Month: June 2010

Our neighbors go camping every summer. Even when she was like 8 months pregnant. Even when they had a newborn. I shudder just thinking about that kind of an experience. NO THANK YOU. Oh, I think she’s a rock star and I give her mad props for the ruggedness. It’s just not me, well not with kids who aren’t able to fend for themselves more at least. For now this girl will ‘rough it’ down at a local park for a few hours or something.

But there is something I miss from family camping trips (something we’ll bring back when girls are much older) and refuse to give up – S’mores.

Graham cracker + marshmallow (toasted) + a few squares of milk chocolate (or chocolate chips!)

INSANELY GOOD.

If you just threw them (as shown above) onto a sheet of foil under a broiler for a minute or two though… well you could fake it from comfort of your own kitchen. Oh and guess what? They taste better since the chocolate gets melted a bit too.

I find putting a second graham cracker on top helps make it more manageable. But let’s be real – I’ll eat one of these any way I can get it.

Just call me a suburban camper.

If you’ll now excuse me, I’m going to go direct a scrapbooking camp. Quite happily (and minus bug spray) too.

I was trying to decide what to blog about today, then I saw this:

http://www.littleblackdresskitclub.com/wp/step-by-step-instruction-july-kit-12×12-layout-idea-from-may-flaum/

Well goodness! They posted my page so fast I figure I would blog about it!

I love playing with paper stuff. It’s just so FUN. When I saw that I’d printed this photo (accident) + had this “photo” sticker from Glitz in my kit I knew it was meant to be.

The link I gave at start of post takes you to the how-to of the page (super easy) – and of course this is a sneaky peek of the July Little Black Dress Kit. A fun one – and even *I* the anti-orange person enjoyed the orange-ness of the kit. Yep, it was a fun one…

I’ve been camped out down here a whole lot…

Between Skype (um, SO much fun! Am totally putting in lots of extra hours on there for Camp Scrapers!), the camp scrap boards, and general assignment stuff I’ve been here tons! Yet, I’ve not been blogging. It cracks me up that I’m right here at the computer but just too preoccupied to think of blogging. wowza.

While putting all these hours in I’ve also been watching season 2 of True Blood…

It seems less shocking this season, or maybe I’m just more braced for it? Either way – majorly hooked into this show. This is one of those “but May you don’t like dark and often sad and yucky gross horror stuff”… I know, but I also am known to be kind of a study in opposites and all that – so yeah. True Blood is addictive. Mostly though it makes me want to re-visit the novels and so far I’m intrigued that by the seemingly little changes they put into the characters and plots knowing how much that can/will/should change things and make it different from novels. I mean – some characters are doing things (like not dying! or being into something they weren’t in books! or having a different maker!) that are going to make for major variation from the novels. I like that. At the same time I like that Sookie (oh how I love the way they all say “suhhh-keehhhh”) has the same plot lines (almost exactly) as novels so far so it stays true while doing it’s own thing.

I’m glad we get more of Pam and Eric too. They’ve always been favorites in the books and (pretty much like ALL the characters) I feel like they are exactly the same as the images I have in my brain from reading the books. *LOVE* that. Yeah, I think that’s what I love most. That as fan of the books the characters are true, even if they sometimes do other ‘not in the book’ stuff.

Reading the Sookie Stackhouse series again, I’m kind of surprised. I didn’t remember her being quite so, um, lusty. I also didn’t remember quite so much overlap in her love interests in the early books. Hmmm. I do still *love* the series the 3rd time around reading the books, and I’m quiet impressed that the author fits SOOO much into the 300 or so page novels. SO many times a series like this would be much longer in individual novel length – that takes MAD skills to fit it all into such a short package.

Anyhow. my 10 minutes of free time is up – I’m back to virtual scrap camp and to figure out some fun new prizes + projects…

I had so much fun yesterday welcoming students into Camp Scrap and chatting up a storm. A lot of message board posts and a dozen skype calls later, I ended the day with a big smile. Chatting up students and even helping a few was just SO fun!!

thinking about joining in? (There’s still time!!) Want a sneak peek?

That was our layout yesterday, inspired by Nic Howard. Today a 2-page sketch + layout is featured and Monday… well loads more! It’s 4 weeks (plus a bonus week) of pure scrappy fun.

I’ve gotta run errands, and believe me I’ll hurry because I can’t wait to get back to share more and enjoy camp!!

What happens when your ultra-chic little girls decide their outfits for dinner aren’t fancy enough? When they want some extra sparkle to be super terrific fancy?

Mom turns to her craft supplies, that’s what. I used (cheap) lace ribbon that had some stretch to it to make headbands for them, then after I tied a knot I took it up another notch. I got a layered lovely flower and punched two holes (center-ish) to pull the ribbon through. Then tie it off (not too tight, but tight enough so it’ll stay…

It’s so easy – and it doesn’t ruin the flower since you wouldn’t ever see that spot where the holes were punched anyhow.

“Ooh la la fancy” is what I’m told this makes my girl. Happiness in under a minute – gotta love that.