Loving being more involved in the digital scrapping community (or I guess the scrapbooking community in general). I forget how much I enjoyed commenting in the galleries and encouraging others and how great it feels to get encouragement back. I have to say again I am still LOVING the community feel at SisTV. I’ve posted in a few other galleries recently and in the past and have never found a place nearly as supportive (in my experience) or as inspiring as this gallery. I can’t say enough about it. It’s funny though how posting a LO that gets no comments makes me question whether it needs something more or it just really isn’t that good. Most of my LOs at SisTv with no comments only had a handful of people look at them so I guess I could say that only a handful of people didn’t like it. Right? OR a bunch of people didn’t like it enough to even click on it. Hmmmm. It’s most discouraging when like 45 people have viewed a LO and couldn’t find one good thing to say about it. Yikes! I know I shouldn’t let that be discouraging but I guess that’s one of the down sides to being involved in the galleries. I know I’m not alone in this feeling. I’m gonna challenge myself to comment on at least 10 or more LOs in the galleries each day and I’m going to try and remember that I scrapbook to preserve memories and if I was happy enough with a LO to post it in a gallery then I should feel great about it whether 20 people comment on it or 1 (or even zero).

See all those zeros? Oy. LOL And I know I mentioned this in my earlier post and I swear this link wasn’t there when I looked before. I searched and searched for a link like this in other’s bio pages but suddenly the other day I noticed it so now you can click on that link and see all of the albums listed separately and most importantly you can view people’s favorites album. Mine is jam packed with some great stuff and I love that now I can see what inspires some of the scrapper’s that are so inspiring to me. Another great feature I noticed that I hadn’t before is that if you click on a LO in the gallery you can actually click on it again to view it even larger and if that’s not detailed enough you can click AGAIN and zoom in even more. How cool is THAT?! That place just keeps getting better and better.

I also have to mention that one of the sweet ’sisters’ I’ve ‘met’ through SisTv is Cenee and you have to check out her bio page and see how MUCH she looks like my sister Amanda. I honestly could’ve sworn it was Amanda when I first saw her avatar in my private mail box. Love her name too and her gallery is amazing so go leave her some love. :)

And speaking of galleries you’ve GOTTA check out the new garden at 2peas. Jennifer has some amazing new LOs in there and she’s right, some of my all time faves are in this batch too. I filled up my book of scraps as I went through the LOs. Totally inspired to scrap but have a busy weekend schedule ahead and too gorgeous of weather to spend it indoors so we’ll see if I get any scrapping done in the next few days. I’m hoping to at least do some.

One thing on the agenda is to paint my new tv stand and end table. I haven’t decided for sure what color to paint them. I’m thinking probably a distressed black but in the past I’ve found that an actual black ends up not being at all what you want to start with. Anyone have any pointers on what paint color I really want to get that old distressed black furniture look? Shabby Miss Jenn you MUST have the perfect shade. ;) The other option I’m considering is red but that can be very tricky to get the right shade too. Hopefully by tomorrow morning I can settle on a color and spend some time out in the garage painting away. :)

I’m determined to take more photos this weekend too. I’ve been meaning to all week and it just hasn’t happened. Pixel is growing so fast and I’m missing all those cute stages and the funny stuff she does and I need more pics of the new haircut because that last one really doesn’t do it justice at all.

Kay, off to work. Happy Friday everyone!