older, we no longer needed all the babysitting. So our new-found frugality led to the End of our Saturday Date Night Tradition. Looking back, I think our marriage suffered a little bit because we stopped taking this time out together, we lost a connection that we once had and our connection then centered only around the house, the kids and work - there was little to no time spent on just us.
Until last week - we brought back Saturday Date Night and it was worth every penny!
Journaling: "Saturday Night - July 23, 2011: The first night in our house alone since Mac was born in 2002 and we had a long over-due date night at Moon Under Water in Downtown St. Pete - Of course it rained! With both kids at a friend's house overnight - we got a little preview of the next stage in life."
Ok, Scrapbookers and Happiness Seekers: Now go check out the last stop on the Blog Hop! { Click Here for Melissa's Blog }
:) Katie.
I have been pulling pictures from different years but all from the same place: Pass-a-Grille Beach, this layout features 8 photos of my son at different ages at this awesome place. I did little bits of journaling around the layout and also included a printed out history of this beloved beach. This layout is going in our "Places We Love" album and in a few more years, I'll make another page like this so I will be able to see my son growing up on this beach. We have many memories of this place and I also foresee doing some journaling heavy 8.5x11 pages which will supplement these photo heavy pages.
Here are some more details:
Would you like to see more layouts with 8 photos on a page? Check out the Scrapbooking by Numbers: 8 Photos Flickr Group - Here's a peek at the 8 photos on a page scrapbook layouts that what you'll find there:
Its March and the weather is absolutely beautiful here in Florida. It seems wrong to be inside when it is this lovely outside. I've been spending as much time as possible outdoors - and have been taking the kids to the beach and to our local favorite places to go. We live minutes from St. Pete Beach and one of our favorite beach places to go is Pass-a-grille; we went there last weekend but this page features pictures from March 2009. I'm planning to do several pages about Pass-a-grille since I have a ton of pictures and several stories to tell about this adorable tiny beach town. I'm thinking of this page as a section opener in my album.
I made this while listening to the Paperclipping Roundtable's Podcast Episode #51 Location, Location, Location with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer & Liz Ness & Noell Hyman. The funny thing was that the panelists on the show were saying how they don't take photos out and about around town where they live, I love to play tourist and don't feel at all inhibited about taking a zillion photos in my town. This one is going into my "Places We Love" Album in my Stacy Julian style Library of Memories.
So far Spring Break 2010 looks like this:
Off to make more memories & take more pictures - be back to the scrapbooking world soon.
P.S. Last night I joined the Tampa Scrapbooking Guild and heard all about scrapbooking trends from Nancy Nally of Scrapbook Update --- someone was taking pictures --- if you are that someone - can you post a link? Thanks!
P.S.S. I'll be speaking at the May meeting of the Tampa Scrapbooking Guild - anyone have any questions about Scrapbooking and Organizing. While its not exactly my favorite part of scrapbooking, I do have a system that works for me and allows me to spend 90% of my time creating and 10% of my time organizing stuff. So, I need your help, please leave a comment:
1. What part of scrapbooking / organizing do you have the most trouble with?
2. What is your best scrapbook organization solution?
3. If you could give a brand new scrapbooker a bit of advice about what they'll need / not need what would that be?
Thanks!
You could win this cute little album I made called "Good Things" (inside are titles like friends, family, home, vacation, holidays, favorite things and stuff like that). You'll have to go to www.scrapbookinginparadise.com and sign up for their National Scrapbooking Day crop, it is one of their many prizes for the event.
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