Me On A Monday - February 26th

 

Good Morning everyone.  I hope that you had a good week & weekend. 

Reporting in on my efforts in the 100 Day Project.  The premise of the 100 Day Project is to choose a creative project(s) & do it every single day for 100 days.  I am working with taking time on the weekend to prep for the project, so I can easily accomplish creation through out the week, when I'll be taking 15 minutes, here & there & if I'm lucky hours on the weekend.  

My creative projects for the 2024 100 Day Project are:

Scrapbooking:  using the stash - no new purchases

1. Date stamp the spines of my albums

2. Finish off any pages in the two 2023 albums; garden & day to day

3. Deal with the Covid album & embellishments once & for all

4. Sort through the photos of Team B; in-laws, "J" & the nieces & nephews, decide which if any photos I want to scrapbook or not & if not, shred * .  Create the layouts of the saved photos.

* I have asked if anyone else in the family would like - there were no offers to offer a home for the photos  😢

Card Making: using the stash - no new purchases

1. Make the mile stone birthday cards for the church members for the year

2. Make birthday cards for friends & family for the next 100 days

3. Use as many of the Paper Pumpkin kits for the above goals

I can report that I have made a start on sorting through photos along with some movement of the Covid album, which I will keep as a separate album. The Covid album has been a PHD and/or a NUTS for  far too long, so it is a top priority to complete. After sifting through all the photos, papers & embellishments, I've decided that this album will cover aspects of the pandemic for 2020 & 2021, after that anything to do with Covid is covered in the day to day albums.   

PHD = projects half done

NUTS = nagging unfinished tasks

How are you coming along with your 100 Day projects? It is not too late to start. 

 

Me On A Monday - February 20th

 Good Morning. Hope everyone is well. It's a holiday here in Ontario, Family Day, so I'll be brief.  We have a confirmation surgery date of end of March, for Mr Man's first of two eye surgeries, so I know I'll be loosing some time for The 100 Day Project.  So this weekend I got a bit of a head start on the Wednesday, 22nd start date of the project.

Here are some cards I made from two of the Paper Pumpkin kits. Certainly not my usual style.  The great thing about the kits is that everything you need is included, ink, embellishments, card bases, glue dots & envelopes.

I also got some scrap booking in; the first page is for my garden album to celebrate the arrival of winter 2022/2023. I'm not usually a one photo on a page type of scrapper, but as part of The 100 Day Project, I wanted to push against my "normal" style. I like how the trees turned out.

The other page is the start of 2022's Christmas pages.

I hope everyone has a marvelous day, I'm off to continue with my winter resolve of making friends with winter ...

Me On A Monday - April 13th

Happy Easter Monday.  I hope that everyone has had a good weekend.  Our weather was typical Ontario weather, a little spring time, a little winter time & the common thread weaving through the days was the extreme wind.  I half expected to see a little dog & an older lady on a bike flying past our window!  What I did have was a little grey squirrel trying to find shelter out of that wind.

Over the weekend I did a little bit of catch for the Fur Girls scrapbook.  These are a couple of the pages I finished;

 They both like to sit on the computers - I guess it's the warmth.

The girls love their catnip pockets that a friend makes for them, it makes them happy.

I also did a page for March in my garden album.  Every month about the 15th, I take a photo of our house & front gardens.  I have been doing this for years & I like to see the changes that the gardens have gone through.  Where the white cardstock is, is where the photos will go.  The opposite page each month is the calendar with all the weather details & what if anything is blooming in the garden details for each day.

Early in March, knowing that we were heading to changes in our ability to roam at large, I decided now was the perfect time to try a card/stamp subscription.  I chose Paper Pumpkin through Stampin Up.  I got my first kit the end of March & I must say I'm so impressed with it.  I signed up for the minimum of three months, so I have two more monthly treats to look forward to.

Each kits includes, the card base, envelopes, a stamp set for the theme of the kit & all the little bits of extra embellishments & a mini stamp pad; called a ink spot.  March had a bonus of an extra stamp set.  The kit includes detailed instructions how to make the cards, which stamp and/or embellishment to use.  OR you can go rogue & design your own card.  I have just one problem facing me - no stamps!  I have to go out to the pharmacy (chemist/drugstore) next week to pick up Mr Man's eye prescription & the post office is just behind the pharmacy, so I may just risk a pop in for some stamps.

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”  .. Marilyn Monroe

Crafting In The Social Distancing Times

What's a girl to do when so many group activities are cancelled & we are being told to social distance ourselves.  Well there's a huge stash of scrapping supplies at home, so it's get busy & craft

The Movie Night two page spread is from a kit.  I am not happy with the drink (pop) die cut - thankfully I have not glued down, so easy to remove, save for another project & use the space for more photos.

The Every Moment Is  Worth Remembering layout was a make & take from years ago & I've lost the "n" for moment; none of my dies are the same size so I may have to remake the whole word.

The coffee cups is from a recent scraplift - I saw the original on a F/B post.  It was a eureka moment when I saw the original - I have that paper, never knew what I would do with it.  Now it's out of the stash & waiting for the photos to be printed.  The coloured coffee cups are individually fussy cut out of the paper.  I'm using this layout to record my regular meet up with a friend at her favourite coffee house (I get tea).  Right now the photo matte & accent coffee cup are loose, so I may replace that coffee cup with a tea cup.

It was wonderful to take time away from the news & the house keeping have to's to be creative.  I feel really re-charged. I highly recommend crafting to blow away the winter blahs.