paper: pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}: Pink paper packages tied up with strings

Are you getting Ali’s life art newsletter? Cuz it is pretty darn lovely, ya know. this week she has been talking miniBOOKS, to use her capitalisation. When I see it that way, I always want to whisper the ‘mini’ like the kid on the skittles advert, then shout the ‘books’ like I might very well be thrown out of the library. Anyway, on Monday, she challenged anyone out there to make a little something highlighting their five fabulous favourites of the moment, with the idea that we would all start posting them today. this, clearly, is mine.

my book is a tiny concertina from bazzill basics, with a fab green and pink print paper designed by rhonna farrer for autumn leaves, a label stamp designed by tia bennett for fontwerks, a daisy stamp that is the part of the current free gift with scrapbook inspirations, those classic PSX letter stamps, diddy flower jewels from heidi swapp and some pink ric-rac, ribbon and staples.

Just got a new printer as the old one has given up the ghost, so to pick my favourites, I went through my ‘favourites’ folder of photos and got excited to print them right then rather than burn them to a CD and take them to be printed. Instant gratification. I let the photos dictate the favourites, but five grabbed me pretty quickly so that worked. {My favourites shown here…favourite coffee – pret is totally winning me at the moment, favourite band – love this shy photo from the little summer gig, favourite treat – my favourite cupcake photo so far…always trying to beat it, favourite flower – all about daisies lately and the easy, gushy one…my favourite person. Aww.}

Gotta love this little book for fitting in the palm of your hand but still having mega space for journaling. The back of each panel carries a little status report on how long each thing has been a favourite, how I discovered it and how long I think it will last.

I am going to use this idea again next month when I start my kitchen-counter-album-collection. Which is fun to say, but really just means I want a little set of paper things with a home in my little kitchen. I’m working on my cupcake book, but that’s a bigger album. I want some little things on my kitchen counter. Before we had furniture (which was almost the first year I lived here…it’s a long story) I used to sit on the kitchen counter to read while I heated something in the oven (see, we are also talking pre-cooking days). Now that it’s getting cooler, I love to stay in the kitchen while things are cooking…so some reading material would be cool. Random perhaps, but fitting.

You can see more life artists at work here.

Thanks for the push, girl.

xlovesx

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