Some for my boy's scrapbook

I've done more scrapbook pages of my daughter's than of my son, as she is much more willing to pose for the camera and of course there's much more yummy papers for girls than boys. But I am determined to get the count even so here's some for my boy.

On the first two I use the super cute double sided Cherry Arte paper which I got from Craft Supplies. I still have another sheet from the same collection and I think I've already have a project for it.

He doesn't even know how to play the Nintendo but is mad about it! Scary....



This is him again, now playing with is sister's stamps... Sigh...


She throws a bucketfull of cold water in his head, he thinks it is fun!

Labels or how long it takes to complete a simple project

When I was about to cover my daughter's school books, I thought it would be nice to make personalised tags. I'd get her to write her name, scan it and make some labels. Easy, yes? Well, you tell me:

a. DD wrote her name & class and drew some pictures.
b. I scanned the drawings.
c. DH had some Avery sticker labels sheets, so I resized the scanned images to fit it.
d. Downloaded sitcker label template in Word from the Avery site.
e. Also added background to make a bit more colourful.
{so far so good, then things started to go wrong }
f. Printed a test page, the background was too dark, making it difficult read. Fixed it
g. Now the handwriting looked too thin, difficult to read again. Fixed it.
h. Moved to DH's computer, because I don't have Word in my laptop
i. Printed the labels in the sticker sheet. Template didn't match labels - my prints went over the edges of each individual sticker - ARGHHHH!!!!!
j. Tried to fix the Word template. No luck.
k. Remembered that I had a Xyron sticker maker, so decided to print labels in plain paper, cut it out and make stickers myself.
l. When I tried to stick the label on the books, I realised that while they looked OK in the plain notebooks, the small labels "disappeared" against colourful cover of the books.
m. Resized the labels and printed them, cut them out and made stickers out of them.

Give me a complicated project any time! :-)

BTW, after I stuck the stickers and covered the books, I realised that I forgot to erase the scribbled over bit between the "maths".



{note: I erased her surname in the labels }

Para Beth (for Beth)

This is essentially a scrapbooking-related blog, but this post is for my dear friend Beth - we lost touch 13 years ago, but recently we found each other again, thanks to another long-lost-found-again friend, Sueli.

Este é um blog dedicado a scrapbooking, mas estas fotos são para a minha querida amiga Beth. Nós nos perdemos 13 anos atrás, mas recentemente entramos em contato novamente, graças a uma outra amiga perdida-reencontrada - Sueli.

Spelling, card inspiration and a couple of layouts

I am always shocked to see how many spelling mistakes I make while writing here. Apart from the ones I am unaware of, since I don't use a spell checker, there are the ones that I do due to lack of attention, such as thing instead of think and soon on. I reread my last post and I wrote quick instead of kick. Arghhhhhh!!!

Anyway, today I got a lovely surprise in the post. I am not a cardmaker, but everytime I get a card from Sabrina, I get this urge to make a card just like hers. Today it was no exception, I loved the card. The rub-ons on the transparencies are so lovely and the BG papers are so yummy I can't resist.



Sabrina, I am going to have a go, watch this space! {She's used to it already, whenever she sends me a card, she receives back a cheap imitation from me eventually. :-) }

This is another layout from the SC weekend scrap. I only have a photo of my 4th grade teacher, so I made a point to ask Lucy's teacher to pose with my daughter, before she finished Senior Infants. She was also her Junior Infant's teacher.



I don't know if she'd like to be online so I masked here face here.

This is the layout I made in Julie's crop last month but forgot to post. Since I took the photo I put a black outline around it, but it is still lacking something...

Go for It, Elisa and other layouts

I am going to do what most of posters who haven't been blogging for a while do. Just thrown lots of things crammed together to make up for the silence ;-)


Greta, from the Studio Calico forum is promotting a scrapping weekend and this (plus the fact that my kiddies are having a sleep over at my SIL's) got me inspired to scrap. I've only completed one so far, more to come (hopefully) tomorrow.


This is a kick on my own backside, to get me to be more adventurous and to take more risks...


One of the photos from the previous post, my daughter in a photo I love. The journaling tag is a digital kit by Ali Edwards.


Since I am here, might as well post an old one. This is based in a sketch by Jana Eubank for Pencillines, the original layout has a circle which was attracted me to it in the first place, but I couldn't think of a easy way to cut a perfect "hollowed out" circle so I took the lazy option and discarded it.

Holidays and photography

Arghh! No post for 3 weeks, not a single scrapbook page for even longer. I have been having a dry time, not much inspiration lately, but since the crop at Julie's I have finished 2 layouts (Thanks Julie!), but haven't taken photos of them yet.

The kids and I went on holidays with a friend and her two boys, leaving our poor husbands at home in Ireland. We had the most wonderful time (and weather) and I took tons of photos. I didn't bring a laptop, nor any scrapbooking material, but brought my two cameras, the point&shoot and the DSLR.

For most of the week, I used the smaller camera, or the DSLR with the kit lens, but on the last day, I used my second lens, which I have a love/hate relationship with. It means that I have to use the manual mode (yes,it says AF, but doesn't work with my Nikon D40X :-( ), so for a rookie like me, it is another thing I have to worry about. But when I get all the settings right the results are great.

I managed to get my friend, her eldest son, and my daughter under the shade for long enough to take a coupla photos. My best photo is the one of her son, I got the focus, and the exposure right, but I must have forgotten to reajust the settings before before taking a photo of my daughter who was in a slightly darker area. But hey, she's cute and photogenic and makes up for her mama poor photos skils.


This is my husband's favourite and I love it too:



And one of my favourites of my son, taken by my friend:

Brillante Weblog Premio 2008

The mega & multitalented Jackie has nominated me for this award. Many thanks, Jackie!



The rules are that I have to nominate 7 other bloggers whose blogs I admire and visit frequently.
Each award winner must show the award and link seven nominated people from their own blog then post a message on the seven chosen blogs.

I've nominated Sarah, Clare, Mandy, Lynn, Audrey,
Eva and Danielle.

I'll post a msg in each blog tomorrow. Off to bed now, night night.