pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

It’s the tenth of the month – and that means a bunch of us share ten things. Any things, as long as there are ten of them! (You’re welcome to join in!) This month, I’ve picked ten of my favourite Christmas journal entries from all my books over the years. I hope you enjoy!

First up: a reflective entry from Christmas 2010, with a photo from a very 1980s Christmas. (By the way, if you have eighties photos to scrapbook, have a listen to the most recent Paperclipping Roundtable, wherein Noell, Nancy and I talk about those photos and Noell and I are banned from singing the Jem theme tune for copyright reasons. But you know, we really are truly, truly, truly outrageous, even if we’re not allowed to sing on the air.)

My 2006 album doesn’t include many photographs at all, mostly because I didn’t have a very useful printer at the time! This photo was cut from the Christmas issue of Martha Stewart magazine that year, and somehow it inspired the rest of the design (really simple, yet I still really like it) and the thoughts about how Christmas is best enjoyed when embracing the same ideas that made it magical as a child.

From 2010, the chance to include a ‘first Christmas’ page with photos of our now-toddler nephew. Babies in Santa suits can melt even the hardest of hearts, surely? I love these page protectors (from the Pink Paislee portfolio album released last year) for not having to pick just one or two favourite images.

For my 2009-2010 album, I followed the same format throughout the book: one full size 8×8 photo and an 8×8 page with journaling and embellishment on each double-page spread. There is a bit of a delayed finish with this process, as once I had settled on the idea and printed a few example photos to make sure it would work, I decided I would wait until the journal was finished and order all the 8×8 prints at once so I could have the quality and the affordability of actual photos rather than home-printed images. So the book looked quite bare with every other page missing, until the very end of the project when I opened this amazing parcel of forty 8×8 prints from the Christmas just gone, and in the end this is my absolute favourite format for all the journals I have done. (ETA: The 8×8 prints came from Photobox – they have that in their list of sizes so they didn’t need trimming.)

I continue my Christmas journal through to the sixth of January, so it includes the new year. On the first day of 2010, we took an early morning walk to the river and this photo became quite important to my clarity through all that would come of a rather more-dramatic-than-usual year on the calendar.

I loved the full page 8×8 photos from 2009 so much that I tried to find ways to include them in 2010 too without using the exact same treatment. So instead of the plain photo on a facing page, I added the embellishment and journaling right on top of the 8×8 photo of a Christmas train display. The trains came from all different enthusiasts in my hometown, and they staged them together in this giant Christmas-themed train world and you could go see it at the big train station. Even to someone who doesn’t really imagine ever having a train set in her home, the finished product was very cool. Documenting community efforts like that – even if it’s just with a photo – is something that really makes me happy to have these albums.

From 2009, one of my favourite entries in terms of embellishments. Viewmaster still says Christmas or sight-seeing to me, as I would look forward to new reels as a Christmas present and my favourites were tourist reels from different cities of the world. I had quite a few reels of amazing natural places like the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone, but London and Paris were my most cherished and I would click through them hundreds of times, by the light of a bedside lamp and huddled under a pink electric blanket. When I found someone selling off an old Viewmaster collection a few years ago, I used the duplicates as fair game to scrapbook, and turning to this page brings me back to such a specific memory.

This page from 2006 makes me giggle to see how my perspective has changed in just a few years. Not that I don’t still extol the virtues of the occasional eggnog latte and indulge in any excuse to bake gingerbread latte cupcakes, but that I make a page with this same thought most every year, and its tone has changed from tangible luxuries to things that are far more grand and important in the world. Together, they would read a little like comparing red cups to world peace, and that makes these journals a true documentation of my own changes over the years.

From 2007, a page I love purely because it felt luxurious to use my favourite transparency as a full page. I love that the repetitive nature of this project has made me brave enough to try things that may or may not work. This particular album is not my most polished (and I have Christmas journals that I don’t feel work visually at all and have not a single page represented here), but I learned a great deal from making it (and the writing in those less-than-great visual journals is still valuable to me).

I love pages that are more than what they seem. This looks like just embellishment, and while it does use a combination I adore (woodgrain letters on Christmas green paper), its real meaning is completely hidden, as the back of each of those flashcards is folded with an accordion of paper, filled with handwritten memories of Christmases past. But you wouldn’t know that unless I told you or you were being a little more nosy inquisitive than the average bear. This is from my 2009 album.

