paper: Monday felt green | pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

A few times I’ve started to talk about my strange little world of colour emotions and how they apply to scrapbooking, but it took this project to give me concrete examples that help to make it all make sense. And so this time my Week in the Life album has a little colour tilt.

Monday, it so happens, felt green. I think Mondays often do. The good ones, anyway. The weeks when Monday feels like a fresh start, a chance at getting things right. Last Monday started like that, with an early morning walk and a pretty sky just after sunrise and enough moisture in the air that the grass was at its greenest. I do like a good, happy green Monday morning. There was even unexpected happy mail.

Monday afternoon didn’t want to stay that happy, light-hearted green. It was more the dull olive green of finding out your good intentions weren’t so great (I managed to ruin my trainers; I let a disagreement with a stranger get to me a bit too much). But still a day that felt green, like this week would be okay. It might require getting a little dirty, but it would be okay. It would even have moments of good.

A few other notes:
A group of scrappers from UKS have decided to take There’s No Place Like Home at their own pace. I’m sure they would be happy for more to join them, whether you’re new to the class or just didn’t manage to keep up in its initial run. There’s also a kit to make pretty much everything in the class.

If you’re Scrapping Your Day, you have just one more day to enter the six-month-birthday contest!

Speaking of kits, all physical items (kits, supplies and other knick-knacks) in the shop are on sale until noon on Friday. Hurrah for a bargain! Any order placed after noon on Friday won’t ship until the end of October, so grab some scrappy happiness before lunchtime Friday!

Quite a few people have already been in touch regarding Journal your Christmas this year, so let’s see if I can answer the big questions:
Yes, it will run again. Daily prompts start on the first of December.
Yes, you can go ahead and sign up now if you fancy, and then just hang tight until the season is a little closer.
Yes, if you are a past participant you can play again for free. (And if you sign up this year, you get to participate for as many Christmases as you would like.)
Yes, the prompts have new stuff every year, including this year. The thirty-seven daily themes don’t change but each year I add more stuff to the prompts. This year includes the addition of pages by a variety of artists, so you’ll see several perspectives of the season as well as different artistic styles.
Yes, there will be a kit. It may have something special in it. Those details will be available in November.
I am teaching a special prep-your-Christmas-album workshop at Skrapztacular if you would like to start December with the album all ready to go.
If I left out a question you need answered, just let me know!

xlovesx

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07 October 2008

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