Month: September 2013

Journaling Café: To-Do List

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We all have something to do. Some of us more, some of us less. Some of us don’t even like to think about all the things they have to do and would rather avoid talking about this topic. Today, however, I’d like you to take a moment and think about your habits when it comes to the things you need to do …   I’m someone who doesn’t have a list per se, but I certainly have lots of things I can work on. So, naturally, I have a story to tell and here’s the layout that goes with it …       Font used in the journaling prompt is DJB Squirrels in My Pants by Darcy Baldwin (available at sweetshoppedesigns.com).

scrapbook layout

P2D: Harvest

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I love autumn, though I can’t say it’s my favorite season of the year because I like all seasons. But for today’s paper to digi post, I decided to scrap another autumn themed page. First, of course, I need to show you the page that inspired my own layout:   I loved the paint splats, the layers of papers, that little cluster in the top left corner of the page, and tried to incorporate some of these things on my own page. Here’s how that turned out:

How to Clean a Bike

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If you happen to have a bicycle, you’ll know that every once in a while it’ll need cleaning. I’ve had my bike for several years now, and not once did I really clean it (aside from washing off dust when I couldn’t see the color of the bike anymore). So, the plan is to hopefully clean my bike very soon. The problem, however, is that I don’t even know where to find stuff you can use for cleaning bicycles. Back home, I could go to pretty much any bike store or even some department stores/supermarkets and I’d be able to quickly find exactly what I’m looking for. Here, however, things are a little more complicated. Because I don’t even know where to begin looking for something like that. My first guess, of course, was the bike store where I got my bike. But a quick stop brought no success. But then, in one of the supermarkets I got my creative juices flowing. I found something you use to clean cars. That’s not too far off, …

Freebie Friday: Harvest of Happiness – Part 1

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I managed to finish my next freebie kit – and as promised it’s perfect to scrap all those autumn photos you might take this fall. As usually, this kit is jam-packed with goodies, some of them uniquely created for this kit. You’ll get a set of 7 solid and 15 patterned papers, and well over 60 elements. We’ll start again with the alphas. My Terms of Use apply, so you can only use this kit (or parts of it) for your own personal use. If you’ve missed older freebie kits, they’re still available (tag “freebie”). And now, happy scrapping, friends. I hope you’ll enjoy this new kit.   Previous freebie kits (still available):  

Journaling Café: Stories

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We all have stories to tell. And we all have ways and preferences of how we like to tell those stories. Today’s journaling prompts are all about those stories we tell:     I had a rather interesting story happen just the other day, and here’s the page I created to tell that story:     The font used for the journaling prompts is “DJB Squirrels in My Pants” by Darcy Baldwin, available at sweetshoppedesigns.com.

Home, Smelly Home?

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So, those of you who’ve been around my little world for a while know of all the drama I had in the spring, trying to get my bathroom fixed (which has a major leak). Finally returning home after a summer away, of course, I was very curious what had happened to all the mold, the water in the bathroom floor, the fixing that had been promised. And lo, and behold, when coming home, the first thing I noticed was that things had been “fixed.” Of course, that fixing that took place was not the kind of fixing that I was hoping for … because it looks like all new and pretty on the outside, but the problems on the inside still persist. So, the story continues …

A Hero of the Special Kind

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I have a mind for traveling. So, today, I’ve been out and about for a very long, short day (because my day will be lots shorter – 6 hours, to be precise – than the average day is). I also got to spend lots of time at various airports, and then I got to meet my hero – who went out of his way to make sure I’d catch my connecting flight. And when I say “out of his way”, I really mean, he went far beyond anything I’ve ever experienced before: he organized a vehicle to quickly get me from one terminal to the other (and he came along with me to make sure I’d find the right check-in counter immediately); he called at the check-in counter before I arrived so that all my stuff (boarding pass, luggage tag, etc.) was ready before I even got there; he by-passed the line to get my boarding pass and stuff to directly hand it over to me and take care of my luggage, and he showed …