An extra page I created for my 2006 album when I realised we had participants from thirty different countries. There are even more now and every new country makes me so excited! The simplistic journaling came from a conversation in one my English classes earlier that day, when we were discussing how poets use colour and how sometimes the symbolic meaning of a colour is more obvious than others, and there had been a lovely bit of student debate wondering if green or blue was more appropriate for poetic imagery of the planet, and someone had made a beautiful point that while percentage-wise, there may be more blue sea than green land, our viewpoint is that of the land, and unless the poet wanted to make a specific point about the sea, then green would be more relevant to both reader and writer. It was a beautifully organic moment that I can’t really recreate, but this reminds me of the wholeness of that very good day.

Journal your Christmas starts again on the first of December and you can join us at any time. Or see other Ten Things posts from throughout 2011.
xlovesx

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It’s time to draw the Garden Girl Blog Hop to a close and post a winner! You had to guess how much I spent on my last order at Two Peas in a Bucket and I promised a $15 Two Peas gift certificate to the person who guessed the closest. And you were so close! First there was Ruth, who guessed $138.32. Then Kelly Morris guessed $140.35. But Gina M. pipped it with a guess of $138.99, just thirty-nine cents off my shopping total of (deep breath) $139.38!

What was in my order? Twenty-seven different sheets of stickers. Sixty-one 12×12 patterned papers. Four sets of Thickers. Two stamp sets. Two packs of chipboard shapes. And a handful of die-cuts, rhinestones and buttons. Brand-wise, I ordered a mix of American Crafts, Simple Stories, My Mind’s Eye, Studio Calico and October Afternoon. Some of the items I’ve used in my travel album were on sale, so I went ahead and ordered them again since I still have plenty of pages to make for that ongoing project. I don’t often order the same paper or sticker more than once, so that’s quite a rare occasion. I placed my order after the close of business on the 31st of October. It left the Two Peas Warehouse on the 1st of November via USPS arrived at UK customs on the 6th. I’ve paid my customs bill this morning and it’s scheduled for delivery tomorrow, the 10th. (Or I could go pick it up in person today, but my local depot isn’t all that local so I just wait for it to be delivered the next day.)

A few of you have asked about customs charges, and yes I pay import tax (VAT) and occasionally duty on my orders. There are two things to keep in mind here: the current regulations for paying import tax on items sent to the UK from outside the EU: goods with a value over £15 is liable to import VAT (20%), anything with a value over £135 is also liable to a customs charge of £9 or more (it depends on the materials you’re importing). But the second thing is we all know not every single parcel seems to get picked up for VAT, when you talk to a variety of people. Because I import large quantities for workshops and such, I pay VAT on everything I receive – my address is on file and it’s something that goes into my taxes and so forth. But that’s one of those weird things about being a full-time scrapbooker and if you are just ordering normal amounts of scrapbook supplies, you won’t have that part of the equation. You may be asked to pay import tax and you may not. My advice is to figure it in, and if you don’t get charged, then you can put that extra 20% back into your crafting budget. Sorry, I know that’s really boring, but it’s a question that comes up often from those here in the UK so there is my definitive answer!

To those who guessed I would spend in the thousands – egads, no! I wonder what one could buy for that much in one order? And how big of a craft room must one have to accommodate such grandeur? Amazing. This month’s order is at the high end of normal for me, and I tend to place an order every month so I have the right supplies for assignments (we choose our own products from the Two Peas inventory rather than being told what to use, so every Garden Girl can stay true to her own style) and I did place one obscenely large order to arrive when we came back from our trip, but I promise it was under $500. Receiving that order was a joyous day indeed, with lots of collection packs and punches and stamps that I wouldn’t ordinarily let myself buy. I’m much more a papers and stickers girl. But that one giant order was essentially four or so months of orders combined into one big box since I hadn’t been around craft supplies for all that time and had a to-do list approximately seventeen miles long! I’ve never, ever come anywhere close to spending that much on any other scrapbooking order in the history of my life. Never ever. I think what’s most important is sticking to a budget that works for you and buying things you love and use. My supplies are worth far more to me in my albums than on my shelf.

Thanks so much for following the hop and playing along with the guessing game! Gina, I’ll be in touch with your gift certificate!

And I’ll be back later today with a new sketch and video!

xlovesx

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My favourite class of the year is very nearly upon us: Journal your Christmas. I would love for you to join me and so many other scrappers in this holiday adventure.

Journal your Christmas started from a personal journal I kept just for me, as I tired to rekindle the magic of Christmas in what had otherwise been a rather unglittery time. It worked. I found myself remembering exactly why I loved the holidays and how they could bring hope to the darkest of winters and I realised the magic of Christmas did not belong to children alone. Christmas can be magical at any age, no matter what the circumstances.

