Online Class Suggestion

Cathy Zielske is teaching a class inspired by Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. I'm so excited about it!

Annika's knees

From Scrapt

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ride baby ride

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The Great American Scrapbook Convention is coming!

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

Some poking around on the web, looking at various sites, has lead me to inspiration. Apparently Cathy Zielske (I know, I know, I'm always talking about Cathy Zielske) taught a class at CKU and then at Big Picture Scrapbooking based on the book Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. If anyone out there actually pays attention to this blog, you may recall that I posted a review of that book a while back. The book was inspiring in and of itself but this class sounds freakin' awesome.

From what I gather, attendees wrote two to three things about themselves, or things they liked, for each letter of the alphabet. Then they wrote narratives for each item and tried to find an image to go along with it. Finally they made a page for each letter of the alphabet. (Someone named Jackie put a link to one of her pages on a forum at DST.)

I found an article in the Salt Lake City Examiner which leads me to believe that Cathy may teach another similar class in the future, which I hope is true. That would be great! But in the meantime, I totally intend to do this exercise!

Font Junkie

I've become a bit of a font junkie. Thank you Cathy Zielske for that. But the good thing is that I'm starting to be a little more discriminating about the fonts I download. Lately I've been on a quest for thick but simple fonts to use for titles. I love the mix of a thick and thin when making a title.

I've updated my sidebar a little and organized it into sections. There are several font sites listed in the Freebie section. Enjoy!

Digital Scrapbooking Magazine Archives

Took me a while to figure out how to get to DSM's archives so I'll make it easy for myself in the future.

Kiersten's Great Fall

Fonts: CK Ali's Writing, CK Tipsy, Times New Roman

Hair Twist

From Scrapt

Background: Jan Hosford Skipping School
Font: Century Gothic
Template: Cathy Zielske Design Your Life class
Actions: Pioneer Woman Sepia, Totally Rad Actions Super, Fun Happy

A Conversation Overheard

From Scrapt

Staples: Correen Silke
Background: Shalae Tippetts Fall Watercolors Blue Paper
Conversation Overheard brush: Maryann Wise Journaling Challenge 3/08/09
Font: Times New Roman

Journaling:

Annika: I want to go to Auntie Joy's house.
Me: That's nice, what do you want to do at Auntie Joy's house?
Annika: I want to pet our cat.
Me: Oh...Annika, honey...our cat got sick, sweetie. Our cat passed away.
Annika: Where did our cat go? I want to pet our cat.
Me: Annika, remember when Daddy's grandma died? Our cat died too, honey.
Annika [sobbing]: I wanted to pet our cat before she die-ed.
Maggie to Oskar: Did you know your Daddy's Grandma died?
Oskar to Maggie: Yes, I'm sad about that.
Annika [between sobs]: Why did our cat die?
Me: She got sick.
Annika: Can I pet her when she gets better?
Me: She's not coming back, honey.
Annika: Where do animals and people go when they die?
Me: Well honey, people believe that we go to Heaven.
Someone, perhaps Kiersten: What's Heaven?
Maggie: Heaven is where baby Jesus is born on Christmas morning.

- Conversation while driving home from preschool, March 23, 2009

Labor Notes

From Scrapt

Purple ribbon Zazou
Tag TCS Scrapgirls Refresh
white font CK Ali's Writing
gray font karabinE.
purple font LD Slanted (and Anna Aspnes Wish plum paper)
Journaling font: Century Gothic
background paper Angie Briggs

Family Tree take 2

From Scrapt

I redid this page for Kardynn's book last night too. Here's the old and the new pages next to each other, because I don't think I ever uploaded it before. It was a royal mess!!

From Scrapt

A Breech of Protocol

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Olho de boi font
LD Little Fishie font
Jackie Eckles web challenge 6/25/06
Designer Digitals
background paper is one that I bought back when I was paper scrapping, and scanned to use for this LO

I'm scrapping again! Yippie!

Baby #4

From Scrapt

Redid this LO. Click here for the original.

Type

Here's a link to a bunch of Cathy Zielske's articles about type. Awesome!

I haven't done any more classwork and I'm way behind again. *sigh* I'd better make sure the site won't go anywhere for a while! Anyway, when I have time to work on it I'm really loving my Cathy Zielske design class!

More LOs

More completed LOs from my BigPictureScrapbooking class.

From Scrapt

From Scrapt

Nikon D40

A little plug for my beloved camera. My husband, who truly is the master researcher, decided that the D40 would be the best camera for me. So I'll have to show him that URL. :) Of course then maybe he'll be annoyed about the days wasted that he spent researching my camera for me...actually no...because he would have had to check everything out for himself anyway.

From Scrapt

From Scrapt

From Scrapt

These are the three layouts that I've done for my "Design Your Life" class, so far. Shoot, I wasn't really paying attention to what products I was using. I guess if anyone would be interested in tracking down one of these elements, shoot me an e-mail and I would be happy to figure out where I got it. I'll try to come back later and give proper credit to the designers.

I'm baaack!

Guess what guys, I actually have some new layouts. Woo hoo! I'm finally diving into the Big Picture Scrapbooking design class that I took and am LOVING it! Of course Cathy Zielske is my scrapbooking hero. *hehe* When I saw her work it was like music started playing from the heavens...because her style is exactly what I like. Clean and simple. (Which is the name of two of her books. *hehe*) Anyway, she's teaching this design class so you know I'm in rapture. A lot of it I was already doing...without necessarily realizing why. But I've also learned some new things...and the funny thing is that now I understand why some of my old layouts drove me crazy. Of course it makes me want to redo them but Cathy tells us we shouldn't go back and muck with old stuff. We'll see...

In the meantime, I'll try to upload some of my new LOs later today.