and they gave me the thumbs up. So now I'm ready to let you all see it.........
I did a tutorial on how to make the "Baby's First Christmas" photo cover. I had to have a special screening for two people that I know would tell me if I sucked.....Gail and Michelle. Thankfully, not only did they tell me I didn't scare them away, they actually liked it. So here you go.....just click on the picture.....oh, and you also get to see my new haircut and dyejob........
It's so weird to see and hear myself on camera. Very weird. But I think I could get used to it.....
Anyway, when I wasn't filming blockbuster movies, I was busy doing some more fun stuff with the Webster's Pages Christmas paper. Ever since I saw at at Paper Tales, I have been going crazy with it. So yesterday, I went with my friend Nikki to Paper Tales to do a crop. At first glance, it seemed the perfect opportunity to work on the boys' scrapbook. Since all I have done is one page containing Carlos' sonogram, I figured I had nowhere to go but up.
I figured wrong. I'm probably the only person on the face of the scrapbooking earth who shows up to a crop with no scissors, no glue stick and no pictures. Let me back track a bit. I've never scrapbooked. I love the idea of scrapbooking. I love the visions of the beautiful pages that I create which only exist in my head. I love the paper, the embellishments and everything that goes along with it.
But unfortunately what happens to me in the in creating picture story is I get overwhelmed with the whole process. I don't know where to start or where to end. I want to perfectly illustrate my children's formative years in a way that will be appreciated generation after generation. I want my great great grandchildren to sing praises of my talents decades after I've kicked the bucket.
Cosme shakes his head and says "what's so difficult about gluing a picture to a piece of paper?" I, of course, turn to him and very calmly say "It's a historical document. I'm sure you wouldn't say that to the founding fathers when writing the constitution." He then rolls his eyes leaving me to continue to stare at my blank page. Of course my friend Nikki and all the other women at the table merrily glued pictures and embellishments down without a second thought. So I decided that I needed more time to think this whole scrapbook thing out. Maybe next months crop. That will give me thirty days to organize and prepare for it. In the meantime I did this notebook. At least it was something......
I also finished the tags for my Christmas Tag class at Paper Tales.......
Everything has been delayed because of my printer problems. I'll spare you the boring details. Let's just say you should never unplug your printer when it's still on and attached to your computer. It can get really ugly, really fast.
Gotta get back to work....I'm trying to create some thing to put in my long neglected Etsy shop........Talk to you soon! Karin