Journal your Christmas became an online class in 2004, and has continued every December since. That means this is our eighth year of reclaiming Christmas on our own terms, celebrating the very best of the season and taking the time to enjoy both Christmas present and our favourite memories from many Christmases past. I am so very happy to welcome those who have been writing their Christmas memories for those past seven years right along with brand new faces and everyone who has joined us between then and now. I truly look forward to this project all year long.

What is Journal your Christmas?
Journal your Christmas is an online scrapbooking class to celebrate the holiday season. It starts on the first of December and finishes on the sixth of January, with thirty-seven daily prompts sent by email.

Each prompt is a full-colour PDF file you can view on your screen (on your computer, iPad, smart phone or anything else that lets you view such files) or print onto paper. Each daily prompt follows a specific theme of the day, with the thirty-seven days covering all sorts of holiday aspects, from food and decorations to music and gifts. Every day there is something for you to consider and ideas to make the writing come easily. The topics can be applied to this year for documenting the current Christmas or you can get nostalgic with your Christmas memories – and most crafters write a bit about both.

The daily prompts are delivered to you at the same time each day by email, so you don’t have to spend any time logging into a website to download each day’s content. Should you have the time to chat with other participants or share your work, there is a private message board for class participants, and you can spend as much or as little time there chatting to other crafters enjoying the holiday season. Each prompt includes several examples of pages created in response to that very topic, so you can see a range of crafting styles (including paper and digital pages) on the same theme. You can gather ideas from any of them or go in your own unique way entirely. There is zero pressure to make anything in the same style as any of the examples, including mine. Everyone and every style welcome!

How much time do I have to devote to this project?
You can devote as much or as little time as you like. Some participants create a entry or a page every day, and that’s a fab way to follow the class prompts. However it’s certainly not required. Since the class has permanent membership, I encourage scrappers who don’t have the time or the desire to create something every day to just choose the prompts that speak to you (or your schedule) most. You can make a few pages this year, a few pages next year and so on to fill a whole album. Or you can make a mini album every year. Or something that falls in between. You can blog your writing (either to the world or just to yourself) and choose later to add something crafty or not. You can take pictures daily and put together a photobook at the end of the project. We’ll cover many ways to make this work, and you can choose the options that work best for you.

What if I don’t scrapbook?
You are still very welcome to join us. Reading each day’s prompt, you might choose to respond in the form of a blog post or a plain written journal. My original book was nothing more than penned words and a tiny bit of colour here and there, so this can certainly be useful! Some participants follow the class from a photography angle, and use it as their inspiration to take a series of meaningful photos throughout the holidays. And still others read each day’s prompts just to be more mindful and aware of Christmas and use the class purely to keep them in the right mindset for enjoying the season for its real merits rather than letting commercial pressures and the stress of a busy calendar overtake their Christmas magic.
Truly, anyone is welcome.

What is included in Journal your Christmas?
Journal your Christmas includes permanent membership – so you sign up once and can join in as many years as you would like at no additional cost. That also means once you sign up, you can access the prompts and extras from earlier years at any time, via the class forum. Those extras include printable accents, digital kits and photography challenges.

For 2011, class includes:
…thirty-seven daily PDF prompts for writing and crafting
…thirty-seven daily PDF prompts for holiday photography (like getting an online photography workshop as a bonus)
…exclusive digital kit for this year, including layered page templates, papers, titles and accents
…exclusive printables for this year, including a basic page framework in two sizes
…two exclusive crafting videos with a range of techniques and ideas
…private forum to chat and share your work
…online chat to start the project (of course your attendance is optional)
…bonus offers from some of my favourite websites
…£1 donation to The Girls’ Fund via Plan, helping provide education and well-being to girls in difficult circumstances around the world.

And I’m happy to say the class is the same price as last year.

How do I join Journal your Christmas?
Easy! Just choose your currency and click the button below for your choice of UK pounds or US dollars. If neither of those is your currency, you can still join us! Choose either and the payment will convert automatically when you make your payment.

You can pay by credit/debit card or Paypal account. If you would like your prompts to come to a different email address than the one on your Paypal account, please be sure to leave a note in the message to seller section with the email address you would like to use. Orders can take up to 24 hours to process, though we are usually quicker. If you haven’t received your class registration after 24 hours, just email me and we’ll make sure your registration is completed and ready for you to get started!

