More scrapbooking...

I know of a certain sister who would much rather see 'swag', but I haven't taken pictures yet so she will STILL have to wait! (Sorry!) Just thought I'd post yet another 'veer away' from the originally proposed colour scheme of my wedding album. And in pink yet! This is paper used from the Basic Grey 'Perhaps' line. Totally get inspired by that paper. And some bazzil solid paper with some BG rubons....still the best rubons I've used yet. They are so sturdy! Not much else to report. Other than windy windy windy here. But semi warm at least.

I think the rain is gone???

I finally got some pictures uploaded from my camera to the computer. Heck, there's been enough rainy days where one could really do nothing else, so I don't have any excuses other than laziness.

The one thing about this page that I don't like is that I added the names of everyone in the picture along the sides. I now wish that I hadn't done that as it takes away from the page. But it's important information and I didn't really know where else to put it. Gotta love those diecuts!! And I've successfully used vellum! I'm pumped! And now I have officially veered away from the color coordination of blue and green that my wedding album was supposed to be. And I don't care!

Revelations..

So, over the past couple of days I've had a few revelations.

1.) My poor cat has mats in her fur! I didn't really realize it until about a week ago when I was trying to brush her and I felt lumps on her back. They were mats! Poor little kitty. She's been somewhat neglected since we got our puppy. So now, whenever I can make her lay still for a couple of minutes I've been working out the mats. One at a time. And boy am I pulling out a lot of hair in the process! But I think it's a good thing. Her fur feel so nice and soft and smooth where I've worked out the mats. And she sits for this....so she must feel better afterwards (you kind of have to understand Jingles to know that she doesn't sit for very much! Unless you want to play a game of hit and miss with her claws). It's been about a week and I've worked myself from her neck and am now around the tail area, so almost done. I've pulled out handfuls of hair. So maybe she won't be leaving so much of that hair on my furniture....

2.) Our lawnmower does not have an oil drain plug. Now go figure! Anything with oil in it should have an oil drain plug to assist in the changing of oil! Something that is recommended for all 4 cycle engines. Of course we no longer have the owner's manual (hmmmm, go figure! And this is only the second year of ownership) so I couldn't even look it up in that. So after some fruitless searching on the internet, I gave up and just tipped the sucker to drain the oil. Now it sits. I must go purchase oil and air filter next.

3.) Justin Timberlake sounds like a girl. Now in my defence I don't normally list to 'Hitlist' radio stations. But hubby has XM radio in his truck and I was driving it today and I don't know how to make the radio go to back to regular radio. So I was stuck listening to XM. Which isn't bad, if I could have found a decent station to listen to. I gave up and listened to nelly furtado, some fergie type thingy, old TLC, then this song came on and I thought "I've heard this song before....I know who sings it....girl group, girl group, girl group....or maybe female solo artist. I was stuck, so got home and downloaded it from the internet. Shocking! It was JT. So I downloaded the song just to see if it was the same song. Shocking! It was! He sounds like a friggin girl. Weirdo!

Enough revelations for today.

For Mom...

Ok, here's something semi new just because I haven't posted in such a long time! This was the card I gave mom for mother's day. It's got a little shabby chic going on. My style really is shabby chic with lots and lots and lots of embellishment. I've been cruisin some of my favorite blogs lately and noticing that I'm not really liking the direction cardmaking is going (of course there is the few exceptions to this comment). Simple and blank. Or weird color combinations. Mind you there is nothing wrong with weird colour combinations, but when they don't jive they just don't jive!!! But I guess to that everyone has their ups and downs when it comes to being creative. Heck I certainly do. It takes me 7 days to complete one scrapbook page. At the rate I'm going I won't be even close to completing my wedding scrapbook before the end of the year. Anyhow, I'm totally addicted to Basic Grey paper lately, although the mindboggling patterns can be difficult to work with. Really now, how does one overembellish a piece of scrapbook paper that is already so busy it makes your eyeballs roll? I guess you just enhance it.