Did it yesterday....

I sat down and started working on this on Saturday, but ended up with Justin in my room talking. When I explained what I was doing with this album, he said "well, that's pretty dumb"....out of the mouths of babes. Anyway, here's the top page and bottom page. I'm glad I didn't spend a lot of time on the background, because they are hardly visible. I can't wait til I get several months in here and look to see the differences. The only thing is I don't have the 3 little pictures (2"X2") that I'm planning on putting on the bottom page as they haven't arrived yet from SanpFish. I'm also thinking of putting ribbon tabs on the flip-up pictures on the top page. Maybe later today.....

I'm thinking of doing this next year....take 12 photos of specific things (like the front yard, myself and such) and then put each picture on a different page. Then at the end of a year I would have 12 photos of the same thing on the same page and you can really look at the differences. It's just something I'm pondering right now.

Today is bill paying, laundry and ironing. Not much else. David is off to see Dr. Vales for his regular appointment to check blood pressure and such, drop 2 big boxes of garage sale clothes off at the mission and stop by the PO to tell Billy that he has an old generator for his son-in-law.

Got it done....

well, almost. I'm talking about my "25th of the Month" album. I took it to work the last 3 days and worked on getting the layouts done during my first breaks and lunches. I still have to decorate the front,,,,,,,but I decided to go with the papers that were provided in the kit with the calendar and use the front as is. I want to put chipboard words on the front and froo froo it up a little. The pictures below are the plain front, inside cover (where I will explain the album and concept) and the 2-page layout for April.



On each month page there are pre-written journaling lines with either parenthesis or quote marks around them. Many of the ladies covered these with paper, but I chose to leave them and will do my journaling there.

Today is "Kit of the Month" on Lisa's Bearnson's site. It will be uploaded at 10am, my time. Can't wait to see what it is. I don't always order it, but like looking. We will see. Well, I'm off to watch a little TV "Wire in the Blood" on BBC that I DVR'd and then I will be back to check on the "Kit".

Oh, and we got off an hour early today.....HOORAY!

the 25th....

and it's picture taking day.

- alarm clock upon waking (keep camera next to bed)
- each meal of the day
- view from my front window
- arm's length self-portrait
- clock before bed

Plus..... and shots during the day or night of things I'm doing.

That is my assignment for the class I'm taking of Shimelle's. Love her ideas and am looking forward to this one. The idea is to take pictures on the 25th of every month for a year. After each 25th, you are to scrapbook the pictures. There will be a prompt for picture ideas and also a prompt for layout ideas.

Let's see what I can come up with for April.



So I thought I'd start off my day (which is kinda backwards since I work nights) with a picture of the upper portion of my locker at the United States Postal Service in Bloomington, IL.


Then there was the coming home and cooking "breakfast" which is actually our dinner. Am I making any sense at all? Night shift workers!!! We are a different breed.

Anyway, I'm off to Shimelle's site to see what the layout is for this month. Oh, forgot to mention the photo prompt was to take horizontal pictures and to back up....usually scrapbookers are told to get in close and fill the frame with your picture, but not today. Today, get the entire picture.

Over A Year!!!

Can it really by that it's been over a year since I've blogged? Surely not! How can it be? But the facts don't lie. Toady is April 24th of 2008 and my last post was in March of 2007. What happened you ask......well, I guess just life.

I have a "my space" now also and sometimes post there, but not a lot. But with Shimelle's new class " Scrap Your Day", it's time to get back in the swing of things. The idea of the class is to take photos on the 25th of every month, scrap them before the 25th rolls around again and at the end of a year have a completed album. Sounds like something I could do.

So here we go again.....