Craft With May

we do a lot of reading time here- Elizabeth especially loved having her aunt here to read on-demand. Good times.

Gotta love a 20min or less layout. 🙂 This one used up some left overs I had on the table. I’ve got a bunch of paperwork/e-mail to finish up so I can go PLAY over at fiskateers party tomorrow… hopefully…

One evening while my sister was here we put on full make up and did a quick photo shoot. I always try to either have a (distant) background, or if it’s close make sure it’s neutral and won’t take away from the headshot style pic.

It was fun taking pictures of an adult subject for a change, and especially one who doesn’t pose like this…

Don’t get me wrong- I love Jason’s goofy photo poses. (but) it’s nice to have somebody who wants pretty pics. I decided to de-saturate and add a decorative border/frame on this one…

Love it! Man I do love photoshop elements. Right now though, as I sit and talk pictures I think about 2 things.

1. I need to start learning more about my camera. It’s smarter than me by a long shot, and I need to figure that bad boy out. It has a DVD to watch, and a manual to read. Guess I’d better stop procrastinating!

2. I need to give away a copy of paper + pixels!!! Whenever I do fun photo editing like on my sister’s photo above I think about how much I learned writing that book, and how much I love the book!

So… I’ve got a copy to share. Want to get into a little hybrid scrapbooking? This book is so for you! Just leave a comment here. 🙂

matilda (aka my sewing machine) has been a very nice friend lately. She’s stitching on a lot of paper and scrapbook layouts, but she’s not complaining. Nope. she’s being real cooperative. I don’t dare say I’ve told her who’s boss… because I know darn well it’s up to her and the sewing goddesses whether or not I succeed or fail at my simple projects!

I still only straight or zig-zag stitch… but enjoying working more machine stitching into my scrapbook layouts. I’m really into the look I get.

This layout is all from the Jenni Bowlin September kit. That’s Elizabeth a little over 2 years ago at my mom’s cabin. LOVE that cabbage rose stamp. After making this page I’ve decided I really feel like doing a project with some ruffles. Ribbon? paper? fabric? dunno.

I’m going to go talk to Matilda about it and see if she’s down with the idea.

matilda (aka my sewing machine) has been a very nice friend lately. She’s stitching on a lot of paper and scrapbook layouts, but she’s not complaining. Nope. she’s being real cooperative. I don’t dare say I’ve told her who’s boss… because I know darn well it’s up to her and the sewing goddesses whether or not I succeed or fail at my simple projects!

I still only straight or zig-zag stitch… but enjoying working more machine stitching into my scrapbook layouts. I’m really into the look I get.

This layout is all from the Jenni Bowlin September kit. That’s Elizabeth a little over 2 years ago at my mom’s cabin. LOVE that cabbage rose stamp. After making this page I’ve decided I really feel like doing a project with some ruffles. Ribbon? paper? fabric? dunno.

I’m going to go talk to Matilda about it and see if she’s down with the idea.

Well it’s Tuesday and Jason is home (hooray!) so I’ve decided to make today the photoshoping and uploading of photos to be ordered day. It’s also going to be post office, birthday present shipping, and dusting day. In sorting through photos (ones I’ve taken, ones I’ve had to upload for work, etc…) I found some I thought I’d share this morning.

First of all, this is crepe suzette’s pony (from strawberry shortcake). For the record strawberry shortcake toys can NOT be found around here so thank goodness for ebay stores. Elizabeth earned her as a special treat, and I am sure I’m going to hear “when is crepe suzette’s pony coming?” about 10,000 times over next 2-3 days until she is here. E has never gotten a S.S. toy before… so she’s pretty pumped.

next up this is the POTD (project of the day) over at www.fiskarscrafts.com. Lisa Storms made this christmas planner… and I’m thinking it’s about time I made my own!! Got a lot of homemade goodness and such to get started on soon!!

 

Rebecca can now sit/climb down the stairs… which is a HUGE relief. Now I don’t have to freak if she is upstairs because she knows how to get down! (go ahead girl- get down!)

While I love getting my photos sorting, deleting, and editing a few isn’t my favorite task when there are so many other fun things to do! However- finding photos like this of E and my sister… well I love it. So I’m off to edit land and to see what other treasures I uncover. I’ll be back with a layout, and later in the week a prize…