More pages from the crop.

This cute little one is Jennifer, my daughter!!!! I am going to get their (my daughters) albums done yet!!! I realize that I am pretty random with the pages but I am finding it hard to think of things to do so I have resorted to checking out the sketch sites to help me. Leica has become a member of the design team at Just Cr8 so I have been on their site quite abit. They have lots of pages in their gallery and they have tutorials and sketches to try, it's a good site. They were at the Crop Sask. on the weekend, a whole group of them doing PR work for their group. They are the ones that talked to Rambling Dave on C95 last week and again on Monday. There is an entire discussion forum on what went on with that!!! Suffice to say, Rambling Dave has admitted that scrapbookers are not just glorifed sticker collectors!! They are apparently Certified Nutbar Hobbyists!!! This page was alittle more work for me. It is a page of my niece's wedding that we attended this past summer. I have a whole bunch of family and wedding photos to do but this one was sent to us as the thankyou card for the wedding gift. So I just turned it into a page before I lost it in the pile!!!

This double page layout was fairly quick. I was browsing a site that Leica had mentioned on her blog called Glitz, and they have a bunch of tutorials on doing quick pages on their website. I looked at a few of them and one was called a 4 cut page. You basically take 2 sheets of patterned paper and do 4 cuts on both of them, arrange the pieces on 2 pieces of cardstock and then add your photos and embellishments. These 2 pages were done in record time for me!!

So, those are all the pages that I got done this weekend. I was hoping to get more done but I had to put in some shopping and socializing time as well!!! And, I did take those 2 classes so that took a few hours out of the day, and then there was eating time as well. Leica's mom, Gwen did a great job with the lunch and all the snacks that were provided. all in all, a great weekend!

OOps, just realized that I didn't crop these photos of the pages, sorry. Also, my posts got mixed up alittle and this one should be after the other one, again ,sorry. But all the pages are here!!!

Crop Saskatchewan was great!

We had a great weekend at Crop Saskatchewan. My daughter and I went together on Saturday, I had gone as well on Friday evening. I took a class on colorblocking with Jill Hildebrand, she is from Manitoba and was one of the teachers on the Crop and Cruise that is organized by Allison Orthner from Calgary. The other class I took was the photography class by Allison. She had some good tips for taking pictures, some of it I already knew, some of it was new information. She ended up with the tip of "always have your camera handy and take lots of pictures"!!

So these are the pages that I did at the colorblocking class. It is a great way to do up pages quickly, especially if you just can't get going with your scrapbooking, like when your mojo just totally disappears. And I can see it as a way to use up a whole bunch of scraps. I am going to try and get some of my older photos done up this way, just to get them done. These are school photos of my 2 daughters that are now 31 and 27!!! Took me about 10 mins per pages to get them done. Now that's quick, for me anyway.

More Winter, Yuck!

We have had a few days of nice weather and I was hoping spring was here, or at least close but alas, more snow this morning. Oh well, can't really do anything about that, but I am looking forward to the weekend ( and it's only Monday!!) because it is Leica's big cropping weekend here in Saskatoon. I need to get organized for what I will be doing because I can only carry so much with me as I can only walk so far with this cast on my leg!! Hopefully I will find a parking space close to the school!! Anyway, in keeping with my promise to myself I did up 2 more pages using stuff from my stash here at home, I have soooo much it's just a matter of hunting and searching to find coordinating things to use. My photos aren't too old, from the last year but they were ones that are printed out and in the stack!! I am hoping to get a few of the older ones done this week as well as organize what I will be doing at the crop.

I did edit these pics and crop them but I don't know where they went to!! I will have to go and find them and put them in the correct folder. Computers!!!! They have a mind of their own.

WOW, 2 posts in one day!!

These are the pages that I have done in the past couple of days, I am staying with my plans to get some of the old photos in my files into pages and thus into albums. I am all over the place with the ones that I am choosing to do, but I have so many that I really don't think that it matters where I start!! This first one is based on sketch #8 on the 52 weeks website. It is Amanda learning to climb the stairs at the age of 10 months. Now if only she would learn how to go down them, it wouldn't be so stressful having her near the steps!!!! This page really needed to be done!!! I am going to get our wedding done, hopefully soon!! My brother took the pics because we were so young and so broke when we got married!!! So they aren't professional but they are photos of such a memorable day!! We have beat the stats in that we are still married to our original partners after 35(in august) years!!!

I do have some pages of my babies done but there are afew pics just hanging around, so I may redo some of the older pages just to have them looking alittle more in tune with the ones that I am doing now. The photos aren't great, we had such a poor camera in those days. I am loving my new camera when I take the pics of our granddaughter!!

Another family photo, we did take them lots while the girls were growing up, and I am glad. They are much more formal than the photographers are doing now, but they are great to have anyway.

Also, I have been cleaning and purging alot of the stuff in my scraproom. I had alot of stuff that just wasn't going to be used no matter what, stuff that was getting crumpled and the glue was dried up and was just plain not going to be used by anyone, ever!!! I made room in 2 more drawers in my rolling drawers but filled them up with stuff from on top of my table!!! Oh well, made more room on top of the table now!!! That probably won't stay for long!!! Time to get back at doing things, or maybe it's time for a cup of tea now!!! There's photos to sort too. Oh man, it's going to take forever!!! My new mantra is, I will make some progress,even if it is just alittle progress!!!!! See ya later.

Keeping busy

So, you may be asking what I have been doing to keep myself busy while on my enforced rest. I promised myself that I would finish up some of my unfinished projects that are lying around the house. This steppingstone was one of them. I had it basecoated for a longtime and I had promised my daughter that she could have it but I just never seemed to get around to doing it for her. Well, it's done and she is thrilled. I have alot more projects to get done too. I made a list so that I would have motivation to cross stuff off and see my progress. Hope that works!!

Resting is not all that much fun!

Well, I finally got into see the specialist about my sore foot. He looked at the MRI results and tells me I have an inflamed peroneal tendon in my foot and because it didn't get better while on holidays (of course, I was resting it then!)and while taking anti inflammatories, the next course of action is complete immoblization of the foot!! So here I am, resting my foot for the next 6 weeks while in a beautiful red fibreglass cast!!! I did take a photo of it this morning but my camera is upstairs right now and I am downstairs so it will have to wait.

I have spent quite a few hours already in the last couple of days reading ALOT of information on the DPS website and have gone through my holiday photos with a more discerning eye. I can see so many places where I could have done things differently to capture a better image, but que sera, sera Most of the info is lost already and I have had to go back and re-read some of it!! I have a good memory, it's just alot shorter these days! All I know, is there is sooooo much more to learn!

I will share some of our sunset photos that we took from the top of a seaside hill restaurant in Rincon de Guayabitos. I took these over the course of about an hour I think and the last one was a try at a night photo of the lights of the village