Well, this started out as just a blog post image using Nancy’s new comic strip frames but I decided to make it into a scrap page. These are some of the photos I mentioned in my post yesterday taken at a local park.

CREDITS HERE

I did a little shopping on Sunday with some paypal money that my sweet friend Jill sent me for some purse items (SO not necessary but fun to spend). Here’s what I got: 

2 Kits by Leora Sanford

both available at Designer Digitals

and the Being Me Element pack from Weeds and Wildflowers.

I think I’ve already used one of the kits more than any kit I’ve ever purchased. Parts of it have shown up in each of my last 3 LOs and yet I don’t think any of them look anything alike. Gotta love that. :)

Gotta run but I’ve got a font discovery shared with me by a new friend at SisTv that I HAVE to share here and still a long list of other things on my mind that I have to share/ask here and get some of your thoughts. No time now but maybe later tonight.

Have a great Tuesday!

I am a scrappin’ fool lately and I *love* it! I missed it more than I’d realized (have I said that before??). Well I did. I actually finished 2 pages this weekend which has to be a weekend record for this s-l-o-o-o-o-w scrapper. Here’s one of the pages I finished that actually covers 3 *count ‘em THREE* challenges in one LO. I’ve been wanting to jump in on all the great challenges posted here and there in the scrapbooking world for so long so I guess I made up for lost time with this one. Or at least tried. :) The main theme of the LO is from the Hodge Podge challenge to scrap your favorite feature. The design was loosely based on a Scrapjack LO from back in March I believe that I’d saved in my blog-roll by Adrienne Looman (love her stuff) and I also used the word ‘my’ in the title which is the word this week for the One Little Word challenge. That one was sorta a bonus since I really just happened to use that word in the title without having the challenge in mind but I think it still counts, right? Anyway, you can find the credits (and my other weekend LO) here (of course).

Other than that, nothing too eventful going on. Lovin’ the fact that gas prices were under $3 today. Was completely on empty so ozone action day or not I had to fill up. Hoping to do some scrapping in my air conditioned apartment tonight. Really need to get that fixed on my car soon ‘cuz 94 degrees makes me pretty cranky without A/C.

Got some cute pics of Pixel at a local park Friday night that I may try and scrap. For now there’s a couple posted in my flickr. She’s gettin’ bigger. She doesn’t really seem much heavier really than the 5 lbs. she was when i got her but she looks about twice as tall already. She did awesome this weekend on the house training. Like really awesome and she’s learning the ‘sit’ command pretty good. She goes to the vet again this week so I’ll have to ask about getting her signed up for puppy training as soon as she’s old enough. She’s a sweetheart though and super cuddly. More playful and rambunctious when I have people over which is frustrating but I guess it’s ‘cuz she’s such a social character. She get SO upset when neighbors walk (or even drive) by without stopping to give her attention. If they’re within eye sight she seems to think they couldn’t possibly go about their day without at least saying hi. Crazy pup. Gotta love ‘er. :)

Busy work week, lots of project ideas to work on in the studio in my *spare* time, girls night with Jill (and hopefully Kimmy), another afternoon at the beach (although I’ll be starting from scratch again on the tan), and hopefully a little scrapping thrown in here and there while I’m on a roll. :) Oh, and picture takin’. REALLY gotta get back in the habit of taking at least one photo a day. That’s the goal for this week. Might need a theme. Hmmmm.

Kay, hope I didn’t lose you on that completely random rambling post. So much more I had planned on gabbin’ about here but once again I’m worried I’ll lose ya’ll with my 3 page posts. Be back soon. :)

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!