ponderings

Drowning...

Doodle by Lee. The code for this doodle and other doodles you can use on your blog can be found at Doodles.

Still getting mileage out of that cardboard piece...

Do you post family photos or artwork on Flickr, your blog, or...

anywhere else on the internet? If so, please read THIS post by artist Claudine Hellmuth. There are two bills coming up in the House & Senate that will change copyright laws and allow companies to use your photographs without your permission. There's an easy link in her post that will let you write a letter to your local congressmen/women...it only takes a couple of minutes.

Climbin'...

Trying to get my scrap on today...

Still here...

and I'm in a creative and emotional slump. So let's share a bit of linky-love today...

Blog Stalking

• Celeste's compilation of inspiration from all over the web.
• The master of minis, Dedra Long.
• The super creative & sweet Susan.
• The girl who should have her own card-making idea book, Lea.
• This girl always inspires me.

Store Stalking

• The Curiosity Shoppe.
• Patina.
• The Creature Co-op.
• Cut + Paste.
• Threadless T-shirts.
• Think Geek...Stuff for the Smart Masses.

Collagey Goodness

• Paper Valise.
• Paper Relics.
• Sky Blue Pink.
• Ornamentea.
• Small Studio Productions.

Gettin' my scrap on...

Made this page w/ one of the scraps from my gift-packaging project that I posted a couple of weeks ago.

Rev it Up!!

I am so honored to be featured on the Rev It Up blog today...to even be considered worthy to be in the company of the other great artists they featured is a true thrill!! Thanks Maria for interviewing me and highlighting my work! :)

Visual journaling...

Slapped a quick page together...

Tempting...

This picture almost makes me want to get a kitten...

Oh...wait...nope...the feeling has passed. Still, isn't that the cutest kitten ever? [Found via Cute Overload.]

April's Poppy...

Finally getting around to putting up April's Poppy work...

      

      

Just a note about the "Happy" layout above. I did the layout, thought I was pretty cool stuff for cutting out the pennants from the Daisy D's PP and putting them on the other PP. Then I'm browsing some of my fave blogs and discover that I had must have subconsciously scraplifted that idea from another fabulous scrapper! I panicked and emailed her and profusely apologized...I'm sure I saw her LO on SIS, and I certainly didn't purposely scraplift her. She was so kind and gracious and said that I could go ahead and post the layout...thanks, kb, you rock.

Pencil Lines...

I got the privilege of being the guest designer over at Pencil Lines this week...a true honor! This is my layout...

A little gift packaging...

Tomorrow my little docent group is having a luncheon with our consultants who have helped us and cheered us and encouraged us along all year long. The group chipped in and got them a couple of gifts, and I volunteered to package them. I made boxes out of kraft cardstock. Then I painted a long piece of red rosin paper (a construction supply) with any variety of paint...it's pretty much a mess, but that's what makes it fun. Then I cut up the bigger piece to make the two box-wraps that you see on the packages below.

The really fun part is that after you cut up the big piece, you end up with fun scraps you can use later!

Less of me to love...

So, there's a little bit less of me to love....12.4 lbs, to be exact. I've been doing WW for the past 9 weeks, and it's going well. I hesitate to put that out into the blog-o-sphere because frankly, it's not fun to be accountable to total strangers about dieting (or lack thereof), and you always know that there's that whole embarrassing and inevitable "falling of the bandwagon" incident that's to come. Sigh. But still, I mention this because it will help you understand why I've been snooping around You Tube and mocking chuckling at various old Jazzercise videos. In theory I'm getting motivated to start exercising better, but in reality I'm just sitting on my derriere staring at a computer screen. Hey, I figure I'm burning a few calories by laughing at hip-high leotard leg holes and the overly-peppy jazz hands. Then I came across this gem, which seems to be about all the exercise I can handle at the moment...

There's paint under my fingernails...

and gosh it feels good. Here's my entry in the great and amazing Marilyn's journal...

And....here a few peeks of April's Poppy Ink kit. I had a blast with it, fun stuff.

Two crop quickies...

      

I've decided I'm better at "solitary" scrapping than "crop" scrapping. It's hard for my mojo to flow at crops.

Here's the whole Amelie project. The goal was to create something like the memory box that Amelie discovers in the movie. Since I don't alter things (I'm not good at it and I don't enjoy it), I created a memory box on a layout...sorta. I sewed different elements into a slide sheet protector, and then just created the page. It's supposed to be messy and eclectic.

Amelie peek...

Here's a peek of my next Inspired by Amelie blog project...

Things I need...

I should be cleaning or laundrying (hey, I made a new verb!) or showering or erranding (look, I did it again!), but instead I'm browsing the internet for things I need. Yes, need.

• The Random Dawdle Pad from Patina.

• These Tokyo Boots from Karmaloop. Yes, I know I'm 38 and I know I live in the desert...but I still need them.

• Bird on a Branch vinyl wall stickers from Lekker. I don't have a place to put 'em but I need 'em.

• One of every kind of journal that Nantaka Joy makes. There probably aren't enough thoughts in my head to fill up all those journals, but you know how I love a good blank book.

Spring Break...

I seem to have survived Spring Break intact...we went to the beach...

Then saw Shamu...

 

And frolicked with the cousins & Uncle Mike...

Back to real life, now. Sigh.

Bottom of the barrel in the hair gene pool...

It looks as if CJ has inherited my "really bad bed-head" gene. Poor kid.

Deer in the headlights...

I have to give my 30-minute talk today for the Phoenix Art Museum docent program. Pray for me. ha.