If you participated last year, you don’t need to do anything to join us again. This week you will receive an email with some updated info and reminders for you.

Can I gift Journal your Christmas to a friend?
Yes, of course! Just use the same button to join, and leave the email address of the friend in the notes field of the payment. Or if you miss that step, send me an email. If you would like me to send a personal email to the gift recipient to reveal your gift (or keep your Secret Santa identity a secret), I am happy to do either. Just let me know.

Do I need to prepare in advance?
You don’t need to, no. Some crafters really like to prepare a book in advance. Some don’t. This year, I’m scheduling an online weekend of Christmas crafting, and that includes preparation projects for Journal your Christmas. It’s coming up this weekend!

From this coming Friday to Sunday, stop by shimelle.com for special projects, videos and tutorials all with a Christmas theme. You’ll see the exact preparation I have done for my album this year, and also some ideas from other class participants. Everyone is welcome: you do not need to be signed up for Journal your Christmas to take part in the online scrapbooking weekend. Though I hope by the end of the weekend you will want to join us for a whole thirty-seven days of such crafty Christmas goodness, of course!

Any other questions?
If you have a question I haven’t answered, feel free to ask in the comments or send me an email.

If you have participated in Journal your Christmas and there are pictures of your project online, please leave a link in the comments! We would love to see your album.

I very much hope you’ll join me and journal your most magical Christmas yet!

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Congratulations to Niurka, who wins a Sketchpad e-course from the lovely Kelly Purkey.

Niurka, please email me (shimelle at gmail dot com) with your address.

There’s a new giveaway every Friday night, so check back next week for another chance to win just by leaving a comment.

Have a great week!

xlovesx

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This weekend, one commenter will win the new Sketchpad e-course from the lovely Kelly Purkey.

Sketchpad is a brand-new class from Kelly Purkey, spinning off from her series of successful Sketchbook classes. Rather than a course delivered by individual emails, Sketchpad is a downloadable, self-paced class featuring 12 original sketches, 35 exclusive layouts from Kelly + and her talented contributors, 35 additional detailed sketches made from those layouts, and 12 amazing cards based on the sketches from the talented, Kristina Werner all in a full-color 75 page PDF, so you can work at your own pace and in any order. It would be just perfect for your desk at a crop or crafting at home, and as a PDF you can print it or view it on your computer, iPhone or iPad (or any other gadgets that let you see colour PDF files).

Visit Kelly’s blog for more details on the class, including the full list of special guests and the magical sign up button! You can also find Kelly on Twitter. Sketchpad would make a rad Christmas gift for a scrapping friend too, by the way. I contributed a page to Sketchpad and the full PDF has me itching to get cutting and pasting as soon as I hit the publish button on this post!

To enter, just leave a comment on this post sharing how many photos you like to see on a sketch.

Entries close at midnight Sunday UK time and the winner will be posted Monday evening, so be sure to check back to see if it’s your lucky day!

Good luck!
xlovesx

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Sketch of the week, huh? Right about now I’m sure there are some internet police ready to come get me for not living up to the ‘of the week’ and getting myself in a muddle with videos and things. Do you suppose I can distract the internet police with copious amounts of pretty paper? Please officer, I know I am having issues with my Wednesday schedule, but just look at this album about Australia. I know you’ll love it and forget all about my Wednesday problems.

That’s my plan, anyway.

It’s also my plan to post this anyway even though it is Thursday now and this was last week’s sketch and so forth. Sometimes you have to call an amnesty, and right now with my entire flat covered in screen printed Advent numbers and postage labels, and a now-official moving date for casa de cupcake, I am calling an amnesty. I’m still calling this Sketch of the Week, for whatever that seems to mean!

So for this sketch, you’ll need one square photo (or it could easily work with a portrait 4×6 print too), three patterned papers (one full sheet and two partials) and then a handful of small embellishments you can scatter across the page. This layout won’t take you long at all, and it’s perfect for a photo that just makes you smile, with some pretty papers you love.

If you were ahead of the game and popped over to Youtube, you may have seen this already. I am yet to figure out why it took almost a full day to upload, when nothing else seemed to causing any trouble, but we’ll just forge ahead and one day I shall understand the inner zen of Youtube.

Speaking of zen, as always, the weekly sketch is no-stress and just for fun! If you use it, I’d love to see, so please leave a link if you post your page online.

This was the last sketch of the week, and
Click the corresponding link to see any of these layouts in more detail and get to know the scrappers behind the pages. Clockwise from top left, they are from Becky, Jenn, Mel and Tilla.

