And now two of my favorite scrapbooking entities collide. Hurray!

DYL Version 2.0

Registration for Cathy's Zielske's Design Your Life class opens November 5.

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I've started working on pages for the CZ class that I'm taking. LOVE that Cathy Zielske! If you click on this photo it will take you to the Flickr page where I've credited the designers. Cathy gave us this template to use and I'm lovin' it!

Clean Water

Cathy Zielske has started a "Scrapbookers for Clean Water" campaign.

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Online Class Suggestion

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

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!

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.

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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.

Still working on the scrapbook of Danny's & Amy's wedding so nothing new to upload. But I see that Designer Digitals has changed up their weekly challenges, so I'm excited to do one of those soon. Plus I signed up for Cathy's class at The Big Picture so I'm really excited about that. It starts in October. Oh yeah, AND I'm taking a one-day Nikon D40 workshop at the local camera shop. I'm a little nervous that I'm not going to learn a lot because I've been poring over my manual and various photography books, but I'm sure that's mere wishful thinking on my part. :) I'd like to think I've learned a thing or two but no doubt I have A LOT to learn still.

The Pioneer Woman

Cathy Zielske's recent post about actions turned me onto The Pioneer Woman. I've been enjoying her posts about photography...well, just her posts in general, truth be told.

As I'm working on this scrapbook of Danny's and Amy's wedding I realized that my style is *so* not the traditional scrapbooking style. I started out doing a book and trying to make it very elaborate and layered like the beautiful art you see in scrapbook galleries. And while I guess I can pull it off, and I *do* think it's attractive, at the end of the day, what I'm really drawn to is very clean, simple. I don't like a lot of extra stuff - just photos and journaling. :) So that's what I'm doing for this album. I'm just ripping off a Cathy Zielske theme album and going with it. :)