Perfection doesn't have to be perfect

I just managed to squeeze myself into Cheryl Johnson's People Imagery online photo class. I wasn't going to do it - usual excuses, no time, nobody will pose of me, etc, etc - but by chance, Lainey was talking about it during her class&crop and that was the push I needed. I enrolled myself a day after the class started.

The first class was the "Money shot", we had to several photos of someone, looking at the camera, catchlights, different facial expressions. I got my daughter to pose for me.


I did try to take some of my son too, who is much less cooperative, when we were stuck in the car, waiting for my daughter's drama class to finish. Later, when I was setting a chair in the hall to take photos of DD, he came along and I managed to get him to pose for me too. The photo came out dark and focus went to his his shirt instead of his eyes, but I absolutely love it, because I got this sweet smile of his which makes my heart melt. So it is a flawed, yet perfect photo.



This one I made in Lainey's crop. It is my daughter on the first day back to school. First class. Her class. And so is she.

Aleida

Aleida Franklin, one of the heart&souls of the Studio Calico forum and DT member of Scrapping the Music, died yesterday in a car accident.
She was a talented scrapper, a funny and caring person but more importantly a loving wife and mother of two.
RIP, Aleida

Lainey's crop and Kiki's flowers

I had a great time at Lainey's class & crop in Donnycarney today. Got to see again lots of nice people and met Lynn face to face for the first time.

Also surprised myself by almost finishing two layouts while I was there. There is still the journaling of one to be finished - I'll post them during the week.

Sometime ago, I send some prima flowers to Kiki. And she, with her usual generosity, sent me about 20 for each of the flowers I sent her. There were a number of orange ones, and I decided that I was going to make a monochromatic layout. It is a change from my usually style (photo at an angle, shock!) but I am happy with the result.

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...