Now… are you up for some sketchy scrapping this week? Let’s see if I can have next week’s sketch up on Wednesday and no more visits from the internet police. I’d love to share your page next week, so give it a go and share it with us!

The special offer for free shipping at Two Peas in a Bucket ends today – so do your Christmas shopping now! Click here to shop and use code RLRXWA at checkout for free shipping on a $35 order (physical, non-clearance goods) to a US address or $5 off international shipping for the same order. By the way, the Twig collection from Little Yellow Bicycle is now in stock – it’s a lovely wintry blue line with birch trees.

If you’re planning to take part in our Christmas-themed online scrapbooking weekend on the 11th to 13th of November, today would be a great day to order any supplies you would want for prepping your Christmas journal, making Christmas cards, Christmas scrapbook pages, handmade decorations or pretty gift wrap touches. Happy shopping!

xlovesx

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So it’s the first of November – that means I am officially allowed to talk about Christmas! First up: scrapbooking supplies. Every Christmas for the past several years I’ve assembled a ‘Christmas in a Box’, which is a Christmas-themed scrapbooking kit perfect for Journal your Christmas or other Christmas crafting projects. But I’m not a big shop – I’m just one girl really, so I could only send the boxes to addresses here in the UK. This year there are two options for ordering, and one of them includes a way to order in the States (or to ship internationally from the US), so hurrah!

This is the complete kit – Christmas in a Box 2011. This ships to UK addresses only and is available in very limited number. First come, first served.

The Christmas goodie box is filled with supplies perfect for your Christmas crafting, but many designs are not overtly Christmas themed so you can use this stash throughout the year by mixing it with other colours.

Although certainly not a requirement of Journal your Christmas, this kit includes the supplies used in the technique tutorials highlighted in the 2011 class and during the preparation crop weekend (11-13 November), so you can follow along if you like. Or use as you wish for your Christmas journal, December album or any other crafting project.

Kit includes:
15 sheets of 12×12 patterned paper, including one screen printed, two accessory sheets and one mini pattern sheet
Classic Calico 12X12 Alpha Sticker Sheet (Studio Calico)
Peep & Saffron 12X12 Quattrofina Alphabet Stickers (Bella Blvd)
25 Days Of Christmas Countdown Sticker (Simple Stories)
Jingle 12X12 Abcs Stickers (Lily Bee)
Red Mini Brocade Overlay 12×12 Transparency (Hambly)
Black Camera Collection Overlay 12×12 (Hambly)
Jingle Index Journaling Cards (Lily Bee)
25 Days Of Christmas 6X6 Paper Pad (Simple Stories)
Miniatures Christmas Wishes Stickers (Bella Blvd)
Green/Pink Dotted Label stickers (Jenni Bowlin Studio)
Red/Black Dotted Label stickers (Jenni Bowlin Studio)
Red Doily Flowers (Jenni Bowlin Studio)
Hearts Plain Mini Chipboard Pieces (Jenni Bowlin Studio)
Hollyday Glitter Rimmed Buttons Elements (American Crafts)
Garden Café Just Write Journaling Cards (American Crafts) *partial pack – 6 cards
Classic Calico Kraft Star Stickers (Studio Calico)
PLUS screenprinted cardstock numbers, made especially for this box and not shown here. Just a little handmade surprise for you!

Christmas in a Box is available as a kit to UK addresses at the same price as last year – £45 including first class postage.
Christmas in a Box is now sold out. Please consider shopping at Two Peas or use the list above to shop from your favourite retailers. Or use your own stash, of course! Thank you for your support.

But what if I’m not in the UK or I only want part of the kit?
This year there is an answer for that too! Click here to view the Christmas kit items at Two Peas. From that list, you can select the items you would like – some or all of them – and you’re ready to go!

But how about an extra little bonus? Like… free shipping for US addresses or $5 off shipping for international orders? Why yes, we can do that. But just for today, tomorrow and the next day – the 1st to the 3rd of November. Use code RLRXWA at checkout for free domestic shipping on non-digital and non-phaseout product on orders over $35, and $5 off international shipping for the same type of order.

I’ll be back with even more Christmas fun later today!

xlovesx

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Two Peas in a Bucket.

It’s a funny name for a store, I suppose. If you didn’t already know, what on earth would you think such a store would sell? Vegetables. Or gardening equipment, perhaps. But not more than four thousand different styles of pretty paper. Not washi tape and baker’s twine and digital kits and stickers and ribbon and letterpress prints and rubber stamps and well… anything else you might fancy for scrapbooking and papercrafting.

