Also: we are both short.
Still doing the morning warm-up page routine, but am taking a little break from the calendar to play with some class kits from other crafty girls. It’s always a bit of a bummer not to get to take the other classes that are on at the same time, but sometimes we can trade class kits at the end…and I have a small collection calling to me to do something with them. Working on some big projects right now (well, aside from the wedding!) so it’s still nice to wake up and follow someone else’s ideas and see what happens. Little discoveries to be made.
When Karen Russell and I traded kits at Scrap Fever, I instantly felt like an absolute child. My kits were all pink scribbles and candy floss and her kits were just lush, divine, grown-up papers. But with those darned cute scalloped edges that are just too much temptation. This week I’ve made two pages that are so grown up I just don’t know what to do with myself. Both of these are from the Interactive Scrapbooking class kit—the strawberry layout (because yes, happiness is strawberry season) is pretty much exactly like the class sample, so I’m just showing bits and pieces. It has a book of photos that folds out with a calendar behind, so I’m keeping track of everything I cook with strawberries this season, listing it on the calendar, taking a photo and paperclipping the recipe into the book. (The recipe cards are from Martha Stewart.) The beach layout is a little more of me playing rather than following directions, but all the samples she includes are so lovely it is difficult to pick somewhere to start! If you can’t take the class in person, Karen sells the kit and instructions on her blog. And if I can grow up on paper, you can grow up on paper.
The other thing that really keeps me living for the first page of the morning is current photos. New photos are almost always more fun. The strawberry photos are from yesterday’s dessert. The seaside was last Saturday. Today has been the first grey day in a week, and those photos made it a little less grey in my mind. Hurrah for modern technology.
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