Saturday, January 15, 2005
What a day.
I got a lot accomplished today. That's such a nice feeling. This morning, I went to a crop with a couple friends. A crop, for you non-crafting people, is where women gather to cut, sand, ink, and glue pictures to paper - aka, scrapbooking. I've spent all week organizing my photos and papers and figuring out my layouts and doing some of the work for today. And after 4 hours of scrapping, I got 6 pages completely done and a few more partially done. By the end of this week, I will have all 16 pages (46 picutes) done, which is half of our Road Trip album. Yay. (Despite the small number, this is actually a huge accomplishment. And yes, I really did sand and ink my photos!!)
Then I came home, attempted to try and get Aiden to take a nap, but he played in his room instead while I cat-napped. Then we all went rollerskating with our church tonight. It was a blast. Alysa didn't like it a whole lot, but she loved sitting and watching everyone. Aiden loved it. They actually had skates that fit him. He was so cute clomping around. He didn't try to skate, he just walked, or marched, with the skates on. They came up high on his legs, and he reminded me of Forrest Gump when he was a boy and had the braces on - that's how Aiden looked with the way he walked LOL. He spent about half the night out in the big rink with us. And he fell asleep as soon as his head hit his pillow LOL. I wish I hadn't forgot to grab my camera. Oh well.
And now, for the biggest accomplishment - you're going to laugh. I have been scrapbooking for 5 years. And collecting fonts for about as long. Until now, they have only been partially organized, and I have never had a sample sheet of all my fonts. Until now. Tonight, thanks to a handy-dandy font organizing program - Typograf (a shareware program for all you interested), I now have all 737 fonts organized - alphabetically and topically - and I have a sample of each font printed out. I am so happy. And my day was even topped off with the 2 Zesty Chicken Border Bowls from Taco Bell that I ate today. I love those things. Now, if only it wasn't so cold outside!!
Thursday, January 13, 2005
An Earl Grey kind of day
It has been raining all day and all last night and was quite hard at times. It even dared to thunder and lightening yesterday, and for MI in January, that is very unusual. I went out for dessert last night and didn't even have to wear a coat. It was 50 this morning, and as the rain continued, the temperatures fell. I went outside to experiment with taking pictures in the rain, and as I was out there the rain started turning to snow. And now it is snowing hard outside. I'm somewhat pleased with the snow, but am very well aware that the temperatures are supposed to be in the teens for the next few days. Brrrrr. So I have decided this is a good day to break out one of my last remaining bags of Earl Grey tea. I'm going to go curl up with a few scrapbooking magazines and organize some sketches while enjoying my hot cup of brew, and then go upstairs to work on my scrapbooking layouts. All the while, playing my rainy day (or snowy day, as the case may be) music - Jazz for a Rainy Day, Rod Stewart -Great American Songbook, and Phil Keaggy Acoustic Sketches.
a raindrop falling................ raining hard
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Go Fug Yourself