Today you’re invited to the Garden Girl blog hop – a visit to the creative space for the different designers at Two Peas in a Bucket. We each have a new project to share and we each have a prize to win, so we hope you enjoy the journey. And for my stop on the hop, indulge in some Two Peas trivia!

Five little snippets of Two Peas trivia

1. Two Peas is both a shop and a crafting community. The business side is an online store with all the latest crafting supplies. They have some serious choice in their inventory – they stock so many lines and get new stuff quickly. The community side includes message boards on a range of topics and plenty of contests and challenges to keep you creating. Every week there’s both a scrapbooking and a photography challenge, and there is a prize to be won every time. Enter – you never know when it will be your lucky day!

_{Add a zig-zag fold to the front of a card and cut the other side to the folded width, for a narrow card with funky folds!}

2. I joined the Garden Girl team in 2008. I actually got the email just a day before we were due to leave on our honeymoon, and although I was completely excited about the wonder that is Japan, the only thing that made it okay to leave was that I was so excited to get to work on my first assignment. The Garden Girls are the Two Peas design team, and we’re a mix of paper scrappers, digital scrappers, minibook artists and cardmakers. New projects from the design team are posted to the gallery every Monday, plus we work on a range of special projects throughout the year. I’ve uploaded about two hundred projects in my time as a Garden Girl. This page is the ‘most liked’ and this project is my most bookmarked.
If there is ever a product you’re curious about, let a Garden Girl know – we love the challenge of figuring out a fab way to use a new design or gizmo!

3. The education branch of Two Peas is all about providing ideas and instructional content for free. My class 4×6 Photo Love is part of that education programme, but there are three other year-long classes throughout 2011 (Stretch your Sketch, Products You Love and Scrapbook Stamping). Each of these classes and many of the special projects include videos so you can see everything come together and also offer printable PDF instructions, so whether you prefer to read or watch, you’re covered. Other events run for just a set amount of time rather than the full year, like the current A to Z of Stamping event, with twenty-six days of stamping techniques and project ideas. It’s all for free. And I may be working on something extra special for the 2012 education programme. I might even call it super special. But that’s all I can say about that for now.

4. I placed my first order with Two Peas in January of 2000 and am user number – or Pea Number – 2356. That very first order included many sheets of 8.5×11 paper, since 12×12 was still a bit of a rarity in scrapping at that point! I split that order with another scrapper in the UK because we were both looking for some papers we couldn’t find on this side of the Atlantic.

_{I think this is my favourite garden project this year, but I keep changing my mind.}

5. Two Peas has fabulous sales. For anything that isn’t brand new, check out the sale section to see if there is something you would love or check out the Deal of the Day, which changes every day obviously, but often includes brand new products on a twenty-four hour discount. Today the deal of the day is 50% off a selection of Tim Holtz products! As an American-based store, shipping can add up for an international order, so I try to balance things out: I order the things I can’t find here and then I check the sale section for things I know I will use and stock up at a bargain. In the end that works well for me! If you’re a regular shopper, it’s also worth knowing their loyalty program lets you take a further ten to fifteen percent off your bill.

By the way, if you have an iPhone, Two Peas has a free app in the app store that makes it easy to upload to the gallery from a crop, find inspiring pages and projects, chat and shop on the go! I love paging through the gallery while I’m on the train. (Android friends, an app for you is currently in the works!)

Ready to enter for a chance to win? Yesterday, on the 31st of October, I placed an order at Two Peas. How much do you think I loaded into that bucket? Leave a comment with a guess of my order total. Not including shipping or loyalty discounts – just the amount for the items when I hit the checkout button. The person who gets closest to the amount will win a $15 gift certificate to spend on anything you like at Two Peas. There’s no penalty for going over – the gift voucher will go to the person who guesses closest, no matter if you’re high or low.

Entries close at midnight UK time on the 7th of November and the winner will be announced on the 8th… and I will go public with exactly how much I spent on scrapbooking supplies this month!

After you leave your guess, it’s time to visit the next stop on the blog hop! You should have arrived here from Jen Jockisch. Your next stop is Jen Martakis. We’re very pro-Jen on the Garden Girl team.

One last thing…
Later today, check back for some important stuff here at shimelle.com. Like this year’s details for Journal your Christmas. And an optional Christmas kit available for purchase. And a special offer that might help your order at Two Peas in the next couple days. Don’t miss out! That post goes live at midday, UK time.

xlovesx

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