layout share the last of 2013

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I did manage to fit in a little digi-scrapping at the end of last year in between family and traveling and snow and ahem, not finishing my december daily or my Project Life  (both in process)  sometimes it’s just great to do something start to finish in one sitting…done

Digital Layout using Little Feet Digital Designs 30 days of Thankful kit

Digital Layout using Little Feet Digital Designs 30 days of Thankful kit

Thankful List using LIttle Feet Digital Designs 30 Days of Thanks / Cornucopia kit

Thankful List using LIttle Feet Digital Designs 30 Days of Thanks / Cornucopia kit

Both of these layouts (which I am presenting as a 2 page layout) are from a beautiful digital kit designed by my dear friend Janet Carr of Little Feet Digital Designs.  the kit is available HERE and it is gor-ge-ous as you can see.  Since the page with photos was so colorful, I opted to change all of my photos to black and white so they would stand out.  I used PSE8 (i know, i know time to upgrade) and the “convert to b/w” settings to change the photos.

Hope you enjoy!  Have more to post but signing off for now to survey the snow on the roof…

Have a great day everyone

Selfies for Friday…video to share

I found this video through a digi-scrapping blog I follow (Katie at http://www.scrapbookladypages.com she’s part of the Daily Digi – love them!) It is a terrific video, if you have teenage girls or you were a teenage girl or you’re going to have a teenage girl…then this is a must-watch. Please share and pass along!! The message is so important and the gallery at the end is awesome.

exhibit a:

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…or how do I get myself into these predicaments ?

 

exhibit a 8x5

 

See these?? These are the piles that have taken up residence on my work table…no, now these piles have nothing to do with my 4 boxes and 2 bins of fabric that are already in residence in the studio (that were supposed to be cleverly sewn/stashed/gifted down to two bins by *sigh* the end of last year) no, these piles are the result of my children conning me into pj pants, my girlfriend finding a steal on fabric pieces and a “can’t resist” sale at the fabric store…

exhibit A:  a stack of too fabulous and super duper cheap to resist fabric pieces from our last foray into Zimman’s Fabrics… next to last on the pile is 3/4 yard of beautiful blue print cotton which is slated to be a cushion for the comb-back windsor chair in the front hall…

evidence:  super-cute snowman fabric for red-bench pillow, orange cotton fleece on clearance for pants for gwen, two pieces of cotton knit on sale to experiment and make tops for myself

exhibit B:  Lily’s stack of fabrics from last week’s raid on Jo-Ann fabrics.  Her pj pants are halfway up her legs so it’s definitely time for new cozy ones…but somehow “pick 2 pieces of flannel” turned into 3 pieces of flannel and one piece of fleece.

look here:  Gwen’s stack of fabrics, same particulars as exhibit B above.

Obviously, this week…it’s a sewing week… otherwise I won’t see the top of my table until spring.  (arrow stamps are from Splendid Fiins Evidence Arrow Stamp and Brush set #2)

Go!

What projects are stacked up on your table this week?

back on the digi-bandwagon

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Now that my computer has recovered it’s 120Gb of “other”  (crash plan backing up huge log files to my hard drive in addition to backing up on-line…needless to say, deleted crash plan and the files and hellooooo hard drive space!)  I’m finally getting back to some digital scrapbooking!

01-Intro-Page-webMy dear friend Janet is running a free class at Your Stories Go Digital called “This is me Exposed”  It’s a super class with FREE digi-templates and kits to use in the project.  I thought it would be a fun class and Janet’s designs are GORGEOUS!!  See her shop HERE .  The class runs for four weeks (and it’s kind of self-paced so although it’s on week 3, you can jump in now!)  and I’ve finally gotten to making up the title page for my collection.  I’m not sure what form it’s ultimately going to take but it will be fun going through the pages and answering all the questions….just might be getting my family in on the act as well!

What projects are you working on this month? I’m working out the best way to organize all the files and information for classes like this and will be sharing my methodology soon!

Happy Monday everyone!

…120 Gb of “other”

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Honeymoon mode has lasted a looooong time for me and my MacBook Pro…. I’ve been so thrilled with my beautiful little machine that has had almost NO problems since I bought her several years ago…unless you count trying to drown her hard drive in digital scrapbooking supplies.

Ah the honeymoon may be over

Disk Useage 01-12-14

 

it’s baaackkkk….  the “other” .   the “other” was the cause of the great hard drive erase and re-build of december 2013…Apple geniuses didn’t know what it was so they fixed the problem by wiping the hard drive and starting over

evidently it didn’t work

wish me luck, tomorrow we go to see the geniuses again.  have spent today backing up and moving files.  fingers crossed friends, fingers crossed