It seems that Summer Lily likes to get her day off to a start by doing a little crafting at the kitchen table, first thing in the morning. Usually starting before breakfast, taking a short break to eat and then continuing right on until lunch. Right now her favourite mediums to work in are the toilet paper rolls and the pom-poms -- which she pronounces as PAHm-PAHms. She draws wonderful, delicate, intricate, careful little scenes, and then describes them using phrases like "this is Mufasa knocking off a few hyenas." (and the hyenas are coloured in with only one specific pencil crayon, which she has named hyena brown. It's just the colour for hyenas. And nothing else.) Our feezer is piled about 8 inches high with these lovely little works of art.
Today she made me a beautiful "scrapbook page" on some grey patterned paper. She drew a nice picture of us, I think it is the two of us, and added some "decorations" (doodley-scribbles) and glued some PAHm-PAHms to the corner. I have it out on my scrapbooking table right now.
5 lovely things today:
1. Snarfy blows kisses -- kisses the end of her finger and waves it around.
2. Paul and I laugh ourselves silly
3. Summer Lily is feeling "not pretty good" (she might be sick, but she is still stinkin' cute)
4. flowers on the table
5. I know my family loves me.
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2. Paul and I laugh ourselves silly
3. Summer Lily is feeling "not pretty good" (she might be sick, but she is still stinkin' cute)
4. flowers on the table
5. I know my family loves me.
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don't fear the phone
for it is your friend.
Especially when Fred (THE Fred) is on the other end, requesting a layout. :) I am happy and excited, and I even managed to remain calm on the phone. Apparently "the editors" have asked that I change my black and white photos for colour ones. I agreed to it, I don't really mind -- selling art is selling art, right? But it does irk me a bit, just because I happen to like black and white photos, it wasn't a b/w digital conversion on a whim. I put black and white film in my camera because I like black and white photos, not because I don't want colours to clash on my layout. But anyway, the photos will be changed although I am not sure how. I can probably find some colour shots of SL to replace the black and white photos, even though the pose and subject won't be the same, I think it will still work with the layout. I guess I will ask, when I get the email with the mailing address and other important information.
I had such a wonderful birthday night with Paul last night! We watched some TV together, talked, laughed, listened to the new wonderful Ani CD he gave me on Sunday (Knuckle Down). We had snacks. And then he surprised me with even more gifts! He is extremely thoughtful and over-generous :) Another four sheets of the most beautiful handmade paper I've even seen -- green "Tibetan cloud", pink sparkly cotton candy, embossed pink and white flowers, and pink/grey striped. And a self-healing cutting board, and more incense. Oh wait, and book board/ illustrator's board so I can make some mini-book covers.
Today I am still trying to finish that darned Bird Bath layout, it is troublesome. But just because I don't have a clue about design and what I'm doing, so that makes planning a Good Layout a bit difficult. But I am keeping at it because I like the title I have been working on, and the photos are really cute and I wanted to scrap them as soon as Paul showed them to me last summer.
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Especially when Fred (THE Fred) is on the other end, requesting a layout. :) I am happy and excited, and I even managed to remain calm on the phone. Apparently "the editors" have asked that I change my black and white photos for colour ones. I agreed to it, I don't really mind -- selling art is selling art, right? But it does irk me a bit, just because I happen to like black and white photos, it wasn't a b/w digital conversion on a whim. I put black and white film in my camera because I like black and white photos, not because I don't want colours to clash on my layout. But anyway, the photos will be changed although I am not sure how. I can probably find some colour shots of SL to replace the black and white photos, even though the pose and subject won't be the same, I think it will still work with the layout. I guess I will ask, when I get the email with the mailing address and other important information.
I had such a wonderful birthday night with Paul last night! We watched some TV together, talked, laughed, listened to the new wonderful Ani CD he gave me on Sunday (Knuckle Down). We had snacks. And then he surprised me with even more gifts! He is extremely thoughtful and over-generous :) Another four sheets of the most beautiful handmade paper I've even seen -- green "Tibetan cloud", pink sparkly cotton candy, embossed pink and white flowers, and pink/grey striped. And a self-healing cutting board, and more incense. Oh wait, and book board/ illustrator's board so I can make some mini-book covers.
Today I am still trying to finish that darned Bird Bath layout, it is troublesome. But just because I don't have a clue about design and what I'm doing, so that makes planning a Good Layout a bit difficult. But I am keeping at it because I like the title I have been working on, and the photos are really cute and I wanted to scrap them as soon as Paul showed them to me last summer.
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happy day
Today is my birthday, it was a nice happy day. At home with the girls and friendly phone calls from family. Many kisses and hugs from my Two Sweet Toots, I do love those precious little things.
5 Things to do today:
a) watch Medium with Paul; drink tea, coffee, hot chocolate; eat wonderful new "natural" vanilla ice cream Paul came home from work with. (A special, thoughtful birthday treat)
b) think more about re-organizing my patterned paper. I've been meaning to do it for weeks now
c) finish that Bird Bath layout
d) read more of http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/shop/item.ihtml?idx=28clean & simple scrapbooking
e) start on next layout -- for PKPT?
5 Things to do today:
a) watch Medium with Paul; drink tea, coffee, hot chocolate; eat wonderful new "natural" vanilla ice cream Paul came home from work with. (A special, thoughtful birthday treat)
b) think more about re-organizing my patterned paper. I've been meaning to do it for weeks now
c) finish that Bird Bath layout
d) read more of http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/shop/item.ihtml?idx=28clean & simple scrapbooking
e) start on next layout -- for PKPT?
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