Papers & Pretty Things

Happy Daddy's Day/Weekend Creative - Love Book

I just wanted to tell my dad Happy Daddy's Day and that I love you!  Here are some of our first happy snaps together:

A few weeks ago, I made the Love Board Book weekend creative project as a gift for my parents.  I didn't want to show pictures as I had to mail it to them first.  Well, it's finally in their possession, so I am free to share!  They went to Saint Martin for my dad to receive an award from work and made a little vacation out of it.  The photos are beautiful, but not as bright as being there in person.  (So I'm informed.)  *Sorry about making you guys look a tad orange...my printer was being strange.

 

Scrap Your Day/Well Now We Know/Weekend Creative/Splash

Today is the 25th of the month, and I promptly forgot it was Scrap Your Day.  So I had to change my clock to say what time I got up... kind of cheating.. but I forgot.  :(  I'll post the day's pictures tonight.

I've been slowly getting back into the swing of things now that we are back home.  Welcome back, it's 97 degrees.  We stupidly drove straight through, 19 hours... straight.  In one day.  Well.. we got back home at 3:45am.  I was so overtired I was getting carsick.  It was a really weird feeling.  I'll never do that again.  My life's motto applies to this situation: Well, now we know.  The house was fine, despite my daily worry while gone.  It even smelled clean and new.  Not always the case when you come back to a closed up house after 12 days.  Poor Pete has to work 4 days in a row; Welcome back, here's a ton of work, jump right in!

I have been working on this Friday's Weekend Creative, but am unable to share any detailed information or photos as it is a gift.  I don't want to spoil the surprise until the recipients receive it.  So, once they get it, I'll post photos.

Amazingly, the community pool FINALLY opened (either yesterday or today); I walked over to check it out and happily, there were people swimming!  Later I swung by again and it was quickly becoming packed.  This just reassures me that I'll have to go swimming in the morning when the place opens at 6 if I want to avoid swimming over a small child or getting jumped on by a fat kid or beaned in the head with a ball.  Ah well, it's what I expected would have to happen.  It'll be good for me right?  Getting up at 5:30?  Right....?

Mixed Up Mini

On a creative note, I finished assembling the Mixed Up Mini album from the last Weekend Creative.  I'm not going to put any pictures or memorabilia in it yet, but having it done makes it easier to grab and start decorating.  I think I need to do this more often. Pre-assemble some mini albums, I mean.  Here are some photos of the various pages.

It's National Scrapbooking Day!

How are you celebrating? I'm spending my time working on the Weekend Creative project, Mixed Up Mini. The concept is to use up the left over pieces from other mini albums you've made, combining them into one big mish mash of an album. It's a fabulous idea. The only problem for me is that I don't have any left overs from mini album kits. So, I decided to make my own pages and add them all together into a little book. I'll post some photos a little later, once it's all done.

On a different note, we caught a matinee today on the digital screen, Iron Man. I have to say, this movie was outstanding! The special effects and CGI weren't distracting at all, looking extremely realistic. Never having read the Iron Man comics, my only exposure to Iron Man has been the PS2 game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. (Sad, yes, I know.) So I wasn't too familiar with the plot before seeing the movie. There was a tiny bit of romance (just enough, not too much), plenty of suspense, and fantastic action scenes. Excellent movie.

Weekend Creative

Beginning in 2008, Ali Edwards began a new installment on her blog called Weekend Creative.

These are her words describing the project:

"Here's the plan: Each Friday I will post a new prompt/thought/project to think about/do/add to you list for the weekend. Sometimes they will be really simple and other times a bit more involved. Sometimes you won't have to do anything other than consider a concept and other times"..."there will be the potential for you to add a little project to plans you may already have in place. Some will be scrapbook-related and others will focus on different areas of crafts, photography, and creativity.

Ready?"

I'm ready!  It took a bit of hemming and hawing and being under the impression I had a lot going on, that I wouldn't be able to add one more thing to the schedule.  Finally, I thought to myself, enough.  Enough already.  Excuses are not your friend.

So, this weekend's prompt is to Begin Writing Your Own Story.  This is such a great place to start participating, because essentially, a blog is a means of telling your story.  And hey!  I just did that!  Start a blog I mean.  I think I'll make a small notebook just for this project.

*edited*

So I couldn't put off making the little notebook for very long!  It's about 5"x7" in size.  (I haven't decided if I want to add hands to the clock face.)

Materials: KI Memories - Pop Culture, American Crafts - Thickers, Heidi Swapp - Clock & Tag, Zig Writer