I spent much of the day yesterday at an all day crop working on my trip album from last summer. I’ve worked up to the Grand Canyon photos and since Heidi made her Sissix available I played around with the alphabet and created some fun titles out of leftover pictures.
What with Christmas and all the holiday chaos I haven’t worked on my scrapbooks in quite awhile. Yesterday I finally made it out to a crop and made good progress on our summer vacation photos. I think I’m about halfway through the trip pictures and it’s time to print up another batch and trim them before the next crop.
Heidi demonstrated some little borders like these but hers were a Christmas thing. I had little thin strips leftover from making mats for my pictures so I created my own borders following her general pattern but using my own colors and stickers. I don’t usually go in for much embellishment but when there are only a few photos on the page or when it’s just memorabilia I think it makes it look much less bare.
Yesterday morning I went to a crop and worked on our summer trip album. My albums have evolved into a very basic type of layout without much embellishment that’s quick and easy to put together. One sort of decoration that I do like to use is squares punched from any excess photos I may have printed. This layout of the Toltec Scenic Railroad is an example of that.
In the afternoon I took a card-making class at Ink About It. It was a lot of fun and gave me some great ideas. It was also a great value since all the materials were provided and mostly precut. We did five cards for $20 in about 2 hours. I love the watercolor pencils we used to color in the outline stamps and it’s a technique I’ll definitely use again. I might even incorporate that into my scrapbooking eventually.
Occasionally I post pictures of layouts I’ve done for my scrapbooks but I don’t think I’ve ever shown just how many scrapbooks I’ve completed. I started scrapping about 4 years ago with the goal of transferring about 30 years worth of photos from cling albums into photo safe scrapbooks. I don’t spend days on end working on these but I do go to crops once or twice a month and boy does that really add up! Here you can see most of the albums I’ve done to date. There are a few small ones on top of that table as well. I have the contents of about 3 cling albums still to go and then a few years backlog on current pictures. It still amazes me how the tortoise can win with a little persistence.
Here’s the last and final prize for drawing winners. Kathy wanted a needle roll and said she liked red and here’s the result. The smallest roll is for sock needles and shows the outside color. The middle one is for longer DPNs and the largest roll is for straights. Hope these meet with approval Kathy!
Yesterday morning I went to a crop and worked on my albums. I love the pumpkin pictures but obviously still need to do some journalling on these pages. I also bought albums for the pictures we’ll be taking in a few weeks on our Colorado trip.
We’ve had our first harvest of Lincoln peas. I can’t wait to eat those! I also found some gorgeous local strawberries at the market yesterday and turned some of them into a salsa to go with my salmon and brown rice, yum!
Strawberry Salsa
2 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered
1/2 sweet onion, thinly sliced and sauteed until soft
1/4 cup basil, torn into small pieces
salt and pepper to taste
juice of a lime
Toss together all ingredients, serve immediately.
Since Chris is all grown up and working out of state now I felt comfortable revamping his bedroom and moving some of the crafty storage up there. He still has a lot of things here since he doesn’t have a permanent address but those have been moved down to the basement for the time being. All my scrapbook stuff has been moved into his closet and some of the big tubs with various fiber and tools have been moved into the room. I reorganized the knitting books/magazines and yarn and we now have a somewhat tider space downstairs. I really look forward to the day I can have a room with a door that closes for all this stuff!
