Must make my monthly plug for ScrapsAhoy. This site is seriously my second home with talent oozing from every crew member. Each month, a new specific gallery (this month is New Zealand) with new topics, new challenges, new good stuff and none of the drama (priceless!) At right a little tease of two layouts I did and love. The whole enchilada is here:
Unwritten
Sense of Wonder
Happy Thursday-almost Friday-almost, almost Saturday!
t
Indy was so proud of making a "two-story card house" all by herself. Notice we didn't even have cards - she used Millionaire cards, but hey they worked! This is why I scrapbook - not so much for the "events" but for the moments.
Ppr: MM, Provocraft, Prima; Stampin' Up stamp, assorted buttons, DMC floss, twill, stitching. Love the citrus-y colors.
I am eagerly waiting for the "Freestyle" book to show up in town. May have to give in and order online! In the meantime, I did this to get my feet wet. They have a great blog with all sorts of goodstuff in case, like me, you haven't seen the book yet. I feel like I already "do my own thing", but this should be a good push to think of things I haven't thought of before, lol, KWIM? Only thing I did I don't like is I corrugated just the ends of the layout and not thrilled with it. Makes me think it got jammed in something and wrinkled, lol. Love the corrugation on the green strip though!
Lasting Impressions and a scrap of MM paper. Red flower cut from one of my own digital papers, Stampin' Up stamp, MM rub-ons, Uni-ball Signo and Sharpie pens.
Love these pics of Indy at the park this weekend. fun fun. What do you do when your older kids don't want the pics taken? I'm only getting good stuff of Indy and I want to snap all my girls. As teens, they are a lot better at avoiding the camera. Silly girls! 
Friday night ended up being an "Indy and Mommy" night. Indy wanted McDonalds (so she could play in playland) and I really didn't, so with some quick thinking I told her Red Robin would be much better and tomorrow I would take her to the park. So much better! In the day to day busy-ness of life, I think we forget about places like parks. She slid and swung, we picked bark out of our shoes (it can't all be good), she peekabooed through little windows like this one, I spun her on the tire swing until she was nearly sick (hey, every kid has to do this once), she noticed how many other kids wore the same Target clothes as her and she rode a stack of tires strung on rope a la the mechanical bull. We stayed until the rains came (LOL, going for effect here). SO much better than if we'd gone to McDonalds.
I LOVE 3-day weekends! Enjoy yours!
t
Love this:
"Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say." ~Author Unknown
Practice, practice, practice. Am happy to report I haven't shot a single shot on "auto" in almost 2 weeks. And I am loving what I'm seeing. Loving that I am THINKING my way through each shot, learning, commiting to memory the process, so it will be second nature. This is what I want, my goal for 2006. (Well, that and to lose 50 lbs, LOL, but photography is SO much more fun than diet and exercise!)
Notice no pic of Carsey. That's because she was in quite the foul 13-year-old mood tonight and refused to let me practice on her. I will get her later :)
Two comments that coincidently both have to do with Memory Makers magazine. Good first. This quote from pg. 54, "Renowned portrait photographer Louis Fabian Bachrach said, 'I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face--I believe he wants to be idealized.'" I think this is true and what I was trying to say a few posts earlier, though his quote is much more eloquent, LOL.
Now the bad. MM appears to have decided to enforce (or change?) a rule in the MM Masters competition that means ANYONE on a manufacturer's DT who has signed a contract of ANY kind (even confidentialty-only and even if you do NOT get paid) can NOT enter the competition. This makes no sense to me. They are excluding what I am assuming is a huge number of entrants and thus a huge creative talent pool. The way I understand it, the rule has always existed, but only applied to actual (on the payroll) employees of F & W or the contest sponsors. To disclude the group of people who take this industry seriously enough to commit to a DT is unfair and negatively impacts the creativity of the industry AS A WHOLE. I look to the Masters (and HoFers) as inspiration and it would be ridiculous to eliminate one of the main sources of quality artists.
OK, off my soapbox. Anyone else have an opinion on this? Or anything else? LOL
t