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I look forward to seeing some of your still-life images on the forum.
With a bit of luck, we will get a DVD in the post tomorrow filled with our official photos. They are not very much in the formal of official. We love this.
Tomorrow is also the day when the first eight rolls of thirty-six pictures will be ready at the developers.
To go with the 75 polaroids we have in a jar on our coffee table.
And we have eight more rolls of film that we need to finish because they still had a few more frames left.
Modern technology? What’s that?!
But if you’re all about the modern technology rather than the polaroid, you might want to check out the People Imagery workshop from Cheryl at Feel Good Photos. Class starts today so go quickly!
Also: thank you so much for the well wishes. We haven’t stopped smiling yet!
xlovesx
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Indeed! Saturday came and went and eeep, there is so much to tell. And although there were ten million cameras present, I only have a couple pictures at this point. So there will be many notes and many photos and many crafty wonders to share.
As soon as I have pictures to put with them!
(Thank you Bev for this one!)
Until then: eeeeeeeeee!
xlovesx
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August’s album prompt is now available here for your scrapbooking happiness!
When you finish your August pages, comment here to let me know so your pages can be included in our round up next month!
(Also: Learn Something New starts on the first of September—that’s Monday! Sign up here if you want to play along and make a book as we go back to school in an entirely different way than PE class and second-hand textbooks. 30 prompts plus extras for just £8. I’d love to see you in class!)
xlovesx
ETA: Reposting as this clearly wasn’t working! Which means no pretty pictures for today…I suppose we’ll live, though I do prefer pretty pictures!
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So it is Scrap your Day time for August!
August is just a little busy for me this year so I don’t have a round-up of July pages for you today! So sorry—will be back with the round up next month. But I do have a photo fact sheet for you! Just click to download this month’s photo challenge.
Then remember to charge your camera and have fun snap, snap, snapping away tomorrow! Stop by to download this month’s album prompt—it will be online tomorrow too.
Wishing you a fabulous weekend and a very happy twenty-fifth!
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xlovesx
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It’s not quite as fun as more wedding stories I want to share, but I still wanted to give you the heads up: all archived classes are on sale in the shop this weekend. Archived just means that these are scrapbooking classes that have already run and won’t be run on a set schedule in the future, but you can still sign up and download all the materials to work on the project at your own pace. You still get access to the forum for that class, but it may be a bit quiet (though actually, it may not). You could always convince a friend to sign up too then you’d have a guarantee of someone to talk to!
The sale is for this weekend only and includes:
When I Grow Up (including guest artists Joy Madison, Rosemary Waits, Nisa Fiin, Marcy Lambert, Jen Tillman, Stacy Fike, Alissa Fast and Natalia Harandon)
You Think You Know Me (including guest artists Anne Parry, Cheryl Johnson, Venessa Matthews and Kristina Contes)
There’s No Place Like Home (including guest artists Kate Bucci, Beshka Kueser, Allison Kimball and Barb Novak) (There’s also a kit to match.)
Worth a Thousand Words
My Freedom
Sale prices are valid just until Sunday night and only when purchased through the store, which means your transaction will be in priced in pounds. But the store takes cards in any currency, and you can even check your local currency against the pound here if you’re wondering what that price is in ‘real’ money.
If you sign up for a class during the sale, you will receive access to all the class materials on Monday. (If you’re new to our classes, you can speed this along by registering your name and password for our forum where you will be able to access the classes.) Your access to the class is permanent, so you can sign up now and leave the project for a rainy day if you like.
Sheesh, that’s more detail than I first thought! So here’s the short version: Hey! Stuff’s on sale! Cool!
Have a fabulous weekend! Happy scrapping!
xlovesx
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Shall we talk about the dress? After all, it is quite difficult to not be entirely giddy when you get to see this purple carrier bag in your very own hallway! And no, I am not showing you or telling you what it looks like. The bag will have to do as teaser enough.
The dress has been a giddy experience from the start. It’s actually a wedding present so that took a bit of the stress away, which I was grateful for after the wedding show experience when we first started planning.
Wait. I haven’t told you about the wedding show. Let’s start this entire wedding-blogging-thing properly then.
We’ve been engaged for quite a while — since December 2006. So you would think this meant we had plenty of time to organise everything! (There was no magic reason for such a long engagement but it worked rather well for us as The Boy’s brother got married last September and it was nice to have time to celebrate their wedding before we really had to get serious about our own.) But I did do the traditional newly-engaged tradition of going to a wedding fair or two. One was a tiny local affair with just one vendor from each category. Most of the people there were sweet but they only worked locally and they weren’t really our style…but it was nice to see what was out there. In most instances, our early planning involved deciding what we didn’t want rather than exactly what we wanted. We needed to narrow things down. A great deal.
It was the second larger wedding fair that broke me. A big London affair with a big enough whack taken at the door for the privilege of going in. Lots of vendors doing the hard sell and really pushing stereotypes. It wasn’t a hugely convenient time for everyone (and I quite like to shop alone when I am in thinking mode) so I went on my own and I couldn’t count how many times vendors asked to talk to someone else who obviously wasn’t there — the groom, the mother of the bride. Once would have been a fluke but repeatedly asking to speak to someone who clearly isn’t standing next to me just made me think that maybe I wasn’t supposed to be making these decisions. Just generally disheartening. And then came the kicker — I was grabbed on the arm by some sort of makeover vendor and used as an example in her speech to a crowd. And well…there is nothing like being used as an example of how not to look to make you never want to book a makeover artist for your wedding. I just started to type out what she said exactly but then I realised it ruined one of the little surprises of the wedding. So I’ll tell you that bit after the day. In short, it was a mostly rubbish day at the wedding fair and with one exception, I left feeling pretty dejected and thinking there was no one out there who catered to unique weddings. Everything was package a, package b or package c. And we kinda wanted package ‘Shim & The Boy’, which didn’t seem to be on offer.
So we essentially stopped planning for an entire six months.
When we hit a magical day where we looked at one another and said ‘We have to Plan This Wedding!’ we started again and didn’t waste time with any packages. We were upfront with vendors and said if package was the only option, we weren’t interested. We wanted to have one party that was exactly what we wanted and we weren’t prepared to dilute our ideas just because no one had done it before. And you know what? Suddenly we had great people on board who understood us.
The fabulous girls who made my dress? They understood. I’m actually a little sad not to be stopping by their shop anymore, even though I was probably a little terrified the first time I went in. But no one else has seen my dress, not even my maid of honour. It’s been our little secret and we’ve talked about handbags and vintage shops and all those little wedding conundrums that happen. And how apparently it is bad luck to make your own dress (and making three bridesmaids’ dresses has been enough to keep me busy anyway) and well…it is a lovely place.
And inside that bag is a very lovely dress indeed. To me, anyway.
xlovesx
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