This thing called life..

arrived

From the 9th to about the 12th of each month I'm a happy camper.  Why? Well that's when kit's ship.

When I got home today I found my Studio Calico kit waiting for me.  Love this kit club so much!   
 And they have decided to go into making their own paper and embellishments, you can read more about on the Studio Calico blog. Can't wait for it to hit the stores.

I also found a little package from Elise Blaha. I picked up two mini books from her etsy shop.

So today starts off the first of a few good mail days!  

hello november

“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.”

Tecumseh Shawnee Chief (American Indian Warrior, 1768-1813)

 

Can you belive the year is almost over?

 

A few November favorites:

 

Some etsy things I'm drooling over

Really liking this wreath

This clock is calling my name

And how cool would it be to display your earrings on this.

 

I might have got a tad bit excited when I saw this post on chicken coops over at design*sponge. I've added the two books to my reading list.

 

Kristina Werner is doing a whole series on cards for the holidays, you NEED to check them out.

 

This mac and cheese recipe is looking very tasty.

 

I could spend hours exploring this shop.

 

And this post by Karen Russell just made me laugh.

 

   

 

 

LOAD Days 25-31

Can I just say I was so glad for this week to come and so worried that I would finish because I was just so burned out.  So I decided to work on another class taught by Shimelle, her classes are a bit addictive, over at Two Peas.  It was about using you printer more in your scrapbooking.  Excuse some of the bad lighting in the pictures I was getting my layouts done later in the day and missed the good natural light to take pictures by.

Day 25:

Day 26:

Day 27:

Day 28:

 Day 29:

Day 30:

Is that vellum on a layout? Why yes, yes it is.

Day 31: Another layout for Ali Edwards class

And that is the end of October LOAD 2009!  Give me a couple months to recover and I should be ready for the next one.

I'm a scrapbooker and I have a blog!

A new class started yesterday with Shimelle called Blogging for Scrapbookers. I'm excited to get a new perspective on blogging and how I can make some changes with the old blog and use it more to tell more daily stories.

My goals for this class are to:

• blog more often, at least a few times a week instead of a few times a month.
• use this blog as a virtual scrapbook and maybe by doing that bring a new energy to my scrapbooking
• Come up with some new and interesting topics to talk about.

And did you know it's National Blog Posting Month also known as NaBloPoMO, so let's see if I can blog every day this month.

I was toying with the idea of doing a daily gratitude but I might save that for a few post later this month closer to Thanksgiving.

I would also like to admit that I am insane and signed up with for a scrapbooking group over at flickr.  356 layouts in 365 days. I think I have false bravado after last month.  Let's see how long it last.

LOAD Day 18-24

Here are my pages for the 3rd week of October

Day 18:

Day 19:

 Day 20

Day 21:

 Day 22:

Day 23:

Day 24: Another layout for Ali Edwards Class

Be back later with the last week.  Thanks for looking!
  
 
 
  

Done!

October LOAD is over!  I had a lot of fun doing it but I'm so glad it's over.

1 6x12

5 9x9

5 12x12

5 8x8

15 8.5x11

31 layouts in 31 days completed!

Be back later to post the layouts from the last two weeks.
 

LOAD Days 11-17

ETA: Forgot to add Day 12.

More LOAD pages.

Day 11: I signed up for Ali Edwards class over at Big Picture Scrapbooking and this is my first layout for the class.

Day 12:

Day 13:
 

 
 
  Day 14:

Day 15:

Day 16:

 

Day 17:

LOAD Days 4-10

Here are my layouts for days 4-10, just getting around to post them.

Day 4:

Day 5:

Day 6: Trying to finish up last years Christmas Journal before it's time to start another.

Day 7:

Day 8:

Day: 9

 Day 10:

Be back tomorrow with last weeks layouts.

sick

and everyday i have a new symptom.

thursday: sore throat

friday: sore throat and a cough

today: sore throat, cough, and a runny nose

any guesses on what tomorrow is going to bring?

LOAD Day 1-3

Here are my layouts so far for LOAD.  I have such a huge backlog of layouts I want to get done and this is helping a lot.

Day One:

Day Two:

Day Three:

So far so good, now on to this weeks layouts.