Month: November 2012

Happy Thanksgiving 2012

Published by Sula H.

The Thanksgiving Holiday always is a great opportunity to express gratitude, no matter which country you are from. So, I want to take the opportunity to say thanks to all my family and friends who have helped make this an unforgettable year of my life!  

Enable Me: Count Your Blessings

Published by Sula H.

For many of us, November is a great time to stop what we’re doing for a moment and think about all the blessings we have. Darcy Baldwin (Sweetshoppe) has created a set of templates/quickpages using Meghan Mullens kit Count Your Blessings, which helps us do just that: her Count Your Blessings Album is a perfect tool to record happy moments and thoughts with just a few mouse clicks. Her album is a ready set of pages, but the quickpages come layered so you can easily clip your own papers to them and add embellishments, which makes this album super versatile and perfect for a little project to remember what you’re thankful for in November 2012. Here’s a page I created with one of the templates from this pack:

Preparing for Winter

Published by Sula H.

Winter is coming. I can tell by how cold it’s been getting lately. So, it’s about time for me to get everything ready for the coldest season of the year. Today, that meant taking my down coat to the dry cleaner. Maybe, where you are from, down coats are not very common for the average person. But here, I assure, they come in very handy once the cold strikes. That day hasn’t quite come yet, but it will certainly come soon. And when it comes, I’ll be prepared …

Behind the Scenes: Using Paper Piecing Patterns with Digital Scrapbooking

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The holiday season is upon us, and that means some of us are busy busy making cards to send to loved ones and friends. I at least have made it a priority again this year, to create more handcrafted cards, after I failed at it miserably last year. And since I’m someone who tends to get bored with repetition, I’m always looking for new ideas that I can incorporate in my own card making. The www is a great source of inspiration, and over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been able to dig up some treasure or other to inspire one of my own cards. Being a person with both limited time and limited resources, however (craft stores where I live are not what craft stores are in Northern Europe or North Amereica), I have a few guidelines to govern the choice of projects I create: They have to be simple in design, and they have to be with materials I have at hand (printer, paper & maybe a ribbon). A very fun way …

A Sort of Kind of Deja Vu

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I don’t believe in deja vus, really, and I doubt their overall usefulness, but let me tell you what happened to date … exactly a year ago: I had arranged to go out on an autumn photo shoot with my friends. I’d prepared my camera, recharged my batteries, and done everything necessary to be ready for an afternoon with my friends and my camera. But, lo, as soon as we wanted to start to shoot, my camera’s batteries quit their job, never to work again. And so, I ended up being a by-stander in our so well planned-out autumn photo shoot. Now, listen to this: Exactly one year later, namely today (though I only realized afterward), I’d arranged with one my friends to go on another autumn photo tour. But guess what happened, as soon as I got out my camera to start snapping away? You’re right! Something happened that seemed quite familiar to me – like a bad kind of deja vu! The batteries refused to work yet again, and all I got was …

Journaling Café: Season of Thanks

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Though I didn’t grow up celebrating Thanksgiving the way any Americans would do, Thanksgiving has become a more important holiday to me over the last couple of years. And anyways, I think we can always work at becoming more thankful, so today’s journaling prompts are naturally all about the upcoming holiday, and the things we can be thankful for in our lives … And here’s my take on one of these prompts: