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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Snow in Cyprus

Hello everyone.

If you would like to see snow in Cyprus you can head over to my other blog and check out my new post.

3boys1girlmyhubbyandme.blogspot.com

I hope everyone enjoys their day.

T.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

No scrappy posts for today. But I thought I would share with you a link to my other blog where I have shared a little bit about olives. Olives! I know strange, but I live in the land of olives. Every, and I mean EVERY house on the island has an olive tree. And everywhere you look are olive trees. Every Taverna you enter serves olives and cooks in olive oil. So, olives are big stuff here.

If you are interested you can go check it out at 3boys1girlmyhubbyandme.blogspot.com

Have a good one,
T.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

To Pasalimani

My parents were here for 3 weeks. FANTASTIC!!! To have company is such a treat. To have family is even better. I think it is comforting because they can see where you live and how you live. I was able to show them all the great stuff and they could see the stuff that drives me NUTS! So it is a win-win. Three weeks were not nearly enough time, we barely scratched the surface of seeing the island. I will admit that 5 days of that time was spent on a cruise to the Greek islands (a real treat).

This LO is about one of our first lunches out. We had gone down to Limossal to walk amongst one of the (many) ancient ruins that are found on the island. Afterward we walked along the boardwalk and found this little taverna by the sea. We stopped for lunch. My parents thought it was quiant and kept taking pictures of the grapes. They thought that they were fake! I had a big laugh when I explained that they were indeed real and we would probably be drinking them in the house wine and eating them on our fruit plate. So it was hysterical when the fruit plate came and piled high was a beautiful mound of grapes that looked exactly like the ones hanging over our head.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Snacky Bits

Hi my scrappy friends (and not so scrappy friend ;) you know who you are). Anyway, I was just having a moment when I filmed this short video. Sitting in my scraproom. Eating snacky bits and wishing I had some scrappy company. The next best thing - talking to my scrappy buddies.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Just A Little Jaunt

I thought I would share my LO process.

Step #1 - I always pick my pictures first.

Step #2 - Pick my papers.

#3 - Lay it out. I am a visual person, so everything is laid out so I can clearly see where everything is going to go or fit or get rejected.

Once I have the papers laid out the way I want them I stitched them down to my base. As you can see the blues don't match perfectly, but they have the same vibe which is good enough for me.

Once I have the background established then I futz around with my picture placement then my journaling and finally my title. I just go this Scrap'n Easel - LOVE IT!!!!! Because my desk is used by myself and my 4 kiddos and occasionally my hubby I needed someplace that my works in progress could be kept without being in everyone's way. Also when I work now I can just use the magnets to hold things in place and I can move them around until I am happy. This tool was totally worth every penny.

Movin' on . . .

Sometimes I want an an embellishment in a certain color. In this instance I wanted red brads. I did not have any red brads. So I used my copic marker and colored some white brads red. Viola! No worries.

The finished layout. I am pretty happy with it. I like the little pops of red. It livens up the photos. It was a dreary day when we were out and about, but the people were lively and hustling here and there. The photo of the big skyscraper is a huge financial firm. The atrium at the top is open aired. Apparently inside that atrium is a full on park with trees and grass. However it is only for the folks that work there and not open to the public.

My son is a car fanatic. So we had to get his picture with the Farrari. And it was red, his favorite color. The market square with the traditional buildings is where the Christmas market is held each year. The buildings themselves are all reproductions. The original buildings were destroyed in WWII.

I like to cluster little emblishments together. I think it give more impact.

Baker's twine....love the stuff. Just had to add a little here and there.

Those white brads that I colored red. Who would know. Shhh? Don't tell. It will be our secret.

A better picture of my new favorite tool - the Scrap'n Easel.

If you are interested I ordered mine off of Amazon. Marlo, the owner of Contain'Ya Crafts is really friendly and helpful.

Hope everyone has a good one.

Peace,

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Pre-Informal October LOAD Blog Hop

Prepping for a LOAD

Messy, messy, messy. . .

(I like the little action figure. There was a whole battle scene set up here.)

This is my mess. I thought I would try to blame the kiddos, but I knew that you would know better. This is how my desk looks after I have been in a really deep scrap groove.

Now this is totally my kiddos. They were making posters for school and were digging through my letter stickers.

The kiddos desk area. Oh, the shame. Oh, what a mess.

{sigh} that's better - the way I like it. . .

A clean work space. My scrap desk is also my computer desk. Multi-functional.

Where my 2 younger kiddos hang out. Now you can see the surface of the table! Wowzer, that was a mess.

My cardstock, punches, stamps and misc tools live here. My paper cutter lives on this rolling cart. When I am scrapping I roll it up to my right side. When I am not scrapping I can roll it to this corner. This is a small room, when the cart is on my right side it is hard to get out the door.

My inks and other supplies. All my patterned paper is store in this box and I have it sorted by style - polka dots, stripes, boy, girl, floral, etc.

This is how I do my menu for the week. Each day is on a sticky note which are all pasted to the front of the fridge. I even schedule when the kiddos buy lunch.