Look What Santa Brought Me!!!

I am so excited with my present from Santa this year!!! A CRICUT!!! I just can't wait to play with it and make some fun new stuff for my scrapbooks!

Headliners

So these are my new favorite things. I used some last summer for my trip to Niagara Falls and also for a visit with my nieces and nephews. This year, my vacations included the fabulous cities of Cleveland and Pittsburgh, but alas, there were no headliners for those places.

So I emailed the company, CraftersOutpost.com, and asked if they would consider making Headliners for Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The same day I wrote to them, they wrote back and said they'd love to design the headliners I requested and that it should take a week or so.

Not three days later, they emailed again to say the headliners were posted on eBay and I could buy them from their store there. So I did! And they arrived in my mailbox two days later. And I love them!!

Organizing

Yup, that's all I've been doing lately. I don't know how my things get so unorganized, but every few months, I have to set aside a few hours to organize. Actually, it's not that things are unorganized, but I get some new stuff and want to put it away, or I come up with a new way of organizing something and have to do it all over again.

I just emailed my CMC to get another one of these decofile folders. I already have one and like it for the big paper and also because it has a over-the-shoulder strap that makes it easy to tote around. Since I've been swapping on Scrap Share, I've needed to keep track of CM papers and LSS papers, hence the need for another folder.

Currently, I'm having trouble with all those storyboxes from CM. I don't know what to do with them--with some of them, I've organized them by color (according to the rainbow, of course), but then with others, I feel like I can't really do that. I was working with the everyday pack, and there's just no way to put that into the ROYGBIV format. So I just kept those together. But I did move all the storyboxes and other journaling boxes into a mini-sort box, which I like better than those smaller blue organizers I was using.

I have some vacation photos to scrap, plus my nephew's first swimming adventure, and a couple more baseball stadiums to do. So I have plenty to keep me busy on July 28, which is the all day crop my CMC is holding. I can't wait!!

Scrappin' Again!

It wasn't too hard--I just decided to do it and it was FINE. and FUN. I am working on the family and friends album and the baseball album, trying to get caught up. Since I don't really remember the details of the baseball trips, I have many pages with blank journal boxes. I'll have to go online and get some details from the games and stadiums so I can add details.

In the family and friends album, I have been using the power pallettes and ENJOYING them! The colors and designs are just perfect for quick layouts. Above are the two I worked on this past week--mine and Karen's birthdays. I just really love the coordinated papers and stickers.

Enjoying it again...about damn time.

Just couldn't do it.

I tried. For six hours, I tried to scrapbook. OK. I didn't try that hard. I just busied myself doing other things:

• I organized paper
• I put stickers in pockets according to themes
• I browsed the new catalogs
• I bought some overstock at 30% off
• I helped my sister with her layout
• I ate lunch
  

I did not, however, scrapbook a single thing. When will I be ready? I'm just not feelin' the groove yet.

Back in the Saddle Again

So my sister and I are meeting our usual monthly scrapbooking group for a day of scrapping tomorrow. It's the first time I've even thought about it in a few months--I have not scrapped since some time in February, I believe.
And to tell you the truth, I don't even want to do it tomorrow. I have just been so bummed out lately with Dewey's passing and my mom's declining health that I just don't feel the joy needed for scrapbooking. Work sucks, and this summer is not shaping up to be anything special.
Oh, I know...quit complaining already...
We'll see how it goes tomorrow. But first, I have to face the mess that is the craft room and assemble my bag to take tomorrow. Maybe I can put that off until the morning...

Dewey's gone

Sweet Dewey departed this life yesterday afternoon. I have so many pictures of him, but it will be a while before I can scrapbook them. It feels like it'll be a while before I can scrapbook any kind of pages. This photo shows him in one of his favorite positions: laying on the floor with his head on the bottom of the coffee table. He was taking a little nap, but usually he watched TV in this position.