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

So in need of more hours in the day this week. But makin’ it work. We’ll get there.

I am belated in my massive thank you to all involved last weekend at the PaperArts bash. Thanks Fiona, Christine, Helen, and everyone at the shop for your super organisational skills, Jools for being fab to teach alongside (and for taking that Friday morning slot!) and everyone in attendance for a) your mad cropping skillz, b) your superb consumption of cupcakes and c) your crazy happy generosity in raising so much for Cancer Research. Thank you so much for your support with that! Such good times in the quiet countryside. I am still loving that you golf and graze cattle in the same place. That is just fabulous. We have cows in Kansas but…not on the golf course, to my knowledge.

This Saturday, I’ll be at the ExCel Centre with Banana Frog—if you’re going to be there, please stop to say hello and get some glittery, stamped goodness! Info is over there—-> at the side.

And hopefully sometime before then I’m going to catch up on some sleep. Just don’t ask me when. I think I might stick that Scenic Route Keep on Truckin’ sticker to my forehead.

xlovesx

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Class anticipation aside, it’s like megaweek here. Like megaYAY week. Megabusy and megagood. (And don’t worry, the class stuff is coming along just fine and there will be more concrete info super soon. MegaYAY, see?!)

The megaYAY also involves: *knitting with jen yesterday. i’m cabling which is like all ooohwowuh but she is the sane one who totally helps when i screw up. also, i learned i really should talk and cable at the same time. (there was much discussion of how ysolda can read and knit and not make mistakes. she’s a goddess. that’s why.)

*the stuff above (is the card generator not the fabbest thing ever?)

*like a million (okay. five.) batches of cupcakes to make tomorrow for various things. including (ah! a sublist!) the boy’s office birthday party, the long winters and the paper arts birthday bash this weekend.

*coffee with the daughters bridesmaids tomorrow. two of the three bridesmaids. (no. we still don’t have a venue. which means we still don’t have a date. seriously, i know.)

*did i mention the long winters? on their own. no keane or anything else involved after them. that’s tomorrow night. yay.

*getting up early friday to drive to a prettier part of the country. because i did mention the paper arts birthday bash, right? yay.

and flip, like a bunch of other stuff too but now i should make a start on that list. yay, yay and megayay.

xlovesx

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I’ll tell you this much: the next class involves
this
this
and most of all this.

And for now, that’s all I’m sayin’.

xlovesx

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Oh my goodness. So many confessions. Artsy-scrapsy souls may have a lot of little things to confess, but they are all pretty harmless and many are just plain adorable.

I want to share just a few special things with you, but if you have time, really you should click through all the projects that were posted in the comments here. There is so much good out there. Love, love it all. I keep clicking through when I really should be doing other things, but that’s what makes life fun, right?

A few extra special rushes of creativity:
Food-flavoured books from Lemon and Valerie.
Digitally produced pages put into a ‘real-live’ album by Amy.
Cool work in black and white with frames by Pam and Paula.
Flipping hilarious journaling from Karen.
Pop-Art prettiness from Sarah.
A confession-filled layout to combat ‘too many minibooks syndrome’ by Christi
Scrummy collages pieced by Jen.
The fabulous layered effect by Petra.
Kitchenaid Love from Alissa.
Book in a box from Julie Ann.
The happy-happy look of the book by Rebecca.
Sherbet coloured love by Gigi.

Oh how I want to go on and on and on! The best bit? I think you may be seeing more work by some of these ladies throughout the year. Stay tuned.

Drumroll time…
And the prizes go to these randomly selected projects:
GeminiJen with her funkymoderncool look.
Sharon with her fab photos and flowers.
Kathy and her girlygirl art.
and Judith and the confessions of her bunny!
Please email me your snail mail address so I can post you a little pressie, girlies! Thanks.

So, so much good. Thank you all for making this so much fun.

And tomorrow? We’ll start talking about the next class.

xlovesx

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It seems I read blogs in geographical clusters. Does everyone do this? As I have spent most of my life in two places completely obsessed with the weather, I now obsess about the weather in the cities most prominent in my blog reading. So when Portland or Boston have snow? I totally feel like I am missing out.

So today I add my own little wintry scene so if you have no snow and read more than one English blog, you are likely to either feel like you are missing out or snowed in. Either is fine.

An authentic snow day, with school cancelled before the first flake appeared and the boy was due to travel but called it off for the weather. We have been very productive in our snowed in day, half-watching terrible films, doing some paperwork, baking and searching for episodes of Mad about You on YouTube. For the record, I managed to find the entirety of the episode that jumps back to tell the story of how Paul and Jamie met. The rest is just clips. Is this still in syndication in the states? I’m guessing it’s been overtaken by Friends and such, but I’ve caught Seinfeld in a hotel now and then so maybe it is still out there. Anyway.

Anyway indeed. Snow is slushy now. And doesn’t my neighbourhood just look so…overly coordinated? Oh well.

Also? I am bothered by the fact that it is currently colder in London than in the French Alps. Whoever invented snow cannons, this year I think I love you.

xlovesx

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Shall we update in pictures then? That would be more fun.

My time away from the blogosphere has involved all the normal stuff in life, plus:

making pages and faces with kristina

papers and ribbons and a tiki hut

forgetting scrap basics at the hotel and having to go back.

sprinkles cupcakes for breakfast. and dessert.

elsie’s new product line and her pictures from cupcake royale.

an entire line of paper devoted to a cupcake theme. it looks like:

this. {actually there are lots of cupcake papers. they are all yummy. i will need them all, clearly. plus the new cupcake fabrics @ liberty.}

you know what else is cool? birds. gotta love these from heidi. pretty.

also:
lots of baking. luggage adventures. everyone at work being ill. a glorious saturday with ariel, who came to town for work just because she can. and dancing swan lake.

xlovesx

ps: I’ll draw names for the confession RAKs this weekend, so you’ve got until the end of Saturday to post what you made and maybe get some mail love for it, okay? Coolio.

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Everything is fine. Just crazy busy.

Will start posting again properly tomorrow—looking forward to it!

{If you get bored in the meantime, click on the comment links in the post below to see so much pretty stuff that has been making me smile no end!}

xlovesx

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It’s Friday…it’s the weekend…and I have something to confess!

Click here to download the instructions for this project.

I hope you’ll comment here to show us what you’ve made, even if it’s far removed from the original book. Make it your own! I’m so looking forward to reading all your confessions.

If you’re just joining in, please read the posts from earlier this week to download the supply list and read some notes about choosing photographs.

Have a great weekend!

xlovesx

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